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If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
do it for the faggots who never got to btw
my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information
This is George Costanza behavior
GEORGE: she he’d me!
JERRY: exclusively?!
GEORGE: the WHOLE evening.
JERRY: and this is the girl who had ACAB Land Back Fuck TERFs in her profile?
GEORGE: i told you, jerry! i told you that was a huge red flag. all performativity, no understanding behind it.
JERRY: i just don’t get it, who hears “any pronouns” and doesn’t even throw a they into the mix?
GEORGE: cis women on tinder, apparently!
KRAMER: *barging in* george! how’d that tinder date go?
GEORGE: terrible!
KRAMER: i warned you! jerry, i warned her, i told her “keep to hinge and her, there’s nothing for you on tinder” and did they listen?
JERRY: xe didn’t listen.
Vote for me and I will make werewolves real
Top scientists wil work hard round the clock to make it a reality
Bottom scientists as well
when you’re a little girl boys will say “so if boys and girls are equal that means I get to hit you right?”
and then you grow up to be a trans man and people will say to you “oh i thought you wanted to be a man, that means you have to put up with [abusive behavior]”
and they will tell you these 2 things do not stem from the same desires of gendered punishment and control
Some Obi-wans to try new brushes!
thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry
ohhhh my god
”#I LOVE that the comic keeps the lens on Calvin’s dad to the degree of not even showing Calvin’s excited face when his dad surprises him, #You can see the joy and excitement of the moment in his pose and reflected in his dad’s expression, #it’s a great little artistic decision, #I realized what gets me about it it’s the hat covering his dad’s head and hair so the dad just looks like Calvin. #you don’t HAVE to show Calvin! You already see him in the dad becoming a kid for a moment you only have to draw that once”
I’m like the opposite of a catholic. all sex is fine except sex for reproduction
Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”
I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”
the authors open fetish that complements the themes of their work
important plot device thats also just authors fetish. call that a jackoffs gun
There is still time. It's never too late to transition
“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!
I need people to understand my old woman yuri vision.