Why Did You Choose That Username And/Or That Avatar (Or No Avatar At All)?

[TheLost]

I chose my name as thats reflects how I feel a lot of the time....the avatar is of an old manse house near where I live, my trauma took place in the house I grew up in, an old farmhouse and the manse refelcts the spooky, desertedness my house gives now.

 

[Elena Farely]

Elena Farley - My pen name when I wrote poems, short stories, etc.. Or writing on the bathroom walls at school.

My Avatar is from a video and I took a SS of the frame that I just found beautiful.
Story behind the bleeding flower, These two best friends (male and female) were sitting in their school yard reading, a ball rolled over to the female and this kind of preppy/American jock stereotype person walked over and started flirting with her. She finishes talking to him, turns to go back to her friend and he's gone. He left a flower and her year book on the ground. Nothing else. She picks up the flower and it starts to bleed. I just found it beautiful for some reason.. Idk. But what I say probably makes me sound a bit psychotic or something.

 

[shell]

Shell - my twin brother calls me shells, it's an abbreviation of my name, but it reflects the way I have always felt, that there is no-one really inside because who ever I was got destroyed as a very young child. I am the product of my abusers, someone who has no idea who they really are, and what they really want.

My avatar is my hope for the future, that one day I can find the person who I want to be, and have the courage to become that person. The only way I can do that, is to stick at therapy, and find the courage to complete what I have started.

 

[Zef]

Avatar is from the Roger Waters 'The Wall' concert. The most amazing show I've seen. My username is one I've been using since AOL days.

 

[Ice_Fire]

Ice_Fire: my Gran always said that I can be cool and unaffected by things (haha) but all the emotion (fire) is hidden away underneath. Fits me pretty well. It was also my msn email address, not that I can remember the password now!

My avatar changes depending on how I feel but at the moment, it's an image Lionheart posted for me and I love it. :D

 

[HëllaBubz]

My name is a mashup of 2 nicknames......my real name is something people have difficulty remembering, so some of the boys at work took to calling me Godzilla instead, because I worked in a school in Tech Support, I had a sign up with the Godzilla pouring ketchup on a human he was about to eat....the caption was, "Do not stuff with the Godzilla, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."

It was a bit of humor directed at the kids who came up with all sorts of crap reasons as to why they had defaced their laptop or something else.

My partner calls me Bubbles, or Bubblicious, and since we used to work together, the boys overheard it, and took to calling me Bubzilla.

As for my avatar, right now it is the chameleon from Tangled, I like how he is cute, small, chubby, able to change colors, and ready for a smack down if necessary, which is totally me.
I sometimes change it to Wiley or some other picture which depicts how I feel....."Wiley is usually holding a sign which has been edited to say Oh Crap or Oh F!ck."

 

[Whitneys story]

Wow great thread! My original avatar was a photo of my brother and I and how twisted our rearing was. I had run the photo through editing, it was horrible looking. It was exactly where I was at when finding this forum. Then I realized how dark it was and could be triggering to others. So I used my admired's photo. Which is far to serious. I would love it if someone would find me an avatar, a fun one, depicting who they see me as! The universe is our playfield but we have to protect it! I never had toys!

 

[p-no]

"Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They stand in their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed in between two others, like all other numbers, but a step further on than the rest. They are suspicious and solitary, which is why Mattia thought they were wonderful. Sometimes he thought that they had ended up in that sequence by mistake, that they'd been trapped like pearls strung on a necklace. At other times he suspected that they too would rather have been like all the others, just ordinary numbers, but for some reason they weren't capable of it. The second thought struck him mostly at night, in the chaotic interweaving of images that comes before sleep, when the mind is too weak to tell itself lies."

From "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" by Paolo Giordano. Worded perfectly.

 

[Spiderallis]

My username is an older one, easy to remember. Both of my tattoos have spider themes, and the rest is a portion of my real name.

My picture? That's actually me, I do a little modeling as a hobby and that was one of my favorite shoots. I had a dozen photography students following me through abandoned industrial buildings. It's pretty special to me because I lived in a partially abandoned building for a couple years.

 

[amethist]

My new avatar will stay for the next week or so, as our local rugby team the Leeds Rhinos are in the Challenge Cup rugby Final at Wembly Stadium on the 25th of August.

You may have also noticed that CraftyCath has also changed hers to the Warrington Wolves badge, the team who will be playing against us.

I am in Yorkshire and Cath lives in Lancashire. So it will be a war of the roses match. :D

Bring it on Warrington Wolves, the Rhino's are waiting :hilarious:

 

[CraftyCath]

Warrington just lost 18-62 to the Broncos!!! :eek: Perhaps it will be the Rhino's year but game on anyway Amethist!

The Wolves are my local Rugby League team and we play Amethist's team in the final at Wembley on the 25th August.

Warrington is preparing big style for the final. There is primrose and blue bunting everywhere and a parade is planned for the team WHEN they bring the cup home!!!:playful:

All you will hear from the stands Amethist is...

'Oh Warry Warry, Warry Warry Warry Warry Warrington!'

I don't think our supporters are any good at song writing if that is the best they can come up with but you'll hear it a lot!

 

[amethist]

Dont you mean "IF" they bring the cup home Cath.

After last night performance, they might as well stay at home and hand the cup over now. ;)

To loose by that much to the Bronco's is not what I expected, I thought they would come back from 18-24 in the second half, but no, it was a cricket score. :oops: