Alternate Universe - Graduate School
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If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
Because no one in that field is hiring.Beleaguered Master's candidate Peridot Diamant spends all her time considering how little she's paid at her tech support job when a mysterious new adjunct wanders in with a broken graphics card.
Who is she? Why does Peridot feel afraid whenever she walks in? Why does she make Peridot feel like glowing? And why can't anyone pronounce her name right?
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Lapidot Grad School AU, featuring lots of moral ambiguity. CURRENTLY ON HIATUS
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Goody heads outside, shivers a little with the cold of it and draws his jacket in closer. The noise from the bar dims as the door shuts, and that’s when he sees he’s got company. One of the new guys that showed up tonight. Asian, which is a little unusual, and quiet, which is pretty standard. Most people don’t talk much until they’ve come to a few meetings or unless they’re close to fluent already, and Goody would bet money that this guy was having trouble grasping the basic gist of things. Curious.
Goody digs out a cigarette from his pocket, grins out a hello in the quick flare of the lighter. “Didn’t catch your name in there, sorry—I’m Goody.”
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- Part 1 of Interdisciplinary Studies
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[12:55] Genji: whatever. did u see my special present?
[12:56] Genji: it’s at the bottom ;)-
hanzo gets a package
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- Part 2 of shimadacest week
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Goody’s happy, and so is Billy, which is more important. It doesn’t really matter what Manu thinks. It’s not that he’s upset, but everything just seems to grate on him more: there are dog-eared books Manu doesn’t recognize on Billy’s kitchen table, a hand around Billy’s waist when they’re smoking outside, Goody at dinner, telling jokes that Billy laughs at silently, a soft curl to his mouth.
He’s not upset, he thinks, just a little jealous—the natural consequence of a friend coupling up, moving on. It just makes him feel particularly single, in a world made for couples, that Goody’s always at Billy’s side now, when Billy used to turn to him instead.
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- Part 2 of Interdisciplinary Studies
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Sometimes good things can happen in only a year. The problem is, then, what do you do when the year is over?
Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane is 28, in his last year of a Ph.D. in history after his discharge from the army; he's burnt-out, aching. He's applying for jobs he doesn't feel qualified for and almost certainly won't get, with the way the academic job market is these days. He's thinking about his future and all he sees is the darkness of space, spreading out before him.
And then there's Keith, 24, a senior in history, struggling to keep his focus on the future instead of the past; Lance, 22, a senior in biology with a lot of debt and doubt on his shoulders; Hunk, 23, a senior in mechanical engineering, the first in his family to go to college; Pidge, 19, a junior in computer engineering and kind of spectacularly bad at being left to their own devices; and Allura, 30, in her last year of a Ph.D. in physics, apparently the only one whose life isn't falling apart.
[a graduate school & university AU, in which everyone is stressed but trying their best]
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“So what you’re saying is...you can’t have sex with Sehun...because it turns out — and correct me if I’m wrong here — you think you’re both bottoms?”
Kyungsoo nods, it’s pathetic.
Chanyeol scratches his chin. “I mean, that’s not entirely uncommon. I mean, lesbians can have sex, and that doesn’t necessarily have to involve penetration!”
Kyungsoo takes a long breath in. It’s not entirely his fault Chanyeol can be a massive asshole sometimes, and to be fair, he isn’t exactly used to handling such things.
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when sick; drink cold meds like alcohol during prohibition by Elli (Scarlet_Anna)
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
06 Oct 2019
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Chuuya is sick and is not missing class. Atsushi is a good student that just wants to follow rules and not spread germs. But Chuuya has a secret brewed from experience.
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Akutagawa was fine, simply exhausted from a double-double shift at the local bookstore. The first-year graduate student was nearing the end of his second semester after starting in the spring. All he wanted was to pick up breakfast for his sister after finally leaving work, not have to deal with this annoying cough or entertain the nursing student in front of him. Though... the smell of ginger was familiar.
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Opening a message surely not intended for him, the grad student begins spiraling into a gay panic over his best friend.
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- Part 1 of The Grad Student
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The entomologist!⸢Signet⸣ AU. ⸢Signet⸣ is an overworked grad student at the entomology collection of a large natural history museum. Tender runs the bar she goes to after work. Bug-related shenanigans ensue.
Warning: In this fic Belgard is portrayed as a deceased partner. Grief and depression over the loss of a loved on is discussed.
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"You're working too much," Finn had said that afternoon when they met up for lunch. Poe must have scowled or something, because Finn added hastily, "I mean. I worry, I guess. Are you working too much?"
"Define too much," Poe muttered.
Overextended grad student (and closet omega) Poe forgot to re-up his suppressants, so his heat hits. During a blizzard. While he's alone.
Somehow, Finn's there for him.
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Wei Ying convinces her girlfriend Lan Zhan to play volleyball with her. It is now their second year on the team, and Lan Zhan's off to a bad start - will her luck get any better, or is she doomed to a year of hurt (and cuddles)?
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Rand always said she was destined for greatness. Reagan always believed him — but now, she's not so sure.
Reagan is a first-year graduate student in a physics PhD program, studying under an abusive advisor in a demanding department. Despite barely surviving her day-to-day and constantly being berated, Reagan is determined to continue, because this is her only path to excellence, to genius. Even in this toxic environment though, Reagan finds friendship and love, and learns that maybe there is more to life than her career.
TLDR: Probably gonna be a kinda fucked up story focusing on power dynamics with a couple fluffy moments.
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he thinks of the loaded way porsche said it; people like me, and his brain puts it together all at once.
“it doesn’t, not always, but we find each other. and i’m supposed to be your peer mentor, whatever that means, so. you at least have one person.” he says it with the same smile he gives his students, which is as close to comforting as he gets, but it just makes porsche smile even harder, and now it’s a little mocking, even though it’s fond around the edges.
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“i’m sure that well practiced depressing spiel makes a lot of sense in your emotionally constipated nonsense world, but i’ve had my anti-psychotics dosage upped and i’ve been doing two therapy sessions a week, and i have a boyfriend, and i’m here to tell you that doesn’t track. it sounds more like you’re—” jisung blinks at him, eyes going wide and concerned before he smiles, weirdly stiff.
“it doesn’t matter. since he’s straight, and you think he’s cool, and you’re just being friendly, then i’m not saying anything else. just be careful.” he says it the way he always says it, like he already knows it’s a safe bet to assume felix isn’t going to listen to him.
“i’ll be careful.”
he doesn’t know why he bothers with the lie.
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two good people make some really bad choices together.
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- Part 2 of good guy every other night
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Tolys does a good deed and is rewarded by the cheerful stranger he helped.
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kinn stares at him, and then up at the ceiling, and then back at porsche.
“have you considered being professional even a day in your life,” he says, sitting back down in his desk chair and rolling away enough to get some space, “i mean really and truly, do you know what it looks like, barging into my office,” porsche cuts him off, mouthing along to his spiel, mainly because he’s heard it before, “sitting on my desk, interrupting meetings, and acting like, porsche, people are going to think things, things you and your shiny visa can’t afford to have them thinking. things that me and my giant internship program can’t afford for them to think—”
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- Part 1 of freedom is a sound/pleasure is a right
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“i know what i said, porsche,” it doesn’t feel right, it makes his tongue feel too big for his mouth, he tries again, “baby, i know what i said, i just, you’re right here, and nobody is looking, and i can’t, fuck, i just—” the problem is that he can’t have porsche this close and not touch him; he can’t have porsche this close and not want him, a bone deep desire that feels near animalistic.
there’s something running through his blood that feels trapped in a cage, and his hands tighten around porsche’s waist, fingers digging into the soft fabric of his shirt; it feels stupid to feel mad at fabric, but all he can think about is the skin underneath it, and it makes him feel insane.
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- Part 2 of freedom is a sound/pleasure is a right
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he’s more nervous than he should be, for someone who kinn has already told the good news to; they wouldn’t have let him get this far if they didn’t know he was going to pass, and he’s explained that it’s a formality more than anything, and he’s even told porsche to be glad they don’t do the version with robes and swords, but porsche just made a shaky joke about powdered wigs and kept pacing back and forth swiping through his powerpoint on his tablet, frowning every time he caught an imaginary typo.
he knows there’s no reasoning with the anxiety, but that doesn’t stop him from trying anything if it’ll make porsche feel even a little bit better. he just doesn’t like seeing him so upset.
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- Part 3 of freedom is a sound/pleasure is a right
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Open to all biologically compatible aliens by queersintherain
Fandoms: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
02 Dec 2023
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Christine likes sex, and doing sex work, especially on Risa during her off-semester, is enough to pay her tuition for the rest of the year.
She's had a few Vulcans as clients before, but this one is different.
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- Part 4 of Kinktober 2023 fills
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