avatars

I'm realizing I have had an avatar of "noodly guy self portrait holding up a shining triangle" for at least two years (going off timestamps I can quickly find, it feels older than that?) and two iterations, with my hair going from a curly storm of an undercut to "embracing the akward stage of growing out my hair"; this probably means I need to do a third version with my hair where it is now, somewhere shorter than shoulder length (curls and time since last "reset" depending; iykyk^[1])

Also related: my current avatar is technically a trio I built for cohost because it supported svg avatars--depending on where it was on the site the breakpoints coded into the svg would alter which one displayed. I have all three versions individually here on my website^[2], but since I have Full Control Here, I really can use the svg--I just don't know where yet! I have plans to revamp the posts page here so it displays a list of excerpts, so I could do a little avatar there for each post, I suppose, with a small version on The List and a bigger size on the full page for the post, but that feels a little silly since I'm the only one posting here^[3]. Maybe the concept will play really well with h-entry support, tho? I get placing metadata tags to be compatible with it, but I don't really get how to leverage the consumption of that metadata; I think if someone does know how and parses my author info and uses it to display my avatar, an svg would let me choose which style shows at what size, so I'd look different depending on how that someone chooses to size my avatar (which would be VERY funny to me). If you know anything about leveraging h-entry feel free to weigh in; I'm pretty out of my depth there 🤷

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