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Took it in 2019, and it's been my background since then.
Lock screen is just a picture I saw that I liked i don't know who made it
Background is from torment: tides of numenera the changing god looking out at earth year circa 1 million from his space station before the game starts and it gets destroyed with you falling to earth.
this wallpaper single handedly made me switch to light mode :P
It’s my wife and me in front of the Magic Kingdom. Then I used an AI app to convert us to Muppets. I then used the iPhone wallpaper filters when putting it on my home screen.
Yep, I’m grown man with us as Muppets on my phone.
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Currently have this on my phone. Someone posted it recently somewhere on lemmy and I'm a lesbian and my cat recently died so imagining her spooking around me warmed my heart a bit, even though I don't even believe in ghosts or anything like that ❤️🩹
On my desktop I have a black hole because i love the gravitational effect of seeing the accretion disc behind the black hole from the front of it
Desktop background
It picks one every hour from a folder full of paintings (oil & watercolor, a few sketches).
This bad boy: 
What icon pack is this?
Retro Mode
phone wallpaper, by unworn
laptop wallpaper, photo I took in Denmark
Using my own artwork because I'm genuinely happy with how it turned out and it reminds me of that awesome ttrpg campaign I was in
Takina!
A Pikmin wallpaper! I love pikmin and all things green, so I picked (or is that plucked? Hehe) this one and I love it! 😃
Atmospheric shot of Whitby Abbey I took on my honeymoon
I found this on Reddit on either r/bunnies or r/rabbits a few years ago, can't remember who posted.
Hex 222e45.
I don't see it very much these days, as I'm using a tiling environment.
A solid black.
No idea where it came from. It's just been there for ages and followed from my previous phone before I took it swimming.
PS: Nice.
I cycle among these four randomly:
Generated by AI, changes every two hours.
A picture of the beach in a neighbourhood I want to move to in 3 years.
I went abroad to earn money and build a life for myself, I'm looking forward to moving back to my home country one day and having a house in a nice neighbourhood near family
Bill Paxton, holding hands with a slightly taller Bill Paxton wearing sunglasses. They're standing in front of a poster for the movie Twister, but the title has been replaced with the logo for the board game.
My roommate made it during a literal fever dream over a decade ago, he was in bed, fiddling with his phone's photo editor mumbling "I have a vision" over and over again. The tag line "he called me a ne'er do well, he's dead" was something I said while playing GTA next to him at that time, and he added the quote to the final image.
My current wallpaper is Hornet from Hollow Knight, but it cycles between around 150 pictures
My favorite is this fanart of Phos from Land of the Lustrous
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My desktop wallpaper is the default Windows 10 wallpaper, and occasionally something on Wallpaper Engine.
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