Where did my avatar go. I don't want a damn picture of a bear.

Hi @buckeyeguy, welcome to our Soda community.  Where are you playing the game?  If it's through Facebook then your avatar should be what you have posted as your profile picture.  If you are playing through the Kingdom then your avatar picture should match your profile picture.  I am going to quote below what one of our Superstars says about these avatars.

"“When your connection is slow or you are disconnected, the game just recycles a few profile pics that it has saved in the game cache.  They have not 'stolen' the pics or anything like that, it is just the game substituting the few pics it has saved when they are not all there.”