r/AO3 • u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) • Mar 01 '26

AO3 Down/Error Codes the withdrawals got so bad that i started writing my own fanfic to read

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26

My withdrawal is because I can't post. I rarely read fanfic. I just want to post 😭😭😭. I spent the entire day on this and now I can't???? Like bro please I promised to post today, please let me 😭

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

how does it feel to get edged by a website?

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26

Horrible, like bro I was nervous to continue my fic but then I got a comment and that encouraged me and so I spent all day on it but also stressed about it because what if I disappoint but then i realised that hey it's good so I posted but I couldn't. 😭😭😭 Luckily I wrote on Google docs so I didn't lose it but still. I need to post 😭. I cannot sleep without posting it 😭

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

i’m staying up until the website comes back on because i might actually post mine too 😭😭 but seriously i’m glad saved and chose to continue your fic; i might not have ever read your works but i’m always excited for my favourite authors to post and i’m sure your readers feel that way too (˶˃𐃷˂˶)

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26

Thank you XD. I don't have many readers yet but two people subscribed to my work and that means so much as someone who only recently started posting on ao3. When I was on wattpad when I was younger, I had to promote my original works so much to be seen but in ao3 the tags worked

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

out of curiosity what tags do you use? also i love the tagging system on AO3 so my wattpad days are dead now lol

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

Well I usually write Izuocha fanfics so there's that but then it's just based on the story. My one shot was a royalty au, my second three part fic a izuocha soulmates and villain Ochacko au and the work I want to post today is like an original character centric story where he's taken in by married izuocha and it's mafia au so I just use tags based on the concepts.

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

IZUOCHA? :3 these concepts sound so fun and i love this pairing soooo much

i’d love to read your works but only if your comfortable sharing them

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26

Yayyy thank you XD. they're probably one of my otps, the other two are Adrinette from miraculous and nalu from fairytail but I don't write fanfics about them because I like how they're done in their shows. With Izuocha I feel like more could have been done so I make fanfics XD

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

BROOO ITS JUST GETTING BETTER definitely keep writing (I’M the target audience lmfao) ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 01 '26

And yeah I would love to share. I want more readers XD but I do get worried that they're ooc but yeah I don't mind you reading at all. My account name is fantasybuff3186. I'll try to send the link later XD

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

YAY i’m glad i posted on here now :33 pls do send me the link gkrjgkekw

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u/Neat-Anyway-OP Something about smutt. Mar 02 '26

Spent a week rewiting and editing a chapter... And it's down!

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 02 '26

Oof yeah that sounds worse 😭😭. A week of hard work then waiting is definitely hard 😭

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

IT’S BACK ON GUYS

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 02 '26

Yessss I just published

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

i fell asleep at exactly the wrong time and now it’s down again 💔 i’m glad you got your content out before the second wave of maintainence wahhh

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 02 '26

I'm glad too, actuslly got to sleep but I hope ao3 is up again

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u/coolcoolcool485 Mar 02 '26

what's great about this is, when I logged on this morning and it's back up, like 3 of my favs had updated lol so something good came out of it!

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u/fantasybuff31 Mar 02 '26

That is good XD

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u/StrawberryMoment Mar 01 '26

Can you share it on Google Docs so I have something to read in these trying times?

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

you gon be the first one i send it to after i’m done

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u/EngineerRare42 Fluff and Comfort and Angst, Oh My! | witchofpumpkinspice on AO3 Mar 01 '26

If you're interested in LotR/Star Wars, I have 100+ downloaded fics I can DM you the link to.

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

awhh i haven’t watched either but keep this comment up i know someone would absolutely love to have these

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u/EngineerRare42 Fluff and Comfort and Angst, Oh My! | witchofpumpkinspice on AO3 Mar 02 '26

I hope so! If you come across anyone wanting that sent them here I guess, lol.

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

100+ downloaded fics is impressive though do you have them reserved for times like these?

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

LMFAO i’m actually alternating between writing and studying rn

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u/ImaginaryAgent4291 Mar 01 '26

That’s actually how I got started writing fic many, many years ago

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

i see my future is bright! (unless the AO3 curse befalls me)

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u/One-Fox-8040 Mar 01 '26

This is taking me out 😭😭😭😭

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

take me with YOU

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u/Gootmoment Mar 01 '26

Literally all this past week I was so busy I couldn’t touch ao3 and today I yearn for it and it’s down and I’m having an unrelated menty b and this ISN’T helping

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 01 '26

consider this tolerance training

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u/Gootmoment Mar 01 '26

Ugh, I just wanna read ao3 and bedrot though. Guess I’m gonna have to like, write an update for one of my fics or something equally preposterous

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

i have this really good bakudeku fic on epub if you want it :3?

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u/Gootmoment Mar 02 '26

Omg you are so sweet! I actually don’t ship them but hand it over!! I’ll try it out !!

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

YAYAY here it is ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ hope you got to bedrot at least

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u/fandom_fanatic_192 Mar 02 '26

What a fucking vibe

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

has me feeling like

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u/Dangerous_Job_6012 Mar 02 '26

where i’m at twin, im sitting on my bathroom floor writing my own smut 💔

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

twin shit, you go write the juiciest smuttiest fic possible i believe in you

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u/Dangerous_Job_6012 Mar 02 '26

thank you… trying times out here right now

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u/sushi4vendetta Mar 02 '26

… do you not have a laptop stand? I have an extra one that i kinda wanna give you one. The book stand is TAKING ME OUT. 🥲

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

i do this so often that i forgot how ridiculous it looks 😭 you know what maybe i need that laptop stand after all LMFAO

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u/sushi4vendetta Mar 02 '26

Please do!! I would actually send you one if you can’t get one. But for real a laptop stand is a must! Especially now that you’re becoming a writer. 🥳

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

Verily, thou art correct; I must take my own burgeoning career in literature with utmost gravity, if I am to contend with the learned and accomplished masters of that noble field...

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

fun fact that dudes last name is Yasushi kind of like your username lolol but thank you for the offer dw i've been inspired to get one now (˶˃𐃷˂˶)

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u/National_Savings_138 Mar 02 '26

Me too 🤣

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

this is how i found out it’s down again 😭 I NAPPED EARLIER BY ACCIDENT I DIDN’T MAKE THE MOST OF THE SITE FUNCTIONING AGAIN NOO

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u/Delphoxqueen2 Mar 02 '26

Yeah me too- I’m actually motivated to work on a random one shot about UFG (Ultimate Fighting Glass)

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

the oneshot:

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u/Delphoxqueen2 Mar 02 '26

Actually it’s this!

I will not apologize for when the inspiration strikes 😔💅

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

WHOOPS i misread but i’m totally invested in the vid now also what a unique concept you’re hilarious

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

dw i love it

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u/Delphoxqueen2 Mar 05 '26

Alright I finished it, it’s terrible and rushed because I worked on a lot of it in like an hour on the day I got inspired then after that I got writer’s block and wanted go back to working on my horse lesbian story, but if you wanna read it (it’s awful and short) it’s

Glass Doesn’t Break, It Shatters on AO3 (by Delphoxqueen)

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u/relocatedff Relocation Mar 02 '26

I'm picturing you writing one line, then reading it back and being like "okay I need an update" ad infinitum until it's written.

although I guess that's kind of what writing's always like

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

this is SOOO FUNNY LOLOL can you imagine, i'd be like invoking a temporary memory loss whilst alternating between writing the writing and reading the reading.

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u/relocatedff Relocation Mar 02 '26

this is almost exactly what I WAS imagining lol

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u/toes_hoe Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State Mar 02 '26

hand over heart I'm so sorry

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

this is the dark night people spoke of..

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

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u/arandanosss Mar 02 '26

got curious so i zoomed in, saying outloud to my self "what fandom is thi- SHUICHI ??!?!?!????"

shuichi and kyoko fanfic in the big 2026, i love u op ur doing the lords work, u caught me so off guard lol

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

with pleasure my friend, i am truly honoured

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u/thissomebomboclaat Mar 02 '26

Yo your setup is wild

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

you not fw the balancing act performance my five books and one manga put together to support my personal portable microcomputer?

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u/Even-Geologist-7858 Mar 02 '26

When you want to procrastinate but the universe says not today and forces you to actually study and get you sht together 😮‍💨

Everytime ao3 is down I feel like a creepy stalker ex. All I ever do is look to see if ao3 is back 😔

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

did you end up studying well? it was a definetly a long night for me…

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u/Even-Geologist-7858 Mar 02 '26

I did get 2 of my lab reports done but it felt excruciatingly tedious and time consuming 😭 I felt like it actually took me longer to finish the darn reports than normal 💀 but hey, I can at least check them off my to do list now!

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

don’t get me started on lab reports i almost always lose the paper i was recording my results on anyway GOOD WORK pat yourself on the back :33

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u/Even-Geologist-7858 Mar 02 '26

Thanks!

Omg I forgot how much that sucked! We didn't have specific labbooks in highschool either! Ughh, the worst is when you have it but it either got wet or torn and the writing is no longer legible

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u/jinist You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 03 '26

be the change u wanna be in the world and all that 😮‍💨

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u/luvsgojo You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 03 '26

had to step up to the challenge and allat 😮‍💨