#lrpd

[xiaq]

Like Real People Do Giveaway!

Do you want a free signed (by both me and Deacon!) copy of LRPD shipped straight to your door? Of course you do.

Rules for entry: 1. Must be following me 2. Like this post 3. Share this post

Closes October 1 midnight. Winner to be announced October 3rd! I'm doing a separate giveaway on Instagram if you want to double your chances. :)

The Blurb:

Nineteen-year-old hockey phenom Alexander Price is the youngest-ever captain in the NHL. With a polarizing social media presence and a predilection for dirty play, he typifies the stereotype of young, out-of-control athlete. But away from the cameras, Alex is a kid with an anxiety disorder and the expectations of an expansion franchise on his shoulders. And maybe he tries too hard to fit the part of asshole playboy, but it’s better than the alternative; in his line of work, gay is the punchline of an insult, not something he can be.

Eighteen-year-old vlogger Elijah Rodriguez is a freshman in college recovering from an injury that derailed his Olympic figure-skating dreams. Mixed-race, disabled, and out of the closet since he was fourteen, Eli is unapologetically himself. He has no qualms about voicing his disapproval of celebrity jocks who make homophobic jokes on Twitter and park their flashy cars in the handicapped spaces outside of ice rinks.

After an antagonistic introduction, Alex and Eli’s inexplicable friendship both baffles and charms the internet. But navigating relationships is hard enough for normal teenagers. It’s a lot harder when the world—much of it disapproving—is watching you fall in love with your best friend.

Also if you don't want to let fate decide your ability to own a copy, you can find them on Amazon any of these ebook retailers or in print at your favorite bookstore nationwide!

#lrpd #author things #lgbtq reads #diversity reads #disability reads #service dog #lit that was fic #deacon

[chaotic-archaeologist]

@xiaq real life service dog Llywelyn is super excited to crack open Like Real People Do! Now all he needs to do is learn how to read...

#llywelyn the little #book recommendations #service dog #lrpd #like real people do

[my-mild-ginger]

Sketch practice ✨✍️

He is. So tired.

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #hellsing alucard #vladcard #hellsing oc #dadcard #llw #lrpd #digiral art #digital illustration #sketch practice #Alucard is Trying™️ his best #even with Michael trying to feed him a crayon 🖍️

[rereadanon]

Omg you can’t say shit like that within my hearing range now I want to reread LRPD!!!!! It’s been at least three months, so it’s totally time

Ugh Michelle, honestly thank you for coming here and bringing up LRPD because now I have an excuse to become unhinged a little about it!

I don’t reread it often, CG came out during a TIME in my life so I find it to be more comforting, so if I reread gray, it’s usually that but

The other day I had an urge to read one of the EAY chapters, chapter 8, when a Mickey reveals himself to Ian for the first time.

I mean, JOVI?! I’m not even a cat person! Please name something that makes your heart sing more than Mickey rescuing a cat with a notch in its ear and bringing it home and feeding it and cuddling it like please, 🤚🏻 I am only human 😭 but not to be too insane but Liza from @gallawitchxx’s An Exception to the Rule said it best about Mickey-

“You are so far from the angry little kitten that sat across from me all those years ago. Fingers itchy with magic, but brain too full of dumb hatred and rot. Little by little, we cleared out all that gunk, didn’t we?” Mickey nodded, suddenly feeling like a kid, and she patted his arm. Soothingly. “Got that big heart beating again, shined it up real nice and pretty. No wonder some Sunshine Boy’s come along to claim it.”

And is that the only reason I find so much comfort in Mickey? How he harnesses his strength and puts himself out there and finds true love and goes against what he is "supposed" to be?? Definitely not, there are so many reasons that he is my blorbo. But it definitely is one!

"And as he listens to Ian snuffle into the phone toward the end of their conversations, getting sleepy, about to say, “Goodnight, Mick,” sometimes adding in a stupid “Sleep tight” that makes Mickey's belly twist, he thinks that maybe,

just maybe,

he might be a little bit in love."

💓💓💓

#Ask Anna #LRPD #like real people do #gray words

[wafflesandkruge]

hello lrpd fans!!! (if yall are still around lmao)

not a new chap, but @/barodeus on ao3 has written a lovely (au-canon compliant?) little drabble for lrpd featuring a sick nikolai and zoya reluctantly taking care of him 😌 go read it!!

#new chap...eventually? #if anyone gets me a premiere ticket i'll write you the whole fic pls i'm desperate #like real people do #lrpd #zoyalai

[campchitaquamemories]

🚨🚨🚨IT’S FUCKING HAPPENING, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! 🚨🚨🚨

Digital preorders of Like Real People Do get access to their copies early! Paper version releases on 8/23 per Nine Star Press. I cannot wait to read this version of the story @xiaq and also put my paper copy on my bookshelf next to the Check!Please graphic novels. 💖

#like real people do #lrpd #check please #omgcheckplease #file off the serial numbers #fandom things #i rec this fanfic shit

[lovebird17]

With the best timing ever, both my copy of Like You've Nothing Left to Prove and my Check Please kickstarter fulfillment arrived on the same day!

Thank you for sharing your amazing creativity, @xiaq and @ngoziu! I will enjoy it for a long time to come :)

#omgcp #omg check please #lrpd #lynlp #got my hands on madison #cried a little

[nymith]

Finished reading Like Real People Do only to find out it’s half the fic!!! Like it was so good but to end on Christmas Eve!!!! I’m going to die from anticipation!!!!

It’s not like I read the fic at least six times and basically have the story memorized oh wait

#lrpd

[targaryen-jpg]

i haven’t figured out how but adria is 1000% margaery’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother or something

#adria #lrpd

[sluttymickey]

LRPD Ian before meeting Jovi

#i miss lrpd now. #lrpd #UGH REMEMBER HOW MICKEY SET IAN AND JOVI AS HIS LOCKSCREEN #🥺

[rodadecuia]

#LRPD #PRÓTESEDETÁRIA

[chaotic-archaeologist]

@xiaq my unsigned copies of LRDP & LYNLTP have been donated to my local library for wider readership!

#he speaks #lrpd #libraries #library

[my-mild-ginger]

Sketch practice ✨✍️

Human!Vladcard (aka LRPD-versecard, aka Dadcard)

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #hellsing alucard #vladcard #digital art #digital illustration #sketch practice #lrpd #llw

[doodleddaisies]

I actually read lrpd before i read check please so it’s a bit of the opposite for me and i have to remember that when I’m like hm that seems familiar. But anyway i really hope you like the second book :)

I read cp when it was still in like year 3 so I was like !!! eveytime something reminded me of it.

I hope the second book is available soon bc I’m on a kick!

#lrpd

[tormentedscentedcandles]

@xiaq

I FINALLY GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF LRPD!!

i have the ebook but i needed a physical copy to covet, hold in my hands, and keep on my shelves. the physical version is so nice??? like the quality??? like, i do not see this on books i normally buy. AAAA I'M SO HAPPY

#a book #also just described it as to my dad because i did not feel like explaining the whole gay hockey thing to my family #lrpd #like real people do

[gingit-cake]

Song #4 on my list of 10 songs by 10 artists. (An ongoing project lol)

This song was in Like Real People Do, if I remember correctly. And because I’m old and uncool, it was my first intro to Dua Lipa. LOVE her.

#shameless #gallavich #lrpd #gallavich fandom #gallavich fanfic #gallavich playlist #ten songs #dua lipa #levitating #drunk Ian gallagher #drunk dialing #Spotify