Please Read This Important Message And Do NOT Ignore It ‼️‼️

ao3 my darling, I yearn for you as moth to match. (Wattpad is earth shatteringly bad and I feel as if a traitor)

ao3 I miss u babes it's like I can still see a 30k word fanfic when I close my eyes

ao3 being down is like purgatory for people who spend their day getting high and writing randomized fanfics based on the ao3 tag generator.

Taylor is dating Travis proof: she talks about him freely, they go on vacations, she openly posts him on social media, everyone they meet talks about how in love they are

Taylor is dating Karlie proof: Karlie named an ice cream flavor after an ancient civilization that was destroyed by a volcano and this blog I follow posts cryptic anons from someone who uses a volcano emoji

Guys you don’t have to do this to yourselves. Please let me help get you out of the Kaylor world 🩷

Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

glee versions slayed idc what y’all say 🙏

them: abby's physique would be impossible to obtain in a post-apocalyptic environment and without the help of steroids. if you like her body, it's because you're too stupid to understand that women don't build muscle like that naturally

me, an intellectual: vaudeville performers and strongwomen from the late 1800s and early 1900s

hey, pssst. ride the cyclone fans.

you totally shouldn’t click on this link because it totally won’t take you to a google drive folder which totally doesn’t have a full copy of the 2016 production of Ride The Cyclone which definitely isn’t in full 1080p

because that would just be terrible