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Madness Combat Masterlist

AUs

IRL vs Grunts Roommate Grunts GodClown!Tricky: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Domestic: 1, 2

Stories

Madcom Hank Pov

The Light in His Life

Hanahaki Torture:1, 2

Malcom in the Middle

These Hands

Itsy Bitsy

Leave (Make sure to read TWs!!)

Mouse Trap

Soulmate au (TW Yandere)

Welcome to the Circus

Because I Love Them

Dancing Flames

Pierrot & Epilogue

Divine Meeting

Rambles & Random

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

Hcs

How Deimos lifted Hank Hc weapons Sanford Origins Hank on Painkillers

#madness combat #well this was supposed to be made months ago but I guess now is better than never I guess

holliano

I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

holliano

@krisabobbi, Loara’s full name is Loara Standish. The 1991 remaker is Joanna Harvey.

Harvey actually named a specific unique stitch from the work after Loara, The Standish Stitch which takes 13 passes of the needle to complete!

I didn’t have the magazine with me to remember full names when I posted originally.

holliano

@shieldmaidenofsherwood a great question!

Only one and it is not the best, but it is lovely regardless. I would love to have seen them printed a bit bigger!

I tried to find a bigger image but there are too many photos of women who have made their own! What a wonderful problem to have. I can’t find an original because too many people are celebrating the work of this single girl from three centuries ago :)

agreyeyedgirl

Here's information from Pilgrim Hall Museum, which has the sampler in its collection! there's a link to a pdf with additional pictures but unfortunately they're not very good. But here's a blog post from someone who made a replica with the reference images she worked from and here is a picture of the sampler on display (shared by someone on findagrave.com where you can see Loara/Lora's gravesite)

t00thpasteface

"YOU DREW THAT ONE!!! DON'T PRETEND YOU DIDN'T!"

"thats the mysterious thing about the penis codex. you can never be sure who did the dicks. was it you or me or maybe the ones who came before?"

"FUUUUUUUUCK LET GO OF ME!"

stjohnstarling

I'm in your house picking your shy, uptight man like a lock.

stjohnstarling

Like this, btw. ⬆️

stjohnstarling

@anarchafemme Congrats on being the funniest person on this post.

bugswags

Full Disclosure — Bumblebee (& Sari?)

islamprotestan-blog

...enjoying life

asslover4

Out of curiosity, where did you guys read your first fanfiction ?

Ao3

Wattpad

Fanfiction.net

Deviant art

Livejournal

Tumblr

Quotev (wtf)

It was a Twitter threadfic (ok what the actual fuck)

Other

I don't read fanfic

Voting ended onJun 10, 2025

Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

moniquill

Geocities, bitches.

skyhon

WHAT I am shocked that AO3 isn't higher what the hell??

moniquill

AO3 was founded in 2008.

It did not yet exist when many people first started reading fanfic.

I, for example, started reading fanfic online in the year 1996.

#it was either someone's fan website or ff.net #I don't remember which one came first but I do remember that I found em from watching old school shipping amvs from youtube

kaijuno

mousegirlheart

elasticitymudflap

i can never face my family again

inabasket

You ever see something so funny you bypass laughing entirely and go straight for crying?

yourownpetard

always reblog

c-bassmeow

I fucking HATE how this has almost one million notes and ive NEVER seen this. I have missed out on life. This was the best study break video I have ever seen. I’m dying. I most def sharted.

onlyblackgirl

I never know which version I’m going to get when I see this video.

mauxanhduong

[Description: a video of an elephant shrew. the documentary narrator says, “Take a closer look at that snout!” The video is then cut and edited so that it looks like it’s singing the end part of Phantom of the Opera. End description.]