If you know me, you know I have a favourite podcast and a favourite band. It was only a matter of time before I combined them. (Guess where my URL comes from…) Join me in following They Might Be Giants as they sing us through the Magnus Archives universe, one fear at a time. 

This playlist is meant to be played in order. Songs are organized by fear, with a tape click sound effect separating each section. You can shuffle if you want but you’re going to be hearing that click a lot.

Flashing Images CW: Since this is on Youtube, a lot of the songs have music videos attached, and some of those videos have rapidly flashing images. If you are photosensitive, I recommend listening in a minimized tab. Specific videos to avoid include: I’ve Been Seeing Things, With the Dark, Apophenia, Am I Awake?, Unpronounceable, Ana Ng, Erase, Black Ops

Also general CW for pretty much all the typical TMA stuff. This includes descriptions of: death, violence, murder, insects and spiders, paranoia, delusions and unreality, manipulation and control, and body horror. 

The reason Terry Jones was the sexiest Python of them all:

Terry Jones: I'm gonna co-write and co-direct a parody of the Arthurian legends that features about every Medieval stereotype in existence

Also Terry Jones: listen up you, fuckwits, let me tell you in 8 episodes of brilliant television why Medieval times were actually fascinating and filled with color and culture and not just a dirty miserable shithole as it's so often portrayed in media and also Renaissance stans can suck my towering Gothic spire.

it's been a while since I last posted something silly uh

i found this on twitter and it’s a lot to process

Terry and Mike…..Forever Friends

I met someone at the dog show

She was holding my left arm. But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant. We both said, “I really love you.” The Shriners loaned us cars. We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times.

Why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? These things happen to other people. They don’t happen at all, in fact.

When you’re following an angel. Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?

Somewhere they’re meeting on a pinhead. Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things.

I heard they had a space program. When they sing you can’t hear, there’s no air. Sometimes I think I kind of like that and other times I think I’m already there.

Gonna ask for my admission. Gonna speak to the man in charge

The secretary says he’s on another line, can I hold for a long, long time?

I found out she’s an angel

I don’t think she knows I know

I’m worried that something might happen to me

If anyone ever finds out

(??)

Why, why did they send her over anyone else?

How should I react? These things happen to other people

They don’t happen at all

When you’re following an angel

Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?

Somewhere they’re meeting on a pinhead

Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things

Victories to celebrate.

I'm honestly proud that my home state- known for being in the bottom 5 in the nation for education, and for being pretty much up Tr*mp's butt (out governor invited him to hold a freaking rally in the midst of a freaking pandemic ffs)- elected a non-binary individual to it's state senate. I will be following their career with great interest.

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

I had no idea he put this much thought into this wow

I wonder why we dont hear about this…

Mr. T’s raw power vaporizing the guy in the last gif

In this house, we respect Mr. Terrance Hayes.

For the last time…

BONZOS AT JAZZ BILZEN

Just so you know, you can watch the ramshackle thing here and my ridiculous fanart is here. ^_^

A wonderful song called Pure Mystery sung by John Pertwee. Sounds like a solo Viv Stanshall track. Just brilliant.

The TMBG/Weird Al collaboration would, in fact, be off the chainhook.

Pumpkin Roll

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Is this how you roll?

Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!

I don’t generally reblog ‘fitness’ stuff but gaddamn could I use some more arm strength.

Push-ups are my worst nightmare. I can only do 44 before I pass out on the floor.

“I can only do 44” hahaha omg I can’t even do one.

yes good

I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go “all-or-none” and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif.  Then they’d fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|

Knee-pushups is not square-one.

When I got my first personal trainer, she had me doing push ups almost standing upright in the weight lifting bars so that I could do 15 reps and 3 sets of them. It’s more about the technique of the push up, and if you’re pushing too much weight, you can’t exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important tto know cause of that.

I was introduced to the knee push-up last year and it was such a fucking game changer. I had NO idea it was possible to work those same muscles just with a slight variation in position. 

I wanna just verify that these are excellent for building strength, both as someone who took weights class in high school with a good teacher, and as someone who’s had a lifetime of physical therapy (not for my arms specifically, but I’ve spent a lot of time in sports medicine centers). And again, if the vertical one in the first gif is difficult, you don’t even have to lean into it like that. Start standing, and only lean as much as it takes you to lower towards the wall.

And remember, many exercises can be modified in this way! I did an image search for “modified pull up” and got exactly what I was looking for right away, which is this:

Doing pull ups on a lower bar, or from the straps with handles that gyms sometimes have (called the TRX - they can also be used to support yourself during squats and some balance exercises) is a lot easier than jumping straight into vertical pullups, and lets you build up that muscle with exercises that are still comfortable and safe for you, so you can do more sets of more reps.

As a general rule, always start with lower-strain exercises and practice good form before you work your way up. You don’t want to have to unlearn bad habits that could lead to injury later as the difficulty increases.

@imfemalewarrior I’m assuming you’ve seen this post but in case you haven’t—it seems like your kind of thing

Here are push up and pull up progressions! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

Because I have serious issues with core strength and cannot do a sit up or a crunch without using muscles I shouldn’t and hurting myself, I looked up core exercises for beginners (because modified sit ups just have me ways to make it harder), and here’s what I found.

All from here, which also includes sit ups with the idea that you start up and don’t go all the way down.

This stuff on the bottom is some of the stuff I do for physical therapy, can vouch for it

Here are some things that can be done at home (anywhere you can lie down horizontally comfortably with scrunching up). 

Planks are also good; start with 5-10 seconds and increase from there by 5-10 seconds as it gets easier to hold for that long. 

-FemaleWarrior 

I need to also say these are really useful for people with chronic pain/injury issues, too?? Like, I don’t know if I”ll ever be able to do a full push-up because of my back issues, but these modified ones look doable. Same with sit-ups–those are a BIG no no for people with messed up backs, in a lot of cases, but I really need to be able to strengthen my core and these modified core strength exercises look doable! (Some of them at least). 

This is great!!!

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And now we know who’s a good boy.

(It’s Jack.)