Ooh Mythology Yay! 😀

Ooh, I like this interpretation :)

We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

Cool

Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.

It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.

Critical Role & Pillars of Eternity Parallels Thoughts (Spoliers for both)

Possible Spoilers for campaign 1 & 2 of Critical Role and both Pillars of Eternity games. Campaign 1 of Critical Role = Pillars of Eternity = Keeps Campaign 2 of Critical Role = Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire = ships I noticed a pattern. :)

I got Morgana! Cool. :)

A fanmade Persona 5 personality quiz has been going around on Twitter lately. It was created by fanartist ayattuji, who also gave me permission to post translations of it on Tumblr.  (If any of the statements seem unclear, remember that “no” is false, and “yes” is true.)

To find out which character your number corresponds with, click the read more.

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Reblogging because now I’m nostalgic about Justice.

Why do more people love Cole than Justice? Is it because Cole is considered “cute”? Because I’m here to inform/remind you that Justice is adorable. Some examples!: 

He thinks our world is "a world so full of beauty that beauty goes overlooked.“

He ties his things to his belt so that next time Sigrun tries to steal them it will remind her that stealing is wrong, but since he’s told her ahead of time that he did this why would she try it again? He doesn’t have an answer. He didn’t think of that.   

He’s scared of becoming a demon because he just wants to be good

He believes that cats deserve freedom too. He is worried that Ser Pounce-a-Lot isn’t free

(He’s fine with it after Anders explains Pounce wants to be there and it’s a mutually beneficial thing.)

He wants a piece of lyrium (and books about both it and the Fade) to remind him of home because he’s homesick

He’s absolutely devastated at the thought that his presence has upset Aura (look at his face)

He’s a bit jealous of Aura and Kristoff’s love. He wants to find love too

Love this concept! So cool.

fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

Last game I played was Persona 5, as well. So... I would love it, it’ll be so fun and since I’m an university student, I wouldn’t have to deal with any high school drama. Perfect. 

The only way to log out is to beat the game. And if you die in the game you die for real.

Just going to add. This is great also, Strix of the Waffle Crew from Dice Camera Action fits all this. She and Caleb have things in common. And it's wonderful

So, I have a theory…

Also human friends cooking their Kitsune spirt friends lots of dishes that they like, tofu, aburagé, azukimeshi and other meals to so the spirit can hide from Yokai hunters and because they’re starving after playing pranks all night. Then word gets around about the human’s cooking, thanks to Kitsune bragging and the human accidentally starts a supernatural being soup kitchen/restaurant at the their apartment. Making cucumber cocktails for kappa, blood dishes such as Sanguinaccio dolce for Vampires, and seafood sushi for Mermaids & Selkies.

I’m all for fantasy stories where supernatural characters protect their human friends, but does anyone else want some stories where the humans are the ones who are looking after their supernatural friends?

A human girl exchanging her silver engagement ring for a cheaper one after she realises why her werewolf friend has been refusing to high five her.

A group of humans throwing coats over their vampire friend because he forgot it was the Summer solstice and was caught out by the sunrise. Those same friends coming to visit him when he wakes up in the late afternoon, bringing him blood from the butcher’s and putting up with his whining about the nights getting longer.

A human hearing that someone stole their selkie friends pelt and coming over to her new “husband"s house immediately and threatening to punch his lights out unless he tells them where it is.

Humans petitioning the counsel to build a wooden climbing frame in the local playground because the old one has iron parts and their fairy friend’s kids can’t use it without burning themselves.

I’ll post more if I can come up with any.

Wow, this is an amazing reference sheet...!

To the person who put this together, BLESS YOU