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Posted: 05:50 UTC July 3, 2025

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ALLLREJOICE AO3 IS WORKING AGAIN!,!,!,!,!!!

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★ 【巴月】 「 frieren & fern 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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★ 【LUCIDSKY】 「 Remembrance 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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★ 【소녀인】 「 Himmel & Frieren 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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Resting (1886) by John William Waterhouse

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"Why am I sick all the time" was totally *normal* back in 2019, right?

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I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

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frieren

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BLEACH x Frieren: BeyondJourney's End

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The funny part of ao3 being down is that it happened only a few hours after I told support about the bookmarking issue

so either

A. The logical answer: My complaint was just one of many.

Or B

The funny answer: I have single handedly brought an entire website and it's community down to its knees 😭

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love reading the latest posts on tumblr in the ao3 tag, like everyone just screaming 'Noooooo' when the lights go out but on a global scale.

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This is when I realize how fucking dependant I am of AO3

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AO3 is down.

I had fanfiction lined up. Feelings to feel. Emotional damage to willingly walk into.

And now? I’m just sitting here.

Clueless. Unread. Dumb as hell.

What am I supposed to do?? 😭

Talk to people? Go outside??

Nah, I’m refreshing the page like a feral raccoon until it comes back. Don’t look at me.

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One of my favorite things about the fanfiction community on here is you can always tell when Ao3’s gone out.

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So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.