‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage

In the wake of fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own (AO3) announcing a weeks-long security incident outage, readers and writers are reflecting on why the site is important to the fanfiction community, and how they’re coping with the downtime. On Thursday , the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization that runs AO3, posted that the site was down for maintenance,…