On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about Hogwarts houses (especially in regards to the Sorting Hat Chats system), the daemons of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and how personality classification systems can be a fun and useful writing tool.
Things we mentioned:Sorting Hat Chats
Astrology
Social identity theory
Anne McCaffrey
Divergent (Veronica Roth)
Liminal space
Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
“He Says He Is an Experimental Theologian” by ErinPtah (Welcome to Night Vale-with-daemons AU)
"What a Beast Is Mankind" by Lady_ragnell (Leverage-with-daemons AU)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Navah Wolfe
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)
The Ringed Castle (Dorothy Dunnett)
Raven Strategem (Yoon Ha Lee)
Please find the full transcript of this episode here!
Thanks to Sara, Neharika, and Magali for doing the transcription this week, and thanks to Andrew Turnwall for helping transcribe the previous episode!
Episode 61: A Time and a Place
Episode 60: Extravaganza
Episode 59: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
Episode 58: College Experience 101
Episode 57: We All Fall Down
Episode 56: The Title of the Episode
Episode 55: There's a Form for That
Episode 54: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Episode 53: The Untamed (featuring guest star Ruoxi Chen!)
Bonus Episode: Strange Horizons Special!!
Episode 52: Let Us Tell You Our Thoughts on Yaoi...
Episode 51: How to Romance Your Dragon
Episode 50: Extravaganza (Agony Aunt Special)
Episode 49: And I Shall Sit Here Consumed With Lust for the Rest of the Evening
Episode 48: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (And Stab Things)
Episode 47: Clothes Maketh Man
Episode 46: Welcome to Goth Camp
Episode 45: Not Your Usual Family Reunion
Episode 44: Sympathy for the Devil (Live From WorldCon)
Episode 43: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
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