Why AO3 Was Down

For anyone who feels like looking up exactly what this bookmark was pointing to: I did, and very much wish I hadn't!

What in the name of fuck

I know I'll regret this, but how do you navigate to bookmark by column id?

The link is in the reddit comments.

It's Dead Dove though.

Oh my. Well, today I've learned something new about gen z and the internet

Translated from fanfic to English: "a warning tag that signifies the story contains potentially disturbing or morally questionable content."

AO3 is nearly 20 years old, and I think it was mostly LiveJornal refugees anyway. This is one that you very much can’t pin on gen-z.

I ask in complete earnest: is that your honest reaction to seeing it, or did you hype it up for your comment? Personally very little could evoke that kind of reaction from me. Maybe a little, "oh, that's an interesting thing to be turned on by" but for the most part, who cares?

New to the internet?

I can't remember the time when I was so innocent that forced mpreg breeding wasn't shocking.

I mean, it's fiction. If a writer can't explore the depths of human behaviour there, then where?

The only uncomfortable thing there are the explicit references to Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. I do take exception to using real people in fiction if you proceed to heap abuse on the characters which you model on those celebrities. (The story seems to use only the given names, but the tagging makes the link explicit.)

Obviously, you can refer to real world famous people in fiction — it would be silly to write a book about 2025 America and not mention that the president is Trump if it includes political themes — but there are limits.

AIUI AO3 has an “anything not literally illegal goes, as long as it’s fanfic” policy, so does get a certain amount of this sort of thing.

You remember the Supernatural line "Together? Don't they know we're brothers??" "They don't care." This was the site. Sweet cheese and crackers. <https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dean%20Winchester*s*Sam%20W...>