My lovely readers, the past week has been a trying time for me because there. Is. No. AO3!! The travesty! The horror! The agony!
For all the readers that are not fans or know what AO3 means, it stands for Archive Of Our Own and it is the best website for quality fanfic. It’s a free website made by volunteer fans for the fans, showing there is good people in the world. When you are a person who looks at characters in a TV show or videogame and think “Aww these characters are so in love!”, AO3 is the best place to read it. Especially if you don’t want your Mum to think you lost the plot when you watch a show and scream “Don’t you see he loves you, you gobshite?!” It is my happy place, and now the website is down for 4 weeks!
It is like a person who needs coffee every morning to function or a daily walk to clear their heads, I need my daily dose of cute fluffy stories with my favourite fictional couples. Reading a cute romantic story of my favourite characters together makes me squeal and kick my feet like a teenage girl. It gives me joy to myself and many other fans in the world. So, surviving the first week was like a sugar high with no way to get rid of the energy, you get jittery and constantly think “what do I do now?”
It did not help that this week my favourite video game had soooooo many moments that would fuel multiple fanfics, yet I know there would be no stories about them! The first week was torturously slow, thinking there is three more to go is going to be hell! I thank the volunteers that work on AO3 for their work and I wish them the best of luck fixing the website. I know that as soon as AO3 returns, I am going to hibernate for the rest of the year to catch up on my love stories!
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