Casual Conversation
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- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible. You won't be punished for trying.
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It really drives me nuts that I don't know a name for that particular type of "unperturbed woodcut face in the sun" style.
The "face in sun" thing is used in heraldry, so "sun in splendour" maybe kind of at least kind of encompasses it, but that doesn't entail the woodcut appearance.
Maybe there is no term, but it seems so distinctive and such a common element in art that I'd think that someone would have named it.
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.
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
I love this
This image has done wonders for my mental health
Desktop background
It picks one every hour from a folder full of paintings (oil & watercolor, a few sketches).
Let me guess: You are learning japanese ?
どうして分かったんですか?
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This bad boy:
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
A Pikmin wallpaper! I love pikmin and all things green, so I picked (or is that plucked? Hehe) this one and I love it! 😃
Takina!
Atmospheric shot of Whitby Abbey I took on my honeymoon
Hex 222e45.
I don't see it very much these days, as I'm using a tiling environment.
A solid black.
I found this on Reddit on either r/bunnies or r/rabbits a few years ago, can't remember who posted.
I cycle among these four randomly:
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.
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
I don't have one of those things at the moment, but there is the other thing, which I currently use alongside an ipad, which would show those of us who go to rehearsal at a post-rehearsal event.
Phone Background: picture of my daughter
Phone Lock screen: Feathers McGraw
Desktop: linux mint default
Work Pac: A greenish color i always liked
Phone is partner and child in the park. PC and laptop are both fedora default colored pencil like background
I made my desktop wallpaper with JSplacement before that project disappeared off the internet. The background is pretty boring because i wanted some color, but knew that i would rarely see it (I always have multiple layers of programs opened at all times)
My phone's pixel art wallpaper was made in photoshop (turns out that's a really bad program for pixel art)
Oh shit. I haven’t been working in 3D for aaages now, what happened to JSPlacement? I loved that little bugger.
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
SHAW !
I always found it amusing every time the HK fandom imploded when Team Cherry failed to show anything on a hyped showcase.
Don't get me wrong, I too would disappear from civilization for a while when Silksong launched, but god they're passionate aren't they
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 desktop wallpaper is the default Windows 10 wallpaper, and occasionally something on Wallpaper Engine.
My bubby crossed the rainbow bridge recently and this was a really good snap of him