Helloooooo Memheads! That’s what you’re called now. Welcome back to your number one source for all things MV related, Evelyn and Lee’s Awesome Fucking Newsletter. Yup. That is the newsletter’s official name. And you can’t do anything about it. So, Lee is going to be interjecting on occasion for future updates, and everything he’s gotta say will be in BOLD!!! (Except for that. I wrote that part.)

It's me, Lee. Haiiii!!!! I'm the co-creator and main artist of Memento Vivere, as you may or may not know. I don’t interact with you guys much, as I'm hunched over in the corner pumping out art lol. Apologies for lack of interaction… Let's get started on this thang!!

Black Magic Women

Hi. It’s me. Evelyn. I’m back from the haunting and liminal void that I reside in when not being actively percieved.

The waves...

Sooooo… are we liking Black Magic Women so far? While I can’t discuss much of the story, now that some of it is out, I CAN discuss how much fucking fun it’s been to produce and delve a little bit into its production history. While making “THE BORKOSHAVSKI BOHEMIAN,” I was… really inspired? And kinda sad? Because The Bohemian was a DEEPLY interesting concept to play around with, and one that I felt I had been vastly under-explored in MV. So, on a whim, I included a reference to an encounter between the Bohemian and Marianna in 2001 and, after a couple of months of mulling it over, I finally had the resources, story, and friends to make what I think is shaping up to be THE definitive Bohemian story…
Making these videos with some of my favorite people in the world has, honestly, been a dream come true for Lee and I. The actors you see in Black Magic Women aren’t just actors, they are some of my best friends who I see just about every single day and every second I’ve spent with these people, building the Bohemian, watching Layla do our Lionel actor’s makeup (Yes, you read that right), and working with the period accurate cameras that absolutely RAVAGE our tapes have been some of the most rewarding experiences of me and Lee’s creative lives. Here, take some pictures.



With that being said, it’s time to tell you a story. So, if you’ve seen 01, the idea of our characters going to a hotel in the next entry is VERY HEAVILY ALLUDED TO. This is because we all live near an abandoned hotel and, well, we don’t have much respect for the law.

I almost could have gotten arrested.

That is true! See, one morning, Lee (Lee), myself (Mary), Coley (Elle), J.D. (Elanor), Beckett (Lionel), Clem (The Bohemian), and Layla (Cosmic Camera), attempted to break into this hotel to film. Me, Beckett, and Layla had, the previous day, staked out the location with a friend who had actually been inside of the building-

screw you eli

-and, though we never actually SAW the hole in the fence we were supposed to crawl through, he described it and I, like a fool, trusted his word. So, a few minutes pass, and here’s how things are looking:

  • Coley has spotted a camera, leading to Lee and J.D. sitting the “breaking” part of breaking and entering out (reasonable). (I was sitting on the ground…)
  • Myself, Layla, and Clem surveying the perimeter trying to find this legendary hole in the double layered barbed fence.
  • And Beckett… tearing a hole in the fence. By hand. Somehow, he had the best luck out of all of us.

    Eventually, Beckett’s hole was wide enough to crawl through (as Beckett’s holes usually are), and so Coley crawled in Beckett’s hole (not something she is known to do). Coley starts scaling the concrete slab the building sits upon, a ten foot drop beneath her, while her close friends and girlfriend watch in abject horror as she risks her life trying to make a corner that she, very obviously, was not equipped to make. By the way, the corner she was trying to get at has BARBED WIRE around it, so she did that purely for the love of the game lol. THERE WAS ALSO. NOT A WAY OUT. BASED ON COLEY’S ENTRANCE. Coley, I know you’re going to read this, you are awesome and I love you.

    So, while Coley’s leg is dangling over the fence and Beckett is trying to climb a nearby tree (I think), a really chill guy in a pickup truck drives up and tells us we need to beat it or we’ll get the cops called on us, which, y’know, fair. He took a picture of us :((. I think I’ve neglected to emphasize that all of this was happening in broad daylight next to a popular road.

    Lee and J.D. were mad at me and Coley for like. The duration of the day. And everyone was mad at Beckett for the next two.

    I love ARGs.

    I love ARGs, but I'm not risking it the day after I turn 18 and can actually go to jail... love yall tho xx

    I love ARGs.

    Rewrites and MORE!!!

    IN OTHER NEWS, OK, I really SHOULD NOT BE SHARING THIS, but it feels somewhat important… Lee and I have recently overhauled our outline for Memento Vivere. What does this mean for you?
    Honestly, not much. A good amount of our changes are built on making BETTER follow-throughs to the plot threads we have already started and, to tell you the truth, we’re really really proud of how things are going right now. Though Lee and I (mostly I) stand by the fact that we are NO LONGER GOING TO BE REMAKING OLD VIDEOS (thank god..), old websites, and are… not off limits. I also might, soon enough, go back in and flesh out some old concepts. (Cough , Swamp Gods, Cough Cough.) Expect some major updates being made to the Nosferatu Compendium and, if you’re eagle-eyed, you might’ve already seen the WIP Cletanist site.
    While we’re talking about future updates, I should give a roadmap for the next few entries:

  • Black Magic Women Finale - Filming IS complete, just need to do the final transmission and edit everything together.
  • Life of Starman Finale - ALMOST complete. I am waiting to hear back from a potential voice actor, and on a couple of drawings from Lee. The Nosferatu Compendium remake is something I hope to release alongside this.
  • Starburned Chapter One and Two - I’ll keep my lips sealed.

    I HATE giving out release dates because I always end up releasing something too early or too late, but I hope

    Lee’s going to be handling this lightning round, so toodles!! Sorry this newsletter hasn’t exactly been the densest, we got a lot in the works, but not a lot we can share. Love you guys!!)

    Lightning Round!!

    Erm. Uh. Hey.

  • Did you know Black Magic Women started as a class final me and my friend Nat did? (See: This section of “Is there a god trapped in Plymouth Rock?) We entered it into a local film competition and lost to AI slop unfortunately :(( (FUCK AI)
  • I’m going to interject, real quick, and share that Lee and Nat’s music video was going for a sapphic occult vibe that I just absolutely adored (I helped shoot it :3) and it is the vibe of that music video that BMW kind of hopes to emulate!
  • The addition of Clara's vampirism comes from my love for vampires and I was in a very What We Do in the Shadows vibe in my life..
  • I'm so sleepy rn chat
  • Lee specifically keeps saying “for” instead of “of” and it's really funny to me.
  • There's no more Evelyn Cross.

    Okay, buh bye, goodnight, honk ahoo. Bye guys

    - Evelyn and Lee