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I saw this photo and thought I would share.

It's the spice

Nice. I should maybe change that to be my avatar. Or would that be bending the rules?    

Ooops... Gotta go. It's Melange time!

Dune?

Actually I believe there are two references being thrown around above...

The original pic that Mike posted is from an animated TV series - "Avatar: The Last Airbender". But I'm not sure that Zup knew that and quickly turned to a Dune reference. I'm thinking that it was because of the glowing eyes (which featured prominently in the Dune movie).

So Mike's original ref was from Avatar, but Zup's was from Dune. And then I tried my best to tie the two together as I'm a big fan of both.