#i'm SOOO whimsical

[sweetnnaivete]

“have some whimsy” your version of whimsy is bullying people and tiktok humor, so no!

[messylesb]

for once in my life please let me get what i want

(being fucked by a woman that is so obsessed with me the same way that I'm obsessed with her, and we match each other's freaks and whimsical stuff and treat each other so right and are sooo passionate and-)

god knows it would be the first time

[this is about lesbians/sapphics, men and minors DNI]

[ryescapades]

hihi :333

sooo i was rotting in bed and was reading ur dazai like reader and i liked it alot 😼

so what if reader is a like a vice captain of a another division and acts like dazai and likes to tease and mess around with hoshino and narumi (basically just likes to mess around with everyone) so it's kinda hoshino x dazai like reader x narumi

thank u + have a great day 😸

(ur writing is really good 😜)

characters: hoshina soshiro x gn vice-captain dazai!reader x narumi gen

genre/warning: fluff, attempt at crack, leaning more towards platonic (bcs idt there's any ounce of romance in this... apart from like,, a few dirty jokes lol), set in a joint training camp between multiple divisions

a/n: omg yall rly love dazai!reader huh xD and thank you for the req ,, you're so sweet !! sorry for the delay, i'm glad my work could be your source of enjoyment while u were bedrotting haha

1.23k wc | narumi's ver | hoshina's ver

if someone's ever asked to describe you, they'd usually say something along the lines of humorous, arbitrarily smart or even ridiculous sometimes.

but for those who are unlucky enough to be close acquaintances with you, they'd rather say you're an anomaly. someone who is unpredictable and whimsical at times but intuitive, intelligent and too sharp-witted for your own good.

after years of knowing you, narumi gen has never had a day of peace whenever you were within his vicinity. it's always something or the other.

"why am i here with you again?" narumi grumbles under his breath, feeling icky in his own combat suit out of nowhere. the wind atop the highest building in the city where he's located at blows, ruffling his dual-toned hair.

your lips lift into a cheshire grin. "oh? have you already forgotten what vice-captain hasegawa said? my platoon is assigned to work with you, captain." you remind.

the man exhales before rolling his eyes. "i'd rather get eaten by a kaiju than have you here chasing after my ass," he mutters, and it makes you smile even wider. "what a shame. i'd have loved to have a tap on that ass," you sigh oh so woefully.

narumi halts in his steps, body rigid as the tips of his ears burn hot at your claim. "w-what the hell did you just say, you—!" he doesn't get to finish his sentence when the building suddenly shakes vigorously, sending everyone to tumble on their feet.

narumi clicks his tongue when a massive body of a snake-like kaiju slithers from below, looming over you two and the rest of the officers. "took you long enough to show up, damn reptile," he glares at the monster.

the kaiju hisses before spurting out a spray of some dark, viscous liquid. "watch out!" someone bellows from somewhere as everybody scatters, dashing away from getting hit by the sizzling and corrosive substance. narumi grips on your arm, pulling you behind him as he takes a step forward and readies his gun.

he doesn't get far as the snake starts lashing its heavy tail around, tearing more at the building and trembling the ground from the force. at that point, the building might as well just collapse from how tilted it's becoming.

"everyone, get off the building now!" you shout the order, helping your platoon members stand back up straight. your hand abruptly shoots out to hold the railings when the building is no longer standing straight, stabilizing yourself so that you wouldn't sway from the staggering force.

your eyes dart around as narumi, who has been distracting the kaiju from attacking the other officers while they're moving to other platforms, turns to you. "there's no time," he grits, noticing there's no escape route for both of you.

suddenly you hold his bicep, gaining his attention. narumi's about to ask what was wrong when you start running to the edge of the inclined building, dragging him along. his eyes widen in realization.

"wait, wait, no, what are you doing? y/n, hold on, NOOOOO—" the next thing he knew, he's already free falling from a tilted 150 meter building after being forced to jump off from it, his heart plummeting down alongside his physical form.

his scream is cut off when you yell at him to 'hang on tight, captain!' over the wind, the whizzing sound of something caught in his ears before there is a sudden jolt, and then the two of you are suspended in the air, swinging steadily from side to side.

he's convinced that he might've experienced a temporary death in the middle of that free fall.

when the two of you finally manage to get back on your feet, narumi quickly turns to you with a snarl, "are you crazy?! you could've told me first we were going to plunge ourselves into our impending doom!" he shrieks.

your eyes shine with mirth. "crazy? i was crazy once—" he interrupts your musing with a loud, stretched out groan, running a hand through his hair in frustration. "just focus on your job, vice-captain." he sighs in relent, eyeing the grappling hook gun that you had used.

he should really file a complaint on your behaviors to your captain one of these days... at least that's what narumi has been telling himself for the nth time after he started getting roped into your shenanigans one too many times. he wonders why he hasn’t done so until now.

"well, all in all, you're welcome for saving that cute little ass of yours, captain." you send him a wink as you walk away, causing him to combust where he stands when your words finally register in his head, embarrassedly throwing out curses with his vulgar mouth at your disappearing back.

narumi swears with you around, he's gonna grow literal grey hair and die young, and it's not because of a kaiju.

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“i heard the mission yesterday went well?”

you turn around when you hear hoshina approaching you from behind. “as well as it could possibly turn out. why? were you worried about me, hoshina-kun?” you tease, focusing your eyes on him now instead of assessing the officers who are training just a few feet below the watch tower you’re at.

hoshina scoffs, “please, i was more concerned about narumi who was unfortunate enough to get assigned with ya. and that’s sayin’ somethin’ cuz i barely even care about him,” he reproaches.

you snicker, shrugging nonchalantly, “i just gave him a little jumpscare, that’s all.” hoshina doesn’t believe that ‘little’ one bit so just he hums, “well, whatever i guess. he’s a big boy. he could handle whatever shit show ya put him through,”

at his words, your eyes gleam under the striking ray of the sun. “oh, he’s a big boy, alright…” you drawl, lips curling upwards in a smirk. hoshina mentally facepalms himself. “don’t ever make a dick joke about captain narumi around me again. that’s disgusting,” he grumbles.

suddenly a new voice interrupts you, “make a what about me?” narumi butts in, thick eyebrows furrowing in suspicion and mild curiosity. your eyes light up even further. “oh, captain narumi! nice timing! we were just talking about your d—“

“do not finish that sentence, vice-captain y/n,” hoshina glares at you. you only send him a pointed look, smiling innocently at him. the captain’s gaze bounces between the two of you. “were you two talking shit behind my back?” he crosses his arms angrily, though you and hoshina can only see a grumpy child who’s about to throw a tantrum and start stomping his foot on the ground.

“whatever makes ya think that?” hoshina counters.

“you’re not answering the question, bowl-cut bastard,” narumi argues back.

you decide to chime in, “you see, vice captain hoshina here—“ the man in question tenses, ready to oppose whatever claim you’re about to make before someone calls out in the distance, “narumi!” it’s hasegawa.

the three of you turn to look, and narumi visibly deflates at his own vice-captain’s scowling face. he sends you two one last glare, pointing at himself with two fingers and back at you two next, as if to say ‘i’m watching yall,’ before storming off.

hoshina huffs, and you let out a chuckle as you watch narumi getting smacked on the back of his head by hasegawa.

you sigh almost dreamily, “ah, i just love to push your buttons,”

“i’m going to push ya off this tower if ya keep this up,”

i'd like to believe that narumi is the cake-less one out of the two (it's canon actually. the empty cans in narumi's room told me so).

also this is me giving yall something to smile and giggle at before i drop the next part of OTST :)

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[ghirahims-left-shoe]

I can't find it right now but I saw a post the other day that said something like "it's wild to me when people insist the world was made for us humans, 78% of it is covered in undrinkable water that sharks live in, what part of that makes you think it's a human-centric design" and I know it was goofing on evangelists and other folks who are very concerned with humans ruling everything, but it genuinely has rewired my brain chemistry and is helping me break away from the rules cop in my head. Why do I care about what people think of me? The world was made for sharks. Why am I so hell-bent on doing this the ""right"" way instead of just the way that's fun for me? The world was made for sharks. It's hitting that "do whatever you want, you're insignificant to the stars" type beat in a fun new way that feels a little more tangible to me because hey, I live in here! In the shark world! Sharks don't know about computers, why am I sooo stressed about emails. I'm embracing whimsical nihilism and it's delightful, won't you join me?

[peasant-player]

Luthien Tinuviel

This is for the Luthien-week from the blog @luthiendear

First day Luthien ❤️

I'm desperate trying to make her as eldritch as I can but I'm doomed to make everything cute and whimsical. 🌟

I kinda failed with the frame so it is a closer shot of the drawing

I'm knee deep in drawing Finrod but I had this Vision of Melian in all of her eldritch glory. Sooo might do that first.

[inestheunicorn]

Cute whimsical & spooky memopads are here! ✨️ thanks for all the love on my Autumn/Halloween Collection! I'm sooo happy you love the new goods as much as I do! 🥲🖤🎃🦇🍂👻✨️

Find them here 🖤

[marronje]

Hey hey guys I'm not dead yay how ya been here?

I just had some rest and studied a bit

I mentioned that my ear drawing skills suck so I practiced a bit, my skills still suck but at least I understand how the thing works

It looks silly, btw I wrote about it a little, here it is:

ears! so delicate, whimsical, with thin ridges and fascinating shapes! how intricately light catches on them! I personally find ears one of the most fascinating and aesthetic parts of human body. and everyone has their own unique shape of ears, it sooo intriguing to study photos of different people. you think some for works like this, get used to the idea of drawing it one way and BAM – some actual person has it not like this at all

I wish I did this earlier

And! I did a little expression drawing experiment, of course with my baby Toga

The first attempt was with using manga panels as a reference, the second one (the pic on the right) is fixing what I had (proportions mostly) without using references at all. So I figured out my problem with references – when I use them I tend to just copy what I see, and when I don't my brain starts functioning and thinking about the structures finally (but the features become realistic and lose part of the intended emotion)

an enlightening experience (◍•ᴗ•◍)

This Himiko is my favorite, she reminds me of myself (goofy-mischievous-plotting)

[antianakin]

i loved Burn the Ships, so i’m begging for more fics in which order 66 happens differently or is even fully averted that are pro-jedi order (preferably with lots of obi-wan but i love all the other jedi so not a high priority)!! it’s sooo hard to find ones that don’t force the order to change their ways or excuse anakin’s bad choices or like make him the one who prevents order 66 super easily. thanks!

I can absolutely do this, this is RIGHT in my wheelhouse!

I'm taking this ask to mean fics that specifically deal with how Order 66 changes or is averted, not just fics set in a happy fix-it world. For the purposes of this prompt, I also am not including fics where there's only a SLIGHT change from the canon Order 66 (like a Padme lives AU or Tatooine Husbands AU, for example).

Order 66 Happens Differently:

Knightrise by deviantaccumulation (incomplete fic)

Greater Than Your Hoarded Gold series by Quietbang (incomplete series, completed first fic)

When Night Falls series by Kiwikipedia (incomplete series, completed fics, not Anakin friendly)

Into Tomorrow by Ravenclaw_Paredhel (completed fic)

only following orders by grumpyhedgehogs (completed fic, this could ARGUABLY go in the other category but the fic isn't long enough to really know so I'm leaving it here)

No Order 66:

The Temple of Hope series by Zarz (incomplete series, completed first fic)

let the river in by saltsanford (completed fic, part of a series but can be read alone, more clone focused but is still Jedi positive)

under the wide and starry sky series by wrennette (completed fics, incomplete series)

in our hearts some ancient song by whimsical images (completed fic)

That's Not How It Happened (This Is How It Happened) by cacodaemonia (completed fic, part of an ongoing series that is more clone focused)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Time Travelers by blackkat (incomplete fic, I assume it'll avert Order 66 eventually lol)

Consumed by Greed by virdant (completed fic, not Anakin friendly)

Commander Fox's Ultimate Bucket List by blackkat (completed fic, not Anakin friendly)

that was a spring of storms by blackkat (incomplete fic, not Anakin friendly)

and the tide rises, the tide falls series by blackkat (incomplete series, completed first fic)

The Sun Swings East by kj_feybarn (completed fic)

and love unbolts the dark by blackkat (completed fic)

Nonna and the Coruscant Guard by Argentee (completed fic, clone centric)

The Legend of Liob by killbothtwins (completed fic)

For Everything a Season by galateaGalvanized (completed fic, smutty)

hide the wolves of sleep (and mask the grave) by blackkat (incomplete fic)

And There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do (For You) by Armin_05 (completed fic, clone centric)

The Ground Beneath Us by stolen_pen_name23 (completed fic, Anakin centric)

Conviction by SassySnowperson (completed fic)

All the Monsters That You've Made (Are Coming Home to Roost) by Dragonstorm (completed fic)

luminous beings are we series by blackkat (ongoing series, all fics completed)

The Vode by RoseThorn14 (incomplete fic)

Capacitance by Jessepinwheel (completed fic)

[osakanone]

So, I'm too dense to fully unpack what my zoomer friend said. help me.

I know my friends say "the yearning" is the bit that makes it gay but I genuinely have no understanding what that means.

I thought that was just, y'know, gender stuff?

Like,

"wow, I wish I was her I too wish to be a giant chimera who crushes people alive, that would be the best I would be just the best chicken-wife, everybody tells me I'm sooo oblivious all the time to everything so I'm clearly over-qualified"

The only girls I like are the ones inside my computer, and when I'm in the same room they are eldrich horrors which spawn unlimited pocket-spaghetti from my mouth as I'm unable to construct sentences -- I want to be wherever they are not, especially if they are conventionally attractive.

The boys I like are the ones I actually spend time IRL with. They are very fun magical whimsical creatures I adore, and on very rare occasion we occasionally rub mucus membranes together.

Except one of them who's kind of a dick and he makes me irreconcilably angry but I only see him like three times a year.

I feel almost no emotions about the boys inside my computer.

Its like if I were Lain, I'm straight but my weird internet alter-ego is gay?

Regular me is placid and really nice and usually has no idea what's actually happening around her most of the time.

Occasionally she'll sometimes use a rubber measuring ruler on girls who quote /tttt/ because they need it beaten out of them with affection.

Computer me is a sadist, who can be really really cruel.

I know that I dissociate a bunch and its like watching myself fall through life and I don't feel like I have much of a grip on what's happening 99.99% of the time -- and the older I get, the less sense the world, and myself even make.

I don't get it.

[scuderlia]

please tell us your thoughts on f1 driver noses i need to hear them

Most Compelling Noses of the 2024 F1 Grid:

(listed in no particular order... sorry if your fav nose isn't featured)

DANIEL RICCIARDO

c'mon now. this is The Nose of All Time, famous worldwide and in the brain of one Max Verstappen. i wanted to fuck this man so bad when i was like 15 and i'm pretty sure 90% of the reason was because i love his nose so much. the arch, the structure from the front, the random freckles... embarrassingly I went on two dates with a guy in high school just because he kind of had a similar nose. don't look at me.

CHARLES LECLERC

beloved nose of a beloved boy. honestly idk what kind of witchcraft is happening with charles' facial features ever but his nose is so characteristic of him and i'm obsessed with it. love that it moves kind of like a bunny's when he talks, love the bump in the center, and love to stay being confused about how it looks like he has a button nose from the front when it's actually deceptively strong in profile.

CARLOS SAINZ

i am predictable and i don't care. gorgeous nose, adore how it's kind of hooked, and the freckles on the bridge are just an added bonus. compliments the rest of him so well and again, the subtle bump... god is real i guess. i'm such a sucker for strong features and i constantly geek out over carlos' face so, it would be cruel not to give him his flowers.

MAX VERSTAPPEN

i'm sooo intrigued by this man's face at all times but his nose especially, i just love the shape of it. max already has a super strong profile and his nose compliments that really well (like imagine him with a small nose... it's actually horrifying i'm shaking). obsessed with how severe the initial slope is and how it curves down towards the tip... it's so subtle but i fixate on it often.

LANDO NORRIS

mr. nose-job-nose. the first time i saw lando's side profile i audibly gasped. he looks a bit elvin and whimsical so it just works amazingly with his face... yeah... his nose is just jarringly perfect. this addition is a slight anomaly for me because i aggressively prefer big noses, but i can appreciate the fact that people would pay to have his schnoz.

LEWIS HAMILTON

a fellow nose-piercing-haver. i've always been a fan of lewis' face but when he got the studs it violently catapulted his sex appeal into the stratosphere. i lovveee how his nose like, lengthens when he smiles really big i find it super endearing. in profile it's very gentle (no aggressive angles, everything follows the same line) which suits him well. some people just have the anatomy for facial jewelry and he definitely does. starting a prayer circle for an lh septum ring.

[deirdreskye]

The wind rises was kinda funny when you think about it.... The least whimsical of the Miyazaki films, no supernatural business going on anywhere. I slept on it for the longest time but it was pretty good. The subject matter is honestly kinda wild though lol. like imagine if they made a melancholic narrative about the guy who invented zyklon B. his wife has tuberculosis, he gets visited in his dreams by like Dimitri Mendeleev, ohhhh I love chemistry so much I'm sooo conflicted about what they're gonna use my work for 🤪🤪

[mustcollecthorses]

the mlp infected trend is sooo corny and tired as if we haven't had enough "creepy" mlp fanart in the past decade or so like... come up with something else! it's truly boring atp. I'm not against scary stuff at all it's just that I think the trend is laaame. and besides ponies are supposed to be happy and whimsical leave them alone.

[rist-ix]

Hiiiii Rist 😊 This will be long, but I promise I get to the point as soon as I can, just need to explain things. Also, you know how you replied to my last ask and said Soarked!Valtor would be use if Bloom got with someone “competent and worthy of her” like Stella?

Sooo, I have a head canon of Queen Marion being the younger sister of a Solarian king from 200 years in the show’s past and in this head canon, Stella’s dad King Radius met Bloom’s adoptive parents at Stella’s behest in Season 1 during a school break or something and he becomes quick friends with Mike.

Radius and Mike get drunk and decide that Radius will be Bloom’s godfather and when she’s in the magic dimension he’s her legal guardian and Mike will be the same with Stella when she’s on Earth.

Radius views this as advantageous since not only will Stella be happy to have Bloom as practically family, he’ll also be able to keep an eye on Bloom in case she decides to stake a claim on the Solarian throne, something she can do because of her “purer blood” aka half Domino royalty half Solarian Royalty.

Fast forward, we’re in season 3. Stella has been disinherited and can’t be queen. Cassandra is already practically queen, she just needs to marry Radius, so she’s over confident and starts poisoning him to weaken him and make him die quickly. Radius is somewhat aware of this and with what little spite and resistance he has against her, before falling into a coma that will eventually lead to death, he edits his will.

In that will previously, he said that in the event that something happens to him and Stella is unable to rule or take the throne and Domino was still gone (or if it was back and somehow Daphne was too, meaning Bloom wouldn’t be queen of Domino), Bloom was to become Solaria’s next queen. Radius edited this, now nearly dead, and says that Bloom WILL be queen, on the condition she marries Stella.

It’s like this because he’s already disinherited her and can’t resist Cassandra enough to change that, so he does this, knowing that Bloom would do it to make sure Stella becomes queen.

And she would. The moment Bloom finds out, she unceremoniously proposes to Stella.

Now here’s the actual ask, if Sparked!Valtor found out about this, what would he do? Cuz Bloom WILL marry Stella to help her keep her throne and keep Cassandra off of it. Would he turn his back on Cassandra or help/cure Radius?

So sorry for the REALLY long ask. Didn’t think it would turn out like this, but I’m really curious!

First of all, I am so sorry for the long silence. Secondly, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, rip Valtor. Wonderful ask, 10/10, no notes.

I’m not gonna pretend I know jack shit about how succession works/could work in the MD, but that sounds hilarious. I'm not sure in how far I trust Radius (who seems a bit too laissez-faire and whimsical for serious politics) would be able to plan this ahead, but I can SEE it in my head how the girls would be laboring over text books, rules-lawyering their way through 1500 year old succession law to find a loophole that will keep Stella in power. And then as soon as they take a closer look at their family trees they just go huh. Wouldn’t that be funny? Stella and Bloom rolling up to Cassandra’s party in two gorgeous revenge wedding dresses like TOO LATE FUCKERS we beat you to it. Guess who's also got a claim now, and no living parents to disinherit her.

Imagining what Valtor would do in this scenario is my favorite pastime now, because oh my god he literally can’t win. He'd probably be seething-sulking-whining in his current hideout because WHAT DO YOU MEAN BLOOM GOT MARRIED OFF-SCREEN?! To someone that is royal, powerful AND emotionally close with her?! And, stars beware, prettier than him?! (Bloom's words, not mine)

He didn’t even get the chance to crash their wedding because they probably eloped on the spot. He is inconsolable; he had an outfit for that exact occasion.

And now he's stuck between a rock and a hard place, because either he continues backing Cassandra but has to watch Stella and Bloom be extra lovey-dovey on every news channel there is, or he withdraws Cassandra's powers in the hopes that that means Stella and Bloom have no more need for this marriage and divorce. Which, realistically, probably wouldn’t happen in time for his sanity to recover. They're having far too much fun with this, and Bloom really was only like one romantic sunset away from discovering bisexuality at any given moment.

On the plus side, I think he'd really enjoy being Queen Bloom's secret sidepiece if he gave it a chance. Ra-ra-Rasputin style: the secret evil magician lover lol

[matthewsgreybubbles]

hey babe i noticed your anons have been kinda negative / mean lately so i'm gonna spice it up a bit!!

what are your top three favorite music artists?? and are there any artists that you like that you think your fav cm characters would like too?

Hiii sweetie! Thank you that's so nice of you. This actually made me think about it for a bit.

I love so many bands that it was hard to choose, but I'm going to say that so we can have a little bit of everything. Various genres.

Motionless in white

She past away

Maneskin

And for the CM characters, I have so many ideas

Emily was goth during her teen years so I'm pretty sure she still listens to goth stuff like she wants revenge or she past away, the 69 eyes, etc.

Garcia is a big Lady Gaga enthusiastic. You cannot change my mind. I kinda see her following 2ne1 too. She's screaming "naega jeil jal naga" on her way to work every morning. To finish she also has a whimsical vibe with her, she might listen to goth stuff sometimes with Emily. Classic stuff like The Cure, Bauhaus or even Depeche Mode you know.

Rossi listen to Eros Ramazzotti. You cannot change my mind. He thinks he is the Italian lover Eros is, but he's not and that's cute.

JJ is quite a pretty preppy girlie so she might listen to Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter or Olivia Rodrigo.

Morgan plays big tough dude so I think he might listen to rap music, stuff like that, but I don't know anything about it sooo. In France, I would have told you that he listens to La Fouine. But I guess it's unknown here. That being said sometimes he secretly listens to what Garcia likes so he can sing in the car with her.

I would like Hotch to listen to 50's / 60's music like Little Richard. I like it in my head.

And Spencer probably used to listen to classical music with Gideon so he still does it. But baby is a troubled baby and I think he would listen to La Dispute sometimes. Helps him to deal with his fucked up life. Post-hardcore emo king.

Okay, that ended up being super long but I loved it.

[a-fiery-fox]

9 people you want to get to know better

Fenks for the tags @colgatebluemintygel and @littleoldrachel my bébés <3

Last song: Not My Fault by Renee Rapp (her snl performance... lives in my head rent free...)

Favorite color: Orange... Not bright orange. Soft. Like the sunset... iykyk :')

Last movie/tv show: Priscilla (still obsessing over it. Sooo good. Thinking so many thoughts.)

Sweet/savory/spicy: savory!

Last thing I googled: thrust synonym

Current obsession(s): Wdym obsessions. I'm a very normal person thinking about things very normally. (rs big bang fics😩 devouring them like a delicious 20+ course meal. 1989 TV (esp the vault tracks). Portraits by Renoir. Large bodies of water.)

Last book: Mockingjay reread (I cried)

Looking forward to: The weekend!!!! I know we just had one. Still. It wasn't long enough.

Zero pressure tags: @whimsical-ginger @popyandshit @munacy @emlovessid @pretentiouswreckingball @residentrookie @pjxckson @belleandsaintsebastian @hihimissamericanbi (reading your fic at the mo🤭 loving it so far)

[mermaidsirennikita]

So I was trying to find the “bitchy heroine” rec list but couldn’t find it but I did find a gifset of Norrington who has had a chokehold on me since I was 13. Any recs where the hero is like him? Repressed proper asshole that reaaaaaallly needs to get laid and preferably by someone who he finds improper/annoying and just can’t STAND THE ATTRACTION he has for them?

I really need to find a way to tag things more specifically other than "book recs" I'm sorry :(

I did make this post about controversial heroines on Instagram!

But yes!!! Norrington Type Heroes:

Rules for a Proper Governess by Jennifer Ashley is THIS. The hero is a stern, uptight lawyer with a strong sense of property and morality, and he basically ends up picking a local pickpocket girl (who's been lowkey stalking him) because his troublesome kids love her. And so he hires her as a governess. It's very "Captain Von Trapp if Maria was a Menace and he only had two kids". I think they call him like, the Scottish Hammer or something, and it's meant to be the Hammer of JUSTICE but she's like "WHAT DOES IT DO THO". He also has a massive oral fixation.

The Chief by Monica McCarty. The hero is very cold and stern and businesslike, and he ends up in an arranged/kinda forced marriage with this girl, who he doesn't exactly find annoying or improper, but he does find a distraction from WORK, which is DIFFICULT for him because he needs to WORK and not BONE.

Never Seduce a Duke by Vivienne Lorret lol. The hero wears glasses, is very stodgy and focused on figuring out the recipe for this... magical food elixir thing... and the heroine is wild, and he ends up thinking she stole his Arthurian recipe book from him (she didn't) and follows her across Europe. She bugs him sooo much.

Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller. Uptight virginal spy guy on a MISSION (he's celibate because feelings distract from the job among other things) stays in a Viennese hotel run by the more casual, very sexy, experienced heroine. She pushes all his buttons and he's always running in to save her from zany murder plots. There's also a scene where's masturbating while thinking of him, but like, she didn't realize the door was open, and she looks up and he's watching and he goes "don't. stop." and I did gasp when I read it.

If you're down for trying an M/M historical, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall is a hilarious romcom in which the uptight (virgin!) duke proposes to the woman he was always supposed to, because he's very proper and there are Expectations, and she's like lmao fuck you and runs off so he has to chase her down with the help of her frivolous and wild twin brother. This book's humor is basically mined from Valentine (the duke) being soooooo stuffy and repressed, and Bonny (the twin guy) being whimsical and free.

The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham. Local uptight earl who's a Secret Freak gets his reputation ruined by his best friend's flighty and gossipy little sister (he's also always been secretly in love with her). She spreads a rumor that he's into submission which... is not his kink of choice.