u/ReginaBicman

Thats what’s gonna cause Helaena and Maelor to kill themselves. Rhaenyra will wanna see if it’s Aegons son and Helaena is going to be terrified of having her baby torn from her or hurt or killed and thats when Helaena jumps with Maelor. That way;

1. It’s Rhaenyra’s fault KINDA but not really, there’s plausible deniability they can say ‘the maesters we’re misogynistic and stretched the truth when they blamed Rhaenyra’

2. It’ll play into their favorite trope of ‘hey look at Alicent’s karma’ (bc the queen who never physically harmed you once yet demanding the princess and heir and favorite daughter bring you their son is the same as demanding a hostage bring your baby up to a woman who actively wants to kill your brothers/husband and killed your grandfather)

So me and my friend who’s like…. Very influencer, very hustler mindset, and we love them. They have 8K followers on TikTok and they almost have enough to get paid and Im genuinely so happy for them 🩷

Im currently getting my MSW (masters in social work), getting my CASAC (Substance Abuse and Addiction counselor certification) and I work night shift 2pm-midnight Wednesday & Thursday (CASAC class 9-12 on Thursday), 11am-midnight on Friday, 5-midnight Saturday at my main job as a counselor at a Youth Crisis Center so 40 a week and I always try to pick up shifts.

Then I work 8am-4pm Saturday and Sunday at a youth and young adult homeless shelter as a residential specialist (same thing I do at my main job basically but I also do intakes and referrals)

And I just landed an interview for a per-diem overnight shift for a case manager for crime victim services at a hospital, 5 shifts a month. Im hoping I get it but that’s a maybe right now.

But I was telling my friend and jokingly said I was becoming a hustler and she got a little upset and was like ‘no you’re not, you still get a two day weekend (Monday and Tuesday), you’re not actually working as your own boss, you’re not doing anything but stacking on more jobs, you’re not working when you’re not at home…’ and I mean she’s right, like I don’t work at home, I don’t work on the two days (down from three when I only had my main job) I have off. And I do understand where she’s coming from like she’ll come home, and immediately start editing and making videos and be up until 3am trying to start her social media career, and then log on bc she works from home at 10am and go to 5, while making videos during those hours. In my field unless you have a professional,
Its all but impossible to work from home so I go to work, come home, and just try to decompress and self care from my jobs or try to find some other certification I can stack in my resume. But idk, I was just curious

Im so tired of seeing people say, “you used to be able to ship whatever you want and liked whatever character you wanted and no one cared, what has fandom culture come to?!”

No you weren’t. You absolutely were not. I was told I was a cheating apologist who hated gay people bc I liked Outlaw Queen over Swan Queen in 2013. Swen were told they were abuse and incest apologists by Captain Swan fans and Regina fans were told pro rape by Emma stans.

Hell even in a non ship heavy show like SVU, back in **2003** when we had FAN FORUMS, people went after someone for shipping Elliot and Huang bc ‘why tf would you ship him with a man and not Olivia, he’s straight, you are being offensive by shipping him with someone not his sexuality!!!’

And then Tuckson fans got told they were abuse AND rape apologists (while they mocked a literal fire fighter actor for his looks), and then mocked people *WHO DIED OR WAS DYING OF CANCER OR COMMITTED SUICIDE* Bc the character they hated did that. Fandom has ALWAYS been a toxic cesspool of ‘Us VS Them’ and fans have always used ‘if you like this or that you’re not just wrong, you’re highly problematic!’ We just didn’t use that exact verbiage. Hell, I was told again in fan forums, AGAIN IN THE EARLY 2000S, that I supported cheating bc I shipped Elliot and Olivia.

Like no, early fandoms wasn’t some magical free loving ‘ship who you want, in the da club we all fam!’ mindset. What happened was it’s the first time you ship a non popular ship or like a non popular character and you realize how toxic fandoms are. You actually feel the blunt of the toxicity for the first time, you just aren’t used to dealing with it since you only liked the popular ships/characters before.

Hello. So I have over nine years counseling, 8 in the military getting up to E5, and then 1 1/2 years youth in JD residential and adolescent crisis care (I worked residential for 6 months while I waited for the crisis center I was hired for to open in the same facility), and I’m starting a weekend gig being a counselor with homeless youth next week. I’m currently getting my CASAC, and also getting my MSW (I have a BA in forensic sociology and an AS in criminal justice). I like counseling but I would do ANYTHING to be in case management or caseworker but IDK what to do, or like any certifications I can get that’ll help….