space inside your bleeding heart

I fell down the Youtube rabbit hole the other night and the next thing I knew, I had spent a couple of hours watching old Placebo concert footage and feeling a little tug in my heart. I found the very first video I ever watched of this band (downloading the video off of Kazaa back in the day, using the fancy ~ethernet~ in my college dorm room) and I still remember how it felt more than a decade ago, to discover them for the first time. So many good memories—covering my half of the wall with their posters, seeing them in concert in three different cities in one year after thinking that I'd never see them in any city ever, and of course immersing myself in the fic.

I'm sad to see that so much of the classic fic is gone, by the way—the stories I remember from 2001/2002 simply aren't there anymore. The loss of imre's fics is particularly sad; I spent some time on the Wayback Machine today trying to locate them, but they seem irretrievable, unfortunately.