#LRPD

[an-ungraceful-swan]

I don’t read books or join fandoms stories crawl inside me and then refuse to leave

[thegallavault]

currently locked in The Gallavault 🔒📚✨

LIKE REAL PEOPLE DO by GRAYOLA ↳ ↳ with cover art by STEORIE

Multi-Chapter | Rated: E | Word Count: 214K | Completed in: 2020

At the age of 26, Mickey Milkovich gets his first apartment, his first wifi connection, and his first kiss. How he gets from wifi to kissing is a complicated story. Mickey is socially anxious. Ian is a frustratingly lovable escort working through an app. Mickey downloads said app. The rest is history.

[ download from The Gallavault | leave love on AO3 | reblog the art on tumblr | follow the creators @/grayola & @steorie ]

[my-mild-ginger]

Sketch practice ✨✍️

He is. So tired.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

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

[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."

💓💓💓

[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!!

[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 :)

[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

[tormentedscentedcandles]

sydney: autism be damned my boy can hit a puck

[zetecx]

Enjoying the last of the warm weather with ice coffee and a great book.

[xiaq]

Stumbled upon these in a Belgian shop; first time I’ve seen them somewhere other than the internet! (Except on my bookshelf of course 😄)

Oh how cool!! Thanks for sharing :)

[my-mild-ginger]

Sketch practice ✨✍️

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

[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!

[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

[lifemod17]

Hi hello I am once again extremely unwell

The way he stood back to admire the crowd like he can't believe it? During Like Real People Do? The way his eyes LITERALLY SPARKLE?!?

Forest Hills night 2 || 06/05/2024