New Years is over. Back to the regular cutie Donald. ... UNTIL VALENTINE'S DAY?! (AND ST PATRICK'S DAY?!) ps AND EASTER?!!??!!?
Don't forget Marlin Luther King Jr. day is on the 21st, and Groundhog's day only a week or two later.
Ah yes, the man who had a dream about sport fishing. (Alternative joke would be about making a blackface version of my avatar.)
Whoops! I would never dream of putting such thoughts in your head. I'd suggest a Bill Murray avatar for the next month at least.
Look at that expression and then ask yourself if you really need me to explain why this is my new avatar.
I toast Lizzy W for having old-school, classic "The Wall" Amanda Waller instead of the skinny new one. And of course, Angie Gallant who now controls both the Ebb and the Flow of conversation. Observe! (The blue light is just for ambience)
Amanda Waller is so awesome even Batman can't contain her. Skinny Amanda Waller is blasphemy. I'm ignoring her existence.
New avatar from a painting of a fake comic book called "Tales of the Eightfold Path" by a local artist.
I thought there needed to be a fourth option to the default no-avatar gendered avatars (male, female, question mark).
Oh FerdieLance oh bless, you have taken the heart of me~<3 *plies you with cheddar jalapeno cheetos* /what I have on hand, also thoroughly amused mate thank ye
I just realized that OrfBC and OZ 4.0 are different people. Without avatars, this never would have been possible.
What is your avatar? It always makes me think it's Dr Forrester from Mystery Science 3000 as the Green Lantern.
It's from . . .wait for it . . .The Wizard of OZ. It's the wizard himself, masquerading as the Emerald City gatekeeper. "Nobody sees the Wizard. Not no way, not no how!"
Wait, the wizard was the gatekeeper? Holy fucking sperg alert, I never noticed that. Internet, you may proceed to mock the autistic now, because holy shit what how did I never notice that?
I would not mock you ;C Also, I just now managed to make out Lizard_King's rakish avatar and had a good laugh over it. //Previously, I'd made it out as some chunk of fool gold for whatever reason hablargh
They actually cast the Wizard's actor, Frank Morgan, in 5 different roles (the Wizard, the Professor Marvel, the gatekeeper, the cabbie, and the guard with the whiskers) because they were afraid audiences who only came to see him would be disappointed he had such a small role and only at the end.
The gatekeeper and the Wizard aren't intended to be related as characters though, unlike say Professor Marvel and the Wizard or damn near every other major character as the Oz characters are all based on people Dorthy knows from Kansas, except Glinda for some reason who seems like she should be her aunt but isn't.
Exegesis: I love this image more and more every time I look at it. It's layered. You have such a range. The earnest expression, professional-politician-affected by necessity. The biting-into-sourness grimace mask over his shoulder, so many sacrifices and swallowed pride and personal dreams, gone in order to support this. Sadness behind, and humiliated anguish front and center. But to the right, oh, to the right. The boy's face is utterly blank. His eyes are dead. He breathes, but his mind is a thousand miles or more away. The play he's forced by family birth to take part of is only his dissociated body, but he sees nothing of it. If you could get behind those dead eyes and see through his soul, you would see awful wonders and terrors.
Okay, I finally gave in and removed the Santa-Hat Mechanicus skull. And since I'm out, now, I picked a new avatar that was more suitable, and felt fitting. Scandal Savage - she's been through some shit, she's taken some knocks, but she'll still cut you down to size if you piss her off. I'm sure you can see why I'd identify with her. ;)
What was the one you just changed from? That looked awesome as well (not the santa hat one, I'm talking about the intermission).
That was the Demon Hunter, from Diablo 3, drawn by Mike Mignola. I would have loved to use it, but I couldn't find a way to crop it in a manner that made me happy. It was either too small to see the face, or too close to see the birds. Hang on, I'll attach the big version to this post! Also, I think I've already said this, but I knew I was going to like you from the moment I saw your avatar. Nobody fucks with The Wall. (click for full size)
That's so irritating. I know I spent forever on cropping this so it would make me happy. I don't play Diablo 3, but this makes me wanna. Or I could go look at some Mike Mignola stuff. Literally this face:
Hm, I was wrong - I guess the Demon Hunter wasn't drawn by Mike Mignola. It sure looks exactly like his style, though. It was actually done by Duncan Fegredo.
