Come, let the darkness die

[fullupwithfire]

So. The overall month has continued to be not-great, but it's not... unmanageably terrible, either. I'm still twitchy over work stuff when I think about it, but the next evaluation comes in the next 2-3 days, and I can't do anything til I know where I stand then.

Anyway, distractions have been plentiful the last couple of days, and I haven't necessarily looked for them but I'm not... exactly complaining, either. First, a game I've been waiting for got released -- Telling Lies, by the same guy who did Her Story, which is a quiet obsession of mine -- and while I can't get it until there's some kind of sale, I am quietly reading reviews and being excited. Then I got super wrapped up in a mind-bending movie we rewatched the other day (Coherence, if anyone feels like gleeing and searching for information with me).

Then the people who do Sorting Hat Chats finally came out with a quiz for their system and that has eaten my last... 24 hours or so. I did it two or three times, and then the lovely and patient Bast not only did it as well, but let me ramble about sorting a bunch of our original characters at them this morning.

It's been fun and as much as I keep trying to do other things I keep getting pulled back into thinking about it so... that's where I am now, yep. This is not quite a meme/discussion/whatever thing but if you want to discuss SHC sortings -- whether yours and/or mine, or character sortings -- or hear me ramble about any character/fandom, feel free to ask, because I think I may be on this for a while.

♥ to all.

Comments

[fullupwithfire]

This is very true, but a lot of quizzes seem to forget it! (I actually have a friend who consistently cheats on sorting quizzes. She says that cheating to make sure she gets Slytherin is actually the best proof that she is a Slytherin. XD)

I absolutely understand that. I was looking through the responses and it honestly seems like a lot of people are feeling kinda burned these days, and it wasn't really all that much of a surprise to find out.

See, I never entirely got that instinct, but I've definitely seen it in action with others. For SHC in particular I think it's pulled so far from the canon that I'm not even sure it matters what is in the books -- it honestly feels more Harry Potter inspired than anything at this point, and really, I'm okay with that. XD

[silveradept]

It's possible, yes, that's a Slytherin trait. But it can be one for all the others, too. But if someone identifies as Slytherin, they are.

There are a lot of people getting burned, because they're throwing both their primaries and secondaries at something that doesn't care about them and won't do anything unless they can amass great wealth or a juggernaut of people and force them to change their mind. The idea that ordinary people can make change is more and more a lie with each passing day, and I think that's causing a lot of people to burn on their Primaries and Secondaries.

I'm okay with SHC being inspired at this point. It's become, at least for me, what the Sorting system would start looking like if the author had given a lot of thought into how it works work, rather than just applying some convenient tropes to a boarding school narrative.