#silentfrost

[warriorsfunlandpark]

“Aren’t they PRECIOUS?” Brokensong wished she could have boxed the older molly’s ears. “Perfect! Absolutely perfect!” Brokensong nodded, blinking a bit as Wildclaw boasted. She would not shut up about her kits! They weren’t any different from any other kits Brokensong had seen, with the exception of Coinkit and her own biological kits. Silentkit was large and had not opened his eyes yet. He made zero noise, not even a cry or a meow. Mandrakekit was very different. He was crafty, often asked quiestions and yowled loudly when he did not get his way. Freakstar’s kit through and through. Speaking of the esteemed leader…

“Where is Freakstar?” Brokensong asked, “Jaggedfoot took the kits out of the den to find some fluff for our nests. Perhaps he could-”

“Oh my, he’s very busy,” Wildclaw laughed, though Brokensong saw a little bit of sadness in the other she-cat’s eyes. Did Freakstar even love her? Brokensong wasn’t so sure. Freakstar came to see the kits but never actually spent time with Wildclaw. Jaggedfoot would often pull Brokensong from the nursery so they could go for a walk, look at the stars. Freakstar never did that with Wildclaw. Was she just a vessel for his kits? Did Wildclaw know that? “But aren’t they so cute and lovely?”

Or maybe Freakstar just wanted to stay away from how irritating Wildclaw had become, Brokensong thought, irritated.

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Brokensong is forced to listen to Wildclaw boast about her kits with Freakstar. Note: Freakstar does not love Wildclaw, his one and only love was Turtlepaw. He wanted kits and felt very panicky about being at his age and not having a legacy.

So he mates with Wildclaw and has Silentkit and Mandrakekit. Mandrakekit has a second face on the back of his head. He'll get a proper ref at some point. 

[power-chords]

silentfrost replied to your post “Contemporary rock production is so unfortunately hellbent on scrubbing...”

I think this is rock music trying to survive and adapt to the trend of overproduction in popular music. Personally I think this is the wrong way to go about things, the popularity of rock is going down because people apparently can't relate to it anymore, but rock was all about addressing the hard reality of life. So really instead of overproducing, today's rock bands need to ask themselves why they fail to put words and music to the feelings of the current generation..

Oh I think you’re absolutely right that rock ‘n’ roll is trying to adapt to a changing musical landscape. The thing that’s tough to square-- particularly for the generations above us, who grew up on it, and who love to talk my ear off about The Way Things Used To Be because they assume I’ll be uncritically sympathetic-- is that rock was birthed as teenage soundtrack and rapidly became mass culture, from Chuck Berry to Elvis to Little Richard to Buddy Holly to the Beatles, and it persevered as such for the next 40 years. Rock is not dead or dying so much as it is in flux, and it doesn’t need to be the normative state of popular music for it to survive, or be meaningful, but it spent a long fucking time as the standard against which all else was measured. Now rock ‘n’ roll exists in strange market pockets on the sidelines, flitting in and out of mainstream success to the extent that it can sell nostalgia or a genre-bending hook.

Popular music is INCREDIBLY diverse these days in terms of what genres are being tapped to engineer a hit song, even if the end result is increasingly sparkling and homogenous. People don’t care if they’re hearing hip hop, rock music, EDM, pop, whatever as long as it can deliver on the euphoric promise of an addictive hook. (I’m suspicious of hook-driven music culture, but that’s another post for another day.) Rock ‘n’ roll is not, by and large, hook-driven so much as it is melody-driven, format-driven, and people don’t care about format anymore, or albums, or genre. I’m not attaching any sort of value judgment to that, but there is less of a loyalty to a particular style; the motivation for hit-makers is simply to capture a waning attention span. 

So in that sense, yes, traditional rock ‘n’ roll is failing to speak to a contemporary audience. It may yet re-emerge as a central figure, but I doubt that product will be recognizable or enjoyable to my ears when it does. 

[power-chords]

silentfrost replied to your post “There are significant mental health downsides to a job in an industry...”

What industry do you work in?

Luxury fashion financing. We help designers get paid, and get bigger. 

[vellene]

silentfrost replied to your post: Smile of the day is owed to two older white women...

Cougars?! =D

On the prowl for dark meat, though, Féli!

[middleeasternsarecool]

Actually, many non-European countries are active members in the European Broadcasting Union, even many MENA countries, such as Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Libya and Morocco. They could all take part in ESC if they wanted to. I actually think Morocco entered once in the past. Australia is an associate member of the EBU and it's participation was intended as a one-off event in 2015, but I guess the EBU liked them as participants and now they might become regulars.

As I said before it doesn't make sense that non-European countries participate in European contest.

So the more countries people list - the more it doesn’t make sense. 

-mod Lael

[ylvanne]

Fuck that guy, he shouldn't have touched you! And fuck the bystanders who did nothing, people like that are just as disgusting. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Thank you for feeling it with me.I just don’t know why the hell people behave like that. Why could someone thing it’s okay to grab ANYONE by the hair and touch their neck when you don’t even know that person. Like, wtf?

And the people watching... I mean... How could you just stand and do nothing? Just... Laugh? :(

>___________<

[middleeasternsarecool]

If you dip hummus in mayonnaise, the two mix and the disgusting shit that results has nothing to do with hummus... so go ahead please. She said she doesn't want you to eat hummus and you're doing like she wishes. xD

this is brutal honestly, but I would maybe even pay to watch how whites eat ~this~. 

-Lael

[carrionfeast]

abaddon, jezebel and lilith? =)

abaddon: what person, place, or thing have you most wanted to destroy? - Religion, just because it causes so much suffering for no reason.

jezebel: talk about a time you used your sexuality to get your way - Only time I can think of is if there is a female barmaid and she’d rather serve me first instead of the queue of women.

lilith: what was your biggest rebellion against authority? why did you do it? I’m not a rebellious person, but I guess it was skipping school and never doing anything the teachers told me to do because they were awful, they made me feel like a piece of shit on their shoe they just scrape off and throw in the bin.

Thank you!!!