Avatar explanation thread: pictorial demystification
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Mine is Mooncat from ITV's Get up and Go (and later Mooncat & Co) because I recently remembered his existence apropos of nothing, despite not seeing him on TV for about 25 years.
All this talk of avatars has finally prompted me to get one. In fact, this is the first forum in which I've actually specifically gone and had a think and uploaded something I quite like.

So a cropped Dresden Dolls album cover it had to be: Image
I was listening to 'Girl Anachronism' earlier, while wandering through a large crowd of people in the sun. It was nice, like.
excellent song, I wasnt a fan of most there other stuff but that song is ace, was lucky to catch them playing it at leeds festival a couple of years back.
I saw them with NIN in Manchester, they were fun, Hell of a sound for two people.
My avatar was drawn by Mr. Dimrill as a portrait of I. Previous avatars of mine have included Che Gueverra, Master Shake, and Maddy.
I miss the maddy/myra one. It was excellently offensive, which turns me on.
My cat drinking from the tap. This was a hurried choice as I was beginning to feel conspicuous by having no avatar at all.
Why did he colour yours? Does he like you more than everyone else? :(
It was part of the larger work of
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and coloured:
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So it's actually half way between the two. Like his sexuality.
I love the Forest of Dean. It's ace. I spent many many weekends mountain biking there when I was a lad.

HOWEVER - it is full of inbred freaks.
Mr Chris wrote:
I love the Forest of Dean. It's ace. I spent many many weekends mountain biking there when I was a lad.

HOWEVER - it is full of inbred freaks.


OI! I used to work with a lad from the Forest of Dean...oh wait, I see what you mean.
Morte wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
I love the Forest of Dean. It's ace. I spent many many weekends mountain biking there when I was a lad.

HOWEVER - it is full of inbred freaks.


OI! I used to work with a lad from the Forest of Dean...oh wait, I see what you mean.


The FoD was in the catchment area for our school. Despite it being a grammar, some still got in. Brrrr.
Zardoz wrote:
So it's actually half way between the two. Like his sexuality.


There is no "chattering lol" smilie, so I have enstolen one from another forum.
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Can smoen make me an avatar out of my sig, please? I'm being dumb about it all. Thanks, will offer hugs and beer, or beer and hugs.
Mine is a picture of Mr Claypole from Rentaghost as I have a goatie beard so I'm obviously a spitting image of him. Only fatter.

Also I wear tights.
MaliA wrote:
Can smoen make me an avatar out of my sig, please? I'm being dumb about it all. Thanks, will offer hugs and beer, or beer and hugs.

What problem are you having with it?
Zardoz wrote:
So it's actually half way between the two. Like his sexuality.

Sadly, "halfway up the stairs" also describes... er, "Little CUS", as it were.

For Mr. Chris:

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MaliA wrote:
Can smoen make me an avatar out of my sig, please? I'm being dumb about it all. Thanks, will offer hugs and beer, or beer and hugs.


M'kay. If Dimrill don't mind. ;)
Zardoz is officially bored-at-work officially.
Yep.

PMed you Mali
Mine's just some rabbit.
I just googled for devil-related pics. It was either my current one or this -
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Although I like this one I've had in the past too -
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thomsedavi wrote:
For a long time my avatar was of Phil Oakey because (a) I like Human League and (b) I thought it was a good picture and (c) I plan to have something similar to his trademark haircut some day.

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I thought that since I've moved two forums since I had that avatar it was time for a change. So now my avatar is Skywarp, who I think is the coolest looking transformer in a colour scheme of black and purple.
I like the Human League's earlier work. Travelogue particularly. Bought it completely at randomly on CD in a bargain bin several years ago and went back the following week to get Reproduction and another two.

I have that Skywarp in your avatar. It's the Classics version from '06 which was sold packaged with Ultra Magnus. Don't find Skywarp all that interesting as a character, personally, but I agree his colours are iconic.

My avatar is this image shrunken. I would prefer the use the shield thing, but this different forum is much more difficult to use than the familiar ones, and I can't get it working. Fact: I received many accusations of "racism"on another forum by using this flag avatar. Fuckwits.
Because Leopold "Butters" Stotch is AWESOME (and I was bored of my 'Fear Of Pac-Man' avatar)
Before now I had a lovely picture of a man made from a long exposure of someone with a sparkler. It drew out a man sat at a table.

Now I have a photo that I took in Vegas. It is a horse made out of mirrorball stuff (mirrors, that'd be). The background is flowers, which are made of coloured glass.

I'll probably change it when I can think of something decent to change it to...
Technically I didn't ask for my avatar to be as it was. It was done for me.

I'm not complaining though, as it's really funny.
Curiosity wrote:
Before now I had a lovely picture of a man made from a long exposure of someone with a sparkler. It drew out a man sat at a table.

Now I have a photo that I took in Vegas. It is a horse made out of mirrorball stuff (mirrors, that'd be). The background is flowers, which are made of coloured glass.

I'll probably change it when I can think of something decent to change it to...



Your avatar is a psychedelic Nemesis the Warlock. I love the shape of his skulll. Look at that. Wow.
I changed my avatar - I have had the other one for a long time - I changed it to a funny little animation of some penguins back on WoB, but then the forum moved here a few hours later and I lost it :( For now here is non-Mii Mimi, aged about 'something'.
That non-Mii Mimi looks suspiciously like my niece. Are you sure you aren't about 11 and called Estella?
Anonymous X wrote:
Fact: I received many accusations of "racism"on another forum by using this flag avatar. Fuckwits.

Funny really, seeing as there IS black in your Union Jack.
I'm sure you guys all know where my avatar's from, what with you being gamers and internet users and all... but if not, you're in for a treat!
tossrStu wrote:
I'm sure you guys all know where my avatar's from, what with you being gamers and internet users and all... but if not, you're in for a treat!



Blimey! That was fun.
As we're moving onto art, here's the final version of me beating the shit out of Prime...
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That is excellent!
My current one's from this:
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Anonymous X wrote:
]I have that Skywarp in your avatar. It's the Classics version from '06 which was sold packaged with Ultra Magnus. Don't find Skywarp all that interesting as a character, personally, but I agree his colours are iconic.


He's a black and purple fighter jet. Fighter jets are the iconic Decepticon form, and black and purple are the iconic Decepticon colours. He may be a minor character, but he looks like the iconic decepticon.

Don't know who the equivalent would be for the Autobots. Probably just Optimus Prime, sadly.
Grim... wrote:
As we're moving onto art, here's the final version of me beating the shit out of Prime...
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You appear to be about to chew on his Vas Deferens.
Mine is a VMU animation pinched from the HTML section of one of the Shenmue 2 discs. It is a perma-dancing Cool Z (or Cool J, if you live in Japan).
Actually, for me the "It's all pish" thing came first, after I muttered it at work one day and one of my colleagues found it hysterically funny (strange folk these Canadians). I just grabbed a piccy of Rab C. Nesbitt to go with it, because it sounds like something he'd say and, erm, I quite like Rab C. Nesbitt.
Weebl as a Cylon. Or is it Bob?
How can I possibly begin to explain mine?
At the begging, hopefully...
Pod wrote:
At the begging, hopefully...


When you get to a big word do you just randomly bash at the keys? ;-)
Mr Chris wrote:
Pod wrote:
At the begging, hopefully...


When you get to a big word do you just randomly bash at the keys? ;-)


Waut?! ARu9ht yyoh sayinig I canl't Tyopek!?
My avatar is Mr Driller because I like Mr Driller.

Which makes today a Happy Day, because his game has appeared on Live Arcade.
thomsedavi wrote:
He's a black and purple fighter jet. Fighter jets are the iconic Decepticon form, and black and purple are the iconic Decepticon colours. He may be a minor character, but he looks like the iconic decepticon.

Don't know who the equivalent would be for the Autobots. Probably just Optimus Prime, sadly.

Autobot colours - well, it's just red isn't it? Maybe blue sometimes too, but rarely both together. If not Prime, how about Ironhide or whatever Sunstreaker's red 'brother' was called? Eh? EH? They're two red G1 minor characters.

Also, I finished reading your Trailbreaker/Arcee slash last night. Gripping stuff, I'd give it 3 out of 5 tissues.
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