So yeah, look at the picture on the left of what I just said, and then look at the picture under what I said. (my avatar/sig resp.)
In the avatar, I'm a wise yet condescending ugly guy. I used the "forelit but with side blue keylight" option in char creation (Ignore the milkstache.) In the sigfile, I'm a Riker-bearded badass, but I was seriously trying for "ugly" when I created that character, while still maintaining a few rough links to what I actually looked like. The rape-stare is a big clue. I just noticed a common element between both of my avatars. I'm an ugly person who glows.
Now that I'm good and drunk, I'd like to explore the subconscious meaning between this choice of two decade-disparate avatar designs. Or perhaps, this entire post is an excuse to get you fagboats* to post your old and new avatars (that is assuming you saved them like a proper narcissist should.) Do you also glow? Did you glow once, but quit? Did you recently gain a glow you did not have?
* a fagboat is a boat rated shipworthy, loaded with fags