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moodthemeinayear is now open for 2026!

Have you ever wanted to create a custom mood theme, but found yourself overwhelmed by all of the potential moods you'd have to make? Mood Theme in a Year has you covered! The community assigns three moods a week for you to design graphics for, with regular week long breaks. 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.

Not up for a full year/132 images? No problem! That's just the Maximum Track, which runs from January 1st through (roughly) the end of the year. If you want to make a smaller mood theme, you can follow the Minimum Track (18 images) or the Medium Track (34 images), or maybe somewhere between one of those and the Maximum Track. The goal of this community is to create a custom mood theme that you like, at a pace that works for you.

For those who missed it: While uploading and using a custom mood theme is restricted to paid accounts, as of December 2025, creating at least 18 mood graphics can earn you Dreamwidth points! Now, even if a paid account is out of your budget, you can still have the chance to upload and use your own custom mood theme. Read this post for more details.

The first three moods of 2026 are now up; thanks for reading, and I hope to see you there!

Current Mood: happy

wolffyluna

I made some things for it!

pistachios (1545 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Csevet Aisava & Deret Beshelar
Characters: Csevet Aisava, Deret Beshelar
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Aftermath of trauma, Set After Winternight, Csevet-centric, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Referenced violence, Referenced Death, Missing Scene
Summary:

After the attempted assassination, Csevet cannot sleep. He meets Beshelar in the kitchens of the Alcethmeret.

The Promise (1222 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorado the Adamant & Nabain Palisade
Characters: Dorado the Adamant, Nabain Palisade
Additional Tags: and the absence of Serikali, Post canon, Missing Scene, Dialogue Heavy, Major Spoilers
Summary:

“Did you ever speak to Serikali?” Dorado asked.
“Not as often as I would have liked.” The broken promise settled over his shoulders like a yoke. But even under that weight, he still could carry curiosity. Dorado was direct: if she changed topic, there had to be a reason.

silver peonies (2460 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dongfang Qingcang/Xiao Lanhua
Characters: Dongfang Qingcang, Xiao Lanhua (Love Between Fairy and Devil)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff with feelings, Trans Female Character, Makeover, dongfang qingcang is bad at feelings
Summary:

Lanhua cocked her head. “Do you want to be human again?”
“No. It’s—” The feeling scurried away from the light of scrutiny. “I want to be a different person. But not too different.” She threw out a random suggestion. “Like myself, but a woman.”
Xiao Lanhua lit up, eyes sparkling.
Qingcang recognised that expression from experience. She waved a hand again. “It was just an example.”

wolffyluna

Everyone should praise me for my FIVE FIGURE DONATION to the Against Malaria Foundation, even though it was VERY SCARY.

The sensible context is that I had miscalculated my charity budget and made it too low, and I decided to 'pay back the shortfall.'

The slightly less sensible context is that I read a lot of Medieval history in 2025. And something that came up, both in majority Christian cultures and majority Muslim cultures, was that the standard response to any good news was 'give a donation to charity.' A baby was born? Charity donation. Found a commentary on Aristotle that finally explained it properly? Charity donation.

Apart from the, uh, exciting bits at the end, I have had a pretty good 2025. And I wanted to properly honour that. And you know what? I think the various Medieval people are right, a good response to good things happening to you is to give to charity.

... Also, assuming I have done my back of the envelope maths right, I have now gone over to a whole Negative Moist Von Lipwig.

wolffyluna

Thread of Duty: (aka the Cavalry General and Embroidery Mage arranged marriage romance.) Finished, except for cover, formatting, and acknowledgements. I mean, I could edit it again? But also, I can move forward. ...even if that would require working out what to do with it. (Insert combined rant about both Amazon and itch.io.)

Survival Showdown: (aka VR streamers in not-a-death-game.) I thiiiiiink it's had it's second draft? But I'd need to check. So the first step is 'reconstruct where I was up to with it, and go forward from there.' Also, then work out what I'm going to do with it. (See above rant.)

Sapphic Steppe Atrocities: (which needs a more descriptive name.) I have got an editorial letter back, and need to go do some chunky edits to the thing. The next step is to go and do research on the Central Asian Steppe (short chain of logic gets me here) and research on [deep sigh] early modern Japan and World War 1, even though I don't want to do either (a longer chain of logic gets me here.)

Emperor/Favourite: partway through outlining.

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5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?

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**Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going. Also, please remember to play nice. We are all here to answer the questions and have fun each week. We repost the questions exactly as the original posters submitted them and request that all questions be checked for spelling and grammatical errors before they're submitted. Comments re: the spelling and grammatical nature of the questions are not necessary. Honestly, any hostile, rude, petty, or unnecessary comments need not be posted, either.**

thedarlingone

snowflake_challenge is live! Day 1 prompt is: "The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it."

Uh. I haven't really done an intro post in so long. I'm JT -- justiceturtle on Discord and YouTube, maryellencarter on Tumblr, thedarlingone here and AO3. I write fanfic with my life partner and co-author Leia, camshaft22 on AO3 and Tumblr, the-dour-one here (we decided to coordinate the usernames and then failed to coordinate the hyphenation).

We mostly write in the Star Wars Legends X-wing fandom, more briefly described as Rebel pilotfic; we're currently posting a longfic (171k, finished, updates Sundays and Thursdays) fusing the sequel trilogy with elements from the X-wing books. Our backlog also features several longfics from Lupin III fandom, but I had a very bad time with the people there and have no plans to go back. I've also been streaming a wide assortment of video games semi-irregularly on YouTube.

As far what I'm hoping to get from doing the challenge, mostly just trying to get in the habit of posting here. I've been linking my streams but not really posting otherwise much, since I don't feel like I often have much to say. I probably won't be linking my posts on the Snowflake Challenge comm, just because I don't especially feel like it? Happy to hear from any of y'all though.

synecdochic

I just posted a thread to my Bluesky account about why I think it's extremely urgent for people to back up anything they still have on LiveJournal, however they do it. Thread starts here:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

ru-news LJ post I was relying on:

https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Please spread this far and wide so as many people see it as possible, because I really don't see English-language LJ continuing in its present form for much longer, and I know some people may still have things they care about there. It doesn't matter how you get it backed up, but it's absolutely crunch time for getting it backed up.

wingedcatgirl

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13408770/chapters/201101401

i aten't dead

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

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bookclub_dw is a monthly reading club where community members take turns choosing a book to read for the month and then moderating a discussion about the book at the end of the month.

We are currently voting on the book for January 2026 here: https://bookclub-dw.dreamwidth.org/995.html

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gamechangerhr is a Game Changers Book series/Heated Rivalry TV series dreamwidth community.
We also accept Rachel Reid's other Hockey Romance books! :)
Fanworks, discussions, meta, recs, etc are welcomed here!
Rules are on the profile!

Our Friending Meme is HERE.

thedarlingone

Streaming some Breath of the Wild! I just got my joycons working with my WiiU emulator so I can use motion controls now; I'm really excited about that.

mindstalk

Say you order Amazon to a nearby pickup location, because of theft, or Airbnb, or whatever. ( Read more... )

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birdfeeding is a community started on January 1, 2023. It's all about birdfeeding, birdwatching, and other topics relating to birds. It also touches on nature in general, and observations that may effect bird activity such as local weather. Both text and image posts are welcome. Now is a great time to join as hungry birds are easy to attract with a feeder.

Community resources include posts about birding events, nurseries that sell seeds or plants attractive to birds, bird identification apps, the benefits of birdwatching, and other useful materials. Check out the anchor posts from Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.

Recent posts:

Photos: House Yard

Christmas Bird Count

Birds

Current Mood: busy

thedarlingone

Trying out Hades, a roguelite dungeon crawler set in the Greek underworld.

thedarlingone

Final (probably) haul from the Steam Winter Sale: Portal, Fallout New Vegas (bundle with all DLC), Hades, Powerwash Simulator (downloaded all free DLC). What an assortment. No wonder Steam is struggling to figure out my taste in games.

(I also have about $18 of gift card value left sitting on my Steam account to be used next time there's a game I want on sale. Hades and Powerwash Simulator both have newish sequels that are still over $20, so I might pick up one of those sequels eventually. Or something completely different!)

I hope everybody is having a satisfactory winter holiday season. If I do not pass out from the sleep deprivation (unfortunately not from fun things, one of my housemates is being troublesomely loud at stupid hours), I plan to probably stream my first try at Hades around 2pm or 3pm Eastern US time today.

wolffyluna

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mindstalk

A while back I mentioned a nice park in Chigasaki. I went back to that today. ( Read more... )

mindstalk

Welp, guess I'm way behind on updates. Fortunately several days were boring. But not this one. Kind of.

Kamakura, as in "Kamakura Shogunate", was accessible, so I went. Outbound was on the Enoden train, no changes but still slower, scenic, single-track, kind of hugging the coast. ( Read more... )

thedarlingone

Streaming some Boyfriend Dungeon!

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