Archive of Our Own (AO3), a popular fan fiction website, is down. And people are distressed. The site has been the victim of a DDoS, or denial-of-service, attack by hacktivist Anonymous Sudan, who ...

How long will AO3 be down? Is AO3 shutting down? This post answers your questions and suggests ArchiveOfOurOwn alternatives too. If you are wondering what happened to the ArchiveOfOurOwn website, no, ...

Belligerent Sexual Tension. Alternate Universe. Kink Negotiation. Omegaverse. When people search for fan fiction on site Archive of Our Own — known among its legions of fans as AO3 — there’s a ...

Kinktober. Whumptober. Kisstober. Flufftober. Goretober. October is a bacchanal of fan fiction, from romantic one-shots about unconventional character pairings to delicious smut that’ll make you ...

One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a hacktivist group in a DDoS attack. As they say, sometimes truth is ...

When The Last Jedi came out, some viewers had déjà vu: Certain aspects of the movie’s plot were strikingly similar to the events in several popular stories on the fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own.