Mood theme for me

[pengilly]

It'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 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.

Comments

[thedumbopt_imist]

how do u make a mood theme?!?

[pengilly]

Somehow I cannot for the life of me find where to find this page directly from the toolbar, so here is the link:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/moodthemes

Here's a page outlining how to create a mood theme.

jana | How to create personal mood themes

Also...DO NOT DO NOT FORGET to specify the size of each mood icon (in pixels) before saving or going back to the editor. Even if your images are already, say, 100 wide x 45 tall, you still need to specify, under each unique image, what the width and height should be.

It might or might not have led to all my progress getting wiped, and needing to paste in all the image links again. (I was relatively organized, and had all my images uploaded to one place (Dreamwidth itself), so it was more an annoyance if anything. But still.)

[thedumbopt_imist]

thx, for some reason it says my acc type doesnt have access, is it a paid feature?

[pengilly]

Yeah, I already knew you needed to have a paid account to use a custom mood theme, just wasn't sure if you could make one for later use with a free account.

Looks like both are paid-only, and I have my answer.

At the very least paid accounts are quite cheap, only $3 a month for regular paid account.

https://shop.dreamwidth.org/

And hey, that was quite fast. You must have your email set to send notifications on your phone (like I do) ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-