#but like. unsolicited lmao

[angelpuns]

Me looking at the super long definitely TMI diary-type vent post in my drafts: haha yeah you're gonna live there forever until I delete you <3

[essenceofarda]

no,, sadly i am not immune to the strong desire to write "girl falls into middle earth" fics 😔

[psychiclounge]

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.

[fuckyeah-bears]

you know 99% of the time i get nice, totally reasonable, polite, and frequently kind asks on bearotonin. but every now and then i get some asks that just make me wanna reply snarkily so badly lmao

[sergle]

People always miss the “it’s the only thing keeping my pain management Manageable” part of me mentioning that I go to a chiropractor

[paranoidgemsbok]

also idk if anyone remembers the last time i went to the expo and got "mislabeled" pods (cheap p. scaber oranges labeled as the more expensive o. asellus BC maple). the guy apologized, said "omg i have no idea how this happened" and returned my money

but i looked at the same stand this time. and they had o. asellus BC maples, for $40. and i look closely at them.

guess who whoopsie daisy mislabeled some $10 p scaber oranges again! jeez so forgetful dang aw beans man

[self-spaghettification]

they/themavos real

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

not one character in hannibal that i don't relate to. not one.

[zibah-ho]

WAIT ZIBAH WERE U SERIOUS ABOUT OLLIE KICKING OUT EDDIE (back then). HELP I CANT TELL

no lmao I knew that much it’s the 🦇 stuff I don’t trust and even the stuff I do it’s just. Ew yucky we’re past that now

[coldercreation]

TMI emo rant - I'm just moping lmao ( don't read if others being emo makes you mopey too, I don't wanna mope-fy this space :'< take care xx )

When the lady in the workout video says ‘the fact that you showed up for this exercise today is already something that deserves a pat on the back’ after you have felt like a hot garbage of a human being the whole day, week, month, just…

damn lady. coming for my praise and attention starved butt like that 😒

[silkjade]

my first genshin birthday ૮꒰ྀི∩´ ᵕ `∩꒱ྀིა I love it, I think it’s such a cute personal touch, these are my faves! 💗

[always-andromeda]

Man on hinge: I think I like your glasses chain in this photo better than the ones in your other photos. 😎

Me, internally: Don’t care, didn’t ask, get fucked.

[akkivee]

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Pn1Vq9ubtguEO1QaO8DXk?si=0ZY3-1bmTxqVDpg2KpH4Gw

kinda flows like a buster bros song ngl

hey this song’s a vibe!!!!!! neat!!!!!!!! to your point, if 3 second killer knew what chill was i could see this song being that so i def see where you’re coming from lol

[leofrith]

novel concept here, perhaps, but i think it would be super nice if the medical community in general started giving a shit about menstrual and other reproductive related pain beyond whether it affects someone's fertility or not. like someone please tell me why the only time my reproductive pain is taken seriously is when it relates to my ability to make a fucking baby, something i have absolutely zero interest in doing. why isn't the fact that i'm in pain reason enough to investigate further. why do i keep being recommended various forms of birth control as a blanket solution for my symptoms that nobody seems to care enough about to even attempt to investigate further. why does every concern i have about my pain get downplayed and swept aside in favour of reassurances about my fertility that i didn't ask for. why have i been running around in circles for more than ten years begging for someone to care enough about my pain to listen to me and do something about it. why.

[caffeinatedopossum]

people keep making me think I'm smart and it's fucking with my fundamental understanding that I am simply a Person and I know what I know which is equal to what everyone else knows even when those people specialize in different knowledge than me. Like I had this general trust and respect that everyone knows something I don't and didn't consider that I, in turn, also know things that they do not 🤨 crazy how that works

[fluffypotatey]

ngl the best metaphor i have for unsolicited “suggestions” when it comes to fandom comments is my dad sending me pie recipes every year for thanksgiving:

thank you for your offer, but 1) i never asked, 2) baking pastries (writing fic) is something i do because i take joy in baking (writing), 3) continuously sending me recipes (“constructive” criticism) makes me want to bake (write) less