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Published: 2007-10-20 23:14:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 8088; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 153
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Part of Liliy's "Shout it Out" project. Every word of this guaranteed 100% true. (Beware: full-view size somewhat large.)This pretty much lists everything I don't usually let other people know about me, whether for shame, pride, or other reason of possible rejection. Wanna know what this is all about? Here's Liliy's journal explaining the project: [link]
Here's her deviation that started it all [Edit3-- and earned her a well-deserved Daily Deviation]: [link]
[Edit 5 [Edit--This project has gotten huge. The second page of Shouts in Liliy's Journal: [link] ]
[Edit2-- The third page of Shouts in Liliy's Journal: [link] ]
[Edit4-- The likely fourth page of Shouts: [link] ] All SIOs now included in the group accessed through badge at right.]
It actually does feel somewhat good, if somewhat nerve-wracking, to get this off my shoulders. Now it's up to you whether this puts you off of me.
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Thanks! *liliy definitely had an excellent idea.
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instead of hurting my neck i did the stupid route off flipping my laptop upside down as i go. My dad almost freaked when he saw me
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Whoops. Well, better a computer bill than a chiropractor's bill, if one has to arrive. And it's not like the liquid crystal in an LCD display actually flows anywhere.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my SIO. That was very kind of you.
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wowzuhh.
"Math, robots, and cyborgs turn me on."
o: geek.
And now my neck and eyes hurt ALL BECAUSE OF YOU.
(...and because I'm so nosy that i have to know your deep, dark secrets 
You've re-inspired me to continue on the SIO I started working on in '07.
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*Chuckles.* Yup. Me=geek. My thesis will prove it to the world! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Y'know, people seem to do that with my SIO. *Scratches head.* There was one guy who downloaded it into Photoshop so he could turn it as he read, but he proceeded to keep it right side up. *Sighs.* Sorry it hurt your neck. *Hands you a warm cloth.* That should help. And thanks for not disliking me for my admissions.
Good for you! Keep working on it-- even if you decide never to post it, it's a cathartic and therapeutic activity. Just remember: an SIO is designed as a brag space, not just a confession. Liliy says that people seem to be forgetting that part of it.
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nu. D: you're supposed to deny it. And I'll keep calling you a geek until you finally surrender.
That's the RULE.
haha. that guy is confusing. 
..you're religious?
haha. okay.
I think Ineed to start over from scratch, because not much of it still applies.
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I am honored that you think so, but sorry that the fact dismays you. If it helps, I think you are a far better animal artist that I ever will be, and you seem to have a much more optimistic outlook on life.
Are you starting to read through =liliy 's "Shout It Out" Project?
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Aww thank you, but, yeah, maybe I look like a optimistic and all that, but mostly it is just the way I laugh at every single thing, but I am more kind of a shy person that likes to think a lot of negative stuff about herself. And I have that strange obsession with blood
Well, I found this deviation because I was bored so I was going around the project, and it kind of caught my eye. Must be because of the letters
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Thinking negative stuff about yourself is probably something you'll outgrow-- most people do, at least. And there's nothing wrong with being shy. Personally, I think shy people are more interesting-- they/we are closed books that people have to tease open to get a look at the story, and there tends to be an awful lot to their/our personalities because of it.
^_^ Thank you for taking the time to stop and read my SIO, then. Have you done/are you doing one, yourself?
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Well, yeah, probably it will fade out together with my puberty
And you know, this is the first time I heard that way of view from someone, and it makes us shy people sound very cool LOL xD
And you welcome, it was a pleasure
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My eyes are hurting.
Concentrating on reading upside down is hard!
What's weird is a lot of things on this apply to me...
'Grats on having the guts to be honest. I don't know if I could do the same.
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Oh, no! Don't strain your eyes! (Where's a carrot emoticon when one needs it?)
Thanks for taking the time to read this through. It was very hard to do and even harder to post before, but then it turned into a relief. Now it's a "This is me, take it or leave it" thing, and no-one's reacted badly yet.
Are you browsing through =liliy 's SIO project? It's incredible how many different formats people have put their shouts into.
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Teehee, I only just found that yesterday.
You're very welcome, I really respect people who are able to do that, and you have the right to have it read.
You know, I've found that most people won't when you do that. I'm a little scared though, because my friends are rather shallow, and wouldn't appreciate it if I were to tell them everything. And I've got one year of school left and don't want to spoil it with petty arguments.
I am actually browsing through that, and I've really liked it.
It really is rather incredible.
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That's probably a wise choice, then. Many people have been in that sort of situation, so they made a private SIO just to figure out what their prides and grievances were for themselves.
Ooh! Ooh! That's an incredibly useful plz account! Thanks for pointing me to it.
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Yes, shallow friends are just there to talk to when you get sick of being on your own, it seems.
I can't make a private one, unfortunately. I have a shared computer with my family, and they're sticky beaks and have probably read everything I have on here.
And I share a room with my sister, who searches the room when I'm not there. Seriously.
So looks like I'll be bottling it up. :/
Haha, I know what you mean!
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Bottling up is probably part of what makes some of your poetry so appealing. What is that saying? "One must suffer for one's art"?
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Yes, acquaintances are much easier to talk to than shallow friends, I find...
I'm generally very shy, but on occasion I find my self rambling on about some incredible book I've been reading to some woman who's just sitting next to me on the bus. It's a mad world.
Naww, shucks. 
I wouldn't always say that bottling it up is the right thing to do, but often for me, it's just easier.
And well hey, if my writing benefits, I'm okay with that!
I hear that artist (I'm including writers and everything in that) often feel things differently too... Hmmm.
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I understand where you're coming from completely, being far from outgoing myself. It seems to me that characteristic of being willing to start long discussions with acquaintances must be distinct to Australian and American cultures. Nowhere else have I found people so self-revisionist that friendliness to a near stranger is a veritable relief because it doesn't bring with it the chance of building any sort of history/reputation. What do you think about it all?
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Is that really true?
So the British don't just talk to people they don't know?
Hmmm. I actually love that I can walk down the street and just talk to people I find in shops. It just makes me happy, and I don't feel obliged to talk to them any more after I've walked out of the shop.
I wouldn't know about anywhere else though, I haven't actually been outside of Australia.
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I've never known the British to talk to people they don't know unless addressed first. But that could have changed-- I haven't spent more than a two week span there in eleven years. While I was there, though, one got politeness but some of the weirdest looks if one started talking to a stranger in the Post Office queue.
There is a certain liberty to it, isn't there?
I don't blame you for never having been outside of Australia. If I couldn't live permanently where I am, your country is at the top of the list of other places I would try to live. Beautiful place, excellent culture, and a high density of sensible people.
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You know, when I go travelling, I think I'm going to talk to as many strangers as possible!
I really love Australia. There is a fair amount of losers, but it is SO few, compared to the lovely people that live here. And it's wonderful.
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Go for it! You can write a travelogue afterward and loads of people would find it really interesting.
Your sentiment about Australia is completely understood. Believe it or not, I feel exactly the same way about America. It's nice to be able to love one's country.
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Oh, I might! I think it's the one thing I'm looking forward to about getting older - I can travel! <3
Even if I don't let other people read it, it would be great to be able to read it when I get older.
It really is nice to be able to love one's country.
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One of my parents had the same dream: when she became self-sufficient, she was going to travel. And she did! I hope you get to do so, as well, because it's easily one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
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Yes, I really hope so too.
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Holy schneckies, are you me?
I swear AT LEAST 25% of those could belong to me.
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Oh gosh! *Checks identity.* No, I think we're safely not each other. I distinctly remember myself watching swimming when you posted that comment. 
I hope it's the 25% that could be nominally called good traits... 
Have you checked out the rest of =liliy 's "Shout It Out" project? I think she's up to something like fourteen pages of these things, now, and some of them are really fantastic.
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it's brilliant
I've really been getting into the idea of the "Shout it out" boards over the last couple of days, and i'm just having a poke about to see what everyone's done for theirs
i really like the set-up for yours, it must have taken ages to do all that twisty writing! It's such a good idea though, i really like it a lot
i really like this, well done
xxx
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Why, thank you! That's very kind of you to say.
Definitely do try one of the SIOs-- though initially terrifying, it feels very liberating at the end. One thing I have to recommend, though, having looked at a very large number of them myself, is do remember to put good things in as well. Too many of the makers of SIOs put themselves down without including a few boasts, so it doesn't turn into a very balanced activity, unlike what *liliy recommends in her journal. I'll look forward to seeing how yours turns out, if you post it.
With the program I use, the twisty writing wasn't too terribly difficult. All I did was create an open polygon, pull the lines into curves, and set the cursor to run along the polygon's outline. If you want to try it yourself, I think they retained the necessary features in the newer versions of XARA, and it might be possible in Inkscape or Illustrator. But I don't think it can be done in raster-based programs like Photoshop, given that I haven't seen a digital SIO that looks quite like mine.
Thanks for the comment about the figure!
Good luck with yours!
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i've got almost all of mine done now.. it's a bit longer than i expected, because i kept thinking of extra things to add to it. i did it by hand on note paper, with little doodles and stuff.. some bits might be a bit hard to read, but it adds to it, because it's some of the more secret things that are the most difficult to read. It was quite hard to write some of the stuff on it, but i do feel better now that i have.
I've definately put some posative things in there, even if some of them are a bit random.
i'll upload it as soon as it's done.. should be pretty soon, i've only got a little bit left to do now, and then i've got to scan it and edit all the pages into one big one.
I use photoshop for my digital art, so i wouldn't be able to create text like that without a lot of trouble. It is very fitting for this kind of project though, and it certainly tested my up-side down reading skills!
I understand completely about the figure's feeling now, that's how i felt too!
xxx
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I think this deserves my 
Firstly, I think it takes a lot of guts to admit things such as that, and I think it is very beneficial to people when they do.
Secondly, talking and writing are good. It helps everyone to get to know one another better
Thirdly, I respect the time it must have taken you to make the text like that 
Lastly, anyone that is willing to use more than 10 different fonts is fine by me lol
Perhaps I will try to do something similar some time ...
I only wish my good deeds project would catch on.
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Thank you! You are so very kind.
Everyone who took part in the project, and indeed is still taking part in the project (Liliy adds new pages almost every two weeks), summoned a lot of courage in publishing Shouts. There are ten pages of them, as I type this. Some turned into celebrations, some tore their confessors to pieces, but just about all ended by giving their owners some ease. In that spirit, you have my deepest gratitude for having read through it and chosen not to reject or criticize me for any of my confessions. Add that to your good deeds, because such support/acceptance means more to most SIO participants than you could possibly know without publishing one yourself.
True, everyone getting to know each other better is a good thing. According to Liliy that wasn't the aim of the project, but it was a secondary benefit.
Regarding the shape of the text, it was actually pretty easy. I'm not certain what your favorite graphics program is, but my guess is that it's raster-based. Mine (CorelXARA, progenitor of the XARA programs) is vector-based. All I had to do was insert a couple of hundred vertices, tug a few line segments into curves, then type onto the resultant line. Entirely mathematical, and entirely simple. That process took (maybe) two hours. The difficult part was nerving myself enough to write what I wrote. But I'm very glad you had fun reading it that way, though. ^_^ I think it weirded some people out, because I haven't seen any other Shouts that replicate the effect digitally.
Fonts! Hurrah for fonts! I think I used a couple of the fun ones, like Eraser Dust and Creepy in this.
Don't worry-- your good deeds project is catching on. It's just that some of us don't trust our journals enough to write about it.
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Don't worry, I'll add that as a good deed right now
201 - I read and considered *CageyJay's confessions without feeling the need to criticize him and accepted them. These confessions where made in response to the 'Shout it Out' project and I support its cause.
Then at the end of the journal I will mention the project with a link to Liliy's page and a link to your SIO deviation if you do not mind.
Well, I use Photoshop C2 that can use vectors, and also rasterize them if needed.
I might do a SIO deviation of my own, we shall see. Perhaps when I have finished my exams
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Go for it.
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Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.
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This is really great. My Feedback: Keep it going! you're amazing.
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Wow. Thanks! I really appreciate the vote of confidence.
Do you mean I should add more to this?
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Wow....I love this! You're very brave to put all of this out there. I would not be able to do this myself. I love reading about others' quirks...even though I won't post my own. I think the twisty-turny composition is a perfect fit for this, because it adds to the chaotic feel of random, possibly uncomfortable thoughts, and the figure at the bottom sums it up with an image that complements it all. I think a lot of people identify with many of these 'SIO's- I especially like the 'without a deadline I'm too lazy..." lol.
Here's a lazy confession of my own: I took more time to download and then open this in photoshop than to just read it in the window because I was too lazy to read upside down. And then I was too lazy to keep hitting 'rotate canvas' so I ended up just craning my head.
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Thank you!
You have my utmost gratitude for going through it all and still not rejecting me. Since you really did read the upside down stuff, you know everything that most ashames me or would create the most controversy. Strangely, the composition was something I never thought about twice (writing on curved lines is second-nature in CorelXARA), but apparently most graphical programs cannot create this effect. Weird, no?
*Chuckles@your confession.* That works. ^_^ Some people downloaded it, printed it out, and still didn't turn it around to read. Thank you very much for taking the time to read, comment, and "fave."
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No problem. In the grand scheme of things, your confessions are really not that bad.
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nice one! i especially relate to the "i pretend i dont notice as much as i do", its so true! i just dont know why i do it
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Really? You too? I'm glad I'm not alone on that one. ^_^ It might have something to do with courtesy, or it could be a self-defense tactic, but I'm not certain why I do it, either.
And thank you for the compliment!
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ive theorized that maybe its cause i feel that i have the upper hand if people are unaware of how much i really know or saw, so i guess that counts as a "self defense tactic" as youve mentioned.
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Yeah, that sounds like a self defense tactic. One has extra tools to line one's mental toolbox, not to mention that those who don't watch carefully will probably underestimate oneself.
Have you done one of the Shouts?
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have i made my own Shout it Out? yea [link]
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