Why the avatar?

tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.

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mydriasis
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Post by mydriasis » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:03 pm

I picked this one because I thought she looked like quite cute, maybe a little bit cheeky. Like me, haha. I did e-mail a custom avatar but it's still not in the reserved gallery so maybe I did it wrong!
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Post by mittens » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:53 am

My friend Alli drew it. It is a picture of me.
As long as there are hugs in the world there is hope.
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<img src="http://www.toxin.org/cgi-bin/count_hugs ... g=sbjorn04" height="40" width="240" title="HUGS">
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*HUGS* TOTAL!
<a href="http://www.toxin.org/cgi-bin/hugs.cgi?& ... rn04">give sbjorn04 more *HUGS*</a>
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Seeshellz
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Post by Seeshellz » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:06 pm

I have a new one now. I love coffee, and it says Java, which stands for coffee!
"If you learn from your suffering,

and really come to understand the lesson you were taught,

you might be able to help someone else who's now

in the phase you may have just completed.

Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

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finding neverland
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Post by finding neverland » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:53 am

I like swings...you go up and come down. And that is how I am sometimes.

Also I really like this sort of photography.
<p><center>You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

~

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath.

[That's why we grow it, we have to something to hide.]

~

Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
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syn
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Post by syn » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:01 am

Right now I am picking anything that has red in it until I have time to make a new one of my own.
~ Syn

with recognition we will grieve
that waking is the sorrow of ending dreams


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rainbow_rally
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Post by rainbow_rally » Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:55 pm

i chose this avatar, coz it reminds me of me inside my head.

confused
bewildered
fantasising
not sure whether to cry or laugh

it just drew me in like a void

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Kaleb
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Post by Kaleb » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:04 pm

i chose mine because its how i feel right now
:purpstar: Hold Fast To Your Dreams, For If Dreams Die, Life Is a Broken Winged Bird, That Cannot Fly :purpstar:

If you think outside the box there's no such thing as square one.

No matter which sleeve you wear your heart,
Whichever way you wear your crown,
Tomorrow is another day to turn it all around
I will stop when I'm ready I'll shown everyone my cards
But for now I'll keep on playing even when the game gets hard.



:redstar: 19/07/1952 - 30/12/2013 Never Ever Forgotten :redstar:

13/05/14 - I Love Her

19/4/15 - The Day I Said Yes

17/06/17 - Rings swapped, Hearts interlocked

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Post by 5th section » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:41 pm

I chose mine because Brassed Off was my favourite film before I went anywhere near a brass band...and now that I conduct one it seems like the obvious choice (and it goes with my name). I don't really look like Pete Postlethwaite though...(i'm quite a bit younger for a start!)
...then one day I realised that the people you see in waiting rooms and car parks and on trains are really far more interesting. That they all have whole novels inside them, a fabric of scar tissues, photos and memories. They are comedies and tragedies and - more often - both at the same time.
- Anna James (1984-2007)

son of ultimate starshine / brother of Eisa & Sprink / Birdie's ornithologist / married to Mande / Chey's uncle
- my place
- my band (or more accurately, the band of which I am the bassist) some SI/SU triggers in lyrics...proceed with caution...

GOING STRAIGHT SINCE 1ST DECEMBER 2009

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Post by Guest » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:30 pm

I just picked this one as it made me smile when i saw it
*shrugs*

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Post by fuyumi » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:31 pm

I had one of the standard avatars when i first came to bus, but after not too long, I changed it to this reserved one. It's Rociel from Angel Sanctuary; it was my favorite series to read at the time and he was my favorite character.

Now, I keep it because I would feel strange if I changed it after so long, and I think people might not recognize me around here if I did change it. :lol:

- so i turn myself inside out in hope someone will see -
- these precious things let them break their hold on me -

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Post by Scatterbrain » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:48 am

I chose mine because its cute. I got a orange kitten a couple months after I joined bus and see happens to look pretty much just like my avatar. Now everytime I look at it, it reminds me of Puff!!

~Megan
"The impossible just takes a little longer."
- HCJ (1/9/25- 2/26/08 )

"That there, that's not me/I go where I please/I walk through walls/I float down the Liffey
I'm not here/This isn't happening"
- "How to Disappear Completely" Radiohead

Place: Want to live and breathe/I want to be part of the human race
PBH: Back to the basics

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Post by wilson » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:11 am

because i belive what it says.
<center>R.I.P. 23/07/89 - 05/11/01
R.I.P. 1953-2008

counting stars

im over existing in limbo
im over the myths and placebos
i dont really mind if i just fade away
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makie
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Post by makie » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:05 pm

I picked mine because Yoshiki of X Japan composed some of those rare songs that make feel something when I'm in a state where I normally can't feel/think anything.

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Miss.Tree
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Post by Miss.Tree » Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:34 pm

... because it's simple
[Habibti...]

Lilly

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Post by half/hearted » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:27 pm

I picked mine...because it's part of an art piece I did around the time that I joined bus. Art is really theraputic for me, and often when I can't deal with anything else, I can still do art.

Here's the whole art piece if anyone wants to see it. No trigs that I know of. Rather large file though--sorry :emlaugh:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/382/ ... jaeud8.jpg
Please be gentle with me.

you will fly and you will crawl
god knows even angels fall
no such thing as you "lost it all"
god knows even angels fall :pinkstar:

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styled_wrong
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Post by styled_wrong » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:36 pm

i picked mine cos its hiding yet shining and thats how i feel kinda
scars are tattoos with better stories
it's hard to answer the question whats wrong, when nothing is 'right'
Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you cant always see the pain someone feels

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say
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Post by say » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:26 pm

It looks a little like me. It looks the way I picture myself when I'm happy with who I am.

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Post by joeygirl » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:55 am

I picked this one because it made me laugh
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It's all good until it's not...
The worst that's gonna happen is you'll look back and say sh#t I shouldn't have done that.....

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calypso
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Post by calypso » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:02 am

i took this pic, it's of a tree near my house at sunset in summer last year.

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Post by calypso » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:03 am

or should i say trees :)

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