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[emmymaehereeeeee]

Playing Sober

summary: you have to deal with a very drunk elvis on the car ride home from a party and somehow avoid his momma. drunk!elvis x reader

“Oh but lemme- lemme tell you ‘bout Y/N, shoo-wee! When I-I tell you, thas a-a woman, God- a mighty!” With his seat reclined back and his hands raised Elvis was tracing small shapes on the ceiling of the car. “She’s so nice, but-but don’t be trying to put no moves on-on me..” Elvis said as he pushed his hand against your cheek, “Cause if you try,” he let out a hiccup, “You try and kiss me- I’ll whoop your ass and so will Y/N.” “Oh will you now? I am driving you home through so let’s keep all that to a minimum, yeah?” You reply as you start the car up.

Elvis stares back at you blankly for a moment, “I-I am serious!”

Nodding your head you watch as he fiddles with the handle of the car, “Uh-uh don’t mess with that.” He eventually left the door handle alone and soon resulted to singing very loudly, “Oh I loveeeee myy Y/N…. She is sooo beautiful and I love herrrrrr, my y/n my y/n. Woahhhhhhhhh….. she is very pretty and niceeeee..” He turned to look at you with a dopey grin, “Did ya like that?” “It was amazing, baby.” You say as you reach over to stroke his face.

“Woman! I done told you- I am dating Y/N!” He yanked away from you. “Well why don’t you tell me about her?” You ask as you begin to drive back to Graceland. Elvis smiled big and he pressed his hands against his cheeks, “Gosh she’s so cute, she does this thing when she laughs so much she just she can’t stop laughing she’ll laugh so hard tears are just rolling down her cheeks- ain’t nothing even funny but Y/N will laugh. Oh when she’s mad she,” he hiccuped,”will cross her arms and sit away from me, I know she does it cause she wants attention but if I give it to her then she is going to be overwhelmed. Oh when she gives me these little kisses when she does it all over my face, man shit I feel like I died and went to heaven. You just- the-the way she smiles-“ he pauses a moment and laughed, now resting his head on the center console.

You smiled softly as he continued to ramble, “Oh well she sounds amazing,” you said as you pulled through the gates of Graceland.

“Mhmmmm.” He hummed to himself, the soft glow of the outside lights hitting his skin. “You kinda look like her, know that?”

“Oh yeah? That’s funny, hey why don’t we get you inside and we’ll see if Y/N is home,hm?” You say hoping to coax him out in his drunken state. The lights in the house flip on lighting the entire front porch and a portion of the lawn up. The warm glow filled the once empty space. “Shit.” You mumbled under your breath as you watched someone walking through the living room.

“Why are we saying shit? I know lots of words- shit, bitch, fuck you- ooh that would be a good song! Fuck you bitch you broke my heartttttt.” Elvis wailed out into the darkness. His drunk giggles mixed with his singing only made it harder for you to pull him out of the car.

“Elvis stop- your momma is inside and she’ll kill you if she knows your drunk!”

Elvis’s eyes went wide, “I am not drunk, I am completely sober.” He whisper yelled as he haphazardly leaned against the open car door. He pushed off of the door and began to stumble towards the front door, “Mommaaa” He hollered out into the darkness.

Quickly you shut the door and grabbed his arm pulling him down to your level, “Elvis- it’s 3 am we have to be quiet,” you said softly- almost as if you were talking to a child. Elvis giggled and shook his head, pulling a finger up to his lips, “Shh.”

“That’s right, now come on- we got to get you inside.” You guided him towards the front door, “How much did you have to drink tonight, mister?” You asked as you adjusted under his deadweight.

“I am not drunk, I am there soberest there ever was.” He said matter of factly. “Ohh the soberest of them all? Is that why I had to pick you up from the bar tonight?” A small smile spread across your face as you watched him attempt and fool you with his drunken antics. “Mhm, I am fineeee.”

The sound of the front door lock turning is what brought you back to reality, “Elvis?” Gladys asked as she saw the state that her son was in, her hands naturally gravitated to his cheeks as she checked for a temperature. “Oh sweetie are you feeling alright?” She asked with a hint of worry in her voice.

"He's just exhausted, Gladys - you know how he is, always pushing himself in this music gig," you reassure, doing your best to keep him steady.

"Is he really alright?" Gladys asks with a hint of concern, her voice tinged with worry, as she observes her son's state.

"I'm not sick, just tired - all I want is to sleep. Goodnight," Elvis mumbles, attempting to free himself from his mother's grip. Leaning down to your ear, he whispers, "Where's Y/N? You promised I'd see her." His tone takes on a slight pout.

Her worries seemed to ease a bit at his reply, and she turned to head back to her room, leaving the two of you alone in the softly illuminated living room. "You'll get your chance to see her soon, but first, let's get you out of those clothes," you say, your tone gentle and reassuring.

Elvis extends his arms slightly to create a barrier between you and him. "No way you're taking off my clothes. I've got a girl, remember? Told you that already," he says, his movements becoming sluggish and feeble. "I don't need your help," he mumbles as you guide him up the stairs and into his room. "You, uh… you should go," he insists with a weak tone.

“Now Elvis, just listen here- I am your girl!”

Flopping onto the bed Elvis lifted his head to look back at you, “What the hell are you on about now, woman?”

“Don’t talk to me like that, brat.” You snip at him teasingly- “I am your girl- it’s me Y/N!”

He stared back at you with such intensity- as if he was trying to determine whether you were real or if you were one of his drunken delusions.

“C’mon now, put your arms up,” you say sternly with a scrunch of your nose. The smell from his mouth causing a twist in your stomach, “You smell like cheap alcohol,” you mumble as you pull off his shirt.

“It is not cheap alcohol!” He snaps back with a pout on his lips.

“Oh I thought you said you hadn’t been drinking.. are you lying to me, Elvis?” You ask as you pull on his night shirt and start to tug down his pants.

“Stop I wanna do that.” He says placing his hand over yours, you move away and allow him to dress himself. Watching as he haphazardly pulls on his pajama pants. “See I can do it all by myself.”

“I am so proud of you, sweetheart.” You smile and push his legs back onto the bed, “Now why don’t you get some rest? Want me to play with your hair-“

“Woman I already told you- I have a girl and you aren’t her!” He says promptly shoving you off the edge of the bed. “God damn it Elvis!” You huff and look up to chew him out but he had already passed out, “Oh you little- you just wait until the morning.”

@arianatheangel-girl @lillypink @steph-speaks @crash-and-cure @18lkpeters @jahayla-parker @flwersgarden @prayerstopresley @insanelycrazyanddelusional @kxnnxy

[dear-indies]

Hello! Could you please recommend a replacement fc for Fiona Gallagher from Shameless? Not even necessarily an Emmy Rossum alternative, which I know you've done in the past, but I'm looking for a fc that could play a similar character. Thank you!

Tatiana Maslany (1985) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Giulia Michelini (1985) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Janet Montgomery (1985)

Leighton Meester (1986)

Jodi Balfour (1986) - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Jessica Gunning (1986)

Jenna Coleman (1986)

Tuppence Middleton (1987)

Aidy Bryant (1987) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Jamie Lee O’Donnell (1987) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Mae Whitman (1988) - is pansexual.

Emily Browning (1988)

Sharon Rooney (1988)

Úrsula Corberó (1989)

Lucy Hale (1989)

Megan Stalter (1990) - is bisexual.

Adelaide Kane (1990) - is bisexual.

Maren Morris (1990) - is bisexual - has spoken up for Palestine!

Emily Ratajkowski (1991) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Tanya Reynolds (1991) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Cassandra Naud (1992)

Joana Ribeiro (1992) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Olivia Cooke (1993)

Jesse James Keitel (1993) - is a trans woman.

Louisa Harland (1993)

Adèle Exarchopoulos (1993)

Maia Mitchell (1993) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Hope this helps!

[lesbian-books]

Hello! 💕 Could you recommend any lesbian books that have no heterosexual content at all? I know this might be almost impossible I’m just so jaded and would love to be able to go into a book assured there won’t be any hetero sex.

I feel you, it’s very frustrating to read a book that’s marketed as a lesbian romance or praised as having “good sapphic representation” only to find out that one or both main characters has a boyfriend/husband or fucks a man. We really need more books that are actually about lesbians.

Here are some books in which the main characters don’t have hetero relationships or hetero sex:

The Abyss Surrounds Us duology by Emily Skrutskie Affinity by Sarah Waters All Good Children by Dayna Ingram Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Beyond the Screen Door by Julia Diana Robertson Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta Compass Rose by Anna Burke + Departure from the Script by Jae Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks + Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett + Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir + Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri + Just Physical by Jae Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Matrix by Lauren Groff Monstress: Awakening by Marjorie Liu * + On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden One Summer Night by Gerri Hill ** Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter * Shaken to the Core by Jae The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley * Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher + The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson ** + The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M. Wilson + Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

* I enjoyed these books but they contain scenes of female characters engaging in violent, abusive behaviour that dampened the reading experience for me. They’re still good overall, I just think it’s fair to warn you in case that turns you off reading them.

** I disliked these books but they fit the criteria so...yeah, slim pickings. But taste is subjective so just because I don’t like them doesn’t mean you can’t.

+ First in a series

One additional note: Most authors don’t label their characters as lesbians so I can’t be sure that all the main characters in these books are lesbians. And since some of these books are in a series that I haven’t finished and/or that the author hasn’t yet completed (marked with +), I can’t be sure that future books in a particular series will not contain hetero content. So just be aware of that possibility!

I had actually been planning to make a list of book recs like this so I’m glad someone asked. I intend to update this list as regularly as I can. Let me know if you want any more information about any of the books already on the list.

[pinselwurm]

2020 reading late round-up

i promised myself i’d read more last year and i did!  but i had no time to write this because 2021 has been too busy.  i read a book every 2 weeks last year and so far in 3 months i’ve only re-read 1 single book.  i meant to read more nonfiction but it’s almost all fiction lmao.  so much for reading theory.

34 finished, 37 attempts, 26 are Lesbian Interest, only 4 written by men.  so i had a very female and lesbian book year, but sadly very few were worth the read! i read a lot but i read a lot of absolute garbage! i can only recommend a paltry 6 books i read despite trying to read stuff i though i’d like.

highlighted “LI” stands for “lesbian interest,” as in, has a lesbian author or has lesbian/bisexual woman characters and themes.  some LI books have bisexual authors but les/bi f/f romance so they get counted.

100% WOULD RECOMMEND:

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (LI) fiction

Land of Lost Borders by Kate Harris (LI) travel memoir

Aspen in Moonlight by Kelly Wacker (LI) romance

Sister of the Earth, ed Lorraine Anderson, nature anthology, didn’t finish yet but it’s really good

Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, mystery

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, mystery

RECOMMENDED WITH RESERVATIONS

Painted Moon by Karin Kallmaker (LI) romance, beginning was wonderful ending was weird

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, fiction, depressing black intergenerational trauma

Grave Silence by Rose Beecham (LI) mystery, romance is disappointing but the protag was very authentically lesbian

Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas, memoir, should have just been a long essay

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, fiction, too heterosexual and not enough nature but ending made up for it all.  goodforher.jpg

WOULD NOT RECOMMEND

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (LI) fiction, depressing and too many damn men

If Not, Winter: Sappho translated by Anne Carson (LI) poetry, i got nothing from this

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, fiction, movie is better/more female-forward

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (LI) fiction, terrible story but SO SO well written i flew through it

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule (LI) romance, movie is way better and not steeped in depressing psychology

Of Witches by Janet Thompson, spirituality, not helpful or interesting

Poems by Rita Mae Brown (LI) bad bad poetry

The Weaver by Emmi Itäranta (LI) dystopia fiction, had potential but tedious

Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony (LI) family, boring and trite

The Left Hand of Justice by Jess Faraday (LI) romance, had potential but the author just fucking gave up towards the end

Uncharted by Robyn Nyx (LI) romance

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (technically LI) fantasy, i cannot for the life of me understand why it was written other than to appease her publisher

Not Your Average Love Spell by Barbara Ann Wright (LI) fantasy romance, boring

Month of Sundays by Yolanda Wallace (LI) romance, boring

Comrade Cowgirl by Yolanda Wallace (LI) romance, okayish

Sequestered Hearts by Erin Dutton (LI) romance, boring

Fever by VK Powell (LI) romance, awful

Whispers in the Wind by Frankie J Jones (LI) romance, boring

Treasured Past by Linda Hill (LI) romance, boring

Claire of the Moon by Nicole Conn (LI) romance, pretentious

Racing Towards Providence by Laurel Mills (LI) romance, awfulboring

Real Love by Jeanne McCann (LI) godawful romance, racist

Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink (LI) HATED THIS

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, gay depressing fiction

SO BAD I COULDN’T FINISH IT

Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown (LI) fiction, WHAT THE FUCK THIS WAS SO HOMOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNISTIC BROWN WAS REALLY SHOWING HER TRUE HOMOPHOBIC-BISEXUAL FEELINGS IN THIS SHIT

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, YA, style is impossible to read as an adult, either the author is very skilled or very bad at how juvenile this read

[inevitably-johnlocked]

LGBT book list

Hey! I’m the anonymous who sent you an ask earlier about having an LGBT book list. I don’t have tumblr, hence the message :) So I’ve broken it into two major categories, and tried to include books from as many different genres as possible, so that there’s a wide variety for people to choose from.

Books whose major characters are LGBT and/or have LGBT themes:

Basically anything by David Levithan (YA)

If I Was Your Girl: Meredith Russo (YA)

Symptoms of Being Human: Jeff Garvin (YA)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky (YA)

Carry On: Rainbow Rowell (YA)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: Benjamin Alire Saenz (YA)

Every Heart a Doorway: Seanan McGuire (YA)

I’ll Give You the Sun: Jandy Nelson (YA)

Basically anything by Poppy Z. Brite (horror and general fiction)

The Raven Cycle: Maggie Stiefvater (YA)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda: Becky Albertalli (YA)

Ask the Passengers: A.S. King (YA)

The Pants Project: Cat Clarke (MG)

The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller (fiction)

Basically anything by Sarah Waters (fiction)

Nightrunner series: Lynn Flewelling (fantasy)

Valdemar: Last Herald-Mage series: Mercedes Lackey (fantasy)

None of the Above: I.W. Gregorio (YA)

Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)

One Man Guy: Michael Barakiva (YA)

More Happy Than Not: Adam Silvera (YA)

The Art of Being Normal: Lisa Williamson (YA)

Gena/Finn, Not Otherwise Specified: Hannah Moskowitz (YA)

This is Where it Ends: Marieke Nijkamp (YA)

Tonight the Streets Are Ours: Leila Sales (YA)

The books in this part of the list have characters that are LGBT, but play only minor roles, or you don’t know about it until late in the book etc.

Books featuring minor LGBT characters:

Lola and the Boy Next Door: Stephanie Perkins (YA)

American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis (fiction)

Garden Spells, Lost Lake, First Frost: Sarah Addison Allen (fiction)

Ready Player One: Ernest Cline (science fiction)

Emmy and Oliver: Robin Benway (YA)

The Millennium trilogy: Stieg Larsson (mystery/thriller)

Noggin: John Corey Whaley (YA)

Extraordinary Means: Robyn Schneider (YA)

Elusion, Etherworld: Claudia Gabel (YA)

Sarah’s Key: Tatiana de Rosnay (historical fiction)

Passenger, Wayfarer: Alexandra Bracken

And these books are ones I haven’t read but I believe have LGBT characters:

The Miseducation of Cameron Post: Emily M. Danforth

Rubyfruit Jungle: Rita Mae Brown

Keeping You a Secret: Julie Anne Peters

Fun Home: Alison Bechdel

Girl Walking Backwards: Bett Williams

Ash: Malinda Lo

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children: Kirstin Cronns-Mills

The Bermudez Triangle: Maureen Johnson

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart: J.C. Lillis

Annie on My Mind, Holly’s Secret: Nancy Garden

And the Band Played On: Randy Shiltz

Am I Blue?: Marion Dane Bauer

Maurice: E.M. Forster

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel: Sara Farizan

Lies We Tell Ourselves: Robin Talley

The Price of Salt, or Carol: Patricia Highsmith

Everything Leads to You: Nina Lacour

Luna: Julie Ann Peters

Written on the Body, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Jeanette Winterson

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun: Jacqueline Woodson

The Color Purple: Alice Walker

More Than This: Patrick Ness

I am J: Cris Beam

For Today I am a Boy: Kim Fu

Hero: Perry Moore

Brokeback Mountain: Annie Proulx

Blue is the Warmest Color: Julie Maroh

Okay, I think that’s all I have for now, though I know I am missing a lot of books. This is a good start though for people looking for something to read. I’ve read all of these except for the last list, so any questions or recommendations, I am happy to provide. Also, I’m always up for chatting with a fellow johnlocker. The only friend I have who watches Sherlock is firmly in the ‘Sherlock is asexual, but if he loved anyone it would be Molly’ camp >_< Anyway, I love your blog. Keep up the great work. Cheers!

Kami

(referencing this post)

Wowee! Thanks for the fabulous list, Kami! I hope this will help out all of my followers looking for some literature!! :)

[acallipygianpygophile]

ok so i have one more ep till s1 of perpetual grace ltd is finish which is on epix so i dont think many ppl know about this show but i would highly recommend it the dialogue is the best thing about the show its like dr. suess wrote this show. ben kingsley character has this motivational sing-songey phrase ‘get the rhythm, get the rhythm, there u go, there u go, there u fucking go’ x3 its an earworm but it gets u pumped and the directing is very highly stylized and very creative, the plot is slow going but forward moving at the same time and characters are introduced that bring a new dimension to the show. like perpetual grace feels like a successor to breaking bad kinda in its setting and themes a little. next year this show has to be nominated for emmys, golden globes all of it cause this is different from anything else on tv let me tell u and jimmi simpson deserves an emmy for lead actor cause he is really emotive and is great in his scenes with everyone. and there’s this actress hana mae lee who didnt have much screen time but boy was she compelling when she was on screen like i want to re-watch the whole season again to catch anything i missed cause the writers/showrunners are really nuanced with this show. i really really hope it gets another season(s) cause this is very enjoyable tv. 

[firstdraftpod]

Special 200th Episode!

First Draft Episode #200: Special Anniversary Episode

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People Featured, and Links and Topics Mentioned, In This Episode

Podcasts I listened to obsessively, which inspired me to start this podcast, include Fresh Air with Teri Gross, WTF with Marc Maron, and You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, Carve the Mark duology and the forthcoming short story collection, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future (listen to her First Draft podcasts here, here, and here)

Kayla Cagan, author of Piper Perish and Art Boss (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Will Hines, author of How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth (hear his First Draft episode here)

Sara Farizan, author of Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, If You Could Be Mine (hear her First Draft interview here)

Kass Morgan, author of The 100 series and Light Years (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft!)

Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Beasts Made of Night, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls series

Tochi recommends playing narrative video games, like God of War, Assassin's Creed, or Red Dead Redemption

Leigh Bardugo, author of the Shadow and Bone series and Six of Crows duology, and the forthcoming adult novel, Ninth House , and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)

Josh Gondelman, author of the forthcoming memoir Nice Try, writer and producer of “Desus and Mero” and Emmy-winning writer for “Last Week Tonight on John Oliver” (hear his First Draft interview soon!)

Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 and host of LitHub’s The Maris Review podcast

Ryan Graudin, author of the Wolf by Wolf, Invictus, The Walled City, and more (hear her First Draft interview here)

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Jason Reynolds, author of Look Both Ways, the Track series, Long Way Down, As Brave As You, All American Boys, and many more (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft)

The New Yorker

The Newberry Award; The National Book Award; The Pulitzer Prize

Stephanie Garber, author of the Caraval series (listen to her First Draft episode here)

Elana K. Arnold, author of A Boy Called Bat, Damsel, What Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and more (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here)

Lance Rubin, author of Denton's Little's Deathdate, Denton's Little's Still Not Dead, and Crying Laughing (listen to his First Draft episode here)

Freedom (computer app)

Deep Work Work by Cal Newport

Courtney Summers, including Sadie, Cracked Up to Be, This Is Not a Test, Fall for Anything, All the Rage, Some Girls Are (hear her First Draft episodes here and here)

“Real Romance,” The New Yorker profile about Nora Roberts

Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact and Permanent Record (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft)

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) and Dia:Beacon

Bridget Tyler, author of The Pioneer and The Survivor (listen to her First Draft episode here)

Scientific American, which Veronica just subscribed to

Samantha Mabry, author of A Fierce and Subtle Poison and All the Wind in the World (listen to her First Draft episode here)

Elissa Sussman, author of Stray and Burn (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story, The Authentics, and The Walk-In Closet (listen to his First Draft interview here)

Madonna, the queen of Abdi’s book

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Morgan Matson, author of he Date, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, The Unexpected Everything, and more! (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)

Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next, and Hope and Other Punchlines (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die, Stealing Snow and Mera: Tidebreaker (listen to her First Draft episode here)

David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft!)

Zan Romanoff, author of Look (due Spring 2020) and A Song to Take The World Apart and Grace and the Fever (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Writing Workshops LA

Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat, The Thorn Necklace, and so many more (listen to her First Draft episode here)

Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You're Looking For and Tell Me How You Really Feel (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Alex London, author of Black Wings Beating, Proxy, The Wild Ones series and more (listen to his First Draft episodes here and here)

Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, Hold Still and more (hear her First Draft episodes here and here), and listen to Nina’s podcast, Keeping a Notebook

Hamline University’s MFA program

The Slow Novel Lab, Nina LaCour’s online course on writing

Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing In Dreams and The Education Of Margot Sanchez, (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)

Pseudonymous Bosch, aka Raphael Simon (author of the The Name of This Book is a Secret and the Bad Magic series, and more) and Shane Pangburn, who together created The Unbelievable Oliver and the Four Jokers (stay tuned for their First Draft episode!)

Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters into Devils and The Ravenous (listen to her First Draft episode here)

Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel and Since You Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes of First Draft)

That time Maurene interviewed Sarah Enni for this podcast! (The Sarah Enni episode of First Draft )

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[emmymaehereeeeee]

Labs and Liquor

PT 1/? idk i need to see how this is received

summary: fratboy!elvis x college age!reader you meet him at a party….one thing leads to another… a one night stand is a one night stand right? No strings attached… well what happens when you end up being paired with him for a lab assignment…

A/N: I know this is rusty but bare with me

“Y/N, you are going to this party- I am not going to let you sit here in the dorm drinking by yourself,” your roommate Anna Kate said with a huff.

“What? I am perfectly fine- I don’t want to go to a freaking Sigma Ki party. They’re way to trashy and I am not paying twenty dollars for some cheap alcohol and to stand around all night long!” You snap back at her as you rolled the bottle cap in between your fingers. “Y/N, you don’t have a choice, plus I already paid for your ticket- so get dressed,” as she opened your closet and began to rummage through it to find you and outfit.

Begrudgingly you took the outfit from Anna Kate and got dressed, “I swear you are going to be the death of me.” You mumbled as you grabbed your keys and headed out the door.

“Oh come on, I know you’re going to love it! Maybe you’ll even meet a new boy here!” Anna Kate teased as she poked your arm. You let out a sigh and parked the car near the end of the street.

“Anna Kate!” You groaned out as the two of you made your way up to the house. Anna Kate scanned the front lawn as if she were a predator looking for her prey and finally she found what she wanted and pounced.

“Tyler! Tyler c’mere- this is my amazing, super sexy, talented, smart funny roommate Mrs.Y/F/N Y/L/N.” Anna Kate said as she gestured towards you.

Tyler eyed you up and down but said nothing at all, instead he pulled Anna Kate in the direction of the house and you quickly followed. “Anna Kate!” You whispered yelled as she was whisked throughout the house, “Anna Kate!!”

“Y/N calm down!” She said with a smile, Tyler quickly detached himself from her grasp and made his way over to the beer pong table.

“You girls know how to play?” Tyler asked with a hint of sarcasm.

Anna Kate happily bobbed her head ‘yes’ , “Why the hell not?” You asked as you both approached the table.

“Oh shit hold on- E.P! C’mere, I need you to be my partner!” Tyler hollered out across the house. Anna Kate rolled her eyes, “Really Ty? You’re going to make us play against E.P? I thought this was supposed to be a fair game?”

“I know that isn’t Anna Kate I hear bitching already now is it?” A deep voice laced with Southern twang soon fills the room, turning around on your heel you seen the person this voice belongs to. A 6ft tall dark hair blue eyed man who was clearly a few drinks deep. “Aw shit- she brought another one of her little friends, Tyler I thought I told you not to let her bring anyone else to the house? It’s bad enough I’ve gotta listen to her voice near every damn night, no you got two of ‘em here!” The man throws his hands up in the air as he walks to the edge of the table.

“Try living with her.” You reply curtly whilst staring at the arrangement of cups at the table.

“And who the hell might you be little Ms.Smart Mouth?”

“Why does it matter to you?” You ask dryly, clearly not wanting to engage in this conversation any longer

“I didn’t ask for an attitude, I asked for your name.” He snarled

The two of you stared back at one another in silence as the buzz from the crowd only grew, finally Tyler broke whatever staring contest the two of you had been having. “E.P, I just want to play some fucking beer pong- leave her alone.”

“E.P” nodded his head, “Alright but here’s my offer Ms.SmartAss, if I win then I get to know your name.” You scoff, “And if you lose?”

E.P chuckled and shook his head, “Darling I don’t lose.”

“Well we’ll just have to see about that,” you replied.

You turned your back to talk to Anna Kate and she leaned into your face and whispered, “I don’t know what the hell you’re doing but you need to cut it out.”

“Oh ladies? Are we going to play some beer ping or are we going to sit and gossip all night long?” E.P asked with an annoyed smile.

“What? Are we going to make you late for your date with your right hand?” You snapped back as you lined up to take your shot.

“Alright, you want to play games, bitch- let’s fucking play.” E.P snarled.

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