All the cash, all the fame -- and social change!
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm finding more and more that I'm losing my belief in Christianity and Christian teachings beyond the one commandment that, in my opinion, should be the only one that matters: love one another. Shit like this is only confirming to me that this is probably the way I should be going -- away from organized religion and mass doctrine and more towards individualized philosophy and standards of morality. That doesn't necessarily need to make sense to anyone but me.
So in an effort to step back from my reel fic so I can actually start making progress on it, and because I'm ridiculously excited for this movie, I've spent all afternoon playing around in Photoshop. I wound up making a new desktop background for myself, and I don't know. For a first attempt at something like this, I'm rather pleased with it. A couple different versions on the (extremely small off-chance) that anyone's interested, but nothing other than 1280x800. Because that's all I know/have the patience to do.
I think I like this one the least out of all of them. I wanted to try putting a gradient overlay on the text, but I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of how it turned out. Oh, well; something to practice, I guess. Also: can someone tell me what I need to do to make my text not automatically slant the tiniest bit to the right regardless of font? It's really starting to bother me, and I've looked through the help manual and can't find anything, and just. Ugh. KNOCK IT OFF, PHOTOSHOP.
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Same text as the first one, but without the gradient. I think I like this one more for that, although the poem ("So Will I Really," by Dmitry Vodennikov, found via exceptindreams) still makes me horribly wistful. Hence pairing it with this image, which just tears at my heart with how simultaneously adorable and sad it is at the same time.
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The version I'm using for my desktop now. It's my favorite, although I can't really pinpoint why. That seems to be happening a lot.
Hopefully, that HTML all works. *crosses fingers*
Also, douchebag-next-door who plays his music/video games and practices his bass at obnoxious volumes (i.e. loud enough that I can hear it all through the wall we share) at equally-obnoxious times may not be such a douchebag after all. I'm 99% positive he was playing the bassline to "Doomsday" off the Doctor Who S2 OST, which earns him major brownie points. Now if I could just find a way to confirm this, because I think putting a Post-It reading, "BOY IN ROOM ADJACENT TO MINE: WERE YOU INDEED PLAYING 'DOOMSDAY' ON THE BASS TODAY? IF SO, YOU ARE TOPS," would be a bit too creepertastic. Suggestions?
So in an effort to step back from my reel fic so I can actually start making progress on it, and because I'm ridiculously excited for this movie, I've spent all afternoon playing around in Photoshop. I wound up making a new desktop background for myself, and I don't know. For a first attempt at something like this, I'm rather pleased with it. A couple different versions on the (extremely small off-chance) that anyone's interested, but nothing other than 1280x800. Because that's all I know/have the patience to do.
I think I like this one the least out of all of them. I wanted to try putting a gradient overlay on the text, but I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of how it turned out. Oh, well; something to practice, I guess. Also: can someone tell me what I need to do to make my text not automatically slant the tiniest bit to the right regardless of font? It's really starting to bother me, and I've looked through the help manual and can't find anything, and just. Ugh. KNOCK IT OFF, PHOTOSHOP.
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Same text as the first one, but without the gradient. I think I like this one more for that, although the poem ("So Will I Really," by Dmitry Vodennikov, found via exceptindreams) still makes me horribly wistful. Hence pairing it with this image, which just tears at my heart with how simultaneously adorable and sad it is at the same time.
***
The version I'm using for my desktop now. It's my favorite, although I can't really pinpoint why. That seems to be happening a lot.
Hopefully, that HTML all works. *crosses fingers*
Also, douchebag-next-door who plays his music/video games and practices his bass at obnoxious volumes (i.e. loud enough that I can hear it all through the wall we share) at equally-obnoxious times may not be such a douchebag after all. I'm 99% positive he was playing the bassline to "Doomsday" off the Doctor Who S2 OST, which earns him major brownie points. Now if I could just find a way to confirm this, because I think putting a Post-It reading, "BOY IN ROOM ADJACENT TO MINE: WERE YOU INDEED PLAYING 'DOOMSDAY' ON THE BASS TODAY? IF SO, YOU ARE TOPS," would be a bit too creepertastic. Suggestions?