LINKDING

Summary: Shang Qinghua is dropped without warning into an archaic alternate universe, ie. the Oxford University collegiate system. And, okay, there would have been a warning if she read the college brochure properly before she applied… ➤ modern AU f/f moshang where they meet as college roommates ➤ I appreciate that it's set in a specific college and the details about it are made use of to build out the sense of setting ➤ I love sqh's narrative pov, she's so funny! ➤ I also love the glimpses we get into the cumplane friendship and into the whole....situation sqq has going on with the harem of young men who are in love with him while sqq is oblivious to how gay everything is. ➤ and the moshang is super cute. mbj and sqh are both bad at communicating, in very different ways, and mbj is doing her best! ➤ 9k words in length

<blockquote>“Lan Zhan here really surprised me. When we first met, I thought ‘now here’s a guy who could probably bite my head off if I annoy him,’ but then he didn’t? You know, all of our friends in Seoul would say I’m the shameless one, but I have no idea what they’re talking about, like, have they met Lan Zhan? Gege, you’re kind of crazy.” “Mn,” says Wangji, sounding very pleased. “It’s okay though, I like crazy. Hey, Xichen-ge—can I call you Xichen-ge?—anyway, do you mind if I add a little something to my tea?” “We do not imbibe alcohol in this house,” Shufu seethes. “It’s not alcohol,” Wei Ying corrects like he expected to hear this at some point. Xichen glances at Wangji, who’s making an expression Xichen has never seen before: unbridled exasperation and fondness. Then Wei Ying pulls out a pack of what Xichen is pretty sure is chili powder. / Basically a modern AU where lwj and wwx both take a semester abroad while in college. They were originally in different colleges and never met before. They meet in this new college and being the weirdos they truly are, fall in love and get married within one semester.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Okay!” says Wei Ying, already taking another customer’s order. “I’ll find you later! Remember, though, you have to be nice about my act – I thrive on praise!” Wangji finds a table for three. He sits down, maintaining a white-knuckled grip on what remains of his virgin pina colada. He stares at it, morose and – for the first time in his life – unbearably horny. I am also a virgin, he thinks, as though a non-alcoholic beverage is in any way capable of reciprocating his sudden kinship with it, and tries not to think about other, considerably more naked contexts in which Wei Ying might be said to thrive on praise.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Oh my god, you guys: a heartbroken Luo Binghe decides to follow his beloved undergraduate advisor to Harvard, by any means necessary. "Here's your chance to make it, / so take it like a man!"</blockquote> ➤ author's note: "I'm not even tagging this for crack, you have eyes, you know what you're getting into." It's a fusion with legally blonde, and it's perfect

<blockquote>Lan Zhan, on the other hand, is a delicate flower from Shanghai, yet he wakes up every morning to go jogging around the campus in a tracksuit that Wei Ying is sure he would find sexy if he was ever awake to observe it. In contrast, while Wei Ying is technically the more winter-savvy, he beat Nie Huaisang at fourteen days without leaving the hodge-podge of tunnels and walkways connecting the university’s sprawl, even if it was only because Huaisang’s professor wouldn’t answer his email last week.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You know how when you’re little, people make you feel like you’ve been chosen for something great? And then one day it’s like it all vanished when you weren’t looking. Like you’ve disappointed them, somehow.” Nine years after almost causing the end of the world, Adam is working backstage in university theatre when he meets a high-strung, melodramatic, manipulative American director who happens to share his birthday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>If you can't find a boyfriend, home-summoned is fine. All Shang Qinghua needs to do is pass this last exam and he’ll be home free. No more sleepless nights in the library poring over spells he’ll never need again! No more burning his fingers when he reaches for the wrong reagents! He’ll be done! Except! He can’t! Fucking! Summon! </blockquote>

<blockquote>Wei Wuxian didn’t eavesdrop on their conversation, but, well. Walls are thin, and all. “Xiongzhang!” Lan Wangji hissed. “I know you and Uncle believe this will be a good experience, but I cannot live with him. He is messy and undisciplined and -” Wei Wuxian hadn't thought he’d make his roommate hate him within an hour of their first meeting. There was one thing that would make him feel better. Wei Wuxian pulled out his laptop, booting it up and opening Cultivation Untamed. He then yanked his phone out of his tight jeans pocket, tapping Discord open. yilinglaozu: u up to play???? The response came through immediately, which sent a small jolt of joy through him. Even if he was basically alone at a college, he still had one one friend. Hanguang-Jun: Why? yilinglaozu: my new roommates a bastard n i need stresssss reliefffff Hanguang-Jun: I understand the feeling. Wei Wuxian frowned down at his phone. What? Did Hanguang-Jun also have a bad roommate? Wow, that sucked.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Silas Octakiseron might be the only person that Gideon Nav hates more than she hates Harrowhark Nonagesimus. So when Harrow needs a scene partner to show him up, Gideon can hardly refuse, even if it means getting cozy with her two best nemeses: Harrow and iambic pentameter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It takes Nile an embarrassingly long time to realize that her thesis advisor is, like, legitimately evil.</blockquote>

<blockquote>They have just made it through the syllabus and started on actual instruction when, with twenty-five minutes left, the fire alarm goes off. “Probably a drill,” says Mercedes. “Not on the first day,” Vidal counters. “Some clown pulled the alarm.” “Or some clown set a fire,” Mercedes says, cheerfully. Nile sighs before she can stop herself. “I wasn’t planning on dying today, and I’d rather not,” she mutters in English. Isidra snorts, packing away her things. “You millennials and your gallows humor.” Nile lets herself laugh at that, but not as long as she’d like to. </blockquote>

<blockquote>“Well,” Rudy drawled. “Mike Webster. It seems that, once again, we find ourselves as lone islands of sanity amidst a sea of clones.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are a few things which Sara Crispino remembers about Orientation Week. The first is that, despite the best and most serious efforts of the nuns, quite a lot of off-site drinking, dancing and general disreputability is involved. Instead of individuals, she remembers crowds and atmospheres. ... The third thing Sara remembers from Orientation Week, although she doesn’t think about it much until later, is the red-headed Women’s girl.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A Betan, a Barrayaran, and a Jacksonian attempt to resolve a burning scholarly question: what would have happened if Macbeth had access to Vorkosiverse reproductive technology?</blockquote> ➤ author's note: <blockquote>So, I may be the only person in the world who read GJ&RQ and immediately wanted fic about what it would be like to be a humanities professor at Kareenburg University, but at any rate, here is that fic.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Moving to the Academy Campus was the also the first time Benvolio had ever left Verona, and it probably showed. He tried not to stare like the most bumbling of backwater planet hicks, but - everything was so big and bright, the buildings looked new, the sun was actually visible instead of being hidden being a curtain of orange fog, and many of the people hurrying past them didn’t even look humanoid. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Against expectations, Damen and Auguste become best bros and help each other discover their dreams.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Well, you're a werewolf," Stiles says. Kevin has always had a pretty good poker face, but Stiles takes him completely by surprise, enough that there's a tell-tale pause that lasts a beat too long for the, "No I'm not," to be believed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mulan is a Resident Assistant on a dormitory floor at a college. Gosh, some of the students on her floor come from really screwed-up families.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It starts when J.Lo decides he wants to take the SAT.</blockquote>

<blockquote>ENGL305A: Special Topics In Literature: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Literatures. 3 Credits. Grade Method: Regular/Pass-Fail/Audit. Diversity (D) Course. Prerequisite: two lower-level literature courses or permission of department. Also offered as LGBT342C. Instructor: D. Galeni (Seats: 35, Open: 3, Waitlist: 0). Book List. TuTh: 11:00am-12:15pm (EVH 0205SE - Campus Map)</blockquote> ➤ sequel ("Runway, Run Very Away."): http://archiveofourown.org/works/490835 ➤ AMAZING threequel ("That Bandom Space AU That Still Resists A Working Title - Beta Comments.">): http://archiveofourown.org/works/496454

<blockquote>Bahorel skips class. Enjolras, Courfeyrac and Bossuet do not and Courfeyrac gets into the landmark case of Courferyrac vs. his law professor over the custody of one very pointed political cartoon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Aurora is already too busy trying to figure out what to do with her life to deal with a crush on Mulan, too.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Ray decided to rush Beta Rho Alpha, it was mostly out of protest. His high school buddies didn’t think he had the cajones for Greek life. Ray thought they could go fuck themselves. He chose Beta Rho Alpha because during the freshman activities bazaar on the arts quad the brothers were doing the cha cha slide. There was this tall blond motherfucker in flip flops and board shorts with his BPA t-shirt, shouting at them about being out of sync, and how he was going to make them do the popcorn if they didn’t get it together, and Ray just knew he’d found the right one. It turned out he rushed the craziest frat on campus. The tall dude was called Iceman, was a hellacious pledgemaster, and disliked everybody on sight. Ray was instantly charmed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ray's a hipster college kid. Brad's a Marine. “You know,” the kid says, drawling. “This kind of homophobic rhetoric has no place in modern America, homes. Although I am a dicksucking liberal, both of those things are literally true.” He’s suddenly crowded up close behind Brad as the line reshuffles, and Brad can hear an obnoxious smirk in his voice as he says, “Want me to demonstrate, Marine?”</blockquote> ➤ sequel: I want your drama http://archiveofourown.org/works/370444

<blockquote>Esca and Marcus are the most incompatible dorm roommates ever.</blockquote> ➤ http://archiveofourown.org/works/1042349

<blockquote>All the semi-incestuous tensions of the Omicron Lambda Upsilon sorority come to a head at the winter formal, their biggest social event of the year: wherein sorority sisters Venus and Min(erv)a backstab, catfight, and occasionally unite against a common foe, and also there is hatesex. Every fandom needs at least one college AU!</blockquote>

➤ in which Ray is a uni student and Fraser works at the library, and Fraser helps Ray out with preparing for debate.

<blockquote>College AU. Ronon's looking for a roommate to share the rent after his old roomie Aiden flunks out. He ends up with three oddballs instead.</blockquote>