explain your avatars

[TheDeathKnight]

Mine's a picture of me.
Just happened to have cool red lighting in this alley I was in, and a friend snapped the pic...

[drewblood]

saw this today.... made me laugh... thought it was fitting

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=507

[Toe Cutter]

saw this today.... made me laugh... thought it was fitting

http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=507

That is funny

[killerkat]

i like the ninja one....

should show my nemisis ninja queen that,haha.....

[MistressJennifer]

Is that what an avatar is? You mean like the pic here? Oh this is one of the lovely photos that Amelia and Forrest took of me!! I love this shot. I actually TRIED to re-create the finger poses on my face in the mirror and I could not do it!! I don't know how I did it but it looks perfect!!!

[cheinara wraithwalker]

i like the ninja one....

should show my nemisis ninja queen that,haha.....

Hahahah I like the caption on it.

Beware, quite possibly a ninja.

It's true.

[darknessfalls]

SAYS IT ALL REALLY DOESN'T IT?

[Evilbink]

Damned funny..too too funny.

[grebo]

mine is Doraemon, my obsession. its started with a random toy bought at a cheap crap shop, now i have various cuddly toys of varied sizes, an alarm clock, ring, tshirt or 2, night light and a heap of other stuff.

[Nuada_Airgetlam]

hey,hey,someone else said the "s" word awesome!......i studied Shamans as part of my many years in deep study of Etheopharmacology.....good going,man....(sounds all smart doesn't it ).....


shamans from any perticular area or just the "title" in general?.....


ohh,hey ,i got a bunch of shaman,etheo,ect books if you'd like some references...love spreadin' the word.....

Native American shamanism with a little bit of the celtic Druid tossed in for good measure. I would love to have some references. I was first introduced to it by my mythology teacher he was not your run of the mill high school teacher.
yeah it does sound smart but cool didn't even know it was a subject in college.

[Kevin]

My avatar? Just me with a touch of quick Photoshop Fu for the bounding box.

[hewhoisagod]

.......... mine's my family seal

[Vitorro]

after a night in the local cemetary, I found this stone covering a gravesite, and took the pic. it had been broken, most likely by some punks, so I took it upon Myself to repair it as best I could, and took this pic after. originally, it stood on a base, but it had been vusted with a sledge Id guess, so now it lays over the grave on trhe ground itself. other than that, I like the way it is shaped like a coffin from the 1800's, as the date indicates 1887

[Umbilical Lotus]

Harle, a character from the PS1 RPG Chrono Cross.

She's one of my favorite characters in the game, and the first thing I could think of when I began wondering what the hell to use as an avatar.

[Hellmo]

mines just a mixed up mask of confusing drama

kind of the story of my life hahaha

[mydesiredreality]

Amy drew it for me, it's of my online rolplay character. Her sucubus half Syn at least.

[Cheebs]

Mine kind of speaks for itself, it's the lovely Amy No real reason for it, other than my being a fan...

[malcolm]

yo jax! I had completely spaced on the avy for you. iim working on it and will have a new thread with a few selections posted TONIGHT. my bad. lol

[midnite_woof]

My Ava Is of Midnite Blaque, My Rping character and main character of my online webcomic series. In this particular picture He is drawn in an uber deranged chibi form.

[Thurbane316]

Mine's an Ouroboros (an Aztec one)...

This symbol appears principally among the Gnostics and is depicted as a dragon, snake or serpent biting its own tail. In the broadest sense, it is symbolic of time and the continuity of life. It sometimes bears the caption Hen to pan - 'The One, the All', as in the Codex Marcianus, for instance, of the 2nd century A.D. It has also been explained as the union between the chthonian principle as represented by the serpent and the celestial principal as signified by the bird (a synthesis which can also be applied to the dragon). Ruland contends this proves that it is a variant of the symbol for Mercury - the duplex god. In some versions of the Ouroboros, the body is half light and half dark, alluding in this way to the successive counterbalancing of opposing principls as illustrated in the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol for instance. Evola asserts that it represents the dissoluotion of the body, or the universal serpent which (to quote the Gnostic saying) 'passes through all things'. Poison, the viper and the universal solvent are all symbols of the undifferentiated-of the 'unchanging law' which moves through all things, linking them by a common bond. Both the dragon and the bull are symbolic antagonists of the solar hero. The Ouroboros biting its own tail is symbolic of self-fecundation, or the primitive idea of a self-sufficient Nature - a Nature, that is which, à la Nietzsche, continually returns, within a cyclic pattern, to its own beginning. There is a Venetian manuscript on alchemy which depicts the Ouroboros with its body half-black (symbolizing earth and night) and half-white (denoting heaven and light).

http://abacus.best.vwh.net/oro/ouroboros2.html

[malcolm]

ok jax. sent you some avys. hope you like em. lemme know if you want somehting different.

[Thurbane316]

Mine kind of speaks for itself, it's the lovely Amy No real reason for it, other than my being a fan...

Nice...

[malcolm]

hey thurbane, you ever read the great and secret show by clive barker?
they have that snake in it towards the end.

[Thurbane316]

Yep, great book, too...

[malcolm]

liked the first one more htan the second one....thik I got the titles backwards. my new avy? yeh.
"I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ!!!!"
lol pretty sure everyone catches that. it's me all ozzed up from psp8 and animationshop3. partialy cuz I got a big head and partially cus my moms favorite movie is the wizard of oz and I've seen it over a hundred times and think the floating head is cool.

[Host]

It's Morte!

The gibberish-talking floating skull from Planescape. i just didn't want to use my own pic, and i just took him as a temp... probably gonna keep him tho.

[Umbilical Lotus]

Late-night Googling has brought a pic change: Ursula from Breath of Fire 4, my favorite gun-toting slightly weird-looking Imperial general mink-girl.

[adonis]

Mine is just me, nothing else to describe me better than myself. Cheerios!

[adonis]

mine is Doraemon my obsession. its started with a random toy bought at a cheap crap shop, now i have various cuddly toys of varied sizes, an alarm clock, ring, tshirt or 2, night light and a heap of other stuff.

Oh I love Doraemon too! Grown up reading and watching the show and still loving it

[malcolm]

Late-night Googling has brought a pic change: Ursula from Breath of Fire 4, my favorite gun-toting slightly weird-looking Imperial general mink-girl.

ooooooooo BUt Iliked the little harlequin......It was sooo cute and kinda creepy with th ebig pink eyes...then again, I'm sure people liked me better before I became a giant green floating head in flames.....

me:pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

dorothyh my!.......what are you doing? oh...oh my!

me:I said pay no attention to the man behind the curtain bitch! damn! brotha man finally gets spice channel in oz and everyone wants to be all like-"whats he doin behind the curtain?"..."lets see"......

[sheramil]

if you do a google image search for the word "Pnume", you'll find mine. illustration by Phillipe Caza, concept by Jack Vance. it actually looks a great deal like me.

[sheramil]

woot! 333rd post! praise Choronzon!

[malcolm]

okay.....my new one is a piece I did which is on deviant art in full form...it's entitled pain. Because pain has always been a big thing in my life in some way or another.plus the picture looked really really pimp. lol

[Umbilical Lotus]

And now I'm the Lady of Pain.

Small world.

[ladybug]

it was just weird....

[skintwisterman]

Personally, my own shows a couple of images from Choosedeath and ogrish I put together: The background, flayed human tissue: the foreground blindingl obvious.

I personally find meat... interesting. Some find it disturbing when they find my love for the stuff, others get even more freaked outnwhen they find out it's not a sex thing. It's why I visit Goregasm and all that: I'm not fond of death, per se, but you can't see all those beautiful textures unless you get under the skin... hard to do on living meat.

[-=Asmodeus=-]

After my little brush with death I realized that I have only this one life to live and that I better get busy living it...The Grim Reaper awaits us all that is fact...So the avatar is kinda like the Reaper is following me trying to catch up...He is always there but he hasnt cought me yet....

I am also thinking of getting a Reaper tat on my back...Same thing in mind...The reaper waits for everyone and is following waiting for his chance to catch us...

[skintwisterman]

After my little brush with death I realized that I have only this one life to live and that I better get busy living it...The Grim Reaper awaits us all that is fact...So the avatar is kinda like the Reaper is following me trying to catch up...He is always there but he hasnt cought me yet....

I am also thinking of getting a Reaper tat on my back...Same thing in mind...The reaper waits for everyone and is following waiting for his chance to catch us...

Like the guy with the long hair in the movie Airheads.
What a frickin' kickass movie.

[-=Asmodeus=-]

airheads????
What kinda movie is it....

[DavidC]

I use this one in most places... just a icon of Vash the Stampede, from Trigun (anime series) that I converted into an AV. Simply love the character, it's almost impossible not to like him.