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hiiii I'm Chloe, I love sheep and have terrible taste in every kind of media imaginable. This is my main blog, and the place where I put all my personal projects (and some reblogs)

For 2024, I'm doing a "365 album reviews in 365 days" project, so I'm always on the hunt for recommendations-- I love finding new stuff, so send anything my way and I'll check it out! There will likely be some expansion of this project in the semi-near future, plus I'm looking at starting new projects in other mediums, so stay tuned!

Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Vexxation/ RateYourMusic: https://rateyourmusic.com/~Vex_ation Storygraph (Goodreads but better): https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/vexation MyAnimeList: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vex_ation Backloggd: https://backloggd.com/u/Vexxation

Any film directed by Stanley Kubrick

Any game made by Hideo Kojima

The work of Toby Fox

Steak

Disco Elysium

The Godfather

Ulysses

Nier Automata

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Pretty much all of western literary canon

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.

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