What's your avatar?

**highlandtide** · 27th February 06, 03:15 PM

Me looking down. Sans beard which now occupies my face.

**Mike n NC** · 27th February 06, 03:17 PM

Careful what you ask, it may be more than you want to know...
Currently it is just called "The Emblem" and it is a sign of lifestyle choice.

From the website listed below:

The BDSM emblem has no "obvious" symbolism because it was created to be enigmatic. To the vanilla observer who would be put off by BDSM, it is merely an attractive piece of jewelry. Thus, we can wear it freely as a friendly salute, nod, and wink to other BDSMers we should happen to pass on the sidewalks and in the hallways of our daily lives.

To the insider, however, the Emblem is full of meaning.

The three divisions represent the various threesomes of BDSM. First of all, the three divisions of BDSM itself: B&D, D&S, and S&M. Secondly, the three-way creed of BDSM behavior: Safe, Sane, and Consensual. Thirdly, the three divisions of our community: Tops, Bottoms, and Switches.

It is this third symbolism that gives meaning to the holes in each unit. Since BDSM is at the very least a play style and at its greatest a love style, the holes represent the incompleteness of any individual within the BDSM context. However "together" and "whole" individuals may be, there remains a void within them that can only be filled by a complimentary other. BDSM cannot be done alone.

The resemblance to a three-way variation on the Yin-Yang symbol is not accidental. As the curved outline of Yin and Yang represent the hazy border between where one ends and the other begins, so do the curved borders here represent the indistinct divisions between B&D, D&S, and S&M.

The metal and metallic color of the medallion represents the chains or irons of BDSM servitude/ownership. The three inner fields are black, representing a celebration of the controlled dark side of BDSM sexuality.

The curved lines themselves can be seen as a stylized depiction of a lash as it swings, or even an arm in motion to deliver an erotic spanking. The all-embracing circle, of course, represents the overlying unity of it all and the oneness of a community that protects its own.

Should you be brave enough to want to know more, there is no adult material on this site. http://members.aol.com/quagmyr/emblem.htm

Mike

**Robin** · 27th February 06, 03:40 PM

My avatar is the tartan of the kilt I'm waiting for.

This is the MacLaren ancient 1819 (8 yards 13oz House of Edgar)

It's pretty flamboyant isn't it?

What will be my next avatar?.... :rolleyes:

**Panache** · 27th February 06, 03:46 PM

Iolaus,

WOW! I wish I could use that one!

Panache

**Iolaus** · 27th February 06, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Iolaus,

WOW! I wish I could use that one!

Panache

Go ahead; I trimmed it up so that you could.

Just right click on the image, choose "Save image as", choose where on your computer you want to store it, and then upload it to the site.

**minimalistix** · 27th February 06, 04:05 PM

Mines Frylock in a kilt. He's a character off of a random and demented cartoon called Aqua Teen Hunger Force from the Cartoon Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force

I just added the kilt