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you dumb asshole, you just won $0,000

you are fucking died. game oval.

reblog to give the pervious person a tumblr notification.

empires joel is so tall and handsome and sexy and humble and strong and doing so much lore and

You can pry this meme out of my cold dead hands 🫖

Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

If Techno’s 1v1ing god then TFC took one look at the pearly gates - decided they could really use some diamonds - and set off for the mines.

If you criticize someone for taking inspiration (aka “stealing or art theft”) from someone else’s art style in order to develop their own and YOU are an artist. You are a hypocrite as would I be if I said they were stealing someone else’s style. Because guess what. We ALL take inspiration from others art styles. I DO and I DID as a kid. Doesn’t matter it it’s a smaller artist or a famous one. I can understand if like…you would like the artist to outwardly state their inspirations to give those inspirations a shoutout that’s fine but oh my gosh….some of y’all don’t know how art styles and learning how to art works lmao.

Edit: I saw another post and to add onto this I like seeing bits of my own stuff come through others styles. It means my work is good enough to inspire others to create.