#Why am I still awake

[kyojurokoibito]

"LET ME PAY YOU!"

Pairing(s): kyojuro rengoku x reader

Synopsis: how kyojuro met his civilian wife

Genre: fluff

Warning(s): n/a

Kao's Notes: just something to put out there while i work on requests in the meantime :) enjoy! <3

"EXCUSE ME, MISS!"

"OH MY G—!" *BANG* "OW!"

you hit the top of your head on the bottom shelf of your stall as a loud voice rang through the night. you ran a popular food stall in the small, lovely town you call home. people loved coming by your food stall for the service, the food, and for a chance to talk with a beautiful lady. each day, you decided to try a new recipe, and everyone was eager to see what you'd be serving every day.

"forgive me," the loud voice called again. "it was not my intention to startle you!"

"i-it's alright." rubbing the crown of your head with a slight pout, you rose to look at the owner of said voice. "i–um–wasn't expecting many people to come by this late, so you caught me by surprise."

taking in the man's appearance, you quickly gathered he was a demon slayer. the distinct design of his haori, the nichirin blade at his hip, and the obvious uniform was a dead giveaway.

you smiled, "would you like something to eat while you're here? i'm making gyu kushi(beef skewers) on top of rice, along with some mochi tonight. you'd be the final person i'm serving!"

the man's smile nearly blinded you, "yes! i would appreciate that very much!"

"great!" his smile was so contagious. you couldn't help but to deliver one as well. "how many orders would you like?"

"that depends," he stated loudly, excitedly slamming his hands on the counter and smiling at you. "how many are you willing to make?!" that's...the first time you've received that response.

"o-oh...uh..." you looked beneath your stall again. "well, i could make the rest of my inventory for you..." you lifted your head to look at him with a nervous laugh. "although, it's a considerably large amount of food, sir."

he laughed, "if you are willing to make it, i am willing to eat it! and no need to call me, sir! i am rengoku kyojuro!" you couldn't stop yourself from laughing along.

"then i'll be happy to make it for you, rengoku-san!"

kyojuro watched you gather the ingredients and quickly get to work on prepping his food. it was clear this was like second nature to you. you worked so diligently and moved with unwavering certainty.

"so," you began as you continued cooking but kept your gaze on kyojuro. this caused the hashira to look at you. "what brings you by this late?"

"a mission," he stated proudly, his smile never leaving. "it is completed, but i always stop by to check on towns nearby!"

"well, that's nice of you," you stated before finishing his first plate of food and handing it to him. "here, have a taste before i make the rest."

he loudly thanked you before placing the beef skewer between his teeth, pulling one of the chunks of meat off with his teeth.

"TASTY!" another bite. "TASTY!" a bite of rice. "TASTY!" a bite of mochi. "TASTY!"

you clapped your hands in delight, overjoyed that the hashira found your food so tasteful.

"so, everything tastes okay? would you still like to have the rest, rengoku-san?" you asked, although you're sure you already knew the answer.

"yes! i would love the rest!" he began fishing around in his pocket. "how much would it be?!"

"oh no," you quickly shook your head and quickly began preparing the rest of the food with a content smile. "i never charge the slayers that pass through. it's the least i can do for you all."

"please!" he slammed a pouch of coins onto the counter, causing you to shriek at the loud noise. he leaned forward, eyes boring into you with conviction. "ALLOW ME TO PAY YOU!"

"i-it's no trouble, really!" you jumped back from the close proximity. he only leaned in closer.

"THIS AMOUNT OF FOOD WOULD SURELY MAKE A GREAT PROFIT FOR YOU!! LET ME PAY!!!"

"b-but, the sales i've made today are more than enough already!!!"

"TAKE MY MONEY!"

"i don't need to!!!"

you two continued back and forth like this as you finished cooking the remainder of his food, packaging them nicely in cute boxes, which only fueled his desire to pay you. as you had given him the last box, he beckoned you to him.

"if you will not let me pay," he placed his free hand on his hip. "then allow me to escort you home!"

placing a hand on your chin, you paused to mull it over. it was pretty late, and you did live on the other side of the town. even if it was small, it would grant enough time for a demon to stake its claim on you.

"alright," you finalized with a greatful nod. "sounds fair!"

on the way, you both engaged in a quiet, lovely conversation. topics ranging from your cooking, his work as a slayer(at least the parts he could tell you), or your childhood, the atmosphere around you was peaceful. now, the current subject of the conversation was family.

"yes, you're right," you respond with a smile as rengoku concluded a story about his little brother. "it can be difficult to care for little siblings. especially if the parent is...more or less present." you cringed at your lack of better term, but kyojuro didn't mind at all. "my parents, unfortunately, fell victim to a demon, so i understand."

"very much so, and i am sorry to hear that! my condolences to you!" he responded with a solemn nod before asking his next question. "i take it you have a sibling then?"

"mhm," you nodded with delight as you drew nearer to your house. "i am the eldest of seven."

"SEVEN?!" he immediately fished the pouch of coins back out before shoving it in your direction. "SUCH A LARGE FAMILY! NOW YOU REALLY MUST TAKE MY PAYMENT!!!"

"i told you already," you pushed it back toward him in defiance. "i don't need it!" he tossed the pouch towards you, leaving you no choice but to catch it. "hey! take it back!" you tried to hand the coin pouch back to him.

"my apologies," he exclaimed after using his other hand to hold the food as well, even though he didn't need to. his smile never faltered as he blatantly ignored your attempts to return his money. "but my hands are full! i can not hold anything else!"

"but you were carrying it one-handed this whole time! you can just–"

"my hands are full!"

"but–"

"i can not carRY ANYMORE!"

"ren–"

"IT IS A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE REASON AS TO WHY YOU MUST KEEP IT!"

you gave up.

kyojuro–1

y/n–0

upon reaching your house, you turned face kyojuro and gave him a polite bow.

"thank you for walking me back, rengoku-san," you stood straight. "you really didn't have to...nor did you have to pay me."

"it was no trouble at all," he smiled down at you. "and please, call me kyojuro."

you opened the door, and entered the doorway to your home chorus of "NII-SAN" called out to you. fondly shaking your head at your siblings(who were supposed to be in bed by now), you turned back to the hashira and returned his smile.

"alright, well," you placed a gentle hand on one of your little brother's heads, who'd been tugging on your shirt to get your attention, and replied in a hushed voice. "goodnight, kyojuro. have a lovely evening, and please travel safely."

he visibly brightened once he heard his name fall from your lips, and a gentle smile was bestowed upon you.

"goodnight to you as well, and thank you."

as you closed the door, kyojuro happily went on his way but stopped. he couldn't believe he forgot such an important piece of information.

oh well, he'll simply have to find his way back to you because he never got your name.

[randomsufff]

Lmao I’m not on Twitter so I had no idea this was happening but congrats John for being the #1 Babygirl 💀💀💀

[userautumn]

cumslut tommy kinard on his knees in front of his boyfriend the moment he gets home from work. buck barely as time to say hello before tommy is shoving him down on the sofa and pulling his pants/boxers down, getting a hand on him so he can stroke him to full hardness, sucking on the head of his cock and teasing the slit like he's getting paid for it and rent is due because it's been three days since he's tasted his man's come and he's kind of addicted to it.

[rynmaru]

A Manic Attempt to Sell You on the Atlas Frame:

You ever want to get the effective range and speed of teleportation without actually teleporting? Feel the urge to play fruit ninja with your enemies? Ever want to experience the sweet sweet taste of victory while your mind melds with the hundreds who came before you and you no longer know which you is the real you? Then my friend, the Atlas is the frame for you!

You can Titan Fall wall run, hide in plain sight, get a sickass katana, clothesline people with a zip line, and then the lore of inherited memories is just- *chef’s kiss*

If speed is what you’re after, then put a lot of points in Agility and make a few strategic picks for your talents and you too can cross a hex map in a single turn, snag the objective, and still be able to barrage or just ✌🏼 disappear.

And don’t get me started on the lore!

*Slaps Atlas*

This bad boy can fit so much lore in it! Memories of past pilots merging with your own to help you fight better? Fuck yes! You can flavor it as a constant data stream into the brain! Space magic! Ghosts! Grey matter in the mech’s internal components! Your pilot can start to slowly pick up the ticks and traits of past pilots the longer they use the Core Power! Hell, my flash cloned pilot was given the Atlas to try and force reboot their brain to make them remember the person they used to be (didn’t work! Just fucked them up!). The possibilities are endless!

Do you have great HP? No. Do you have a large repair cap? No. Heat cap? Nope. Will you immolate yourself the moment you overcharge? Absolutely. But when you’re playing a speed oriented striker Atlas build you don’t need high HP or a massive repair cap when god himself can’t beat your evasion!

If you main an Atlas you know you’re running a glass cannon and that’s okay! Because Atlas pilots do it for the love of the fucking game and the risk is half the reward!

[godof-chaos]

I finished this near 3 am. Idk where my arting came from but yippee

Cavities Sans is by @hheisa

[gravewilt]

happy halloween ! ❦

[nightly-writer]

Person A: Don't mind me, I just want your organs.

Person B: To be fair, they are good organs.

[lunarobyn22]

BLORBO BUNNY JACKALOPE RAVIO

Y'all I did this in under 24 hours.… I have brainrottttttt

Special thanks to these fine folks for inspo and also for unknowingly helping me out of a SEVERAL WEEKS LONG art block: @baileyboo2016 @treasure-goblin @spicy-seaweed @sraksha

[coldgoldlazarus]

Idea: Gacha game where characters can die permanently.

It would have to be gameplay-based like Arknights instead of something more hands-off and RNG-reliant, but not as difficult as it gets down the line, but still difficult enough to make you need to pay attention to keep people alive, and the kind of thing where sacrificing your units on purpose (IE Gravel) is discouraged rather than required. Because it would suck to spend real money rolling for a unit only for them to die, take IRL purchases out of the equation and make it a premium game like Ex Astris. Rolling currency would have to be more easily earnable, but by a minigame or time-based expeditions or something rather than replaying main stages where characters are at risk.

And it would definitely be better to have a very large roster of characters like Arknights, instead of a (relatively) smaller amount like Genshin or Honkai, so a 2D or 2.5D style would be more economic. And of course the cast members would need to have enough overlap that players don't run the risk of softlocking themselves by losing one with a vital niche nobody else fills, but still need to be interesting and varied enough to not be disposable. The game tracks summons by date, but also death dates. Maybe if there's a base or dorm area, there's also a graveyard.

And it's possible to bring killed characters back to life, but it still takes a lot of effort, resources, and specific extremely difficult side-missions to accomplish.

The main story could even play with this by having a scripted death that also makes that character unplayable like normal gameplay deaths, and the only way to revive them is through continuing the main story. (Or if we wanted to be especially cruel, lose two and then be forced to choose only one to revive through the story.) (The other then becomes available to revive through the usual secondary means, but it isn't brought to the player's attention; they must go looking instead of assuming they're lost forever.)

[lmtyl]

I kept seeing Cult of the Lamb stuff all over lately and looked it up on Steam and it's on sale and long story short, $15 and 7 hours later I looked up from my computer like, "fuck I need to go to bed it's 2am"

So how's your day?

[sppacedoutman]

Nope, we can watch Velvet Von Ragnar at home.

… Velvet Van Ragnar at home:

Velvet Von Ragnar again, I’ve been Obsessed with a caption O lately. She is so fucking hot. The way she moves is chef’s kiss AND ITS PRECISE AFFF. Like WHAT (the movie is great watch it except for what happens to Velvet I actually screamed in HORROR and DISMAY)

For some reason when it comes to drawing more complex images, I fall straight off the face of a cliff and then go boom because chronic overthinking.

Convinced myself I was drawing for one of those stupid parody novels I scraped together and published a few months ago and I finally made my thoughts shut up 😎

[charkyzombicorn]

Forward facing Crocodile's got those big sticking out ears I know he does Luffy got them from him

[buttdumplin]

someone stop me from impulsively commissioning art of me and price in matching nightgowns because we're just 2 little old gay men

[theatheistgirl]

[rfkannen]

What a game is for is so important and I think is undervalued. People say its "gatekeepy" to encourage people to try systems other than 5e that would better suit their campaign concept, but like, games are so cool, and there are so many cool games. Dnd is cool, but no matter what if your playing dnd your playing dnd. And if you want to be playing something that isn't what dnd is, the best way is usually to be playing something other than dnd. Its part of why I am really excited for daggerheart. Because, hot take, dnd 5e is NOT designed for campaigns like critical role. And I think a system that is will be really cool.

[harpdoodles]

Found this CapCut template and… yeah TvT I probably have more pictures of Likey alone then I do all of my friends and family combined