Photo a Day Challenge rantings

I follow this sweet YA blog called Forever Young Adult on all types of social media and visit their site daily. They some times have these photo a day challenges and it just happens they are having another one for the month of October. All book/Fall/Halloween related.

WTF does this have to do with zombies? Well I will be participating in it with my instagram ZD account @dearzombiediaries and that will be linked to my twitter @ZombieDiaries3 so if you want to follow along and do so, please do. I'm going to try and do everything related to zombies as much as I can while keeping true to me...but just the zombie side of me. I do have a life beyond zombies people!!!! SORRY NOT SORRY.  
And since this is a zombie blog where I started off with reading books and doing reviews, seems like this challenge fits into what I am trying to accomplish. 
Maybe in the future I could create a challenge. 

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. 

Fear the Walking Dead

First off I want to admit something that fellow zombie lovers would shame me for.... I didn't even know this show was coming on until a week before. GASP I know....It might have been I have no cable, I don't follow the right things on FB, Instagram, or Twitter (I hardly peruse it anymore), or maybe I was focused on my dog a lot this summer. Either way, I am sorry.


Now that I have shamed myself let's hop to a quick review of the show! 
If you haven't seen it yet (second episode was last night) then watch a trailer for the show below.

The show focuses on what happened before Rick and his gang got shit on all the time, before all our favorite and loved characters were eaten. This series is the prequel, the when, how and maybe why The Walking Dead world we know is like it is. 

Travis Manawa and Madison Clark as their characters on FTWD

As you are watching the first episode you may recognize a few folks from some great other shows. I noticed a few myself. Kim Dickens, plays Madison Clark, is known for Gone Girl, The Blind Side, and a few shows she was one for a bit were House of Cards and Sons of Anarchy. Alycia Debnam-Carey, Dickens' daughter Alicia is none other than Lexa from The 100.

Lexa from The 100

Elizabeth Rodriguez, who I love in OTNB as Aleida Diaz, made a short appearance in the first episode but will be a huge role as Dickens' boyfriend/husband's(?) ex-wife, Liza Ortiz.





So the pilot introduces us to this family and extended family, to their jobs and school where multiple people are "out with the flu"  but focuses on Dickens' son Nick (played by Frank Dillane) being a druggie who witnesses some freaking ass face eating done by his girlfriend in the tweeker church they are bunking in. After being hit by a car his family is trying to understand what he saw but unfortunately a drugged out person doesn't have the best experience with telling the truth or being trustful. So when Nick manages to get out of the hospital and his folks have looked into his story, we learn Nick's family is full of a bunch of assholes for not believing him. Even a news story goes viral showing a man attacking first

responders, getting shot a butt ton, and only succumbing to a head shot. Without giving away the pilot's ending, Nick's family finally believes something is going on with people after they witness someone being ran over MULTIPLE times. This last scene is what makes you shit your pants cause we all know from watching TWD that it all goes down hill from here.

The whole episode was was just anticipating the zombies to come, for someone to realize that person ain't dead; they undead. You are on your seat's edge already hoping this family doesn't get hurt. I thought for sure the old man in the hospital was going to be where we discover this but they got me with someone else. The show still feels like TWD but so far with less gross zombies and more clean people. 

If you are a Walking Dead fan, then you MUST see this show. I will be continuing on this dead path. 

Instagram Zombie Art

I like my instragram a lot. I spam it with my minpin pics, books I am reading, shit I buy, and of course the odd zombie stuff that I go gaga over. What I love mostly is finding artists or accounts that are showcasing zombies. 
Excuse all the screen shots....too lazy to crop and want to show credit. 

Kathleen Saunders does many Prismacolor pencils on Strathmore paper and great nerd mash-ups. She is my fav to look at. One of her works caught my eye for my blog: The Walking Disney. Love it!


Fredrik Edén, "illustrator from the cold north", does some pretty dope zombie illustrations of all kinds of nerdy. 

Video games, Disney, tv shows and movies are a great inspiration to zombify for Edén. 


Hit the jump to see more of his gruesome zombie drawings.

SFX make-up for the undead

Zombie Princess

 I enjoy a great special effects artist and I am loving seeing some random ones popping up on all kinds of social media. Anything gory, macabre, or "freaky" and I'm on it like zombies to a brain. ;)

 HanneHurskainen is from Finland and a beauty. While she hasn't dabbled in SFX long from what I see on DeviantArt, I still think she kicked ass on this lumpy zombie vixen. 

Pop Art Zombie

Natalie Kirk which can be found on Facebook, Twitter , and where I found her, Instagram, is self-taught SFX make-up artist and body painter. Her work is very Tim Burtonesque (she even features some of his stuff) and clearly enjoys the supernatural/horror genre.   Seen on the left is what I first found of hers. I love Pop Art anything, but love it more with zombie shit. Of course. See below for a few more zombie paint jobs and really go and check out her work. 

Comic Book Zombie

Pop Art Skull
Not quite zombie but I just really like it!

The Walking Dead Comic Zombie

My Brain is Puppy Crazy

I have been on the search for a dog and been waiting awhile to get one and finally in the last few weeks things are starting to get real. I finally got my paws on a MinPin and will be coming home to us 2 months from now. He was just born 2 days ago so got to see him today! So until I have him home with me, I've been on Pinterest, Etsy, and other sites gathering zombie swag for my dog. 

The Barking Dead and the Shaun of the Dog below are from Etsy and I am SO getting both of these. Super adorable. Both are from the seller Electrolucy. There are so many great geeky bandanas you can get your little furry animal as well. 

 



 Glow in the Dark Bones Skeleton isn't something just for Halloween. I'd have my little pooch in this all. da. time. 

Got a great little hunter in the family? Wear it proud with a female red dress Zombie Hunter OR for those of us that will be having a little male, see his little shirt below.

YouTubers you should follow

WARNING: LONG POST

Now I may follow and subscribe to many YouTubers but the best ones that I go back to based on their zombieness are two lovely ladies that take major pride at being totally weird, gory, and being beautiful doing so (both inside and out). 


Madeyewlook became a fav of mine last summer and I have been a dedicated Lexbot since. Lex, a 21 y.o. licensed esthetician and self-taught make-up artist, likes to rock some nerdy and scary looks, showcasing the oddball she is and her creativity has blossomed more and more. Lex does not shy away from zombies either which is how I found her and one of the reason I come back to watch.

She has done:

• the walking dead valentine 

• Christmas zombie 
  
• bug zombie
  
• bite mark special FX
  
• AHS Tate Makeup/Zombie Boy
  

AND 

• a zombie sock
  

Lex has all kinds of tutorials for everyone that it is no surprise she has over 1 million followers. Take a look at one of her most resent posts. Follow her on basically all social media.

Mykie of Glam&Gore is also that mix of creepy beautiful that I cannot get enough of. Also she is cute and whacko! Love it! Mykie says:

"The swiss army knife of makeup tutorials. Beauty. Special Effects. Avant garde. Industry advice. Products. Foundational teaching. There is something here for everyone, and if you hate makeup, I invite you to at least laugh at my strange face."

I started following Mykie last summer as well and she is relatively new but making waves in the industry and her videos are something different. 
Both Mykie and Lex have awesome personalities and have a sense a humor, key to being likable in my books.  Mykie and Lew original and willing to inspire their looks for others. I enjoy Mykie a lot since she can take anything pretty and turn it into gore. Some of her zombie looks, which can all be found on her account, are:

• Pop Art Zombaes

• Lana Del Rey   (So entertaining)

• Speak No Evil

•  And my fav 2 things combined....

I highly suggest looking at both ladies works and following them. Their week to week updates will always give you a smile!

Merry Christmas to me!!

 Holidays are great for surprise presents and when you buy most of them yourself, atleast you know you won't be disappointed with another knife block set. 

What you see is the most awesomest Yahtzee game to exist! Found at your local nerd store or even ThinkGeek. I was so happy for this gem!!! ;)

Look how great Gerald looks with my unread undead book collection! Can't even tell there is a great number game inside that handsome head of his. 

I went on a random comic shop spree and came across some more items to spend my money on instead of little orphaned children. I got a sweet deal on it all too!! The Walking Dead socks a snagged for $9 CAD and I got a weird series of comics (issues 1-4) about a retriever who kills zombies. Um ya. Awesome!!!! All issues came out to $7.  The HP necklace just happens to be in the pic since I had to Instagram that sh!t. Can't leave my nerd fans out of these great kinds of all kinds. 

What did you get this Christmas holiday? Did you reward yourself like I did? Cuz we know we are da bomb.

wait.....da bomb...?? I'm old. 

Only the best is dead enough

Where was I during 2010? Ah...a poor college student with no social life. It seems Dead Zebra, Inc. had some wicked 19" Lego dudes that were created by the man from Creatures In My Head site (I was addicted to this site for a few years. So trippy!). 
Since then the figures are gone but you can still buy a t-shirt. I know....less impressive. Not as impressive as being able to take tall toys and make them do weird things and SnapChat them to your friends. You don't do that?!!