The fanfic Library of Alexandria will be inaccessible for at least a few weeks. According to the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit that oversees the administration of Archive of Our Own, a major outage has hit the fanfic repository, and what was once estimated to be an issue that could be resolved in a few hours might now take anywhere from two to four weeks to fix.

[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has …

— AO3 Status (@status.archiveofourown.org) 2026-10-29T17:41:58.609Z

Fuck.

No seriously. Fuck .

Archive of Our Own (also known as AO3) is to fandom communities what Fox News is to your average doddering Republican grandpa: It’s on all the time.…