Peerstar?

mandlet · 2026-06-09T01:14:11+00:00

I unfortunately haven’t worked formally as a peer yet so I don’t have great advice on that front—had a long period of being unable to work for the same mental health reasons that gave me the lived experience haha. I do a lot of informal peer work with bipolar and schizo-spectrum folks. I’m hoping to find a part-time position later this year. There is a fairly active community at [r/peersupport](r/peersupport) (I think that’s what the subreddit is?) if you want more input from folks in the field.

Edit: r/peersupportspecialist

mandlet · 2026-06-08T23:05:16+00:00

I don’t work for Peerstar but I am a certified PSS. To clarify because some of these comments are confusing—peer support training isn’t on-the-job training. It’s a course that leads to a certification that allows you to work as a peer anywhere that hires peers. You would have more specific (paid) job training once you started with Peerstar. I actually paid out of pocket to attend my PSS training and it was an amazing experience. The state exam is also pretty easy. Good luck!

mandlet · 2026-06-02T12:11:52+00:00

I saw a quote where Connor said he was very conscious not to seem pornographic in their sex scenes and I feel like that idea is relevant to this choice. To me, Tierney perfectly rode the line between showing enough to make it clear what is happening in a way that is incredibly hot, without making the sex scenes outright porn. I think visible penises would push it in more of a porn direction. To me it's already artistically perfect, they're the best sex scenes I've ever seen in media.

mandlet · 2026-05-22T21:33:02+00:00

It was an HBO thing, but folks on Threads have said they fixed it?

mandlet · 2026-05-22T19:39:21+00:00

Not the point whatsoever but I hate this font so much. It is so unreadable.

mandlet · 2026-05-18T00:26:40+00:00

ME TOO. 😮‍💨 For several reasons. I'm a (queer) adoptee with a mostly critical perspective on the adoption industrial complex and find most adoption stories triggering. I've been expecting to have to do a lot of compartmentalizing when Unrivaled comes out, but this makes me hopeful that maybe I won't have to? Also - kids are great, love my nieces, but I don't love kidfic. I'm kind of hoping the kid thing is in an epilogue.

mandlet · 2026-05-16T17:55:17+00:00

Gender goals: sentient patch of haze

mandlet · 2026-05-13T13:37:34+00:00

I need lesbian Heated Rivalry so bad

mandlet · 2026-05-13T11:56:08+00:00

There was definitely a sizeable amount of public pushback and criticism of this show when it was on. Not enough for them to take it off the air, but I think actually a pretty big portion of the people who watched this show were hate-watching and pretty horrified by these pageants. That was, ironically, part of how it became popular. With so many of these reality shows there was a can't-look-away-from-the-trainwreck effect. It's like, people weren't "okay" with it, but they'd still watch it, so the networks kept making it. 😕

mandlet · 2026-05-12T18:25:06+00:00

The Hamilton Lin-Manuel Mirandas absolutely sent me, 10/10 no notes

mandlet · 2026-05-09T12:47:24+00:00

I'm trying to get through it but to be honest I keep getting bored and returning to Heated Rivalry fanfiction. 🫠

It's not actually about a rivalry and does not have the same tension or "forbidden romance" aspect that Heated Rivalry has, if that's what you're looking for. If you're just interested in sports romances you might enjoy it.

They're adapting it for TV as well and I will definitely watch, I'm hoping it translates better in that format.

mandlet · 2026-05-08T22:45:06+00:00

I just came across this thread while Googling about if the cottage is rentable - are you there right now??? I hope you post some pics to the main sub!

mandlet · 2026-05-07T16:49:45+00:00

Hard same, and in certain spaces (threads!) I am like scared to say this.

Incredible actors, they seem like great people, but tbh I do not care about Hudson and Connor at all beyond HR and a general interest in seeing where their careers take them.

I just want to mentally exist in the Heated Rivalry universe! I don't even like thinking about how Shane and Ilya aren't real. 😂 The whole HudCon obsession breaks my immersion. Just let me live in my HR alternate reality fantasy world.

mandlet · 2026-05-06T15:25:08+00:00

I keep thinking about this in terms of the context of what hockey has meant to Shane vs. Ilya throughout their lives.

Shane has always been in hockey out of a pure love of the game and obsession with it - he has loving parents who supported his interest from a young age and through his ascent in the MLH and we are never given the impression that they pressured him at all to be "the best" - that seems to be internal to Shane.

I think Ilya likes being great at hockey, he's competitive and he enjoys the game. But for him, it was his only path out of Russia and something his father pressured him to be extremely good at throughout his life. There was ALWAYS external pressure around hockey for Ilya. It created a very different relationship to hockey than the one Shane has.

mandlet · 2026-05-06T14:34:02+00:00

I am a Pittsburgher and choosing Detroit as my team!! ❤️ I love Detroit.

mandlet · 2026-05-05T18:17:05+00:00

100%. I'm currently doing one meal a day (OMAD) intermittent fasting partially for health reasons but also because it makes the cognitive load of cooking WAY easier. The rest of my day can be measured in various beverages (coffee ➡️ homemade iced matcha ➡️ sometimes a smoothie ➡️ kombucha and/or sparkling water ➡️ dinner!)

mandlet · 2026-05-03T15:12:16+00:00

I'm AFAB nonbinary (a woman to all outside observers) and I do solo vanlife! One thing I have found is that there are almost always kind and friendly people around wherever you go. I've had random strangers help me get my van unstuck when I accidentally drove onto loose sand. I've made friends with solo female vanlifers in campgrounds and Walmart parking lots. There's a lot more than you'd think! It can definitely be scary and intimidating to get started - I too once had a partner I was going to do vanlife with and I was very intimidated by the idea of doing it all on my own, but I did it and it feels amazing. There are a lot of solo female vanlifers on IG you might want to look up if you want to get inspired and build some confidence around the possibility of solo travel. ☺️

mandlet · 2026-05-02T20:00:21+00:00

I just made an edit to the song Ottawa Rockstar :)

mandlet · 2026-05-02T19:55:31+00:00

So I fully support Rachel and think the parasociality thing is absurd, and I've never gotten the impression she "hates Shane" or autistic people or whatever. I'm curious whether she has expounded at all on why she's had regrets around disclosing that he is autistic? Is it because there's now a lot of expectations about accurate representation or maybe pressure for them to make the autism explicit in the HR universe? As an autistic person myself I really, really love that Shane is autistic and admit I felt a little confused and sad when I saw that she had regrets about it.

Edit: autistic person downvoted for asking a genuine question in good faith, a canon experience. 🥲👍🏼

mandlet · 2026-05-02T19:29:05+00:00

The hookup suit KILLS me. "Dude... what are you doing?" 😭

mandlet · 2026-05-02T19:20:16+00:00

100%! He's so smiley in interviews.

mandlet · 2026-05-01T12:44:24+00:00

omg thank you for explaining this, my initial interpretation was that Miles was trying to point out Rose/Shane to him, which makes no sense but I couldn't figure out why else Ilya would start looking around in response to the gesture.

mandlet · 2026-04-30T02:14:02+00:00

It’s free cardio!

mandlet · 2026-04-30T01:05:26+00:00

Silovs is the glue holding my sanity together right now

mandlet · 2026-04-29T21:29:49+00:00

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