#archive down for maintenance

[fortjester]

this is what i become when i have no ready access to fanfiction smh

[melanthiosthescreamer]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

AO3 staff: Hey the site's gonna be down for a while starting at this specific time, just a heads up

AO3 users: ok

AO3: goes down at the scheduled time

AO3 users:

[themo-themo]

i am calm, thriving and not bothered at all.

[eddiediazismyhusband]

hour 5 of ao3 being down… i have resorted to actually writing in my notes app for my nightly phone time rather than reading… the situation is getting dire, and i don’t know how much longer i will be able to survive this famine

if you are reading this it may be too late; i may have already succumbed to the lack of sustenance- in that case, i say stay strong my fellow soldiers… you will get through this plight

[crispyliza]

The one benefit about ao3 being down is that it forces authors to focus on writing their own fics instead of procrastinating by reading others.

So everyone, be ready for mass updates tomorrow 👍

[alphashley14]

[scaredpumpkins]

Me waiting for the end of ao3 maintenance

[mamba052]

I feel a little bad for the AO3 volounters, trying to keep bbygirl up and kicking for the last few days. Friendly reminder for everyone to thank the people taking care of ao3 and making sure we get our serotonin back whenever ao3 decides to crash. They're doing the fandoms big favours. ❤️

[sketchyface]

In one hour my husband (AO3) will leave for the war (maintenance) and I don’t know if he’ll return alive (it will be back up in 10 hours)

[uncomfortableshoelace]

I think what is really funny about AO3 getting issues, is that every single time it doesn't hit me until a day or so later.

So I am currently waiting for my life to be ruined.

It's brewing.

[rosegoldenatlas]

When your bedtime story website goes down so you have to go to bed at a decent time in hopes that when you wake up in the morning she will return to you with open arms, giving you all of those tabs full of multi-chapter fics that refreshed when she left you.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

longest 10 hours of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ao3 is down for maintenance)

[fionajames]

FUCK

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE

IT MAY ONLY BE AN HOUR

BUT THAT IS AN HOUR OF AO3 NONETHELESS

[estrellami-1]

I forgot ao3 was gonna go down for maintenance… what am I supposed to do now?? Write???