Art Update Are You In A Mood Sanctum?

[JamesMartin]

Evening Sanctum!!!

Small announcement today to officially unveil the feature that a few of you noticed days ago: Moods

These are a Xenforo staple that display a selected mood in various places on the forum. Like your user card or beside your posts. Previously, we resisted this add-on, as frankly, the available moods were both, well, ugly and often absurdly low quality. We realized, however (thank you @Jumbled) that we could not only use custom art instead, but in doing so, we could tailor a set of moods specifically to fit a writing site, from selection to aesthetic

Spoiler: Mood Writing

At present, we have quite a substantial list and the plan is for it to continue to grow.

@..Olivianna.. has taken this project under her fin, including a mood for every single member of staff (guess who is who and you get a cookie) and quite a number that are more general, suiting both the writing process and just being on a roleplay site. If you wish to be alerted when new ones are added, follow the art changelog:

Spoiler: The list so far

You can set your mood using the button on the top bar on site. The Smilie icon persists on mobile.



Now, this is an ongoing project and the limit on the size of the mood list is on the artist on staff making time to make more moods.

If you want to make suggestions below, feel free to do so. However and I cannot emphasize this enough: this is being done by volunteers in their spare time. At present, every single one had been made personally by Livvy.

I make no promises that any specific suggestions will become moods, it is entirely down to her and anyone else she asks to help—I just figured a site of creative writers might have ideas,

Oh and as always, report bugs or issues below or to me directly.

And if anything breaks:

 

[Oreodaqueen]

Yes, blame james! cheers for moods

 

[B_Julez]

@..Olivianna.. You're so awesome, thanks for making these!

 

[Praxis]

Maybe not a bug, or an issue (so much as a necessary fix to a previous, related issue) but when selecting the blank option, or "No Mood", certain areas of the site will display a large, blank spot where a mood would be.

Namely threads, where our avatar/badges are displayed.

Not a big deal. And, again, I'm not even sure a fix for this could be worked. Maybe ...shrinking the size of the No Mood selection as to make it inconsequential on the page. I dunno how this stuff works really.

All the same: cool addition, and thank you to the folks who put work into it

 

[JamesMartin]

Maybe not a bug, or an issue (so much as a necessary fix to a previous, related issue) but when selecting the blank option, or "No Mood", certain areas of the site will display a large, blank spot where a mood would be.

Namely threads, where our avatar/badges are displayed.

Not a big deal. And, again, I'm not even sure a fix for this could be worked. Maybe ...shrinking the size of the No Mood selection as to make it inconsequential on the page. I dunno how this stuff works really.

All the same: cool addition, and thank you to the folks who put work into it

So this doesn't work—the gap is based on the canvas size and does not change when I upload a mood that is, for example, 1 px tall.

Basically, my option is either to upload a blank mood that is something other than purely blank to fill the space or leave it as is.

For a fix, I deleted the blank mood and so the gap is now gone for anyone who selected it, since that no longer exists.

This removes the gap, but will never work if you ever select another mood.

 

[bloodsoap]

Omg!! The "thirsty" one looks like the signature art Jumbled made me <333 I love it

 

[Inkpot Wyvern]

OMG They're so cute and charming! Thank you!

 

[Praxis]

...but will never work if you ever select another mood.

Maintain a perfectly flat affect at all times. You got it!

 

[BritAllie]

Nice job everyone who did it. I'm guessing I inspired the reading one?

 

[..Olivianna..]

Nice job everyone who did it. I'm guessing I inspired the reading one?

for pursuing your degrees

 

[BritAllie]

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Awww! Thank you.

 

[Peregrine]

Could we add a "creative"/"artsy" mood perhaps? I know there are many artists in here that seem to be always making something beautiful for someone or themselves that they share and we get to enjoy.

 

[GremlinSage]

Could we add a "creative"/"artsy" mood perhaps? I know there are many artists in here that seem to be always making something beautiful for someone or themselves that they share and we get to enjoy.

There is a crafty mood available!

 

[Peregrine]

There is a crafty mood available!

I saw that one but(and I'm probably an extra weirdo) crafty is a different mood for me than creative/ arty. I'll use that one though so as not to create more work for our lovely volunteer artists

 

[..Olivianna..]