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[Monocheres]

My avatar, as some of you may recall, is cropped from a 1927 illustration of the 1911 Modern-Greek young-adult novel Paramythi Horis Onoma (Tale Without A Name), by Penelope S. Delta, my English-language adaptation of which you can find here. Depicted is my favorite character from the story: "Monocheres" (which I translated as "Lonehand"), the one-armed river boatman with the cheeky attitude and the wall-to-wall grin, who constitutes all that remains of the once-mighty navy of the fairy-tale "kingdom of the Moirolatres" (which I translated as the "kingdom of Fatalistica"). You can find the full illustration on page 100.

[Plasman]

Hey, Mr. Mon! How are you going with that translation, by the way? Any luck getting a new artist for the illustrations? It'd be good to see this available commercially, especially now this new iPad thing has "reinvented the book" (pfnar ).

[Monocheres]

I was in contact a while back with a Greek lady in England who has already done a couple pieces of art based on the original book, and she might be interested in a commission if I can find a publisher. But my hunt for a publisher has got back-burnered because of a few little things ... oh, like separating, moving into a bachelor pad, negotiating a divorce, working on staying connected to my kid every other weekend while hitting the dating scene, meeting a nice gal, starting a new relationship, starting to feel like a human being again, yadda yadda ...

[Plasman]

Oh. Oh, sorry, mate. That's some serious you got happening right there. It explains why you haven't been around the forums much, I guess. I hope it all works out for you meanwhile.

Geeze, it seems a lot of people I know have been splitting up on the quiet. I'm so far out of the loop it's scary.

[InterNutter]

My avatar is... Me. Sort of. Back when I had orange hair that was cut shortish and had a tendency to go everywhere. I not only wanted to encapsulate how I looked, but also my... bizarre attitude towards life in general. A larger version [with some scant mood alterations] is used whenever I blog on livejournal.

Kinda boring, but... I'm mostly anti-deception. I'm me wherever I go.

[Sinosaur]

My avatar is clearly a photograph of myself. You can tell by the realism and the fact that it's entirely original.

I'm also an awesome necromancer.

[Jade Cat]

I am an awesome-r necromancer than you, Sino! Behold!

My avatar is a cropped version of an air elemental, one in a series of gangly-limbed barbie-naked elemental ladies I drew many years ago. The only other one I have saved is Wood/Earth. Fire got lost somewhere.

[Idiot Glee]

Mine is a drawing Nick did of me. ^^' Mew!

[Zygote Jr.]

...wee Zygote's avatar is a life-sized photograph of himself, taken whilst he was being booked into jail that one weekend. Thrice-damned appletinis.