The Sorting Hat Chats

Sorting Gideon & Harrow the Ninth

Sorting Hat Chats — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:05:00 +0000

We sort Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, the first two installments of Tamsyn Muir's trilogy about some lesbian space nun necromancers stuck in puzzle-box murder mysteries. We're eagerly awaiting book three, which will prove all our sortings wrong, probably.

These books are stories of puns, of gay gazes, of insidious horror, of direct, gore-studded horror, of friendship, of debt, and of growing life out of dead soil. It's also a story full of, apparently... Hufflepuff?

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Sorting She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (SPOP)

Sorting Hat Chats — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 06:36:00 +0000

Let's chat about Bow & Glimmer's similarities in their sortings, and why it leads to such a disastrous break between them in the penultimate season; about why Catra has a hard time understanding Adora's decisions and loyalties in a new context; about how Adora puts her faith in powers external to her (her battle plans, her sword) when the real She-Ra lives inside her.

Shadow Weaver, Bow, and our host Kat share a Secondary sorting -- and this whole television show is FILLED with Gryffindors.

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Sorting Avatar the Last Airbender

Sorting Hat Chats — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:53:00 +0000

This episode includes: Zuko and Katara as narrative foils -- similar characters with similar motivations and methods who start out on opposite sides of the same war; Toph, Aang, and Azula as characters with the same slippery, easy-breezy, adaptively powerful Secondary; Sokka as a rare Ravenclaw & how his and Katara's sortings & models interact with the gendered roles of their home.

Sorting Hat Chats sorts Avatar the Last Airbender! See our quiz, posts, and further details on our typology at sortinghatchats.wordpress.com.

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Sorting The Untamed

Sorting Hat Chats — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 07:25:00 +0000

Trans rights are human rights. Just FYI.

This episode, with guest Jules Lomax, we sort tv drama The Untamed, with some nods to its source novel. A world of swords, necromancy, love, and betrayal, it's also a world with a hell of a lot of Slytherins.

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Sorting Howl's Moving Castle

Sorting Hat Chats — Wed, 13 May 2020 07:50:00 +0000

What does it mean to give your heart to a falling star? Is Sophie building a community or attracting an army? Why is Howl so much more unhappy in the movie? We discuss and sort the characters of Howl's Moving Castle-- both Diana Wynne Jones's book and Miyazaki's animated film.

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Sorting The Good Place

Sorting Hat Chats — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 11:30:00 +0000

We sort philosophical sitcom The Good Place and discover that the four "cockroaches" make a rainbow of Houses.

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Sorting The Witcher

Sorting Hat Chats — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:52:00 +0000

We sort Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer, Ciri, and Jaskier/Dandelion.

What Is Sorting Hat Chats? / Sorting the Hunger Games

Sorting Hat Chats — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:03:00 +0000

We introduce the Sorting Hat Chats system, and sort The Hunger Games, a canon heavy with intense Gryffindors and Slytherins.

Transcript available at sortinghatchats.wordpress.com