Supplemental LJ moods for mood set

[pegkerr]

I've often wished that LJ offered some other mood options. I've made some additional ones for myself, using my LOTR icons. This is mostly posted for my own reference, so that I can add them to future entries. (fireflowerlass, you may wish to take note). The main mood set is here.

What additional moods do you wish LJ offered for your entries?
aghast

apologetic

appreciative

bemused

befuddled

bittersweet

bossy

brave

censorious

and clean

and and conciliatory

confused

contrary

contrite

decisive

defiant

delighted

diffident

disapproving

encouraging

fatalistic

fey

frazzled

friendly

glib

honest

impatient

impish

indecisive

insightful

klutzy

mysterious

odd

perturbed

pretty

reassured

reassuring

rueful

scornful

skeptical

slow

solicitious

stern

stubborn

tempted

torn

Comments

[resqdog51.livejournal.com]

bemused.

I always wish for a 'bemused' or a 'befuddled' mood. *sigh*

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Perhaps this for befuddled?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Or this!

[aome.livejournal.com]

I like this one for befuddled!

[hotarunokokoro.livejournal.com]

PMS'ing!
lol...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

and . I use them as "crappy" and "cranky" respectively.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Perhaps "I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle." I'll add that to the list of icons to make.

I need to make some new icons, but need to load the software on my laptop, first. My lovely icon-making software won't work on my new Mac.

[liamere.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree more :D

[callunav.livejournal.com]

You know, this made me actually look at the mood options for the first time in the two and a half years I've been on LJ. That's an incredible list, especially with your additions.

It makes me wistful. A while ago, I was compiling a list of feelings for use with the teens I was working with. They seemed to have such difficulty knowing what they were feeling, and had such a limited vocabulary for it - and if you don't have words for feelings, it's hard to figure them out, so, for instance, the distinctions between being irritable in general, frustrated by a specific task or interaction, angry at a person, or full of undirectable rage was entirely lost, and those differences are important.

So I was making a list. The long-term project which did not get completed before I got canned was to write up brief definitions for each one, and provide it as a resource sheet, along with some kind of worksheet for them to fill out that would make them actually use it at least once. ("When I have trouble in school, it's usually because I feel _________." "The person who makes me feel ignored most often is _______." etc.)

The shorter-term project was a closed box with a hand-sized hole in it, filled with slips of paper, each one with a different feeling word on it, for use as a prop in groups. The kids each had to take three, ask about any words they didn't understand, and then pick two of their three and tell about a time when they felt whatever it was. I made this up on a whim, created the box on a slow evening, and was surprised at how well it worked.

If I'd ever looked at the mood list, I could probably have added all sorts of things to it. What a waste.

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

Wow these are cool! Thank you so much! :D I saved them all up and when I have more time I'll upload them onto another server :D

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

oh and thank you!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Keep checking back, because I'll keep adding. I've added several more already.

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

ooh wow!
I'll keep looking!

[aome.livejournal.com]

Frazzled.

Also, "sore" never seems sufficient enough if you're in pain. To me, that's something you use after a good workout, but not if you have a headache, cramps, or an injury.

I *know* there's been many times when I've wished for a specific non-existant mood (although you *can* force it, using one of the existing icons) but right now I can't think of what most of those are.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

How do you force the icon for a different mood not on the list? Do you know?

[fireriven.livejournal.com]

On the Update page, there's an empty field next to the drop down box where you choose your mood. You can type alternate text there and it'll show up as the text next to your mood icon.

[aome.livejournal.com]

You pick one of the default moods, but then type where the 'other' box is. It will use the icon for the default, but the words that you've typed. So, say, you choose the "confused" mood, but then you type "befuddled" next to it - then it will show up with the "confused" picture but say "befuddled" on your entry.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's cool to know. Thanks!

[aome.livejournal.com]

I finally figured it out after seeing people with moods like "Zzzzzzz" or "ready to rip someone's head off" but using a regular mood icon. For a long time I was wondering how they managed it!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

For frazzled, perhaps .

I already use for "stressed."

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

For further variations on sore, I could use either one of two lines from the Chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-Dum: Frodo's "I am bruised and in pain, but it is not too bad" and/or Aragorn's reply: "That spear-thrust would have skewered a wild boar!"> What word for the mood would you suggest?

I use for sore and for uncomfortable.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. "Hurting," maybe? That could encompass emotional or physical pain and I'm not sure if that's good or not. Perhaps just "In pain". I like the wild-boar quote, although your words for "uncomfortable" are also especially suitable.

[vass]

loving, fond or affectionate.

It always frustrates me that they have 'loved' but not 'loving'.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Also, why do they not have "proud"?

[tinymich.livejournal.com]

That's when I do the "force mood" thing that aome and fireriven explained above. I actually do that a lot -- write my own word for whatever mood I'm feeling, and scroll down through the LJ-set moods to find an icon that fits as well as I can manage.

The "loved" icon on my mood set is pretty cute, and adaptable:

[annieways.livejournal.com]

discombobulated

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Although I think I'm more like to call it "perturbed."

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

industrious. Nearly always, and then I wind up just being 'productive' again.

I think I work too much. and then post about it too much.

[til-midnight.livejournal.com]

I wish there was an 'upset' mood. There are times when I'm not angry or sad or any particularly definable emotion beyond upset.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I could make an icon for "It burst out of me: I was so upset" from the end of Chapter 2 of the Fellowship (The Shadow of the Past) (when I get my icon making software re-installed.