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Winamp Skins

Laguna ponders life, the universe, and playing a couple rounds of Dance Dance Revolution.
The Bluest Skies

FF8's Laguna Loire, by way of ending FMV screencap and CorelDraw filters. First Winamp skin I ever actually finished, though I've started half a dozen others... actually, I think the first one I ever started was also a Laguna skin. Anyway, works with or without the equalizer, doesn't yet include the browser (does anyone use that?) and the quote up top is taken from "Better Things", by The Kinks. Though I admit I've only heard the Dar Williams cover.
Darn the placement of those bars on the equalizer.
The Last Blessing

In which I get conceited and presume that anyone but myself would care to use a skin made from my fan art. As with the above, it's got everything but the browser; unlike the above, it doesn't look so hot without the equalizer. I was listening to "Bitten to Death by Rats" by James Kochalka Superstar over and over as I was putting the finishing touches on this, yet somehow I restrained myself and used the name of a room in Vagrant Story for a title instead.
'BARF!'
River City Amp

Uhhh... I was bored, and River City Ransom rocks. And the edited logo was a happy accident. Nothing more to say about this one, really... Except that I've always liked Ryan better than Alex for some reason. And hmm, I always liked Jimmy better than Billy in Double Dragon, too. I think I have a 2P fetish.
And no, John is not a pedophile.
Watching You

I gave Boa's "For Jasmine" to Hardin and Josh as their song awhile back. They give me warm fuzzies, albeit very angsty ones. Anyhow, they did say at the beginning of the game that the body was not eternal, but the soul...? Which makes me wonder what Hardin might have been doing after the game's ending... Though it doesn't fit into my fanfic continuity, the idea that he might keep looking out for Joshie appealed to me. Much thanks to Jay, who provided the ending screenshot and the MP3 of the song.
Screw Cowboy Bebop, screw Boba Fett. Samus could kick all their butts.
Samus Amp

Made at the request of Starmie Knight, and very gladly - it gave me an excuse to play through a bit of Super Metroid again. And look through the instruction booklet. Mmm, Metroid. There has never been another female main character as outright cool as Samus, if you ask me.
No Viktor, your dirty limericks aren't going to make it onto my Winamp skins.
Orrizonte

Never mind that Babelfish says "orizzonte" is the correct spelling... title's taken from the Suikoden II arranged album. Or rather, the title track. If you squint really hard, you might be able to make out the lyrics (or traces thereof) off to the left of my two favorite mercs. The castle is a photo I found on Google... apparently the University of Edinburgh, as far as I can tell. But it fits nicely.
adored by that sex, soaked in wine
Child Inside

Blame Jay for getting me and my VS muses hooked on Boa. In this case, a lyric hit a little too close to my take on Sydney. (And no, that's not Joshua in there.) Anyhow, this skin has two different equalizer versions, because some use the equalizer for its intended purpose, and some (like me) mostly just like it for the extra creative space. So in the zip is Eqmain1.bmp - if you want a non-transparent equalizer, rename that to Eqmain.bmp.
I would not run - I would not turn - I would not hide
In The Eye

My VS muses are also hooked on Suzanne Vega lyrics. Anyway, one of my favorite screenshots, from one of my favorite scenes. I learned accidentally that this skin looks pretty freakin' cool against a black background.
Featuring Phil's theme song! ...For all two people who might visit this page who will get that joke.
Dread-Snake

...Yes, I'm a dork. :P I love Dread-Snake. The hair, the shades, the shirt... :D I'm thinking I might do a series of DDR skins, really, but Snake here is who I always choose when I'm 1P. (So much for the 2P fetish.) And for some reason I particularly enjoy making him dance to "So Many Men". Like I said, dork.
Pity that's actually Beatrix's weapon.
God Save the Quen

No, that's not a typo. Except that I vaguely remember that I got this idea from #fret, so... it could have been based on someone's typo. Dunno, it's just silliness.
You have no idea how messed up this really is.
Shine On

The Flame Champion from Suikoden 3... if I explained why, it would be a spoiler. But it does make sense. I'm thinking I may make this a series of three skins, really...
'Gimme back my hair gel before I Snake Bite you, Ginji!'
Catch Us If You Can

My favorite shot from the opening of Get Backers. Goes well with an oldies song I remember... Anyway, not much to say about this. Watch the show - it's good!
Holy *crap*, Ban. Is there anything that doesn't make you look hot?
Violin

Screencap courtesy of Kris, who did a lot of reconstructing, because this was actually a panning shot. So did I, actually. ...I love Ban. So much that I had to stop halfway through skinning this and write a fic too.

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