From memory -- because I'm totally revising right now -- I'm pretty sure all these are worksafe.
Things you can read without knowing the show/book/etc:
Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61471.html) (Part Two (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61432.html)) by synedochic is Stargate: Atlantis fic, but while it's far more stunning with awareness of the characters, it can be co-opted to be about what happens to your scientist of choice after your sci fi show of choice is over.
But the university isn't as bad as some of the places he could have wound up. The lab space is shit, and the physics program is so easy a gifted two-year-old could sail through, but the chairman, Dr. Vail, is quite a nice man, despite being a completely retarded rhesus monkey.
If You've A Ready Mind (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/maya/IYARM.html) by mistful is Harry Potter, Draco sorted into Ravenclaw. (To pull a quote, I had to click an "I am over 18" button, which implies maybe it's not as worksafe as I remember. But the first five or so chapters are, and you might want to save the rest for some other time. Though thinking about it more, there are non-explicit Adult Themes that might be the reason for the rating.)
"Hi," said a boy in the seat next to him, blinking behind glasses that reminded him of The Boy Who Was A Real Letdown, Actually. "I'm Terry Boot, I-"
Nice Work If You Can Get It (http://intimations.org/fanfic/asimov/Nice%20Work%20If%20You%20Can%20Get%20It.html) by astolat is set in Azimov's Robot Series, and is very charming and silly.
"Field work," he told the entrance interviewer, firmly, and that was when things started to go horribly, horribly wrong.
by bravecows. Master and Commander set in a boys school.
Maturin simply did not know how to behave. It was not so much that he repudiated the aspiration of every upstanding Englishman never to stand out in the crowd, as that he did not seem to realise that there was a crowd, or that there was any necessity for him to consider its opinion of his doings. He seemed to have no self-consciousness, that defining trait of the English schoolboy.
Things where you probably need to know the show/book/etc:
The Long Con (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/24/thelong.html) by lightgetsin is Vorkosigan fanfic -- she's written longer, better stories whose safe-for-workness I cannot vouch for, but I still love this one for the total "Oh, Ivan"-ness of it all.
Ivan stared after him, feeling that spinning sensation he'd come to identify as the centripetal force of a tightly focused will circling in on him. It was the sort of thing that Miles did when he needed someone to stand watch or do something illegal or carry his luggage.
Playing the Game (http://baked-goldfish.livejournal.com/1518239.html) by baked_goldfish is a paean to early seasons West Wing.
If the subject is baffled, if the subject is awed, then the subject is malleable - and, as a side benefit, the subject becomes funny to watch. (http://thewritegirls.populli.net/afrai/bees.html)
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Date: 2007-05-28 10:02 pm (UTC)Things you can read without knowing the show/book/etc:
Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61471.html) (Part Two (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61432.html)) by
But the university isn't as bad as some of the places he could have wound up. The lab space is shit, and the physics program is so easy a gifted two-year-old could sail through, but the chairman, Dr. Vail, is quite a nice man, despite being a completely retarded rhesus monkey.
If You've A Ready Mind (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/maya/IYARM.html) by
"Hi," said a boy in the seat next to him, blinking behind glasses that reminded him of The Boy Who Was A Real Letdown, Actually. "I'm Terry Boot, I-"
Nice Work If You Can Get It (http://intimations.org/fanfic/asimov/Nice%20Work%20If%20You%20Can%20Get%20It.html) by
"Field work," he told the entrance interviewer, firmly, and that was when things started to go horribly, horribly wrong.
by
Maturin simply did not know how to behave. It was not so much that he repudiated the aspiration of every upstanding Englishman never to stand out in the crowd, as that he did not seem to realise that there was a crowd, or that there was any necessity for him to consider its opinion of his doings. He seemed to have no self-consciousness, that defining trait of the English schoolboy.
Things where you probably need to know the show/book/etc:
The Long Con (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/24/thelong.html) by
Ivan stared after him, feeling that spinning sensation he'd come to identify as the centripetal force of a tightly focused will circling in on him. It was the sort of thing that Miles did when he needed someone to stand watch or do something illegal or carry his luggage.
Playing the Game (http://baked-goldfish.livejournal.com/1518239.html) by
If the subject is baffled, if the subject is awed, then the subject is malleable - and, as a side benefit, the subject becomes funny to watch. (http://thewritegirls.populli.net/afrai/bees.html)