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July 11, 2023 - 16:35 UTC
it is with a heavy heart that I inform you all AO3 is apparently currently down worldwide and I’m starting to panic thinking about how I’ll sleep tonight without staying up till 5 in the morning reading my comfort whump with hurt/comfort fic in which my blorbo is going through the worst kind of hell
What's happening to AO3 right now?
As you may have noticed already, Archive of Our Own is currently down. This is temporary, but unfortunately.. we now know that this is much deeper than we thought.
AO3 is currently the victim of a DDOS attack orchestrated by "Anonymous Sudan"
Why? Because AO3 is home to thousands of LGBTQIA+ content and lots of NSFW content. They're doing this as an Anti-LGBTQ+ attack. If they're doing this for or from America specifically, we're not sure. But this is what AO3 is facing at this time.
What can we do?
Spread the word. Spread the fucking word. I'll be providing updates to my Tumblr page directly from the r/AO3 subreddit. I know that not everyone here is comfortable using Reddit, so I'm taking the blow for you. I cannot access Twitter though.
And please, whatever you do...
Stop using the Archive of Our Own website at this time.
The moderators, showrunners, and service providers all need to repair the damage done by this group. The amount of data flooding in from people trying to log in will cause more problems. Keep yourselves off of the website.
Edit:
Confirmation for those who need it:
I love that the minute AO3 goes down everyone collectively flocks to this website to ask the same question with varying levels of insanity attached
Y'ALL WE GOT MILES G IN ACTION!!
(This is a 2020 animation test showing how Miles would've been trained by his uncle before the events of btsv)
Rest in power Technoblade / Alex
1999-2022
It's taken me a year to realize that he is truly gone. A week ago it truly hit me, that he is gone forever. We will never get another bed wars video, another Skyblock video, another stream, anything at all. I'm just so happy that we even had his impact to begin with.
I started watching his videos during quarantine and it was one of the few stable things that I had. Then I moved, which is pretty stressful because I'm bad with change, but Technos videos were still there.
I got a YouTube account only a few months before he passed. I was only able to catch two or three streams. I'm so glad that I was able to catch those streams at all.
His DSMP character arc is my favorite, the one I latched onto immediately, and (in my opinion) the most interesting.
All of his videos are hilarious and amazing to watch over and over. I think I've probably watched The Great Potato War 10 times this year alone. I have Blitz Survival Games on my playlist.
I was out of town and unable to access youtube when I first heard that he had passed. I didn't think it was real. I still didn't completely come to terms with it until writing this. I didn't cry while watching the video. But I was still incredibly sad.
The first thing I did was build a monument in my Minecraft world. A crown made out of wool included below.
I re-watched most of Technos old videos, including ones such as SMPEarth that I hadn't watched before hand. I scrolled through what must have been thousands of pieces of art in memory of him. I watched countless animatics. It all still didn't feel real.
And now we have the the QSMP and Chayanne carrying on his legacy. The many sweet moments between them and Ph1lza has truly made my year.
TLDR; We all miss you Technoblade, but we are carrying on
Dear Techno,
The blood god never dies, and I'm sure you are somewhere watching everything going on and destroying God in bedwars or something.
A year ago, this world lost someone amazing, but we miss you everyday, we cry when we remember the good times and laugh at the jokes you made and everything in-between. We love you technoblade, you may not be here now, but we will always remember you.
Technoblade never dies.
today represents a year since the man who said he never dies left the game forever and went onto another world...
one year ago today was the day the minecraft community found out that technoblade lost his greatest battle
techno will never be forgotten and his family continues to do great works in his memory. honor his legacy by keeping your head up and smiling in the face of fear.
The Tournament Arena is Far Tale’s soul of honourable competition, imbued with the love of an audience for their team.
Within stands a shrine To the Warrior Of Blood: a legend - a god - to whom contestants leave offerings for his favour in combat.
Mediaeval-inspired stadium and monument to Technoblade in the Kingdom of Far Tale | Building timelapse
He'll never be gone as long as he is remembered fondly.
As long as they still laugh, cry, and cheer at his memory.
As long as they build farms in their favorite video games and harvest enough food to feed kingdoms, just because they can.
As long as they tell stories about Theseus and Heracles and Protesilaus and Icarus, and hear his voice reading the words.
As long as they keep trying to humble tyrants and uplift the voiceless.
As long as they're kind to friends and strangers alike.
As long as they keep telling his story.
As long as they keep writing it.
Technoblade will never die.
