[ SECRET POST #6994 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6994 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

...No.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering that everything in the Library of Alexandria had copies in various other libraries and a ton of fanfic on AO3 is only on AO3... yes.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good reminder for everyone to back up/preserve their fanfics. With or without AO3, fuck censorship!

[(Anonymous)]

Yup! And AO3 makes it so easy, too! Download early, download often.

[(Anonymous)]

I always download my faves!

[(Anonymous)]

Starting to work out why people hate AO3 users, to be honest.

Jesus, no. Just, no.

[(Anonymous)]

No. Absolutely not.

This is a good reminder though to download fics from AO3. Authors, always have a copy of your own work somewhere offline. Readers, download fics you love. AO3 even makes it easy.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you the OP of the next secret too? You sound very young.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in my 30s lol

Transcript - AO3

[(Anonymous)]

I think the loss of AO3 (no matter the method: whether through legal take downs, data being wiped, servers being destroyed, etc.) would be more of a loss to humanity than the Library of Alexandria burning down.

[(Anonymous)]

What a wonderful chance to pick at nits about the common perception of a historical incident vs what actually happened.

I am so blessed to have been able to live long enough to go from "science says so much knowledge was just fucking lost at Alexandria" to "actually science now understands that we didn't really lose much after all." The library that burned was the secondary repository at the temple of Serapis while the primary library was never burned down. It was raided by Muslim conquerors in the early stages of the common era (CE) but "loss" is sort of relative. They didn't do a mass book burning or torch the building, they might have just stolen the works to keep in their own archives. Never mind that a lot of the documents lost to raiding or actual destruction were only original copies and the copied versions were sent back to the original owners. It's plausible that a percentage of, say, Greek plays were lost, but no more or less than were lost by the disasters in Athens itself. Many manuscripts from non-Greek and non-Egyptian sources still had copies in their homelands, so if they're lost it's not Alexandria's fault.

All this to say: if AO3 were to go down for some reason, the OG copies of most of those stories are still on someone's hard drive somewhere, whether they care to re-upload to a new archive is on them just as it would have been on Heroditus to send a fresh copy of his diaries to a new library in Athens instead of Alexandria. And, at that point, if no one wants to restore your weird hockey RPF scifi AU with tentacle rape and mpreg, is it really a cultural loss??

[(Anonymous)]

I love how you're implying with your last paragraph that the Library of Alexandria wouldn't have had anything base and filthy like RPF (lol that you think that's so out there) or mpreg. Have you ever read any classic mythology?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I know right

Honestly the way this person is talking about fanfic on ao3 strikes me as similar to the way moralistic antis talk about fanfic they disapprove of.

Interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, no, because the type of texts that were destroyed back then vastly differ from what's published on AO3. And while I could see people in a hundred years from now using fic to chart various societal and cultural changes, or just to better understand the day-to-day life of this time, by and large I don't think there is enough unique to fic that would make the loss of AO3 that significant from a historical point of view.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no. It would be devastating as as someone who finds it tragic when servers for *any* community or archive goes down. But... Not really equivalent at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering it's the only globally accessible archive in history to be 100% permissive of female fantasy, I must agree with you.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL what does that even mean, my deluded friend.