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 42: Comedy, the Universe, and Everything
Episode 41: The Democratic Republic of Serpents
Episode 40: Extravaganza
Episode 39: The Serpents' School of Witchcraft and Wizzzardry
Episode 38: A Hugo Award Special -- The Novels of 2018
Episode 37: Emotions Are Hard, Let's Do Murder!
Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home
Episode 35: Well, Canaveral, I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore
Episode 34: Misethere
Episode 33: Turn In Your Badge and Gun!
Episode 32: Save the McGuffin, Save the World
Episode 31: A Podcast of Three Cities
Episode 30: Extravaganza
Episode 29: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Bi
Episode 28: Genderpalooza
Episode 27: I'm Not a Lady, I'm a Witch!
Episode 26: Alien Fucking, or Where There's a Will, There's A Way
Episode 25: Kill Your Darlings
Episode 24: The Room Where It Happens
Episode 23: Drastically Redefining Protocol
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