Silver Plated Soul

Yo, I've got kintama and I walk tall with a (mostly) untarnished soul Tengo - A03 Focused on Gintama & Ace Attorney He/Him - Trans guy

[gyrovagi]

(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[nonlynear]

if you are my mutual i need you to be on some bullshit i dont understand

[oxypill]

another week of whatever the fuck this shit is

[zsh-official]

[telumendils]

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[digitalkiddo]

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.

[metanarrates]

absolutely devastated that op made this post unrebloggable before he deactivated. the effect this post had on my vocabulary is unbelievable

[tabloidsores]

Two dudes in my group chat have been playing league & slowly but surely have shifted from saying "wanna play league of legends" to "wanna play some geego legends". At this point their average post is just @ing the other and going "geegogagand?" and I feel insane

[tabloidsores]

What is going on

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Es ist eine abgeschmackte Verleumdung der menschlichen Natur, daß der Mensch als Sünder geboren wurde.

It is a tasteless slander of human nature that man was born a sinner.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 – 1814), German educator and philosopher

[hustlerose]

man, there's so much great art being made all the time. and we have access to so much of it, across many decades of time. i think if you wanted to experience a life-altering, generation-defining, truly powerful and sublime work of art, you could reasonably do so every week of your life and not run out

[nuancecomprehender]

my life isnt perfect but at least im not doing a mans laundry

[2colde]

it's thousand yard stare summer

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[cutecipher]

when you think of a stupid joke and it has a wikipedia page

[cannibalcaprine]

it also has an xkcd from about ten and a half years ago (#1645)

[sobcat]

ready for what the next week brings...