The Buddiest Of Boys

Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? Paul. I like good fiction, Jesus, cars, music, and running. URL is pjo, not mlpfim

[thepartyponies]

When you’re out with your dad and he just keeps talking to some random guy

[illusoryfem]

[whyenn-reader]

[thelordsoftherings]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) // Dir. Peter Jackson

[fruitypieq]

Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

[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.

[bakeryfairy]

[duel-of-the-dolls]

Hot Dog Baby by LEGO

[bovineblogger]

can you guys watch my squab for me im gonna go on my smoko

[kcrossvine]

baby need smoko

[bovineblogger]

BABY DOES NOT NEED SMOKO

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

Internet socialists always talk about the things they think they should get for free, they never talk about the labor they themselves will provide for free.

[emmaubler]

On the rare occasion they do, it's always hobby-related, like "yoga teacher" or "commune muralist." Which implies a lot of confidence in the belief that someone else's passion job will be "lithium miner" or "sewage plant worker."

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[knowledgetosorrow]

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[b3ndy]

Rsd or general anxiety sucks because you forget you have it and something Mildly happens or you think something happens and it's like Oh Ok sorry I'm just gonna go to the exploding room now haha. Nice seeing ya.

[thepartyponies]

nothing like youth discipleship to sanctify you huh

kid's like "i'm having these problems and questions"

i'm like "oh ok so these things will help you and what you need to do is this"

then i'm like "oh shoot i need to do that too"

[robotslenderman]

can you imagine tho if Eridians discovered radiation years and years after the Blip-A left

and they're just absolutely horrified because now they know why the Blip-A never returned, they sent them all to die, now to save their sun they have to redo the entire program all over again and Adrian is devastated -

and then three Eridian years later Rocky shows up with his pet alien and a ton of taumeoba all I LIVED BITCH

[stealingpotatoes]

i can't stop thinking abt this post so

[romanceyourdemons]

last night i dreamed acclaimed actor and director kenneth branagh died in a recreation of the battle of agincourt and i happened to be there at the time, so afterwards the investigator for the death (who was an off brand hercule poirot situation) asked me about it and i said “ken was always drawn to spectacle. he loved that feeling of awe” and i remember thinking, in the dream, what the hell am i doing? since when am i on ken terms with real life oscar winner sir kenneth branagh?? being a heartrendingly present bystander at the moment of his bizarre death doesn’t give me the right to ken him

[hitmyvape]