a gay, jewish fanboy

does this mean anything to you guys?

[queertealover]

Pretty fire bug in a suit.

[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.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[i-said-im-a-fucking-star]

puts my uncomfortably wet hand on your shoulder. see here, gay boy- can i call you gay boy?

[honey-dont]

very funny to me how dc keeps retconning the whole “getting stuffed into a barrel of cement” thing out of jim’s backstory. have they no whimsy

[billiamdoor]

I can be trusted with the fictional character. I Promise.

[billiamdoor]

I lied. Fuck it’s dire y’all. It’s Bad.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Queer by Frank Bidart

[bigsigma88]

☀️Sun-kissed ☀️

Happy belated Mothers Day!!

It’s probably not very obvious but I wanted the “Sun” to look like Elaine Thomas, to represent her influence on his life kinda? If that makes sense!

I don’t really know how I feel about this one cuz I redrew it like 10 times and it never looked good enough, BUT it got to the point where I was just messing around with brushes so at least I had fun😭

[pizzapartyplayhouse]

Panel redraw from that oneshot from last month... GOOD SHIT

OG + Closeup 👇

dis was very fun... would you believe i almost forgot his ring

[farsight-the-char]

MtG accidentally(?) reviving petty discussion around Billy by officially designating him MUTANT!

[archivearchangelica]

Gay Sex World, 2008

[supushan]

happy pride from the JLI 🌈

[hymnism]

[startally]

maybe they're just really important to me

😢

[batmanhistorian]

BOO. ⸺ HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO HAS SO MANY TOYS BE SO MEAN? Sketchbook drawing of Batman by Kyle Rayner from Green Lantern: Secret Files & Origins (1998) #1

[bug-with-rock]

Based on something I’m attempting to write… they are the magic users group of all time to me even though I just made them up

[canonplag]

da spectre / jim corrigan for @kippahkaplan! thank u!

comm info here