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Wishing for Something"I wish we could be together."
"Yeah," he says, "I wish a lot of things."

In the silence, he realizes that he's terrified of her. Of what she might mean. There's so much that he could tell her, but the words he longs to speak stick in his throat, leaving him breathless.

She smiles, golden in the sunset, and blows on a dying dandelion. The gossamer seeds fly away as she looks at him tightly and tilts her head towards him. Looking at the faint curve of her lips, he knows exactly what she wished for.

Oh long-lost boy, this is the moment you always wanted, the moment you hoped would never come.

He kisses her, because what else is he suppose

Let's Call This the BeginningHe turned back towards me and held out his hand. I reached forward, watching his chest rise and fall underneath his shirt. I imagined his lungs were full of wind; there was a storm hidden behind his teeth and we were going to run away together to fly kites and watch the clouds chase the sun across the horizon. Our fingers touched and my imagination raced; we were holding hands at midnight in the city, climbing rooftops and racing shooting stars across the empty streets. He closed his hand around mine and our shoulders brushed.

That's when I realized I was lonely.

It became one of the many things I avoid telling people. Like sometimes I have

forever-girlshe's tired. worn.
but she can't fall asleep anymore
because she's scared of waking up.

i think back to the nights
when we pretended we could touch the stars
and we lit up the sky with laughter.

oh those long ago feelings.

she's the type of girl who hides her pain
because she doesn't want anyone else to be hurt.
she wears too much make-up
to cover up the tears in her eyes.

she tries to smile and it just about breaks my heart.

forever-girl,
can i be your hero?

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Ideas are bulletproof.by =jonathoncomfortreed

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The inspiration/motivation to create this wallpaper was, with all honesty, my disappointment with the Harper government here in Canada. I'm not going to write an essay here explaining what I don't like about the actions of the Conservative majority, because that would take too long and it's subjective anyway. Suffice to say that I'm not happy with the government and this is one of my many ways of expressing that.

On top of that, I'm also frustrated by society for being so benign about the short-sighted, non-progressive and undemocratic behaviours of their governments. All over the world there are governments acting selfishly and wastefully – with money, environmental resources and lives to name a few.

The Guy Fawkes mask is a tribute to the man himself, who was part of a plot to overthrow King James I, as well as the protestors last year who sported a mask on the streets. I loved that. Whenever I see this mask, however, I think of V for Vendetta. That movie was a major inspiration for this (and the source of the quote). Every time I see that movie, I think it's a little closer to what the world could become.

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Simple process. Started with the mask, added some text, rearranged a bit.

Felt good.

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The mask is from here.

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Critique by ~PuppiesAndRaceCars Feb 5, 2012, 7:14:52 PM

I don't know. Bullet proof isn't the same as invincable, and it almost makes me feel like bullet proof is trying to say it is invincable.also, you can be immune when your shot at, but still not immune to being shot down. It's kind of like a squar is a rectangle, but not al rectangles are squars. You are trying to make a rectangle both, but you need to make a set of parellel sides shorter, or consintrate the idea of it, into something more over all true. Something more like Ideas are invincable, or unharmable, in an over all way of saying you can't harm them. but I could have just miss interperated your intentions. I don't know.

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~nykol-haebrd Dec 5, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Nice! Very well designed ^_^ I love this movie

~XmalawiXheartX Nov 26, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I love this so much. The simplicity is really striking too.

~lordwolfazure Apr 23, 2012

I’m frustrated by society for being so benign over the democratic behaviour of government. I think people should stop and question it, and say “This is nothing but mob rule, it’s a bad thing, let’s abolish democracy” :/

`cypher-neo Jan 12, 2012 Professional Photographer

Looks good! I wish this came in a dark version (white text, darker background) as well.

~Risu-of-Anterra Jan 7, 2012

I love this so much.

Thursday night I saw Fred Eaglesmith in concert. He's a Canadian musician, maybe you've heard of him? Anyways, he made a few political comments between songs, including something along the lines of "Your Right is our Left." I don't know much about the Canadian government, but the American government is rather unsatisfactory as well and I hope both our countries change that soon.

=jonathoncomfortreed Jan 11, 2012 Student Photographer

Yeah that sounds right.

=HtBlack Jan 7, 2012

I haven't used that account of mine in ages, but I made a stamp about this same quote a couple of years ago.

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I like how this is simple, however, I feel like the font isn't quite the correct one.

As for wallpapers, I would make a zip.file with a number of formats available, widescreen and not, so everyone can have the one they prefer:

Normal:
1600x1200
1280x1024
1152x864
1024x768

Wide:
1680x1050
1440x900
1280x800

=jonathoncomfortreed Jan 11, 2012 Student Photographer

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What would you prefer for the font?

I spent a long time comparing fonts, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

And hey, thanks a lot for the dimensions.

I'm working on making the .zip right now.

=HtBlack Jan 13, 2012

Hmm. Well, I'd consider a few things either from the movie itself, or your Guy Fawkes face here. In the movie, V's symbol looks very... uhm... graffiti-like. Also, I'm thinking of that small girl writing it on a wall... so, you could find a font resembling that, maybe dripping paint from the bottoms. Using gradient wisely, the black can fade to a dark red, to hint at the fight behind the words.
If you consider the Guy Fawkes face, rather, I would choose a font that is very sharp, as if it was traced with a sword.

The font you chose is way too stylish, and that kind of writing seems the typical modern teenager handwriting, trying to look "cool".

it doesn't seem to fit, to me.

(: no worries. I looked into it back when I wanted to do a wallpaper pack, too.

~GeekintheRain Jan 6, 2012

Fantastic quotation, best from the film in my opinion, great job!

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