紅蓮の狂炎よ、我が血潮となれ!

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so anyway. just dropped my hott new hollow knight/silksong fic. apparently it's the first thing in the radihont tag??? i am mystified???

the initial pitch for this one was "hornet meets radiance, thinks 'wow whatta woman' for reasons elucidated in the silksong hunter's journal" but the premise rapidly grew serious as well as in scope until hornet was creating [redacted].

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

(and I don't think it's a reach at all to see an implication that Dean set Beldaruit up here a bit anyway so he could deliberately target him as the most physically vulnerable of the sages when stripped of his magic, which is even worse imo than just being opportunistic)

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

happy pride to them

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.