An Ao3 appreciation post
You guys DID THE THING and I salute you for it.
As a writer, this site has given me the opportunity to expose my writing to hundreds, if not thousands of people. It's also an amazing outlet to share whatever headcannons or imagines I have of any fandom I'm obsessed with. It is Ellis Island for poc & lgbtqia+ writers who may or may not have the support of their peers, family or even a publisher but yearn to share their works with the world.
As a reader, I also enjoy the content within ao3. There's something for every person of every background and fandom. It's amazing the masterpieces that have been generated from ao3.
So I'd like to use this post as an opportunity to show my immense appreciation and gratitude to all those who've worked tirelessly these past few days to save this amazing thing. Kudos to all of you!
The Ao3 community is forever.
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This ao3 shutdown is abt to take out an entire generation 😭
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cyber attackers work hard, but ao3 volunteers work much, much harder
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No no no
Please no I have only thirteen hundred fics downloaded I Don't wanna read any of them
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fic writers being forced to actually work on their wips instead of reading others bc ao3 is still down
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Me now if it takes ao3 longer than a millisecond to load:
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Thinking of my lawyer yaoi when the Ao3 shutdown happened😞❤️💙
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when ao3 goes down and i was in the middle of a 200k amazing fic
but i remember i download it bc i was going to my grandmas and i wasnt going to have internet in the ride
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AO3 ISNT WORKING FOR ME 💀
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I mean, it's great that it's back up and everything, but I hope this Cloudflare thing is just a temporary measure because I really don't wanna have to pull out my laptop every time I wanna read fanfiction or check if a story I like was updated.
UPDATE: Looks like it's Kindle-friendly again but I'm still gonna be proceeding with caution for a while.
UPDATE 2: I lost it again. 😔
UPDATE 3: Seems like it kinda comes and goes. I can live with that, just don't lock me out permanently.
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… desperate times call for desperate measures
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MY AO3 WAS WORKING ALL THIS TIME BUT NOW IT STOPPED WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES CURSED ME
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