moodboards and stuff

I read about sortinghatchats back in my middle school tumblr days and it’s kind of been simmering in my brain ever since. I personally use wisteria-lodge’s  terminology for sortinghatchats, though I’m alright with the original terminology in the requests.

As of 02/28/22, reopening.

I’m open to aesthetic requests at the moment. If you’re interested in one, feel free to request in my asks. Here’s a list of guidelines that help me out, and make it more likely for me to do your request. I’m a full-time college student, so I can’t handle everything :)

I prefer it if you choose either primary OR secondary + relevant models. If you want both primary & secondary, I’d prefer 2 separate asks.

e.g. burned lion primary with bird model

specific motifs/items you’re interested in seeing

specific colors you want/nontraditional colors

perhaps a quote that you vibe with? or a post? It just helps.

whatever else you’re feeling lol, this is pretty informal

These are the ones I’ve already done for reference, and feel free to request something I’ve already done as I have no problem with doubles.

It's a messy one, so I searched some quotes that resonated with me to help you understand it better, here they go:

Burnt badger primary: "A heart’s a heavy burden." - Howl's Moving Castle

Raven primary model: "Blue! Blue! Blue!" - Patrick Rothfuss

Snake primary performance:  "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone." - Madeline Miller

And here it is, my kinda triple primary; I do hope it's not too complicated, but feel free to ignore it if it turns to be so. In any case, thank you for reading till here, I hope have a good day!

Burnt Badger Primary // Bird Primary Model / Snake Primary Performance

Bird Secondary (Rapid Fire) // Ravenclaw Secondary

Badger Primary // Hufflepuff Primary

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

I haven’t been active on tumblr since 2020. But I was rereading a book yesterday and I came across this quote and decided to log in again. Totally forgot to close my requests, and turns out there’s a decent amount of them in my mailbox, which is honestly kind of cool, and there are already some that I’d like to start tackling again.

I did take the quiz again yesterday and I still am a solid Bird/Badger // Ravenpuff with a snake/slytherin secondary model. I’ve still never burned/exploded my primary nor ever had a model, which I think is pretty unusual, but hey, means that I get to be a textbook example if needed. 

“One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.” - John Constantine, The Sandman, Issue #3

I’ve been listening to the adapation of the Sandman comics on Audible before bed every night, and this one came up yesterday. Constantine himself isn’t quite a bird primary character, but I felt as if this quote fit.

There’s lots of ‘There is a Truth out there for me to find or create, even if it’s difficult and hard and hidden’ vibes in this quote. I feel like that’s what distinguishes a stable & hopeful bird primary from less stable/hopeful ones the most. The most important part is that truth is out there to find, as bird primaries are constructed ones with external parts to their ideologies that they’ve collected and discovered, and an intrinsic part of this stability is the knowledge that there is always something more to learn.

[ID: A three-by-three grid of photos, alternating like a checkerboard between hands holding objects over blue skies and orange sunsets with shadowy silhouettes looking upwards juxtaposed in front of them. The objects include a polaroid of the sky, half-open handcuffs, a compass necklace, and a waffle cone with clouds instead of ice cream. In the center is an image of two hands framing a casette tape suspended between them. End ID.]

Bird Primary // Ravenclaw Primary

by the @sortinghatchats​ system, for an anon.

Burned Bird Primary // Burned Ravenclaw Primary

from the @sortinghatchats system.

“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time, until your loved ones give you poison and sell you to anatomy, and even then you will die with a hole inside you, and you will wail and curse at a life ill-lived.”

Unburnt Lion Primary // Badger Secondary a request from @boyish

hi!! your description says that requests are open and i can't find one, so i have a request for you! would you mind doing an unburnt lion primary, badger secondary board? unburnt is such a helpful way to put it--it's very much a depression and trauma recovery-sounding word and it fits nice and cozy.

This is one of my all-time favorite passages from any piece of literature. And I figure it also sums up my particular brand of stable-but-somewhat-burnt bird primary.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.”