Do you like our new, circular avvys?
Circular is nice. It's a bit "Through the round window ..."
And has it influenced the picture you use?
Not yet. I still have the one I used on Ye Olde Soap Chat. I'm just pleased all the faces still fit in the round window!
Do you associate certain members with a specific avatar they've used?
The first one that springs to mind is someone who used to post on the Music forum before the Crash of '16 when we first starting doing the Top 10s. For the life of me, I can't remember her name but she was very nice and she loved Fleetwood Mac but she was open to lots of other types of music, and her avatar was of a female rock singer. It wasn't Stevie Nicks or Christine McVie because she had brown, maybe reddish hair, but it was someone like that - maybe one of the members of Heart or Sheryl Crow - and it was taken from above so you were kind of looking at the top of her head (I think). But anyway, that picture, even though I don't know who it was of, and the poster, whose name I can't remember, are sort of fused into one in my head so I kind of imagine that's what the poster looked like, whoever she was. (Bet you're glad you asked now.)
What's your current avatar?
It's of the final scene between JR and John Ross in New DALLAS. This is what I wrote about it recently:
The setting for JR and John Ross’s last face-to-face conversation, a men’s room at the courthouse, feels both incongruous and somehow perfect. John Ross emerges from a stall to find JR waiting for him, Bum looking on silently. He scowls at his daddy and heads for the basin to wash his hands. “Your mama thinks I should forgive you for consorting with the enemy and since staying on Sue Ellen’s good side is a prudent thing to do at the moment, I’m inclined to oblige,” says JR. “I don’t need your forgiveness,”
John Ross snaps, addressing his daddy’s reflection in the mirror rather than looking at him directly. “You don’t need my wrath either — we dinosaurs are known to bite,” JR replies calmly. John Ross is distracted by a text message that makes him smile despite himself — Drew Ramos has been arrested for receiving stolen goods. JR is pleased too. “That puts our ambitious little señorita in moral violation of her contract with your mother, doesn’t it? Wonderful,” he says. John Ross is surprised: “You knew about that, the morals clause?” “You still don’t know who you’re dealing with, do you, son? I can hardly blame you for that, but I forgive you,” JR replies. And that’s their whole relationship in a nutshell — estrangement, resentment, oneupmanship, remorse, forgiveness and a spot of shared deviousness at someone else’s expense — all executed with the lightest of touches.
Fifties-set drama A Place To Call Home
I'm looking forward to that!