▲ 177 r/bristol

To the guy dressed as a viking outside the Volly tonight

When I fell off the back of my bench and hit my back on your seat, and as I sat in shock and you lifted me up by the armpits, I felt I had achieved a warrior's death and been rebirthed in Valhalla.

You positioned me back on my seat with all the gentleness of Freyja blessing her kin.

Skål, my friend, skål.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 2 days ago

I just renamed my prog metal sex playlist to "fuck me djently"

Hoping the next guy lucky enough to hear it gets the joke

EDIT: Very interesting stereotypes about prog fans here considering that at least two people here thought I was a gay man before they thought I was a woman.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 3 days ago

I actually might never want a relationship again

For almost all of my life I was a serial monogamist. I'm 32 and I've been in about 4 long-term relationships. I didn't know how to function alone.

Then I got therapy, and worked hard on healing and learning how to feel comfortable being solo.

Now, I've been single for almost a year and the idea of being in a relationship is so unappealing to me.

I love having my own space, I love dating myself, I love the mental real estate you save by not worrying about what some guy wants or needs. I get to focus entirely on myself. I am surrounded by people I love and who love me - my family, my large friendship group, myself.

I'm the very casual secondary in an ENM relationship, where the guy I'm seeing is happily engaged to his fiancée. So I get to have sex when I want it - honestly, physical touch and sex are the only things I can't give myself single so that meets my needs - and then he gets to go back and his fiancée can give him everything else, and I can go back to living my own full life.

I have everything I need. I don't know if I'll ever want anything more, and that amazes me.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 7 days ago
▲ 147 r/tattoos

First ever tattoo after trying to pluck up the courage for 2 years! Done by Jamie @ Custom Ink Tattooing Cambridge UK

I am over the moon with it! My friends practically pushed me into the shop and I am so grateful to them for being there for me to get it done.

Also the pain was fine and I was kinda into it... 👀

Already thinking about what I wanna have done for my next one!!

u/izzy-springbolt — 29 days ago

What is this that's lighting up the sky?

Around midnight tonight. Was happening every 30 seconds or so (not on a rhythm).

This is looking south east from the centre, towards Victoria Park and beyond.

Lightning maps don't show any lighting in Bristol, though there is lots around Salisbury, which is in that direction. I'd be surprised I could see as far as that though.

UPDATE: After filming another few flashes (with a mix of sheet and fork lighting), and reviewing the lighting map again, it's definitely the lightning happening over Warminster right now. Very cool!

u/izzy-springbolt — 1 month ago

Dreamt The Road to Sunya tour was just Casey doing a pub quiz

Everyone there for the gig was sat around a big table.

Casey handed out little squares of paper and our first task was to be the first to assemble them into the Antimai logo.

Then we had a quiz themed on North American EP.

  • One of the questions was "Magic tuna, magic cheese, ...?" ("Magic Beans").
  • Another one was "What goes up but doesn't come back down?" ("Shlammin Salmon")
  • The tiebreaker was "What was the last year Casey performed on his birthday?" No one got it.

And at the end when I asked Casey to sign something I started talking about Act 3 and I saw him immediately lose interest.

Was a fun night!

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u/izzy-springbolt — 1 month ago

Be Prog! My Friend festival

Hi! I will be coming to Barcelona for the first time in September to the Be Prog! My Friend festival!

Has anyone been, and what's it like? My first guess is, as it's a prog festival, it's going to be full of cool, chill nerds.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 1 month ago

Be Prog! My Friend festival

Hi! I will be coming to Barcelona for the first time in September to the Be Prog! My Friend festival!

Has anyone been, and what's it like? My first guess is, as it's a prog festival, it's going to be full of cool, chill nerds.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 1 month ago
▲ 22 r/bristol

Chesty cough thing?

Has anyone else had the symptoms I'm having this week? Kind of bizarre, not had it before.

  • I feel basically fine
  • Except I have a chesty cough
  • Weird gross throat (the kind that when you swallow you think "oh I've got a cold coming" -- but for a whole week)
  • Maaaaybe slightly tired and slightly chilly?

Usually when I have the weird throat and the chesty cough I also feel rough as hell but I don't. I don't even know if this is a non-contagious thing and maybe I've just breathed in something strange.

It's like a cold that doesn't want to be a cold, or like an illness where my immune system hasn't kicked in to full Inflammation Mode yet.

If anyone says "Hanta virus" haha you're hilarious so funny, maybe you should consider a career in comedy.

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u/izzy-springbolt — 2 months ago

Musixmatch incorrectly credits the writers of Blood

I looked up these artists and apparently they're in a band called The Dears 😂 Thanks AI

(The AI song 'Meaning' doesn't have any awareness of the Acts narrative either.)

u/izzy-springbolt — 2 months ago