The Familiar Fireside

"This is your home. Here you can be safe as you putrefy, body and soul." - Jonathan Sims, MAG 162

[spontaneousglitterbees]

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Welcome friends, acquaintances, and curious strangers! Call me Bea/Glitter if you like, and this is my personal blog. I post art/writing/music on occasion, but most posts are probably multifandom reblogs.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Just want to say hi? Ask is open!

If you're just looking for my stuff, I'm still working on making sure everything is tagged (since I recently started Making More Stuff) but it's probably under #glittersart or #synthv.

I have an Ao3 account! Formerly calculatingMinutiae, now spontaneousglitterbees

Current sideblogs and projects include:

The Ghost of Glimwood Tangle, a Pokemon fic universe wherein Allister is a ghost. Sideblog @2sp00ky. Has a playlist, current chapters posted to Ao3.

The Pilotlight, a Homestuck fic surrounding the untimely demise and un-demise of one Mituna Captor. Sideblog @calculatingminutiae. Has been in my head for years and is slowly, slowly happening. Also on Ao3.

Currently I've been working on a Danganronpa post-game AU, where the ndrv3 kids go to Hope's Peak. Welcome to the Talent Acquisition Project Pilot. Tagged #TAPP AU or #TAPP AU adjacent. Parts to date are now listed under the cut.

Ten Steps Back

A Marked Man (also on Ao3) (In-game)

Cat-alyst (Intro. Bishop)

First (Color) Contact

Pre-contact (Earlier that day)

Boys Will Be Boys

It's a Jacket Day (Doodle Dump 1)

The Setup (Miu Pt. I)

Intervention (Miu Pt. II)

Catharsis (Miu Pt. III)

About Maki (ask)

Seeing the State of Things (AU Lore 1)

Cecil Sweep (non-canon of course but can you imagine)

Friendship? (ask sequel)

Not a comic just tired

Stop It. Get Some Help. (not comic but a fic) (also on Ao3)

Doodle Dump 2

Miu's Tattoo

Who Wore It Better (Outfits 2)

How are everyone's injuries? (Lore dump 1)

This Heart of Mine is Guilty (Not Remorseful) (also on Ao3)

Welcome to the New Age (Ao3)

And There Will Be Cake

And you always will be.

About Therapy Animals I

Enter: Chihiro

Enter: Alter Ego

Ace ring

A conversation (1)

Ref for TAPP!Maki

"You've got to be kidding me" (Ao3)

The K1B0 Rescue Squad

TAPP AU-adjacent (mostly answers and ask games)

Outfits 1 (Kokichi x3)

Outfits 3 (Kokichi and Shuichi)

Emojis 1

Emojis 2

Emojis 3

Glitter rambles about Kokichi for a while

Oops pokemon time

Did the barbie and ken thing

Active TAPP WIPs

Ch. 2 of Welcome to the New Age (fic)

Some Assembly Required (comic)

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[briony-poisoned]

imo if you are adapting something that plays with it’s medium into a new medium (book to film, podcast to tv show) you are obligated to ALSO play with the new medium and do something interesting. I don’t care if it’s not 100% faithful, I care if it WORKS. You cannot take a comic book that pushes the boundaries of what you can do in that space and then make the most boring visually flat screen adaptation you have fundamentally missed the point

[prokopetz]

Folks act like that “guy who’s in a polycule but he’s not dating anyone, he’s just there” post is a joke, but I’ve literally met that guy. I’ve met multiple iterations of that guy. He’s not related to anyone, you’re pretty sure he’s not dating anyone either, but he’s been crashing on the couch for the last four years. It’s unclear what he does for a living, if anything, though he has a strikingly comprehensive knowledge of home maintenance and repair. He can barbecue anything. The kids call him “Uncle”.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

[thesplendidsnout]

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[library-seraph]

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: After I customized my car with this wrap, it got hit four times in 24 hours because it's pink.

Cnetizens: This is basically a full-on social experiment.

OP also posted photos from the scene. He was waiting for the police to show up.

Cnetizens:

[froflossy]

Made refs for my strawberry Teto and miku YAYYAYAYA

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i am at a complete loss as to how to adequately express to you how much this cat throws up yeah

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag from hotTubSharts reading: and then maybe she'll wake you again at 6 to the sound of her puking on the floor. maybe /End ID]

[you-and-my-resonance]

a hero's armor is always crimson.

[sirpuntine]

Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that

[cetitanhasmoved]

They're having a 2 for 1 Who gives a Fuck special at the Shove It up your Ass store

[crisis-actor]

[depsidase]

[spontaneousglitterbees]

I periodically look at my youtube analytics and. Who is linking my videos on AO3? You're not in trouble I just think thats rad as hell and want to see what you wrote about lol

[spontaneousglitterbees]

Alright this has been bugging me because I,, I want to find the fic,, and I figured out it's Evil Food Eater Conchita thats getting linked and that it has to be from a fic updated in late april but right now thats all i got

[depsidase]

[catchymemes]

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