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lilithsaintcrow · 3 months ago

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"All these authors with different names and different series, with similar cover formats, styles, and the same audiobook narrator, who isn’t real?"

#ai is bad #caveat emptor #it's all a grift

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soupforsoup · 3 months ago

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One thing about Eliot is he's gonna go so in on a grift. A wedding caterer? Get the fuck outta his way he's got two hundred guests to cook for and these canapes aren't gonna plate themselves. A baseball player? Fuck the con he gets a damn sandwich named after him. A supermarket worker? He's doing his full day of work AND THEN starting a union uprising first chance he gets. Sophie is "the grifter" but Eliot is the one who can match and beat her freak for commiting to a character so hard it becomes your new personality for the next week

#not even counting when he bit into a live snake and performed an oscar-worthy death scene #this man is constantly chomping at the bit to be a little freak on the con and I can never get enough #one thing I love about redemption is them letting all the characters be even more batshit insane with their grift characters #eliot spencer #leverage #leverage 2008 #leverage redemption

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ghostlyarchaeologist · 3 months ago

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"Not only did you and Lampard ruin my friend Toby's life, but you ruined the lives of the kids he was trying to help."

Leverage S05E04 The French Connection Job.

#leverage #eliot spencer #nate ford #rampone #christian kane #timothy hutton #marshall teague #tw blood #i love how for a moment you are really convinced that eliot is going to kill this guy #and then oh it was all a grift #he's gooood #ghostly'sgifs

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aardvaark · 8 months ago

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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

#leverageposting #leverage #sophie devereaux #particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school #or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think #she’s dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks #she’s dead too. like. astrid wasn’t the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself #as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund #her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one #or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. that’s #bc of a single vague sentence on john rogers’ blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random #hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that she’s trans which i’ve seen a few times #in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. he’s never asked.#she is here now and that’s all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer #enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth #name bc it’s not Her anymore… she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. she’s so much more than whatever happened.#lvg

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saintmeghanmarkle · 4 months ago

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OMG! OMG! OMG! Seriously OMG! Singer Jaguar Wright who has been calling out Diddy for years alleges (in no uncertain terms) that Meghan and Harry were at Diddy freak-off parties and were taped. Says they need to come clean. by u/Positive-Vibes-2-All

OMG! OMG! OMG! Seriously OMG! Singer Jaguar Wright who has been calling out Diddy for years alleges (in no uncertain terms) that Meghan and Harry were at Diddy freak-off parties and were taped. Says they need to come clean. Jaguar Wright a singer has been calling out Diddy and his criminal behaviour for years. She's been part of the hiphop for several decades and has so much tea. For years many dismissed what she was saying and now she has been shown to be truth teller and a very brave one. Anyway the following yt short is her naming people she alleges were at Diddy's freak-off parties and were taped.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bEFuPd5GEdE post link: https://ift.tt/vizHshC author: Positive-Vibes-2-All submitted: September 27, 2024 at 05:40AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

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reuniclus · 1 month ago

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Landed in Japan and taking a bullet train to Osaka. This rules so hard I’m so angry with public transit in the States.

#all we will get is Elon Musk and his grift tunnels

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xmascritter · 3 months ago

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Conmen conwomen solidarity

#agatha all along #agatha harkness #agatha all along spoilers #agatha spoilers #THE WOMAN STARTED A LITERAL MAGICAL LEGEND OUT OF THE SONG SHE AND HER DEAD SON SHARED FOR A MULTI CENTURY LONG GRIFT #GRUNKLE STAN WISHES HE HAD THAT DEDICATION

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sergle · 1 year ago

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I hope you tell them to kill themselves more

#i'm only holding onto this one for people who are so fucking entitled about demanding access to my body so the kyss will still be rationed #specifically for them.#ok those people AND that one guy who implied i've been pretending i want a reduction to scam people out of money this whole time #and that all the awful shit that's happened on the way has been made up for the sake of the grift #i did also tell him to die. he gets one too #but this ask was still so. so funny to read. and not at all what I thought it was going to say #sergle answers

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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 8 months ago

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So-Ho takes Nigeria on Mother's Day & w/the deception of duper's delight tried to SPIN the reality of 2 scamming grifters into a narrative that it's actually appropriate for her NOT to be mothering her caucasian invisibles in America because it's better for her to be at HOME in the MOTHERland. Only a master manipulator like THE Meghan Markled could contort so many lies into such a stupid explanation for her grifting lifestyle. 🤡

"...and although we are missing our children----we are missing our babies..."

"...it feels very appropriate to be in the MOTHERLAND..."

"...and amongst family..."

"...we cant wait to come back"

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looks-to-the-moon-cock · 1 month ago

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I'm going to utterly lose my cool entirely at how quick I've been seeing cis people using intersex people as excuses to attack trans people (KIDS more specifically lately) AND also seeing even MORE perisex trans people co-opting Intersex to means mid or post transition within some of the same breaths on posts lately. The latter being their "idea" of "hiding" and masking in a country that wants trans people dead.

But guess what! They want intersex people dead and that's making it easier to just let anyone be assumed as masking to be targeted! It's gotten so disastrously dangerous to even be openly intersex without being slapped as being a exorsexist and transphobe for asserting your issues are just as real and affected by anti-trans laws and sentiments too! Bigots don't care if you're intersex and not trans! You're still "wrong" to them! They'll make you take hormones that make you sick because it's not what you need and you don't want to transition! Or maybe you do wanna transition but now you're forced into a body even WORSE for your dysphoria!

Just shut up. Shut up all of you. All of you are awful and horrible and don't actually care about people around you. You don't care about queer rights if you're willing to harm intersex people and use us as your scapegoats or fetishized objects of pleasure. You don't care about us being harmed by hormones. You don't even care about the horrific surgeries you deem as NECESSARY for whatever the fuck reason YOU deem and not based in reality of that person's needs.

I can't stand seeing so many perisex trans people ganging up on their own community and PEOPLE that are being harmed by the same shit they are, just in different ways.

I'm so fucking tired of seeing people I was mutuals with and have to BLOCK because they're all willingly choosing to just toss aside people like me. They'll even tell me "[I'm] not like the other intersex people" when I am! I am!

I am being targeted left and right and don't ever get a say in how I'm perceived unlike so many perisex trans people I've known! I don't even get GENDERED as an It and a thing when I beg and plead to so many perisex trans people EVEN THOUGH they'll call themselves things and more! Like how is it somehow better being intersex? How?

How when so many people around me don't treat me with respect? It is practically part of society around me to make fun of intersex traits even moreso than trans traits. It's inescapable online too! I can barely handle other groups because they're Perisex Trans People using intersex as their GENDER and making it all about their issues and nothing that includes actual intersex voices.

How can people be so okay throwing people like me under the bus? Are we really that unwanted by the large majority of society? Are we not ever going to be allowed to be ourselves like perisex cis and trans people? Why are we somehow the enemy and not everyone stripping our rights away?

#intersexism #intersexism cw #intersexphobia #exorsexism #exorsexism cw #actually intersex #actually nonbinary #actually trans #| | vent #please fucking NOTE that im meaning grifting trans people. not altersex trans people. not altersex people period #not even questioning being intersex due to medi al conditions! not even those who didnt know intersex is an actual term!#but im so so tired of how i had so many friends come mask off about intersex issues and say I'M PART OF THE PROBLEM #that im somehow part of the problem of trans people being assaulted and killed for being intersex!#and some of them used intersex and then claimed “oh it was just a phase with being trans”#like go fucking ahead and do that but im telling you to go fuck yourself for showing your true colors #also yes this is about the USA and my fellow americans because im so fucking disappointed in all of you.

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lilithsaintcrow · 2 years ago

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“Meanwhile, tech companies break into hives at the thought of getting a human to do a job. Their ethos is that if a human can do a task, a machine can do that task better, and not cost them anything such as salary, pensions or or a basic level of respect."

#it's all a grift #ai is bad actually

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tanadrin · 9 months ago

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Fell down a rabbit hole reading about what various white supremacist and alt right shitheads have been up to since 2017 or so, and it’s darkly amusing to me how often they imagine their enemies to be the grand communist conspiracy and not. Like. Normie liberals who hate them just as much. Feels a bit like the thing where communists call all their enemies fascists, but even then communists seem considerably more self aware that often the people they are scrapping with probably don’t think of themselves as fascist.

Turns out weird anti-masturbation cults and angry dipshits who give off Most Divorced Man in the Universe energy are not the foundation for political success.

#also one guy got doxxed and it was revealed he was married to a Jewish woman #and had had a Jewish wedding #and like I don’t know what kind of grift he was running #but good lord these people all just seem like they’re barely holding it together #like I know I know ‘white supremacist’ does not scream ‘well adjusted’ to begin with #but it’s astonishing they ever had their moment in the public spotlight back in 2017/18 #given how absolutely absurd everybody involved seems to have been

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yellowocaballero · 7 months ago

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thinking about roleswap kakashi fucking around in the akatsuki and stalking obito is very funny cause I just know he's making so many problems and dealing with literally none of them.

King you are literally so fucking right. Rin has an actual life. She's checked in on Tobi enough times to see that Konoha was being awful to him, but that he was doing relatively fine and was better off in his home than kidnapped by her nuclear disarmament squad. Kakashi? He's a trophy husband, he runs her errands, he has the kamui that Obito does not even know he has, you know he's fucking stalking. His only hobbies are terrorizing his coworkers, gaslighting Yahiko, making bentos for Rin with onigiri that look like little turtles, and creeping on Tobi.

I don't know if he and Rin know that Obito's faking it (or 'faking it'). Extremely funny if part of Rin's ethos is to make a safe world for Tobi, at which point Obito no longer has any idea how to break the news to her that she's trying to genjutsu the world for somebody who is technically made up by him. Also extremely funny if Rin and Kakashi figured it out and they just, like, don't care. Doesn't change anything. Create a better world for Obito AND Tobi. If you're, like, doing this for fun, Obito, you can keep doing it, we support you. Our coping mechanisms are moon genjutsu and stalking, we don't judge. Obito 'Hypocrite' Uchiha thinks this is an insane stance, but better than the alternative.

#maybe kakashi figures it out but keeps quiet and rin doesn't know? i have no idea #i think everybody kinda believes something different is going on with him. including obito.#nobodys fully right. including obito.#did obito lean so hard into the grift he accidentally gave himself a fake fantasy alter.#was he actually developing something like a fake fantasy not-actual-did-at-all alter and he thought he was solely grifting.#is it really just 100% the most intense bit of all time.#who knows.#my asks #my writing

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ghostlyarchaeologist · 2 years ago

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“It was the bees! The bees told me to do it!”

Leverage Redemption S01E10 The Unwellness Job.

#leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #harry wilson #parker #hank was just a fun character all round #i love eliot's silly grifts #harry is just cracking up #and parker's face!#ghostly'sgifs

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aardvaark · 9 months ago

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i think hardison would be in lost media recovery communities online but he’d also be trying his hardest to make all recordings of a certain country singer named "kenneth crane" become lost media, and feel really kinda bad about it

#alec hardison #leverage #wren speaks #leverageposting #a lot of lost media exists in random archives of tv studios or recording studios or whatever & well. he is uh… uniquely qualified to #‘liberate’ those pieces of media. either by hacking or by grifting & stealing etc.#i think he’d be emotional about the loss of art that people put lots of work into & which other people love and want to find #he has to prevent any copies of eliot’s singing from being publicly available tho bc it’s a major safety concern #oh and all the baseball games that roy harper played in. and that news report of eliot playing w dogs in san lorenzo #actually perhaps…. a lot of news programs in san lorenzo that featured the murdered first lady #i mean sophie is meant to be dead as of season 2.#and while shutting down eliot/kenneth crane fansites was mainly important while they were there bc location being given away #it’s also important that ppl can’t figure out who he’s working with now or the fact he’s definitely alive or that he’s working for a #good cause now etc etc. just makes him more vulnerable & there’s a lot of ppl who want him dead or want revenge

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saintmeghanmarkle · 10 days ago

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This is JAW-DROPPING TEA from a credible source!!! Mike Zeroh is a youtuber who covers mostly Disney and Marvel studios. He does have industry contacts so is credible. He's reporting Markle is demanding AMONG OTHER THINGS the Marketing team be fired AND the NF Board agrees with her. by u/Positive-Vibes-2-All

This is JAW-DROPPING TEA from a credible source!!! Mike Zeroh is a youtuber who covers mostly Disney and Marvel studios. He does have industry contacts so is credible. He's reporting Markle is demanding AMONG OTHER THINGS the Marketing team be fired AND the NF Board agrees with her. Not only does she and the Board want YT comments turned off but for the trailer to be redone.And Markle is demanding to hand pick a new Marketing team. Markle is claiming the Marketing team used rejected takes! Zeroh is credible, whether he is infallible is another question. Many more details in the videohttps://youtu.be/6yKo6CDEw-4 post link: https://ift.tt/FZKtj7q author: Positive-Vibes-2-All submitted: January 04, 2025 at 09:34PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

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