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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.
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 solid black.
Desktop background
This bad boy: 
I cycle among these four randomly:
Atmospheric shot of Whitby Abbey I took on my honeymoon
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
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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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It picks one every hour from a folder full of paintings (oil & watercolor, a few sketches).
A Pikmin wallpaper! I love pikmin and all things green, so I picked (or is that plucked? Hehe) this one and I love it! 😃
phone wallpaper, by unworn
laptop wallpaper, photo I took in Denmark
Takina!
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.
I don't remember the full story, but it seems like the dev got fed up with feature requests/bug rapports so they decided to delete the source code and their online accounts.
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Phone is partner and child in the park. PC and laptop are both fedora default colored pencil like background
Phone Background: picture of my daughter
Phone Lock screen: Feathers McGraw
Desktop: linux mint default
Work Pac: A greenish color i always liked
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.
A picture of my other half.
Bottom or top half?
Left half.
