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"i can fix him" "i can make him worse" WELL I CAN MAKE AN AGRARIAN CULT OUT OF HIM

#seide talks #yes this is about gawain

bavovniatko

Westerners: war in Ukraine? Shouldn't it have ended? We want ruzzia back to participate in Olympics.

Ukraine today (11.07.26)

merrymorningofmay

mrs rice shows me visions of a beautiful world

d1nosaurpower

Bonkers to think about artists in Ukraine participating in artfight rn. Like. "Yeagh we are getting actively bombed right now also I have to finish drawing a colorful dog".

Crazy timeline

folklorespring

Underappreciated act of love: when you become alert after hearing a noise thinking it is war-related and somebody notices it and says what it actually is. There's so much love in those "Car", "Neighbors dropped something", "Wind".

wintersmitth

Every year I live around more ruins.

wintersmitth

More destroyed buildings. More boarded windows. More markets burnt down. More residential blocks like folded house of cards. More infrastructure destroyed.

More dead. More missing people (their remains got vaporised). More. More.

snovyda

Death exists among us like a tangible entity. It sometimes feels like the Grim Reaper can just sit next to you in the metro.

We live among ghosts, so many of them it sometimes feels like we're turning into them ourselves. We definitely have more in common with the ghosts than with the people living in peaceful countries at this point.

folklorespring

Another awful night in Kyiv

sternfleck

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

ralfmaximus

do NOT google "omega heat"

chocomiking

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

folklorespring

VERY weird when people talk about the heatwave in Europe and the effects wars have on our climate without mentioning the war happening on the continent they're talking about

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.

#ref