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#21
RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:01 pm
I don't think I really need to explain mine.

My previous one was some graphic I found on the interwebs that some skilful artist had drawn of 2 characters from FF9, specifically garland who *spoiler* is the character in charge of managing a planet from a castle called Pandemonium (Milton references aside).
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#22
RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(August 6, 2015 at 12:11 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Mine's just a snippet of one of my paintings.  It's of a window looking out of the back of a clock face at de Orsay in Paris.   I choose it because forums are a sort of window on the world while really being in the world.

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Fantastic painting.

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RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:38 pm
(August 6, 2015 at 12:27 pm)Exian Wrote:
(August 6, 2015 at 12:11 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Mine's just a snippet of one of my paintings.  It's of a window looking out of the back of a clock face at de Orsay in Paris.   I choose it because forums are a sort of window on the world while really being in the world.


Holy shit, Jenny. Is that watercolor?

Yep though I think I cheated and did the signature in gouache.
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#24
RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:45 pm
My avatar is the top portion of the Keyhole Nebula, and somewhat resembles a human hand giving the middle finger. It both signifies my love of all things space and also my more megalomaniacal tendencies, most notably my thirst for absolute dominion over the cosmos.
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RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:48 pm
I'm always changing my avatar, but  my current one is the cover of the μ-ziq album "Lunatic Harness" in which this song comes from..



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RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm
That is incredible work, Jenny! I'll never know how people get such crisp borders with water colors. It's funny, just the other day I got a hair up my butt an wanted to try water colors. I didn't, but I wanted to, and then here you are inspiring me again.
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RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm (This post was last modified: August 6, 2015 at 1:50 pm by Longhorn.)
Mine is a cat.


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I think it captures my personality pretty well
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August 6, 2015 at 1:56 pm
(August 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Mine is a cat.


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I think it captures my personality pretty well

You mean, like a cat, you feel contempt for us and don't care if we live or die?

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#29
RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm
Exactly the opposite. I'm just silly and look funny in pictures c:
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RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 2:50 pm (This post was last modified: August 6, 2015 at 2:51 pm by c172.)
I'm the resident soccer geek here. Men's, women's, club, country, college. LAFC is an expansion team in Major League Soccer, set to take the field in 2018. "LAFC" may or may not be a placeholder name. But I like it.
https://lafc.com/
http://www.mlssoccer.com
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