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I dream of a day, however far in the future, when Smorty uses her real face as an avatar and we all take turns saying what her cutest feature is.
dear hazel - see - nt evrione is as comfident as u r,,.....,. ur a vrri special peep in thad....
so evn if i somhow feel mor oki later on - i prolli still wouldn share .... face..... i mean lik - i cn say thad when i tried to mek myslelf in mii maker, it ended up lookn lik ash from gtlive instad >//~//< ... its gona be hard nt to becom her... which lik - thads nt bad - i rlli lik her way of bein - bt lik also - i shouldn be... too close....
damn.,.,.,. especialli dis pic from the site.... yea - she lik - ..... she rlli lik me frfr.... (offlin im kindsa always switchin between extreme entertainer n alsuu sof comf conversation peep)
Phone does a bling.
omg reply from Smorty!
Heart does a massive backflip
oh shit did I say something stupid?
Comment describes me as confident
o no that's a nice way of saying I'm a stuck–up arrogant biiiitch... noooooo
And that ^^ is how confident I am. Honestly though, I understand realface isn't the norm around here, and it's only because of a personal goal to become more comfortable being seen that I do so myself. Plus every time I change it, it's because I've become so disgusted and ashamed of the last one that I just have to.
Anyway I do respect your decision to never reveal a true face, but for what it's worth, providing that picture of Ash as a reference does nothing to rebuff the insinuation that you are very cute.