Merlin totally would. He'd try to ship them all at the same time, and wind up with some sort of OT4 thing going on.

Arthur would write fic out of theories and papers and problem sets. "But my prof gave me an A on this!" he protests when Morgana yawns and says, "Boring. Where's the sex? Where's the characterization?"

Or alternatively--"It got twenty comments! People friended me! Why isn't it an A?"