Pronoun Trouble

Linking these here for organizational purposes. You may remember that I had the horrible temptation to do some sort of One Month Mood Theme challenge? Well, I'm still not doing it yet, but I did put together a bunch of calendars for anyone who might want to do it. This could hypothetically include me at some point, but doesn't necessarily have to.

There are a total of fourteen calendar pages: They only have day numbers and moods listed on them, no assigned months (or days of the week, because that was just easier for me). There is a version that starts on each day of the week for both 30-day months and 31-day months; I left off February, because no thank you. Here are the pages, should anyone want to save them or print them out or whatever. They're very minimalist, because again, easiest for me.

Sunday 30 | Sunday 31
Monday 30 | Monday 31
Tuesday 30 | Tuesday 31
Wednesday 30 | Wednesday 31
Thursday 30 | Thursday 31
Friday 30 | Friday 31
Saturday 30 | Saturday 31

Phew! I sure hope I got all of those in the right place; they didn't stay in order when I uploaded them, and I'm not going to go checking them individually at the moment, kthx.

I also made a "mood challenge" grid; it's got the same 34 moods in a 5x7 grid (last square empty), with the squares mostly empty. The idea is to print it out and do little sketches for each mood in each square, and then maybe a freebie/wild card square at the end. You can check that out here. I'm hoping to print off a few copies of it, so I can take it with me and do some mood theme-y sketching without constantly referring back to my phone for what the next mood is 😂

All of these should add yet more flexibility for mood theme creation and challenges, whee!

And now: Bed time routine.

I felt the need to do a bit of visual art, and also wanted to try my hand at pixel art, so I threw together a minimal-ish mood theme with blue 8bit jellyfish. ...And then I decided, what the heck, I need more colors! And now I have a rainbow of jellyfish moods.

These aren't ready for common use yet; for various art program related reasons, I still need to clip everything down except for blue and green, and then zip and upload them. But here are the sheets where you can see the jellyfish!

( J is for Jellyfish )

I'll upload the individual colors, plus one with all the colors, once they're ready ✌

Edit: Come download your jellies!

Pink Jellies | Orange Jellies
Yellow Jellies | Green Jellies
Blue Jellies | Purple Jellies
Jellyfish Mood Rainbow

Use one at a time, or mix and match for extra fun! While it's not comprehensive, I'm pretty sure you could wrangle a couple of pride flags out of these jellies 👀

Note to self: Make pride flag jellies

Images have their dimensions included in the file name, width by height; so, for example, 34x40 is 34 pixels wide by 40 pixels tall. This should help if you're uploading them as a Dreamwidth mood theme (and probably other Dreamwidth-like sites), especially as not all of them are the same dimensions, and you need to list the dimension for every parent mood image.

Edit 2: I inquired in the latest dw_maintenance post about what was involved in submitting a mood theme to be officially used by Dreamwidth, and apparently there's a wiki page about it! One of my dreams may be coming true shortly?!

Edit 3: The jellyfish files have been updated with new jellies! There are now a total of 35 images, one for each of the "branches" on the mood hierarchy tree, plus a bonus image (the mood "Blank").

Fifteen rat moods left, and I have sketches for thirteen of them (including, finally, Quixotic, which has been haunting me). Two official sketches left to go before the official count is done, though I also want to do a re-do of Intimidated (I feel like it's too visually busy, even though the cat looks great), and also do some more variations on Touched.

But still.

13/15 sketched, 0/15 digitally colored.

117/132 total.

Heaven help me, I might actually complete a New Year's Resolution.

Part 3 has started over at moodthemeinayear! I'm a bit discombobulated at the moment, due to shaking my schedule up significantly today (three guesses why, and none of them are "work"), but I did manage to get the weekly mood announcement post up. We've got a rough few weeks over there as we get through nine variations on "Angry", which honestly makes me glad I've been skipping around so much 😅

(Rassa-frassa ADHD emotional regulation bullshit. You know that thing where writers and artists will sometimes smush their faces into the emotion of the characters they're depicting at a given time? Yeah, that happens with my actual mood sometimes, though moreso when I'm absorbing media than creating it.)

I did take the time to draw out another four moods tonight! None of them are on schedule, since I didn't have them written down and wasn't able to get to my phone (I had a snoozing dog blocking access to the phone in my pocket), but they're still sketched out and are for some actual moods, so I'm taking the win. I'll be making a physical list of the Part 3 moods to work off of shortly, so hopefully I won't have that problem again 😛 I also digitized and colored another four. I've got one left to go of the moods I have photos of, and then I need to photograph more sketches to work off of. All in all, I'd say I was pretty productive with this mood theme tonight!

Oh, I've also finally decided what show I want to watch while working on crochet patterns: I'm planning a re-watch of Assassination Classroom. I still haven't gotten the universal remote to work (well, not on the right TV), but since all the discs will be from the same production, the volume should stay pretty consistent. I'm tentatively optimistic about beating the executive dysfunction to get to work on that! I really do need to start in earnest soon 😅

A super quick rat mood dump; I've got others that are finished, but I wanted to share this one in particular.

( Four variations on 'Touched' )

These ones were fun...

( Rat moods, rat moods~ Irritated, Infuriated, Enraged, Crushed, Depressed, Shocked, Bouncy, Flirty, Okay )

Ten more rat moods, with twelve more rats! A couple of the moods have guests 😉

( See the ratties: Drunk, Refreshed, Sleepy, Annoyed, Tired, Anxious, Artistic, Uncomfortable, Content, Mischievous )

I should really make myself a rat art icon. Logically, I could just use any of the mood theme images I've made already, since they also have to be 100x100 pixels or smaller, but I want something special, you know?

( Rat art here! Sick, Exanimate, Cold, Stressed, Silly, Surprised, Optimistic, Exhausted, Relaxed )

I am also officially turning my custom mood theme on at this point ♥ I wanted to wait until moodthemeinayear got through Part 1, which covers the minimum moods needed for a custom mood theme, so I would feel more in sync with the community, and we finally made it on Monday! If you want to block the images for my mood theme, I've got all the links (I think) listed in this post, and will be adding links as I go. (I may have missed one! If so, and you have the time/willingness to check, please let me know which it is so I can include it properly!)

I blame the metric fuckton of snow that was dumped on the Midwest over the past couple of days (with more to be added over the next couple of days).

Anyway! ( More rat moods: Nerdy, Indescribable, Happy, Excited, Energetic, Working )

With these, I officially have all the basic/"root" moods complete! I have an image for every single mood in Dreamwidth's mood drop-down menu. Sure, a lot of them are "inherited" from previous moods ("Happy" covers a lot of ground, for example, as does "Sad"), but everything's covered! I've got everything uploaded and assigned to moods, so I could make the switch to my custom mood theme whenever I want.

But I gotta check. I know not everyone likes rats (or mice, which these could be mistaken for). If there's anyone who would prefer not to see these images at all, I can make a post listing links to all of the images for anyone who wants to run them through an image blocker. Is that something that anyone would be interested in? Lurkers, your voice counts here, too!

Edit: If you want to see all the (current) rats at once, click this link 👍

Yay, I figured out the best way for me to translate physical space sketches to digital mood theme images!

( Cut for cartoony drawings of adorable rats (including one in a coffee mug) (moods: Angry, Awake, Confused, Scared, Thoughtful, Busy) )

I think they work pretty well, though not perfectly. I may go through and tune up Confused later, but for now I'm fairly pleased with the results!

Edit: ( Now with three more! )