Suggested by Gaea to popular acclaim. Describe your dream avatar in words or send a picture (to gapa @ musefanpage.com). If you can’t think what yours should be, I’m sure other MBers will be happy to help you out.
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On other forums (fora?) I use the photograph known as the Pale Blue Dot. To see it, Google-search those words, including capitals.
I usually use the Amnesty International candle for my avatar…
Does anyone have any ideas for me, though?
I’d have a picture of Aeiou. duh.
*thinks*
A viola! And maybe a horse somewhere.
(12) Would the horse be playing the viola, or the viola riding the horse?
Mine would be a monkey climbing a tree, or a dog and cat being friendly.
Hmm, well the avatar I use for [snip!] is a picture that one of my friends from the spelling bee made for me of an HPB holding a snow cone with a “w” written on it
14: Aha! The all-powerful GAPA has seen fit to address a comment to me! *gasp* The horse playing the viola. Definitely.
Although it’s difficult to play a viola with only one finger.
Sorry if this is a double post.
9- A cartoon panda that was purple?
Avatar? Oh, lord. Probably some random emo guy. Or maybe a black iPod. Or a bright green skull. That’s my avatar for [snip!] anyway…
9-I have a picture of a cute little purple panda, chewing on bamboo in an upright position. *nerd*
For MuseBlog…well, it would have to be a tiny WordPress avatar kind of thing, so probably a dodecahedron of some sort, possibly a picture of my costume from the play.
AUGH. Man, icons? Love ’em but I wouldn’t know how to chose!
Okay, I take that back. But I’ve so many arts I could use.
Hey, if this sacred place decides convert to icons, I would be all for it, man! : D
Oh, hey! Do you want to know what my icon is? Probably not, but I’ll tell you anyway! It’s FEATHER! The picture of him from the comic where he turns into a zombie and Mimi says: “I hate it when that happens.”
Just thought you might like to know.
mah penguin, duh. It has a hockey helmet on.
I would use any of the many icons I have saved or the ones I make
probably the ruki one I’m using right now. I will send it along, I think….
On [Snip]
(snip if you please, GAPAs) I made a hot pink bunny font. Maybe someday I’ll send it in…with my username fuzzed out, of course.
I also go with pictures of winged wolves or bat/foxes….
I enjoy canines in a mystical sense as avatars.
my avatar would probaly be a totally ownage guy, with bunch of big spikes on his arms, and a gravity hmmer. lol. moretrees, out
On other forums i usually use a faerie….. or a polka dotted elephant
42 – What’s a gravity hammer? Do I want to know?
Mine might possibly be, well, no, would definitely be my orange ginger cat, Rupert. He’s fat and cute. What’s better?
Hmm. On a lot of sites I use Koko, or a picture of Sandman, or the binary heart from xkcd.
From the suggestion box comment it looks as though they were saying ‘what would your username look like’ so let’s see…
Well, when I imagined Jadestone at first she looked different than me (don’t ask why… I dunno). Green eyes, and darker hair.
Maybe her riding Ishtar during a pie war, I have a pretty sweet mental image for a painting like that. Too bad I can’t paint well enough.
As for what my username looks like. hmm. elasse~adael has wavy, reddish long hair and tends to wear green. Oxlin on the other hand has short dark brownish hair. She looks rather like me only with slightly darker hair.
probably a duck.
30- Dodecahedrons are cool!
45-*sees probably irrelivent between orange cat and Rupert Grint*
On the NaNoWriMo site (that’s not snippage material, right? if it is, help yerself GAPAs…) I have a picture of that owl in Harry Potter carrying his admission to Hogwarts letter. I can send it in, if you’d like, it’s pretty small.
Mine would be a cat. An orange tabby.
That is so awesome. How do the GAPAs do that?
GAPAs, thank you so much for this thread! it is a lot of fun to see Avatars with people’s posts!
(58) Midnight Fiddler, the picture came from the web site of the Nautical Archaelogy Society. The ship wasn’t identified.
59- Hmm. IBCF. I’ll have to think on that one.
*sniff* I love people.
(64) Arthur Rackham is one of my favorite illustrators.
Sorry, that’s all that comes to mind.
the quality got kind of messed up when I sent it through yahoo I think but it’s all cool
thank you GAPAs~
I ♥ everyone’s avatar. They seem quite reflective of all of us…haha
Though it would have to be a specific kind of feather. In a quiet environment, just sitting there lightly and not unnaturally colored.
[Thanks for the link. Here’s your feather. –Rebecca]
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Okay, I just sent it. Check your Inbox!
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I got to see the tallships this summer. The Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftan. And then I watched the Lady Washington go up the river. Shame she wasn’t using her sails at that point.
Pretty recently the Lynx was docked by the museum and I went and stared at her.
is anyone here? I cannot find anyone on the blog
My avator for museblog would be a gyro falcon. that is the fastest bird in level flight (i don’t know, i just think its cool)
87- Sometimes people are here but the GAPAs aren’t moderating.
What’s your’s Rebeca?
85-That’s cool
MuseBlog with avatars. Hmm. I think it would be more likely that they would come after the person’s name/date, and much smaller, but that’s pretty much impossible, right GAPAs? I’ve tried that (on you-know-where-that-I-can’t-name).
[La Mort, this was one of a couple sent in by oxlin. Will it work? –Rebecca.]
[The answer to your question is “yes.” I lurk over there from time to time. –Rebecca]
I think I might not read as much if there were avatars because they would make the page look longer.
Yay the GAPAs have avatars, too!
Urm how do i paste my little picture thingamahoosiewhatsit?
I apologize once again for my weird, not-quite-hyper-but-almost mood.
(109) That picture of Daffy Duck makes me laugh every time I post it.
(91) The picture is from my early days in computer graphics, a detail from a larger picture that served as the cover to an avant garde poetry journal published by a couple of my friends. Here’s what it looks like (though the original was on more of a cream background).
I’ll send in a few pictures for an avatar….
86~ I know another person who worked on the Lady Washington!! Alos from J.S. She doesn’t work there anymore though.
I like mine very much.
53-Bother!
I have a way awesome crystal skull thingy that I used as an avatar, maybe La Mort wants to view it…?
You can use the pictures i sent or not, it doesn’t matter…but do check your email, please!
115- I see.
118- What did you send? Or will I have to wait and see?
The avatar you have at the moment is a snippet from a photo I took of an early 19th-century fiddle-maker’s shop. But no one is required to stick with the ones I picked out. That was Lady Bunniful in decorating mode.
But I probably won’t make any more changes tonight. I’m close to calling it a day.
(118) Thank you, oxlin, for the avatars.
If any of them would work for someone else you can use them that way too. *shrugs* I trust your judgement in matters of decoration!
I should find something and send it in, probably… I like looking at people’s pictures though.
[It just so happens….Hope the flag is okay. It took me a few minutes to track one down. –Rebecca]
I think there’s far too much hatred and blame in the world already. If you must indulge in them, however, please pick somebody who deserves it. You certainly don’t. On a multidimensional scale of wisdom and ignorance, grace and gracelessness, and good and evil, you are nowhere near the low end of any of the axes.
Have I ever told you about the time the smartest man in the world called himself an idiot in my presence? Rebecca is right: everybody has days like that. But not everybody has friends like MuseBloggers. That’s for sure.
How do you get them in there? Copy -> Paste doesn’t work!!
Robert – yours fits you perfectly!
Kokonilly (139): Email your picture to the GAPAs, and they will put it in your post for you.
Kokonilly, we received your avatar. I moved the figures around a little so they’d show up better at the small size. Hope you approve. Here’s the original as it would appear at 100 pixel width:
The edit is the same width, but the arrangement allows one to “zoom in,” in a manner of speaking:
I’ll find a pic later…right now I have to go.
So I take it we cannot have these on every thread
That would be cool, but it would be way too much work for the GAPAs to post the pictures on each post *Imagines GAPAs endlessly posting pictures on posts* Ack, that’s too much! Nooo!!! It is amazing how many pictures the GAPAs do post!
Midnight Fiddler-Wow! Of course I’m sure you sent that one in
It is amazingly obvious that it’s you! 
Cool remodel of the office, Robert! Did that happen when they made the building pink, perhaps?
Red-tailed HAWK
Red-tailed HAWK
codex.wordpress.org /Using_Gravatars
(Will that get zapped?)
According to the wordpress website, you can have avatars appear automatically if you use a little bit of coding.
I like the picture. That’s how I look, folks, exactly how I look! *Excited*
Red-tailed HAWK
It’s the same as for any image we post in a comment. WordPress strips out image tags from the submit box, so they have to be added as an edit. All the avatars are stored in a Photobucket album. That makes changes fairly easy, since we can upload a new picture, then give it the same name.
(164) Take a look, gimanator.
Some people sent their own, some are “improved” versions of images found through Google, others I’ve made from scratch or clipped from some of my existing artwork.
Red-tailed HAWK
yeah. since the gapas seem so dedicated, they can probably make that into an img tag.
Yes, I’m too lazy to scroll up.
Second, I just had some awesome photos taken of me with my Union Jack on the half-finished flagpole I’m making for it, so I’m about to send them. Post them if you like, knock yourselves out.
I like this thread, it’s fun to see everyone’s pictures.
Yes, I lightened and toned the picture — reducing images makes them much darker, anyway. I also used a glamour photo trick and lightened the whites of your eyes so they’d show up better.
(167) Grant, we’ll be happy to post a couple of your photos. And maybe some of the ones Midnight Fiddler sent as well. But not tonight. I need a very early start tomorrow and won’t be online much longer.
[Don’t worry, already got it up there, gimanator! –Rebecca.]
I like my avatar more and more every time I see it, though I would like it better if it were floating in front of a body of water or sky, though. But I don’t really know. I like how the feather looks calm yet dignified, in a way. ::confuses self::
the avatar I usually use is a cat playing the violin. I’m not sure I have a copy of it anywhere, though.
*shrug*
[I couldn’t find your profile, so I put this one up for now. You can give us a link or send an image. –Rebecca]
Or something from Naruto, or a panda. *shrug*
I’ll get to all MBers’ graphics and photos as soon as I can — which I hope will be this evening. Tomorrow morning at the latest.
Thanks for your patience.
Here is my “really original” avatar. A yellow/gold crown with three diferent colored jewels, one to go under each of the prongs on the crown.
I really like Alice’s avatar — the ship is perfect!
My avatar? I think it would probably the vacuum cleaner from Teletubbies. Or perhaps the popular image of the American flag turned sideways, with the stripes becoming bars on a prison door and barbed wire where the stars ought to be. Oh, wait. It would be a gun tied in a knot. That’s it.
Computer drawn water spout with lightning. (my interpretation of a vendaval) Or maybe a cello. I’ll send the storm soon.
[That worked. If you’d rather use the other picture, just say the word, but this seemed to suit your name. –Rebecca]
I’ll send it in.
(202) oh thank you but, problem solved
203- w00t! Canadian love.
I think the avatars are incredibly anoying (personaly). mine would be a small thing that said KAG in turquise block letters and comix beside it in small black letters but the bottom of the c is inline with the ledge of the G. i’ll send it in sometime…………
I may consider changing mine, though.
*keels over at mere thought of doing this for Random thread*
Here’s a pie.
*trips over something*
Oh hello down ther- Rebecca is that you curled up into a ball and whimpering? It’s hard to tell past the hair…
LOL
My avatar would probably be…. (unneeded suspense)…. a daisy.
Duh. How original.
I luvluvluv daisies for no apparent reason. Maybe chamomile tea has brainwashed me…
214 – Oh! Pretty!
This would probably be mine, because it’s one of my favorites.
My avatar is not there. Strange.
(228) Did you send one in?
I believe you are supposed to say what it is and then the Great and Powerful Administrators with put it up there.
229, 230-
Yes, I put a image hosting code.
It’s this icon for a band.
ps, I really am a christian, and still believe in the lord, so please don’t pie me or anything.
Cna they move? Because I might have some pretty awesome ones…
[I got the picture and will put it up later; right now I have to rush off to a meeting. –Rebecca]
ooooh i would definatly be a skier
Oh dear. I have a whole glut of these, stacked away in my computer. There’s a small chance I might possibly be able to choose one though…
238 – Ooh, are you new? -pies just in case-
239- Nah, not really- I just lurk a lot. Or disappear for long periods of time and then come back. *is pied anyways*
A large turquoise number 42!
The thread is dead. Beep it. Ah well. I’ll send one in.
My avavtar would be… KOKOPELLI
yeah, change of avatar. That was back when I was Mouse, so…
I’d like a Fender Jaguar as avatar…
110- whoa. thats like a really random coincedence: I like to draw graphics and I always start witha curving arrow like yours. weird.
can you get me a chinese dragon or some kind of graphics?
234- wow good for you. I’m a christian too. *pies anyway*
(sorry about the double post!)
avatars!
mine would be an angel — ^j^
Gapa if you want three billion trillion google-plex beautiful little icons for avatars (ok a little exaggeration – more like a hundred— just ask
It’s funny to see this now that we DO have avatars.
‘Tis, isn’t it. All the comments about ‘Can we have avatars on all the threads?’ ‘No you can’t, it’s too much work for the GAPAs’……
Well, it was. These are just regular graphics that we had to place individually. The old software wouldn’t accommodate real avatars.
No, I know. It’s just weird to see what a big deal it was back then….
Heh. It’s fun to see what people thought their avatars would be like then, compared to what they are now.
Very. I think Speller is one of the only ones that’s the same, and Speller didn’t even choose that one. Actually, I think Purple Panda’s is the same too… Nope, it’s not. Just that somebody else had the same general design.
Mine’s the same.
Right, of course. *headdesk* *feels stupid*
Yeah, I liked my old picture, but it didn’t work as well as a square. And I forgot that lifewithoutacellphone also had the Amnesty candle. I’ve been using it as an avatar on another website for ages, so I decided to use it here. I like it because it’s not a square, and the candle on the inside is clear, so it changes colors depending on what color the background is. In this case, it’s either blue or orange.
Mine was the same, because I couldn’t think of anything else. Of course, I recently changed it (for obvious reasons ;))
Yes…
Is my avatar okay?