Charlie

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.

“I do. I mean, what else am I allowed to care about at this point?” He asks angrily.

Interestingly in this scene, Peeta doesn’t say “what else is there to care about?” Likely because in this instance, he’s facing someone he cares about more than anything who is saying she doesn’t care that he doesn’t want to be swallowed by the Games.

"Then his thumb slides along a catch I didn't notice before and the disk pops open. It's not solid, as I had thought, but a locket. And within the locket are photos. On the right side, my mother and Prim, laughing. And on the left, Gale. Actually smiling. 

There is nothing in the world that could break me faster at this moment than these three faces. After what I heard this afternoon… it is the perfect weapon. " - Chapter 24 Catching Fire

¡ PASSED ON !

Just two sisters all dressed up for the reaping!! 😋

Idk if you’ve heard but I just recently fulfilled the prophecy of reading all of katniss’s hunger games books and I am a wreck about it!! I just think about them all the time now and it is horrible 😽 I’m reading Lucy gray’s games now and as of right now it’s also extremely devastating!!