Mood Theme in a Year, Round Two

[soc_puppet]

Hello, Newcomers! You may remember me from my explanatory post about mood themes a couple of months ago. For anyone interested in making their own custom mood theme (or maybe even one for all of Dreamwidth to use), I'm happy to announce that moodthemeinayear is gearing up for its second full run!

Once a week starting in January, the community mod will make a post with three mood themes. Those are the suggested moods to work on for that week. In those posts, you can talk with other community members, brainstorm, encourage each other, make suggestions, and generally cheer one another on. You are welcome to post any mood images you make to the community as you go, and you are welcome to join or leave the community at any point in the schedule.

Despite the name, there are three main schedules for this community:

The Maximum Mood Theme Track, which begins on January 1st and continues through the year with regular breaks

The Minimum Mood Theme track, which starts seven times a year and goes for six weeks at a time

The Medium Mood Theme track, which starts three times a year and goes for fifteen weeks at a time, with one break in the middle

Mood prompt posting will begin on January 1st and continue through the year. The Maximum track will include all 132 moods; the Minimum Track will include the bare minimum 15 moods for a complete mood theme, plus an optional three moods that will give you the greatest image variety in your mood theme for the fewest actual images; the Medium Track includes all 34 higher-level moods that other moods inherit images from.

While Dreamwidth requires a paid account to use a custom mood theme, you do not need a paid account or even to want to use a custom mood theme to participate in this community! If you're intrigued by the idea of creating a custom mood theme, or just watching along and potentially cheering on others as they do so, you are welcome to join in the fun to the extent you feel comfortable. (There's also the secret hidden option of creating a mood theme with completely original/copyright-free images and submitting it to Dreamwidth to be a possible site-supported mood theme 👀)

To find out more, check out Mood Theme in a Year's profile.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I appreciate you posting this here.

Re: Thank you!

[soc_puppet]

Sure thing! It's been on my to-do list, but life's been a little busy the past couple of days 😂

[dray]

This is so cool! I'm going to mozy on over and take a peek. Congrats on the bundle of rats recently created! I have such fondness for the old LJ days of using moods with posts, too.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> This is so cool! <<

That's good to hear.

>> I'm going to mozy on over and take a peek. Congrats on the bundle of rats recently created! I have such fondness for the old LJ days of using moods with posts, too. <<

Some people still change icons based on mood, others just use the mood theme.

[soc_puppet]

Thanks, on all counts 😊 I hope you join in, even just to watch and cheer people on!

Ever since I installed my rat mood theme, I've been using moods with every post—something I used to do rarely at most! I also ended up having an extra tab open to the complete rat mood theme, so I can get a better idea of what I'm picking at any given time, but that's not much of a hardship 😂

[dray]

I do that with my icons on any of my RP accounts (but for icons) so I'm thinking of using the mood theme challenge as a more in depth excuse to do portrait icons!