Ao3 Is Down Right Now.

Ao3 is down right now.

On a totally unrelated note, I've decided that I've lived a long enough life and it's time to say good bye

Thsi is a great reminder as to why we should download fics and any other piece of fanwork we enjoy because some people just cannot leave good things be

And also a reminder to all authors have a copy of all their writing saved. Just in case.

So Ao3 is being attacked now, and I've recently learned of a string of attacks on the general writing community, esp the ones present online.

I won't stop writing, but I do want anyone who may see this message to please consider what that might mean for them. In the big, long-term, but also in the smaller details.

An attack like this means people are trying to limit information and opportunities - they are not trying to protect children like they say they are. If they were, they'd encourage safety online, they may enforce rules about warnings when writing about things they say are "dangerous." This is them trying to cleanse the web of anything they see as wrong, even if it's just that they disagree with it.

It won't only affect children, and not only in their childhoods. It will affect adults online, writers who publish their works in libraries, and anybody who may want to learn about the past, or about other people.

They are burning books in the way so many have before, but because it's online, they can do so without the same public outcry, and to a much larger degree than I can recall seeing before.

The works they are trying to destroy will be gone. Not hidden - gone. The only copies you could find will be permanently purged from existence if they have their way, whatever they contain.

We all know that when a group starts burning books, they've already grown powerful. I don't think we should let them gain that power over us.

Desperate times (Ao3 being down) call for desperate measures (having to go back to Wattpad)

Zaarnael

Y'know what, it could've been worse

Find your REAL Angel name

• First two letters of your last name • First vowel of your first name • Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name • Last consonant of your last name • Add IEL or EL to the end!

Imagine Dean screaming to Taylor Swift songs when driving alone (never in front of anyone, he has a reputation to keep) and then one day Cas randomly drops by to pass on information for a case or smthg and he accidentally witnesses Dean absolutely screaming his heart out to 'Death by A Thousand Cuts' or 'Shake it off' or smthg and he just freezes for a second because Dean looks so care free and happy. but then Dean notices him and the moment's over but Cas is still so curious as to what song by which singer made Dean so happy so Cas searches up some of the lyrics he heard and thus stumbles upon Taylor Swift. Next time Cas sits in the passenger seat of the Impala he plays something like Cruel Summer (he does not give a shit about the driver picks the music rule ofc) and sings along word to word. Dean's just there with his mouth open and completely in love (he does eventually picks up his jaw from the floor and sings alongside Cas)

My favorite destiel headcanon is that Dean LOVES Taylor Swift and through him Cas gets dragged into being a Swiftie

me: I have no fear

my brain: what if AO3 stays down permanently and humanity as a whole has to go back to Wattpad?

me: I have one fear