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[UltraBudgie]

I know a good batter should he dare. Or perhaps eaten like a squirrel since your so little.

don't taunt the squirrels! leave that to budgie!

here have a feather! ?


edit: haha forum bug! feather show up in post preview and reply quote but not in thread! unicode magic!

[ArMaP]

I forgot to say that I change my avatar according to the type of cloths I am using, so now my avatar shows my Autumn way of dressing.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

My avatars are variations of myself.

I chose this one because I felt one real (albeit using a Canva "poster" filter) image was necessary. Pre-checked for everyone via Sightengine.com, because they have been mostly incredulous AI avatars to this point.



ETA:

* And now I feel uncomfortable with it remaining up, so I am going to change it to this one...

No matter the filter, Sightengine is impossible to fool...

[Oldcarpy2]

Mine is just to rebut those on ATS who have called me a Commie Lefty!

But cats.

I have had many rescue cats and some that just turned up and made themselves at home. Like Jones who lived to 21, and Muffett too. She just walked in and slept for three days. M ust have walked for miles, her paws were red raw. Jones and Gizmo were fine with her.

When she was on her last legs, we took her to stay in a cottage in Wales for Christmas. She saw the sea, had Turkey, and then when we got home, she passed away.

Now we have a rescue cat who was feral. Still is a bit but he's on my lap now. His name is Carl.

[Blaine91555]

My choice is a dinosaur. I've been a fan of them since I was a child. I think I first had a dinosaur toy around 1960 which evolved into books and collecting fossils which evolved into an interest in rocks and crystals.

My father built me a lapidary shop in the basement and we hunted rocks and fossils in the summers. My background image reminds me of that time in my life.

[LightAngel]

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts about your avatar. 

I hope more will share their thoughts.

Anyway, I just changed my avatar to a picture of me, and you can also see some of my older art in the background.

[CCoburn]

Mine is a boring tree... standing through time, enduring though adversity, not asking for anything, not expecting anything.

I can only hope to be as stalwart, as determined to continue... as grateful for the sun.

This reminded me of a childrens book that we read in either kindergarten or 1st nearly half a century ago. It was called: The Giving Tree. It's a story about a boy and a tree. The tree would offer various things to the boy that it felt the boy either wanted, needed, or could make use of in some way.

The tree could only offer parts of itself, so it would give the boy leaves to play in, fruit, and wood. The tree gave and gave without hesitation, and the boy, as he became a man, just kept on taking whatever the tree had left to offer.

The boy returned to the tree as a tired old man, and all that remained of the tree was just a stump. It had given everything it could (thought the tree), but as one final gesture, the tree straightened up its stump as best it could and offered the old man a place to sit down and rest.

The Giving Tree


My avatar is AI generated using OpenArt AI. I think the prompt I used was "consciousness in space".

[UltraBudgie]

The tree could only offer parts of itself, so it would give the boy leaves to play in, fruit, and wood. The tree gave and gave without hesitation, and the boy, as he became a man, just kept on taking whatever the tree had left to offer.

It is a beautifully touching story of generosity, compassion and friendship, or, a harrowing allegory of extractionist capitalism's voracious exploitation of the proletariat, depending on the mood I'm in.

I visited the California Giant Sequoias earlier this year and they are very very beautiful, but when I drove the loop all I could think was "sorry! sorry!" Those trees stood for almost a thousand years in the peace, quiet and solitude of that beautiful landscape, and suddenly in the blink of an eye we paved a road though and piled it with thousands of cars a day bumper-to-bumper, humans stopping, tromping through their space and making a ruckus. It must be very annoying -- can't even get a peaceful few decades for some quiet thought. I imagine it is difficult being a Giant Sequoia in the modern world!

[FlyersFan]

Mine is the mascot of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It's an ancient Egyptian Hippo ... the name is 'William'

[LightAngel]

The Giving Tree

Very sweet story about unconditional love, but also a little sad.