Dreamwidth Community Promotion

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.

moodthemeinayear, a community dedicated to creating a custom mood theme at a relaxed pace, has reached its first scheduled milestone!

At the end of Part 1 of the suggested schedule, anyone following along should have created the minimum number of required images for a complete custom mood theme. There's more coming up starting next Monday for anyone who wants to continue, but this also works as a fine jumping off point for anyone who's satisfied with what they have.

This is also a great jumping on point for anyone who might be interested! Since the community schedule is just a suggestion for people who want a bit more structure, you're welcome to tackle Part 1 and Part 2 simultaneously, start with Part 1 and do Part 2 after the next break, skip Part 1 until next year, work on all the moods in alphabetical order, use a random number generator, or any other order you can think of.

Whether you're interested in creating a custom mood theme yourself, or just want to check out the art and cheer people on, I hope you visit moodthemeinayear!