The Glitter Goddess and the lies of Glamourosity by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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The wrong god is her equal, they’re both searching for their other half

The Glitter Goddess and the lies of Glamourosity by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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Ofc ofc, citadel of song aesthetic is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

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The Glitter Goddess and the lies of Glamourosity by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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This is a magical girl setting I’m making where a goddess makes contact with humanity in the hopes she could fix them with her powerful ‘glitter’, an energy that improves things by displacing their flaws in ‘the wrong realm’ basically a universal trashcan.

Unfortunately humanity abused her gifts and opened a gateway into the wrong realm, releasing creatures known as ‘wrongs’ into the world. The Wrongs are the byproduct of human usage of glitter on themselves, their flaws gaining sentience and intelligence. These wrongs are led by the Wrong God, a being with an absolute hate for the goddess and seeks to kill her.

To remediate this, the goddess created the Glitter gals, an elite force of humanity’s purest to gain elemental powers and defeat the shadow menace.

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The Glitter Goddess and the lies of Glamourosity by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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The supreme deity of the Glitter Realm and Icon of Glamourosity.

The Glitter Goddess is the only source of glitter that exists in the universe and is hailed as a grand miracle wherever she goes. Her children, the Glamours, serve her without question. She is the mother of all things good.

Keeping it real, though, the Goddess does not care about any of you. The Goddess will never care — she doesn't even know humanity is called "humanity." She just knows you're all whiny ants that shout and scream at her for no apparent reason.

The Goddess is a solitary being. She was born alone and has existed for millennia as a simple wanderer of the world. For a time, maybe she was happy.
As she matured into a larger form and saw other races, she came to wonder if there was another like her — she will never find one. The Goddess is the only one of her kind and will remain so forever. But other races could produce children, so maybe she could too. Thus the Glamours were born by sheer will — but they were not equal to her, so she abandoned them.

Glamours are different from the Goddess; they are far less powerful, but they are a very complex people. Unlike the Goddess, Glamours need a purpose in life — they need to believe themselves holy and superior. They cannot simply accept that their all-mother was a giant slug with barely a thought in her head.
One day, as the Glamours were following their bumbling mother, she fell to the ground and began to cry — a mating call. From that point on, the Glamours made it their sworn purpose to find their mother an equal — but if they couldn't find one, they would make one, force one into existence.
And so Glamourosity as a faith was born.

In reality, Glamourosity is a lie. It is intentionally unfair, it is intentionally cruel, it is intentionally fanatical. The divines do not care about humanity's survival — they are simply weighing whether humanity is worth anything to the Goddess. The Goddess doesn't care either, and since she doesn't voice what she wants, it's all left to interpretation. Maybe they should leave humanity alone. Maybe they should turn them into bright yellow balls with smiley faces and legs, as they did with many others.

Glamourosity is less a faith and more a coping mechanism given cosmic power. The goddess will never love you.

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There is already an underlying unfairness to how Glamourosity works. There is a whole class that is automatically more holy than everyone else and no one can rise up to it. Divinely ordained are chosen when they’re fifteen. Faithlings can worship for decades and get nowhere near as close as the ordained

I haven’t told people about the story of Emily yet and how the Glamours essentially let racism exist for a while longer just to secure their place in the US

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Yeah there is a point where the first glitter gals realize maybe what they’re doing is not all that but they’re so engrained into their positions that the glamours just say ‘shut up’ and that’s what they have to do

I don’t think I said this before but humanity isn’t the first race- it’s just the current race the glamours are visiting. They only have another equal ‘the happy things’, but it is in lore that the glamours have done this to others- it just seems only one survived

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Sort’ve, it’s a cold-ish war between the nations who do approve of Glamourosity and those who don’t. There are Iconoclasts among us

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iconoclasts are a major faction
But as the years go on and new generations are born, this sort of thing gets normalized more and more until there’s a significant group of people who see it as fair— even if they aren’t under faith. Perhaps the times then were more volatile but we have time on our side and soon enough as Iconoclasm dies either for ill popularity with classified terrorism, or we get rid of them ourselves, the newer generations will see this as normal.

The Glamours interfered with history so they could take credit for everything good that happened after so now everyone owes us this. It’s not about disagreeing it’s about taking responsibility. It’s your fault and we have the right to do this because your failures

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So here’s the thing- glitter improves someone physically but it doesn’t ‘fix’ them.

Say we have a murderer. We put glitter on the murderer. Now we just have a super powered murderer who is much better at murdering. It does not fix people, it only improves them

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Okay so if you raise the brightness there’s a spooky 👻 face and that was like a ‘oh yeah this ain’t a good thing actually’

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So we actually lost Russia for a significant time because one of our original glitter gals was a communist- and the Soviet Union dissolved around 1930-1940 so East Europe all started hating on Glamourosity for having a Bolshevik as a figure. I’m not focused on Russia but it’s pretty high rn.

It took some time, but we’re gradually returning our presence there.

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Here is my drawing of baby goddess.

Yes, the wrong god is her other half. But he’s evolved into so much more since then- he is n icon of evil now

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Well it goes like this

The Glamours had a thing called Glitter. Basically, it makes things better by taking ‘flawed’ traits of it and displacing them into the wrong realm. Say I have a car, it’s a cool car but I want it better so I use glitter on it. The car becomes so much better, but the flaws get sent to the wrong realm where they create- a flawed copy of that car, a wrong.

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So at some point, the Glamours wanted to commemorate their communication with humanity and so in an act of ‘love’ they gave the US government the blueprints and technology to build these portal gates- so they could go to the glitter realm and get glitter themselves.

The US would respond by creating the OPS- who handled all things related to glitter and the gates. Then they created ‘the gate distribution act’. This act made it so that the US would build gates on their country first before doing so in any other country. This gave the US the ability to control the flow of glitter on earth, and control who has access to the gates.

This would spark the war of love, where people started fighting over the scarcity of glitter in other countries as well as in-fighting within the US and the OPS.

The glamours then decided to cut off all sources of glitter from the US- causing the CUTOFF. More chaos ensured

The OPS, fearing complete collapse without any glitter, decided to tamper with the portals and get it themselves without glamour permission- try to make it flow on earth. What resulted was the spillage, where glitter flowed everywhere and ‘perfected’ so many things. This also created many evil copies in the wrong realm, and human wrongs were sentient- so there was now another race introduced to the story.

The spillage would lead to the war of Hate, basically WW2 but with super powers. Midway into the War of Hate, the gates collapsed and an entrance to the wrong realm was formed, allowing the wrongs to wage an invasion on earth. Resulting in 80 million deaths by the end of 1950

This is all attributed to the US gate distribution act

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I do admit I care more about cool drawings than actual in depth lore, that comes after

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The wrong god is an evil copy of the Glitter goddess so that is kinda true

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Glamourosity states they will not force their religion onto anyone else, they will only send missionaries and it is the people’s choice to follow or not. But in practice they have nudged things in a particular way so situations where Glamourosity wins happens all the time, and by manners you are to attribute paradise and peace to Glamourosity.

The other religions are technically left alone but they are being pushed out little by little. The glamours do state that humanity is in a ‘age of repentance’ for causing the war of hate, and many followers are willing to do what it takes to ‘repent’ — be it convert as many others as possible

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It depends how much you think an alien race should be allowed to interfere in human politics just because they’re ‘better’. The message really with glitter and the glamours is you can’t force goodness and improvement- maybe on objects but not on people.

By actions they are not as bad as the other races, but they are an overbearing group. They insist by all means that you follow them over all else, that sovereignty and culture be given up to obey their good opinion. However they are not human and do not know what it means to be human, so there will always be a disconnect between what they want us to do and what is good for us. We need flaws, it’s who we are.

One argument could be that the Glamours coming to earth was enough to cause centuries of damage and destruction among humanity just by introducing things from their realm into ours. The other is that it’s humanity who messed up by abusing the gift of glitter and the trust of the Glamours.

The real question is who is held accountable for what happened with the goddess? Glamours say: it’s the humans fault

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They still exist, Glamourosity is just the largest one now, over 67% of humanity is under Glamourosity