diff --git a/sites/__init__.py b/sites/__init__.py
index 67c577b..5170b28 100644
--- a/sites/__init__.py
+++ b/sites/__init__.py
@@ -136,19 +136,21 @@ class Site:
     def login(self, login_details):
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
-    def _soup(self, url, method='html5lib', retry=3, retry_delay=10, **kw):
+    def _soup(self, url, method='html5lib', delay=0, retry=3, retry_delay=10, **kw):
         page = self.session.get(url, **kw)
         if not page:
             if page.status_code == 403 and page.headers.get('Server', False) == 'cloudflare' and "captcha-bypass" in page.text:
-                raise SiteException("Couldn't fetch, probably because of Cloudflare protection", url)
+                raise CloudflareException("Couldn't fetch, probably because of Cloudflare protection", url)
             if retry and retry > 0:
-                delay = retry_delay
+                real_delay = retry_delay
                 if 'Retry-After' in page.headers:
-                    delay = int(page.headers['Retry-After'])
-                logger.warning("Load failed: waiting %s to retry (%s: %s)", delay, page.status_code, page.url)
-                time.sleep(delay)
+                    real_delay = int(page.headers['Retry-After'])
+                logger.warning("Load failed: waiting %s to retry (%s: %s)", real_delay, page.status_code, page.url)
+                time.sleep(real_delay)
                 return self._soup(url, method=method, retry=retry - 1, retry_delay=retry_delay, **kw)
             raise SiteException("Couldn't fetch", url)
+        if delay and delay > 0 and not page.from_cache:
+            time.sleep(delay)
         return BeautifulSoup(page.text, method)
 
     def _new_tag(self, *args, **kw):
@@ -240,6 +242,10 @@ class SiteException(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+class CloudflareException(SiteException):
+    pass
+
+
 def register(site_class):
     _sites.append(site_class)
     return site_class
diff --git a/sites/fanfictionnet.py b/sites/fanfictionnet.py
index e3c5455..8d99b3f 100644
--- a/sites/fanfictionnet.py
+++ b/sites/fanfictionnet.py
@@ -3,13 +3,17 @@
 import logging
 import datetime
 import re
-from . import register, Site, SiteException, Section, Chapter
+import urllib.parse
+import attr
+from . import register, Site, SiteException, CloudflareException, Section, Chapter
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 @register
 class FanFictionNet(Site):
+    _cloudflared = attr.ib(init=False, default=False)
+
     """FFN: it has a lot of stuff"""
     @staticmethod
     def matches(url):
@@ -20,6 +24,7 @@ class FanFictionNet(Site):
 
     def extract(self, url):
         soup = self._soup(url)
+
         content = soup.find(id="content_wrapper_inner")
         if not content:
             raise SiteException("No content")
@@ -48,10 +53,15 @@ class FanFictionNet(Site):
                 raise SiteException("Can't find base URL for chapters")
             base_url = base_url.group(0)
 
+            suffix = re.search(r"'(/[^']+)';", chapter_select.attrs['onchange'])
+            if not suffix:
+                raise SiteException("Can't find URL suffix for chapters")
+            suffix = suffix.group(1)
+
             # beautiful soup doesn't handle ffn's unclosed option tags at all well here
             options = re.findall(r'<option.+?value="?(\d+)"?[^>]*>([^<]+)', str(chapter_select))
             for option in options:
-                story.add(Chapter(title=option[1], contents=self._chapter(base_url + option[0]), date=False))
+                story.add(Chapter(title=option[1], contents=self._chapter(base_url + option[0] + suffix), date=False))
 
             # fix up the dates
             story[-1].date = updated
@@ -85,6 +95,23 @@ class FanFictionNet(Site):
 
         return text.prettify()
 
+    def _soup(self, url, *args, **kwargs):
+        if self._cloudflared:
+            fallback = f"https://archive.org/wayback/available?url={urllib.parse.quote(url)}"
+            try:
+                response = self.session.get(fallback)
+                wayback = response.json()
+                closest = wayback['archived_snapshots']['closest']['url']
+                return super()._soup(closest, *args, delay=1, **kwargs)
+            except Exception:
+                self.session.cache.delete_url(fallback)
+                raise CloudflareException("Couldn't fetch, presumably because of Cloudflare protection, and falling back to archive.org failed; if some chapters were succeeding, try again?", url, fallback)
+        try:
+            super()._soup(self, url, *args, **kwargs)
+        except CloudflareException:
+            self._cloudflared = True
+            return self._soup(url, *args, **kwargs)
+
 
 @register
 class FictionPress(FanFictionNet):