#Archiveofourown

[mastercherry]

Y'all it matters what you say to kids. I'm 31 years old, trying to write something, but I'm still thinking about when my 10th grade English/Literature told me I shouldn't write about werewolves because they don't exist and I should only write about what I know about.

All because I was talking to my friends about trying to name my main werewolf character in something I was trying write.

To this day, I can see him sitting behind his desk telling me how he wrote a book about baseball cuz he played baseball.

So, like, be careful. Please.

[lupamoe]

how mfs be doing during an ao3 crash

(im mfers)

[tegantales]

I watch Violet’s Uber pull away.

Fuck.

Touching her was a bad idea.

Chapter 5 of One Manhattan, my fic with @saranova is live.

[sagegarnish]

🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

[dyke-ass-fujoshi]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[ao3org]

A couple of our servers have gotten a bit overwhelmed, so we're taking some down time to give them a chance to catch up. We'll be back as soon as possible!

2024-09-02 11:30 UTC

[killerqueen-ofwillowgreen]

Ao3: logs me out

Me, totally calm:

[myfandomrealitea]

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

[neon-junkie]

always told myself that i’ll be that bride who posts a new chapter to AO3 on her wedding day. i will make it happen. i wanna be sitting there on my laptop, ready to walk the isle, but be like “hold up, i just need to post this final draft!”

[gasbossgatelightgirlkeep]

is there some way to block someone on ao3? asking for me

[13personalities]

My partner in crime (ao3) has been drafted back to the war (is having problems) and came back to me with amnesia (keeps logging me out several times a day)

[mastercherry]

Reading the raunchiest, dirtiest, smuttiest, smut on the planet in public, me: 😐

Reading a single, small, tiny, miniscule, itty-bitty hint of fluff in public, me: ☺️🥰😆😝🤩🫡🥰🥹🥺😭😱🤓💖🙈🙉🙊💥💯🤌👌🙌🫶🤲☠️🤡😆😆😆🤩🤩😘😍🥰

[azuremist]

I’m seeing a lot of stress from Americans about AO3 being down! If that’s the case for you, gentle reader, then may I advise you to take action against KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)?

This act threatens to allow the government to censor what they decide what they deem “obscene content” online. Given Rupublicans’ very recent history of deeming all LGBT+ content of any type “too obscene for kids”, this can very possibly result in restricting access to any sort of queer resources and queer content online, for the sake of ‘protecting kids’. Which includes your favorite gay fanfics!

For more information, and a very easy way to contact your representatives, click HERE!

[thingsaday]

Obsessed with this Be More Chill fic, "Only One Is Mine", ever since I found it a few months ago... PLEASE go give this author some love it's such an amazing story!

[Click for proper quality]

[the-final-sif]

A03 is Back, and Please Do Not Blindly Spread The Claim That A Group Called "Anonymous Sudan" Is Behind This

A03 is back online, and that's great! However, there are posts going around right now blindly saying that a group called "Anonymous Sudan" is behind the attack and repeating the group's stated goals. As A03 has already said, there is good reason to doubt that this group is being honest about it's political motivations and affiliations. We don't know the whole story yet, but it's quite possible that the group is attempting to intentionally stoke islamophobia.

Please do not blindingly spread posts repeating the group's motivation, and be extremely wary of islamophobic statements that might be coming across your dash. More information will come out in time as security experts are able to do their job and trace down the group in question.