I type in Dvorak and frequently swear at my computer.
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Mine is just the corner-art of Cannery Vale that I used in the game. Originally the logo was going to be the pinkish-weird sunset behind a double-image of a Ferris wheel with words over it (I’ve included an early concept). Then right before the IFComp deadline I was messing around and came up with what became the final “poster” for it but the key art from the original was still inside the game.
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I think your 
is way too stylized and distinct from 
for it to register as the default with something funny about it rather than just a custom avatar.
Now if you’d made it just a little askew… 
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I have to keep it livable for myself, Zed, I’m not a masochist…shudders
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I think @mathbrush actually did a thing where the pink color changed slowly over time to see if people would notice? Did I dream that?
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I think I wanted to but never carried it out (or started and got bored)
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Back in high school I got really into complex numbers, and wrote a program to plot functions involving them. This one’s some kind of hyperbola…let me see if I can find the equation again.
f(z)=sin(1/z), -1<=re(z)<=1, -1<=im(z)<=1, arg(f(z))<=5
Since the space of complex numbers is two-dimensional, to plot a function that has a complex input and a complex output, you need four axes to work with. So this uses the X and Y axes of the image for the real and imaginary parts of the input, and the hue and saturation+value of the color for the argument and magnitude of the output. I remember feeling so proud when I figured out how to make that work.
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Mine is a long-time avatar I’ve used in other places as well. It’s a small portion of a photo I took in Dundee Botanic Gardens. I really liked how the sun was creating shadows that day.
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I have trouble thinking of any picture I want representing me, especially in miniature. But I’ve never felt any FOMO over not having one. The A is minimal and chic.
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Mine is just a—slightly out of date—photograph of me.
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Aw, you were an adorable little kid! Someone needs to tuck him in with a blanket though, and slip a pillow beneath his head- reminds me of when my son would fall asleep clutching his pat the bunny books and slump over like a plushie sans stuffing in bed.
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First, a brown field. Brown represents trees and wood, as inspired by Immanuel Kant: Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden (Isaiah Berlin translation: “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”)
On the brown field, two bent arms reach outward, representing the fullness with which I wish to hug the world.
(joke post alert)
Perhaps for my one-year anniversary on the forum I will change my avatar . . .
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Mine is a collage my artist made some time ago showing off the characters she could create 
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I’m not familiar with the manga, but kamu (噛む) means “bite”. So kami neko could be either “god cat” (神猫) or “biting cat” (噛み猫)[1], depending how you interpret it.
Or “hair cat” (髪猫) or “paper cat” (紙猫), I guess…? Slightly different pronunciation, but maybe that doesn’t matter in a compound word. ↩︎
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Mine is a pic of one of my characters, named Maddy White, who is an android trying to figure out what an autonomous personal life would be for someone whose software brain can only understand the world through very specific contexts, lenses, and sensory hardware.
You can find the picture’s artist here.
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Thank you so much for explaining this! 
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Honestly, I’ve been blind for so long I kind of forgot avatars were a thing on Internet Forums, and I have no clue what the default for this forum is.
That said, some graphical things that have popped into my head over time that might make good avatars if I had a way to make them:
Start with an equilateral triangle.
Draw circles centered at each vertex that pass through the midpoints of the sides that meet at it’s center.
Draw a larger circle centered at the center of the triangle and circumscribing the three circles.
erase the triangle and a portion of each small circle to form three tomoe/comma like shapes.
Color the three comma shapes red, green, and blue and the deltoid in the center yellow.
Optionally, animate the image so the figure rotates.
Basically, a three-fold Yin-Yang or Taijitu.
A square or circle patch of the xy plane centered at the origin colored according to the following rules:
Red = sin(x)
Green = sin(r)
Blue = sin(y)
mapping the range of the sine function from -1:1 to 0:255) where r is the radius from the origin that is sqrt(x^2+y^2)
a 510 frame animation as follows:
each frame is 256*256 pixels with rows and columns numberd from 0 to 255.
Each pixel’s red value s equal to it’s column.
Each pixel’s blue value is equal to its row.
Each pixel’s green value is 0 for the first frame, increases by one for each frame until frame 256, then decreases by 1 per frame.
Basically, each frame is one layer of a 24-bit RGB color cube and the animation shows all 16,777,216 colors of the 24-bit RGB color space. I actually have C++ code that with a little modification could generate all the frames as ascii portable pixel maps, and I could then use optipng to convert them to optimized pngs, but I have no idea how to combine the frames into an animated PNG(and an animated GIF would be woefully inadequate do to being limited to 256 colors).
Start with a circle with it’s horizontal diameter.
Divide the diameter in three.
In the top half of the circle, draw semicircles whose diameters are the right third an right two-thirds of the full diameter.
In the bottom half of the circle, draw semicircles whose diameters are the left third an left two-thirds of the full diameter.
Erase the diameter, leaving the circle divided into three reagions, a pair of claw shapes at the top and bottom and a spiral galaxy shape in the middle. Color top red, bottom blue, and middle yellow. Optionally, animate so either the whole figure rotates or only the spiral galaxy rotates with the boundary of read and blue obstructed by yellow is the boundary line of a normal YinYang/Taijitu. Other variations could include different ratios for the semi-circles(a 2:1 ratio divides the circle into three equal areas, but a phi:1 ratio results in quite a bit of golden ratio areas, and one idea is to do an animation that starts with a 1:1 ratio(a normal Taijitu) than increases the ratio until the red and blue regions shrink to nothing and the circle turns entirely yellow(which I met would be a cool animation for a magic portal opening).
A stylized eye consisting of a vesica piscis with its major axis horizontal, the largest possible circle inscribed within it. the sclera colored white and the iris a pale purple, possibly lavender with no visible pupil.
An animation of the polar equation
r= sin(t/fps*theta)
where t is the current frame and fps is the framerate.
Most of these ideas are just random mathematical musings in the realm of geometric art, though the Taijitu variants are inspired in part by an interest in East Asian pop culture and symbolism. The Eye is inspired by the fact that I go by “Sightless Scholar” in a few places online and draws both on the eye being symbolic of knowledge or wisdom and the way blind eyes sometimes develop a clouded cornea that washes out the color of the iris and obscures the pupil and the association of purple with magic and mysticism and how often magic and scholarship go hand-in-hand in works of fantasy… and for the record, if I ever find a D&D group to join, one of the characters I want to play is a blind wizard who wears purple robes, carries a staff carved of purpleheart and topped with a large amethyst and whose familiar is a feline of size comparable to a Labrador who serves as a guide animal(I am not a dog person and would not consider a guide dog… and I’m not keen on the idea of a guide horse(and yes, guide horses are a thing, though they use horses with a particular variety of dwarfism) either)… Bonus points if the cat familiar’s default coloration matches the Cheshire cat.
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My avatar is art I made for the first game I finished, Protocol, which is also why I’m on the forums to begin with. It was the first thing that came to mind when I was creating my profile, and also the open file in the art program I use.
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The “K” is taken from a screenshot for a Commodore 64 emulator. My first computer—and the computer on which I played a text adventure for the first time—was a C64. I decided to go with green on black (as opposed to the default light blue on dark blue) as a tribute to the old Apple computers on which child!Karona played other early text games.
As for the reason, when I still had my default avatar, I saw that I was not the only regular with a “K” in my color and thought that some folks might benefit from an avatar that visibly distinguished me from other people. (I’m not the only person who initially finds it easier to remember visual cues than names, am I?)
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