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My profile picture is the Magician enemy from the game Persona 3, based on the major arcana.

I kept the picture because it reminds me of comfy when it's rounded.

What about you?

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[–] Othello@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

i chose this portrait of Ira Aldridge as Othello, hes the first black actor to play othello on a large stage (before it was done by white men in blackface/ brownface) i think hes cool, he was an abolitionist, and its a nice picture. this was my second choice also Ira Adridge

and my third also a depiction of Ira aldridge as Othello, but i figured it would be too cringe to have a statue as a profile pic

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

i didn't because i don't know how

Death to America

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it fit my username and was also pretty funny i think

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine is the FALGSC icon, would love to have it as a patch for a jacket.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

It's a good icon. A laptop sticker of it would also be cool.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Oh shit I had no idea. I saw it and never looked at it up close. That's cool

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's just a big #2 and very funny visually.

I'll probably change it to Nikki Hailey if she ever manages to get ahead.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[–] stinerman@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was a good picture of me.

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, same for me.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

username

was supposed to be temporary until i found a good picture of welles in the third man but i never did

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I tried to get DALL-E to make Soviet Knuckles from the meme, but one of the pictures it generated was Knuckles with Lenin's face so I went with that

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Uuuuh

Screamy birb funni

[–] ElectronNumberSeven@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Mine is the Hydroxyl free radical, which is when a Hydroxyl group is missing an election so it only has 7 valence elections instead of 8. I thought "free radical" sounded more like a political term rather than a chemistry term so I thought it would be funny to make my username a reference to it

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

It’s the novel I got my name from.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Magician@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I don't see it, but cool! bean

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Image Search "Bobson Dugnutt"

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[–] FakeNewsForDogs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am the guy from the “succulent chinese meal” video. It’s me in the picture. Still in Australian jail. AMA.

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I love cats, music, and communism and my pic has all three

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

irony poisoning

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

picture of me

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I think it's very self-explanatory

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cowardly Gowron makes me laugh.

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[–] Gay_Wrath@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i picked this name like on the site's first few days based on the image it's attached to

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i want to assassinate the royal family of spain.

Because I'm actually Joe Biden.

[–] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I saw a poster and i was very gay for her

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I was playing around with stable diffusion for like a day and tried to generate a surveillance cam overgrown with moss. It just wouldn't do it, and I ended up with a bunch of pictures of trees overgrown with moss that have cams on them. The surveillance-machine-fed machine can't imagine the surveillance machine being overgrown but it can readily imagine the surveillance machine growing on the overgrowth. I found it poetic how radically limited the creativity of the new, supposedly radical creativity machine turned out to be. Still looked kinda cool, so I rolled with it and now I'm used to it.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I like the moomin

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

let the toei animation cook for like two more months and it'll be clear. it's jimbei with the hawaiian shirt drip

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

the golden witch beatrice is just like me fr fr

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Because Sui-chan is kawaii today as well" - Joseph Stalin

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[–] squirrel@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

🖼️🖌️🐿️💭🐿️

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I have frog in my name and I want to abolish private property

I wanted something Florida-themed. Plus gators are cool.

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stole this from somewhere on social media because it is just the most glorious round bird with a big attitude that I very much identified with. The meme hands that were added on it are the icing on the cake.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I'm still with her

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Profile pictures are bourgeois.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

They're free and for everyone!

blue-check

[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

it's the logo of the communist party of Iran, they were based Stalinists

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I used the image for a copypasta post cause it looked like a weird picture of a dude who would say said copypasta. It used to be Cataradi, an alien that likes to laugh and sing and was part of your first grade curriculum in the 90s if you were Canadian and did French immersion.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yoko's story in TTGL is possibly the most tragic. She

Very spoilery gurren lagann stuff you shouldn't click here if you intend to watch it.falls for the revolutionary leader, who dies in the process of the revolution he started, abandons politics post-revolution to hide herself away in a remote part of the world as a teacher of children with the intention of never subjecting herself to the pain of any form of relationship again, only to get dragged back into ANOTHER revolution when it's clear that the first revolution didn't fully liberate them, where she promptly falls for another revolutionary who she knew from the first revolution, who promptly dies as well. She throughout all of these events entirely sacrifices herself for the cause, sucking it up and stuffing those feelings down because she believes in the cause more than her personal feelings, even while other people around her aren't controlling their emotions anywhere near as well, she knows someone has to.

Also she's a rad chick with a huge gun that believes in her gun solving the problems.

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She's a role model. She's a reminder that these things are not without sacrifice.

This particular gif is from the end of this music video and I just like the feeling of sweeping into a thread, dunking and being like "CIAO" sunglasses/hand wave and the framing of it is absolutely perfect for a profile pic crop with the head/hand lining up.

Also TTGL is blatantly marxist agitprop and you can't convince me otherwise. Classic Trigger/Gainax.

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