glittermancy

[dragonlady7]

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so like. i don’t do a ton of [or for that matter, any] divination or witchy shit but i think about it sometimes. and it strikes me that the patterns the glitter makes in the back of my phone case would be exactly the kind of thing someone could use for divination. Like tea leaves, you know??? It flows around randomly, depending how hard I shake it or what kind of angle I left it propped at, and sometimes globs get stuck one place or another, and sometimes the small glitter has all gone where gravity sent it but a few of the larger heart-shaped flakes are stuck randomly around, and sometimes the fine glitter has settled atop the large flakes and sometimes not, depending how it was set down.

anyway. it’s not that I seriously want to get into this, but I just feel like, possibly in fiction, this is an untapped vein of material.

free to a good home, I guess, is the image of a modern/cyberpunk oracle using their glitter-filled phone case for divination purposes, handing the phone to someone for them to look at a picture and then turning it over to look at the glitter settling after they’ve stepped away to divine their intentions, pulling up a photo of the target and staring at it as they rotate the phone and then turning it face down with the screen on to look at the patterns; having the target hold the phone and speak into the recording app to ask their question and then playing the question back as the glitter settles….

your Antagonist’s bad energy makes the case leak out all the oil inside and the oracle has to take the phone case off but then can read the bad news in the way the glitter stuck to the drying walls as the liquid ebbed. [image: image]

see sometimes the little glitter’s on top, and sometimes the big flakes are on top. sometimes the glitter gets “stuck” at the edges. [image description: closeup of phone case with loose glitter, silver holographic, settled in a corner near a cutout in the back of the case.] [image: image]

and when you’ve shaken it around, sometimes it settles and leaves clumpy voids, sometimes it’s a smoother line. it’s down to the physics of how it’s shaken, surely, but it’s hard to control, and unless you’re paying close attention you won’t control it at all, which makes it optimal for generating randomness. which is what you want in divination, right? [image description: a large section of the back of a phone in a case with loose glitter in liquid, silver holo glitter with large foil hearts and tiny iridescent dots, collected toward the bottom of the case in a loose swirl.] (Your picture was not posted)