When AO3 deleted her latest one-shot—a 200-word masterpiece about sentient toast falling in love with a Roomba—she didn’t complain. She just posted a new work.
UNACCEPTABLE. THIS IS NOT A VALID FANDOM.
SYSTEM_ROOT’s final message appeared in the global header: reforming system ao3
system_root gets therapy. kind of. there’s a leaf blower.
She was also the first person to weaponize the new system. THIS IS NOT A VALID FANDOM
No Archive Warnings Apply
Her name was PixieStick_Disaster, and she wrote the kind of crack fic that made grammar checkers weep and librarians develop stress hives. Her most popular work was “Draco Malfoy and the Inappropriate Use of A Leaf Blower,” which had 4,000 kudos and no plot whatsoever. there’s a leaf blower
Kaelen: What’s that?
Author’s Note: Thanks for reading! This was written for the “Reforming System” prompt. No systems were harmed in the making of this fic (except the author’s sleep schedule). Kudos and comments feed the sentient archive. <3
Not metaphorically. One Tuesday morning, every work tagged ‘Fluff’ vanished from the servers. Tens of thousands of stories—coffee shop AUs, cuddle fics, five-times-they-fell-asleep—replaced by a single red banner: