Rec List: Professor Shen Wei & Friends

[mumblemumble]

For the Dragon City University square on my guardianbingo card, a smol list of fanworks that deal with Shen Wei at university, including the "give Shen Wei friends!" agenda and student body shenanigans. :-D

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Feedback for NFG Conference 2023 by Nemainofthewater
» Academia Gen, ~1,200 words

A story about a genetics conference gone sideways, as told through email communication. Utterly delightful!

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Sunrise by nnozomi
» Summary: Shen Wei renews old friendships.
» Shen Wei & Li Qian, ~1,800 words

Such a gentle exploration of this particular relationship and what it might look like post-canon.

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Appropriate Workplace Behavior Reminders by tehfanglyfish
» Academia Gen with heavily implied Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, ~530 words

An email from the The Chancellor's Office to all DCU employees, but really mostly Professor Shen, containing such helpful notes as "Displays of affection, while permitted, should be brief, discreet, and chaste. Brief is defined as less than five seconds." Zhao Yunlan, please!

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Among friends by sakana17
» Summary: Zhao Yunlan has lunch with Shen Wei and meets his friends.
» Shen Wei & OCs, Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, ~1,150 words

Friends for Shen Wei! Shen Wei introducing his partner to his friends! Free lunch! So many good things.

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Review by Shadaras
» Summary: Professor Zhou is worried when Shen Wei comes to class late.
» Gen, ~800 words

A super lovely glimpse at pre-canon Shen Wei and one of the people on his side.

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One for the conspiracy theorists by Elenothar
» Summary: Shen Wei's identity is revealed to his students in the most dramatic way possible. (No grad students were harmed during the writing of this fic.)
» Shen Wei & his students, Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, ~4,600 words

The Weilan feels in this. 🥺 Zhao Yunlan has made several contingency plans for this (post-canon) oopsie. <3

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Peer Review and Purple Smoke by draconicsockpuppet
» Summary: They'd just gotten a letter back from the editors of Haixing Genetics, and it wasn't promising.
» Academia Gen with Prof. Zhou and Li Qian, ~700 words

Shen Wei having to deal with reviewer #2 on top of his Envoy duties, ugh. This is so charming!

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Art: An Unusual Lecture by mekare
» Summary: Professor Shen takes care of a special visitor brought to his lecture.
» Fanart, Watercolors

Shen Wei with a baby! SHEN WEI WITH A BABY. 😍 Also check out Elenothar's fic Distraction Level: Lethal for the same prompt. 😍

Comments

[mekare]

Aaah thank you for this fantastic selection of recs (and also for including my art). I may have read one or two of these fics, but most of them are new to me. Will dive in tomorrow. (You might also share a link to this post in sid_guardian)

[mumblemumble]

Very welcome! 😊 I'm really pleased with this selection too, and I loved your art! <3

And yeah, I'll definitely post stuff to the community, either as their own things or as a round-up, but right now I'm just frantically trying to get my bingo fills in. Excitement!

[mekare]

Good luck with the bingo!

[mumblemumble]

Thank you! <3

[nnozomi]

Thank you for the rec! Fantastic selection of other stuff <3

[mumblemumble]

I didn't have an idea for this square for the longest time, and then that Conference Feedback piece got posted and I was like, I think I could find a few more for a rec list! Yours was so lovely. 🥹❤️

[trobadora]

This is such a great collection! I love it when Guardian fic does university shenanigans. :D

[mumblemumble]

I love all of these, yes! Friends and shenanigans! <3