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 ChatsAstrologySocial identity theoryAnne McCaffreyDivergent (Veronica Roth)Liminal spaceHowl'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 criticismNavah Wolfe

What we're reading lately:

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)The Ringed Castle (Dorothy Dunnett)Raven Strategem (Yoon Ha Lee)

Transcript:

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!