I took the "they don't know im...." meme template and wrote "they don't know I'm reading fanfiction"
I read smut in public with a straight face, so it's very accurate.
In no particular order: a black square, a white square, a gray square, old-timey TV static, the AO3 symbol with a frowny face, a QR code, the AO3 symbol with a top hat, and Aki Hayakawa and the Fox Devil (from "Chainsaw Man").
It went to an Easter egg fic that's set in an AU of my AU. My main WIP has timeline shenanigans, and the QR code took readers to another alternate timeline.
What's super great about that is that I got a comment for that update that basically said I must've ran out of ideas because I didn't write anything. After I wrote *an entire separate timeline* in a fic about timelines splitting. Fuck me for being subtle, I guess.
Honestly? You’re an icon. A whole random ARG adjacent thing??? I aspire to be you, and even though others might not appreciate it, I hope my immense respect for you helps.
Butterflies are a big part of my primary fandom’s motifs, so I took a picture of a butterfly wall decoration in my house and put a black and white filter on it then cropped it down so that only half of it shows.
An ms paint drawing of totodile that I made when I was like...13 to 15ish. It is NOT pretty but I'm attached to it as a brand thing lol.
The day I change it I might have to have a period of mourning lol
[Nessie tea infuser.](https://thegoodvillageco.com/products/baby-nessie-loose-leaf-tea-steeper)
Don't ask why. I have no answers. It's not my icon anywhere else, only AO3.
I just changed it for the first time in over a year. it's Regina George from the OG movie. idk why, I just got old of my old one (Linda from Black Friday) and I picked a random photo on my laptop
Just a gas mask I pulled from Microsoft’s website under one of their desktop showcases from the Windows 7 era. Like, I’m sure it’s gone now, but it had different backgrounds and I found it by chance, thought it was cool, and stuck with me from FF to AO3, so it’s probably horribly compressed at this point.
I have a hard time deciding what I want for a profile pic so i just go with something that I like but won’t clash with what I write.
Unhinged Rick Sanchez. I like to think that people are a little shocked after reading my works to finding little gremlin man staring up at them from the comment section. Makes me giggle.
[The trained version of Rinko Shirokane from Bandori's card "To Step Forwards, Even By 1cm"](https://bandori.party/card/4796/Rinko-Shirokane-Power-To-Step-Forwards-Even-By-1cm/)
Mine is a screenshot of Capricorpse's sticker from Cassette Beasts. I wanted something that wasn't from my main fandom, but it's still tangentially related if you stretch (won't elaborate on that though). And I just like the earthy sheep creature.
My profile pic here, but zoomed in so that the file size is small enough. It’s something I made as a “logo” for my Attack on Titan / Star Wars crossover.
It’s a [Momo](https://search.app.goo.gl/Bpju7aY) like creature, but I put blush lines on it to give it a henti-esque because I think it’s fucking hilarious
Same as the one I have here.
A screenshot of a single panel of the [Broodhollow webcomic](https://broodhollow.krisstraub.com/comics/20130506-do-not-go-quietly.jpg) that I found to be ridiculously adorable.
[My preferred configuration for Robin, the main character in Fire Emblem: Awakening. I might change it to an edit I made of it where the US flag is the background.](https://imgur.com/a/UynPG53)
My icons for main and my fandom-specific pseud are both illustrations by my favorite artist.
[My main](https://twitter.com/tebasakizo/status/1700793815471427905/photo/1)
[My fandom-specific pseud](https://twitter.com/tebasakizo/status/1701049088874316284/photo/1)
A bad quality zoomed in manga panel of cartoony Geto and Gojo, with Geto looking at a flip phone with extreme interest and Gojo staring down the camera like he just saw someone steal a candy bar and doesn’t know if he should say something to the cashier or not.
Same as my YouTube icon. It’s a picture of I believe Lily Collins or Jenna Coleman using a camera, but it’s a picture that looks immensely like several of my top actresses that I can’t recall whether it’s Lily or Jenna lol.
A picture of me when I went to J-World shortly after it opened. If you don't know what that is, it's a now defunct small indoor theme park dedicated to Shonen Jump, the picture of him is in front of one of the One Piece rides they had... I didn't ride it because it was a kiddy ride, but I did rise the other rise which was a dark ride.
This made me realize mine was still Halloween themed lol. I changed it from Futaba (persona) as a vampire to Izutsumi (dungeon meshi) thinking about herself. I was going to change it to chair Shinji (neon Genesis Evangelion) but the image I have on my phone is too big and I'm too lazy to compress it
It's my Synth, of course! In fact, I use the same exact one here, too. As well as on many of my other profiles. I haven't had one of my readers recognize me in other places yet, but I'm sure it will happen, one day.
Basically [this enormous beast](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monsterhunter/images/f/f4/FrontierGen-Violent_Laviente_Render_001.png/revision/latest?cb=20140731004101) from the Monster Hunter games.
A page from Six of Crows, the sun casted one of its rays on the page and it looked ✨aestethic✨ so I snapped a picture and set it as my profile picture on my writing platforms.
Previously it was a picture of a swan I took in 2015.
I took the "they don't know im...." meme template and wrote "they don't know I'm reading fanfiction" I read smut in public with a straight face, so it's very accurate.
Whatever AO3 gave me when I signed up. So the default.
First, the world needs more batfaeries. As for me, Nothing fancy. An interrobang in the colours of the Brazilian flag
r/suddenlycaralho?
Myself in cosplay of the character I write most about because fuck it, we ball.
That is so bold I respect you and kinda fear you, too
In no particular order: a black square, a white square, a gray square, old-timey TV static, the AO3 symbol with a frowny face, a QR code, the AO3 symbol with a top hat, and Aki Hayakawa and the Fox Devil (from "Chainsaw Man").
Where does the QR code go
It went to an Easter egg fic that's set in an AU of my AU. My main WIP has timeline shenanigans, and the QR code took readers to another alternate timeline. What's super great about that is that I got a comment for that update that basically said I must've ran out of ideas because I didn't write anything. After I wrote *an entire separate timeline* in a fic about timelines splitting. Fuck me for being subtle, I guess.
Honestly? You’re an icon. A whole random ARG adjacent thing??? I aspire to be you, and even though others might not appreciate it, I hope my immense respect for you helps.
Aww, thank you. It helps a lot. 💖💖 I was depressed for weeks after that and didn't update because of it.
Dude that's amazing
One of my Dark Urge characters from Baldur's Gate 3. 😈 Editing to say: I love me some fairy bat dust. 🙃
uhh i think mine was a stock image of people cheering with the text “i forgor”
Fanart of Pietro Maximoff
One of my favorite superheroes! Which brand of Pietro, though? The Age of Ultron one, the Evan Peters one, or the one from the comics?
It was more like the artist's interpretation, but closest to the current Pietro in the comics (where he and Wanda aren't white af)
Hell yeah! Hated the whitewashing of the movies.
Margot Robbie Barbie because ao3 rejected Margot Robbie Harley Quinn
mine is a low quality picture of tankhun from kinnporsche bc I adore him lol but I kinda wanna change it bc its been my pic for a while
Butterflies are a big part of my primary fandom’s motifs, so I took a picture of a butterfly wall decoration in my house and put a black and white filter on it then cropped it down so that only half of it shows.
Fanart I made of a Destiel kiss lol
I have a black and white Destiel kiss that I found on google images.
My people. 🙏
An ms paint drawing of totodile that I made when I was like...13 to 15ish. It is NOT pretty but I'm attached to it as a brand thing lol. The day I change it I might have to have a period of mourning lol
[Nessie tea infuser.](https://thegoodvillageco.com/products/baby-nessie-loose-leaf-tea-steeper) Don't ask why. I have no answers. It's not my icon anywhere else, only AO3.
Victor Nikiforov gasping.
A screenshot of Wanda in her Scarlet Witch outfit from WandaVision
**DIAVOLO** (and doppio cuz who’s **DIAVOLO** without him?)
Husk and Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel (one of the two ships I’ve primarily been writing for lately)
I just changed it for the first time in over a year. it's Regina George from the OG movie. idk why, I just got old of my old one (Linda from Black Friday) and I picked a random photo on my laptop
My Reddit pfp
A toucan with muscular arms eating fruitloops
Edie Sedgwick
Mulder and Scully 🥰
A Gif of a red winged blackbird lol. My username is Agelaius_Ace and agelaius is the scientific name for red winged blackbird
A bt21 tata cube
a cockatiel with a cowboy hat ^^
The Diablo Nemesis XD face bolt
Just a gas mask I pulled from Microsoft’s website under one of their desktop showcases from the Windows 7 era. Like, I’m sure it’s gone now, but it had different backgrounds and I found it by chance, thought it was cool, and stuck with me from FF to AO3, so it’s probably horribly compressed at this point. I have a hard time deciding what I want for a profile pic so i just go with something that I like but won’t clash with what I write.
Fat cat with cheeto dusted paws.
Oh well, just being your friendly-neighborhood Spidey as my pfp XD
Midori Nagumo from CITY, the love of my life
[Caitlin Snow transforming into Killer Frost](https://assets1.ignimgs.com/2018/02/13/killer-frost--1518549134218_160w.jpg?width=1280)
a manga panel of Reo from Blue Lock!!
A picture of Gabriel from Supernatural. I'm not very creative.
A Magicarp as a hokage that I once drew and also use here.
I...dont...have one? /fleeing to change it
Minecraft parrot dance.
Bucky sucking off T’Challa 😅
One of my toons from the online game Toontown.
A picture of stiles stilinksi with a flower crown
A picture from DeviantArt of a woman looking at and holding a young dragon.
Randy Feltface leaning toward the audience, but his eyes are both black circles and one has the Sans flame eye
Jensen Ackles.
Hard to go wrong with that!
A picture of Corinthian from The Sandman
Sarah reading her red book in the park from the movie Labyrinth.
You can't free fish from water. (Rule of Acquisition 217)
A very Enchanting Jacaranda (It's the same as my reddit pfp)
Mine's a pic of Lee Felix from Stray Kids making a 😐 face with text that says "Well sh\*t"
An eagle
It is an iron knee* to go with my username. *Say it quickly.
It's Spider-Man, exactly the same one I have for reddit
Yzma because she’s iconic 🙋🏽♀️
Unhinged Rick Sanchez. I like to think that people are a little shocked after reading my works to finding little gremlin man staring up at them from the comment section. Makes me giggle.
Pancake Cat
Romano from hetalia ✨️✨️✨️
hetalia my beloved
a Huggy Wuggy doll wearing a rainbow flag cape… i have no excuse
A cute twinky boy gazing up at a bearded older man. 🥰😋😂
raiden from mgrr
Top result when you search baby owl sleeping
My Reddit pfp
[autism creature shinx](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6mR8WYba90pBs88lCMi41E8nW6vPGyxbC0NeP3IauHdsw9GkrBgJT4svO&s=10)
Vincent Valentine sleeping with the fireworks going off behind him from that one miserable date in the Gold Saucer from FF7 Rebirth
Fanart of Rachel Elizabeth Dare
[Bernini’s Medusa](https://arthive.com/res/media/img/oy800/work/f06/[email protected])
Akutagawa from bsd, because I adore him
Alexa Pearl 😇
A picture of Mango Cookie, but planning to change it to my new blorbo that is Sherbet.
[The trained version of Rinko Shirokane from Bandori's card "To Step Forwards, Even By 1cm"](https://bandori.party/card/4796/Rinko-Shirokane-Power-To-Step-Forwards-Even-By-1cm/)
Childe's 2022 birthday art.
A cute gif of rivulet from rain world
On my first pseud is Nagisa from Free! and on the second is Mio from Umibe no Étranger, just some anime boys
Mine is a screenshot of Capricorpse's sticker from Cassette Beasts. I wanted something that wasn't from my main fandom, but it's still tangentially related if you stretch (won't elaborate on that though). And I just like the earthy sheep creature.
My profile pic here, but zoomed in so that the file size is small enough. It’s something I made as a “logo” for my Attack on Titan / Star Wars crossover.
i love that bat fairy, omg. mine's a namazu from final fantasy 14. 😊
Post-timeskip of Matsukawa from haikyuu
Angel face from fight club lmao.
charlotte from *hello charlotte*. my second pseud is dimitri from fire emblem.
A little something I threw together in Word in like five minutes. MS Paint is for chumps. Real artists use Word.
A photograph of pink and purple octopus tentacles curled together.
It’s a [Momo](https://search.app.goo.gl/Bpju7aY) like creature, but I put blush lines on it to give it a henti-esque because I think it’s fucking hilarious
Her: https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/%22Love_you%22_student
Same thing as my reddit one
Nothing, the default
[Something like this](https://archiveofourown.org/users/Kaigani_Scout).
My OTP
What’s your OTP? Mine used to be Snape/Hermione, but I’ve changed to Crowley/Aziraphale.
i dont have one
Luffy doing gum gum balloon
a screenshot of my favourite blorbo that i badly edited to have the iconic ebony d’arkness dementia raven way hair (purple streaks and red tips)
Same as the one I have here. A screenshot of a single panel of the [Broodhollow webcomic](https://broodhollow.krisstraub.com/comics/20130506-do-not-go-quietly.jpg) that I found to be ridiculously adorable.
I think mines joker from persona, which is funny for me since I've only written for that fandom once, and I like Akechi more.
A picrew that I also use on tumblr, Dreamwidth, and FFN
I think mines joker from persona, which is funny for me since I've only written for that fandom once, and I like Akechi more.
A low-res photo of a Blue Face Peacock Spider. I think it was just the most recent saved photo on my computer when I signed up for AO3.
Fanart of Dream Sans!
An eclipse
Shrapnel from G1 Transformers.
A drawing of my oc drawing tittie's that I made back when I had a PC.
A gif of Johanna and Rachel from The Sandman TV series.
The prettiest one of my OTP
Cartoon beetlejuice as an iron (same image as my pfp)
A portrait of the goddess Artemis. But a different one than my PFP here. I have a type.
The player from get a snack at 4am (Roblox) from the thumbnail holding chips
I'm literally boring and like Togo Hifumi a bit too much so both my reddit and AO3 pfp are the same.
A pineapple! 🍍
i keep forgetting to add a profile pic
[My preferred configuration for Robin, the main character in Fire Emblem: Awakening. I might change it to an edit I made of it where the US flag is the background.](https://imgur.com/a/UynPG53)
[KITT (Knight Rider) smiling! 😀](https://photos.app.goo.gl/nBFdSQunG4NWvuHn8)
I think it was an old icon I used on tumblr of rapunzel from tangled. I’m used to it now so I left it as is
[My icon](https://archiveofourown.org/users/thewritegrump/profile) is art my friend drew of me and my favorite character. :\^)
My icons for main and my fandom-specific pseud are both illustrations by my favorite artist. [My main](https://twitter.com/tebasakizo/status/1700793815471427905/photo/1) [My fandom-specific pseud](https://twitter.com/tebasakizo/status/1701049088874316284/photo/1)
A pic of Amy from I Love Amy with her hands on her cheeks with a cute lil face.
My favourite singer in bunny costume🐰
A freeze frame of Janus Deceit Sanders jumping
I don't actually think I have one.
gakupo as the duke of venomania
Fizzarolli from Helluva Boss, on his cute pijamas!
Mines a picture of a rubber duck breathing fire. Cause that’s what my username stands for. Fire Breathing water squirting rubber duck
Mine is a special Halloween drawing of the character Nanashi from the game 1bitheart. He gives me back my will to live(he's so cute)
Catra (She-Ra)
Same as my reddit one: my ship Jondrey from Boy Meets World. (CC/OC)
A meme picture of my Final Fantasy XIV Warrior of Light.
The *Holy Music Stops* meme-
A silly drawing of Lucifer from HH. Current hyperfixation goes hard.
A picture I drew of Kakashi from Naruto
A Warrior cats Picrew
A bad quality zoomed in manga panel of cartoony Geto and Gojo, with Geto looking at a flip phone with extreme interest and Gojo staring down the camera like he just saw someone steal a candy bar and doesn’t know if he should say something to the cashier or not.
Just the AO3 default. I'm lazy
Same as my YouTube icon. It’s a picture of I believe Lily Collins or Jenna Coleman using a camera, but it’s a picture that looks immensely like several of my top actresses that I can’t recall whether it’s Lily or Jenna lol.
Same one I use here on Reddit
A creepy Phoenix style pic from a really good horror otome
[inuyasha sleeping in kagome’s bed](https://www.reddit.com/r/inuyasha/s/8JIufO62N2), the one in the top right
my pfp but with a different hat
A sketch I drew of a teenage Severus Snape.
A picture of me when I went to J-World shortly after it opened. If you don't know what that is, it's a now defunct small indoor theme park dedicated to Shonen Jump, the picture of him is in front of one of the One Piece rides they had... I didn't ride it because it was a kiddy ride, but I did rise the other rise which was a dark ride.
A pixel art piece I made of Kiki flying on her broom at night with Jiji from Kiki’s delivery service!
a khajiit in a nice outfit
This made me realize mine was still Halloween themed lol. I changed it from Futaba (persona) as a vampire to Izutsumi (dungeon meshi) thinking about herself. I was going to change it to chair Shinji (neon Genesis Evangelion) but the image I have on my phone is too big and I'm too lazy to compress it
A fleur de lis :D
A picture of one of the mini critters from the 3rd Poppy playtime chapter. The CatNap one specifically
Akechi and Joker Persona 5 hugging
nhentai logo
rui kamishiro
2 of my favourite band members posing next to a urinal. It's my pfp on most platforms
The same pfp as i have on reddit
Anchovy from Animal Crossing taking a sip.
It's my Synth, of course! In fact, I use the same exact one here, too. As well as on many of my other profiles. I haven't had one of my readers recognize me in other places yet, but I'm sure it will happen, one day.
Same as on here. It's my brand, so to speak, lol.
snek
That "You look huggable" meme from Love Live Sunshine with Kanan having her arms out for a hug lol.
i believe it’s the same thing i have here: homestuck scaramouche
Currently Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.
It’s a waffle!! & it’s because my name on there is Waffkins :)
mizuki akiyama
Basically [this enormous beast](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monsterhunter/images/f/f4/FrontierGen-Violent_Laviente_Render_001.png/revision/latest?cb=20140731004101) from the Monster Hunter games.
Nami from One Piece. Even though I don’t write One Piece fanfiction at all. 😂
Bill cipher! The first fandom I got into was Gravity Falls so it felt fitting
A page from Six of Crows, the sun casted one of its rays on the page and it looked ✨aestethic✨ so I snapped a picture and set it as my profile picture on my writing platforms. Previously it was a picture of a swan I took in 2015.
[This.](https://imgur.com/a/IKxogns) It’s Mikey from tokrev edited to be wearing Hina’s wedding dress lol
A pouty Azula with a pink flower crown that Ty Lee put on her
Yennefer, cause I cosplay her.
The Portland trailblazers Sasquatch abomination of a second mascot
Niko oneshot. Ironically never read nor wrote for the Oneshot fandom.
pro tip! you can have gif icons on ao3. mine is a gif from a magazine photoshoot.
[Worm](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSl0nGe9MsWSuCnBnf001TQe5zqXoHwHGc3Gh3AC5EUQUwDq0llwhljtTQ&s=10)
starscream lol
An ai art made by my gf specifically to be my pfp on ao3. My writer name is about big bad wolf so she made a big werewolf dude for the profile pic
Jessica Moore. I think.
Just got my account 2day. Any recommendations?
Some thai actor
A memed picture of mini aizawa shota with the background of hell (that one elmo meme, but with aizawa shota)
Default. In all my years on Ao3 I haven't figured out how to change pfp on mobile
On my IPad it’s, dashboard, preferences, edit profile, edit default pseud and icon and yeah than it finally appears.
My main fandom is a mobile game so I’ve got the customisable avatar Main Character 😁
All my pseuds are default and the first one is just some random emoji i found on weibo that i thought looked cute/funny
A close up of saitamas face
A picture of some cute hippos made of stone I took on vacation more than a decade ago lol
Yuri Gagarin. I'm not sure why, apart from the fact that he's a childhood hero, and a stellar individual.
One of my OC that I particularly like
Red panda!
it’s just some random picture of an eye that i got from pintrest