#A Rock and A Hard Place

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Sisters Of Mercy – A Rock and a Hard Place

[echantedtoon]

DEMON SLAYER SERIES

SERIES

Monster Bride : Monster au Upper/Lower Moons x Reader

Demon Bride : Upper and Lower Moon reverse harem x reader

Demon Bride Lost Bits : Upper and Lower Moons x Reader

In The Moon's Shadow (Yandere Kokushibo x Reader)

Love Is Blind : Kagaya Ubuyashiki x reader

Everyone Wants A Brother Like You : Semi Nezuko x Various Characters/Slice of life

A Rock And A Hard Place : Douma, Akaza, Semi Rengoku x reader

Eclipsed Starshine (Yandere Kokushibo x Reader)

Waning Obsession (Yandere Kokushibo x Reader)

Ocean Deep : Mermaid Au Uzuren + Wives x Reader

Promise : Demon Yoriichi/Michikatsu x Reader

Oblivious Crushes : Mitsuri x Clones (NOT Zohakutan!)

Quite A Handful : Hantengu + Clones x Wife Reader

A Lovers' Circle: Polycule Haishiras x Reader

Fleeting Memories : Demon Yuichiro Au

ONESHOTS

Kamanue x Reader

Househusband Kokushibo x Reader

Househusband Gyutaro x Reader

Single Dad Michikatsu x Reader

Kagaya x Reader x Amane

Single Dad Michikatsu x Reader 2

Cryptid Rengoku x Reader

Hairou x Reader

Mermaid Douma x Reader

Akaza x Koyuki Band Au

Kagamane vs Muzarei x Reader

God Tengen x Reader

OTHER CONTENT

Kindness

To Where The Hand Extends

AU RAMBLES

KNY Swap Au Rambles

KNY Swap Au Rambles P2

Kny Swap Au Ramblings P3

KNY Mermaid Au Rambles

Kny Mermaid Au Ramblings P2

Kny Mermaid Au Ramblings P3

Kny Mermaid Au Ramblings P4

Mermaid Headcannons

Monster Bride Rambles

Haishira Polycule Au Rambles

Haishira Polycule Rambles P2

Single Dad Michikatsu Au Rambles

Double Demon Siblings Au

ASKS

Demon Bride S/os Love Language

Nicknames They'd Call You

DB S/os React To You Being Hit On

Who's The Tallest Boy In Demon Bride

Demon's Jobs

Genderbent Names

Platonic Yandere Kokushibo x Little Sister Reader

Kagaya x Pregnant Wife Reader

Genya x Shy Reader

ART

Fanart 1

Fanart 2

Fanart 3

Fanart 4

Demon Bride Characters

Fanart 5

Love Is Blind Y/n

Fanart 6

Fanart 7

Fanart 8

Demon Bride Meme

Fanart 9

Fanart 10

Yoriichi/Michikatsu x Y/n

Demon Yuichiro Tokito

A Lovers' Circle Coverart

Kagaya/Amane x Y/n

Demon Yuichiro Tokito P2

Kyojuro Rengoku x Y/n

Fanart For Others

Fanart For Others 2

Fanart For Others 3

Demon Slayer Oc

Fanart For Others 4

Marionette Enmu And Y/n

POSTS

Demon S/o Meme 1

Demon S/o Meme 2

Demon S/o Meme 3

Demon S/o Meme 4

Demon S/o Meme 5

Demon S/o Meme 6

Dragon Rengoku

Upper Moon Dads

Lower Moon Dads

Demon Dads

Yandere Demons And Brides

Yandere Demons And Brides P2

Yandere Demons And Brides P3

Bouquets/Flowers They'd Give You

Bouquets/Flowers They'd Give You P2

Kaigaku Theory

Running Away From Yandere Demons

Running To Your Slayer S/o

Running To Your Slayer S/o P2

Telling Them You're Pregnant

Telling Them You're Pregnant P2

Yandere Kokushibo

Caught Once Again

OTHERS' FANART

Fanart People Had Done For My Stories

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[nottheweirdest]

Woot woot!! A Rock and a Hard Place is officially in a finished draft stage! It needs at least one more round of edits from me and beta read, but we're still on track for Sonic's birthday 🎂🥳 Over 8600 unpublished words to be delivered soon 😏

In the meantime, for those 18+, you can read the first chapter here!

[gawrkin]

(Vulgate Cycle - Mort Artu)

(Post-Vulgate Cycle - Mort Artu)

SIGH

On one hand, I don't like the idea that Guinevere can't handle Monastic/Ascetic Life.

On the other Hand, I'm really resentful with Modern Arthuriana that have Guinevere be convent-raised/educated.

[by-kalika]

Two Frosted Roads

-kalika

[lemontartyellow]

Helppppp me. I can’t go to bed but I can’t convince myself to get up and watch the scene that I need to watch to write that post I made a poll about.

[dijidweeeb]

Motivational Music in the Morning ... #SistersOfMercy, #ARockAndAHardPlace ... from #TheFirstAndLastAndAlways [Official Audio Track] (1985) #MMitM1

[charcoalstardust]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

hdhahf thank you noah i can find out if this is a paragraph's worth of sentences /hj

14 roses! that's gonna be 14 sentences from A Rock and a Hard Place which is for my original universe bc i love these lads <3

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"Seriously? You're not dating anyone, John." Dustin crossed his arms over his chest and huffed.

"Exactly! I don't HAVE a date!" John sighed and idly ran his thumbs over the invitation. It took a bit for him to suddenly light up. He was always so fast to find ideas—for better or for worse. "I just had the perfect idea!"

"Oh no." The duo were both quiet with Dustin looking unamusedly at a very sparkly-eyed Johnathan. Dustin sighed and rolled his eyes. "Alright, I'll bite. What's the idea?"

[princessheatherblossom]

I guess that's just what Zeus is saying

[merge-conflict]

btw results of wondering what would ever make a johnny/valentine/goro physical threesome even remotely workable:

Valentine leaves Arasaka for Johnny (who is working things out with Kerry) and also because they weren't treating her well and she was lonely

Some time after this an inciting event causes Goro to leave (details not important to this thought experiment)

He ends up finding Valentine and she immediately takes him in (of course)

Johnny suffers this arrangement on threat of violence and misery (inflicted by Valentine) and the thin consolation that at least he's not answering to Arasaka anymore

Which are the ideal conditions for the three of them to be in constant casual contact, and then the inciting incident is sort of an accidental one upsmanship and a lack of higher thought guiding decision making because of the old tea kettle whistle going on instead:

Silverhand slips into bed behind V, pressing himself in close against her. He fits in like a missing piece, matched for build and height, his grin as pleased as her scowl is angry. Despite her annoyance, the elbow she pushes into his ribs is half-hearted at best.

“What do you want?” Goro asks, indulging himself by imagining how satisfying it would be to physically remove the smug expression from his face.

“My half of the bed,” Silverhand answers, resting his hand on V’s leg, fingers creeping around the edge of her briefs.

The moment he gets close to her scar V elbows him again, with considerably more force. He winces, withdrawing his hand. She puts her hand on Goro’s leg, moving closer until they’re pressed together at the hip. “Then stay on your side.”

“C’mon,” Silverhand drawls, and by the way the smile seems to take over his face, Goro guesses he’s not entirely sober. “Upended your life for him, can’t I see what all the fuss is about?”

“So this is just a bit of professional curiosity?” V says, with a polite edge. The lingering huskiness in her voice makes the soft threat curiously suggestive, and Goro sees the same appreciation in Silverhand’s eyes. She regains Goro’s attention by sliding her leg in between his, unconsciously mirroring Silverhand’s smug expression as the angle allows for intimate contact separated only by two sets of disappointingly constraining fabric. “Or are you just enjoying the idea of making him jealous?”

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“Go away Johnny,” V says quietly, leaning forward to kiss Goro. They grind together, his ability to care about their audience dissipating like smoke. All that matters is her hand on his hip, holding him tightly for leverage, and her mouth on his, breath sweet and warm. “You’re not invited.”

“Let him stay,” Goro says, before he can stop himself, drunk on her full attention. “Perhaps he wishes to learn something.”

“Keep dreaming,” Silverhand growls, moving close so that V is pinned between them. She makes a low, needy noise and kisses Goro again.

“Is this what you do with Eurodyne and him?” he asks, ignoring that him is currently caressing her thigh.

“No,” she says, arching again at something Silverhand is doing. “I’m never in the middle.”

“Is this so?” he asks, playfully, kissing her jaw. The rasp of his beard over her neck makes her shiver, and he can feel her heart beating like a drum under his hand. “They do not appreciate you as they should.”

[echantedtoon]

A Rock And A Hard Place Part 1 Meeting

All you wanted was to just do your job and go home at the end of the day. But no. Instead you get stuck between a rock and a hard place.

This is inspired by @melon-cream-enmu Demon Slayer Breeding Program Au. (Warnings: Their blog does contain NSFW elements and themes that not everyone may like or be comfortable with. Just a heads up. But this WILL STAY Sfw.) I did ask if they were fine with someone writing drabbles inspired by their au before writing this, and they mentioned that they were fine. This is probably not gonna have a lot of chapters and it's from the perspective of a female reader.

Breeding Program Au- @melon-cream-enmu

Demon Slayer- Koyoharu Gotouge

Demon Designs for this done by @flanelltees linked below.

https://www.tumblr.com/flanelltees/694082545792450560/i-forgot-i-didnt-post-this-cuz-i-think-i-didnt?source=share

Mostly Akaza x Reader x Douma with some Rengoku x Reader.

"....You want me to do WHAT?!"

"Oh, c'mon. It's not even that bad."

You know..you were expecting a lot of things. But being bait for your bosses' pet projects wasn't it!!

As one of the janitors of the facility you sometimes clean up the cells where they kept the creatures. You never paid them attention. You were more interested in going in, doing your job, and then going home at the end of the day just to cash in your paycheck at the end of the week. You didn't care what these scientists are doing and it wasn't any of your business so you just kept your nose where it belonged and just did what you were paid to do, which was to clean. But that made it hard to do when THOSE things started to be shoved into their cells. They always made messes. Mostly tossing around objects, breaking things, and depending on the demon, left behind blood, drool, and sometimes lots of fur or feathers...As said it all depended on the demon. 

You thought you heard the scientists call most of them by numbers such as 'the Swamp Demon' or something along those lines but you never bothered to pay too much attention to it. You were only paid to clean around here and nothing else. Which included going into those cells when the scientists took out their demons (usually after knocking them unconscious) and getting them cleaned up before they put the creatures back inside. On one such day it was business as usual. One of the scientists (Doctor Shinobu you think) brought out one of those creatures, the one that looked like a giant harpy thing and you were tasked with cleaning out his cell before he came back. It wasn't too bad. At least this creature didn't leave a trail behind it like that swamp one did thing did. It was a quick job wheeling your cart over and beginning the familiar process of sweeping, mopping, and then taking your spray bottle and cloth to start wiping at the giant reinforced window looking into the cell. Your boss's always stressed to you the importance of making sure these windows were clean at all times to allow the scientists and security clear view of the creatures. Despite how BIG each cell was with some being the size of three whole houses, there was minimal clean up You had to do. They were mostly like giant enclosures at the zoo with each one catering to each specific demon. This one in particular having a few trees and perches installed for the bird demon they sedated earlier. 

After a while it got pretty warm..Eh. You supposed you could spare to take off your mask and hazmat suit hood that was a part of the get up you were. It was a relief to take off the get up disguising your face and letting the air hit your face. With a sigh of relief you went back to sweeping a lot of shedded feathers along the floor. You were just wiping at the glass when you heard it for the first time.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

A strange tapping sound.  You paused before looking around the cell. No one was in here with you and it didn't seem like anything was loose or a draft was present... Shrugging you turned back to your work wiping off the big window from inside the cell before moving outside the cell to clean up the other side. The safe side to be honest. You were just wiping off the middle of the reinforced glass before you heard it again but much, MUCH louder than before.

TAP. TAP. TAP 

You again paused as the sounds came from literally right behind you....You debated whether or not to turn around-

T A P. T A P. T A P.

The increasingly amount of strength used to force those taps increased in strength startling you. An intense gaze made you shiver. There's been a few incidents here. So there was a strict rule that any non science or security staff was told to do at all times. Under absolutely no circumstances were you to engage with the demons. Whatever you do-

DO. NOT. ENGAGE.

Do NOT engage with the demons. Do not attempt contact. And if they try to intimidate or act out, you were to not engage. No one but the security and scientists were qualified to handle them. So you made a choice. You refused to turn around and just continued to work no matter what sounds were behind you. The sounds increased in tempo and volume for a solid few seconds but after about ten seconds of ignoring whatever it was it stopped entirely much to your relief. You were finished in minutes. Without giving another look back, you grabbed your cart and just pushed it away refusing to look behind you. 

The whole way you felt you were being watched.

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It wasn't until almost three months later that the strange situation occurred again.

The harpy like demon was being released alongside a few other demons to make way for a few new ones. You were again tasked with cleaning out a few other cells, the old bird demon's cell included. You were again cleaning the window when you heard it. 

TAP! TAP! TAP!

Your body jumped startled and acted on its own. Your eyes looked through the window at the other side of the hall and nearly passed out from what you looked at eye to eye. A humanoid creature was staring at you from the cell just across from you, hands pressed against the glass and eyes blinking at you. You stared at it stunned and.. It knocked lightly on the glass making you jump and drop the cloth in your hand. But that's not what shocked you the most. 

The creature was strikingly beautiful.

A head of platinum silvery-blonde hair cascaded from the thing's head and a kolidescope of shining colors bored into your eyes from behind the reinforced glass lined with nicherin metal. Blue sharp nails tapped on the screen glass making you jump again at the sound and it seemed to find amusement in your actions tilting it's head at you. After a moment of staring further it ...

Smirked??

It smirked at you before smiling seductively and making a gesture for you to come over. An aura of that feeling you get like seeing your crush for the first time radiating off him-

Which was why it blinked in surprise when you scrunched up your noise at it in almost a disgusted look at him. 

"What the heck are you laughing at?" You asked it in annoyance. It slowly lost its smile blinking again. "Do you find my outfit funny? Good for you but guess what. I'm not the one stuck in there! So why don't you go eat a squirrel or whatever it is you do?"

Did it really think you looked that funny in this get up? Oh ha ha. It was bad enough you had to clean up after these things. You didn't need their criticism too.

"Go on and get outta here!

That's it. That's all you said. Keeping to your rule of do not engage and ignoring it in favor of finishing wiping the window. It didn't do anything else but you felt it watching you the entire time before you finished cleaning the other side of the window and walked away quickly just as one of the scientists were walking down the hall. He must've noticed your spooked look because he laughed making you stop to look at him. 

"So you met Stripes?"

You ended up looking at him. "Stripes?...What the heck is that?" You asked a bit muffled by your mask.

He chuckled at your expression. "He's one of the newcomers here. Some of the capture and release team brought him in the other week and put him right next to the room you just came out of." He nodded his flame colored hair down the hall. "He sometimes likes to scare us by running up to the window and hitting it."

"Why would he hit the window?"

"It's a sign of challenge. Some demons challenge others to fight by showing aggression. He usually does that to our male staff. He also tries to show dominance by acts of intimidation and more aggression. He seems to particularly do that a lot whenever he sees me specifically. Probably because I'm the first one he saw after bringing him here."

"Why do you call him 'Stripes'?"

"Because of the stripe patterns on his body. It makes it easier to tell them apart by giving them nicknames."

Your brow rose. "The one I saw didn't have any stripes." Again your voice said muffled by the mask you wore. "The one I saw had rainbow eyes. It was weird."

He froze staring at you stunned before blinking. "It...what?!" He seemed completely shocked at what you said before leaning over you. "You saw the ice demon?!"

"Saw him and already find him annoying. He kept banging on the dam window."

"It attempted to make contact?!" He leaned over you suddenly looking you up and down in your heavy duty baggie hazmat suit and mask leaning over you as he did so. You leaned back as the red headed man studied you intensely as if searching for something to explain the questions in his head. "But...How? Why? It's never attempted to make contact with any man in the facility."

At this your eyes narrowed at him in annoyance before both hands reached out and simultaneously in one motion, your hood was pulled down and the mask pulled off your face revealing your identity to the stunned scientist.

"Do I look like a man to you?!," you asked annoyed and now he could hear your voice clearly.

And he could clearly see that- "You are a woman?!"

"No shit!"

"But-..You-.." He again looked at you then down the white sterile hall towards the cells then back to you in disbelief. "How did you not get lured in by it's charming affect?"

You deadpanned looked at him before sighed. "Look, Sir-"

"Rengoku! Doctor Rengoku!!"

"Well, Doc. I don't really care about any demons or what you people research here. All I care about is doing my job and then going home to sleep." Your hand grabbed the cart again. "Now if you don't mind, I have like five other unoccupied cages to clean in a hot stuffy suit before I can even think about leaving and I haven't even had anything to eat yet so I'm not in the mood. So excuse me."

He still stared at you as you wheeled your squeaky cart away to the next cell that needed to be cleaned up. Leaving him just looking at your retreating form before humming and slowly looking back towards where she came from. Very interesting. Very ..VERY interesting. Safe to say when he saw Shinobu and the others later in the next staff meeting he brought up a very interesting new development.

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The glass squeaked under your gloved hand as you pushed the cloth across the mirror in the women's bathroom polishing the reflective surfaces showing your tired reflection in the mirror as your worked. This was tiring. You supposed you were glad for the air conditioning the buildings had making wearing this get up more bearable but you still found yourself hating this stuffy old suit that was required with the job.  In your boss's words-

"It's to ensure your safety within the demon's cells in case they release toxins into the air. It's also to protect you from the harsh cleaning chemicals you'll be using to ensure the sterilization of the facility. Every other member of the cleaning staff has one too."

Still irritated you. You paused as the bathroom door opened and in walked a woman with purple eyes. You blinked at her reflection looking around before stopping on you with a smile and you sighed before turning around. Great. Just what you needed. Interference when you were trying to work.

"Sorry." You held up a hand voice muffled by the mask. Her head tilted at you. "The bathroom's closed until I finish cleaning. There's another bathroom two halls over though by the break room that should be open."

Instead of doing the obvious thing and leaving, she just smiled at you more. "Y/n?"

You paused hearing your name but blinked and nodded. "Yeah?? Who's asking?"

"Oh thank goodness." Her hands clasped together happily although you felt a bit weirded out. "It took me a while to find you! You know there's lots of janitorial staff running around here and the place is so large, but I finally managed to track you down."

"Uh...Good for you? I'm sorry. Is there something you want me for? If it's a mess you want me to clean them I'll be there in a moment-"

"Oh no no." She shook her head. "My business with you is much more important than that! Do you have a minute so we can talk?"

"Sure but it's gonna have to wait until after I finish cleaning this place. I don't get paid to leave work waiting."

"A 'get things done' attitude. I like that in people!" She nodded. "I'll wait for you outside. Ok?"

"Uh. Yeah. Sure. Whatever."

She proceeded to leave leaving you just confused. Who was that? By the fancy lab coat she wore, you supposed she was one of the professors here or part of the research department. Knowing those people, they wanted you to clean a mess in the labs or another demon cell. Sigh. Oh well. It's not like you were doing anything important after cleaning a bathroom anyways. You took your sweet time finishing up your work which roughly took thirty minutes. I'm truth you were kinda hoping she'd leave you to find another one of the janitors to clean up her mess but you were both surprised and disappointed seeing that the woman was still waiting for you outside in the hallway as you dragged out your cart. You looked at her ever smiling place before sighing.

"Alright. Where and what is it and how big of a mess do I have to clean up this time?"

She waved a hand. "Oh no. It doesn't involve any messes."

"Then what do you want me for?"

"I'm part of the research department. It's actually come to my attention that there's been an interesting new development concerning you and one of our subjects!"

"....In human talk?"

"One of the demons seemed to have taken quite an interest in you! You see we've been monitoring his activity for a while and every time you get assigned to that wing he gets more active now!"

"....And that's supposed to be important?"

Her smile strained a little bit. "YES. He's usually only active around girls but lately his activity around myself and other female doctors has decreased and increased when he sees you come by."

You rolled your eyes. "He just likes laughing at my suit."

"Maybe but we'd like to offer you a proposition!" You rose a brow at her. Proposition? "You'll be paid very well for it!"

Money? Your brows rose interested. "...I'm listening."

"We want you to volunteer for the M.C.M.A.R.R. section of our research group."

"Mc...What?"

"M.C.M.A.R.R! It stands for Mating, Courting, Marriage, and Relationships Research!," she explained to you holding up a finger. "There's been a new interest in how relationships built by demons affect their overall behavior. Whether it be familial or more codependent relationships. It shapes some of the demons own actions and behaviors."

"Ok. That makes sense. What does that have to do with me though?"

"That's the thing. M.C.M stands for Marriage, Courting, and Mating for a reason! We want you to volunteer for a new experiment we're trying out."

"Which is what exactly?"

"We want you to volunteer to become one of the demons items of romance!"

You stared at her. ".....You want me to do WHAT?!"

[nottheweirdest]

last update was chefs kiss sooo sexy ❤️😩

THANK YOU 😭💖 I appreciate that so much. It's been so long since I've done spicy stuff I managed to convince myself it was awful and everyone hated it 😅

Thank you for the kind words! I'm very happy you enjoyed it 🥰

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this guy and walls, geez