Things happen, even IRL

[extrapenguin]

Now that my sibling has finally stopped dragging their heels and bought a Worldcon membership, I can reserve a hotel room for us! I went for the nearest-by option in the price range. This is A Success in my adulting life. Now, the plane tickets...

fandom_stocking now has a list of needy stockings available! Full disclosure: I am on it.

For those of you who are exchange mods, morbane was in correspondince with AO3 over the Reveals Bug – and discovered that there moderation queue functionality is apparently a bug. Post with explanation. I'm drafting together an e-mail to AO3 over this, asking them to please not "fix" this "bug".

In the realm of actual post-posts to make, I have an idea for a post that is half condemnation of Hogwarts House sorting and half rage at the "archetype and 1-2 quirks" school of characterization, a half-post idea that's basically just me quoting stuff someone else wrote on Tumblr + adding a few other translations of the relevant passage, and of course the "OCs must serve either as foils or worldbuilding" post, but: tired. I have to pack and do a ton of bureaucracy and ugh.

space_swap fandom pimping post will go up over the weekend.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I'm hoping my now-living-in-the-UK friend will have a chance to go and keep me posted on the real-time by liveblogging. But looking forward to your weekend-after post :)

My main condemnation will be that it simplifies things overmuch, and all the characters I like are complex!

It definitely does that! Are you familiar with the Sorting Hat Chats system, which relies on the Hogwarts houses, but also adds another dimension (or several) to it? I've found it to be a really neat framework to think about the more complex characters where the simple one-dimensional Hogwarts House system fails or comes down to picking one house out of a hat.

But, anyway, yeah, I'll wait for your actual post!

[extrapenguin]

I've heard of the Sorting Hat Chats system, but especially with characters "set" far away from the British boarding school genre Rowling conceived the books in, it's a bit like asking whether the characters are square or triangular, when in fact they are all circles and the defining trait is color, y'know? I'm also not that into categorizing characters into arbitrary boxes I guess.

[hamsterwoman]

I mean, sufficiently abstracted, the Hogwarts Houses become completely divorced from the British boarding school house system and just a set (or, in the Sorting Hat Chats system, a matrix) of traits by which to sort characters into arbitrary boxes, not that different from Myers-Briggs. But if sorting characters into arbitrary boxes is not an exercise one enjoys, then that doesn't really help :P