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A profile picture. It is a hand-drawn, old-timey, not super accurate academic depiction of a koala cub (also called a joey), resting surrounded by eucalyptus leaves on the back of its mother, who is mostly out of frame. The cub faces the viewer, with its front paws coming together mostly below its head, and its hind paws hidden.

The koala cub avatar, which I currently use all over the internet, comes from a 1863 book titled The Mammals of Australia (thank you, John Gould!).

Here are some of the other avatars I've "worn" over the years:


A profile picture. It is a depiction of a diamond minecraft pickaxe striking at a block of obsidian, poorly drawn in MS Paint. The author must have been quite young. A colorful pony in the cartoony style of, well, My Little Pony: Friendship is magic. It is blue, with short green mane and a longer tail in the same color. It's wearing pink glasses and a watch, with the cutie mark on its back depicting a scroll with a quill. The top of its left ear is missing, as if bitten off. A young man drawn in a simplified manga style, sporting spiky short black hair, a white shirt, and holding a book. His eyes are purely white, as if to depict shock, annoyance, or the combination of both. A slightly cartoony close-up of a rather round cat face. It is various shades of light brown, and seems to stare down at you, disapprovingly. A white-green striped beach chair under a similarly striped umbrela, seemingly captured at a videogame beach somewhere. A big shadow is cast slightly to the right, hinting at the warm sun overhead. There's nothing else in the frame, making you wonder where this place was, and what it meant to the person taking the screenshot. You can almost hear the waves. An avatar very similar to the one before it, just at a slightly different angle. A simple MS Paint drawing of what is meant to be a stylized kiwi bird depicted from the waist up, brown, oval, with a long, light beige beak and two simple lines for eyes, both smiling and serious. Her title (or name?) is the Mother General. Cloaked in a broad, regal and almost military-looking silver cloak with golden details on the shoulders and piece connecting the cloak's two open halves, she leads an order of similarly – though not exactly – dressed warriors and scholars protecting the kiwi lands. There is also a dark gray belt across her chest, and a reddish-brown scar over her right eye. One day, the author should revisit all the other similar worlds, drawings and stories he's made in the deep past. A depiction of the Mother General very similar to the one before it, just at an angle adding some depth and clarity.