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[Meow Mix]

I can’t keep the same avatar more than a week or two max, get tired of them. Some of you keep yours for literal decades. I don’t know how you do it.

So, I wondered about some of your avatars. Give a lil explanation of how and why you chose yours for the thread ^.^

 

[JustGeorge]

I'm coming up on my first year at the forum. I've used this avatar the whole time.

I wanted an avatar that showed where my heart is.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Mine's just me, as painted by a street artist. I like it. Therefore I keep it.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Mine represents my love for metal and (in my opinion) its greatest vocalist of all time, Dio.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

I wanted an avatar to go along with my handle. So I created it in a Photoshop program of some sort (can't remember the exact program as its been a while). Something like a mote of dust, floating aimlessly amid a sort of formless nothingness.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I love 80's culture and painfully so. I google searched "80's sunglasses" and could find nothing but this picture.

 

[crossfire]

Ha! It's probably about time I changed this avatar! (I've had this political-flavored one for a few years now.)
Time for something a bit more introverted and stabilizing.
Going from this:

To This:

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

See Broken Peace.

Interestingly enough, this Saturday (July 3rd / 16th of Tamuz) we read Parashat Pinchas.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Mine's just me, as painted by a street artist. I like it. Therefore I keep it.

In any case, having my avatar really be me means that sometimes, when you are reading my posts, you can sort of look into my blue and penetrating orbs and get a sense of who really is talking.

 

[ChristineM]

I've done this before on

Your avatar.

So I'll copy it to here

I was helping out as a grunt on an archaeological dig (a hobby of mine). Clearing away spoil in a cave i unearthed a smooth dome. Unsure if it was just a rock or something more interesting i called over the supervisor. He painstakingly unearthed one of the best preserved cro-magnon skulls ever found.

Today you can see it on display at the Nation Museum of Prehistory at Les Eyzies.

It's dated to 22,000 years old so besides the cachet of discovering it, it is handy when in "discussion" with YECs.

 

[JoshuaTree]

Did a little work on a marine base near Joshua Tree, spent some time in the park, identified with the tree.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

If some of you have seen me with a wolverine avatar before, it's something if I remember right, @Revoltingest brought up about me possibly being a wolverine, so I have sometimes sported that avatar and role-played it. I feel like there's an unsaid game some of us play where Revoltingest is Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpson's, and the people with animal avatars kind of face off against him.

 

[Rival]

I change mine often.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

I grew up in Alaska, additionally with many of my younger adult years in Seattle. Also, I personally identify with the Raven character (brains, skill, trickery when needed, while helping others) from the Native Alaskan mythos. So I chose this Tlingit-styled artwork of the Raven stealing the sun to bring light to the world.

I was also like you for a couple of years. In fact that is why my subheading is “Avatar in flux”. While I was burning through quite a few avatar images each month I put that subheading in. After I got the Raven art, the subheading seemed cool. So I kept that too. They’ve been there for more than 8 years now.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

I was also like you for a couple of years. In fact that is why my subheading is “Avatar in flux”. While I was burning through quite a few avatar images each month I put that subheading in. After I got the Raven art, the subheading seemed cool.

I have to admit - I thought it was cool as well. Always wondered what it meant. It always seemed like it must be something so much more profound than just that your forum picture was changing. Hahaha...

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I can’t keep the same avatar more than a week or two max, get tired of them. Some of you keep yours for literal decades. I don’t know how you do it.

So, I wondered about some of your avatars. Give a lil explanation of how and why you chose yours for the thread ^.^

I agree. I change mine maybe once or twice a month. I'm due. I change my signature as well.

I went out for a run a week or so ago and saw trucks tearing down trees next to my complex to build I think another shopping plaza. They literally snatched trees out of the ground. I felt a pang in my chest.

Years ago I thought myself an animist. I've been a nature brat since I could walk. It reminded me of the movie furngully.

I may keep it up for week and change it, I don't know.

 

[ChristineM]

In any case, having my avatar really be me means that sometimes, when you are reading my posts, you can sort of look into my blue and penetrating orbs and get a sense of who really is talking.

Yeah, me too ;-)

 

[JoshuaTree]

Harry Chapin - Flowers Are Red Lyrics | AZLyrics.com

...flowers aren't always red.

 

[Jose Fly]

Mine is from the Chick Tract, Big Daddy. Chick.com: Big Daddy?

It's apparently what creationists think biology teachers and professors are like, which I find hilarious. I also derive a twisted pleasure when someone just can't get past the avatar and bases their whole approach to me on it.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Did a little work on a marine base near Joshua Tree, ...

... an amazingly beautiful place (albeit cold as hell at night).