An issue I face is that there’s two very different audiences I need to write for to make this work: people who are naturally hufflepuff-inclined who want to be part of the community but don’t feel welcome, and people who are naturally ravenclaw/slytherin-inclined who are really worried about losing the things that make the community make the community valuable to them.
Writing for everyone at once is hard, so this post is mostly for people who are similar to 11-year-old Harry. The description I quoted is from the book, and it’s not a coincidence that the hard work is the part that 11-year-old Harry was able to understand viscerally as important (while the other aspects seemed vaguely good but not important enough to be worth expending the effort to change his habits and approach.)
This post is meant to resonate with people who are turned off by the stereotype of Hufflepuff as soft and unambitious and persuade them that there is something here that is worthwhile, important and exciting. (In later posts I’ll be talking more about why the emotional labor is important and the actual nuts-and-bolts of how we’re getting from here to there)
(I did edit the final section of the post to make it at least slightly more clear that loyalty/friendship aren’t just buzzwords. Also updated the disclaimer at the beginning to say more straightforwardly “this is written for people attracted to the lone hero mindset.” I think it’s still relevant for people who are frustrated by the lone hero mindset but mostly in form of “this is a thing I’m trying to fix” rather than “this post is going to resonate with you”)
An issue I face is that there’s two very different audiences I need to write for to make this work: people who are naturally hufflepuff-inclined who want to be part of the community but don’t feel welcome, and people who are naturally ravenclaw/slytherin-inclined who are really worried about losing the things that make the community make the community valuable to them.
Writing for everyone at once is hard, so this post is mostly for people who are similar to 11-year-old Harry. The description I quoted is from the book, and it’s not a coincidence that the hard work is the part that 11-year-old Harry was able to understand viscerally as important (while the other aspects seemed vaguely good but not important enough to be worth expending the effort to change his habits and approach.)
This post is meant to resonate with people who are turned off by the stereotype of Hufflepuff as soft and unambitious and persuade them that there is something here that is worthwhile, important and exciting. (In later posts I’ll be talking more about why the emotional labor is important and the actual nuts-and-bolts of how we’re getting from here to there)
(I did edit the final section of the post to make it at least slightly more clear that loyalty/friendship aren’t just buzzwords. Also updated the disclaimer at the beginning to say more straightforwardly “this is written for people attracted to the lone hero mindset.” I think it’s still relevant for people who are frustrated by the lone hero mindset but mostly in form of “this is a thing I’m trying to fix” rather than “this post is going to resonate with you”)
This makes sense. Thanks for updating the end—the way these values are portrayed contributes a lot to how seriously they are or are not taken.