Well, I finally went and did it...

Haha, that's pretty funny!! =P I had actually wondered about your avatar before. I almost have to look at the bigger version to see what's really going on there! So I wasn't sure what it was supposed to be until I finally got around to just going and looking at it on your profile page.

Yup, that's me, all fancy and schtuff! =P

Lazy! I dont know why but I love the picture so much. To me it is the epitome of photography. But like I said I like both avatars. There fancy with there movements and all.

Hehe! Awww, I hope you don't miss her too much, and learn to like Iruka-sensei. I'm thinking I might keep him around for a little while at least. =) I learned how to do mine right away, and right away I chose Hanajima, but I feel like 10 months is long enough to have the same avatar character without a break! I think the treble clef is a very distinctive avatar. I haven't seen anyone else using such a thing, and I always know it's you. I'm not that creative, me and my anime characters... lol.

Me sorry! I have a good eye and I am creative! =)

You are not allowed to put yourself down in my presence. You have a good eye and you are creative.

I think it's neat that some people change theirs often and other people not at all. It's just another way in which there is a lot of variety among the users on mylot. I actually really thought I was never, ever going to change mine. I really like Hanajima, and you're right, many people had pointed out that I really look like her. However, I just got a little tired of having the same picture, and I'm really into the Iruka character, and was randomly searching for pictures of him and decided to make him my new avatar. It is refreshing to see new pictures now and then, though I'm sure Hana-chan will come back eventually! =P

Haha, good luck finding an avatar for yourself!!! That's actually one of the first things I do on a site, but since mine are always anime characters it's a little easier. That, and I'll usually use the same one everywhere for a while. The character that used to be in my avatar here is still on all my other sites! It would be harder to come up with something to represent "the writer's soul". For me, I choose anime characters because I really like anime, but also I choose characters who have some trait that I really admire or want to emulate. =)

I'm glad you like this one too! I'm really fond of this character, though I'm sure he'll take people a while to get used to! I always have problems getting the animation to work as well, but the solution is just resizing your avatar until it works. A .gif has to be 60x60 in order to work on mylot in discussions, as far as I can tell. You can resize it with a .gif animation program, or if you don't have one, you can use a free website that does it called gif works. It's just www.gifworks.com, and you just use the free tools there to resize your .gif. That's how I did mine anyway. I used to have a gif animation program, but I lost it when my computer went nuts, so I just did it online at gif works this time. I had thought about using one of my totem animals, or something religious as my avatar, but... for some reason anime characters as avatars just works for me. They're always ones I feel really strongly about because of character traits they have, so I guess it's kind of my way of being both serious and fun at the same time. =P

Oh, you will have to show me some of her drawings, I would love that! =) Eh, Hanajima isn't from Naruto, she's from Fruits Basket. If it's from Naruto, maybe she's Haruno Sakura? Iruka-sensei does also seem to be very popular, which I was surprised about. I thought that him being my favorite character made me weird since he's not as "elite" or "exciting" as many of the other characters, but I guess there are a lot of Iruka fans. Hehe, anime wasn't really that popular when I was younger, but I got into it when I was 18 or so. I always wonder what my kid is going to think about anime, growing up with me and my husband watching it all the time!

I usually don't change things like that very often because I give them a lot of thought when I pick them out in the first place. My choices have a lot to do with what the picture or characters means to me. But even I get tired after looking at the same picture for many months, even one I like. =P

It is odd to see a different avatar when someone changes their after a long time! I was a little worried no one would recognize and respond to me. =P I hadn't used the Hanajima one before mylot, but before that I had one avatar I used for several years, that came from yet another anime. Me and my anime. I switched to the Hanajima one actually because I had changed a lot since choosing the one before that, and it just no longer seemed to fit. I'm not sure why I changed this time... just felt like it was time, but likely the old one will come back.

Iruka is my favorite I think, but Shikamaru would be a close second. He's so awesome! Actually, there are way too many awesome characters there, and every time I go back and watch parts of the anime over (or right now I've just started reading the manga) I'll start realizing how well developed so many of the characters are. It's an anime that makes it easy to like lots of characters, because they do all have their own stories and personalities. =)

*smiles* I know a lot of people who feel that way about anime. I kind of got immersed in it, suddenly moving in with people who watched it all the time, about 9 years ago or so now. So I got to learn about it, and now I'm a bigger fan than most of them! =P I'm glad you like my new avatar too! I think I might keep him around for a while, unless I find I'm not getting any responses because people don't recognize me by name, just by avatar. lol

Haha, that could be a fun game actually... see who can guess!? I really thought I would like this new avatar, but the animation isn't working, so it's annoying me already. I'm trying to fix it.

Hmm, I haven't heard of that anime, I'll have to check it out! (Adds to long list of anime to check out.) You have a good point about not recognizing people when they change their avatar. That's part of why I kept mine the same for so long, and I'll probably go back to Hanajima eventually. I'm just on a Naruto kick right now, and Iruka is my favorite character from Naruto. Fruits Basket is still my favorite anime ever! =P

Ooo I like your new avatar too! I tend to like sci-fi as well! =) You're not alone in knowing nothing of anime. Though it's become somewhat more popular over the past few years with more of it coming on tv, even now it's kind of an obscure thing in a lot of ways. I just happened to fall into a group of people who were really into it about 9 years ago now, and become an addict.