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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.

@aderynrrowntree​ suggested in my Jedi Order symbol recolouring post, that I should make pride flag versions. So I spent another two hours doing that, instead of writing, lol. (You may notice that, partway through, I figured out how to keep the colours from blending quite so much. Decided I didn’t  care enough about making them all look a similar level of defined.)

Find more of my fandom symbol recolours by clicking this sentence, lol

Above: Philly Pride, Trans, Genderqueer, Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Bisexual, Polysexual, Pansexual, Asexual, and Aromantic.

And then, below, because there were too many, whoops, sorry: Gilbert Baker Pride, Polyamory, Intersex, Bear, Agender, & a redone version of the Progress flag that’s right-side up. (Now under a cut, for shortening of reblogs)

*casually drops a handful of LGBT+ flag FMA symbols*

Working on potential symbol stickers for holiday cards next year, and that has turned into playing with queer flags, because why not?

For the flamel, asexuality and Progress, because I’m ace and I love the progress flag, and then polyam, bi, and trans. Polyam because my beloved OT3, bi because I will fight you, Ed and Roy are both bi, and trans…tbh, mostly because trans, like the progress pride, is become one of my defaults. But, also, I did the trans!Ed fic.

For the ouroboros, Philly pride, this time, because I liked the aesthetic of the black and brown wings with the bolder colours. Ace because Dwarf in the Flask reproduced asexually, lol, and then genderqueer, nonbinary, and trans because Envy.

And then, not sure this one will be made a sticker, but I had fun doing a radial Progress pride with the human transmutation array

Wanted to make a hologram version of the Fulcrum symbol from Star Wars: Rebels for a while and took a break from replaying FFX long enough to play with some possible sticker images (which is actually what got me to replaying FFX, because I was looking for FFVIII images and the png site I stumbled across seems to have a ‘tag the way you feel today’ policy, sheesh).

ANYWAY

Made the hologram version, relatively pleased with it, although I might fidget with the glow a bit more at some point. Also made a lesbian pride version, because of the Ahsoka novel, and then remembered she had that maybe-fling with Lux Bonteri and decided that meant I needed a bi flag, too. And then the Gilbert Baker and Progress pride flags.

All of them are outlined in orange because Ahsoka’s skin tone reasons, and also as a nod to the 332nd and their orange helmets with with white markings to match Ahsoka’s. (I usually outline in black—used to help white stand out, especially for the Progress ombre, since it’s got white at the bottom—but I felt compelled to change it up, this time.)

As always, free to take and use, these are really just for my amusement, but I’m happy if other people enjoy them, too. (Sorry these are so TALL, sheesh, lol)

Final Fantasy X & X-2 symbols recoloured!

First, the Yuna sending dance that’s the FFX logo, done first in the Gilbert Baker pride, then in the bi pride, both going vertical, because that direction worked better with the length.

Then, Seymour’s chest tattoo (which I’m not certain I did a great job making a transparent version of, but just don’t blow it up too much an it’s fine), again with vertical patterns, due to the shape of the lion—it’s apparently meant to be a rearing lion? I learnt recently—and then the…flames or multi-piece tail its got going on, lol. Anyway, in the trans-inclusive gay, bisexual, and genderqueer flags. The gay was as much an aesthetic choice as anything, lol, turquoise to indigo is very much his thing.

Then, the Zanarkand Abes symbol. Thicker one, like Tidus wears on his clothing, rather than the thinner one Jecht has as a tattoo. First the red with the thick yellow outline that Tidus wears, then the Philly Pride and nonbinary flags, both horizontal stripes. Again, mostly aesthetic choices, there, but the nonbinary is vaguely related to a fic idea my muse is toying with, we’ll see how that turns out. 🙄

Last, the FFX-2 logo background of Rikku, Yuna, and Paine. I have still never got any further than the first mission in this game, lol. Probably won’t have the focus, once I finish replaying FFX this time to manage it this time, either, whoops. Anyway, in the trans-inclusive lesbian flag going horizontal, and the genderfluid flag going vertical. The lesbian flag wasn’t speaking to me going vertically, and the black had to be on Paine, come on, for the genderfluid flag, so we ended up with two directions, lol. It is what it is. Lesbian flag is mostly because this is THE Final Fantasy game with an all-female main cast, of course I’m using that flag for it, lol. Genderfluid flag mostly because aesthetic.

(As always, free to use, no credit necessary. If you’ve got a flag you want to see with a particular symbol, let me know.)

HAVE MORE RECOLOURED STAR WARS SYMBOLS.

Most of these are from the screenshot of my folder I shared. No one requested the full-size versions, but I felt like it. With some minor changes (namely flipping the direction of the stripes for the one mythosaur skull).

Also made a gradient for the AroAce combined flag (the one that’s orange/blue, rather than any of the many variations smooshing the two flags together), because I could.

ANYWAY

Brief descriptions, for those who need them:

All the images have transparent backgrounds and all but the mudhorn skull are outlined in thin black or grey lines.

3 Mythosaur skull symbols (as they appear on Boba Fett’s shoulder pauldron in the original trilogy and as the pendant Din gave Grogu), with the gradients of the Progress Pride flag, the AroAce combined flag, and the Gilbert Baker flag.

3 True Mandalorian mythosaur skull symbols (as they appear on Jaster Mereel’s shoulder pauldron in the Jango Fett comic, with a flatter head, tusks going out to either side more, and the ‘teeth’ as more of a spear-tip shape), with the gradients of the Progress Pride flag, the Trans pride flag, and the Gilbert Baker flag.

2 Rebellion crests (as from the original trilogy), in the Progress Pride flag and Gilbert Baker flag colours.

1 mudhorn skull in light grey, shaded around the edges like it’s standing out from the transparent background.

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(Also finally made Jedi Order symbol variations for the aroace, trans-inclusive gay, and trans-inclusive lesbian flags. I’ll share them eventually, lol.)

(Also, also, found some more SW symbols I could recolour, including the Wolf Pack’s wolf head, a Boba helmet stencil, a clone troopers badge, and the Old Republic Jedi Order symbol, which I’ll play around with eventually.)

As always, free to use. Let me know if you have any gradient requests.

Totally not me, working on recolouring my Jedi Order symbols instead of sleeping, lol

Adding on to this post with some flags I was missing: Queer Pride, two AroAce Pride variations (on the left: orange, yellow, white, light blue, navy; on the right: black, purple, grey, white, light green, green), Trans-inclusive Gay Pride, Trans-inclusive Lesbian Pride, Demiboy Pride, and Demigirl Pride.

That’s all. As always, free to use, and let me know if you want any flags I haven’t done, yet.

@madluluwriting asked: If you have time one of these days I’d love a blue and orange aro ace on with the rebellion symbol! Will def use one of these for my discord icon 

I GOTCHU

So, I’m a big fan of how the flags look with vertical stripes for the Rebellion symbol, but the orange/blue AroAce flag just makes such a lovely sunset over water look… *stares at it and sighs happily* Anyway, did one in horizontal and one in vertical.

Also, since I had everything open, made the other AroAce flag variation that I’d saved, and then also the Ace and Aro flags, because WHY NOT, am I right? I’m right.

Anyway, free to use, and lemme know if you’ve got any other ideas.