*taps mic* STEVE HARRINGTON IS NOT STUPID.
Thank you for your time.
Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.
Go, my chaos gremlins! FLY, MY PRETTIES!
Strap from a lesbian who is going to tell you that they're gonna breed you and get you pregnant and they fuck you like they're trying to put a baby in you!
I don’t know how to say this in a non-obsessed way, but I need the ao3 status updates to be beamed straight into my head whenever the archive goes down. I need that shit announced like we’re in a plane attempting to make a risky landing. Oh we’re down for another 20 minutes because of a server in the Pacific? Sure, thanks. I’ll just wait here.
all ao3 jokes aside, let’s all give thanks to the wonderful volunteers that are working hard to get the site back up and running so that homebodies like us don’t become stir crazy.
kinda want to be used as a stress reliever. let me be a good girl for you while you use me however you want and as rough as you want. once you feel better, we can cuddle in bed and exchange soft kisses.
men and minors dni
i can’t stop thinking about a woman absolutely ruining my pussy with her biggest, thickest strap.. sliding it in inch by inch as she strokes my hair and whispers in my ear about how good i am for taking her so well. i want to feel her stretching me out, making me whimper because it’s “so big, i can’t take it all” only for her to shush me and push it in to the hilt, pounding me until my eyes roll back and all i can think about is being owned by her
"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.
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Voters: Okay.
Voters, later: Oh, no, the house is on fire!
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Voters: Whatever! Do it!
Voters, later: Ew, the house smells like smoke!
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Firefighter: Don't! He will literally set your house on fire again. He brought a whole crew with matches and cans of gasoline with him.
Voters: I'm pretty sure those are paint cans.
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Voters: Get out, I'm gonna let the previous guy in.