Child-sorting schemes in YA fiction: a taxonomy of taxonomies

prokopetz:

• 1980s high school comedy cliques with fancy Latin names
• Doesn’t want to admit it’s just Earth/Wind/Water/Fire
• List of animals the author thought were cool in middle school
• Brave But Dumb, Smart But Socially Inept, Sexy But Evil, and Has A Great Personality
• That political spectrum diagram they made you memorise in Social Studies
• Ego, superego, id
• Dungeons & Dragons classes
• Thinly disguised national stereotypes
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Homestuck