Suggestions Post

[novindalf]

Feel free to suggest themes for future challenges, or any other potential improvements you have for the comm!

List of past challenges
001 - Free For All
002 - Two Colours
003 - Techniques
004 - Muted Tones
005 - Brightly Coloured
006 - Total Destruction
007 - Shades of Green
008 - Bright Blocks
009 - Florals
010 - Light vs Dark
011 - Ooooh Shiny
012 - I Wanna Texture You Up
013 - Volcanoes can find love, but I can't get a text back
014 - I'm blue, da ba dee da ba daa
015 - And blend, blend, blend
016 - Keep It Simple
017 - Heating Up
018 - Alternatives
019 - Au Naturel
020 - Stocking Up
021 - Discomfort Zone
022 - Centre Crop
023 - Black and White (suggested by violateraindrop)
024 - Pass-It-On
025 - Mirror Image
026 - Chiaroscuro
027 - Obscured
028 - One Letter (suggested by violateraindrop)
029 - Painted
030 - ALL CAPS
031 - Paint the Town Red
032 - Vintage
033 - Discomfort Zone 2.0 (redux of 021)
034 - Decorative Accents
035 - Summer Lovin’
036 - Cool As a Cucumber
037 - Never Have I Ever
038 - Provided Textures
039 - Geometric (no entries)
040 - Blinded
041 - Zoom In
042 - Rainbow
043 - Levels and Blocks
044 - Up Close and Personal
045 - Medallic
046 - Midnight
047 - Pastels
048 - Resolutions
049 - Minimalism
050 - ALL CAPS 2.0 (repeat of 030)
051 - Geometric 2.0 (redux of 039)
052 - Oceanic
053 - Always Take the Weather With You
054 - Senses / Body Parts
055 - External Images
056 - Opposites Attract (suggested by luminousdaze)
057 - Slip Into Spring
058 - One Cap Only (suggested by violateraindrop; semi repeat of 018)
059 - Same Style
060 - Text 2.0 (repeat of 013) (no entries)
061 - Cut-Off Crop
062 - Contrast
063 - Recurring Theme (not enough entries)
064 - Stars, Stripes and Other Patterns
065 - Valentine's Day
066 - One Dominant Word
067 - Numbers
068 - Nautical
069 - Out of This World (Space)
070 - Blue & Pink
071 - Borders & Frames
072 - Light, Bright & Airy
073 - Hallowe'en
074 - Luscious Locks
075 - ALL CAPS 3.0 (repeat of 030 & 050)
076 - Secondary Colours (not enough entries)
077 - Winter is Coming
078 - Genre Swap (suggested by naginis)
079 - Ticked Pink (suggested by emmatheslayer)
080 - Sunrise/Sunset
081 - Crossover
082 - Second Time Around
083 - Rule of Thirds (suggested by naginis)
084 - TV Tropes (suggested by afastmachine)
085 - Big Text, Little Text
086 - Summer of '69
087 - I See Fire
088 - Comical
089 - Citrus
090 - Muted to Vibrant
091 - Free For All 2.0 (repeat of 001)
092 - Four Seasons
093 - Original Background
094 - Colour Combination
095 - Royalty
096 - Flotation Device
097 - Pastels
098 - Never Have I Ever 2.0 (repeat of 037)
099 - Pass-It-On 2.0 (repeat of 024)
100 - ALL CAPS 4.0 (repeat of 030, 050 & 075)
101 - Nature
102 - Tropical
103 - Letter Chain
104 - Zoom (repeat of 041)
105 - Cold as Ice
106 - Nostalgia
107 - Stocking Up 2.0 (repeat of 020)
108 - Full Body (all caps themed challenge)
109 - Underrated
110 - It's Not Easy Being Green
111 - Costume Porn (all caps themed challenge)
112 - Spring Forwards, Fall Back
113 - Primary Colours
114 - Criminal
115 - Aurora
116 - Medallic 2.0 (repeat of 045)
117 - The Great Outdoors
118 - Heather and Moss
119. Painted 2.0
120. Sports Day
121. Two Fonts
122. Circular
123. A Show of Affection
124. The Yellow Brick Road
125. A Splash of Colour
126. Accessory
127. Midnight 2.0 (repeat of 046)
128. Transition / Gradient
129. Pride
130. Ochre & Teal
131. Into the Woods
132. Pass-It-On 2.0 (repeat of 024)
133. Levels and Blocks 2.0 (repeat of 043)
134. Glitter and Sparkles
135. Costume Party
136. Emojis & Clip Art
137. Gloomy
138. New in 2021
139. Resolutions
140. Light, Bright & Airy 2.0 (repeat of 072)
141. Fake Colour
142. 70s
143. Blurred/Sharp
144. Time of Day
145. Do It Yourself!
146. Navy
147. Down By the River
148. Diagonal
149. Numbers 2.0 (repeat of 067)
150. ALL CAPS 5.0
151. Opposites Attract 2.0 (repeat of 056)
152. Terracotta
153. With a Little Help From My Friends

Comments

[novindalf]

Thank you for the suggestions!

Suggestions

[alexia_drake]

I saw that you had a Black and White challenge for number 23, but how about: Black and White + Color. Speaking of colors, Purple haven't been done, same thing for: Favorite Color(Ours), Grunge, Half Face Crop(unless you think it's too similar to 'Cut-Off Crop' that was done for 61), Off Center, Rotate.

And some of the following suggestions might depend if it works with the provided caps, but I've added them anyway:

Hair Porn, Facial Hair, Glasses/Sunglasses, Hats, Profile, Smiling/Laughing, Three's A Crowd(3 characters or combine 3 pictures in one).

RE: Suggestions

[novindalf]

Thank you for the suggestions! I will add them to my lists :D

[luminousdaze]

Hello,
If you're planning to have more "all caps" challenges by theme challenges, I could help by giving you the updated links from some of my posts with broken that I've now fixed, so that my old posts (if they fit the themes) can be in the challenges. Or I could comment sometimes to the All Caps posts to give you new links to the images I've fixed to update the "All Caps" collection posts instead, since you have them all sorted by date. Let me know if you would like me to do this.
thanks :)

[novindalf]

Hiya, that would be super helpful actually! Whichever is easiest for you ♥

[luminousdaze]

Okay, on which post would you like me to comment to leave the info? Over on one of the all caps posts?

I think it's easiest to say which ones I fixed by fandom & link to them I guess with the dates? Do you need the date of the post?
What I do is I look through the tags for the fandom to see which blank posts I can fix & if I can't or don't want to, I sometimes delete the empty post.

[novindalf]

Sorry for the late reply. Yeah I think an all caps post would probably be best, and maybe the date of post? I work by date of post most of the time, so that would be super helpful to be able to put the corrected image link back in the right place! ♥

[luminousdaze]

Hello! :) Oh, I see now! I didn't understand exactly how you did the All Caps posts, I thought you re-uploaded them to save so you'd only need the name of the fandoms. Okay, I'm sorry, I don't think I'll be able to do all of the posts, without messing up something and thereby, messing up your archives.

I know it was me who brought it up, but it was a stupid idea of mine because many of the posts I fixed about a year ago and others I still haven't fixed or deleted & I didn't mark down the ones I deleted (I forgot to do that!). The time span to look through is a few years, too. I'm sorry. :(
If you have a specific fandom you'd like to fix, I can probably give you the new links & dates for a few fandoms.

But the first part I said I can still do, if you'd like help to find caps by theme for specific challenges, if you ever want me to do that anytime, you can comment to any of my posts at capspiration or PM me. Or if I see it, I could comment to the challenge post itself.

Below, I'll leave you the info on the completely deleted fandoms (I removed all the posts & all the subject tags from these because I'd only posted them myself (no other mods ever used the tags).

Also if you have caps collected from posts by retired comm maintainer tarienemrys, all their posts are gone (or hidden?) from capspiration because they deleted their LJ account a while back. And there are few blank posts from maintainer zackkaddy from 2017.


These tags & all posts for them are deleted:
shades of blue (tv) , oz the great & terrible film), the cell (film), trial & error (tv), secrets and lies (tv), rosewood, arrival (film), nashville (tv), tv: pitch, film: the secret life of pets

These tags were not from my own posts but had zero posts in the comm, so I deleted the tags (though you may still have the images in your cap collection posts, they are not in entries at capspiration anymore.

tv: limitless, animanga: ouran high school host club

Also I recently checked & found that all of my blank Christopher Robin posts from the last few years have no cap names info so I may just guess which ones were there (I usually pick a favorite cap) and/or upload new caps to those posts so they're not blank because I don't think anyone ever used them to make icons here. So that fandom won't get fixed with the exact same caps into the same posts.

Ugh, I'm sorry it's so complicated.

If possible, could you please add to the all caps post that some info that a few fandoms have more caps at the capspiration comm itself due to technical difficulties? That way participants know to check at the comm when they want to find caps for the challenges.

[novindalf]

Ah no, I literally just copy the image links and fandom titles from the posts at capspiration (or in the case of challenges I have done since I took over as mod, I copy the cap selections from the challenge posts).

No worries, I did think this was a massive thing you were offering!

If possible, could you please add to the all caps post that some info that a few fandoms have more caps at the capspiration comm itself due to technical difficulties? That way participants know to check at the comm when they want to find caps for the challenges.
I was going to just leave it as I have been, with a comment in the all caps challenge posts that some of the image links are broken/may not display properly, like this challenge post. Is that what you meant by the all caps post, or did you mean these ones? If the latter, those posts are mainly there for me to see lots of caps at once in order to grab a selection for the all caps challenge posts, and I encourage people to take a look for caps at capspiration anyway?

[luminousdaze]

I don't know what I was thinking!

"....like this challenge post."

Oh, that's fine, thank you! 😊

Hallowe'en

[alexia_drake]

I know you already did an Hallowe'en challenge for 73, but mostly about the colors orange, bats, cats, etc. How about one with the following pallettes:



And I don't know when you do All Caps challenges, but if it's time for this one, you could include caps from super heroes, supernatural creatures... (so Lucifer, Maze, Loki, Captain America, Avengers, Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Wonder Woman, the Guardians of the Gallaxy, Cinderella, Little Mermaid, etc, which are characters people like to dress as for Hallowe'en.

If you already prepared a challenge, then maybe next year! lol

RE: Hallowe'en

[novindalf]

Thank you for the suggestions!

I probably won't be doing a Halloween challenge as I try to avoid doing those challenges this time of year because I think a lot of comms do one and it can get quite repetitive - I think in the past (possibly for a different comm) I have done Valentine's Day challenges and Halloween challenges at the opposite times of year to avoid that.

But I really like the idea of 'characters you would dress up for for Halloween'! We are actually due an All Caps challenge for the next challenge, so I'm going to use that! Thank you!!