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Fanbinding: Denominations by WriteThroughTheNight

Bind #17

Denominations by WriteThroughtheNight

Date Completed: 02/16/2025

Size: Quarto.  33,299 words, 222 pages

Copies: 1

8th Book of Binderary

This is one of my favorite James Bond fics.  It’s set in a world where everyone has a “knack,” from being super persuasive (Bond) to making the perfect cup of tea (R).  Q has been hiding his skill since he was a child.  Beyond excellent worldbuilding and a really fun storyline, this story has great side characters - especially 001 and Danielle (R).  Not sure if the author has a tumblr, so I'm not able to tag them here.

Another surprise Second Snow Day typesetting session, and another attempt at an illustrated cover page, although I’m not as thrilled with how it turned out.  I do like how nice and dense the body font (centaur) made the text block, though.  Copperplate Gothic for nice simple titles & headers.  The whole thing just feels very solid and square, and I am here for it.

I tried some Dollar Tree HTV for the spine title this time around, and it worked like a charm.  It’s pretty thick so I’m not sure how it would do with a more fiddly cut, but I will definitely be using it again.  Cover and endpapers are various scrapbook papers I’ve had in my stash for a decade or so, but I like how they all worked together.

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Denominations and Hogwarts Houses

Following in the footsteps of @apilgrimpassingby and his "Denominations as high school cliques", here is my first contribution to the genre which he pioneered.

First, three background items, courtesy of the aforementioned Pilgrim:

The Catholic Church has declared that magic is an unexplained natural gift distinct from occultism, and therefore licit (this is the RCC's view on dowsing in real life, interestingly enough), and therefore there are Catholics at Hogwarts and several wizarding saints. However, during the Reformation, Hogwarts drifted away from mainland Europe, and there are still some old wizarding Catholic families in Britain who send their children to Beauxbatons.

Anglicans have historically been comfortable with Hogwarts, carrying over a lot of the links between Catholicism and the school which the Reformation lost, and it was they who defended Hogwarts from an attack of Presbyterian wizards who decided the whole thing was devilry under King James' decree. However, Methodists are the Protestants who are closest to Hogwarts (IRL the Wesley Brothers both believed in ghosts and "fasting spittle" - the belief that the saliva of a fasting person has curative properties - and Methodist clergy appear disproportionately in British folklore), and the Weasleys are unusual in being a poor, old wizarding family who aren't Methodist.

The Orthodox churches have various opinions on magic, generally negative, and the few Orthodox wizards of Europe have historically went to Durmstrang.

More on the houses themselves to follow.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Denominations as High-School Cliques

(This is a remake of a post I made a while ago)

Catholics are goths because they invented Gothic architecture and love memento mori and gory art of the Crucifixion.

Orthodox are theatre kids because they're the most high-church and hence dramatic.

Church of the East are loners because they're very small and spent most of their history being persecuted by Islamic rulers.

Oriental Orthodox are foreign exchange students because they're very exotic to Westerners.

Lutherans are the mean rich kids because they're high-church and have a reputation for being mean to other denominations.

Reformed are nerds becy they're rationalist and love systematic theology.

Anglicans are a bunch of kids who hang out due to sharing the same lunch table but don't really have much in common - if you know Anglicanism, you get this.

Anabaptists are religious weirdos because they founded their own counterculture.

Congregationalists/Puritans are rebels because they were historically banned in England.

Methodists are activist kids because they're very concerned with helping the poor.

Baptists are jocks because they're very active (sporty, you might say) in evangelism.

Pentecostals are party kids because they have lots of music in their services.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Have you read Denominations (James Bond)?

Yes, I am/was in the fandom

Yes, but I’m not in the fandom

No, but I’m in the fandom

No, I’m not in the fandom

Voting ended onMay 16, 2025

Summary: Q confirms that he's an Empath three months before his first day of primary school, and the deciding of Denominations that comes with it. OR Q is smarter than anyone gives him credit for, and an Empath to boot.

Author: @writethroughthenight

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Okay, look. I love denominations. I think it's beautiful how complex and diverse Christianity is. That said, sectarianism has got to stop. All this emphasis on which denomination you belong to, is ridiculous. All we're really doing is going "I follow Peter!!1!" "I follow Paul!!1!" "I follow Apollos!!!!1!" It's sectarianism and it's carnal. None of these denominations are Jesus. They are man made institutions about getting to Jesus. And they are wonderful. But belonging to one and not another is not gonna cost you anything. Paul told this to the Corinthians; the same can be said for us. We all have one blood. One baptism. One God. One faith. All other traditions and religious ideas must bow before the cross, alongside everything else.

[merthwyn]

My mum today:

"Just admit that you've rejected Eastern Orthodoxy altogether. It's obvious that you are being manipulated by anyone out there who preaches something non-Orthodox"

My mum in general:

"Reading the Bible is not important for me. I don't need it".

"No, you are not allowed to go to that conference" (that conference was organised by Eastern Orthodox priests and the Department of Orthodox Theology at my hometown).

"If you read the Bible it's an obvious sign that you are being indoctrinated by your evangelical friends"

"Why are you obsessed with religion and theology? Leave these things for the priests. Be normal".

My mum to my atheist sister:

*utter silence*