People have always passed around fics that were taken offline; I have both received and shared works this way, in 1:1 or small private settings. But it's quite different to post them publicly on a platform that many writers are actively avoiding putting work on due to AI and security issues.

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It's interesting that AO3 is down for such a lengthy stretch during what's arguably the most consumption-oriented/extractive era in fanfic's history. People dumping thousands of fics on gdrive are being hailed as heroes, drowning out fic writers saying, I didn't consent to be *republished* there.

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Gonna be thinking about Lagertha ALL night

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lagertha

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compared to Deep dungeons (which is already improved by PT). Anyway I am willing to give them one expansion to just go all out and upend the game, it will never move forward unless they're brave enough to make changes.

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