#i was a kid making geocities sites in the late 90s early 00s

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I know what this post advocates for is not a solution to the issues AO3 has which I do believe should be worked on, BUT I am fully in agreement with more archives being made available:

Single points of failure are not good for anything. And honestly, growing up this is how I read fics. I read on show fansites, sites for particular pairings, and author websites (my fave Due South authors had their own). The first archive I encountered pre-Fanfiction.net was the Gossamer Archive which housed X-Files fic. I miss this because it often fostered a specific community and it was just fun to discover new things.