Jake

This is mostly a blog for random stuff I like. Enjoy!

[modelsof-color]

Donations for Gaza

Taawon

Emergency Relief for Gaza

Hygiene Kits for Gaza

Esims for Gaza

Daily Clicks for free

[wizardarchetypes]

i remember in a college acting course two of my classmates were assigned a scene between macbeth and lady macbeth, and the day of exams macbeth showed up high out of his fucking mind. just zonked to hell. and usually that would be so annoying and not actually make a person better at acting, but he got up on stage for the exam and started panicking and pivoted hard into a paranoid high while lady macbeth tore into him and he looked more genuinely terrified than any oscar win i've ever seen

[thememedaddy]

[thetechnicallydeadclub]

UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME NOW!

RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE!

I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD HAPPINESS!

[the-haiku-bot]

I’M SICK AND TIRED

OF NOT BEING ABLE TO

AFFORD HAPPINESS!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

[b--1ove]

Prompt: You've found a man who can be your weird secret third thing and your last chance.

[sayatsugu]

When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

[kerink]

it's not fair that twitter's phm tag has a rocky emoji so i stole him for you all

[sayatsugu]

When You Look at Dr. Grace

(part 1) part 2/2

[kilgarraara]

searching for a memory

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[actualized-animal]

Did You Learn?

you can lie on the floor in your home and the Soft Baby who lives there will approach you. this will increase your chance of contact with Nose Wet by 75%

[simplyjustfucked]

[counterpick-me-irl]

SEIS fag sex? En esta economia?

[crittaslink]

"who said that" is a powerful spell that casts a defensive bubble around your most vulnerable thoughts

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[thatll-do]

@ragecndybars

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[uncahier]

Since you don’t respect my opinion anyway, quit pestering me to fill out a survey after every single consumer experience. I keep wondering who looks at these surveys. Is the CEO sitting in his wood-paneled office, reading each individual response on an old-timey stock ticker? If so, you can keep doing this. If not, I rate this experience zero stars out of infinity.

[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.