#this is both my love letter and my evisceration of grad school and being a postdoc and being a professor and academia in general

[clandestinegardenias]

You want a KinnPorsche University AU, you say? But you’re tired of BL’s where the focus is on university students? 

What would you say to a University AU in which all the KP characters are professors and graduate students? Say, in a Criminology Department (except Tankhun who is in Apparel Design and Textiles and Kim who’s in Music)? 

We could start with, ohhhh I don’t know, a fic where Chan is a postdoc crushed under the weight of his self-imposed rigorous work ethic and lack of work-life balance, and Big is the brilliant, devastatingly gorgeous grad student desperate for recognition and validation? 

Wait, you’re not really on the Chan/Big train (yet)? LET ME SHARE SOME OF THE FUCKING AMAZING COMMENTS I HAVE RECEIVED ON THIS FIC SO FAR:

“Broooo. Bro. YES!!! I don't think I've read any Chan/Big before, but this just worked so well. I love Chan being steady and dependable but also having this kind of fire at his core, and Big being brilliant and needing praise and validation so badly just fits.”

“the D/s undertones oh my fucking god.”

“how you weave in details and the other characters also makes this au so perfectly real? and the glimpses of KP and VP are TANTALIZING.”

“It's not particularly fair that something so unhinged was that hot”

Anyway stream Student Paper Award because I’m so fucking proud of it and I’m going to get more people on the Chan/Big agenda if it kills me. 

(also special thanks to @yeetlegay and @stormyoceans and @likeabook for indulging my ridiculous DM’s and inspiring many of the juicy details of this AU)

#kinnporsche #ChanBig #my fic #kinnporsche fic #y'all don't even understand this fic is so close to my heart #and I'm so amped about this universe the KinnPorsche and VegasPete are gonna be off the rails #this is both my love letter and my evisceration of grad school and being a postdoc and being a professor and academia in general #the loneliness and the excessive self-denial and the hero worship and the depression and the questionable morals and the ecstacy #KP University AU