I see posts with avatars of people where they have taken actual images of themselves and I am envious of them :)
Ok we are not all pretty, but, dang some of us sure is. No really, some of us are not bad looking.
Me, I am still in refusal mode, unwilling to make peace with the view in the mirror. Plus, an inherent hate of the internet, and some of the mean people in it, and I am still I suppose sensitive about being too totally me on the internet.
My avatar is Tsukino Usagi, otherwise known as Sailor Moon, and she is surprisingly appropriate I suppose in a variety of ways I likely shouldn't like :) We are both possessing of a great deal of heart and generosity, and we are both bloody crybabies. And I do kinda like ice cream as well I guess. We both sucked in school. And I am always wanting to change the world. She spent her time trying to save it. I don't think I am as much of a klutz as she is though.
I like seeing my avatar when I post. I like seeing her bubbly personality. It's like a small ray of sunshine that appears regularly while I am on the forum. It's more for me than anyone else that I use it.
You would not know this, but I have some small models of the series in front of me on my desk. I have absolutely no trouble openly displaying that I am a moonie :) If I could transform into the female form of my choice, I'd likely pick her. I have never been more envious of an imaginary person before.
When you look at the image, that is for the most part, how I see myself. Including the winter outfit and the skiis. I wish we still got decent amounts of snow in my region. Global warming is depressing for a Canadian.
Mine's just a self-photo. Straight ahead, no expressions whatsoever. So was my last, and the one before, back when I was juuuuust starting out and looked like a guy with foundation smeared on his face. >_>
I've sorta informally used the avatars as a progress meter - a new image every three months, enough for there to be visible progress but not so long that it gets extremely behind the times. Not because I think I'm particularly photogenic, but because I feel like it maybe represents me better than some media image I like or an animated stickman.
Quote from: Lesley_Roberta on August 13, 2013, 07:55:34 PMIncluding the winter outfit and the skiis. I wish we still got decent amounts of snow in my region. Global warming is depressing for a Canadian.
Don't worry - chances are we'll hit another Little Ice Age and the snow'll be back in force. *schedules move to Florida*
my avatar is my former musical idol.
I use this picture of myself because it was taken at a very happy time in my life, and it brings back the memories of that time. I'm still a happy person, a bit grayer and a step slower, that's all. Hugs, Devlyn
I put up a selfie because I feel like people could connect to me more by seeing my face. I take them down though cause I worry it will get caught in a Google search. In this one I just like my eyeliner.
I would like use a picture of myself. Unfortunately, I'm a school teacher who has hundreds of students. I don't want one stumbling onto one of the public areas of Susan's, recognizing my picture, and then finding out all sorts of stuff I don't want them to know (and telling the whole school...).
I actually like the way I look (thanks to my new wig). If I get a decent picture, I'll post it briefly so people here know what I look like. There are a couple of posts with pictures that don't show my face. (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,130967.msg1073781.html#msg1073781 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,130967.msg1073781.html#msg1073781) and https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,98870.msg989328.html#msg989328 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,98870.msg989328.html#msg989328))
But as for my avatar, well I'll have to be content with the flower.
This is me, its nothing special.
I posted a picture of myself for three reasons: No one recognizes me – I'm safe. It's the hair, it's the fact I'm smiling, it's 82 pounds of lost weight and 7 months on HRT. Second, I wanted to say to the world "This is the real me. A person no one has ever seen before". Lastly, one day, I will post my transition story, the beginning (not posted), the first stage (my current avatar), a getting close picture (yet to come) and my unification picture of what I am on the inside with what I am on the outside (still a ways off).
I want to encourage others.
I'm 51 and one day, I will be beautiful, if only to me.
Mine is me. I'm 100% out. I don't worry what people think. After hiding all my life I made decision to never be afraid again.
Must up date, my hair is too my shoulders now!
Quote from: Cindy on August 13, 2013, 08:54:24 PM
Mine is me. I'm 100% out. I don't worry what people think. After hiding all my life I made decision to never be afraid again.
Must up date, my hair is too my shoulders now!
Heh, this almost applies to me word-for-word!
Mine is a photo of my cousin's two youngest children and myself. Should I have them in my avatar? probably not. And I will change it as soon as I have another picture taken. By the way my hair is to my bra strap I just wear it up to cover a bald spot.
<---- This is what i feel like doing right now, but it's 4 AM and i don't want to wake up the landlady and her husband.
I'm a KAT. nuff said.
Good point Cindy, I'm 100% out now. No reason why not.
--Jay
I'd love to have something like Zoe's face, it's soft it has features I think a woman could be happy with.
My face has what society likely called rugged or rough to use too terms likely close enough for the purpose.
I have a neck size that screams out too unlady like. Grrr how the heck do I reduce a neck size?
Hair loss, I hate covering for features immune to a diet.
The waist, well if I had enough discipline maybe I could lose some weight :)
But from the neck up, so much seems insurmountable.
Oh well, next month, if it kills me, the family budget is letting me visit the hair dresser and I am having her guide me to the right wig to emulate what I would look like, if I had all my hair, and it was permitted to grow down to mid longish length. She might not even need to charge me for offering her opinion for all I know. Likely waiting for nothing.
I am sooooo sick of trying to wash my hair dry it and then brush it into some manner of look that doesn't look like a farce. I have fine hair, it simply hates doing anything useful for me.
I would post a picture of myself as my avatar but I can't yet. :c
I like a personal pic avatar that makes the visual human personality connection. I like to change my pic occasionally. I am pre anything & probably will stay that way.
@ Lesley, do you mind me asking where. you live in our Canada? I understand if you don't want to. From your comments I get the impression you are a skier. I am too old to ski anymore...wish I could as I am still physically fit. I have skied in several provinces & Vermont. Family lives in Vancouver. I used to ski on vacations to Whistler. I visit family in Van when I can & love the mountains. Miss seeing mountains a lot.
Jamiep
I totally look like my avatar IRL. I am a futuristic super-advanced robot who has a massive assortment of hidden weapons what I can whip out an any time to wreak destruction.
Well, not really. But, playing make-believe is so much fun. I guess that's why I'm a sucker for MMO's and why I would be spending all of my time playing Guild Wars 2 if I didn't have better things to do.
Mine is just me GAZING INTO YOUR SOUL. Well, it would be if my DSi's camera could better pick up details. I don't think my 3DS' is much better.
I'll probably update it every now and then for HRT progress. I've only been on it for three weeks, so an update won't be worthwhile for quite some time.
Edit: aaaaaaaand, changed. Cause boredom.
When I first started exploring my trans-reality, I used Tinkerbell as my avatar...I've always liked her as presented in the first Peter Pan animated movie. Lately I've used images of her sad, or sassy, or happy as a sort of indicator for the major depression/emotions I experience, which co-presents with a total disgust at anything that reminds of myself (such as avatars with me as the subject).
I use any avatar mainly as a "bookmark" of where I last was in a thread...click on new posts, click on a thread I want to catch up on, and scroll down until my avatar shows, and start reading from there.
Yes, I could use just a simple one-color square (and I have, on other boards) but here I like seeing "me" with my "words."
:)
Of coarse my avatar is a pic of me. I try to keep it updated as possible my current one was took last Friday after I got done putting on my makeup. Which is funny because after taking this pic I almost started to cry because to be honest I have never looked as feminine as I do now. Which would have messed up my makeup. I love this pic because of the hope it brings me about my future and I only expect more great avatar pics in my future. ;D
@ Jamiep
Was born in the Laurentians, Quebec, to a mom that skied to school in Morin Heights. But I spent most of my life here in flat boring Central Ontario where they actually think it's possible to enjoy skiing. I suppose if you don't mind cross country.
I have at least had the pleasure of going through the Rockies by train a few times in my youth. I suppose it could be worse, I might live in Saskatchewan (shudder).
Lesley, your Mom, good for her, those were the days. I live west of Toronto (born in TO), ya right, I learned on the bumps for a ski hill in the Barrie area & Big Blue is supposed to be a mountain near Collingwood. Nice living your early life in ski country of the Laurentians. I had relatives in Montreal, visited a lot over the years, like it has become a second home city for me. I have a friend living there now & visit occasionally. I have skied at Grey Rocks, Tremblant & Mont Saint Anne. I want to do a cross Canada drive to Vancouver one day.
I like my avatar because I looked good there. And I looked busy. Which I was. But, I think I look awesome in green.
Quote from: Keaira on August 14, 2013, 07:23:20 AM
I like my avatar because I looked good there. And I looked busy. Which I was. But, I think I look awesome in green.
Green does really suit you.
Quote from: Keaira on August 14, 2013, 07:23:20 AM
I like my avatar because I looked good there. And I looked busy. Which I was. But, I think I look awesome in green.
you really do look good there. would you try a sexy no jutsu pose as well...?
my avatar is... not me at least. i'm too scared of google, and have too many friends who know me as less than who i really am.
if i were to use an avatar that showed who i feel like, i'd be changing constantly. my current avatar is a character from the korean webtoon "tal", wearing casual clothing. his work uniform is a very contrasting extremely feminine model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYWumDW2Pgk
Just skip to 18 minutes and 57 seconds for the camera smashing, guitar-throwing and exploding amplifiers, amplifiers being thrown into the audience and the stage catching fire, which was NOT intended. Spinal Tap, eat your heart out!
20 minutes and 45 seconds is where the amplifiers catch on fire.
my avatar is a reflection of how I feel. It's the background that I have on my phone.
I won't put up a picture of myself yet on my avatar because I don't yet feel good enough about how I look.
plus I still need more confidence about who I am and my gender identity.
This is real picture of me as of now ,I hope to have better picture of me in near future if that is possible still working on a better me,thanks for sharing your pictures hugs from Miss Jill in Alabama
Mine is Monroe from Grimm. I have him because I like him and I think we have our personalities in common. I maybe should get a decent picture of me up but I'm terrible and making pictures of myself and since I mostly have the camera nobody makes pictures of me :(
Quote from: ! on August 14, 2013, 07:34:07 AM
Green does really suit you.
Thank you. ^_^
Quote from: Taka on August 14, 2013, 09:28:30 AM
you really do look good there. would you try a sexy no jutsu pose as well...?
Thank you. And, I could try a sexy no jutsu pose but you wouldn't be impressed. ^_^
i am a big anime buff, i draw it, i watch it i go to cons etc. i picked this avatar cuz i can't wait to look like a damn sexy man...also cuz i had the picture lying around in one of my foulders and i decided why not. i'll prolly upsdate it soon to something more me though.
My avatar is the mythological Greek Hermaphroditus.
It represents the dichotomy that is me. Contradictions. Male and female. Yin and Yang.
mine is just me with a hangover on a lazy day up by the goat pens before I got my eyebrows done.....they look like two wolly caterpillars courting
My avatar is kinda sad, but I had to use it. I've had it in my pics folder for ages. I don't remember where I found it, but when I first saw it it struck me pretty hard. It's exactly how I feel.
The un-cropped version is better btw.Changed my avatar. :D
Quote from: JLT1 on August 13, 2013, 08:46:05 PM
I'm 51 and one day, I will be beautiful, if only to me.
That's what true beauty is. :)
To cheer my boyfriend up >.<
And my avatar is Katlyn DuPhoe, a character of mine. I guess you can call her an alternate persona. No idea at all, lol. But one day I may have an actual pic up. Like someone else said, I just tend to be leery with pics because I've had bad experiences with them in the past. But I'm getting over that. Plus I'm honestly still not 100% used to being so open. Heh. But that is disappearing. Anyways... Yeah. That is my avatar.
I drew my picture on the tile next to the sink in the bathroom where I had been playing with makeup. I looked so bad and so far from anything female that I gave up, scribbled a sad face, took a photo of it, then threw all my makeup away. I figured I'd change the face when I felt differently, but unfortunately, it's a slow process.
I started into this forum as a safe way to be myself, and gather more information about what options are available to me. I'm not too concerned with being picked out in searches by HR sweeps as I intend to finish transition at some point, and that's not the sort of thing any modern company is going to miss no matter what I look like.
So, to stop myself from rambling here, I still have to wear the Man Mask around a lot of situations in life and I really want to just put it down without picking up something else to hide behind. So, despite semi-crappy makeup, my current avatar!
I'm not even saying anything in this thread.
*backs away slowly and considers changing avatars again*
>_<
Mine is me. i decided that i was 100% out like a few others so i dont care what anyone thinks. i am just me. pre HRT and everything else.
Mine's me. Its getting a bit old now I suppose, but it's the best cut I've ever gotten so I don't want to change it.
Quote from: Jaelithe on August 15, 2013, 10:24:42 AM
So, despite semi-crappy makeup, my current avatar!
If I could put makeup on even half as well as you, I wouldn't have tossed mine in the trash! You look great.
I'd use a selfie, but I haven't started transition yet, and I've not told anybody about my desire to transition yet. So just in case anybody I know comes along and stumbles across these forums...yeah I'm not using a selfie.
As for my current avatar, I like Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII) and I connect with her and relate to her as a character.
Mine is me @ 5 years of age, back in 1976 - which is when I first realised I was a boy. I'm dressed in my pink ballet outfit because I took up ballet lessons on the suggestion of a friend (who lived in the house with the red roof you can see in the background). My Mum said I was rubbish at ballet: clomping around the stage with all the natural grace of a carthorse.
We became friends because her mother invited me to her 5th birthday party, and my mother insisted I go because she was worried about the fact that I seemed to gravitate towards playing with boys. I was very nervous about that party: I didn't know how to get along with girls and I far preferred the easy companionship I had with my brother & male friends.
My friendship with that girl was a very interesting - and weird - experience. She was a very 'girly' girl who loved to play social games, and whilst I tried to become interested in the things she did (because everyone told me I was supposed to like them too, being a girl & all) I found it all very alien and baffling. I was very intimidated by the weird games she liked to play - games which I later learned were perfectly normal for little girls. I felt so out of place because I just didn't get why those games were supposed to be interesting. I'd much rather go exploring with my male friends in the African bush across the road from our house than play dolls with that friend.
My mother made me play with that girl because she wanted me to be more feminine. But it was through studying this girl up close that I first figured out that I wasn't a girl at all. So I chose my avatar because it represents the beginning of my transition: the first moment I knew something wasn't right with my gender.
My avatar reflects how I feel inside - not so noticeable on the avatar, but the eyes exude a profound sadness - which just resonated with me.
I've only recently added it to my profile but have had it as a screen background on the computer for some time. I have downloaded a huge collection of fantasy , elf and fairy backgrounds and pictures and this one is my favourite.
My avatar depicts my favorite Elder Scrolls character: the old orc warrior Amro, who late in his life discovers he is a dragonborn and then has to save the world. Unfortunately he also has a very twisted sense of morality and is not a good guy even though he exterminated the dark brotherhood. I just liked my design on him. The grizzly old PONYTAILED (can't see that on this picture, but hey) orc.
My avatar is also of me, just a few weeks ago. I really have no idea how I appear to others except that I seem to pass pretty well except under really close scrutiny. However what I can say without any doubt is that is that the avater image reflects the level of comfort I have gained about who I am, an evolution that has surprised even me as two years ago I was as scared about all of this as many of people who sign up here every day and who are just at the beginning of their journey.
Yesterday evening I had dinner with all three of my kids, something that doesn't happen very often as none of us live in the same region and France is quite a big country. Anyway, I showed up in a summer dress very similar to the one in my avatar picture and my eldest daughter couldn't help but remind me that only two years ago, I would have been in baggy shorts and tee-short or similar summer wear, looking every bit the advanced middle aged guy that my ID papers said I was. There was some regret in her voice but she has also noted just how much happier I seem to be.
I have been helped enormously by surgery and know I wouldn't be where I am without it but I guess the fact that such options are now available to us should be a cause for optimism for everyone, even those who can't afford it for now. A good FSS surgeon really can do miracles as anyone who looks at my photo album on ffs-support@yahoogroups.com can find out. The pictorial history illustrates just how much of a miracle was required... :angel:
Hugs
Donna
My avatar is Rhinoa from Final Fantasy 8. I choose her because I love the game and relate with the character. I'm a very idealistic person who very much wants to help be part of the solutions in the world. Throughout the game, one can see that Rhinoa is very much that kind of person through her political activism. I would also say we both have a bit of a radical streak, desire to find our purpose, be important in some fashion and one day find true love. Just my interpretation of the character and how I related with her.
As for my own picture, I doubt I could ever do that. I'm just way too uncomfortable sharing photos at this point in time. I'm not bad looking or totally hopeless, but I'm early in the process and want everyone to see the beautiful girl I am inside (come one you all know I'm amazing)! I will pass in time, but it will take a little more time and effort. However, I don't know if I could even share at that point. I have this nagging fear of being outed and then bullied for the rest of my life. You never know who lurks around on the internet.
Well, hey, Leslie, I started out with an anime avatar as well. For MANY months, people knew me as the following image of Nausicaa from the Studio Ghibli film "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind." And just like you, I chose her because I believed she was a lot like me... a nature-lover, a pacifist, one who hates conflict, and loves animals, and has a calm demeanor.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages6.fanpop.com%2Fimage%2Fphotos%2F32700000%2FNausicaa-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-32776885-300-342.jpg&hash=e99f46065bf4cb667501230c172928f6cfb2eca6)
It took me over five and a half months of HRT before I decided that I was finally ready to change my avatar to a picture of myself. So yeah... a lot of it is just self-confidence. Pre-HRT, and in the beginning, I felt like Nausicaa was a better depiction of my true self than an actual picture was. So I don't think there was any shame in using her instead of myself. And that's really what an avatar is all about. It's about having some sort of image that everyone can associate with you, which when they see it they think of you. Whether that's an image of your real self or a hypothetical self that you believes represents your true self, I don't think it matters.
Quote from: FTMDiaries on August 15, 2013, 05:26:59 PM
Mine is me @ 5 years of age, back in 1976 - which is when I first realised I was a boy. I'm dressed in my pink ballet outfit because I took up ballet lessons on the suggestion of a friend (who lived in the house with the red roof you can see in the background). My Mum said I was rubbish at ballet: clomping around the stage with all the natural grace of a carthorse.
We became friends because her mother invited me to her 5th birthday party, and my mother insisted I go because she was worried about the fact that I seemed to gravitate towards playing with boys. I was very nervous about that party: I didn't know how to get along with girls and I far preferred the easy companionship I had with my brother & male friends.
My friendship with that girl was a very interesting - and weird - experience. She was a very 'girly' girl who loved to play social games, and whilst I tried to become interested in the things she did (because everyone told me I was supposed to like them too, being a girl & all) I found it all very alien and baffling. I was very intimidated by the weird games she liked to play - games which I later learned were perfectly normal for little girls. I felt so out of place because I just didn't get why those games were supposed to be interesting. I'd much rather go exploring with my male friends in the African bush across the road from our house than play dolls with that friend.
My mother made me play with that girl because she wanted me to be more feminine. But it was through studying this girl up close that I first figured out that I wasn't a girl at all. So I chose my avatar because it represents the beginning of my transition: the first moment I knew something wasn't right with my gender.
I cry when I read this. It epitomizes so many of our lives. It was told so well. Even though it brings tears, thank you for sharing.
Don't think I post enough to have an avatar yet. What you think?
15 posts for an avatar, You are at 26.
It's me! People here give me confidence so I thought why not, no face though because you never now who wanders the interwebs.
Quote from: Michele on August 15, 2013, 04:54:35 PM
If I could put makeup on even half as well as you, I wouldn't have tossed mine in the trash! You look great.
I got started with a tutorial make over at the MAC store. Since then I've studied the competitors on RuPauls Drag Race and generally gotten tips wherever I could get them.
Quote from: JLT1 on August 16, 2013, 01:55:34 PM
I cry when I read this. It epitomizes so many of our lives. It was told so well. Even though it brings tears, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the kind words. :)
If there's one thing I've learned from my friends here at Susan's, it is that whilst our lives and experiences may be different, and our triggers may be the exact opposite of each other's at times... one thing almost all of us share is the horrible sense of
wrongness that we experience when society tries to force us to conform to the wrong gendered behaviours & expressions. I first felt that at five, which is why I picked this photo. It is an honest representation of how lost and alone I felt before I learned that there were other people like me out there.
Mines also a selfie.
I hate taking photos even though I have been told that I am photogenic. I guess I just see "all the wrong things" when looking at myself in a picture.
I love this picture though and I use it a lot. All I see is the man that I am on the inside nothing less.
This expressionless selfie was taken at my first attempt to go in publc dressed up (which failed) and is the reason there is no smile lol
Im supposed to try again for more pictures.... probably a few to be taken at the pride parade in austin tx in september.
Quote from: FTMDiaries on August 15, 2013, 05:26:59 PM
Mine is me @ 5 years of age, back in 1976 - which is when I first realised I was a boy. I'm dressed in my pink ballet outfit because I took up ballet lessons on the suggestion of a friend (who lived in the house with the red roof you can see in the background). My Mum said I was rubbish at ballet: clomping around the stage with all the natural grace of a carthorse.
We became friends because her mother invited me to her 5th birthday party, and my mother insisted I go because she was worried about the fact that I seemed to gravitate towards playing with boys. I was very nervous about that party: I didn't know how to get along with girls and I far preferred the easy companionship I had with my brother & male friends.
My friendship with that girl was a very interesting - and weird - experience. She was a very 'girly' girl who loved to play social games, and whilst I tried to become interested in the things she did (because everyone told me I was supposed to like them too, being a girl & all) I found it all very alien and baffling. I was very intimidated by the weird games she liked to play - games which I later learned were perfectly normal for little girls. I felt so out of place because I just didn't get why those games were supposed to be interesting. I'd much rather go exploring with my male friends in the African bush across the road from our house than play dolls with that friend.
My mother made me play with that girl because she wanted me to be more feminine. But it was through studying this girl up close that I first figured out that I wasn't a girl at all. So I chose my avatar because it represents the beginning of my transition: the first moment I knew something wasn't right with my gender.
Love the story :). I believe I have seen you around, but I passed your avatar off as some random photo from the internet.
Quote from: Erin S on August 18, 2013, 03:52:30 AM
This expressionless selfie was taken at my first attempt to go in publc dressed up (which failed) and is the reason there is no smile lol
Im supposed to try again for more pictures.... probably a few to be taken at the pride parade in austin tx in september.
Have you told that tale on here before? Failing to go out in public. Have you tried again since?
No I have not told anyone here of my first time out. Not yet.
Its not very interesting anyway. I ended up freaking out and getting back in the car after I had sat there for an hour building the courage to go inside.
Quote from: Erin S on August 18, 2013, 04:47:07 AM
No I have not told anyone here of my first time out. Not yet.
Its not very interesting anyway. I ended up freaking out and getting back in the car after I had sat there for an hour building the courage to go inside.
Bummer. So you haven't tried again since? >.<
I paid some old bag lady $20 to pose for mine.
Quote from: marsh monster on August 18, 2013, 07:50:32 AM
I paid some old bag lady $20 to pose for mine.
That's one nice looking bag lady. ;)
Ok didn't really splain mine. My "adopted" son (a young trans kid in our community) took this next to his house. I like the adobe wall. Looks very New Mexican. The picture is recent within a few weeks. My "son" has been taking pictures transition of me-- my therapist kind of suggested that I might want still pix of my transition. He was really right.
--Jay
Quote from: Alice In Genderland on August 18, 2013, 04:01:16 PM
I decided today to put up an actual picture of myself. I was kind of worried that everyone would see me as a man wearing makeup if I did. But I decided I don't really care. My goal isn't really to pass as female anyways, I just want to be myself without worrying what people think.
You look fantastic. And thats the best attitude to take, i dont carewhat anyone thinks. All that matters is that you are comfortable with yourself.
I have a random drawing of a catboy on my avatar.
my profile name says "Natkat"(= cat of the night) so I tried to find a pic on cathuman as my profil picture.
I think cats are pretty facinating animals who just do what they want and enjoy there life, there also symbol of freedom, or people who dosent nessesarry follow the stream. also its a cartoon and I really adore cartoon and comic characters alot.
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I dont really feel like having a IRL picture on myself as a avatar, why should it be nessesarry? I dont think people should jugde from how I look but on what I say. besides im also very lazy to take pictures on myself and mostly I look pretty akward in them so I rather have something nice to look at.
Quote from: Natkat on August 22, 2013, 10:02:22 AM
I dont really feel like having a IRL picture on myself as a avatar, why should it be nessesarry? I dont think people should jugde from how I look but on what I say. besides im also very lazy to take pictures on myself and mostly I look pretty akward in them so I rather have something nice to look at.
but i like how you look...
still, i understand that feeling of being so unphotogenic. i generally look weird in pictures, and i'm still too chicken to deliver my entire self to google.
Quote from: Taka on August 22, 2013, 11:33:23 AM
but i like how you look...
still, i understand that feeling of being so unphotogenic. i generally look weird in pictures, and i'm still too chicken to deliver my entire self to google.
thanks, but well in general my opinions for myself is, everything where I meet people IRL like dating site or something then I prefern having a picture on cause if your to meet someone IRL then its good to know how you look like, for forums where the main focus isnt to meet people IRL I general dont have a picture on.
I changed to my current avatar the day I received my formal diagnosis. Pretty self-explanatory, I think.
Maddy
I changed to mine (It's me but with computer generated hair and makeup since I don't have that yet) when I looked in the mirror one day and saw a woman. Yeah, it was a woman with beard shadow, big, ugly, bushy eyebrows and an adams apple, but somehow I still saw a woman and it just made me so happy that I just started giggling uncontrollably. I decided a long time ago that when I saw a woman in the mirror, I would post a picture, I just didn't expect it to happen without makeup and long hair and still with my ugly eyebrows, so I felt like I had to at least fix those things if I was going to post a picture this early. Sometimes I think I might be delusional and have an overly high opinion of my own looks and that what I see in the mirror is better than what people actually see. Oh well, its me (kinda) if someone doesn't like it, why does it matter anyways right?
Quote from: Alice In Genderland on August 24, 2013, 10:46:51 AMSometimes I think I might be delusional and have an overly high opinion of my own looks and that what I see in the mirror is better than what people actually see.
I'm both exactly the same and the opposite. I think I look cute and "boyish" in the mirror, but I'm always insecure that people really see me as some kind of mutated freak. A lot of times, I can't stand to look at un-mirrored images of myself.
I chose lips for mine just because I loved how they looked and am way too early in all this to use an actual picture of myself.
Decided to be less fake and post what I actually look like, no fake hair, no makeup, no airbrushing.
Decided my Avatar needed a smile.
What do you think?
Smiles are good thing, especially when they are genuine.
Quote from: LordKAT on August 28, 2013, 06:57:57 AM
Smiles are good thing, especially when they are genuine.
I see a big smile on your cat.
--Jay
My Avatar is Twilight Sparkle when she has lost her color and has almost lost all hope because of Discord. Its kind of how I feel from the discord in my head. Maybe someday I will learn that friendship is magic and will see the return of harmony. Hahaha I'm such a nerd.
Mines Priss from bubblegum crisis. I'd post a picture of my self, but not as an avatar.
Murbella is a character from the last 2 books of the Dune series by Frank Herbert. I love how the bulk of the power in the later books shifts to female characters and even before coming to terms with my issues something about that jived with me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbella)
I always loved the name, but I don't think it'll fly as an actual name if I go through with a name change at some later date.
As for the avatar, I found someone on deviant art who had drawn the character. I love the cartoonish style, the outfit, and the sly sassy smile on her face as I felt it represented me rather aptly.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc04.deviantart.net%2Ffs21%2Ff%2F2007%2F281%2F8%2F1%2FDune___Miles_Teg_and_Murbella_by_zazB.jpg&hash=e86799f81f20fc672ea130195633aa6ee4cd50ac)
http://zazb.deviantart.com/art/Dune-Miles-Teg-and-Murbella-66834133 (http://zazb.deviantart.com/art/Dune-Miles-Teg-and-Murbella-66834133)
My current avatar is a pendant that my wife bought for me. It's symbolic of her moving into a place of acceptance.
Quote from: Princess of Oblique References on October 02, 2013, 06:14:26 PM
My current avatar is a pendant that my wife bought for me. It's symbolic of her moving into a place of acceptance.
Yay!
Mine is a picture of a character named Clause from the 4th episode of Full Metal Alchemist. I think that picture captures exactly how I feel in life right now. So happy to finally be my real self that I shed tears of joy.
This is me. I'm not covering my face to hide it, I just thought it was a cool pose. I wanted to do both hands, but one of them had to hold my iPhone! lol
I'm still to early to post anything meaningful. I'm just a colorful looking middle aged guy at this point. lol My 22 year old son calls me "goth" or "emo" (ewww to the second one). He thinks I'm weird, but he loves me anyway. My eight year old daughter likes the way I look. (I'm divorced now but my son lives with me.) I'm just starting my transition, after waiting way too long. I'm so mad at myself for allowing that to happen. :( But I'm glad I'm actually doing something about it now. So far only my older brother and a close female friend know (and also few trans women I know on Facebook).
Like other stories here, I knew since I was about 5, and only wanted to play with the girls on my block. I asked my mom to paint my nails like theirs. She did too! My mom was great. But she didn't understand when I kept insisting I was a girl, and wouldn't let me dress like them. So I stopped talking about it. I still spent the rest of my life hanging out with the girls. :) I don't relate to men.
I will post new ones when I have something to post. But that might not be for a while... ;) But hopefully not too long! I'm so excited to starting this journey and to find a great place like this. OK, I'm getting teary.. I better stop.
My avatar is a cropped version of my fursona, she is the first and only art I've had commissioned.
She is special to me as in she is every part of me at once, her thoughts are the thoughts i hope one day i can have.
I used this picture because before it was taken I had HATED every pic of my face ever, too masculine *shudders* I'm no pinup I know that, but this picture was a breakthrough for me, I think I look ok.
Eyebrows need work! ;P
Allie
Quote from: Megan on October 02, 2013, 09:36:01 PM
Mine is a picture of a character named Clause from the 4th episode of Full Metal Alchemist. I think that picture captures exactly how I feel in life right now. So happy to finally be my real self that I shed tears of joy.
This is so much how i feel about my avatar. Priss is so strong and a bit quiet and cheeky as a woman. She does for others without words and shares her passion through music.
Quote from: SoapiSophie on October 03, 2013, 04:04:31 AM
This is so much how i feel about my avatar. Priss is so strong and a bit quiet and cheeky as a woman. She does for others without words and shares her passion through music.
Hugs :D isn't it funny in a way how we can get so much relief from something so simple as a picture. Some people just see them as a picture and others can put mountains of emotion behind the same one.
Quote from: Donnabobhair on October 04, 2013, 01:23:21 AM
The thing that a cross dresser should not do is flaunt the fact that you wear a smaller size than your wife.
Ha! Yeah, that's not getting in good standing with the mrs.
That would never happen with me and my ex, she's 19 years younger than me, and a size 2. ::) But she used to like to wear my clothes. Go figure.