As a Jensen fan I fucking love JIB, I know it can be the wankiest of cons and the person who runs it is a total shit but it's also the only con where Jensen gets solo panels, or panels with Rob or Richard and it's all mixed up and we get to see a bit more of their friendships on stage. Misha fans don't know how lucky they are, every single Creation con he gets solo panels all to himself, where he can talk and not have the extra tall one annoy everyone. You can watch his panels and not have to think about editing the other person out. We only get that at JIB! Once a year! I'd love it if we could get that else where, but right now it's JIB or nothing, so yeah excuse me for not joining in the JIB is meh this year opinions, I am revelling in all the new Jensen content and news about what he's doing next.
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I don't see a whole lot of fanmission discussion on here, which is a bummer considering they're such a huge part of the classic Thief community and why it's endured so long. With some of the Black Parade hype recently, I think now is the perfect time for this- here's my personal list of TDP/TMA fanmission recs! Not in any particular order (aside from the first 3-5 or so for each game, which are my personal all-time favorites) these are just taken from my highest rated fanmissions in FMSel. Each one links to a Thief Guild page where you can find the mission briefing, screenshots, and downloads.
Thief Gold:
Ascend the Dim Valley
Endless Rain
Rose Garden
The Scarlet Cascabel
The Black Parade
Catacombs of Knoss
Alcazar
Chalice of Souls
Making a Profit
The Sound of a Burrick in a Room
Whispers Below the Cobblestone
Between These Dark Walls
Dirty Money
Falling, In Love
Autumn in Lampfire Hills
Thief 2:
Compulsory Egress
Into the Odd
Bad Debts, and its sequel Disorientation (part of the Talbot series by Melan, along with TG FM Rose Garden)
The Violent End of Duncan Malveine
Feast of Pilgrims
Ominous Bequest, and its sequel Broken Triad
Rose Cottage
Behind Closed Doors
The Turning of the Leaves
King Abedzen's Tomb
Legacy of Knoss (sequel to TG FM Catacombs of Knoss)
The Ties That Bind (the first FM I recall ever playing and, imo, a cute introduction to FMs as a whole)
Old Habits and Dead Wives
Vanishing Point
All For a Night's Sleep
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
Cracks in the Glass
Bloodmist Tower
Finals at the Academy
Heist at Hilbert's Highrise Hotel
The Sun Within and the Sun Without
Malazar's Inscrutable Tower
Ravensreach
Coaxing the Spirit
Keyhunt
Here's a TTLG thread on how to set up both games for playing FMs. I personally don't use any fancy loaders, FMSel will be what you get by default, it works perfect and is all you need. TTLG overall is just a great place to be, it's good for FM hints/walkthroughs/recs and general Thief/Looking Glass discussion.
Ideally you have T2Fix already installed, but for setting your game up for FMs, you should do a quick reinstall and make sure that two options are ticked: common script modules, and T2FMDML. T2FMDML is a collection of fixes for Thief 2 FMs that wouldn't otherwise play nice with NewDark, and the scripts as I understand are for FMs that need them but either come packaged with older versions or without the scripts at all- there's a lot of older FMs out there that will be broken for you if you don't have both installed. You can just rerun the T2Fix installer for this, you don't need to reinstall the game or anything.
Thief Guild is where all the links lead, and it's a great site for finding FMs. You can filter by genre (city, thieves' highway, cathedral, etc.) or look through the usermade collections- for a start, I'd recommend looking at the collections specifically to find classic/early FMs, a category that I know I'm not hitting on much in my list here but is definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested.
Bonus Dark Mod rec: The Dark Mod is a fanmade, free, Thief-inspired stealth game. I haven't played nearly as many missions for it as I have for Thief, but it's still absolutely worth checking out to see if it clicks for you. If you only play one TDM mission, though, my personal rec is Iris.
If you have any, add on with your own FM recs also! Feel free to send asks or dms about anything FM-related, as well ^^ I'm always looking for more to check out, and always open to talk about them if anyone wants.
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stop saying people's art are better than yours !!! if you wanna make a comment about it just tell them you want to incorporate some aspects of their style into your own or smth like that bc talking shit about your art at someone is weird !! especially if you point out that theyre younger than you !!! you gotta know your art isnt terrible you just havent practiced certain techniques you want to see in your own work !!!!!! be proud of the progress youve made even if its the first step of a fetus jfc !!!! have respect for your own art no matter how bad it might look to you
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13 - 14.11.23
Work was pretty easygoing today and yesterday, I've been retrying a troublesome cloning process several times but not feeling overly frustrated about it; and I think we might be getting to the bottom of the problem now. The main thing is my boyfriend has been visiting over the weekend and until this morning, so I wasn't feeling very bothered about work! I think that's probably a good thing actually. Being in a new city means my life outside of work can feel a bit small still, so it's so good to have someone familiar around to energise me and fill up all my free time so it counterbalances the work, and make me extra motivated to get home and get on with what feels like the best/more important way to spend time! ❤️
27/100 days of productivity
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Inkvater Day 19 • Greywaren
Each scale was a pure dark green, and the only place his skin showed through was in a narrow line to indicate the edge of each interlocking scale.
It felt like a lifetime ago he and Hennessy had held a snake in the abandoned museum. Bryde had ordered them to look at the reptile, to study it, take in its details in case they wanted to dream it later. They had. But Hennessy had been wide awake, not dreaming, when she’d painted these scales up and down his skin.
“Fuck you,” he told her. “This is so good.”
Accidentally made Ronan jacked. Am not complaining.
Accidentally drew his right arm. Am grateful for photo flipping.
Also accidentally ended up with Ronan’s hand in a fist, after eleventy million hand attempts, then my son whacked his knee on his mouth and split his lip on his teeth, then put his bloody hand on my notebook AND my copy of Greywaren. Bad. Ass.
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