Mood theme for me
Apr. 22nd, 2026 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pengillyIt's only now that I'm making a mood theme for myself, that I see how uber-comprehensive Dreamwidth's mood list is. To the point of possibly being a bit redundant.
Like how do you "feel" sympathetic as a mood? The first thing that comes to my mind is a judgment someone would make about you, rather than something you'd feel yourself (Unless you are posting about someone else's bad situation, which...I would tread carefully on sharing.)
My mood theme is not very good yet btw, and definitely not something I want to put out for public consumption yet (ever?!), but feel free to have a look. It's a Surge the Tenrec centered mood theme, which I thought would be fitting for my journal.
Chaotic Surges by yours truly
I'm having a hard time finding panels where Surge both feels and looks visibly sad, haha. She seems to mask that particular feeling with anger pretty well. Usually if she's frowning, it's out of boredom, annoyance, or fear. If I were trying to make this for public consumption for a community like![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
moodthemeinayear, this would probably be a bigger hurdle to overcome. But this theme is just for me, and I don't really make "sad" posts as of now.
I was inspired to create this theme after seeing similarly-sized 100 x 45 Sonic X mood icons on user carriepika's page, which I found while surfing old Sonic Livejournals. (For whatever reason I cannot access the site now, so I'm not sure there would be much use in linking it.)
The mood theme consisted of screencaps of Sonic making various facial expressions with a little border around them. Though I had a paid account for awhile, I only made a mood theme after seeing that and realizing I didn't have to become a pixel art master and make a huge sheet of unique expressions from scratch.
Like how do you "feel" sympathetic as a mood? The first thing that comes to my mind is a judgment someone would make about you, rather than something you'd feel yourself (Unless you are posting about someone else's bad situation, which...I would tread carefully on sharing.)
My mood theme is not very good yet btw, and definitely not something I want to put out for public consumption yet (ever?!), but feel free to have a look. It's a Surge the Tenrec centered mood theme, which I thought would be fitting for my journal.
Chaotic Surges by yours truly
I'm having a hard time finding panels where Surge both feels and looks visibly sad, haha. She seems to mask that particular feeling with anger pretty well. Usually if she's frowning, it's out of boredom, annoyance, or fear. If I were trying to make this for public consumption for a community like
moodthemeinayear, this would probably be a bigger hurdle to overcome. But this theme is just for me, and I don't really make "sad" posts as of now.I was inspired to create this theme after seeing similarly-sized 100 x 45 Sonic X mood icons on user carriepika's page, which I found while surfing old Sonic Livejournals. (For whatever reason I cannot access the site now, so I'm not sure there would be much use in linking it.)
The mood theme consisted of screencaps of Sonic making various facial expressions with a little border around them. Though I had a paid account for awhile, I only made a mood theme after seeing that and realizing I didn't have to become a pixel art master and make a huge sheet of unique expressions from scratch.
