#i got burned hufflepuff primary

[hp-hcs]

on a slytherin high rn so I'd be interested to see your take on yandere enzo berkshire? (on his own or poly with mattheo or theodore because there's no such thing as too much of the theo's) or just any sort of enzo x male reader.

~yanxidarlings; why you should make your writing blog a primary blog (case study)

poly bc i love my theo boyos ☺️

i tried real hard on this one i swear, just none of my words are wording right 😭

really? nobody has a single request? 🤨🤲

detention — yandere! poly! lorenzo berkshire & yandere! poly! mattheo riddle & yandere! poly! theodore nott x male! hufflepuff! reader

TWs: possessive/obsessive/toxic behavior, referenced homophobia, implied past repeated homophobia, homophobic slur, implied past bullying, references to past violence, graphic threats of violence, sexual innuendos, implied sexual activities

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“…really, I don’t know what you were thinking. Here, this is the detenti- Mr. Riddle! Mr. Nott! Get off of those desks!” McGonagall scolded, snapping her fingers and casting a wandless spell that made them both fall off of their desks and safely into their chairs.

You hover awkwardly at the doorway of the classroom-turned-detention-room, feeling the sudden piercing eyes of three Slytherins on you.

McGonagall huffs in disappointment, pats your shoulder, and leaves without a word. The boys all share a look you can’t quite decipher.

“Well, well, well. What’ve we got here?” One of them drawls, putting his feet up on his desk and crossing them at the ankle. “A pretty-boy Hufflepuff got in trouble?”

You rock back and forth on your feet, biting your lip nervously.

“Aww, he’s nervous,” another Slytherin cooed patronizingly. “What’s wrong, little badger? Afraid of a few snakes?”

The first boy stands up, sauntering over to you with an obnoxious smirk. He holds his hand out for you to shake.

“Mattheo Riddle, darling.”

You slowly take his hand and shake it, your grip loose.

“Nice to meet you,” you say softly. “I’m Y/N.”

“Y/N,” the second boy purrs, joining the first, Mattheo. “Lovely name for a lovely boy. I’m Theodore, sweetheart.”

You swallow thickly, the two taller boys standing over you.

“Leave ‘im alone, guys,” the last boy speaks up. “I’m calling dibs.”

“W-what?” You squeak, your eyes darting between the three as they all share another wordless look.

“Come along, little badger,” Theodore grins widely, predatorily, slinging an arm over your shoulders. “We don’t bite.”

“Unless you ask us to,” Mattheo adds on, joining your other side and wrapping an arm around your waist.

Your cheeks burn with the innuendo and all of the attention. “Er…no, I’m alright. Thank you.”

“If you ever change your mind…” Mattheo shrugs, leaving the offer unspoken.

The third boy finally stands up, swatting away Mattheo and Theodore. They both, surprisingly, acknowledge him and step away from you.

“Ignore these idiots,” he says fondly. “They think only with their dicks and never their brains.”

The Theos™ immediately break out into loud protests at the accusation. The third Slytherin rolls his eyes.

“I’m Lorenzo, but most people call me Enzo.”

“What do you call yourself?” You ask, voice still soft and almost getting lost in the clamor of the two other boys.

“What?”

“You told me what people call you…but what do you call yourself?”

He blinks.

“Uh, Lorenzo, I guess.”

You nod. “Lovely to meet you, Lorenzo.”

“I have a feeling that it’s lovelier meeting you, Y/N.”

~~~ “So why did you get detention?” Theodore asks, looking up at you from where he lays on the floor of the library, the spot you four had chosen to further converse at after your sentence was served. “You don’t seem like the type to really do…anything wrong.”

You wince, closing your book and relaxing further into the comfortable couch. “I uh, tried to ask this guy to Hogsmeade this weekend-” The boys all sit up at this, a dark look passing over each of their faces. “-but he uh…did not reciprocate,” you laugh humorlessly, running your fingers along your orbital bone.

They can barely see it—it’s still too early—but a definite bruise is starting to form. It’s going to turn into a hell of a black eye by tomorrow.

“He hit you?” Theodore asks, his voice low.

You shrug. “Comes with the territory of being the uh, ‘Puff Poof’, as they call me.”

“Creative. Put a lot of work into that one.”

“Tell me about it,” you grumble.

“Wait, how did you get in trouble then? If you were the one who got beat up in the first place?” Mattheo asks, his face scrunched up in confusion.

“Oh, I called Dumbledore a uh…‘batshit crazy abuser with a sanctimonious attitude and a god complex’. As it turns out, he did not like that.”

They all stare at you for a moment before bursting into laughter.

“Holy shit.”

“Talk about misjudging someone, damn.”

Your laughter eventually dies off and the conversation comes back around.

“So, Y/N, uh, what was this guy’s name?” Lorenzo asks sweetly, innocently. “Just..curious, is all.”

You huff, rolling your eyes. “Cormac McLaggen.”

They all collectively grimace.

“I know, okay? No need to rub it in.”

“You have terrible taste,” Mattheo scowls. “Asking out fucking McLaggen when we’re right here.”

“Yeah, don’t need to worry about him anymore, sweetheart,” Theodore says, sitting up from his spot on the floor and moving over to settle between your thighs and rest his chin on your knee. “We’re enough, aren’t we?”

Your cheeks burn at their words.

~~~ “What’re you all doing, bringing a Puff in here?” A fourth year jeers as the boys lead you through the Slytherin common room to the dorm they all share.

Theodore stares at the kid with his dead eyes; unnerving to everyone in the common room.

“If you even so much as look at him again, I’ll carve your eyes out in your sleep.”

The threat comes not from Theodore, but Lorenzo.

You gape, bewildered, as Lorenzo leads you down the hall, humming to himself like nothing happened.

“Same goes for you, you know,” Mattheo leans down to murmur in your ear. “Don’t even think about looking at another boy, got that, lovely?”

You reach their dorm and are roughly pulled inside, the door being slammed shut behind you all. Theodore pushes you up against the wall, pinning you in place.

“Ours, understand?”

[the-phoenix-heart]

Sorting Hat Chats - The Malfoys

Since the Malfoys have been a bit of a hot topic lately, I decided to give them their sorting post similar to what I did with the Weasleys...3 years ago??? Where does the time go??

Anyway, this is an explanation of the system I am using by @wisteria-lodge.

LUCIUS MALFOY is blatantly a Badger secondary. His methods are to make donations to people, goad Arthur Weasley into a fight so he can slip Ginny the diary, he uses blackmail against the other members of the Board of Governors, calling in favors, and when in the hall of prophecies with Harry and his gang his strategy is to talk him into giving the prophecy over. It's what makes him so effective in the first five books, but is also why once everyone knows the truth about him he is in a constant state of free fall.

As for his primary, I think it's fairly obvious that he's a Snake. He can look like a Badger, dehumanizing muggleborns and joining the Death Eaters, but that's a performance. When the chips are down, what Lucius really cares about himself, his wife, and his son. Snake Lucius is willing to get rid of every association to the Death Eaters he had, and in the Second Wizarding War is not enjoying himself at ALL. He's also clearly got that Snake hedonism to him.

NARCISSA MALFOY née BLACK is an equally blatant Snake primary, although she doesn't appear to even play the part of a Badger. Everything to her is her son and her husband (and her husband takes a backseat to her son usually). Narcissa doesn't even appear to like Bellatrix all that much anymore since Bella is a threat to her family. Down to the end her motivation is always to keep Draco safe, damn the consequences.

As for her secondary, since she's such a minor character you can probably make an argument for any of them. But I personally think she's a Snake secondary, making her a Double Snake. This is a woman who lies to Voldemort's face and doesn't get caught. Who is willing to go behind his back and make back-alley deals with someone like Snape.

I've sorted DRACO MALFOY once before with @awinterrain which you can read right here, but I would like to reiterate it and expand on it.

Draco may be the epitome of Slytherin in the books, and he may hate Hufflepuffs and think of them as "duffers," but this boy is Double Badger down to his bones. This is a boy who cares deeply about communities. He defines himself by them, first as a Malfoy, then as a Slytherin, then as a Seeker on the quidditch team, then as part of the Inquisitorial Squad, then as a death eater (which he doesn't care for). I think at the beginning of the series he's a good case for an Immature Badger primary, where he just IS the group he's into and nothing outside of this.

His Badger primary can look very insular and Snake-like, partially because pureblood culture alienates everyone outside of it, and partially because his family is so Snakey that it colors the look of his Badger primary. Idk if I would even call it a performance or a model, it's more like a flavor.

But he does start to look like a Snake primary in his Sixth Year, where he's single-mindedly focused on saving his family. That's because in Sixth Year he burns after joining the Death Eaters. And it's honestly really sad, but it's because Draco has realized his communities are toxic and not good for him. The Death Eaters aren't good, they're the reason his father is in prison and his mother is in danger. This is the year where he really stops engaging with his peers and is sort of just coasting on his former reputation.

But that Badger shine is still there, and it's in the fact that Draco Malfoy has to kill Dumbledore and cannot do it. A true Snake Draco Malfoy would probably have gone through with it, even if it he felt bad about it. Badger Draco, who spent books 1-5 shit talking Dumbledore at any opportunity, cannot do it. I think it's because 1. He isn't ready for casual murder, and 2. I think Dumbledore for Draco represents one more community that he identifies with-Hogwarts. And clearly he does care about Hogwarts (I don't think the Room of Requirement would reveal itself to him if he did).

As for his secondary, Draco is his father in miniature. Draco is a tattle tail, he has bodyguards that follow him around, he usually goads Harry into confrontations so Harry gets into trouble and Draco can have plausible deniability. What's most interesting to me though is Draco's proclivity for elaborate smear campaigns. The "Potter Stinks" badges are HIS work as is the "Weasley is Our King" song, which is very...mean badgery. Like this is his community building with Slytherin (arguably all of Hogwarts with the badges), and using his powers to bully Harry. It's funny, despite everything. He does perform Snake though, to make everything look quicker or look like his mother.

Even his methods when he has to kill Dumbledore are Badger powered. Working on the Vanishing Cabinet all year, poisoning Professor Slughorn's mead he intended to give Dumbledore, and charming Rosmerta to imperious Katie Bell. But, he still has that influence from his mom where he can lie to someone's face (though not as convincingly).

I think Draco looks at his father's Badger performance, and thus thinks they house match. And it explains why he is so wary of his father after the Death Eater reveal, since Draco has realized he does not enjoy that sort of Badger primary.

As a bonus I decided to sort BELLATRIX LESTRANGE née BLACK as well. Since for some reason the movies always advertised her as part of the Malfoys. No doubt about it she is a Lion secondary. I don't think Bellatrix has every learned the meaning of the word subtle. She never lies in the series, just blasts the truth out whenever, and is always an attack first think never character.

As for her primary, can she be anything other than exploded snake primary? Her everything is Voldemort. She doesn't really care for anyone outside of him, with the exception of Narcissa, who stopped liking Bellatrix when she became a danger to her son. I think at one point she had a Badger performance or model that allowed her to willingly marry someone like Rodolphus who she doesn't appear to like, but by the time she's going to Azkaban she doesn't care. It's honestly such a Black Family sorting. Sirius was a Snake Lion as well, and the culture of the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" seems to just be Snake coded in general.

So...

Lucius Malfoy - Snake primary, Badger performance/Badger secondary

Narcissa Malfoy nee Black - Snake primary/Snake secondary

Draco Malfoy - Badger primary, Immature at the start, burns in his Sixth Year, has a Snake performance or flavor/Badger secondary, Snake performance

Bonus:

Bellatrix Lestrange nee Black - Exploded Snake primary, Badger performance/model long discarded/Lion secondary

Sirius Black - Snake primary/Lion secondary

[skylerscull1]

I posted 4,383 times in 2022

That's 4,334 more posts than 2021!

263 posts created (6%)

4,120 posts reblogged (94%)

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Lanyon, slams Hyde against the wall: "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HENRY? DID YOU BLACKMAIL HIM YOU SCOUNDREL?!"

Hyde, suddenly blushing: "You are so hot right now- NO WAIT I DON'T EVEN LIKE LANYON, I HATE HIM WTF??????"

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#4

My Sortinghatchats Houses: My Results

I did the Sortinghatchats quiz over on itch.io, https://ejadelomax.itch.io/sortinghatchats Your Primary House defines WHY you do things: your reasons, motivations, and drive. Your Secondary defines HOW: your methods, actions, and behaviors.

And these are my results: I’m a Slytherin Primary (Or possible Burned Hufflepuff Primary).

I care about those close to me, and I’d do almost anything for the people I consider my friends and family. I’m ambitious and I follow my own rules. I actually have a list of directions of how to react, act in and deal with certain situations. My empathy is actually rather low, so I learned my own brand of ‘empathy’ to make up for that, so I can be there for the people I care about. I can be selfish at times, or seem that way. My own desires are what drive me, a good portion of my desires though are for the people I care deeply about to be happy. I try to stick with the ones I care the most about. 

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#3

Slay The Princess, colored-in

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#2

Sanders Sides “Florida Man” p1

Janus / Deceit Sanders

Remus Sanders

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My #1 post of 2022

Results of the Failed Tumblr Crash Flopocalypse of 2022, April 1st

1. The Queue got significantly delayed and messed up, some peoples queued up posts didn’t even post and they had to post it manually. I experienced this personally. 

2. We caused a spike of Tumblr outages around the time the Flopocalypse took place as seen below: 

https://friendofthecrows.tumblr.com/post/680352856907317248/well-we-tried-and-caused-a-spike-idk-mine-was <--- Thank you @friendofthecrows for your find.

3. A bunch of people on Tumblr came together to organize this as a community, and while we didn’t crash tumblr, the tumblr outages and delayed queue speak for itself.

4. Those who didn’t already know how to use the queue system finally got the chance and opportunity to learn.

5. Apparently now we can access the blogs of people who have blocked us, which we couldn’t before, and send asks. This may or may not have something to do with our attempt to crash Tumblr on April Fools Day. Thank you @pupperish for your find. Check out the link to their posts below: https://pupperish.tumblr.com/post/680440429294075904 https://pupperish.tumblr.com/post/680441329142169600/so-uh-time-to-put-the-hell-in-hellsite-i

6. https://staff.tumblr.com/post/680353868570378240/brickwhartley-please-see-above Tumblr is having issues with malfunctioning widgets, this may be due to the crabs, this may be due to our efforts in the Crash Flopocalypse, or a mixture of both.

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[hoodienanami]

this sorting hat quiz just read me like a goddamn book and idk how to feel about that

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

seriously i just.  I’m just laughing over that 'whatever you’re into at the age of 12 will SHAPE YOU FOREVER so don’t PICK WRONG’ post.  What a depressing worldview that you have to STOP liking things that meant a lot to you as a kid just because you... became an adult?

and yes, of COURSE what you were into when you were 12, 13, 14 are going to be impactful to who you are as a person?  Those are the things that were IMPORTANT to you, that you held deep in your heart, that helped you get through the really shitty days of early-mid puberty.  The shifts into middle school, the changing social dynamics of your peers.

like, the idea that you can be into the WRONG THING and that will make you CRINGEY FOREVER is just so childish and ridiculous and completely unrelated to reality in any way.  When I was 12 it was 1998, I was mostly into Animorphs, Jane Eyre, Sherlock Holmes (the original ACD stories only), Narnia, and Anne of Green Gables.  Animorphs probably was the closest to “fandom” that I had because I had a single friend who introduced me to them who I would talk to about it constantly.  When I was 13 and 14 it was Sailor Moon and Lord of the Rings  15 added literally every other Tolkien middle earth book don’t talk to me.

I think it’s more accurate to say your first PROPER FANDOM says a lot about you as a person, because a lot of people in their 20s/EARLY 30s were getting into fandoms at 12/13/14 as they got access to the internet, and early fandoms tend to somewhat shape your ongoing fandom desires/how you approach fandom/etc.  I started in Sailor Moon fandom and frankly I’m glad bc it meant my first fandom was the ASMR forums which were full of encouraging, upbeat, and friendly people who very rarely criticized each others’ fics and if they didn’t like it, they just didn’t interact with it or the author, and were VERY encouraging of baby writers like me and my frankly awful fics that had interesting ideas and awful execution.  

I’m glad it WASN’T Lord of the Rings circa the movies beginning to come out because that was also during the beginning of the HP movies and between the two there was... so much drama.  so much hate for self-inserts and mary sues and the whole Protectors of the Plot Continuum and fanfic MST3King were things and it was just mean and unnecessary and while I definitely got involved with those things, it was easy for me to, a couple years later when I was out of the height of my time there, I realized that I didn’t WANT to be that negative and mean, and went back to being encouraging and doing my best to avoid interacting with authors and fics that I didn’t like.  Because I’d already BEEN in a fandom like that.  around 16/17 i ended up on LJ and frankly I think that was a good thing for me, because for all its faults there was by and large LESS meanness and more “just ignore it if you don’t like it”.  Not none obviously, but less than the smallish insular websites and forums I’d been on in LotR fandom prior.

...anyway all that said I’m a fuckin Hufflepuff, kiss my ass.

[stellarspecter]

took the sortinghatchats quiz again and it turns out I'm just a burned hufflepuff all the way through! hate that pottermore got something right lol

[toadmancer]

@kibbledorf

not my fault pottermore’s a bitch idiot coward this one is my new best friend

[viridianllamasinthesilentspace]

DCU Ladies’ Sorting

First a disclaimer: DC canon is vast, contradictory, and subject to disruptive retcons. To cope, I ignore huge swaths of canon. A fan’s got to keep her sanity somehow! If you draw on different canon and sort these characters into other Houses, that’s great! There is room in this mythology for every Barbara Gordon we can possibly imagine.

These Sortings contain vague spoilers for “No Man’s Land” and “The Killing Joke”.

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Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy) has one of the healthiest, most robust Hufflepuff Primaries in the DCU. Like most Hufflepuff Primaries, her moral system revolves around the essential personhood and intrinsic worth of every member of her community. Like the most ambitious of unburnt ’Puffs, Ivy’s community encompasses the entire earth. The problem? Plants. Ivy’s community is composed primarily of plants. All plants everywhere; a few orphans in Robinson Park; and Harley Quinn. (Ivy’s devotion to Harley Quinn may look like the warm, exclusive regard of a Slytherin Primary, but it’s not. Ivy values plants she has never met nearly as much as she values Harley. Ivy’s love for Harley looks unique because Harley is the sole adult human within Ivy’s community. Compared with Ivy’s regard for the rest of her community, the care she takes with Harley is not unusual.) Ivy loves plants universally. She fights for all plants, and she willingly gives herself up to protect the plants around her.

To the defense of her plant-based community, Ivy brings the concrete planning of her Ravenclaw Secondary. She runs careful tests, mixes elaborate poisons, and grows specific plants with time and attention. When she wants to take down a logging executive, she doesn’t punch him in the face with a giant fist. She researches him; she figures out what country clubs he haunts and what parties he attends; then shows up looking irresistible with poison on her lips. Planning and preparation work for her! When forced to improvise, Poison Ivy tends to throw all her plant-monsters into direct combat and scream as they burn—much less effective. Pamela Isley was a scientist, and Poison Ivy retains the deliberate effectiveness of her Ravenclaw Secondary.

Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn’s) Secondary is a brash, direct, and destructive Gryffindor. Her favorite weapons include a giant hammer, a giant rocket launcher, and a giant mechanical fist. There’s no kill like overkill! The leadership power of Harley’s Gryffindor Secondary appears in her relationship with the Joker’s pet hyenas. Will they sit patiently while a tasty human waves food in front of them? Will they walk politely on a leash? They will when Harley tells them to. Even Doctor Fate shuts up and hops to it when Harley uses her command voice.

As a young woman, Dr. Harleen Quinzel’s greatest drive was to understand people. She found abnormal minds exciting and challenging. She believed that, given enough time, she could understand anybody. The Joker took advantage of her eagerness and staged a seduction. He offered her enough intimacy to feel privileged and enough detail to understand his moral system. What great insight for her system! What a great source for her book! Harley fell in love with him. She adopted his moral system wholesale and remade herself into Harley Quinn, his masked lieutenant. Harley’s non-judgmental interest in deviant moral systems and her tragically irresistible desire to find some consistent system in the Joker’s moral chaos reveal Harley’s Ravenclaw Primary.

Barbara Gordon (Batgirl, Oracle) initially models her moral system on Batman—that’s one reason she creates Batgirl—but she experiments with it. Batgirl initially exists both as homage to Batman and in defiance of him. She starts out with Batman’s rules. When those rules stop working for her, she changes them fluidly, naturally, and without guilt. Often, she’s relieved! Babs adds her own procedures and draws her own systematic moral lines.

After “The Killing Joke”, Babs rebuilds herself in very Ravenclaw Primary ways. She analyzes her remaining strengths, considers them against her values and the needs of the superhero community, and then spends many slow months of recovery shaping herself into Oracle. Oracle has a massive reach and a massive impact on the superhero community. She’s a triumph of slow, deliberate self-creation.

Babs offsets her constructed Ravenclaw Primary with a flexible, cunning Slytherin Secondary. As Batgirl, she really enjoys improvising in the field. It usually works for her. Her playfulness, her cheerful vicious streak, and her delight in reacting to chaos come from her Slytherin Secondary.

On top of her reactive Slytherin Secondary, Babs has layered a Ravenclaw Secondary model. Much of the intelligence she gives out as Oracle (her back-up plans, her scrupulously accurate maps, her blueprints of secret vaults) comes through her Ravenclaw Secondary model. She’s good at it. When backed against a wall, however, she drops the Ravenclaw model and improvises.

TL;DR

Poison Ivy - Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw Harley Quinn - Ravenclaw/Gryffindor Barbara Gordon - Ravenclaw/Slytherin/Ravenclaw

[pennylaneforthoughts]

Lokius Hogwarts AU

All right my dudes, hot take time:

I’ve seen a lot of Hogwarts AU headcanons floating around, and having thought waaaaaay too much about it, I’m here to add my two cents.

( @sortinghatchats has my favorite sorting system I’ve seen to date, since it goes so much in depth into themes throughout the HP series that good ol’ JK barely touches on in her pretty surface level commentary on the subject, so that’s the system I’m gonna use. Go to their blog to learn more about the way the system works bc I’m too lazy to go more in depth than I already have.)

This is gonna be Hella Long tho so I’m putting it under a cut.

Loki: Petrified Slytherin Primary/Slytherin Secondary - sorting: Slytherin House

Perhaps it may seem trite, but Loki really is a Slytherin Primary at heart. Yes he is ambitious and all that stereotypical stuff, but that’s not really what makes a Slytherin a Slytherin. Anyone can be ambitious. No, he’s a Slytherin because he unapologetically prioritizes himself and the people he cares about above all else. 

“Slytherin Primaries are fiercely loyal to the people they care for most. Slytherin is the place where “you’ll make your real friends”– they prioritize individual loyalties and find their moral core in protecting and caring for the people they are closest to. Slytherin’s reputation for ambition comes from the visibility of this promotion of the self and their important people– ambition is something you can find in all four Houses; Slytherin’s is just the one that looks most obviously selfish.”

However, Loki’s trauma has pushed him to something this system calls Petrifying.

“Whether through death, betrayal, abandonment (from either side), or through never having had any to begin with, the Petrified Slytherin has decided that having important people is too dangerous. Having those strong ties leaves you open to pain and weakness, and the pleasure of those connections aren’t worth the despair that comes from their seemingly inevitable loss. In this way, they close themselves off to meaningful connections out of what is ultimately fear (though from the inside, it’s far more likely to be experienced as a rational, sensible decision given the circumstances of the world), and gives them a stony exterior that seems impenetrable, resolute, and cold.” 

Loki wants love and acceptance so badly, but he is convinced that the kind of attachments and relationships that that comes from are far too dangerous and the risk isn’t worth the reward. He pushes people away, hides behind a mask of self-aggrandizement, and betrays others before they can betray him in an attempt to protect himself from potential pain.

In the series, however, we see him slowly unpetrify and move towards a more healthy style of attachment because of Mobius and Sylvie’s influence on him. Whereas his circle of priorities used to include only himself (and arguably Frigga and later, Thor, in the movie timeline), he proverbially “thaws” enough to let Mobius and Sylvie in, and tragically, because of that, the loss of them hurts him so deeply because by the end of season 1, they’re all he had.

His Slytherin Secondary, however, is obvious in his methodology. He’s the god of chaos. He loves improvisation, and plans only exist as long as another better idea doesn’t come along and usurp it. He’ll change and adapt (quite literally) to best fit the situation in front of him, and he takes joy in that. But beneath all the running and his many personas, he has his “neutral state” that he lets only a precious few see. Mobius gets to see it, and so does Sylvie, and as he progresses through the series, he starts to be more comfortable existing in that state where he’s no longer hiding behind everything he feels like the world expects him to be and he can just be himself. 

Mobius: Slytherin Primary (Hufflepuff Model)/Hufflepuff Secondary - sorting: Slytherin House

People like to put Mobius in Hufflepuff, but honestly? I don’t think that’s where he’d be most comfortable. Yes, he is kind and caring to basically everyone, and we see this over and over again in the series. The man radiates comfort. However, like it says in Inky and Kat’s description of the Slytherin Primary, 

“Wanting to help someone doesn’t mean you’re loyal to them. Wanting to help them at the expense of your comforts, your values, your commitments and sometimes even yourself–that does.”

Mobius is kind to a fault. But he is not kind at the expense of himself. Not to everyone at least. He is kind to the child in France, but he is not kind to the point of saving him from the resetting of the timeline, and he doesn’t feel guilty about that. He believes in a duty of care, but he does not believe he has any obligation to go beyond what he thinks that duty of care is. He unapologetically plays favorites, and this is mentioned on multiple occasions. Above all else, Mobius values loyalty as a virtue. Sure, he cares about the TVA and its accompanying morality, and he genuinely does believe it’s his duty to care about and be kind to others. He seems to vibe quite well with the Hufflepuff ideal of caring about people simply because they are people, but this is all secondary to his personal loyalties when push comes to shove. For Mobius,

“dropping that model in order to stand by someone you love, or in order to protect yourself, doesn’t feel like a failing. Sticking to that modelled morality at the expense of betraying or abandoning one of their own would make a Slytherin feel guilty and wrong. Being able to put the things and concepts you like aside for the sake of the people who need you feels more righteous than any moral posturing.”

It’s for this very reason that Mobius gets so angry and feels so betrayed when he thinks Loki has abandoned him for Sylvie, and when Ravonna lies to him and prunes him.

“Betraying your own is the worst kind of crime. Loyalty is precious and terrible; it makes you vulnerable. It’s given sparingly, deeply, and a Slytherin will stand by their loyalties through the same death and fire that a Gryffindor would brave for the sake of doing the right thing, or a Hufflepuff to help someone in need.”

Loki is Mobius’ own. Mobius prioritizes Loki over almost everything else, sticks his neck out for him over and over again, and is willing to sacrifice his own happiness for him. He’s even willing to abandon the whole of his former ideology and prior friendships for this relationship that has become closer to him than his own self, the highest tier of trust and loyalty a Slytherin can give.

“It’s an extreme Slytherin who would let the whole world burn for the sake of a friend, but every Slytherin Primary would be at the very least tempted.”

And Mobius very nearly does exactly that. Even says the words, “burn it to the ground” when Loki asks him what he’s going to do. And he doesn’t feel bad about it. Especially after realizing what the TVA has done to him and the people he cares about. He kicks the TVA out of his circle of care, and doesn’t look back. And he does it for Loki.

Mobius’ Secondary is where people get his Hufflepuff vibes from, I think. A Hufflepuff secondary is marked by “their consistency and the integrity of their method. They’re our hard workers. They build habits and systems for themselves and accomplish things by keeping at them. They have a steadiness that can make them the lynchpin (though not usually the leader) of a community.” And that is what Mobius is. It’s why he radiates that kindness and comfort. He quietly and carefully works at and invests in the relationships in his life to the point that people almost automatically trust him, and over time he has learned how to read people and figure out what makes them tick. 

He approaches new situations with a steady head and gentle hand that Loki is unused to, and it’s this approach that eases Loki into learning how to trust and rely on people. It’s an inherently Hufflepuff approach, and it’s the key to his success as an analyst for the TVA and an understanding friend for Lokis across the timelines.

Tl;dr - Application to an actual Hogwarts AU fic:

THEREFORE! There’s a compelling narrative to be had with a tiny, first-year Loki coming into Hogwarts. He comes from a pureblood family that’s very proud of their Gryffindor heritage (they don’t talk about Hela, and Loki and Thor don’t even know she exists until later in this story), and his brother had been sorted into Gryffindor a couple years prior, and Loki has heard very little other than contempt for Slytherin House and everyone in it. Loki doesn’t want to be sorted into Slytherin. He doesn’t want to deal with the disappointment and shame from his father and the sad eyes of his brother. But the sorting hat sorts him there almost immediately, and his heart sinks. He wanders over to the table miserably but determined. If he’s gonna be sorted into the “evil” house, might as well just run with it, right? Best not to get close to people though. It’s Slytherin. Who knows when someone will betray you.

Enter Mobius, the tiny muggleborn, bright eyed, bushy tailed, and having no clue about the prejudices between houses. The hat takes a hot minute sorting him, giving him the choice between Hufflepuff and Slytherin and telling him Hufflepuff would love a kindhearted and welcoming member like him. But Mobius has been eyeing the little black-haired kid who got sorted before him and is now sitting far apart from everyone, and he can’t help but feel like he needs to be this kid’s friend. And didn’t the hat just say Slytherin is where you’ll make your real friends? Friends are what Mobius cares about, so he’d like to go to Slytherin, thank you very much, so that’s where he goes, and he happily plunks himself down right next to Loki and sticks his hand out.

“I’m Mobius. What’s your name?”

 Loki looks at Mobius’ hand disdainfully and doesn’t shake it, but he does answer, “Loki.”

Mobius’ eyes go wide, and he smiles. “Loki? Like after the Norse god?”

Loki nods, eyeing Mobius suspiciously. People don’t often bat an eye at his name. Not in the wizarding world, anyway.

“Wow, that’s so cool! I loved reading about Norse mythology in school and Loki was always my favorite. Names have power, you know. If you’ve got the same name, then you must be just as awesome.”

Loki has no idea what to do with this kid, but he’s immediately aware of two things:

He’s absolutely sure that this Mobius kid is in the wrong house. No way a Slytherin can be this excited without a single hint of deception in his face.

He’s going to be eaten alive by the other students if Loki doesn’t protect him. What a pain.

Loki is completely wrong on both of these points.

[t0omanyeyes]

This really is absolutely fantastic!

So it seems like we're all into quizzes in these days. Want to take an interactive, branching Hogwarts House quiz that took us months to write and test?

It can take from twenty minutes to like three hours depending on how much you argue with it!

Feel free to loop around and explore different Houses-- it's built to be a walk-through of the @sortinghatchats system as much as a functional quiz. A conversation, rather than an answer.

https://ejadelomax.itch.io/sortinghatchats

[sxnyarostova]

DID SOMEONE SAY ITH BIG BANG? HERE’S MY SUBMISSION FOR WEEK 1: SHIPS!

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Being best friends with the two biggest dorks in the neighborhood, Nina realized, had its perks. Usnavi had been her platonic soulmate since birth, and she’d just clicked with Vanessa on the first day of primary school. Usnavi and Vanessa had a lot in common, actually, even though they seemed like polar opposites; the positive one and the grumpy one.

First, they were both nerds. As much as Vanessa hated to admit it, she loved listening to Nina talk about science and Harry Potter and other nerdy topics. Hell, Nina had even caught Vanessa taking a Hogwarts house quiz on one of the clunky old computers in the computer room a few years back; Vanessa was a Hufflepuff, which didn’t really surprise Nina. Vanessa was one of the kindest people she knew underneath her tough exterior.

Usnavi had actually been the one to get her into science and astronomy, by talking to her when she was younger about how stars were actually burning balls of gas millions of miles away and pointing out all the different constellations in the sky when they were sprawled out on the roof of Usnavi’s apartment building at night. He was also the one responsible for her brief Star Trek phase in fifth grade.

Secondly, they were both shy as fuck. Usnavi would turn tomato red even if he felt the slightest bit flustered, and Vanessa got unnecessarily riled up over the tiniest of things. The two of them were made for each other.

And last but not least, the two idiots were very much in love with each other, which brought her to the situation at hand; she was spying on Usnavi and Vanessa from her dad’s dispatch. There was a clear view of the bodega from the dispatch booth, and Nina could see Usnavi awkwardly flirting while Sonny bagged Vanessa’s purchases. Benny, from where he was directing traffic, pulled down his headphones and grinned. “Look at them,” he said. “So in love, yet so oblivious. I feel like I should step in; speed the process along, you know?”

“Don’t!” Nina exclaimed. “Let true love run its course.”

Benny shook his head, a goofy grin on his face. “Someone’s been reading too many romance novels,” he teased. “Shut up,” Nina said, but she was laughing. “Those two dorks need to get their act together,” Benny sighed, leaning back. Nina turned back to her book (War and Peace), but couldn’t focus for long.

“Man, I’m going to be gone for most of the year when I’m at college!” Nina groaned, slamming her book down. “I’m going to miss their relationship evolving and all the awkward flirting.”

Benny guffawed, earning him a dirty look from Kevin Rosario, who was sat in his office. Benny shot Kevin an apologetic glance; Kevin gave him a gruff nod in return.

“I’ll keep you updated, as long as you call me once a week,” Benny said, holding a hand out. Nina took Benny’s hand and shook it with a giggle. “Thanks, Benny. Tell me about every little thing that happens, you hear me? If you don’t, I’ll tell my dad about what you’ve got underneath your desk.”

Benny had a secret stash of… interesting magazines which Nina had unearthed on accident last year when she was helping her mom spring clean. “Alright, Missus Rosario,” Benny said, saluting Nina with a blush. Nina rolled her eyes. “Just because my dad’s your boss doesn’t mean that you have to call me that,” Nina pointed out.

“Whatever you say, Missus Rosario,” Benny said with a wink, before handing over the dispatch booth to Miguel. Nina chuckled and turned back to look at the bodega; Vanessa had left, and Sonny was laughing, clapping his older cousin on the back.

Her eyes darted over to the salon, where she saw Daniela and Carla hovering over an annoyed-looking Vanessa, who was drinking coffee (which Nina guessed was on the house.) Nina’s eyes darted back inside the dispatch. Her dad was seated in his office, and her mom was yelling at the jammed printer to work. Nina immediately jumped up from where she was seated to help her mom, who was close to smashing the printer with the nearest object available (which was the laminator).

She’d miss this neighborhood when she left for Stanford.

[painted-crow]

How does someone unburn? At first I thought I was a double Hufflepuff but after looking back at how I acted before I was harshly bullied in high school, I've figured out I'm a badly burned double Gryffindor with a Hufflepuff model and a really unhealthy Ravenclaw model that I use to cope with my ADHD. Do I just need to work on my self-confidence somehow?

I'll give some general advice, then try to take a shot at helping your specific situation. I'm not, like, an expert at this though, so I'm relying on my own and my friends' experiences to inform this.

The things I'm about to describe are really difficult and my description of them is going to sound pat and simplistic. Sorry about that. I'm not trying to minimize the struggle that's involved here, it's just that giving general advice for something this deeply personal is always going to sound kind of trite.

1. Get out of toxic situations and relationships, as much as possible.

Of course this is easier said than done, but it's really really important. If you can't leave the situation or relationship entirely, which would be best, try to work on setting healthy boundaries--as much as is safe for your particular situation. Don't put yourself in danger if you're reliant on someone abusive.

Related: try your best to replace these relationships with ones involving people who aren't shitty. Isolation is generally not good, and you want to avoid slipping back into shitty relationships out of loneliness.

I'm not talking specifically about romantic relationships, btw, just the people you surround yourself with in general.

2. Be patient with yourself.

Give yourself space to be wrong and suck at things. That's called recovery, and the less you can beat yourself up about needing to take time and space to recover, the easier it'll be. Trust that the people who love you don't consider you a burden.

3. Talk things out with someone non-judgmental.

Using your primary as it un-burns can feel really weird. You might feel guilty or uncertain. Sometimes, talking to someone else just to check that the decision you feel is right (but are conflicted about) isn't totally off the deep end can be really helpful. Choose the person wisely, though.

4. Do things that make you feel like yourself.

Don't apologize for taking the "easy" or "lazy" or "impractical" way to solve a problem, especially a low-stakes one. In context of an unburning secondary, that's probably your real secondary you're feeling weird about using.

Maybe take up a hobby that lets you play with your unburning secondary in a low-stakes situation. If you use Lion secondary to experiment in the kitchen, the worst thing that can happen is you ruin a little food and feed the neighborhood raccoon--it's not the end of the world and you can do better next time :)

Now, for your specifics...

If you're out of high school--hooray! You're out of the toxic environment. The thing you need to be careful about is making sure you don't subconsciously seek out similar environments in work or college because they feel familiar.

Also try to challenge the assumption that those around you are just the same as the bullies you left behind--it's very easy to still feel defensive after people were shitholes to you for that long. (I got bullied too.)

If you're not out of high school yet, try to set boundaries for yourself about what deserves your emotional and physical energy. If the only things asking for your attention are destructive, find something that isn't. I picked up writing fantasy novels, which I recommend because you're able to craft your own self-indulgent escapism and it's free and you don't even have to show it to anybody.

If you're in university in the US (and probably a bunch of other places, but I don’t know specifics about them) then you almost certainly have access to free therapy/counseling through your university. Take advantage of that. Don't feel bad about dumping your therapist if you can tell the relationship isn't working, either--I've had a couple of laughably bad therapists, but I've also seen some pretty good ones. And no, your experience isn't "too insignificant" or whatever to see a therapist--if you want to or feel like it could help, you should.

Since you bring up unhealthy model(s), I wonder if I should mention the 4F responses as something to be aware of. We can become over-reliant on one of the four (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) after long-term shitty situations. Unhealthy Hufflepuffs and fawn responders have some overlap. Same with unhealthy Ravenclaw secondaries and flight responders. This may or may not apply to you specifically but it's worth investigating.

Here's a very well-written, accessible explanation of the 4F responses, and here's the detail-rich academic version.

Anyway, back to your Houses. The more you can use your unburning Houses in light, low-stakes situations where failure isn't costly, the better. Play with them as much as you can, basically. Try to not get too upset when they fail; you're relearning them and they'll get better. If you think you're shitty at using them, try to be okay with that and be patient. Try not to dismiss them as not valuable or practical; lots of people use the different Houses to great effect.

Uhhhh so this is just a brain dump of different advice, and I have no idea if any of this is helpful. Anyone else want to weigh in?

[noethicalconsumptionunderdisney]

Hogwarts Sorting Profile: Max Russo

So, confession time: Initially, I wasn’t actually planning on writing one of these for him.  I’m sorry!  I love Max, but he’s often in the background of Wizards of Waverly Place and just has these really random plots thrown in his direction, rather than interesting character-exploration-type shit like the main sibs.  (Which, to be fair, is probably why some of y’all might be curious what I’m going to say about him.)

But I was thinking about what makes Max so odd as a character, and specifically I was thinking about him in comparison to other characters of his archetype in the Disney Channel-verse.  Because we’ve seen the messy, funny, underachieving brother character a lot, but they come in very different flavors.  Part of that for Max is that he shares some of those traits with Alex in contrast to the overachieving, overly serious Justin, but part of that is… Max often seems to be in his own little world, incomprehensible to mortals and wizards alike, and generally takes in the “real-world” around him with a shrug.  He still cares about the “real-world” when it suits him, but he’s often kind of divorced from it, and that discovery fascinated me.  Furthermore, it made his Sorting “click.”

We’ll start off easy: what does Max do?  The answer is… he’ll do pretty much anything.  He’s not a Burned Secondary, though, he just doesn’t give a fuck.  Max is every bit the Slytherin Secondary that Alex is, we just don’t usually notice because he spends most of his time in his Neutral State.

The Slytherin Secondary’s Neutral State is blunt, rough, and often unphased by stepping on people’s toes. It’s easy to mistake this for a Gryffindor Secondary’s honesty, but it comes from a different place: comfort, relaxation, and/or apathy.  It doesn’t inspire or motivate so much as sit back and do as it pleases, and the Neutral State’s honesty is there for convenience rather than necessity— if a different tactic will work better, a Slytherin Secondary can ditch their honesty and change direction far more easily than a Gryffindor Secondary.

Max isn’t exactly shy about saying what’s on his mind, even if it’s usually dismissed as nonsense.  He also does seem to charge into situations without a care sometimes, but that’s the thing: he’s able to charge into those situations because he doesn’t care.  When he tests out the zombies’ No-Fear Ring, it doesn’t work on him because he’s already fearless.  So while some Slytherin Secondaries are nervous about showing their honesty to others and only show their Neutral State when they’re home safe with people they’re comfortable with, Max lives in his honest Neutral State because he feels comfortable and safe most of the time… even in situations where he really, really shouldn’t.

Curiously, one situation where he doesn’t feel comfortable or safe has very little to do with actual danger, but about personal identity: when he’s turned into Maxine.  And in Maxine’s body, he’s a lot more manipulative.

“You know, I can’t help it if people think I’m cute.  Watch how I make it work for me.”

As Maxine, he uses his cuteness to get out of chores, to get revenge on Alex and Justin in karate, to guilt dishonest customers out of cheating his parents, and comes up with a plan to talk his “boy self” up to a girl he likes as Maxine so that she’ll like him when he changes back.  Yeah, can’t imagine why Maxine reminded Jerry and Theresa so much of Alex…

But there are Slytherin Secondary indications from Max in his usual form as well.

He has no qualms about outright lying — inventing a fake illness to get out of P.E., pretending to be “Tom Sawyer” so he wouldn’t be embarrassed by/compared to his family — but he prefers obfuscation, aka confusing people with his “Max-ness.”

“How do you get your brother to say what’s really on his mind?”

“Oh, I use randomness.”

“What?”

“Well, I just say random things and while people are trying to figure it out, they say stuff that’s on their mind.”

One example of this tactic being employed successfully is with the Genie.  While Alex fails to outsmart the Genie using her quick wits, as the Genie is every bit as cunning as her, Max figures out a way to piss off the Genie enough to blackmail her, then talks circles around her and confuses her until she reveals a way for them to undo her wishes.  Alex calls it “outdumbing” her, but in any case, he succeeded where she failed, and showed that he’s more capable than often assumed.

We get another rare moment of clarity from Max during “Alex Tells The World.”  

“Alex, you know you can’t reveal magic!”

“Oh, even I know that. That’s why I just make people think I’m dumb so if I slip up, ehh, they figure, the kid’s an idiot.  And I slip up all the time, so.  Who’s dumb now?”

Max’s admission that he “slips up all the time” isn’t exactly reassuring, but it is telling that he’s the only one who doesn’t reveal magic during both the Season 4 Premiere and the Season 3 Finale.  Perhaps it was dumb luck that got him there, but I think there’s more to it than that.  There’s a method to his madness.  There’s a logic to it, even if Max’s logic often doesn’t follow all the way through.

Which leads me to his Primary— Ravenclaw.  (LOOK I KNOW. HEAR ME OUT.)

Yes, Max is often seen as “the dumb one.”  Yes, Ravenclaws are perceived as “the smart house.”  And while I’ve just demonstrated that there’s a brain under all the Max weirdness, I’m not about to argue that he’s secretly a genius.  He misses the mark more often than he hits it, and oftentimes when he hits it, it’s through coincidence or dumb luck or Insane Troll Logic that’s impossible for anyone but Max to follow.  But I do believe he operates on logic, just his own wacky version of it.

The thing about Max is that he’s neither as dumb as most people think he is, nor is he as smart as he thinks he is.  He’s somewhere in between, and the fact that people never quite know where exactly he falls on that scale is kind of the point.

In fact, part of the reason I struggled with Max was because I was trying to figure out where exactly he did fit in:

He can be selfish enough at times to argue Slytherin Primary, the stereotypically “selfish” House, but he’s missing Justin’s protective streak.  He doesn’t feel that same sense of duty towards his family that Justin does; when Mason breaks Alex’s heart in “Wizards vs. Werewolves,” Justin turns on him instantly because he Hurt His Little Sister And Is Therefore Bad, while Max is the one most willing to give Mason a chance, because he has his own reasons for wanting Mason in his life.  Yet, he still clearly cares enough about his family to rule out the possibility that they don’t factor into his morality at all, not to mention how easy it is for them to influence him.  

His more humble ending of inheriting his father’s sub shop might make people think Hufflepuff Primary, but there’s even less justification for such a sorting upon scrutiny.  As I’ve touched on above, the staunch loyalty to community isn’t all that important to him, and he’s also not all that into traditions.  There’s no compulsion to help strangers, he doesn’t really make enemies but he kind of just ignores people he doesn’t like (or shatters them in a million pieces on accident), and let’s not forget that he unleashed countless monsters in New York City that killed all the Monster Hunters just to win the competition… even if he did do it when his Conscience was separate from the rest of him.  Not exactly behavior you’d expect from the morality system of “a person’s a person no matter how small.”

Speaking of Conscience, it’s notable that he argues with it, rather than accepting his advice. I’m still a little unclear as to how much this matters (there’s definitely room to argue that most of his brain went into Conscience as well, and that whole plotline was… weird), but even with his Conscience inside his body, he seems to lack that moral drive Alex has.  Gryffindor Primaries have this embedded sense of justice deep within their characters. Even when it’s hidden most of the time, like in Alex’s case, or when it becomes twisted into something dark and dangerous, or becomes Stripped of its certainty, there’s still this sense that there is Right and Wrong in this world, that trusting your gut should lead you to the right conclusion, and that it’s wrong to ignore it.  I have a hard time remembering if there’s really any situation where Max gets that gut feeling of Something Being Wrong at all, much less acting on it with a Heroic Plan… at least, not without convincing.

But Max can be convinced, and that’s key.  Alex often takes advantage of this to manipulate him for her own selfish ends, such as talking him into paying her for handing out fliers to her zombie prom, but more often it’s his parents that act as his voice of reason, whether it’s convincing him to go after the “deli robber,” convincing him to give his siblings a fair shot at the Wizard Competition, or convincing him to tell his girlfriend the truth… and then unconvincing him of that when he takes it too literally and tells her he’s a wizard.  

Actually, Max is prone to misinterpreting advice in this way while trying to follow it to the letter— he does this when he tries to sell fountain water with a puppy, as well, because his mom told him to “add something to it.”  I think he is, to an extent, aware of his own intellectual limits.  He knows he misses the mark a lot of the time, so he’s often willing to trust other people’s judgment over his own, so long as they can get it through to him in a way that he thinks makes sense.

But beyond that, he’s often willing to question “common knowledge” in a way the other characters don’t. When Justin tries to tell him he can’t make life out of the stuff from his room, he simply replies, “Where’s it say that?”  In season 4, when there’s a distinct possibility that he’ll win the competition, he expands the sub shop business by making the Wizard Portal into a Drive-Thru, which genuinely worked as a business plan until Jerry took it too far.  Later that season, he saves his siblings by creating a black hole and then jumping through it to pull them to safety from the black hole in Alex’s apartment.  Like, that was his idea.  He came up with that.  It was weird, it was risky, it was unconventional, it could’ve been incredibly stupid… and it worked.

And that’s what I keep coming back to with this Ravenclaw Primary sorting— that sense of ingenuity, curiosity, and the willingness to experiment.  On one hand, you have your System Claws, who are dedicated to The Rules because they’ve been convinced that living by them is The Best Way To Live, and on the other hand, you have those that are willing to challenge conventional wisdom and try new things.  It’s this willingness to question that I personally attribute to a Ravenclaw mentality, rather than inherent intellectual ability or a large knowledgebase.  While Max may not have the latter, he has the former in spades, and that, more than anything, is really what told me that he truly belongs here.

Conclusion:

Max Russo is a Ravenclaw Primary and a Slytherin Secondary.

As a Slytherin Secondary, Max often likes to confuse and obfuscate to get what he wants, is flexible in his methods, and can even be manipulative when he wants to be.  He’s also relatively comfortable with himself, thus he often lives in a Neutral State where he says whatever’s on his mind without thinking much about danger or whether he’ll be understood.

His Ravenclaw Primary is as curious as it is undefined, and operates on a logic that only Max truly understands.  While this leads him astray more often than not, this also allows him to break from tradition and try new things, and this unconventional thinking can sometimes lead to better solutions than anyone else could’ve come up with.  However, it also comes with a set of brakes in the form of taking input from others.  It’s not always easy to get through to Max, but he can be reasoned with, which in his case, is probably for the best. 

In this combination, we find a character who truly dances to the beat of his own drum.  As the most flexible Secondary and Primary, respectively, Max is a conundrum to most who meet him, confusing even to those who know him best.  That said, being the Russo who “goes with the flow” the most often, he’s also probably the Russo that has the most fun.  He’s certainly more fun to write about than I was expecting him to be!  I’m glad I did, and it’s good to be back.

[wisteria-lodge]

At first when I took the quiz, I got double Hufflepuff. But it didn't really feel authentic. I dug really deep and went back to how I was in elementary school, before all the trauma and bullying and anxiety, and I've realized I'm a very burned double Gryffindor with no self confidence. How do I get myself back? And how should I handle myself around friends who are offended by or uncomfortable with my blunt, class clown/trolling secondary?

I had to practice wanting things again. I had to re-learn what that Lion primary YES/NO even felt like. And I was so lost I had to start with like... moodboards. Because that was the absolute most I could allow myself to want, one desktop wallpaper more than another. But after I did that, I could practice having opinions on my hair and my clothes. And then I slowly become more and more able to feel that gut reaction towards things like.. where I lived. how people treated me. what job I wanted. and I brought myself back online.

(Alice in Wonderland really works for me as like, a metaphor.) 

And I think that when you’re started to trust yourself, and believe yourself, your secondary should snap back into place. Unfortunately, there will always be some people who get offended by blunt Lion secondaries, and there’s not really much you can do about that. But there will also be people who trust, and are drawn to Lion secondaries, because the bravery and the integrity required is just extremely attractive. 

[sortinghatchats]

Have you listened to The Magnus Archives? I think it would be really interesting to sort the TMA characters, and I wonder if there's any relationship between people's Houses and the Entities they're marked by/serve (like maybe Ravenclaw secondaries being more Eye-aligned? idk). Also, I think Martin is a Hufflepuff secondary (maybe primary as well), but his secondary got burned at the beginning of season 4

I haven't listened to Magnus Archives, and I'm not really a horror person, BUT one of my dearest buds just got really into TMA & they know sortinghatchats quite well! @savrenim you got thoughts?

[ten-of-imps]

Is Grinch a very burned Hufflepuff primary? He could be a Slythetin primary, but I very much like the first idea more. His story sets him against his primary from the start, and maybe if he'd be a Snake he would just shut those f**ers out but not like this. Its not the little girls acceptance he likes, but the acceptance of the whole village, being liked and having fun with them till he gets angry about the cruel gift he got.

I'd just like it to be his primary honestly.