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we need ao3 back up for this person’s grandma specifically
Grandma needs to come hang out, the Austen fandom is thriving on here. Or maybe that's just my little microcosm of Austen fanatics.
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As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh
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.
For those unaware, AO3 is being DDOS’d right now by a k-mart knock off of anonymous, because they’re a) targeting American based IP’s and b) directly quoted as being “against all forms of degeneracy and the site is full of disgusting smuts and LGBTQ+ and other NSFW things”.
It’s important to note that a DDOS attack is basically an online traffic jam, where a server is flooded with so much traffic that a site becomes unavailable for the duration of the attack. It’s typically not used to breach data, though DDOS attacks usually need a breached device to operate. So RIP to whoever’s computer is currently being used to route the attack.
DDOS attacks are mainly used to make a company or entity lose money by making their site unavailable to clients, which, like… do y’all KNOW anything about AO3? Or??
Long story short, until further notice no one is going to necessarily be doxxed for the smut that they’ve published.
As an aside, if anyone has some depraved smut that’s been rotting away unpublished… well it would just be such a shame if you were to post it once the site is back up, now wouldn’t it.





