On Mood Theme Creation...

I remembered a couple of weeks ago what first inspired me to make my own mood theme: The "Heartless" mood theme by RubyD! It featured the most basic, generic Heartless from the Kingdom Hearts games, of which there were far fewer at the time, and RubyD did the artwork for all of them. I remember thinking how creative some of the interpretations were! From there I got the idea to draw my own mood theme, featuring pet rats; in the end, I never got very far, and it was only after creating this community that I began to make real progress.

Wanting to see it again, I finally dug up the mood theme from where I had it saved on an external hard drive a few days ago. Turns out that RubyD hadn't made an image for every mood, as I'm sure I thought was the case at the time; between the original release and the expansion pack RubyD eventually put out, only 102 moods were covered—this was still a lot, though, and it's possibly that RubyD put out another expansion pack or two to cover all the moods in the intervening years (no idea if RubyD made it to Dreamwidth/is still around/etc). Still, it was fun to look back at them, and see some of the creative ways that RubyD approached various moods, and what inspired me in the first place!