bluebloods wining and dining and whining and ... dhining........

[puphart]

hey there upper east siders!

a few of us have characters that live that in Wizarding Country Club Life (ex. new england) and/or Urban Wizarding High-Society Life (ex. manhattan). because kurt is involved in both of those via his parents, i am being selfish this morning and seeing if anybody would like to collaborate on what that actually means. what is it like for our students to go home and attend stupid holiday parties? what is it like when the parents sequester the kids into a different room? or when they're, god forbid, allowed to mingle?

if you have any ideas, post them here! i'll also try to edit this post with a running list of things from the comments. i'm posting this now, but pledge that this evening i will watch at least one episode of gossip girl, and at least one of gilmore girls, to help my brain contribute. i am also not trying to steamroll anybody's ideas of what either of these lifestyles is like; i thought it might be cool to have something common to pull from, but this (a) DOES NOT need to be gooseberry canon in any way! (b) is also a place where, if you have deviating ideas about it, you should absolutely share!, and (c) don't ever feel like you need to live by the things set out in this post.

also begging for way catchier names for them than the aforementioned WCCL & UWH-SL (which are 99% not the serious choices.) the works-in-progress so far include...

THIS GOT PRETTY BIG ALREADY. i'm going to condense it into a google document later instead of constantly updating this post. UPDATES TO COME.

edit: okay, i stuck everything onto a google doc! here's a link. with that you can comment but not edit; if you'd like to edit, you can request it and i'll add you in!

Comments

[puphart]

i want to get into wizardy religion so hard! buuut i'm naturally a dork in that area because i'm working toward my phd in the anthropolgy of religion. so uh... maybe nobody else does. but that's okay because my mom tells me i'm cool. 👌

omg now i'm thinking about the connection between marian shrines and magic and i should be doing my own work but this is too exciting~~

[riledup]

I WANT WIZARDY RELIGION STUFF. JUST BECAUSE. I ALWAYS AVOIDED WIZARDY RELIGION IN REGULAR HP, bc I always felt like British wizards were mostly secular. But like WE LOVE OUR RELIGION OVER HERE.

[threatens]

I AM ALL FOR WIZARDY RELIGION STUFF because it frankly makes no sense to me that becoming a wizard would make you secular. I mean maybe like... those purebloody eight generations back wizards, but if you've got muggleborns and muggles marrying in all the time, I doubt all these people are just dropping their religion like nbd.

[riledup]

Esp those coming out of the bible belt. I DON'T THINK MAMA'S GONNA LET YOU STOP GOING TO CHURCH ON EASTER JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DO MAGIC NOW. JESUS DOESN'T CARE IF YOU CAN DO MAGIC, HE COULD TOO.

[gdilevi]

yer a wizard, jesus

b-but i'm just... jesus!





*DIVES STRAIGHT INTO THE PITS OF HELL*

[puphart]

ummm this week a friend and i may have come up with a very sacrilegious and very silly theory that the bible was actually the first HP fanfic, written by a time traveler in words his 0 A.D. pals could understand that has since been changed a lot. BUT THAT'S ALL I'LL SAY. because it was a silly thing and not meant to be an offensive thing to anybody. :x

[overturn.insanejournal.com]

From what I hear (correct me if I'm wrong) Brits are just more secular in general so it makes sense-ish to me that the wizards would be there too for the most part.

[indiefolk]

Aw man I kept thinking NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR MY THOUGHTS ON CATHOLIC WIZARDS but maybe they do after all. One day I'll organize all my thoughts into something coherent. I DIDN'T GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR NOTHING.

[puphart]

I DO I DO! i started studied catholics by accident (and was raised like, secular protestant or something?) so i don't have the background but i an Academic Interest in this.

[gdilevi]

*CHINHANDS*

TELL ME ABOUT THEM

[riledup]

I HAVE A NON-ACADEMIC INTEREST IN THIS

[notacad.insanejournal.com]

I wonder if they resemble my thoughts on Anglican wizards?

What can I say, I was raised C of E. It's interesting to me!

[paytee.insanejournal.com]

IM SO LATE TO THIS BUT I DO

because Wes and his Catholic faith and ideas of doing the lord's work with healing through prayers to saints and rituals and YEAH I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS TOO

[gdilevi]

I WANT WIZARDY RELIGION STUFF TOO. i just know religion can be a Touchy Subject for some people so i've been casually dodging it. levi's family is jewish so i've been wondering how to even approach that.

rosh hashanah is coming up IN LESS THAN A WEEK and i'm just like "would he be allowed to leave with a staff member to go to the nearest temple with some of his family? would it even be important enough for him to want to leave? how do wizards handle religious holidays? are there religious services at the school? is there a non-denominational church/temple/general purpose Prayer Station-type thing on campus?"

but then i think that levi would use all the fucking holidays of ~reflection~ as an excuse to get out of class and get off campus. "sorry, it's Yom Kippur, i need to go to temple and atone for my sins. -- i'm sorry, i'm sorry-- okay, i said sorry three times."

[riledup]

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT PRAYER/CHURCH/RELIGION TYPE THINGS AS WELL. Nate would probably do some kind of token thing on Sundays if it was available/any other kids were doing it, but probably mostly save it for when he's home.