Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!

[Buster's Uncle]

I endorse love/pride in your land and your people.  Everyone should have that.

[Geo]

Beautiful mountains.
Reminds me of the view of the surrounding mountains as seen from the Grindelwald valley floor, in the Swiss Alps.

[Valka]

I had a really strange dream a few years ago, in which my grandparents and I were stopped at our usual place in the campground across the highway from these mountains... and next thing I know, I'm climbing up toward them (the one on the left and the one in the middle) with a picnic lunch, and sitting down to eat! Somehow a clover and grass-filled valley appeared between them, and it was all so perfect.

Now obviously that's not possible in RL, but I think I was just really missing my grandparents and the trips we used to take every year between Red Deer and the Okanagan, in British Columbia.

[Buster's Uncle]

Does what I threw on last night please anyone?
I've already gotten a comPLAINT...

I think she's pretty.  Maybe this is the no-longer-watching-much-TV and being out of touch with popular culture, but I don't really get it...

[Valka]

Well, it's definitely a new look for you... much different from what I'm used to. 

But until watching the video, I'd never heard a Taylor Swift song before in my life.

The smiley's cute, though.

[Buster's Uncle]

That sounds diplomatically phrased...

[Valka]

Then I'm not sure what you're getting at. Taylor Swift is a pretty woman. I can understand why other people would find her attractive.

All I meant was that when you're used to seeing someone using masculine avatars, it's a little strange at first to see them using a different kind of avatar. No inappropriate connotations intended whatsoever, just that it's a very different kind of avatar from those I'm used to seeing you use.

Some people at CFC got confused when I changed from cats to Carl Sagan while the nuCosmos series was airing; someone obviously too young to have seen the original series asked if that was a picture of me sitting in front of the radio telescope! 


Then there was the time on one of my gaming forums when I decided to hell with it, live daringly for a change, and used a "Venus rising" avatar I made on the Doll Palace site (everything was covered that legally needed to be... barely). It shocked one of the guys, though, so I took it down. My current avatar there is quite modestly dressed.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - it's cool, but I AM happier with that answer.

[Valka]

I see that Taylor Swift has become Orion...

[Buster's Uncle]

That was a lot of work -hours- but still nice to look at, still shakin it off, and Vidsek less annoyed by looking at pop princess..

[Buster's Uncle]

I do not promise to spare everyone by never throwing on either version of Ms. Swift again, but they are uploaded to appropriate places in the user galley now.

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I just created an Astronomy folder and uploaded six newly-created (150x!) Pluto/New Horizons avatars, with more to come very soon.  Running down all the space stuff in miscellaneous and moving will take a little longer.

Check it out.

[Buster's Uncle]

Make that [Astronomy & Spaceflight] - 80 avatars in there now, which took a while to sort and move out of miscellaneous.  I threw in Einstein, Hubble and Newton for good measure.

[Buster's Uncle]

Just uploaded the attached .gif animation to the User Gallery...

[Buster's Uncle]

...I have to say that putting on the giant Adaman Haj avatar -which ought to stir flashbacks for youse Frogs what was there with me in the Pond for so long- and getting no reaction from anyone at all, puts me out a little...


At this size, I really notice the inadvertent 3D effect that all my fiddling with the background to make it not-Belgium created.

[Rusty Edge]

I certainly recognize it as one of your former avatars, but I never understood who it was or what it meant.

Sometimes I can read a person's mood by their avatar changes, same as some people's clothes will reveal their mood, IF I pay attention and IF I can remember what they were like the last 3 times they wore the same outfit, color, whatever.

You're not one of them Buncle. I'm blanking. I find posts per day to be a better indicator for you.