Mascot

[AFK]

Actually, I think it is.  If I were any good at arts and crafts I'd take a stab at it. 

[Cramulus]

Whatever the mascot is, it's going to be filled with massive contradictions, and will probably be impossible to fit into any kind of avatar due to the massive amount of different things it would have to represent.

Even the most basic philosophies of this place engender massive screeds of debate, argument and flame wars. There is the hideous and the cute, the intellectual and the silly, the disgusting and the sublime, the violence and the apathy. All of these things are important to PD, and any mascot would need to in some way reflect each of them in some way.

I'm not asking for a perfectly accurate map of the territory. Any avatar, by its nature, is going to be a gross simplification. For example, Mickey Mouse doesn't directly represent the ongoing destruction of the public domain perpetrated by Disney. But because he's a malleable symbol, he CAN represent it:

One image kinda comes to mind though. A jailer in the background, with the inmate standing in the foreground and bars between them, but it being impossible to tell who is actually in the cell and who is outside it.

I like the figure/ground puzzle in this image. I also like it if the jailer and inmate are the same person, maybe in reverse colors.

something like...

[Payne]

Whatever the mascot is, it's going to be filled with massive contradictions, and will probably be impossible to fit into any kind of avatar due to the massive amount of different things it would have to represent.

Even the most basic philosophies of this place engender massive screeds of debate, argument and flame wars. There is the hideous and the cute, the intellectual and the silly, the disgusting and the sublime, the violence and the apathy. All of these things are important to PD, and any mascot would need to in some way reflect each of them in some way.

I'm not asking for a perfectly accurate map of the territory. Any avatar, by its nature, is going to be a gross simplification. For example, Mickey Mouse doesn't directly represent the ongoing destruction of the public domain perpetrated by Disney. But because he's a malleable symbol, he CAN represent it:

[pic snip]

I understand you don't need a perfect representation. We already have a perfect representation which is the forum itself. I just think it needs to be quite complex to be of any real use.

[Payne]

One image kinda comes to mind though. A jailer in the background, with the inmate standing in the foreground and bars between them, but it being impossible to tell who is actually in the cell and who is outside it.

I like the figure/ground puzzle in this image. I also like it if the jailer and inmate are the same person, maybe in reverse colors.

something like...

Well, we could work with blue and orange, jailer and jailed as colours.

We can impose a number of meanings onto this if anyone asks about it, but it doesn't feel like it's too trite to me. Inmates running the asylum, you ARE in a cell like it or not, riffs on authority etc.

[Captain Utopia]

Awesome idea - I love it!

[Faust]

for me it will always be

[Cramulus]

for me it will always be

BREAK IT DOWN
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[fomenter]

i really though the ass-hat was a winner, it's Representative in so many ways  ... maybe a updated look with a   tattoo on one arm and a bip on the other....


i will try to think of some fresh symbology for the pd experience..

[Requia ☣]

actually

this is our mascot

[the last yatto]

cant we go the geco insurance route and have an army of mascots? after all someone did want to make a BIP comic

[Cramulus]

cant we go the geco insurance route and have an army of mascots? after all someone did want to make a BIP comic

that would make sense. How would you divvy up the different aspects of PD?

maybe a different mascot for each subforum?

[Template]

One image kinda comes to mind though. A jailer in the background, with the inmate standing in the foreground and bars between them, but it being impossible to tell who is actually in the cell and who is outside it.

I like the figure/ground puzzle in this image. I also like it if the jailer and inmate are the same person, maybe in reverse colors.

something like...

Well, we could work with blue and orange, jailer and jailed as colours.

We can impose a number of meanings onto this if anyone asks about it, but it doesn't feel like it's too trite to me. Inmates running the asylum, you ARE in a cell like it or not, riffs on authority etc.

Well, I tried to synthesize (color scheme), (jailer and prisoner indistinguishable), and proposed image above, with the following result:



Maybe without a margin:


Maybe not...

A more realistic silhouette fare better in this treatment.

[Roaring Biscuit!]

this makes my brain cry.

i'd like to nominate a Faceless Man for mascot, or mascot inclusion, as Discordia can be pretty much anything to anyone. i.e.  you can project what you like onto it.

[Template]

this makes my brain cry.

i'd like to nominate a Faceless Man for mascot, or mascot inclusion, as Discordia can be pretty much anything to anyone. i.e.  you can project what you like onto it.

Mine too, tbh.

[Cainad (dec.)]

that would make sense. How would you divvy up the different aspects of PD?

The rage of PD:



The horrormirth of PD:
or maybe

The antipathy of PD:


The humor of PD:


The intellect of PD: