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[GlyphGryph]

I just realized why I've got nothing on my wall or anywhere else.

It all goes on my computer case, which I didn't even THINK about during my last post. It's currently got a a dozen clay and wax mushrooms of various types on top of it, a paper mache burrower worm from Starship troopers, a frog surrounded by more mushrooms, a gryphon woodburned onto a slice of log taped to the side, a sluggyPawnz robot guy, a smiley face made from red duct tape, a cardboard+ducttape cellphone charge, and a doduo. There used to be a giant Startship troopers Warrior bug looming over everything, but I don't know where that went.

[Chunes]

I'm with the OP. I prefer my walls bare, or at least, I don't see what's wrong with them that way.

[ChairmanPoo]

In my dorm room I have no posters, or, for that matter, any kind of decorative stuff.

At home I have a couple of diagrams, two drawings I made, a black hole postcard I bought in 2001 in the British Museum, and my cabinet of curiosities.

[Karnewarrior]

I'm with the OP. I prefer my walls bare, or at least, I don't see what's wrong with them that way.

This. And my Dad hates it.

I have no idea why he thinks bare walls are ugly. They aren't. they're bare. Ugly would be plastering them with peeling pictures of semi-attractive women on cars I don't enjoy looking at that I wouldn't have a chance with anyway, or peppering them with nerdy shit like the starwars posters I got some while ago.

Frankly I could care less about how attractive my room is to other people. It's my room, and I'm moving out in a year or so (hopefully), and I'd rather it be nice and blank for my sister when she comes in than put up posters that will gather naught but scorn from everyone.

So yeah, life's cool.

[Lovechild]

I have some drawings and paintings I've got from friends. One of Cthulhu, one of an angel, one of a tongue with a syringe stabbed through it, one of someone getting their back slit with a razor, and one abstract painting I got from a girl at a kindergarten I worked at.

[Aqizzar]

I have no idea why he thinks bare walls are ugly. They aren't. they're bare. Ugly would be plastering them with peeling pictures of semi-attractive women on cars I don't enjoy looking at that I wouldn't have a chance with anyway, or peppering them with nerdy shit like the starwars posters I got some while ago.

You could always, y'know, hang up stuff you think would be cool.  There's no fucking rule that it has to be car-mag pinups and nerd shit.  Just look at my Budweiser neon sign, or Spanish longsword.  That's the whole point, personalize; it doesn't have to be whatever your cynicism tells you is "normal".

[Itnetlolor]

I've got a few nautical things up on my walls (ocean views, boat stuff, a functional analog barometer that helps predict the weather, and a display with all different knots). If anything, the only real stuff of mine that is up is a drawing of a road train kind of thing I drew based off of that one Assault level in Unreal2k4 and a drawing of an airship both made long ago when I was drawing like a madman.

The nautical setup was basically a design scheme that apparently was laid out when I took the room, I didn't bother messing with it though and worked around it.

EDIT:
Yeah, I think my drawing was supposed to be a passenger liner version of the repair vessel in that level. At least, that's how I drew it as. It was wall-worthy because I did it pretty darn well in one pass in ink, and on a pretty large piece of paper as well. Couldn't fit it on my scanner. At least, not without having to stitch it together a bit on the computer.

[Jay]

a drawing of a road train kind of thing I drew based off of that one Assault level in Unreal2k4

Hahahah.
AS-Convoy is best convoy.

[Blargityblarg]

My walls have a strip of half-torn-down teddy bear wallpaper at around chest height, a relic of the previous owner, as well as a poster with fingerings for every guitar chord and a lined sheet of paper with random crap written on it.

Oh, and one of those old NOVA TOTIVS TERRARVM ORBIS GEOGRAPHICA AC HYDROGRAPHICA TABVLA maps, that don't have Australia or Antarctica, in a frame.

[Grakelin]

I have no idea why he thinks bare walls are ugly. They aren't. they're bare. Ugly would be plastering them with peeling pictures of semi-attractive women on cars I don't enjoy looking at that I wouldn't have a chance with anyway, or peppering them with nerdy shit like the starwars posters I got some while ago.

You could always, y'know, hang up stuff you think would be cool.  There's no fucking rule that it has to be car-mag pinups and nerd shit.  Just look at my Budweiser neon sign, or Spanish longsword.  That's the whole point, personalize; it doesn't have to be whatever your cynicism tells you is "normal".

I have to agree with Aqizzar, Karne. Your post made you seem like you're a bit insecure about the things you like and your sexual prowess.

[Jreengus]

I used to have a spitfire painting in my room at home, mainly just because we already had not because I went out of my way to get it. I've never seen the point of posters either.

[Karnewarrior]

I have no idea why he thinks bare walls are ugly. They aren't. they're bare. Ugly would be plastering them with peeling pictures of semi-attractive women on cars I don't enjoy looking at that I wouldn't have a chance with anyway, or peppering them with nerdy shit like the starwars posters I got some while ago.

You could always, y'know, hang up stuff you think would be cool.  There's no fucking rule that it has to be car-mag pinups and nerd shit.  Just look at my Budweiser neon sign, or Spanish longsword.  That's the whole point, personalize; it doesn't have to be whatever your cynicism tells you is "normal".

I have to agree with Aqizzar, Karne. Your post made you seem like you're a bit insecure about the things you like and your sexual prowess.

I'm just not good at communicating myself.

It's not that I'm ashamed to put up what I like. It's that the things I like don't really have anything to put up. DF doesn't have any posters, nor do I have any way to make one from scratch, and I don't want to waste money on a MSPA poster.

Besides, I just would rather my walls blank in any case. Too many posters would keep me distracted when I was trying to sleep.

...

Grakelin what were you saying about my sexual prowess? Not cool, bro. Not cool.

[Sensei]

I've always considered myself more into baubles than posters, but I have stuff on all the walls and more on the ground. My room and bookcases aren't very poster-shaped. I've got some trophies, including one I remember I spent 1000 tickets on at Illusionz when I was ten or something. There's an NRA badge/certificate, and more importantly the target I got it for (five .22s under the space of a runty dime). What everyone seems to notice is that I have a shit ton of lego models taking up most of my bookshelf. I used to build those like crazy and I absolutely refused to take them apart.

[Vactor]

When i was younger I always had random shit in my room on shelves, fossils, bones and skulls i had found, agates, a elk-foot mounted with eyes attached to it.  When I went to college my roommate and I printed off all the terraserver (pre-google earth satellite image database) images of our city and pieced them together across our entire dorm wall.  It was actually very useful, as we could always give people really good directions, and show them the route they needed to take.

When they are interesting things they can serve a functional purpose, as well as keep people fascinated with you when you aren't even interacting with them.

We also built a pair of platforms, put our beds on the floor and put our computer desks on the platforms over our beds, giving us enough space for a hideabed, refrigerator and  entertainment system in a tiny dorm room.

[FuzzyZergling]

I have a poster of Kenpachi, and a few drawing of myself from artists at anime conventions.
The poster is because looking at the poster is pleasing to me, the drawings are for the same reason, mixed with something resembling pride at meeting an actual artist, and having them draw something for me specifically.