Out with the old, in with the goo

For a long time now, the primary logo of my websites has been a kind of animal head with a gear inside of it. Originally, this was a nod to, well, being a furry obviously, but also to my online handle ‘querkmachine’. It’s like some sorta quirky machine furry, geddit? The ‘robat icon’. It became even more relevant when my fursona changed to become a robot bat (or ‘robat’, because I’m fun like that), and the logo was adapted slightly to match the silhouette of that character. It henceforth took on the moniker of the ‘robat icon’. The first iteration of that appeared around 2010, and has come come and gone at various points in that time. Most recently, it reappeared on this website at the end of August 2023, ironically just after I changed my fursona to no longer be a robot bat. Despite such longevity, that logo has never really broken out of my personal website. It lived in the top corner of pages and in favicons and sharing images, but it never really appeared anywhere else. You know…