why is this youtube comment the best analysis of what i’ve ALSO thought was a cop-out for the past ten years
Oh this is brilliant. What an important character analysis.
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
chipmunkfanno1love asked:
How can tell the difference between a Gryffindor and Slytherin conman? How do both both differ in charm, especially deceptive charm?
A Gryffindor needs to believe the lie.
Anonymous asked:
did you give up on the podcast?
We’re distracted with some Life Stuff that makes the podcast a little complicated – but we’re excited to get back into it when it’s feasible! We’re eyeing Ms. Fischer’s Murder Mysteries, Supernatural, and Hades (Supergiant Games) as potential topics!
missbrunettebarbie asked:
Top 5 sexiest sortings? Sending it right back at you bc I need time to ponder my answer xDD
the-phoenix-heart answered:
LMAOOOO This is what I deserve. We’re going to go in ascending order so starting with number five, and of course we all know that all sortings are sexy blah blah blah let’s get into it! (Sidenote I had a draft where I also did the unsexiest sortings but since everyone else is posting their sexiest sortings I jumped in)
5. Snake Bird - SNAKE PRIMARIES ARE SO SEXY GUYS I CAN”T EVEN. Fyi Snake Badgers are not on here because they’re more romantic and the Badger sec cancels out all the sexy lmao. But this is the villain sorting, what ISN’T sexy about that. You DON’T want a sexy independent slightly crazed maniac who is in some sorta lust for you with this intricate plan and all the details sorted out? Shut up yes you do.
4. Bird Snakes - Despite the fact that they are a rare breed, they are in fact sexy because of how well put together they are and their flexibility. They have contingencies, they are riding the waves. They’re confident in themselves (usually). They play the field and they look good while doing. They don’t actually have to look good but it is their vibes I’m talking about.
3. Snake Lions - Look I GET that they are overused and EASY and SIMPLE, but fuck if they aren’t sexy. They’re the Rebel sorting, and have you ever seen a Snake Lion that isn’t sexy? Adrien Agreste doesn’t count. Anyway Snake Lions are just sexy. They go boom boom pow and are in it for themselves and the people they like. Independence and also unflinching loyalty is very sexy.
2.Lion Snakes - While they are a very annoying often times, they’re also still incredibly sexy. Firm in their beliefs and able to do whatever for them. They’re sexy in that aggravating “why-are-you-so-hot-you-piss-me-off-so-much-I-wanna-kiss-you-so-bad,” way. Unless you’re Elizabeth Swann then you’re just hot.
1. Double Snake - Was there…any other sorting it was gonna be? Double Snakes are simply straight up SEXY. They have the sexiest primary and the sexiest secondary, which just equals pure sexiness. They’re actors, they’re charmers, they’re sly, they’re creative, they’re in love, they’re independent, they’re sassy, they’re fun, they’re perfect.
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hey, shc community! i was wondering if other improvisational secondaries relate to the whole
1) going ahead of the instructions when assembling/making something
2) realizing you’ve royally messed up
3) dramatically facepalming while mourning your project
4) having to recover and fix what you can from the mess you’ve made
5) it all surprisingly (sometimes) turning out pretty okay - but still not as good as if you just followed the instructions... but ugh instructions lol
sorry if the formatting is a bit wonky, using mobile :)
As a foundational secondary, let me just say I find constructing IKEA furniture and following their instructions detail by detail to be fun & intuitive & satisfying ;)
Badger Primary:
It goes turn around, then jump
Touch the ground, then jump
Wake up to find work and look for love
But when that rope comes ‘round you jump
(Jumprope)
Bird Primary:
I’m building a body from blueprints in braille
I’m building a body where our design has failed
There’s a book full of plans at the feet of poor Atlas
Titled ‘For Man’ but the architects only drew blanks
Now there’s nowhere to go but go back, go back, go back, go back
(Poor Atlas)
Lion Primary:
I don’t need an agenda, I just tell the truth
Let it off the leash and don’t touch it
It knows what to do
(5 Out of 6)
Snake Primary:
Call me up, day or night
Free drinks and bad advice
And it’s not much but my money’s on you
(Dixon’s Girl)
Badger Secondary:
Maybe it ain’t a lot, but it’s an honest wage
And what we got is what we made
(Crew)
Bird Secondary:
I haven’t met a locked door yet that I couldn’t beat
On a chain around my neck I keep my skeleton key
Don’t waste your worry on me, I always find what I need
Come and go as I please, I’ve got my skeleton key
By now it’s just a simple trick, not much to see
You hear the tumblers catch and click, then turn the key
(Skeleton Key)
Lion Secondary:
You duck some, you take some square
Your luck runs out, you’re there in midair
And when the big one comes you’ll know by the snare roll
You can be too careful, ignore all the scarecrows
(The Crow)
Snake Secondary:
Bones are hollow, that’s where I keep marrow
This quiver in my lip, that’s just where I keep my arrows
I fold up my ideas, I pack them neat inside my skull
I got this string theory: doesn’t work to push, you gotta pull
So I’m pulling for me, and I’m pulling for mine
(String Theory)
Real talk here; Ortus is probably my favourite character in the books so far. And his Sorting is actually pretty easy; he’s a Double Bird.
Ortus studies poetry and history, not because he feels it’s his duty (like Badger Secondary Harrow with her necromancy, labouring under the weight of her position) but because he loves it. It’s his special interest. He knows stuff about obscure prose forms. He figures out that Matthias Nonius fought and won a favour from a Lyctor; Harrow herself didn’t know that, but Nonius’s ghost confirms it. He comes up with the plan to beat the Sleeper and force her out of the river bubble-and he does that by using the Noniad, together with the spirit magic of Abigail Pent. Bird secondaries use their tools.
And it’s a very Double Bird plan; he imposes a framework of rules on Wake. A truth system. By the rules of the Noniad, Wake cannot use firearms, must spout exposition as she fights, and is fated to put up a good fight but ultimately lose. That is how antagonists behave in the system of the Noniad. (It’s also quite Bird to deconstruct the tropes of his own writing like that, to be aware of them.)
Abigail comments that the revenant link to Nonius was formed via ‘pure passion’. Ortus is never passionate about people he knows, people he interacts with. But he’s passionate about his interests. On a visceral, emotional level he cares more about Matthias Nonius than he cares about people who are right in front of him. That’s Bird secondary passion, the ferocious geekiness of it.
He describes the ‘cool S’ in detail rather than just saying ‘it’s the letter S’ or ‘it’s an S in odd calligraphy’. Another piece of paper in the false Canaan House says “If you come to my room, I will make you the potato dish you liked" and he immediately delivers the immortal line ‘how must we understand potato’-he’s looking for double meanings, analysing. Harrow snarks at him meanly and he praises her for her cleverness. And earlier in that same scene, he tells Harrow that he will obey her, as it is his duty, but she has no right to his mind.
“My lady, I follow your every order … I will accept your chidings gratefully. I will watch you slay whomsoever you feel the need to slay, and I will sponge the blood from your brow … but when I lay me down to sleep, I am a fully grown man who is allowed to feel precisely what I want, about anything I want. There has never been a rule against doing so, and that has always been my deep and unyielding relief with regard to you—to my lady mother—to Captain Aiglamene. Your final will be done, my lady.”
Muir, Tamsyn. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy) (p. 133). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.
It’s a bit Liony-but see that appeal to order, ‘there has never been a rule against doing so’. That to me looks like a Bird Primary with a fair whack of Lion in his system standing up to Harrow’s Authoritarian exploded Badger. It’s Ortus saying that she can force his outward compliance-he cannot stop her-but that he will not count her as having authority over his thoughts or feelings.
(And then he follows it up with a jab insulting her knowledge base. “I’m certain your studies have kept you from the full breadth of the classics”!)
And when Ortus makes his apology to Harrow for not being there for her when she was a kid?
I am sorry for everything … I am sorry for what they did … I am sorry that I was no kind of cavalier to you. I was so much older, and too selfish to take responsibility, and too affrighted by the idea of doing anything difficult or painful. I was weak because weakness is easy, and because rebuff is hard. I should have known there was really nobody left … I should have seen the cruelty in what Crux and Aiglamene encouraged you to bear. I knew what had happened to my father, and I suspected for so long what had happened to the Reverend Father and Mother. I knew I had been spared, somehow, from the crèche flu, and that my mother had been driven demented by the truth. I should have offered help.
Muir, Tamsyn. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy) (pp. 400-401). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition
Ortus knows he failed morally, and he talks about that failure as his failure to pay attention to the facts, to think about what he knew and act on what he thought. That’s a Bird Primary morality. And even though his mother was ‘driven demented by the truth’, he takes that as a sign that he should have tried harder to connect the dots, to figure it out.
hmmm… does it sound like a bird secondary/bird model thing to be, for lack of a better word, territorial?
not necessarily in the sense of, like, getting defensive and driving people off (although if someone gets into My Territory who makes the space unpleasant for me in some way i’ll be distressed and irritated). more like… establishing a home base, i guess? and slowly expanding my comfort zone from there. people, communities, my living space, there will usually be a few that i come back to when i’m too tired or overwhelmed to keep track of everything else.
examples:
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when i’m in a discord server that i want to participate in more than in passing, i’ll usually start by camping out in one channel for a while and ignoring all the others. from there, once i’ve gotten to know people who frequent that channel, feel like they’ve gotten to know me, and feel like i’m Established there, i’ll start expanding out into other channels one or two at a time until i’m familiar with the whole server. it deadass took me half a year to branch out from the vent/mature topics channels in my current main server, and then it took months more for me to catch up to the whole server. if i don’t do it this way i’ll be overwhelmed, eventually get bored, and trip off my feeling-left-out-of-a-community sore spots.
(which is a Thing about using snake secondary to reach out and do new things. sometimes it’s a lot of fun to just go where i feel like and explore! but if a) there’s nothing i can really do without spending money i don’t have, b) i get the side-eye for being Poor and Socially Awkward and Doing Things Weird, c) i don’t happen to be into some anime fandom i don’t care about that everyone else does, and have had zero opportunity to get at least a little invested in it in order to connect with people, d) i get ignored because no one knows me or is invested in the things i contribute; or e) i just plain go past my limits because i didn’t realize going in how much energy i’d be expending on the thing… i get bored, fast. what’s the point? might as well just turn around and go home; at least it’s comfy.)
(badger secondary model?)
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i’m prone to homesickness. i’ve gotten a little better about it over the years, and after moving so many times in such short succession, but it’s really hard to let go of My Territory the more memories and familiarity i’ve built there. it’s super rough on me emotionally from anywhere to a few days to a couple weeks, and any time i think about it, but otherwise i adjust pretty fast to my new surroundings.
(the exception here is when i, well… avoid going out and exploring snake-style, because i don’t want to get attached and then deal with the grief of leaving it behind later on. housing instability trauma sucks, and i’m still struggling to figure out how to deal with that.)
part of that might be having stayed in one place for most of my growing up, but it’s like… pretty easy for me to designate a new place as a home base even if i still miss the old one? idk. even when i have nothing left there, i still think of everywhere i’ve intentionally planted my flag as One of My Places.
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it often takes me a long time to get comfortable with interacting with someone on a regular, friendly basis the closer the space i get to know them in. a lot of people who are now good friends of mine i had to build up my comfort levels with for years. there’s usually a moment of like… ‘oh okay this is our Friendship Unlocked Moment. the dam is broken,’ and even if we go long periods of time without talking a lot in private i don’t feel anxious and suffocated when we do. sometimes the Friendship Unlocked moment is one thing that happens all at once, and sometimes it’s several things over a long period of time until the scale tips for good. this is one reason i get cagey about initiating those friendship moments too directly sometimes, just because i know i might need to pull back and have space for a while again for the friendship to develop, and i don’t want to hurt people’s feelings.
weirdly enough, though, this process tends to be circumvented a lot the more distance there is between me and another person while i’m getting to know them? if i had gotten into the shc community by joining a server i would be way more shy, anxious, and wary, but when most of my potential-friendship-moments interactions with people take place on tumblr where it’s easier to get some space if i need to, it makes it way less uncomfortable and anxiety-inducing to point and go ‘friend! :D’ i’d probably be fine with exchanging discords with most of the people i’ve met on here at this point.
it’s like the difference between meeting people and making friends at a hobby group where you meet once a week, and making friends by having to invite them over to your house every day.
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i’m very much the kind of person who will stick close with the friend who invited me to a party, lmao, or if i’m tagging along on a trip but don’t want to be there (or don’t want to deal with the hassle of finding them again if i wander off). sometimes i’ll jump right into a new situation and start making friends, but i get anxiety pretty easily about making people feel snubbed or left out if i don’t have the time or energy to engage with everything, so often i’ll just fall back on one or two options i’m most familiar with and let everything else pass me by. i used to be the kind of kid/teenager who’d stick so close behind people on public outings that i’d constantly be bumping into them by accident. (once again, if i didn’t want to be there, wasn’t allowed to go do my own thing, or was–in hindsight–dissociating.)
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just… hm. thoughts? to me this sounds like either snakey, badgery rapidfire bird, or birdy, badgery snake who uses the other two to cover for social awkwardness/feelings of alienation/lack of time or energy/depression from my burned snake. or shit, maybe it’s badger all along, who knows.
