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Ever wanted to create a custom mood theme, but found yourself overwhelmed by all of the potential moods you'd have to make? Worry no more! At Mood Theme in a Year, the community assigns three moods a week for you to design images for. Draw, screencap, and/or animate your way to the custom mood theme of your dreams, with a community by your side to support and encourage you.

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.

You can join or leave the community at any time. The first five weeks of the community will be dedicated to the fifteen "top level" moods in Dreamwidth's mood tree; this will give you the absolute minimum number of moods for a custom mood theme. After this, there will be a week's break, with no new mood prompts posted. The community will move on to the next branches in the mood tree after that, with periodic breaks, until all moods have been prompted.

If you want to post more than five mood images, please put them under a cut! You can find out how to do so here. Please also put any images that include common triggers or phobias under a cut, such as rats or spiders.

You can make a mood theme out of any material, including things that are 18+, but remember to mark any posts you make with 18+ images as NSFW/containing adult content. In addition, please keep any discussion in the weekly mod posts strictly SFW; if you are designing a NSFW theme and want input on it, please make a post in your own journal and link to that in the comments rather than discussing the designs in the mod posts.

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.

For more information on creating a custom mood theme, you can check out this post by ljwrites or this post by wychwood. To manage your mood themes, go here.

You can join or leave the community and the challenge at any time. While the community does have a schedule, it's only a suggested schedule for anyone who wants the extra structure. You can go by whatever organization approach works best for you, including alphabetical, backwards, random number generation, starting from one in the middle of the year, leaving and picking back where you left off, skipping ahead, falling behind, one mood a month, no organization at all, and any other approach you can think of. Take whatever approach or schedule you need to get results you're happy with.

All mood themes created by community members are understood to be for the creator's use only unless otherwise stated.