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It’s funny.
No avatar because I can’t be bothered. I don’t see them on my app anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody has them.
I was watching some movie, and I was like ooh, centipedes would make good farriers; they can use their body along the hoof to draw a stencil by just passing a pencil along all of its feet!
And that was silly so here we are.
I've been using this username since I was like 12. I think I'd just watched Babylon 5 and was trying to come up with a username that took a cheesy cringey self given nickname (Papa) and mixed it with some sci-fi sounding stuff (Babylon) and came up with papalonian.
It's my real name, and I don't remember which avatar I have right now but either way it's from a webcomic.
My username is a play on a very esoteric old /tv/ meme.
My profile picture is one of my drawings from my worldbuilding project. It's a froglike alien commando.
I do a lot of play therapy and wear a lot of costumes. Arts and crafts necessitates shiny objects such as gemstones glitter/glue. The photo I think I’m dressed up for some silly hat day thing. I may be a crow.
It was the first online user name I ever created back in '92. I got it from the Nocturnus album Thresholds. The song was Nocturne in B Minor, which is from Chopin's Nocturne.
My avatar is my cat, Mouse Police wearing a yellow feather boa.
I also use the SHARPS logo as an avatar.
I use names that may seem creative, but have no real meaning. Just made from spontaneous ideas.
I always have several of them (prepared or in use), because you never know when some ultra crazy mod turns up.
What avatars? I can't see them. My user name means what's up dude in my language.
"What would 'palindrome' look like if it was a palindrome?"
I am not Rick, but I’m also NOT the Krusty Krab
That sounds an awful lot like something Rick would say
My avatar is a picture of a large ceramic cow in northern Michigan. The cow is named Jillbert.
The name is largely self explanatory.
I’m just a gust in the wind and I made it in paint to be a gust of wind
It’s my first initial and last name.
It's a variation on a local folkloric figure, and the image is modified from the album of a poem about the figure by Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band.
Dkp for the loot system and I have always liked punk music
My avatar is my orc rogue standing over Orgrimmar at sunset. It was when I first got my Thunderfury, so I wanted a cool picture with the badass sword.
I just think the Grasshopper Mouse is neat
It's the first letter of my real name.
I had a friend since college whose first name started with a Q, he always went by Q. A couple years ago he started to use a QAnon logo as his avatar. Someone informed him of its meaning and he did a deep dive on it and never came back from it. I ended up blocking him on all social media because he went off the deep end.
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I'm not creative... Its virtual (real life initials)
It's a quote from my favourite videogame, and I'm a visual arts person so it works for that as well. Joining lemmy I knew videogames/ art comms was where I'd be spending most of my time. ... Ironically no pfp. We don't have those on my app.
Bizzle is my legal name
Fo shizzle my Bizzle
Every time I see your avatar, OP, I think of Audacity 😅
Mine's just... Something I came up with. It came to me in a dream I guess.
You're not the first person to point that out. It reminds me of the Burger King logo personally. I did a little bit of research into color theory when designing it. I wanted blue and gold to be part of the color scheme and the red in the arch came up as a complementary color vs the other two.
My avatar is the GOOD BEE from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Because I'm locked away in my cave, but if you manage to find and befriend me, I am loyal and will slay your opponents.
You guys have avatars? Too much effort...
This is me just learning avatars are a thing.
It was my character name in my first MMO, the English beta for MapleStory back over 20 years ago, and I've been using it ever since. I picked it since it was close to Mithril, from Lord of the Rings.
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Not today, FBI.
"This was a Triumph."
"I'm making a note here, huge success."
Metastasio was an Italian poet and librettist who lived in the 1700’s. Being someone who creates poetry and music, I wanted a name to reflect that but with a modern flair, so I swapped “meta-“ for “giga-.”
Also, as “metastasis” translates roughly to “changing states,” “gigastasio” can be taken to mean “billions of states,” which is an apt description for how my mind works.
My pic is just some random pic I took. It’s my kid’s shark stuffie. His name is Chocolate Milk.
Occasionally, my socks go missing.
Ever seen castaway? Its pretty good
Penguins are cool. I ride dual sport motorcycles. (And other motorcycles. But definitely those.)
I am just a person, you dont need to know anything more about me.
Portmanteau of "True" and "Escape".
Because online spaces allow us to Truly Escape reality :)
Keys on a qwerty keyboard. Just so that it's different here from everywhere else.
The only reason I have a username and not an avatar is because I was forced to pick a username but not an avatar when registering.
I like cats and that it looks like a stylised way of writing Cam, which is a cool little geared mechanism.
There was a post I saw on Reddit that I wanted to respond to, and that meant I needed an account. I just happened to have visited this site right before then, and so the username just naturally popped to mind.
Much later on, I made an avatar to fit it.
Nothing really deep about it.
Avatar: my current DnD character (art found online). Name: Initials and favorite number. Not very clever or funny, just practical.
My name is a reference to the famous British tank gun and anti-tank gun from WW2. Used in tanks and as standalone anti-tank guns. Put in the Sherman tank to create the Sherman Firefly because it packed more of a punch against enemy armour than the American 75mm.
"Sir, the 17 pounder won't fit!"
"Put it in sideways."
"The radio won't fit!"
"Cut a hole in the back and have it stick out the back."
"The engine's no good!"
"Grab 5 car engines and stick them in together."
It’s my actual name, I got it for my birthday.
If I have spare time, I sleep.
Its from Lethal Weapon 3. The clip will explain better than I can.
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