#ao3 down ????

[darkchemistryfanboy]

me, seeing the warning: i've never met you in my life. you bastard. you fiend. stop this at once.

me, when ao3 is down: Where Is My Fics From Mommy??? Where Is My Fluffs And Whumps That I Crave So Dearly. You Are A Cruel And Unjust Mother And I Am Going To Scream

everytime ao3 goes down for maintenance, i somehow forget that i was given warning literally days in advance and my brain immediately starts stressing about our modern day Library of Alexandria

[charlottesolstice]

Homura was so pissed off by ao3 being down that she decided to take her fanfictions to another level

[acidxcatx-x]

Why must this happen

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

people all collectively coming to tumblr to see if ao3 is down for other people too or if it’s just them and their wifi is so poetically nostalgic when you think about it, because in some way, it’s the equivalent of those times in the past when you’re a kid and visiting your grandparents’ home and there’s a blackout and so you just walk outside of the house to see if your neighbors experience the same thing too. the ao3 is just. like. a modern version of that

[seperhim]

*sigh* guess we have to do this then

[the-ethernal-daydreamer]

My husband (ao3) has gone to war (it's down and we don't know why) and I don't know when I will see him again (I don't really know guys 😭😭)

[excarow]

Everytime ao3 is down I'm reminded of two things:

One is that humans have and always will love telling stories, and they will continue to do so even if there is no benefit to telling these stories, but simply because we love creating things

The other is that a concerning amount of us use fanfiction as an extreme form of escapism that we can't function without and we should probably look into that

[miusmusings]

Ao3 my love what is happening to you who is hurting you beloved tell me and ill go stab them and ease your pain my love

[bebx]

I don’t need therapy. I need my husband (archive of our own) to return from war (the server is currently down) and come home to his devoted wife (an ao3 user who was in the middle of reading a gay sex scene). it’s been almost two years (20 minutes) since he (ao3) has been taken from me

[sophszzz]

And here we see the sad queer in their natural habitat, crawling pathetically back to tumblr the minute ao3 goes down to check the tag

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Saw this on Reddit: ORIGINAL POST

[cardboardboxfly]

✅ Clicked “next chapter”

✅ Chapter took longer than usual to load

✅ Immediately opened tumblr

✅ Sees ao3 is down

[thief-of-eggs]

everyone heading to tumblr as soon as they get the “error 503” message from ao3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

not when I was reading this mlm enemies to lovers fic where these two idiots are finally about to have sex after 99k words of them trying to kill each other and making each other bleed and yearning for each other and fighting off sexual tension oh my god????

[leejungjaes]

we forgive you

come back