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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 certainly is common enough. You had me looking it up now myself. No luck though. 🤔
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.
I love this
This image has done wonders for my mental health
Desktop background
This bad boy: 
It picks one every hour from a folder full of paintings (oil & watercolor, a few sketches).
Hex 222e45.
I don't see it very much these days, as I'm using a tiling environment.
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
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Atmospheric shot of Whitby Abbey I took on my honeymoon
phone wallpaper, by unworn
laptop wallpaper, photo I took in Denmark
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.
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
A solid black.
A Pikmin wallpaper! I love pikmin and all things green, so I picked (or is that plucked? Hehe) this one and I love it! 😃
I changed the wallpaper once in a blue moon every time I set up a new device, these two from 4 years ago when I first bought the phone.
I always just search "Oled wallpaper" and it usually return somekind of astronout just because of the black element.
I found this on Reddit on either r/bunnies or r/rabbits a few years ago, can't remember who posted.
My desktop wallpaper is the default Windows 10 wallpaper, and occasionally something on Wallpaper Engine.
Generated by AI, changes every two hours.
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|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
My bubby crossed the rainbow bridge recently and this was a really good snap of him
Took it in 2019, and it's been my background since then.
Lock screen
Unlocked
Lock screen is just a picture I saw that I liked i don't know who made it
Background is from torment: tides of numenera the changing god looking out at earth year circa 1 million from his space station before the game starts and it gets destroyed with you falling to earth.
On my phone. I lose out on the edges of the image due to the resolution, but oh well.
Phone is partner and child in the park. PC and laptop are both fedora default colored pencil like background
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