It's funny, since I've never been especially into academic AUs, but now I want all of them in the world. Oh, life plan, what are you doing to me?
John would be super competent and want to be very committed to his responsibilities, but I wouldn't trust him not to fall asleep during meetings and forget his students' names
Hahaha. That's perfect! I am utterly convinced that John would be really great in lecture - clear! charismatic! - and really terrible at everything else, for all of your reasons. Also, because it would be way more fun to let Sherlock waylay him with various exciting diversions than to sit through departmental meetings while keeping the rising urge to kill from his expression. Much like crime scenes, exam grading would be full of inappropriate giggling.
Sherlock is in the "let's not even go there" category.
Yeah. I feel like he'd be the terror of his department, but so ridiculously brilliant in his publications that he'd get away with murder. (Figuratively. Probably.) His advisees would constantly vacillate between gleeful awe and nuclear frustration, because while they'd never, ever be good enough, they would also have the coolest projects ever.
Mrs. Hudson would be the emeritus faculty whose office you hide in whenever she's around, because she has both a secret stash of baked goods and all the best dirt on everybody.
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John would be super competent and want to be very committed to his responsibilities, but I wouldn't trust him not to fall asleep during meetings and forget his students' names
Hahaha. That's perfect! I am utterly convinced that John would be really great in lecture - clear! charismatic! - and really terrible at everything else, for all of your reasons. Also, because it would be way more fun to let Sherlock waylay him with various exciting diversions than to sit through departmental meetings while keeping the rising urge to kill from his expression. Much like crime scenes, exam grading would be full of inappropriate giggling.
Sherlock is in the "let's not even go there" category.
Yeah. I feel like he'd be the terror of his department, but so ridiculously brilliant in his publications that he'd get away with murder. (Figuratively. Probably.) His advisees would constantly vacillate between gleeful awe and nuclear frustration, because while they'd never, ever be good enough, they would also have the coolest projects ever.
Mrs. Hudson would be the emeritus faculty whose office you hide in whenever she's around, because she has both a secret stash of baked goods and all the best dirt on everybody.
Where do I find a Lestrade, do you think?