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[kuwajima]

Happy Father’s Day to the World’s Most Accidental Dad, Uzui Tengen.

Chapters: 21/? Fandom: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga) Relationships: Agatsuma Zenitsu & Uzui Tengen, Agatsuma Zenitsu & Uzui Tengen & Hinatsuru & Makio & Suma, Hinatsuru/Makio/Suma/Uzui Tengen Characters: Agatsuma Zenitsu, Uzui Tengen, Makio (Kimetsu no Yaiba), Suma (Kimetsu no Yaiba), Hinatsuru (Kimetsu no Yaiba), Uzui Tengen's Wives, Kamado Tanjirou, Hashibira Inosuke, Kamado Nezuko, Tomioka Giyuu, Kaigaku (Kimetsu no Yaiba), Kuwajima Jigorou, Murata (Kimetsu no Yaiba), Kochou Shinobu Additional Tags: Age Regression/De-Aging, Domestic Fluff, Agatsuma Zenitsu Needs a Hug, and he gets a hug, Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, DILF Uzui Tengen, it's just alternating fluff and crying the whole time, Fluff and Angst, Angst, Soft Uzui Tengen, Protective Uzui Tengen, Everyone gets therapy via interacting with a toddler

  Summary:

Of all the things Tengen expected in retirement, playing babysitter to a newly de-aged Zenitsu Agatsuma was not on the list.

Or, in which Uzui Tengen accidentally becomes the father of a very frightened child. He just doesn’t know it yet.

[demonslayedher]

Name Analysis: Kuwajima Jigoro

Back with one of these kinds of nerdy posts, and some stupid, crappy comics to go along with it!

I had never thought much about Jiichan's name, aside from that "goro-goro" is sound effect for thunder. However, I recently learned that in Japanese folklore, mulberry (kuwa), a plant used for anything from making paper to making medicine, is also said to ward off lightning.

Now before you go thinking that standing under a mulberry tree will keep you safe, let me tell you that is more along the lines of chanting "mulberry field, mulberry field, make the thunder go away" like "rain, rain, go away, come again some other day." There are a few ideas where this lore came from, like lightning getting trapped in a well in a field of mulberry bushses (and the lightning not wanting to make that mistake again) or reminding the vengeful spirit Sugawara no Michizane that he used to lived in a place called Kuwabara ("mulberry field") so that maybe he'll take mercy as he reins down his thunderous wrath.

The "-jima" of Kuwajima's name is not in reference to a field, but an island, like a lone mulberry tree.

As for his personal name, with kanji that is perhaps a nod to the care he showed for his boys, I wonder if that might be in reference to a folktale: "Gengoro Ascends to the Sky."

In it, a boy climbs up above the clouds and meets the Thunder God who causes rain. There are many versions of this story (or the general setup of this story), but we will focus on the Gengoro version that has a mulberry tree.

To help you with my sloppy handwriting: Gengoro climbs a peach tree (in some versions) and goes above the clouds, to the grand dwelling of a white-haired old man and his daughters. He is treated with hospitality until the old man must go to work, and he transforms into Raijin, the thunder god. Raijin beats seven drums and has his daughters flash mirrors, and rain begins to fall down below. However, the waving causes the girls' kimonos to become loose, and while Gengoro is surprised by that sight, he loses his footing and falls through the clouds and back down to earth. He winds up hanging from a mulberry tree. The girls feel sorry for him, so Raijin spares the mulberry tree from lightning.

So... yeah, you catch my drift?

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

turns out it was cause they were just straight up eating the poisoned food out of rat traps which has a blue dye in it and had just developed a near total immunity another W for the glorious hog

[alienate-it]

Is this too specific

[kuwajima]

someone at work just told me I “keep showing up on [their] tiktok feed” and for a terrifying moment I thought they meant the tiktok someone made about my fanfic, which they somehow identified as being written by me.

They meant I’m in a TikTok that the marketing department posted. That is equally horrifying tbh.

[heartpdfs]

[newathens]

baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

[newathens]

[thwrangis]

Not An Isekai - I Just Straight Up Died

[traderjoeshmoe]

Yu Yu Hakusho

[sourcengine-moved]

[hung-at-sunrise]

🧪🐛

she is sipping chemicals

[kuwajima]

HEY YOU ARE SO SWAG BTW ! I LOVE YOUR WRITING :D

Thank you very much!!!

[daisychainsandbowties]

“let me get that for you” i say sexily pulling on a door that says push

[geneticdriftwood]

honestly? abandoned/on indefinite hiatus/very slow to update fics, even and especially AUs and longfics, are often some of my absolute favorites. and people who refuse to read them are missing out!

for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.

so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)

i don’t normally ask this, but if this resonates with you please reblog it, so it can reach the authors who need to hear it <3

[autisticzenitsu]

[another-day-another-giyuu]

2026 years of the horse

[kuwajima]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTroVNY3c/

have you seen this yet? It’s so adorable!!

Omg yes I have!! The artist actually reached out to me to ask if they could make the video! It’s so cute and the comments are all so kind!! It’s crazy to think that someone might find my fic based on a tiktok

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements