#ok stop this isn't an IZ character analysis post

[gay-ppl-real]

Random bit of silly advice

When you go to tell a joke about yourself, make it overly, ridiculously, complimentary rather than self deprecating

I cannot tell you how much my general wellbeing (and how I come off to others) has improved since I switched it up, stopped saying stuff like, "why would you want to talk to me? I suck lol," and started saying, "YES it is ME the wonderful Innis. Of course you want to talk to me, I'm amazing!"

It can be sarcastic. When I started switching over to saying good things about myself, it was 100% sarcastic. You can slap a little /sj on the end of that bad boy and know that you don't really believe it and the idea of genuinely saying something like that about yourself makes you cringe, the important thing is that you put a little more positivity and fun into your world rather than more meanness.

I'm still my own biggest critic, too! It's just in a much less mean, sad way, now.

When you insult yourself, you internalise that acknowledging your flaws is the same as being all those nasty labels: bad, mean, loser, stupid, unimportant, unlikeable. Sod that! Pretending you're an amazing all powerful deity of perfection in all the silliest of ways is what I wanna see more of in 2024