#sunbrat

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Rereading In Other Lands… again. A doodle for you 🤲

[yellowraincoat]

Elliot: I’m going to marry Serene someday

Luke: what an odd thing to say, we’re only 13, it’s not that serious

Luke, later, writing a letter home: dear mom and dad this week I met the most amazing boy at camp he’s so mean to me all the time he teaches me loads about other cultures he made me read this book ig he’s the reason I’m doing so well in history class I don’t understand any of his jokes and he can never tell when I’m kidding he gave me a pen yesterday and I’m keeping it he never wants to go to my trigon games we hang out constantly. He’s my best friend tied with Serene! Cant wait for you to meet him at parents day!!

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Patroclus/Achilles - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Thomas McNulty/John Cole - Days Without End (and A Thousand Moons) by Sebastian Barry

Luke Sunborn/Elliot Schafer - In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Nathaniel Bainbridge/Sea Hawk - Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews

[lukesunbornn]

still thinking about how elliot & luke are both entirely convinced the whole world is in love with their boyfriend. and also are both entirely right. elliot is funny & attractive & interesting & flirtatious & smart & a hero. luke is ALSO funny & attractive & interesting & smart & a hero. like those are the two most desirable men in the border camp tbh like they both catch your eye immediately and take up every room they walk into. and the best part is both of them think they personally are unloveable and nobody would ever want to date them because they’re not as cool as the other. dorks

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

Just remembering that Elliot gave Luke one of his pens and Luke displays it all special in his room like it's a precious item 🥺

[spending-life-pretending]

rereading in other lands. love that a single page after Elliot grumps over all the boys flocking to Serene at the lake and offering to teach her how to swim as a flirting method, Luke approaches Elliot and offers to teach him how to swim. surely this will go nowhere and mean nothing.

[storybookstr4nge]

Lukes letters to elliot in tears waiting to be diamonds

[almost-emerald-eyes]

once again wishing that In Other Lands had a bigger fandom :I

[oblivionsdream]

Cover redesign of In Other Lands by @sarahreesbrennan !

I am so excited that I got to work on this with @//dazzlingbookishshop on Insta!

[larkral]

I have made some words this week! Are they good? I don't know! Are they in a document? Yes. Praise to the muse or whatever. (Thanks for tagging me in @monbons!)

I've been hiding behind my hands on the end of Friday Prime (Holsom Timeloop), but I now know what I'm going to write and I'm going to write it, y'all. I know most of you don't go to OMGCP fandom, but I am going to continue to encourage you to submit an application for enrollment.

I have put some words into Finally (already, always) AND mysterious and as-yet-with-secret-name In Other Lands fic, though. So. Yep. That's what you'll be seeing.

Simon POV from Finally (already, always)

And he's about the handsomest boy at Watford. Definitely the most handsome boy in our year.  Sometimes I wonder if the reason I want him to like me is just that everyone else seems to, and I've forgot how to ignore it when someone doesn't.  But it isn't quite that.  There's something about him that's magnetic, something special. He's amazing on the football field. Definitely as good as some of the sixth years. Way better than me. He's even played in some of the interschool games. And of course he's top of our class. Or, well, him and Penny. They pretend they're competing for it, but we all know the only competition is good natured. Or, at least, I think it's good natured. There was that one time Baz burned a bit of Penny's notebook. But he said it was an accident, and he did put the fire out before too much of the notebook went up.

And my as-yet-unnamed In Other Lands fic, this snippet of which is really almost exclusively for @ionlydrinkhotwater and @petedavidsonscock (tag yourself in if you're a sunbrat enjoyer, please)

"Shall I tell him you'll be waiting for him there?"  "May as well."  "And will you be waiting for him there?"  "Maybe," Elliot said, and stomped off in the other direction.  The stomping was circuitous. The border camp wasn't that large, and eventually the stomping led to a lovely spot overlooking the lake. It would be absurd to suggest that Elliot had been hoping that Luke would be waiting there by the time he arrived, and no one suggested it, least of all Luke, who was waiting there when Elliot arrived.  "Hey, loser. Get tired of hearing how great you are?"

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[solarain]

provoking

in other lands / wings in the morning

[elliot-my-beloved]

the fact that luke should, logically, be crazy popular, as the sunborn champion, (second) best warrior cadet in the border camp (i’m rightfully counting him after serene), etc, but he isn’t, is so funny to me. he had everything going for him but on the first day of camp he grabbed the out of touch elf girl and the short, angry, obnoxious redhead with the weird clothes and said “they’re mine now,” and thus began his reputation as the intense gay kid. how luke sunborn became part of the weirdo table i will never know.

(likewise, how did elliot have so much game?? they really turned the popular kid/nerd trope on its head and i love them for that thank you srb)

[yellowraincoat]

“I know his name, they said it at roll call” Luke Sunborn says the day after meeting Elliot Schafer. LUKE “STILL DOES NOT KNOW MOST OF HIS CLASSMATES NAMES BY SENIOR YEAR” SUNBORN. “I know his name, they said it at roll call”

Boy was down bad from day ONE

[sarahreesbrennan]

Q&A

I just wanted to do some answers leftover from the chat while I'm in Q&A MODE! and to show my appreciation. <3

'I loved that Luke is still jealous like always! Luke and Elliot got to talk and get to understanding about How their relationship? And Rachel and other Sunborns miss elliot?'

--Luke and Elliot do reach a place of more understanding after Tears Waiting to be Diamonds, one of which is just the confirmation for Elliot that there is no one terrible unforgivable sin, reflective of his whole unlovable (to him) personality, that will be a dealbreaker to Luke: that Luke actually does know him, and knows what he's capable of.

The mortifying ordeal of being known, and knowing you're known, takes time.

Miss Applegold is, however, going to get some cold looks from the Sunborn Champion. He has Taken Against her.

Rachel and Louise, like Luke, are on team 'treason! Execute the - oh Elliot? That's different obviously. He has his reasons.' Michael Sunborn regards Elliot's treason more seriously, but he is still knitting Elliot's Christmas sweater and expects to see him on the holidays. Elliot is helped out here by the Sunborns, as a rule, not being a law-abiding people.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Noziken Pa Dumai/Kuposa Pa Nikeya- A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Yadriel Vélez Flores/Julian Diaz- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Elliot Schafer/Luke Sunborn- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

People need to read In Other Lands by @sarahreesbrennan

I need other people to understand my love for Elliot and why he is one of my most favorite characters.

Go read In Other Lands and then go read Long Live Evil also by @sarahreesbrennan it's also fantastic and I need more people to go crazy over all of the characters with me (especially the viper and marius)

Thank you for reading my recommendation

Just saying if you are given a gift card for a bookstore or a**zon for the holidays maybe grab these ones or check em out at your library. They are very good and It's worth it in my opinion.