When you look into the abyss....

[abracanabra]

Well, actually, when I read my friends' comments: http://ethel.livejournal.com/1134501.html
(Oops, that link is friends-locked. Er, she gave me the idea.)

Edited to add: I have no idea what you're seeing when you look at this--it pulls a user pic from whoever's looking at it. Neat, eh?

Comments

[bork.livejournal.com]

I love it. LOVE IT.

(As an aside, have you actually heard of Vintersorg, the guy in the avatar? He's a really good and prolific metal musician from Northern Sweden. He is made of awesome and win.)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I hadn't, but I'll check it out. Looks like he's on emusic.

[bork.livejournal.com]

Sweet. He likes to sing in Swedish about Physics and elves.

And I'm wondering where you found the picture! I made it for an avatar, but I don't have it in my current collection! It was unexpected to have Surprise Vintersorg on my LJ FL!

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Was she saying nice things about the book? :>

[wilowisp.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

What?

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Ooo, weird. I wore that same henna design for a while last year.

[fayde.livejournal.com]

I totally was wondering why you picked that picture out of all of them!

[wordswoman.livejournal.com]

What the...?

Hey, I resemble that post!

[aedifica]

Is this one of those things where the code pulls one of the viewer's own pictures and shows it to them?

[aliseadae]

Oh good. Until I read this I was super confused. This looks like a painting one of my relatives made that used to hang in my great grandaunt's house. I didn't think other pictures of that painting existed really.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Buh. I saw the cover of an anthology I was in. No wonder I was confused.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

You don't have it in your current collection? That's a bit creepy--I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Sorry to raise your hopes--it's a mirror. I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Now I'm curious as to what you saw. I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

What indeed? I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

And it *is* you! I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Which picture? I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Ha! I can't actually see what you see. This picks one of the avatars of whoever's logged in and looking at the post. Freaky, isn't it?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Give the girl a cookie. Sorry, didn't mean to be mysterious! (Though I am amused by the reaction.)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't mean to be confusing! (At least, not more than temporarily.)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't mean to be confusing! (At least, not more than temporarily.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It picked my, "Wait--what?" icon. Which amuses me more than any other icon, given the other commenters' responses.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Ha! Supremely appropriate.

[aliseadae]

The picture it shows for me is the one that this icon comes from.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Pretty. And a bit wistful.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

I like yours better than ethel's, which totally freaked me out at work and made me close my browser since it was really NSFW, at least in text.
What is very weird is that this widget has picked an icon I made of an engagement picture of us - but the picture isn't one of my user pictures. I actually don't know where it is online.

[joeboo-k.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just freaky!

[seabream.livejournal.com]

How apt that I got this one.

[nemoren.livejournal.com]

Okay, really odd: it's showing an icon I haven't had up for a long time. Specifically, the one I used when talking about the clay job. Apparently it's still on the LJ servers somewhere, and still associated to me!

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I don't get it, all I could see was a Brad Pitt lookalike ;)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I suspect it pulls from an LJ archive, but--::shrug::.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

A lot of people have commented on it showing no-longer-in-use icons--weird. Adds to the freaky.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

::groan::

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Gotcha.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

And yeah, I was very glad I hit that one 1) at home, and 2) after she'd made a post saying, "Hey, that's a joke!"

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, maybe he did look a bit more like Elmer Fudd :(

[wilowisp.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, okay, I get it. My icon is taken from the picture I see. The Young Martyr, by Paul Delaroche.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Ah. Lovely and appropriate.

[bork.livejournal.com]

I think it's in my pic collection.

[green-truth.livejournal.com]

And here I was wondering where in the world you got a picture of my cat and how he qualified as looking into the abyss.... =)

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

That is freaky! It's a henna design of a stylized bird.