I'm in southwest Tennessee and the weather has been absolutely insane the last
month or so. One day we think we'll be expecting snow (which is highly uncommon
for us until Febuary) and then the very next day it'll be warm and sunny out.
Just recently, like in the past two weeks, has it started to become constantly
cold and even then it's not so cold that only a light jacket wouldn't warm you
up alright.
Plus it's been really dry this year. Usually it rains a lot more and there's
frost on the windows every morning. This year I've only seen the frost a couple
of times. It's really weird and I've been actually wondering if anyone else had
noticed. Guess so ^^;;
I do believe in ghosts. I also believe that there are some extremely good hoaxes
out there and that people's eyes and their machines play tricks on them at
times.
My cousin and my best friend see shadows that flick around the room and can't be
explained naturally. Things get placed where no one could or would put them when
you turned your back for only a moment.
My room is actually a bit... haunted I guess for lack of a better word. It's
always cold there, even in the summer, and some of my friends won't sleep in
there alone because of things they've seen. The door opens by itself and once it
closed and locked itself while I was asleep. Shadows that look like people
follow you (and it's obviously not your shadow, it's usually a skinny, tall
man's). Once I saw a shaggy white dog that my hand could pass through. It just
sat there and watched me. Kinda weird.
My last house (the one my best friend currently lives in) is haunted, according
to several families that lived there and my old room (now my best friend's room)
is supposedly the most haunted room in the house. I remember when I was little
that I wouldn't sleep in my own room and I'd never had a problem with that
before, but I had no real reason why I wouldn't. I didn't know anything about
that house being haunted until several years after we moved out. Kinda weird
^^;;
No religion is mature, I think. In all of them there are people who act like
children. Even some atheists do this, saying that having a religion at all is
ridiculous. Maturity of a religion would depend on the maturity of the person
that practices it and because everyone always likes to be right, fights and
sometimes wars erupt from it. It's like a couple of teenagers getting into a
scuffle because of something stupid that one of them said.
Tolerance and acceptance are two different things, by the way. Tolerance is
saying that something is okay no matter what. If everyone were completely
tolerant, as some of you suggest we should be, then even murder would be looked
at as okay. 'Oh, he was angry because she left him so he killed her. Poor
baby.'
Acceptance is saying that, even if you don't agree with something about someone,
you care about them for who they are. Being gay (just an example) does not make
a person who they are alone. There are other aspects that make them who they
are. Accepting that they're gay does not mean that you can't say they're wrong.
It means that you love them in spite of their being wrong.
Sorry if I'm stepping on any of your toes here, but alot of people in this
thread are being immature and, I think, are wrong in their understandings of
what religion is and what they're saying means.
I believe that religion is of the devil. I am a Christ follower, not a
Christian. My goal is to be like Christ and to follow what he taught about
loving everyone despite their human flaws. I know I can never be perfect like he
was (I'm bi so I DEFINITELY know I'm not perfect here since the bible says it's
wrong) but all I can do is try. Many Christians and unbelievers believe that
"if u do the thing u mentioned(greed, lust, arogance) God reserves the
right to deny you entrance to heaven. -Pepeo". That's not true. All you
have to do is ask that God forgives you and say that you need him to come into
your life and really mean it. The bible says that man's nature is sinful. If God
didn't let you into Heaven for being a sinner no one would be up there and there
would be no point in being a Christian at all...
Believe me. There's no way I'd go into something knowing that I was never going
to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Oh, and neo-paganism followers generally do not believe that every religion is
right. Many branches of it are polytheistic and DO believe in many gods and
goddesses and that they should perform certain rituals. Many are explicitly
*against* any religious authority. I'm sure there are some branches that state
that everyonr is right, but the majority of them do not agree with this
statement.
I'm really sorry, but for the last hour I've been trying to figure out how to
provide a link for my deleted wallpaper. I did go to the original deletion
thread and looked at the instructions but I cannot find the thumbnail for my
wallpaper.
That's the 'this wallpaper has been quarantined' notification for the other MT
goers. I hope that helps some but I'm just so confused now...
My wallpaper is called Reflections and it's from the game Saya no Uta. I'm
really sorry for being so much trouble... I just don't understand why it got
deleted and I just don't know what to do.
Onto the critiquing. Maybe it's just me but her legs look a little pixelly.
Maybe that's just my crap computer though, so don't really pay that comment much
mind unless someone else says something.
The contrast between light and dark doesn't seem enough and I don't particularly
care for the colors you used. I'd prefer a dark blue and white-ish and pink
theme or something. Not purple/blue and pink, but maybe that's just my personal
preference. I've never liked pink and purple together. Also I don't like the
color of the font.
These are just my opinions so you can pick and choose through them all you like
^^ Sorry if I sound harsh...
Forgive any bluntness. I'm not good with putting things gently, I'm afraid
-.-;;
The wings AREN'T that bad. The real problem I wee with them is that they're
(like everything else in the wall besides the scan) are in a pale pastellish
color. The scan is not in this coloring. So everything seems off to me.
The background is very boring to me. Nothing is happening. It's just a gradient
with a sprinkle of stars.
The glow does look weird and makes me wonder if you're trying to hide mistakes
in the extraction with it (yeah, not that I've done that before >.>). If
you are and absolutely can't get it right then I recommend a lighter colored,
softer glow. If you aren't I recommend that anyway. Or getting rid of it
altogether and finding a different way to focus your eyes on Sailor
Moon.
These are my opinions so you can pick and choose what you want to listen to.
Sorry if it sounds harsh...
Heh, I actually thought the green was part of the water and that she was waist
deep in it for some reason when I first saw this. Yeah, I definitely recommend
at least putting SOME kind of grass there... or something...
Also, something about the text annoys me. I think it's the outline around 'after
the storm'. It's really, really bright against that gray. I don't think I like
the gray in the first place... so I'd at least say take off the white and
lighten the text a bit. Maybe that's just me though.
... My parents would kill me. And I'm sixteen. That would be like my little
sister having a baby! -shudders-
I can honestly see where her mother is proud that her daughter decided to keep
the baby though. It was a big decision and a lot of girls would rather get an
abortion than deal with pain and stretch marks >.>;;
The fact that she doesn't want to give the baby up for adoption is another thing
entirely. It's going to be extremely hard for her with a baby brother, her own
baby, other younger siblings, and any sense of a social life she might have
left.
I wish I could feel sorry for her, but I don't have enough compassion. Yeah,
people aren't perfect, but the whole situation could have easily been prevented.
Can we say 'tie your legs together'?
I do feel bad for that baby though. Because of that girl's idiotic decisions
before the pregnancy and during it the baby is suffering. That is not fair and I
hope the baby is taken by social services and finds a good home with parents who
can love and take care of her properly.
I also hope that the mother, by some grace of God, gets an ounce of sense into
her shriveled brain from all of this. Seems to me like we're having a shortage
on common sense these days...
Mostly I just want to ask a question. I need opinions on whether this wallpaper
is too risky for Minitokyo or not. All the important stuff is covered, but I'm
still sort of worried. I put many, many hours of work into this and I really
don't want to find out it was for nothing, but I have to ask anyway.
What do you guys think (especially mods and such)? Is it too risky?
After a while of not working on this wall... I tried to do it again! Here's the
result!
Okay, I followed some of your suggestions. The girl is bigger and moved inward,
the bright spots are brighter.
I really can't do all that much other than that. The color change thing won't
seem to work for me and I tried to vector it, but it just turned out looking
really, really weird.
The color balance layers honestly looked completely tacky when I tried that.
Um... not sure what I can do about the moon being white... moons are generally
white... plus there's more white in the picture now so maybe it doesn't look so
terrible/out of place?
Thank you guys for all your awesome advice! I followed some of your thoughts,
not so much on others, but I did manage to sharpen up the stars quite nicely.
Had to start the background from scratch to do it but~
-shrug-
It's the price we pay. Anyway! I added more black and brightened up the front of
the girl. The moon is now completely white and not transparant. I colored in her
outfit where you could see the stars so she doesn't look transparant anymore
(though she wasn't in the first place). Had to move the girl over for some
reason or another... can't remember why right now though ^^;;
Um... took away the glass... I kinda agreed that they seemed almost out of
place. I grouped more of the stars and such together so that they seemed more
like galaxies than just scattered stars...
Okay, my wallpaper was deleted by the mods and they kindly explained to me that
it was because the moon and stars were too blurry for their standards. So I
decided that I'd post it here instead. Just so you guys can see it and critique
it for me (which is why I post my wallpapers anway ^^;; ).
Anyway, I'd LOVE to hear what you guys think positive or negative (though I hope
both are constructive), what I could change, suggestions on how to unblurrify
the moon and stars for future reference, ect.
Oh! Don't forget to click it again once the picture comes up to full size view
it. It goes a little pixelly if you don't do that. And I forget to click it
again a lot when I look at people's wallpapers that they've posted here or in
the Image Dump or whatever it's called. Please don't forget! ^^;;
It's of a young angel learning how to make a star from her textbooks. It's
called How To Make A Star. Hope you guys like it~<3
wallpaper~
haha, if it were just the Kyo Fan Club our abbreviation would be KFC.
;;
I'm in southwest Tennessee and the weather has been absolutely insane the last month or so. One day we think we'll be expecting snow (which is highly uncommon for us until Febuary) and then the very next day it'll be warm and sunny out. Just recently, like in the past two weeks, has it started to become constantly cold and even then it's not so cold that only a light jacket wouldn't warm you up alright.
Plus it's been really dry this year. Usually it rains a lot more and there's frost on the windows every morning. This year I've only seen the frost a couple of times. It's really weird and I've been actually wondering if anyone else had noticed. Guess so ^^;;
I do believe in ghosts. I also believe that there are some extremely good hoaxes out there and that people's eyes and their machines play tricks on them at times.
My cousin and my best friend see shadows that flick around the room and can't be explained naturally. Things get placed where no one could or would put them when you turned your back for only a moment.
My room is actually a bit... haunted I guess for lack of a better word. It's always cold there, even in the summer, and some of my friends won't sleep in there alone because of things they've seen. The door opens by itself and once it closed and locked itself while I was asleep. Shadows that look like people follow you (and it's obviously not your shadow, it's usually a skinny, tall man's). Once I saw a shaggy white dog that my hand could pass through. It just sat there and watched me. Kinda weird.
My last house (the one my best friend currently lives in) is haunted, according to several families that lived there and my old room (now my best friend's room) is supposedly the most haunted room in the house. I remember when I was little that I wouldn't sleep in my own room and I'd never had a problem with that before, but I had no real reason why I wouldn't. I didn't know anything about that house being haunted until several years after we moved out. Kinda weird ^^;;
No religion is mature, I think. In all of them there are people who act like children. Even some atheists do this, saying that having a religion at all is ridiculous. Maturity of a religion would depend on the maturity of the person that practices it and because everyone always likes to be right, fights and sometimes wars erupt from it. It's like a couple of teenagers getting into a scuffle because of something stupid that one of them said.
Tolerance and acceptance are two different things, by the way. Tolerance is saying that something is okay no matter what. If everyone were completely tolerant, as some of you suggest we should be, then even murder would be looked at as okay. 'Oh, he was angry because she left him so he killed her. Poor baby.'
Acceptance is saying that, even if you don't agree with something about someone, you care about them for who they are. Being gay (just an example) does not make a person who they are alone. There are other aspects that make them who they are. Accepting that they're gay does not mean that you can't say they're wrong. It means that you love them in spite of their being wrong.
Sorry if I'm stepping on any of your toes here, but alot of people in this thread are being immature and, I think, are wrong in their understandings of what religion is and what they're saying means.
I believe that religion is of the devil. I am a Christ follower, not a Christian. My goal is to be like Christ and to follow what he taught about loving everyone despite their human flaws. I know I can never be perfect like he was (I'm bi so I DEFINITELY know I'm not perfect here since the bible says it's wrong) but all I can do is try. Many Christians and unbelievers believe that "if u do the thing u mentioned(greed, lust, arogance) God reserves the right to deny you entrance to heaven. -Pepeo". That's not true. All you have to do is ask that God forgives you and say that you need him to come into your life and really mean it. The bible says that man's nature is sinful. If God didn't let you into Heaven for being a sinner no one would be up there and there would be no point in being a Christian at all...
Believe me. There's no way I'd go into something knowing that I was never going to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Oh, and neo-paganism followers generally do not believe that every religion is right. Many branches of it are polytheistic and DO believe in many gods and goddesses and that they should perform certain rituals. Many are explicitly *against* any religious authority. I'm sure there are some branches that state that everyonr is right, but the majority of them do not agree with this statement.
I'm really sorry, but for the last hour I've been trying to figure out how to provide a link for my deleted wallpaper. I did go to the original deletion thread and looked at the instructions but I cannot find the thumbnail for my wallpaper.
Reflections by kitsunemika
That's the 'this wallpaper has been quarantined' notification for the other MT goers. I hope that helps some but I'm just so confused now...
My wallpaper is called Reflections and it's from the game Saya no Uta. I'm really sorry for being so much trouble... I just don't understand why it got deleted and I just don't know what to do.
>.<;;
I'm so sorry.
... hot chocolate then? Works wonders on the soul~ ^^;;
Seriously, I've never met someone who was so down that a cup of hot chocolate and a friend to laugh with wouldn't cure. ^-^
Wall:
1st: Night's Angels by eternallegend
2nd: +~Dreaming!+~ by rika23
3rd: Under The Moon by FutatsuNoNegai
Doujin:
1st: * Snow Angel * by kyara17
2nd: Snow Angel:It's Christmas! by FutatsuNoNegai
3rd: I got you a present! by SupermilkanChii
I like the last on a lot more! Good job so far!
Onto the critiquing. Maybe it's just me but her legs look a little pixelly. Maybe that's just my crap computer though, so don't really pay that comment much mind unless someone else says something.
The contrast between light and dark doesn't seem enough and I don't particularly care for the colors you used. I'd prefer a dark blue and white-ish and pink theme or something. Not purple/blue and pink, but maybe that's just my personal preference. I've never liked pink and purple together. Also I don't like the color of the font.
These are just my opinions so you can pick and choose through them all you like ^^ Sorry if I sound harsh...
Forgive any bluntness. I'm not good with putting things gently, I'm afraid -.-;;
The wings AREN'T that bad. The real problem I wee with them is that they're (like everything else in the wall besides the scan) are in a pale pastellish color. The scan is not in this coloring. So everything seems off to me.
The background is very boring to me. Nothing is happening. It's just a gradient with a sprinkle of stars.
The glow does look weird and makes me wonder if you're trying to hide mistakes in the extraction with it (yeah, not that I've done that before >.>). If you are and absolutely can't get it right then I recommend a lighter colored, softer glow. If you aren't I recommend that anyway. Or getting rid of it altogether and finding a different way to focus your eyes on Sailor Moon.
These are my opinions so you can pick and choose what you want to listen to. Sorry if it sounds harsh...
Heh, I actually thought the green was part of the water and that she was waist deep in it for some reason when I first saw this. Yeah, I definitely recommend at least putting SOME kind of grass there... or something...
Also, something about the text annoys me. I think it's the outline around 'after the storm'. It's really, really bright against that gray. I don't think I like the gray in the first place... so I'd at least say take off the white and lighten the text a bit. Maybe that's just me though.
... My parents would kill me. And I'm sixteen. That would be like my little sister having a baby! -shudders-
I can honestly see where her mother is proud that her daughter decided to keep the baby though. It was a big decision and a lot of girls would rather get an abortion than deal with pain and stretch marks >.>;;
The fact that she doesn't want to give the baby up for adoption is another thing entirely. It's going to be extremely hard for her with a baby brother, her own baby, other younger siblings, and any sense of a social life she might have left.
I wish I could feel sorry for her, but I don't have enough compassion. Yeah, people aren't perfect, but the whole situation could have easily been prevented. Can we say 'tie your legs together'?
I do feel bad for that baby though. Because of that girl's idiotic decisions before the pregnancy and during it the baby is suffering. That is not fair and I hope the baby is taken by social services and finds a good home with parents who can love and take care of her properly.
I also hope that the mother, by some grace of God, gets an ounce of sense into her shriveled brain from all of this. Seems to me like we're having a shortage on common sense these days...
There. I'm so sorry ^^;; Apparantly I got the wrong code from imageshack...
Mostly I just want to ask a question. I need opinions on whether this wallpaper is too risky for Minitokyo or not. All the important stuff is covered, but I'm still sort of worried. I put many, many hours of work into this and I really don't want to find out it was for nothing, but I have to ask anyway.
What do you guys think (especially mods and such)? Is it too risky?
<a href="http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oneplaceclosertonumbqp5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9258/oneplaceclosertonumbqp5.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Elfen Lied Wallpaper" /></a>
Okay, added some clouds for her to sit on since people have been asking for that from the beginning ^^;;
I think the clouds sorta help out the too much space deal and they're really pretty. I also added a shooting star, just for affect.
I hope it's better now! I'm gonna go ahead and submit this version and any changes I make I'll just update. ^^
After a while of not working on this wall... I tried to do it again! Here's the result!
Okay, I followed some of your suggestions. The girl is bigger and moved inward, the bright spots are brighter.
I really can't do all that much other than that. The color change thing won't seem to work for me and I tried to vector it, but it just turned out looking really, really weird.
The color balance layers honestly looked completely tacky when I tried that. Um... not sure what I can do about the moon being white... moons are generally white... plus there's more white in the picture now so maybe it doesn't look so terrible/out of place?
I hope you guys like it better now...
The original character is actually monotonous. It's actually what inspired the colors of everything else.
Here's the original scan:
So any suggestions on how to maybe CHANGE her color? Probably her skin color being the biggest thing in need of altaring.
OKAY~
Thank you guys for all your awesome advice! I followed some of your thoughts, not so much on others, but I did manage to sharpen up the stars quite nicely. Had to start the background from scratch to do it but~
-shrug-
It's the price we pay. Anyway! I added more black and brightened up the front of the girl. The moon is now completely white and not transparant. I colored in her outfit where you could see the stars so she doesn't look transparant anymore (though she wasn't in the first place). Had to move the girl over for some reason or another... can't remember why right now though ^^;;
Um... took away the glass... I kinda agreed that they seemed almost out of place. I grouped more of the stars and such together so that they seemed more like galaxies than just scattered stars...
And there it is. What do you think now?
Okay, my wallpaper was deleted by the mods and they kindly explained to me that it was because the moon and stars were too blurry for their standards. So I decided that I'd post it here instead. Just so you guys can see it and critique it for me (which is why I post my wallpapers anway ^^;; ).
Anyway, I'd LOVE to hear what you guys think positive or negative (though I hope both are constructive), what I could change, suggestions on how to unblurrify the moon and stars for future reference, ect.
Oh! Don't forget to click it again once the picture comes up to full size view it. It goes a little pixelly if you don't do that. And I forget to click it again a lot when I look at people's wallpapers that they've posted here or in the Image Dump or whatever it's called. Please don't forget! ^^;;
It's of a young angel learning how to make a star from her textbooks. It's called How To Make A Star. Hope you guys like it~<3
~Mika-chan