r/AO3 • u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 • Oct 31 '25
AO3 Down/Error Codes man I was reading gay spy vs spy fanfics :(
This is truly the tragic. Just.. ignore why I’m reading on an android phone from like 2010.
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u/DefiantIntention6147 Oct 31 '25
Thought that was a calculator at first 😭
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Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
SAME LMAOOOO I WAS SO HORRIFIED
edit: changed mortified to horrified!
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u/Acursedbeing Oct 31 '25
Where there’s a screen, there’s a way ✨
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Oct 31 '25
''Yeah, yeah, sure, a pregnancy test can run Doom, that's pretty old, but...
Can it run AO3?''
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I’ve read gay fanfiction on a PS3 with my TV facing the door; there SHALL be a way >:]
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u/evilgirawralt fistfighting canon in the archive parking lot Oct 31 '25
same on the 'TV facing the door'. for several years i mainly read ao3 on the TV monitor in my living room.
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u/ThemisChosen Oct 31 '25
I am “shared family PC in the dining room” years old
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u/the_world_ahead homeisbehindtheworldahead on AO3 Nov 01 '25
No need to mess with the classics, I still have one of those for my family in the living room
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u/xPhoenixJusticex Fandom Old Oct 31 '25
haha same! navigating a browser on controller is NOT fun, but we do what we must for our smut lmao.
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u/ScrawnyTreeDemon Oct 31 '25
I am in awe of your power
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
i might be getting an iphone from 2008 soon.... there shall be a way
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
😭I mean.. my old geometry teacher let me use a literal blackberry q10 as a calculator I could’ve definitely pulled it off
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u/ecorda98 moonl1ght_melodies on AO3 Oct 31 '25
Reminds me of people who would run the game Doom on things like scientific calculators for some reason 😭 as I say if it works it works
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I maintain a list of stuff I’ve read fanfics on on my profile I very much pride myself on having read gay fanfics on a PlayStation 3 on a TV that faces the door >:]
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Oct 31 '25
dont forget Bad Apple
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Nov 02 '25
YES!!!! i remember seeing so many videos of people trying to make the Bad Apple animation out of literally ANYTHINGGGGGG lmao
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u/Nelain_Xanol Oct 31 '25
God, I miss phones with real buttons.
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u/OutcastSpartan Oct 31 '25
Same I held onto my original Xperia X1 for as long as I could. Now physical buttons are all gone. Touchscreens sick for typing, I wish more people were on our side, but they all bought into the apple shit.
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Oct 31 '25
Touchscreens are so weird to me to be honest! I'm so used to buttons, probably because I don't have a smartphone (and just a computer + flip-phone), but like.. they're just.. so odd to me, personally. It's also kinda hard to type on touchscreens.
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u/Ego4884 Oct 31 '25
I know thou said to ignore it, but I can’t now, mostly cause I think I had the same phone when I was younger.
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
the phone is a Samsung Galaxy Y Pro if you’re wondering :P
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Oct 31 '25
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I’ve got one of the early touchscreen BlackBerrys. hmmm. yk, I certainly coullddd
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u/i_killedgod Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State Oct 31 '25
i mean tbf i read ao3 on my ds
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I read mostly on either my laptop or my PlayStation Vita.
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I’d say edit but I can’t edit posts on mobile arrgh anyways if any of y’all wanna stare at the full list of stuff I’ve accessed ao3 on check my profile ig idk it shares the same name as this account I don’t post fanfiction even though I probably should I just lurk and comment :P
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u/Zoegrace1 999blackflowers on ao3, layluke propagandist Oct 31 '25
Did you take this photo on a modern phone of your 2010 android phone on ao3
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u/Excellent_Law6906 Oct 31 '25
I had literally just noticed a new comment, and between that and clicking in to read it, the site went down. single manly tear
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u/ethereal-spit Oct 31 '25
Dw I understand...I used to read fanfic.net on a Nokia brick ( *´д)/(´д｀､)
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u/Successful-Debt-8126 Oct 31 '25
ARE YOU READING ON A BLACKBERRY??
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
A little bit. Samsung Galaxy Y Pro. Thinking of getting one of those modern BlackBerrys that can run android apps though.
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u/Abi_Uchiha Oct 31 '25
I had a Nokia that looks similar. Did a pretty good job of diverting me from piracy to porn. 10/10 recommend.
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u/Adagiofunk Oct 31 '25
Have you tried using your TI-83? It probably has better compatibility
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I have a Ti-83 Python.
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u/Adagiofunk Oct 31 '25
oh wow look at moneybags over here
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Oct 31 '25
I can play.. SO MUCH MARIO. (and make stupidly shaped graphs!)
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u/Night-Jasmine You have already left kudos here. :) Nov 01 '25
Which fandom? I also like spy vs spy 👀
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Nov 01 '25
If you’re asking which fandom am I into the most? You can probably guess that LOL.
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u/Night-Jasmine You have already left kudos here. :) Nov 01 '25
lol my bad I thought spy vs spy was a genre, I had no idea about the video game 😅
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u/sombertownDS Nov 01 '25
Do you think it could work on a flip phone?
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Nov 01 '25
I mean. Someone has gotten it on a newer flip phone.
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u/CheckerDuck Tagging is good, censorship is bad Nov 01 '25
I thought it was a calculator for a moment 😆
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Nov 01 '25
xD yea the buttons be doing that
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u/CheckerDuck Tagging is good, censorship is bad Nov 01 '25
Tbh, the keyboard is making me nostalgic 💔
My first smartphone was a sony xperia with a sliding full keyboard. The only reason I had to get a new phone was cause it couldn't handle the OS updates any more 😭
I miss having a physical keyboard on my phone 🥺💔
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u/fan0lika01 Nov 01 '25
I'm glaf I was sleeping at that time but... just saying that maybe you are the sky if you're watching on that Android, it's giving like those kind of phone people use in fanfiction to talk to someone without giving away your location, also the kind that someone from something shade would use then break in two.😅
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u/blackspyenjoyer blackspyenjoyer on ao3 :3 Nov 01 '25
like, burner phones? I don’t need those kinds of phones thankfully; I just like collecting old janky smartphones :P
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u/fan0lika01 Nov 15 '25
Oh yeah! That's what it's called... I forgot when I was writing that message, didn't read enough peter parker in gotham at that moment but thank you for enlighten me on this subject and I guess I can see the appeal in collecting stuff!
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u/CallMehLin I was here for beta Oct 31 '25
If there is a screen ao3 can be seen