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Are they still a thing? I recently made a DW account and feel rather lonely, but the only friending communities I've been able to find have been rather dead.

there is a friending meme community
https://friending-memes.dreamwidth.org/

Re: Friending memes

(Anonymous) - 2023-05-03 23:25 (UTC) - Expand

FS used to do a friending même! I wasn't around for it (likely in it's heyday) but I'd see them when I check the archives. Hmm. I think I'll check out the friending meme anon above posted. I kinda want to get active on this site too.

This isn't a recently made account, but a recently re-discovered account. Also just randomly looked up F!S and happy to see it's still around. Feel free to friend me if you want! I'm going to check out that friending meme nonny posted too.

Hey FS! I've been hungry for the teacher/student (or mentor/mentee) dynamic lately, but I've exhausted all the media I know of personally, so if you know of any, please bat them my way. Literature, movie, TV, anime/manga, video games, even fanfic, you name it, I'll check it out! M/F or M/M preferred, but always willing to expand my horizons on femslash too if you have them.

Bonus points for:
- Age difference
- Teacher is strict/a hardass, but fair
- One or both characters defrosts over time

Not huge on the "I will wait for you" trope, but if everything else hits, I'll bite. Thanks!

I'm a big Christine/Erik fan so I have to ask, er, does Phantom of the Opera count? It has all the stuff you listed but also, you know, psychological torture, actual torture, coercion, blackmail, extortion, and murder, so, uh, YMMV?

Re: Teacher/student media recs

(Anonymous) - 2023-05-04 15:33 (UTC) - Expand

TV Shows:
Pretty Little Liars (Aria/Ezra)
Dawson's Creek (Pacey/Tamara Jacobs)

Movies:
Never Been Kissed

Fanfic:
Pet by LadyVader, Arthur/Eames (Inception), High School AU - Eames is a teacher and Arthur is a student. https://archiveofourown.org/works/504338/chapters/886497
Magic Bullet by matildajones, Derek/Stiles (Teen Wolf), College AU
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10090919

Re: Teacher/student media recs

(Anonymous) - 2023-05-04 15:33 (UTC) - Expand

Daine/Numair from Tamora Pierce's Immortals books? It's YA but also canon.

Re: Teacher/student media recs

(Anonymous) - 2023-05-04 15:34 (UTC) - Expand

I only ever dipped my toes into the fandom, so I don't have any specific recs, but you could maybe try reading some Harry/Eggsy Kingsman fanfic. And watching the first movie if you haven't seen it.

And of course there's always Starker for a huge age gap and a mentor/mentee dynamic, and I could give you recs for them if you wanted. But IDK if it's quite what you're looking for. The mentor/mentee dynamic is definitely there, but it's very informal and elective. It's not like a prescribed relationship. They're mentor and mentee emotionally speaking, but practically speaking they're basically colleagues.

Buffy/Giles, maybe? I haven't read any fic for them; I'm just brainstorming possibilities.

Bonus points for:
- Age difference
- Teacher is strict/a hardass, but fair
- One or both characters defrosts over time

Jack and Liz from 30 Rock fits all three of these points with a mentor/mentee dynamic. One of my favourites in that over time they both learn things from each other but always stay true to their original character.

Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly

What shows did you abandon and why?

First season was fun, I had hopes for season 2 and made it all the way through, and just was frustrated or apathetic to season 3 for a couple of episodes and then just...never went back.

Re: Umbrella Academy

(Anonymous) - 2023-05-04 02:19 (UTC) - Expand

So many shows growing up. I think because you could only watch them live on TV so I would just forget they were airing. Dead Zone, Prison Break, Smallville, Dexter, 24 (though I actually watched like...season 4 of this).

Then some shows I just gave up on when they got bad. Like The Walking Dead, Supernatural, X-Files, and Scrubs.

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I liked Downton Abbey but I ragequit over a certain car accident.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-05-04 09:07 (UTC) - Expand

There are very few shows I've watched all the way through

Supernatural after season 7 because I hated 6 and 7.

House after season 6 I think. Bones, can't remember when exactly, but it wasn't soon enough.

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greghousesgf - 2023-05-04 02:49 (UTC) - Expand

Claws. It just got too dumb.

The Equalizer (starring Queen Latifa). Again, just got dumb/a little too unbelievable but I love QL's character.

Lost - They were never going to explain the monsters
Dexter - Got bored
Smallville - Writers would ignore plot or character continuity between episodes
NCIS - Got bad
Supernatural - Plot of an episode in the 1st season was offensively bad and I had other things I could be watching
House - Got bored
Criminal Minds - The writing in the season after the writers strike broke continuity
Star Trek: Voyager - Kes was fucking annoying
X-Files - I think towards the end even the writers forgot what was going on
Sherlock - Got bored
Torchwood - Bad writing
Heros - Season 2 was a mess
Angel - Got bored

There are probably more, but this is all I could think of off the top of my head.

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greghousesgf - 2023-05-04 02:50 (UTC) - Expand

HIMYM. Just got bored.

Glee... because I got too busy with work. Hahahaha, silver linings.

As I said in the thread Stranger Things. I loved season 1 and I was nostalgic somehow for the 80s even though I am not American and I was small in the 80s. But season 2 was such a let down.

I quit watching Grey's Anatomy because I thought it was too depressing... after the third season. I can't imagine things have gotten any LESS depressing in the sixteen seasons after that.