♥304♥ Return to the Forest (a fanmix) :: art & music & icons
This has been a little bit of a labor of love over the past day or so. This is a fanmix dedicated to The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. It is a 'companion book' to The Forest of Hands and Teeth. The main character of The Dead Tossed Waves, Gabry, is the daughter of the main character from the first book. Both books are zombie apocalypse/dystopic looks at the future and there is a third installment due out next year.
If you haven't read either book, I definitely recommend them.
Under the cut is a snippet from the beginning of The Dead Tossed Waves, the cover art, the songs, download links for the art+music, and also a few icons that I made from the cover art. And yes, I did have fun putting all the little zombies on the back cover art. ;)
"The story goes that even after the Return they tried to keep the roller coasters going. They said it reminded them of the before time. When they didn’t have to worry about people rising from the dead, when they didn’t have to build fences and walls and barriers to protect themselves from the masses of Mudo constantly seeking human flesh. When the living weren’t forever hunted.
They said it made them feel normal.
And so even while the Mudo-neighbors and friends who’d been infected, died and Returned-pulled at the fences surrounding the amusement park, they kept the rides moving.
Even after the Forest was shut off, one last gasp at sequestering the infection and containing the Mudo, the carousel kept turning, the coasters kept rumbling, the teacups kept spinning. Though my town of Vista was far away from the core of the Protectorate, they hoped people would come fly along the coasters. Would still want to forget.
But then travel became too difficult. People were concerned with trying to survive and little could make them forget the reality of the world they lived in. The coasters slowly crumbled outside the old city perched at the tip of a long treacherous road along the coast. Everyone simply forgot about them, one other aspect of pre-Return life that gradually dimmed in the memories and stories passed down from year to year."
::Drumming -- Florence & the Machine::
As I move my feet towards your body
I can hear this beat it fills my head up
And gets louder and louder
It fills my head up and gets louder and louder
There's a drumming noise inside my head
That starts when you're around
I swear that you could hear it
It makes such an all mighty sound
::Help, I'm Alive -- Metric::
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
::Tainted Love -- Duffy::
Now I know I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
::On Call -- Kings of Leon::
If you call me now baby, I'd come running
I'm on call to be there, one and all to be there
When I fall to pieces, no I don't know
I'll be there waiting to be there, to be there
::Blindness -- Metric::
Find us a trap door, find us a plane
Tell the survivors help is on the way
I was a blindfold never complained
All the survivors singing in the rain
I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me
What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose
::Borrowed Time -- A Fine Frenzy::
Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide
But you say you're getting tired
You're tired and so am I
When you follow from behind
::Keep on Breathing -- The Delgados::
Just another list of consequences of things that we do
Just another hit of happenings that we have to live through
In and out of all the reasons, and all the “whys” and “wherefores”
We just want to keep on breathing
::Use Somebody -- Bats for Lashes::
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
::Open Your Eyes -- Snow Patrol::
Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time
Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere
I want so much to open your eyes
'Cause I need you to look into mine
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you
Download the zip.
(If the link expires, please let me know and I will reupload the file.)
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Note: Gabry's PB for the cover art/icons is Brittany Robertson.
♥ Comments are adored.
♥ Credit is appreciated to faeriesfolly or petitemerci.
♥ Don't hotlink or repost elsewhere, please.
♥ Feel free to friend / join the community for updates.
♥ Visit our twin community lilacwine7 and our favorite orange community orangerfulboxes. :)
If you haven't read either book, I definitely recommend them.
Under the cut is a snippet from the beginning of The Dead Tossed Waves, the cover art, the songs, download links for the art+music, and also a few icons that I made from the cover art. And yes, I did have fun putting all the little zombies on the back cover art. ;)
"The story goes that even after the Return they tried to keep the roller coasters going. They said it reminded them of the before time. When they didn’t have to worry about people rising from the dead, when they didn’t have to build fences and walls and barriers to protect themselves from the masses of Mudo constantly seeking human flesh. When the living weren’t forever hunted.
They said it made them feel normal.
And so even while the Mudo-neighbors and friends who’d been infected, died and Returned-pulled at the fences surrounding the amusement park, they kept the rides moving.
Even after the Forest was shut off, one last gasp at sequestering the infection and containing the Mudo, the carousel kept turning, the coasters kept rumbling, the teacups kept spinning. Though my town of Vista was far away from the core of the Protectorate, they hoped people would come fly along the coasters. Would still want to forget.
But then travel became too difficult. People were concerned with trying to survive and little could make them forget the reality of the world they lived in. The coasters slowly crumbled outside the old city perched at the tip of a long treacherous road along the coast. Everyone simply forgot about them, one other aspect of pre-Return life that gradually dimmed in the memories and stories passed down from year to year."
::Drumming -- Florence & the Machine::
As I move my feet towards your body
I can hear this beat it fills my head up
And gets louder and louder
It fills my head up and gets louder and louder
There's a drumming noise inside my head
That starts when you're around
I swear that you could hear it
It makes such an all mighty sound
::Help, I'm Alive -- Metric::
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
::Tainted Love -- Duffy::
Now I know I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
::On Call -- Kings of Leon::
If you call me now baby, I'd come running
I'm on call to be there, one and all to be there
When I fall to pieces, no I don't know
I'll be there waiting to be there, to be there
::Blindness -- Metric::
Find us a trap door, find us a plane
Tell the survivors help is on the way
I was a blindfold never complained
All the survivors singing in the rain
I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me
What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose
::Borrowed Time -- A Fine Frenzy::
Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide
But you say you're getting tired
You're tired and so am I
When you follow from behind
::Keep on Breathing -- The Delgados::
Just another list of consequences of things that we do
Just another hit of happenings that we have to live through
In and out of all the reasons, and all the “whys” and “wherefores”
We just want to keep on breathing
::Use Somebody -- Bats for Lashes::
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
::Open Your Eyes -- Snow Patrol::
Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time
Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere
I want so much to open your eyes
'Cause I need you to look into mine
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you
Download the zip.
(If the link expires, please let me know and I will reupload the file.)
1-3
4-6
Note: Gabry's PB for the cover art/icons is Brittany Robertson.
♥ Comments are adored.
♥ Credit is appreciated to faeriesfolly or petitemerci.
♥ Don't hotlink or repost elsewhere, please.
♥ Feel free to friend / join the community for updates.
♥ Visit our twin community lilacwine7 and our favorite orange community orangerfulboxes. :)