the portuguese have a word called "saudade". if you go to lisbon you can feel the place drenched in it, from the fado music coming out of cafes to the distressed and fading colonial architecture.
wiki describes it as: "a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return"
any mention of early 00s adult swim absolutely drenches me in it to the point where i'd rather just cut off limb and never talk about it anymore. fuck the OP for starting this thread.