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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: AO3 DDOS Attack 2023, Archive of Our Own, Anonymous Sudan - Fandom Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Archive/Anonymous Characters: Archive of Our Own (Anthropomorphic), anonymous sudan Additional Tags: In Honor of Anonymous Sudan, Crack Crossover, crackfic Summary:

Anonymous Sudan thinks they can take down Archive. Archive has some opinions of his own

#ao3 #ao3fic #ao3 fanfic #ao3 ddos #anonymous sudan #anonymous sudan can kiss my ass

ao3org

July 10, 2023 - (18:00 UTC)

The Archive is experiencing some issues (as many of you have noticed).

It looks like the Archive is under a DDoS attack causing the servers to fall over. Our volunteer sysadmins are working on countermeasures. Please be patient with us, we'll be back!

ao3org

A DDoS attack is when an attacker attempts to knock a site offline by overwhelming it with requests. Data is not compromised in a DDoS attack, so there is no need to change your password at this time or worry about your works being lost.

A group presenting themselves as a collective of religiously and politically motivated hackers has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack. This group has attacked other sites before, including those of government organizations and large corporations. However, cybersecurity experts do not believe the group is honest about their motivation, so we urge caution in believing any reasoning this group provides for targeting AO3.

As part of our efforts to help keep the site up, you might find that you get "Retry later" errors more often when searching or filtering works or bookmarks. Don't worry, just go a little slower, or try again in a few minutes! These are temporary measures. Normal use of the site is fine -- you don't have to avoid using AO3 if it's currently up for you.

Our volunteers are continuing to work hard on this issue! We appreciate your patience and support in the meantime.

Date: 22:43 UTC July 10, 2023

hikariyang

And here are the people responsible for the shut down. They should learn we dont negotiate with terrorists.

#ao3 update #ao3 down #dont give them a cent #tell them where they can shove it

How does one find a mate? No, seriously, how does one date at 25 and hasn't tried dating other people in 7 years? Do i make a tinder and link my tumblr, reddit, AO3, and YouTube accounts and let people discover who i am from there or???

#dating #adult dating #help #how do i adult?#i was not prepared for this #this was not in the manual #there wasnt even a manual #is linking my ao3 account going too far?

Because Reddit is rude and i spent time i should be sleeping typing this up and im not about to waste this. So you all get this instead!

There is nothing wrong with lolis.

To start this all off, I'm not in the lolicon fandoms in any manner, but i have opinions on the artistic and moral standpoints of it all.

For those who dont know, lolis/lolicon is a type of character/s depicted in anime and video games as a young/childlike character who may or may not actually be of age. Many people enjoy them for various reasons, from their childlike innocence to seeing them in a more sexual manner. Other people would see this akin to pedophilia, but i feel its more nuanced than that.

Pedophilia is legally and morally wrong because children are too young and naive to properly give informed consent. Children are typically manipulated into sexual relations and are harmed in the process. Same goes for child pornography. To get their rocks off they have to exploit a child.

Lolis in their traditional form are exclusively in anime/manga and games. They are ink on paper or code in software. They are not real. If they are depicted in a less than innocent manner are they being exploited? Well they cant give consent, but neither can a character of legal age/appearance. The character cant be physically or emotionally harmed no matter how they are portrayed. Lolis are victimless.

Is it problematic and gross? Sure. But i wouldnt say its bad or shouldn't be allowed. However it also shouldnt fall under the same umbrella as pedophilia.

Now before people come at me, sure it could encourage pedos to act, and sure pedos could have made it. But as long as the art itself (or the process of making said art) is not actively exploiting a living breathing child it shouldnt be considered pedophilia.

#loli #lolicon #pedos are nasty #but i think lolis are that gray area #art is art #and art cant hurt you #but you should still know what you can and cant handle #and you should leave the others in peace #to be gross on their their own #still not pedophilia though.#just weird #unpopular opinion #sue me

daughter-of-sapph0

we need to have a serious talk about antisemitism in America. yesterday, there was a hostage situation in a synagogue in Texas, where a gunman took for people including a rabbi hostage. he wanted to have someone released from prison. I forget who, but she was charged with 80 something years back in 2010. so what do you think this gunman does? does he contact the police or the president and demand the prisoner be released?

no. he tells the rabbi to call another rabbi in New York, and to have that rabbi release the prisoner. now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that his plan was completely stupid. the rabbi in New York had no relation to with prisoner, the prison she was in, or even the justice system at all. so why did the gunman think that the new york rabbi would have the authority to release a random prisoner who was sentenced 12 years ago? one word. antisemitism

most antisemites have the insane belief that all Jews are secretly controlling the world, or the government, or the banks, or natural disasters, or... you get it. its entirely based on fake and antisemitic conspiracy theories, and it literally gets people killed. this gunman thought that a rabbi in New York had the authority and power and ability to release a prisoner who I'm pretty sure isn't even imprisoned in the state of New York (don't quote me on that though). (edit, she was imprisoned within Texas?! literally what is the logic here?!)

antisemitic conspiracy theories, even as jokes, literally get us Jews hurt or killed. those are your "lizard people". your "space lasers". your "new world order". your "George Soros money". all those insane baseless conspiracy theories, even as a joke, cause severe damage to Jews. because people will believe it.

I haven't seen any non-Jews talk about what happened yesterday. that's not surprising. very rarely will goyim care about Jews unless one of their close friends is Jewish. but it's still upsetting. there is still so much antisemitism and hate towards Jewish people in the world today.

hikariyang

For information purposes, it was later released that the person holding everyone hostage was a Muslim man demanding the release of another Muslim person who was arrested 10 years ago for terrorism if my information is correct.

You know youve had a good day when you smell like sunscreen, bug spray, and smoke at the same time.

#summer #summer things #thoughts #outside #outdoors #i stay inside most of the time so this smell is like the BEST thing

everythingfox

What is this magic

(via)

With the combined efforts of a master waterbender and a master airbender they could potentially stop someone from dying by keeping their heart beating and air in their lungs.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #airbender #the last airbender

To everyone saying Makhia was innocent and the cop should have de-escalated the situation:

Makhia had a knife. She was a split second away from sinking that knife into another person. Right in front of a cop. Who had literally just arived at the scene less than 10 seconds ago.

Could he have calmed things down and removed the threat from the situation in the 10 seconds he was even on scene? Could you?

Had he not done what he did, we could very well still be mourning the loss of a young black girl. We could be mourning the loss of 2 young black girls if she had gone after the one on the ground after she was done with the first. Heck we could be mourning the loss of 3 if she had turned on the cop afterwards.

Its horrible what happened, but the cop had less than 10 seconds to take in the situation and had to not only choose if he was going to stop the guy who was kicking the first girl in the back of the head or the girl with a knife then also had to decide how he was going to stop makhia without the girl in pink being harmed.

He didnt know who called, he didnt know if makhia was the victim or not, all he knew was there was a girl with a knife trying to stab another girl.

He did what he had to do, and I hope to God if someone is split seconds away from stabbing me in front of a cop, I hope that cop does what he has to in order to save my life.

*and for all of you saying he should have tazed her or shot her in the arm or leg: this is not the movies. That doesnt always work and is way riskier than you think. He did the best he could from the distance he was at to assure only 1 person had to get hurt.*

#makhia bryant #police #columbus #ohio #police violence

So im just supposed to sit here and believe that the people who tried everything they possibility could to get rid of Trump since 2016 would NEVER and i mean NEVER cheat in the election to insure he gets voted out?

#2020 election #election #america #trump #biden #votehimout #vote them out #voter registration #trump 2020

amazingspidermans

everyone do me a favor and rb with where you live and if you’re getting school/work off bc of coronavirus

hikariyang

Im from Ohio and i wish i was off work, factories stop for nothing. However they are sending people home if they so much as clear their throats.

multiham01-blog

Batman/DC BNHA crossover idea

Idea: Bakugo gets sent to the DC world and almost immediately gets branded a villain due to his inability to NOT blow things up. Batman/other DC hero eventually discovers that he is not a villain, just an angry child who doesn't know how to deal with his problems in any way other than blowing them up. Possible figuring out his anger issues and maybe throw Midoria in there because he would absolutely flip at the idea of a quirkless hero.

If you guys are writing something like this or know of one already written let me know

#fanfiction ideas #fanfic #batman #dc comics #dc universe #bnha bakugou #bnha #my hero academia #my hero academy fanfiction #my hero fanfic #crossover idea #crossover

rickieedd

Much as I like John Legend's music his version of "Baby it's cold outside" is pretty lame. I'm guessing it's suppose to turn the song into a comedy because that's how it sounds. If the idea is to make it more woke the song would have been two lines long. Instead the female part is still acting like she is being kept there when the man has already said she can and should go.

It...actually isn't different from the orginal song (to me) because she still decides to stay. I guess I think of the song as her needing excuses to stay and he's giving her things to blame staying on. While in John's version he comes off as more annoyed and wanting her to go like she said while she seems to be signaling him to do what the old song did.

Not too bad as a attempt at a parody. I just really hope people don't take this a praise it as progress when it sounds like a bad joke.

floridaboiler

If you’re offended by “Baby It’s Cold Outside” you’re going to have a tough go of it in life. And so are your kids.

First, you are completely ignoring the fact that the song is 74 years old–when women were ladies and men were gentlemen.

Her “protest” was typical of a way a lady would speak to a man instead of just downing some drinks and hopping into bed with him.

No one seems offended by those kinda lyrics when you hear them on the radio ALL YEAR LONG.

Men actually had to court women back in those days, a subtle dance that for both men and women no longer exists. Sad but true.

Secondly, “what’s in this drink?” does not imply that she was roofied, or at least it didn’t in 1944. You don’t need to be a historian to piece that together.

She’s sarcastically blaming her indecision on her drink, which again, came with the times. Is that not obvious?

Should we stop watching The Wizard of Oz because when they fall asleep in the poppy fields that means Dorothy is on heroin?

Moreover, what are you worried is going to happen?? That people will hear this song, completely misinterpret the lyrics (as you obviously have) and then decide to go date rape someone?

I’d like to see the #metoo movement taken SERIOUSLY. Uproar over a holiday song, which CLEARLY was not about abuse, has the opposite effect.

If you were sexually abused, my heart goes out to you, but aren’t we surrounded my far more obvious and offensive material on a daily basis that should be drawing the attention? Is this really the right battle to fight?

Or maybe you’re worried about your children and what they will think when they hear it? Gee, maybe it’s the perfect teachable moment to actually sit down and have a conversation with your child about how men and women USED to be. Most notably, NOT offended by everything fucking thing that crossed their path.

Yes, I agree, Rudolph gets bullied in the animated version of “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.” Aaaaaaand?? Wasn’t that the point of the whole fucking story!!??

It’s the ultimate story of redemption and turning the other cheek and doing what you gotta do in the face of adversity.

He was called a bunch of names by his peers but shook it off and guided Santa’s sleigh anyway–in the fog no less!

Is there a better or more stoic way to flip a red nosed middle finger at some jealous reindeer?

What if Rudolph was just offended and cried and sulked off and went to his room and that was the end of the story? A really shitty story, that’s what.

Last but not least, have you seen violent video games or watched modern TV or listened to modern radio?

And you’re still worried about a 74 year old Christmas song? Have you lost your fucking mind!?

If after reading this you’re still offended by Rudolph and Dean Martin, good. BE OFFENDED.

But please don’t imply that the rest of us lack morals or values or good judgement, especially when it comes to parenting.

If you want to raise your kids to be hyper sensitive and offended at every little thing that they might not understand or agree with, have at it.

Me and my kids will be busy watching Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and listening to “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and waiting for Santa to come down the chimney.

….or does Santa encourage breaking and entering?

I can’t keep up.

Sincerely,

Dave Tieff

ratladyme

amelancholywood

I LITERALLY THINK THIS EVERY TIME THE SONG COMES ON

disastergwenom

What song is this talking about?

the8thsphynx

‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’

Otherwise known as the original ‘Blurred Lines’

masquerading-as-a-genius

HEY FRIENDS HISTORICAL REMINDER: ‘WHAT’S IN THIS DRINK’ ISN’T TALKING ABOUT DRUGS, HE IS NOT TRYING TO ROOFIE HER

THE SONG IS TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL

but still a pushy song

aphony-cree

historical reminder that the reason pina coladas and pink squirrels are known as “girly drinks” is because they mask the taste of alcohol and men were know to give women these drinks without informing them that they were alcoholic. It takes a couple of drinks to realize you’ve been consuming alcohol and by then you’re more susceptible to suggestion, making it easier for him to convince you to stick around and have a third drink. When this song was written in 1944 most women didn’t drink regularly, meaning they had a low tolerance and it would only take 2-3 drinks to get her drunk enough that she wouldn’t be able to put up much of a fight. This was the 1940s version of being roofied

dangerwaffle-deactivated2016121

No no no it was not.

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because unlike in Blurred Lines, the woman actually has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposedto, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

tiptoe39

I feel so much better about this song now!!!

cestmoimaintenant

that explanation is so much better, because its clear in her singing and her voice that she is happy, so the “fact” that it was “about coercion and rape” totally didn’t make sense to me. thank you for historical context.