I found it on the Wayback Machine; it had been crawled before deletion.
I do the same thing. I download every fic I'm even thinking about reading. I ran into too many cases where a fic was deleted while it was still in my AO3 "mark for later" list, and due to AO3's workings, even the author and title were gone so I couldn't look to see if it was elsewhere.
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Date: 2019-02-07 05:05 pm (UTC)I do the same thing. I download every fic I'm even thinking about reading. I ran into too many cases where a fic was deleted while it was still in my AO3 "mark for later" list, and due to AO3's workings, even the author and title were gone so I couldn't look to see if it was elsewhere.