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Tent stitch of Jupiter's atmosphere and the Galilean satellites' surfaces. The spaces between the blocks are proportional to the difference in semi-major axis of adjacent moons and the width of all except Jupiter is proportional to their radius (width and spacing not to scale with each other, of course). It was a nightmare trying to find a suitable non-AI image of Jupiter's clouds.

Very cool!!!

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.

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ideas for discourse i came up with

having OCs is bourgeois

people who write erotica should be considered sex workers

only americans believe in aliens

it's misogynist to draw touhou characters with big boobs

the "godzilla" franchise is harmful because it teaches children that they should be afraid of lizards and other animals

feel free to argue about any of these, credit not needed but appreciated

dailycatsblog

cosmicabsurdism

hello i am a lesbian character from a mainstream tv show. yeah im pretty fem presenting! it would be so stereotypical if i presented masculine—don’t you know that stereotype? no, i dont have short hair, and of COURSE i shave! that’s another stereotype, that all us lesbians are gross and hairy in all the wrong places, so im being subversive. hah, male character, it is such a learning moment, you know, how you thought i was straight? what a lesson! we lesbians aren’t all gross and hairy and man-hating, some of us are real women. this is subversive. what a blow to the patriarchy!

chuckletons

favorite johnny bravo scene

willemdafemboy

benihana-circumcision

the perfect loop makes me think this is his sisyphean afterlife punishment

lizluvscupcakes

@peppermints-and-lemon-zest

transcyberism

there are four human activities and they are crafting, stories, math, and fucking around. whatever you're doing is at least one of those four.

batmanisagatewaydrug

tv show like grey's anatomy except they're veterinarians. all the soap opera drama but there's creatures all over the place. "is that a gerbil on your scrubs or are you just excited to see me" but it's actually the gerbil, he's a patient and we can't be having sex right now.

batmanisagatewaydrug

the characters still wax poetic via voiceover about how the surgery of the day is just like their own tumultuous personal lives but the surgery in question is like. neutering a bunch of kittens.

batmanisagatewaydrug

which is of course exactly like Dr. Riverbeans trying to decide if he wants to be a father. it's such a huge decision, and he just doesn't know what to do! if only someone had made the decision for him by gently anesthetizing him as a child and fucking. cutting his balls off.

batmanisagatewaydrug

little does he know that his girlfriend, hot livestock veterinarian Dr. Josta, is about to get kicked in the head by a horse patient so hard that she's in a coma for months because the actress needs time away to film a supporting role in the new live action polly pocket movie

batmanisagatewaydrug

meanwhile veterinary assistant Hermione (no relation to the wizard character) is desperately trying to hide the fact that her current love interest is a man who practices and unironically believes in "pet reiki" because her coworkers would never let her live it down

batmanisagatewaydrug

I want big drama for the humans but I don't want to get super emo with the animals, so this takes place in the most successful veterinary practice and no animals ever actually die during the episodes. we can get silly with it. Dr. Spud has a case with a great dane who swallowed a lit stick of dynamite and we see them later looking like a looney toon post-explosion grinning ear to ear and letting us know the dog was fine