Comments | oxoniensis: I Never Really Liked Sunny Days

oxoniensis

I Never Really Liked Sunny Days

Jun 05, 2005 21:09

I don't know if anyone else will like this at all, but I wanted to make a work-safe, non-fannish wallpaper, and fancied trying a grungy style. I'm rather pleased with the result, so here it is in case anyone else would like to use it.

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music, wallpaper: stock, art: wallpaper

Comments 55

quebelly June 5 2005, 20:30:01 UTC

Lovely wallpaper. It's now my desktop.

oxoniensis June 5 2005, 21:48:13 UTC

Yay, I always love to know that something I've made is being used.

slodwick June 5 2005, 20:33:27 UTC

Oh, that's brilliant. Haunting and creepy and just very evocative. I love it!

oxoniensis June 5 2005, 21:52:14 UTC

Hee, thanks! I actually took the photo on a lovely sunny day, but wanted to make it look menacing and gloomy - glad it worked!

celli June 5 2005, 20:33:31 UTC

Unfortunately, people were getting C&Ds over MPAA ratings. Mostly people who run archives. I haven't seen one uniform rating system yet, but my current favorite is the one on the House archive:

All Audiences -- Everything up to and including sexual innuendo/jokes
Over 13 Years -- Actual kissing/groping; moderate physical violence
Mature Audiences -- Non-graphic sex scenes; graphic violence; all rape/non-con (unless completely off screen)
Adult -- Graphic sex scenes; extreme violence

oxoniensis June 5 2005, 21:57:48 UTC

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

That House archive rating system is interesting - I would automatically want to classify non-con as the highest rating possible, whereas something like a fairly explicit, concensual blowjob I wouldn't give such a high rating. I remember discussing ratings on my journal ages ago, and authors were very varied in the way they rated their stories. But I digress...

elsmoka June 5 2005, 20:34:24 UTC

i really love this!! :) it has great atmosphere!

oxoniensis June 5 2005, 21:58:13 UTC

Thank you! *beams*

oceana_ June 5 2005, 20:47:21 UTC

Oh, pretty wallpaper! Shame that I don't ever see my desktop at work, cause that would mean closing Word and Outlook Express, which never happens.

I don't know if anyone got C&D letters. As a european, I'm totally willing to let them go through the trouble and try to sue me. The wonderful world of makebelieve uses a rating system that I've seen a lot now, it's explained here: http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/help.php
(you need to scroll down almost to the end of the page)

oxoniensis June 5 2005, 22:01:23 UTC

Glad you like the wallpaper, even if you can't use it!

I like that rating system, though I think I'd probably want to use the full text, rather than the abreviations, as too few people would be familiar with the shortened form. But certainly, 'Suitable For Older Teenagers' for example, with a note on my website that it's only been rated by myself, would be fine.