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Bored with Ministry work and a lackluster love life, Hermione Granger decides it's time for a change. She applies and is admitted into the top magic graduate school in Europe, but arrives to find (to her surprise and dismay) that her childhood bully, Draco Malfoy, has been accepted into the same program. They are both looking for a fresh start, but what if all they end up finding is each other?
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Power and Pleasure by commusmism, isuggestfemdomtopeople (commusmism)
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
26 Apr 2026
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"It is a truth universally avoided, that a single man in possession of a secret desire must be in want of a woman who knows what she wants."
Lizzie Bennet is sure of only three things: rent is due, her apartment is falling apart, and no one—not even her chaotic best friend Charlotte, or her kind older sister Jane—has a clue what she really wants. When a welcome-back party reunites Jane with her first love, Ben Bingley, Lizzie’s world tilts further off-balance when she meets Will Darcy, Ben’s enigmatic new roommate from London. But a shocking confession from Will exposes desires Lizzie never dared name. Suddenly, she finds herself tempted into a world of intimacy and power she thought was off-limits. As she navigates family drama, academic uncertainty, and friendships tested by secrets, Lizzie faces her biggest challenge yet: surrendering herself by taking control.
A kinky, modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, dabbling in soft femdom, and all the oddities of being a woman adrift
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It Can Wait by Wolfcry22
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Apr 2026
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Scott comes home from practice to find Kip sick but insisting he finish an assignment. Scott steps in to remind him that there’s nothing more important to him than Kip’s own health.
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Pomni is a graduate student who’s barely holding it together, but believes that one day all of the suffering she’s going through with grad school will eventually pay off. However, one day, her advisor admitted one of the most insufferable people she has ever met; Jax. Arrogant, sharp-tongued, and frustratingly confident, Jax is everything Pomni can’t stand.
In a world where ambition, funding, and reputation come first, how long can friction spark into something more before it costs them everything?
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Thea has found her home as Cassidy's familiar, and has even made her first real friends. As she joins Cassidy in the new semester of graduate level mage classes, she gets more and more comfortable with her role in helping her mage channel magic. Unfortunately, healing also means confronting uncomfortable questions like what she wants in life, and figuring out why the submission her old master demanded is so comfortable when she's giving it by choice.
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- Part 2 of Tandem Spellcraft
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Grad school AU ficlet(s). Barry Allen is a new summer student in the Wells Lab at Central City University. Cisco is his graduate student mentor.
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A Social Construct by Foul_Fiend (F0ul_F13nd)
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
24 Apr 2026
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PhD student Aziraphale Fell, 23, is left woefully inexperienced after his single short, regrettable relationship. In the hopes of changing that - and against his better judgment - he takes his friend Anathema’s advice and joins the hookup app, Lustr.
Anthony Crowley, also 23, is working to finish his junior year after a troubled youth. He doesn't date, but he has spent the last few months pining after the angel in the library - the one with the bow tie and the kind smile - and trying to find the courage to speak to him.
Crowley hasn't swiped anyone on Lustr in months... But he looks. And seeing an unexpected face might spur him to action.
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Arthur isn't happy. Arthur hasn't been happy for a long time. All he wants to do is finish his degree and disappear into his studies, utilizing the one asset he could ever rely on: his intellect. No one else believes in him except for his professor, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the enigmatic and beautiful professor who has taken him under her wing.
There's nothing suspicious about her inviting him home, right? She's an outspoken lesbian, so clearly she would have no ulterior motives. Nobody is attracted to him. Never mind where she goes on the weekends or the fact that it's a full moon tonight. He's just being paranoid. She couldn't possibly know...
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When Dean starts his forest ecology PhD in Alaska, he's immediately hit with a wave of panic the moment he steps out of the airport. There is probably a mistake after all, as Dean is under the impression that grad school (for someone who isn't a slightly traumatized redneck with a GED from the Midwest) is supposed to be a breezy five years where you do some science, take some classes, and BAM, suddenly you're a scientist. With the help of a certain angel and others, he realizes that no one actually feels that way.
Or where Dean Winchester realizes that he deserves to be in this ivory tower as much as anyone else and oh also he is worthy of love, especially the gay kind 😜.
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So, How Many Languages Do You Speak? by cloudskip33
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), Transformers: Prime
24 Apr 2026
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A famous scientist opened a serious pandora box a few years ago, and now everyone wants to do research about Cybertronians. I'm but a meager linguistics graduate student, and I ended up where the money was: gathering data for machine translating an alien language.
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Another short story, same characters as Tears Behind the Story (https://archiveofourown.org/works/67569931). My idea comes from the frustration of applying to the 2026 Fall PhD programs. Hope anyone who’s struggling with or has struggled with grad school applications can resonate with this.
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Jimin is dreading going to Yoongi's apartment to work on a presentation for their master's program. The reason: they always end up bickering and seemingly hate each other's guts. The real reason: Jimin is totally in love with Yoongi.
So what happens when Yoongi is acting all nervous and jumpy for no reason, and a snowstorm forces Jimin to spend the night?
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Chemistry graduate school Yuri On Ice alternate universe story.
Yuri Katsuki is an under-confident masters student in the chemistry department at Wayne State University. A traumatizing experience at a conference leaves him questioning everything from his ability to successfully defend his master's thesis to his suitability to begin a PhD program at the State University of Saint Petersburg under the supervision of Dr. Yakov Feltsman. -
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Five and Lila are first years in the same physics PhD program. They immediately connect by slogging through late-night problem sets together, but where else might their partnership lead?
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Six years after the party graduates, Mike Wheeler stagnates in regret. Max Mayfield encourages him to give an old friend a call. Meanwhile, Will continues his work as an artist in New York.
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Fluorescent lights shone through a man’s short, brown hair as he exited his studio, carrying a hefty portfolio bag with him. Splotches of paint covered him from head to toe. His hands, shoes, even a smudge on his cheek, were stained blue. Will Byers held his keys in his mouth as he struggled to close the door that always stuck, and locked it behind him as he headed down a stairwell. -
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With rent prices skyrocketing, using a Property Guardian scheme, Trinity is banded together with complete strangers in a abandoned hospital based in Pittsburgh, for only a couple hundred dollars a month.
Trinity can't remember the last time she was close to anyone or let anyone in. Now she is forced into becoming friends with a tired ex-farmer, a kid genius tiktoker, and a slightly weird blonde who has an affinity for rap music and marine biology. Through living at The Pitt, her passion for life and love reignites as she deals with the quirks of living in a derelict hospital with strangers.
AKA a The Pitt "Crashing" AU.
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"Weather the storm" had always struck Kim Seokjin, one of Korea's most respected meteorologists, as little more than a cliché - a phrase people tossed around to sound edgy, ironic, even cavalier.
That is, until that fateful day... a day that started like any other for him...
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She Who Holds the Keys to the Castle by sapphirejubilee
Fandoms: Howl's Moving Castle - All Media Types
14 Apr 2026
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Sophie has her hands full. As a second year postgrad student, she has plenty of things to worry about - exams, grades, literature reviews, laboratory sessions, and her strange situationship with a failed former PhD student. However, the appearance of gruesome serial killer who collects women's hearts is now threatening to ruin graduation and her future plans. If she wants to escape the university, then she has no choice but to collaborate with Howl to solve the mystery and save her friends.
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The Subject of Desire by desiring_assemblage
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
14 Apr 2026
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Nick Nelson is starting a new programme at a new uni and coming to terms with new realisations about himself. He plans to focus, take his time, and not get distracted.
Charlie Spring is settled – happy with his life and all he’s accomplished. He’s never had trouble resisting temptation before, so surely he can handle it when a new man enters his life.
Can either of them cope with the upheaval the other brings?
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A graduate school AU.
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Sealed With a Kiss by jangnangi
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
09 Apr 2026
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Loki couldn’t fake his death this time— Thanos would know. So in an act of desperation, he instead used a powerful spell that sealed away everything that made him a god, and put himself in a mortal body.
Unfortunately, the only way to break out of that spell might be a long shot, especially since Lori Olsen has none of Loki’s memories. But as she discovers she has magic and her life begins to fray at the edges, she might find help in an unexpected place, from someone who knows all too well what it’s like to have your memories taken away.