Aquamarine Dreams: An Awoken Fanmix

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AKA "Help I've Fallen Into an Ironic Fandom and I Can't Get Out"

In late 2013, Lindsay Ellis and her friends started a video series called Fifty Shades of Green (later retitled Booze Your Own Adventure), where they talked about YA paranormal romance tropes, and eventually wrote a satiric YA paranormal romance of their own, loosely based on the Cthulhu mythos. The book was titled Awoken, and it's still available for purchase on Amazon. It was both hilarious and unexpectedly compelling, and I ended up making a playlist for it.

Well, it’s not fanfiction, but I did do an ‘Awoken’ thing this weekend. Specifically, ‘Aquamarine Dreams’, an Awoken playlist (genre: my iTunes).

The song order is meant to roughly correspond with the narrative of the story; the quotes are, in theory, illustrative. Oh, and spoilers obvs.

1. Endless Dream (Conjure One feat. Poe)

so don’t be afraid/your heart is in me and it’s racing so fast now

2. Wishful Thinker (Lights Alive)

take all that’s left of me to the place i used to know/i’ll daydream the time away with the ghosts i just can’t let go

But those days…I had to accept that they were over and there was nothing to do but keep getting used to it.

3. Flawless (Studio Killers)

how can you be so flawless?

He looked like a boy, but how could he be? How could someone so perfect be a mere human?

4. Radioactive (Marina and the Diamonds)

when you’re around me i’m radioactive/my blood is burning, radioactive

Hearing him behind me sent increasing strata of tingles over my flesh each time…The tension in the air was almost palpable.

5. E.T. (Katy Perry)

you’re from a whole ‘nother world/a different dimension

Riley Bay wasn’t human…then what was he? An alien? […] If any native of Earth could do the things he did, than the world was a much stranger place than I’d been led to believe.

6. Feel the Circle (Yoko Kanno)

A brief sweet memory fluttered over me: lying in a gently rocking boat, my eyes softly covered and my hands bound with luxuriant silk.

7. Will You Remember? (The Cranberries)

i won’t remember the dress i wore/i won’t remember champagne/i won’t remember the things that we swore/i will just love you in vain

We had spent all day together…But…a date? Had he done it out of pity? Perhaps, but it was impossible to think it could be anything more than that.

8. Angel, Please (Ra Ra Riot)

oh angel please/please stay with me

I would give up all the Plaza suites in the world if I could just be worthy of this boy for the rest of my life.

9. Nemo (Nightwish)

touch me with your love/and reveal to me my true name

“Little one…You would not allow me? You would command me to stay?”

“I’m not commanding you […] I love you” I breathed.

10. Sleep Alone (Two Door Cinema Club)

and i don’t know/if in the morning i will be here and if so/let it be known/that i was worthy, i was worthy, i was

Of one thing I was sure: that I loved him, that I had said it out loud, and that he reciprocated. I knew he did…I was born to make him feel love. That was my power. That was my life’s purpose.

11. Fall To Pieces (Avril Lavigne)

you’re the only one/i’d be with to the end

“My life is nothing without you, do you hear me? It began with you, and it will end with you!”

12. Told Me (Gunnarolla feat. Rob Scallon)

let’s get this over/just say it’s over now

I’d known my whole life, somehow, that it would all end beneath the waves. All I had to do was close my eyes, take a deep breath, and then one step, and then another, and just keep walking.

13. Sweet Sacrifice (Evanescence)

and one sweet day/you’re gonna drown in my lost pain

Her vindictive smile returned “Such a pity you won’t live to suffer from it as I have, you little meddler.”

14. Void (The Mary Onettes)

i’m the void/and you can fall into me now

Utter chaos spun around me and I watched it in horror. […] There was no sign of Riley or his family. No wind, no sound, no color - only absolute negation. Beautiful insanity. And me.

15. Drowning In Those Eyes (Ane Brun)

i can’t breathe…i am drowning in those eyes

His nacreous eyes burned with imperial power, shining black with all colors and none. The depth of emotion that emanated from them made my breath hitch; it was as if they contained the concentrated essence of a million souls.

16. Big Blue Wave (Hey Ocean)

don’t tell me that we’ve come this far/to start again or fall apart/sing it when you’re lost at sea/and love will bring you back to me

A stone hand gripped my heart and I looked up at Riley’s face in alarm. […] Could he really let that go after eons of existence?

“I choose…” He fixed me with a defiant look. “Love.”