Overall I just go with my current mood, sometimes I just feel like want a forum set or a profile based on something and then just make it, takes less than an hour usually, most of the time less than 10 minutes when I add nothing on my own and just crop and resize stuff.
Currently I have gurren lagann profile because I finished it recently and really loved it and as for forum set I have it because she is my waifu and because although I wanted a redline forum set I cannot think of any ideas so I am just keeping the one I have for now.
Also I change them pretty often like on a weekly basis most of the time.
Just go with whatever really, if you want one ultimate one for years then I dunno, you no.1 favorite character or anime should do.
Omkar_Nagwade said: For the profile picture - I read a good trap doujin and decided to put "her" picture. I like "her"
read that one too, pretty good.
oryouohagi said: Although it sucks, I made my signature and profil pic myself (artistic skills still in development).
As for my forum avatar, I wanted to have a GIF and was just rewatching Nagi no asukara, so I rolled with the best girl I guess.
Death note is the best anime and light yagami is my favorite character, his name backwards is imagay so i made my name light yagatonmi and you can figure out what that is backwards xD
also the profile picture is a picture of misa that i photoshoped to my liking
Profile Picture: My username is YuriCarrier and what better way to show my love for ships and Yuri then by having a picture of one my favorite shipgirl pairing in Kantai Collection. Yamato x Yahagi
Forum Avatar: I figure if I have a Kantai Collection picture in my profile picture then I use a Kantai Collection picture for my avatar as well. I had time deciding which shipgirl I wanted to use, but I chose Warspite in the end because I'm sucker for a woman with class.
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I chose Hoihoi for profile picture :D, because I've liked the girls with guns idea ever since ... don't know, maybe always liked it.
Cute/ tiny girl with scary gun - even better.
Voiced by Kugimiya Rie :D
my forum avatar is a follow-up choice.
Originally I felt I should choose an avatar that goes with my username - so it was either the snork or Nuku Nuku. I never watched the Moomin anime, do not intend to, so Nuku Nuku it was ...
So I went to take some screenshot from the Bannou Bunka Nekomusume anime, and went with Nuku Nuku doing a grimasse, sticking her tongue out.
It did not go well with cutting it down, into whatever the limits in pixels are.
So when I watched Stellvia of the Universe and saw Shima doing the same grimasse, I decided to make it a theme, using avatars doing that grimasse.
Ever since I have come across only 2 (last week : a 3rd, but seen from the side) other characters doing that, and they were mostly do not want them as avatar. :|
So now I am stuck with Shima, it is OK.
(Stein showed me a really, really, really good picture of Asuka sticking her tongue out - but me and NGE ... it's not a love story, so am not gonna take an Asuka avatar. :| )
I am lazy.
BannoBunka_snorkJun 16, 2017 4:08 PM
*darn, using my right hand is off-limits for a while. Typing with my left hand only is ... eww.*
for my forum avatar i used to have lightning from blue exorcist because i like the guy's character and it looked a lot like my usual responses to posts.
now i have this guy who looks somewhat like myself. just went and found a crisp pic of a cool looking guy lol.
Also randomly chose my profile pic cuz the person looks cool.
I was watching K Anime when I discovered this website. The episode I was on had Neko in her cat form and so I backed up to that time and screenshotted her to use as my avatar and profile picture. She's adorable~
"Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises" — Edmond Manning
I've changed my avatar quite a few times in here. My first one if I remember correctly was Porco, the MC from Porco Rosso, great pig, better antifascist. A cool guy. I changed it to Shizuku from Whisper of the heart because I felt that the character represented myself and she had a quirky 4th wall-breaking pose.
Then declarative finger Osaka from Azumanga came, which is my most recognizable avatar and what people who know me here tend to identify me with. I've come back to her various times, and it's clear that I will again. Nothing represents better the mood I want to transmit with my posts.
I've had other avatars, from characters I like. Tomoko from Watamote, when I was in the mood for giving creepy vibes I guess, Luffy from One Piece (from the Omatsuri movie, when I felt edgy), Mima from Perfect Blue (the pose looked cooler than in avatar version), I think I had Madao from Gintama in his cool 5th opening pose, Tenma from School Rumble with a beard because why not...
...and now for the first time I have a non-anime related avatar. My recent obsession with Gravity Falls drove me to this adorably unsettling image of poor Dipper in sockpuppet form. In context (spoilery):
And I planned to become a supporter just to have I AM SOCK above my avatar, but that dream went nowhere. The funny thing is that I am recently in a more passive-agressive mood than usual, so having this avatar kind of helps to take me less seriously and avoid unnecessary conflict ¿?
I've had at least four profile pictures before my current one, that I can remember, in MAL. I think the first was a pic of Rakka from Haibane Renmei (this one) that I found really nice-looking. After that, Osaka, smiling in the Osaka way, no need to explain, it's just Osaka. The third was this image from Spirited away. On the fourth I used Chihiro again. It's the one I've kept the longest, and I honestly thought that it'd never change because it fit so perfectly with the mood I wanted to set for my profile. But eventually, I felt like I needed a change and came up with my current pic, which is a wallpaper art about Kanata from Sora no Woto I've always liked, and looks chill enough for me.
My husband is Yashiro, so he's been my profile picture for months.
I love shota, so that's what my set is for.
WORK IN PROGRESS
~The frog leapt forth to my lilypad memory.~
I was indoctrinated by an inamorata rabbit,
Adenomata affronted.
It was the verecund, dismissed creatures
That I jubilated in most.
This rabbit I would nurture,
At the aiguille of esse,
The anneal of noblesse. ❤️ Birdie ❤️
It's usually at a random case scenario honestly. But most of the time I choose a avatar/profile from my profile or in the forums based on how cute the character is or depending on the picture in question. Just simple.
Laziness. I picked a character from a show that I liked and thats about how much thought went into having Undertaker from Black Butler as my pic. I don't think I've ever changed it, not that I don't want to, but again its out of laziness. I'd would like to have a gif as a forum pic instead but I can't be bothered to go and make one or go out of my way to find one that I like. Its also why I don't have a signature picture either.
I always gotta pick obscure characters to show how much of a piece of hipster trash I am.
Profile pic: Yuji Shishido from Tribe Cool Crew, a kids show about dancing.
Avatar is an unnamed paramedic character from an awesome VN called Dysfunctional Systems.
Hehe, pretty cliche: I always use the pictures of my social media to spread the word of my favorite things. :) My most favorite thing at the moment is Ashi-Girl, so here I am displaying the main characters of the series. There are few websites in which my avatar or whatever isn't Ashi-Girl by now xD
It's like what everyone has said, choose your favourite character or show.
I chose my precious lizard son and I tried to find a picture that really captured his character.
I choose avatars to represent a side of myself, merely liking a character or thing isn't enough. This character's expression is what I was looking for, as it matches my general outlook on life. The design looks nice and the background colour goes well with the text colour I use to write posts.