#& kyla

[noah-andrews]

You're an angel snow or not ; ) Pics or it didn't happen K! I gotta see these snow ducks. Very uncomfortable. And then you gotta deal with them when they thaw! I need some heated ball pouches. Okay, okay here me out... we should invent heated ball pouches! Wait! Wait! Kyla! We could call them Roasted Nuts!!!!!!!!!

Yay I’m a snow angel! Yes, small ducks a little bigger than rubber duckies but made of snow. I would imagine being the guy with the frozen nuts would be uncomfortable.

[plumbewb]

emi’s new friend & strangerville resident (´꒳`)♡

[archer-clarington]

Text: Remember when I first got here, I would tell you who I was gonna do a scene with?

[Text] I do. When’s the last time you’ve done a scene?

[noughticalcrossings]

AGON

Our silly little characters going through world-ending trauma at the hands of our DM, for growth.

Kyla and Obstacles, my boy Lacedaemonius, Ophelia, and my most beloved elevated NPC Thessia whose weapon of choice is the smelling salts

[sunnysky-evans]

I’ll help with your cartwheel, Sky!

Really? I'm super clumsy.

@dancer-subclarington

[miss-madeline-beiste]

PM: It’s kinda ugly. The craft I made, it’s actually REALLY ugly. And I used most of my good glitter trying to make it better but it didn’t work. I might have to sing or dance it instead of making it, can I do that? Choreography is still kinda like making something, right?

PM: Ugly things just make my skin crawl and they frustrate me.

[PM] How would you feel about showing it to me, then getting rid of it and focusing on music instead? That's not an order, just a question.

[charlie-fabray]

How have you been enjoying Locktober?

Would it be cruel and teasing to say yes, very much? I know you don't like it.

[dazzlingidols]

wee woo wee woo wee!

[gloryofnegativity]

Kyla - Glory of Negativity

my account’s namesake lol… absolutely adore this album even if the project was never that serious

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #67: 2016

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We're now in 2016. A year that was at one point considered to be the worst in recent memory, a title that would only be surpassed by every year that came afterwards. But in terms of music, 2016 brought us a lot of heavy hitters. Anderson .Paak's Malibu, Rihanna's Anti, Frank Ocean's Blonde, Drake's Views, Beyoncé's Lemonade, and David Bowie's final album, Blackstar -- I would be here all day if I tried to list every release that came out this year.

But what's notable about this year of releases isn't just the albums themselves, but the music business landscape they were being released into. After the fall of physical media, the rise of music piracy in the MP3 era, and the popularity of digital storefronts, streaming services like Spotify seemed to be this great equalizer. This is an easier opinion to have if you forget that Spotify is a massive corporation, and if you're not an artist living off royalties. The controversy over streaming is nothing new. But this is when we start to see the landscape of streaming splintering.

Drake's Views and Beyoncé's Lemonade were not released to the wider streaming market, with exclusive releases on Apple Music and Tidal respectively. Much like the current debate over streaming services for movies and TV, listeners were suddenly finding themselves stretched thin between different streaming providers. Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube, SoundCloud, and many others. This wasn't a new phenomenon (both SoundCloud and Pandora predate Spotify by almost a decade), but now we're seeing more platform-exclusive releases. Listeners responded in a variety of ways. Some people switched platforms or kept multiple subscriptions to different services. Some bought physical copies of exclusive releases and imported them into their preferred platform. Some just didn't listen to the releases. And others went right back to piracy, repeating the same problem the record industry had been trying to snuff out for several decades now. Platform-exclusive releases aren't that common anymore.

As far as the music itself goes, as the sound of electropop wanes in mainstream popularity, dance music is starting to incorporate influences from a variety of Caribbean styles of music, specifically dancehall as seen with Rihanna's Work and Drake's One Dance, and tropical house, as seen with Justin Bieber's Sorry and Sia's Cheap Thrills (not featured on poll). However, I do want to differentiate the two, because dancehall originated in Jamaica in the 1970's while tropical house is a relatively recent genre that incorporates stylistic elements of dancehall and other subgenres of house music.

When it comes to mainstream rap and hip-hop, trap music is continuing to dominate. With music platforms allowing artists easier access to distribution, a sub-sub genre sometimes known as SoundCloud rap started to find mainstream footing. Some people also call this style "mumble rap". I will not, because I find the term needlessly dismissive and kind of obnoxious. All of these rising genres put together helped to contribute to a musical landscape that was moody and generally at a slower tempo than the pop music of previous decades. It's often reductive to attribute popculture at the time to the current zeitgeist, but considering how today's poll features songs with titles like "Work" and "Stressed Out", it's too tempting not to.

[spnmoosejerk]

End of summer beach day

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@walkingdeadlightsimmer

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Scene by: @midnightsquartz

[noah-andrews]

Noah was actually really excited. He'd been keeping himself pretty much to himself since Thanksgiving. It had been an emotional holiday and he'd needed space to process. Now a few weeks later, he'd done little processing and was mostly just being weird and hermitish. Kyla's message had come at exactly the right moment. She had a way of doing that. So he'd grabbed his gym bag with all of his dance shoes and water bottle and headed off to the studio. Was it weird that he'd ended up practically running and getting there before her? Yep, probably. To cover up how weird he was being he got in a quick warm up and started to stretch. He was just enthusiastic. Kyla plus dance was a reason to be enthusiastic!

@dancer-subclarington

[jbjonesxdomme]

@switchingwren and @dancer-subclarington liked your photo.

Well aren't you two just the sweetest?

[archer-clarington]

Archer! Do you wanna get matching tattoos with me and Hunter and hopefully Gunner? Please with lots of cherries on top?

What are you getting?

[babs-babbles]

Do you mind telling us more about your fan kids?

Lemme try to rack my noggin here

Naomi and Kyla! My blorbos my munchkins my half demon spawns

I don't have any new art of the girls BUT here's the most recent art of them I still have in my pocket

Naomi is a kaieve kid. Spawned from parasite/demon energy cross breeding (aka Eve and Kai'sa got it on real good one night and she appeared the next morning) Naomi (or Mimi for short) is a near spitting image of Evelynn, and the personality to go with it...

Taking well after Kai'sa Naomi is very passionate and outspoken with her interests and gets excited at new projects and learning opportunities. The other half from Evelynn is her dramatic flare on life and constantly making moves for success, a natural business woman and entrepreneur. Is often praised for by Eve for just the smallest things and she loves having her mom's constant attention

Raising Naomi was an odd case for her four moms. She wouldn't do much as a baby, just follow mommy Eve around mostly, or sticking close to her big sister. But she had the rare "demon baby" moments. She's a very strong hybrid who has void powers and demon instincts. It took a full void suited Kai'sa and demon shade mode Evelynn to calm her down from a tantrum. Later on Naomi grew a strong attachment to Ahri's fox form in her kid years, and often turned to momma Ahri for comfort

Some facts about Naomi

- very artistic. Enjoys fashion and painting

- smooth singing voice with lots of range. Loves learning songs in different languages

- an exceptional dancer and her favorite is tango

- is described as a socialite, but keeps her friend circle small

- used to stare blankly at Evelynn as baby, later learned that's how she shows affection

Now for Kyla. She's the oldest and was carried by Ahri. Born from Evelynn's demon energy mixing with the magical power of love for her wife and boom! A happy lil accident :D Kyla is born some good years after kda has made some albums and built a flourishing legacy (I see them all in their late 30s- early 40s when Kyla is born) Eve, Ahri, Akali and Kai'sa smothered their bab with the upmost love and attention as she grew up.

Raised as a legacy to the kda house name, Kyla was exposed to a lot of musical creation at home and grew a particular fond for music production. Often sneaking into Akali's studio after being put down for bed to watch her momma make cool sounds and beats. It's there she learns to create her own tracks and grows to carry on the kda name in the music industry

Personality wise Kyla is very quiet and is selectively mute. Only speaking when at home and to close friends (and the rare interview). Picking up after Akali she's often found held up in her room creating music for hours on end, often getting dragged out by Kai'sa and her sister to get a taste of sunlight. She uses music as her outlet and a way to speak to people and express herself. If not in the studio she can be found curled up in her fox form under Ahri

Some facts about Kyla

- doesn't speak as many languages as Naomi and Kai'sa, but is fluent in sign language

- sneaks out at night to underground clubs to test tracks (the only ones who know are Evelynn and Akali)

- her and Naomi both form the new kda group

- despite her shy personality Kyla has a much different stage presence with more energy

- looks up to Seraphine as her idol

PHEW!! that's all I can remember from like 2 years ago? I'm definitely gonna give them some redesigns tho so these ones aren't that canon anymore. I remember making these girls as a joke like "hurhurhur what if they unexpectedly had kids and stumbled into a chaotic family lifestyle" then ended up really liking the kids I made. Small note tho, I don't see kda actually having kids at some point. Both personally and logically in their universe. These girls exist more in an au setting of kda expanding into a more familial territory

[sunnysky-evans]

PM: Sky! How are you doing with um..everything? Are you okay? Do you need anything?

PM: I'm scared, but I'm ok. Sammy Sir is very hurt. He won't wake up. But he's gonna be ok.