#cod fandom rant

[ghouldtime]

i usually don’t message anyone or anything but i just wanted to say i love your characterizations of konig, ghost, and soap very much. the love and appreciation you have for these characters really come through in your writing.

the cod fandom is full of talented writers but the majority of them write smut. it gets tiring scrolling through the tag and just seeing porn when i actually just wanna see… ppl who enjoy the characters outside of sex appeal, yk? so your blog, truly and genuinely, is a breath of fresh air.

that’s not even mentioning the ppl who write them as abusive or use them to fulfill certain fantasies. i mean i don’t kink shame ofc, but idk sometimes ppl write them in extremely degrading ways that do a disservice to their character and it bugs me a little. plus all the “innocent bimbo reader” rhetoric, idk it gets tiring.

anyway, sorry for the yap session, but i did mean everything i said genuinely !!

💚💚💚💚 Salutations anon! You really don't know how much I appreciate hearing this. Seriously, messages like this give me motivation to keep writing and to stay active on here. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU from the very depths of my heart. You've all been so so incredibly kind, sweet, and encouraging 😭 I don't know what I've done to deserve this but it's appreciated and you all are absolutely awesome. This has made my YEAR, thank you for taking time out of your day to send my silly self a message 💚💚💚💚💚

I'm so so happy my characterizations have hit the mark for some people and that I'm (hopefully) doing them some justice! I'm always worried about that because characterization matters heavily to me and I want to respect their characters and how much they mean to me and other people through it EVEN IF THE WRITERS OF THE LAST MODERN WARFARE DON'T KNOW WHAT A PROPER STORY LINE IS AND KILLED SOAP WHICH I'M NOT FORGETTING, IM NOT FORGIVING, AND IM CERTAIN NOT LIVE LAUGH LOVING WITH IT. I'm refusing to accept he's dead, no matter what they say

I love the boys all so much. They all have such interesting things about them and have a lot more dynamic to them than people think and I just want to represent them right, especially lesser appreciated characters (haven't actually really written for them yet but Keegan, Logan, Hesh, Sandman, Roach, Nikto, Krueger - legit I love them, anyone feel free to send asks or scenarios you'd like I WILL write them. Legit, y'all, you can send me asks about certain characters even if there isn't much on them. I WILL do my research and I WILL write to the best of my ability)

Oh there's many talented writers in the COD Fandom, there really are. I can't say I really know any personally seeing as I never really interact with other blogs but I've seen some reallly really nice fics with so much thought put in them. But equally, there's a lot of just... smut. Not even well written smut, I'm sorry, but a lot of it is just really, really poorly written. I'm all for do what you want, write whatever makes you happy. Freedom of speech! If it makes you happy, cool! But I'm also going to cringe cause a lot of it is... yeah, yikes

Not trying to be the smut police and say every detail must be accounted for and everyone should follow it in a certain way but plz basic anatomy 101, basic prep 101, no guy gal or enby pal will appreciate it if you just shove it in to anywhere dry and I've seen a loooot of that and other things that just hurt?????

I get it, people learn by reading/writing, but this is literally just a single search away. And common sense. There's also a lot of practices being unsafely represented (like fifty shades of gray level) and uh it's not on purpose, it's not meant to be dubious, but it just is written as that. PLEEEEASE please please do some research, the internet is right there

But I felt the same way. Like bless whatever y'all want to write, no shame and NO shade to writing smut. I'll probably eventually do it myself again in the future (undecided on that but it'd likely be a side blog if I do and would never be a main focus, I prefer story over smut action. Once again, no shade and no shame to those who don't, to each their own!). Never ever going to full on NSFW mode or only writing that, I'm always always always going to prioritize writing the characters first and trying to get more stories out there about them :D

But I got tired of opening it and all I see is just... smut, smut, more smut, extremely dubious content x 50. And maybe a sprinkle of normal things or fluff here and there. I just don't look in the tags honestly anymore, because so many people just don't properly tag it or give 0 warning at all, not even under a read more, just BAM, unavoidable unless you flat out don't look at the tags at all

There's more to the characters than just being attractive 😭and I love exploring those aspects of them and trying to figure out why they are the way they are

Also I'm ALWAYS going to have an issue with people who fetishize horrible things. When you're actively fantasizing and writing about someone abusing someone else, like flat out abuse, and being incredibly toxic and terrible to someone - just, please talk to a therapist. That's not social commentary, that's not a proper portrayal of real, HORRIBLE things that affect many people and have very real repercussions - that's perpetuating the negative narrative around a lot of struggles and setting it back by instead turning it into something that's treated as attractive. I really fully can elaborate on this and have a whole rant - but it's not cute and it's NEVER cool to fetishize actual, awful awful things that happen to people. Dead dove doesn't excuse you from judgement - especially when it's not even acknowledged. You're just saying you know what you write is probably morally reprehensible. Hey, I'm going to reprehend and won't respect you at all when you write awful things just cause and get off on it. Think people forget that. Dead dove is a descriptor and doesn't excuse you or make you instantly free from judgement or mean you're not doing something problematic/disgusting. It's just saying you know it is, that's about it.

I don't get why people do that when it's clear they have no idea what they're talking about. I've seen that a lot with the bully! Things. Like... wow, clearly some of you WEREN'T bullied and you're writing about it and it shows because if you were, hey, you know how fucking awful that shit is and how it leaves life long effects. Not saying this applies to all but there's a lot I see like that where it's just ".... wow, okay, so you don't have any idea what you're talking about, cool."

AND YEAH the mischaracterization really does do a great disservice where it's clear they're just after the characters for their physique. They just warp them so bad it's like "Are we talking about the same character?" . In AUs you get to explore that and can shape them to your wants, that's your choice! Highly recommend AU's, it allows so much freedom.

But when it's like.... regular? And it's just no where close and they're doing a 180 in how they actually are (like having Ghost flirt with strangers and be big scary daddy dom im sorry he's not at allllll) I don't get it and it's clear you really aren't writing about or for the character - at that point, plz, make your own characters. Just make your own OCs, it's great! And you can make them HOWEVER you want instead of just ignoring a character's characterization to make them fit what you want. And guess what? It's your character so you can TRULY do what you want and have them the way that you want instead of bending characters to fit a box that they weren't made for

I'm not saying you HAVE to write a character the same as me or in a specific way, but when it's a character with an established personality/backstory, the least you can do is follow that outside of AU's if you're writing for them. That's... the whole point of writing that character - I don't get why you'd write for them specifically if you're literally going to ignore everything about them

SPEAKING OF THE INNOCENT BIMBO THING, I'm also really not a fan. Once again, if that makes you happy to write or read, cool! I just am NOOOOT a fan. Why does the reader always have to be so small and so delicate and so pure/innocent? Why does the reader have to be just so UWU coded? Why are they always like "oh you're so little and small :( and just don't know any better" . It's either that or they're John fucking Wick with little in between. Pleeeease it hurts my soul

Its why I try to genuinely write a neutral geared reader with reactions that will likely fit a lot of people! I'm always taken out of a story's immersiveness when it mentions something like like your hair length or how uwu small you are in comparison. Give me just... average sensible reader. Give me reader who has realistic human reactions. Give me reader who isn't perfect, give me a reader who isn't magically special or different. Give me a reader who is just doing their best, who is THEMSELVES, with no intent otherwise. I love those fanfics so so much instead of trying to feel like I have to be something I'm not to get myself in the mindset to read some pieces NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR YAPPING. IM ALWAYS WANTING TO TALK IM ALWAYS AROUND 💚💚💚💚THANK YOU FOR THE MESSAGE IT MAKES MY HEART WARM AND MAKES ME SO SO HAPPY

[vonloup]

I dead ass feel like the people in the cod fandom have never been in a fandom before because they cry over everything.

Headcanons, ships, and au's are normal in every fandom and this might be a bit of a stretch but I feel like the people who hate on the ships (mostly soap x ghost, gaz x soap, etc) either simp for said characters and get weirdly jealous or are just borderline homophobic because they think that military men can't be gay.

Idk chat this was just a little rant. Obviously I don't care what you ship as long as it isn't illegal/wrong and I don't mean anything in a hateful way I just wanted to rant for a bit

[morimementa]

The fun thing about COD is that everyone who calls the 141 and every other operator their precious little mew mew skrunkly is fully aware that Soap once used an enemy soldier as a meat shield, Price responded to a barricade by attempting vehicular manslaughter, Gaz saw one terrorist attack and decided going feral was an option that should be on the table, and Ghost is, well, Ghost.

They know their little mew mews are war criminals and they do not care.

[blingblong55]

Let me rant about these STUPID TIKTOK COD FANS

I saw a video where a person just said oh guys ghost is an 80s baby. He’s around his 40s. I agreed bc lore and then I opened the comments. Someone said ghost was born in 2012.. others even commented that too

… *eye twitch* 2012?!??????

I comment this man is old. People start to attack me saying 41 is not old. Bro, I’m 21 that man is 20 years older than me. Most of those fucking people in the comments are probably teens. Maybe I’m off my meds…

Like yes he feeds our daddy issues but the bloke is old. His joints crack for sure, he’s got back issues.

I hate them.. I fucking hate them. I was a fan way before those little shits were. Maybe I’m healing and I understand that age gaps and being attracted to some older men is not fine. Maybe I’m having a moment where I don’t want to sexualise him.

I honestly hope those poser cod fans leave this fandom. Like yes ship ghost and soap, I like that but don’t fuck with lore and make him a 2012 child.

I wish TikTok hadn’t ruined my favourite rite game. It invited annoying people to this fandom.

… anyway, I’m going back to my hole in the wall.. I’ll come back soon.. love ya pookies

[liamthemailman]

dead favourites club

[addictao3]

GUYS WHAT(okay my bf sent me this) BUT LIKE IF YOU DONT WRITE IT….

DONT TAG IT. I WILL TWEAAAKKKK ALL I WANT IS SOME MEN(if it was ftm I would be okay with it cause man coochie is different) JUST DONT TAG IT????

Last time bro said that me tagging the cod fandom was different but im currently tagging the cod fandom as it is about the cod x m!reader portion of the fandom.

Anyway. Expect some new work soon!! Heh heh heh I now have ideas

[aubris-fox]

"Russell Adler totally has ASPD, look at what he did" no. listen to me. listen to me. not every antagonist with a disregard for others has a disorder. having a personality disorder does not make someone an evil and terrible person. even if Adler did have ASPD, that would not be the root cause of his every wrongdoing. an antagonistic character with an ego problem who harms others does not inherently mean a character with a personality disorder, and vice versa.

[darkcommet]

You know, as a fanfic author one of my favorite things is fan commentary. I genuinely do love it. Even when it’s critique’ing my work because, honestly, that’s so fair.

If you comment on my story an opinion or a question or a little remark like, “Hey, saw you used (…) as an allegory for (…)” I will nine times out of ten respond to you because I genuinely enjoy talking to people who get pleasure from my stories.

That being said… I recognize I’m a flawed author and can work to improve the quality of my work. Which includes not only better proofreading (hate to do it tbh) but also the writing of inclusivity of people / cultures / lifestyles / etc. that aren’t my own. I welcome feedback. I welcome a “hey, just so you know (insert commentary)” because at the end of the day it does absolutely help me as a writer. And while I do try to be respectful there are a lot of things I’m not going to get 100% right because I don’t have those experiences. And I’m open and willing to take criticism / feedback/ guidance.

HOWEVER… there is a huge difference between feedback and malicious commentary. I can handle malicious criticism. I grew up in an emotionally abusive home. Whatever nasty / malicious comment you can come up with as an anonymous entity on the internet means fuck all to me. And I don’t say that as a weird deflection or overcompensation. I know I’m flawed, I know I need to grow and practice and evolve as an author… but at the end of the day you aren’t a grandparent, a parent, a close friend, or a lover. I don’t know you well enough to have a true emotional connection to you and because of that 90% of whatever hateful, mean, malicious commentary you say isn’t going to stick or affect me.

But at the end of the day writing and consuming any sort of fan works (in this case fanfiction) is supposed to be fun. Not everyone understands how to give actual constructive criticism, and I’m saying this as an English Lit and Creative Writing major who was taught how to give constructive criticism. But I’ve seen a lot of people on this app, AO3, FF.net, and Wattpad say horrible malicious things to authors.

Today I saw someone post on a COD x Reader fic saying the author’s writing was shit. They responded saying their native language isn’t English… Like???? Excuse me??? That author shouldn’t have had to defend themselves over not being a native English speaker because that shouldn’t have been a comment someone felt comfortable giving.

And I know I have no control over other people. I’m not posting this for anything other than to rant and possibly delete later… but I will defend other fanfic authors as ling as they aren’t heinous people. So, this all being said, author to reader, one reader to another…. PLEASE touch some grass and get a hobby. Breathe some fresh air. Read a traditionally published book. To for a swim. Literally anything to give yourself a better way to vent your negative emotions… because attacking someone trying to get a little joy out of their life is whack-a-doodle behavior.

[thesesoldierboysarebi]

Will mostly be reblogging for a while I think, but I’m gonna be real, 70 percent of my reason for making this blog in the hopes of writing was that I noticed a big chunk of CoD x reader posts on this hellsite have readers with like…concerningly low ages. There’s a lot of reader character minor-coding going on, and it’s weirdling me out (no shade to young writers, I know a lot of the reason is that a majority of CoD fanfic writers are 18-25 here, which, yk, fair that you wanna see self-inserts with similar ages).

But as I said, it gives me the ick, so if/when I end up writing x reader, I wanna go ahead and make it clear that I will not be writing a reader character in a romantic/sexual position BELOW the age of 25 at most. Most of the Call of Duty men are, like, 28 at the youngest, and I’m more inclined to write reader characters with matching ages, especially afab readers.

In other words? I’m gonna write milfs and dilfs. I’m gonna write top!reader. I’m gonna write unhinged women that leave the various men of TF141 screaming crying throwing up. I will NOT be writing virginal, innocent, or overly naive reader characters; I do not do minor-coding. Y’all have been warned.

[ghouldtime]

Who was going to tell me that Captain John Price is ONLY THIRTY EIGHT

(I am talking about reboot Price for reference as he seems to be the most popular one)

I'm not making this up

I am floored, I am stunned

I swear to anything I thought he was late 40's early 50's but NOPE

Everyone writes him like he's one good breeze away from falling down the stairs and being in a nursing home. HE'S THIRTY EIGHT???

I'm still calling him peepaw irregardless cause it's funny but I'm losing my mind

For the record thirty eight isn't that old y'all. I'm so tired of people pretending like it is. That's not even fully middle aged. A lot of the COD men are middle aged to just about. Ghost is likely mid to upper thirties possibly around 40, Captain Price is (apparently) 38, König is likely upper thirties to mid 40's (he's probably in his 40's tbh), Keegan is 35, and the list goes on and on. The youngest would be Gaz (who is a bit older than Soap iirc) and Soap who is 26. A lot of operators will be close to if not middle aged, especially higher ranking ones

Let me have my middle age men. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands. I beg of you stop making them younger just for the sake of it outside of AUs because no one can accept that they're mostly not young dudes. Except with Price who apparently everyone decided has got a fast past to being geriatric where he's ready to fall asleep on the couch in his underwear watching the telly with a cold one in hand when it's 2pm on a Tuesday (same tho but in spirit that sounds nice)

(( AUs are great tho keep doing you're thing there and I love seeing AUs like when Ghost was just a Private. Those are so fun))

TL;DR what the hell Price isn't even that old?? and STOP MAKING THEM ALL IN THEIR TWENTIES OUTSIDE OF AUs PLEASE. They're mostly in their thirties and forties and that's okay and wonderful and I love that about them

[alkaline-wtr]

Please, does anyone know if…

there are any Discord servers specific to the CALL OF DUTY Fanfiction community??

I would love to be more active and involved with other readers/writers.

To share and discuss our COD fanfic writings, reading recommendations, head-cannons/opinions involving characters, or even rants and discussions on things within the community.

I know I have my fair share of deep discussions, rants and opinions on things that I often one-sidedly ramble about to anyone that’ll listen. (aka my poor, poor boyfriend.)

And it would be nice to have a group of similarly passionate people to share and talk with.

In case no such thing exists here is a poll… I wish I could make it longer.

[devstn]

Before you decide to ban me, read this Google Doc.

I’m stepping back from the Call of Duty: Ghosts fandom because the environment feels more toxic than fun.

I don’t owe anyone my time or energy, especially if it’s just going to get thrown back at me.

So yeah—I’m done interacting with this part of the fandom. For the sake of my well-being, I’ll be distancing myself from this space (for a while).

UPD: A lot of them are using and supporting C.AI. Block and forget about them. + harassing and stalking people.

All those people listed below the cut:

@milkteaarttime @stargazing-sapphire2 @moosch @lorvdz @ghostmoon1 @ll7esxs @liberty-mutual-138 @gunnrblze @shanatypewriter @shanadraws @wildmayhemz @maumausie @mango-parfait @steve-cat @blacktacmopsi or @bl4ckt4cm0ps1 etc.

[multifandomheathenannie]

I am honestly so fucking horrified right now by what's going on in the cod fandom right now..... The fact that a certain fellow cod fan may or may not have ended their life over something that was just a silly post to them, but became a witch hunt for their life because people have forgotten how to READ and INTERPRET is fucking insane. When I made my own addition to that gaz erasure post, it wasn't meant to add fuel to the fire, like I pointed out in my addition to the reblog where Ikea so very kindly helped me explain what I meant as a silly add on, because I was honestly as high as the fucking moon when I made that first addition.

Myka, if you're reading this right now, please, we're on your side.

Fandom is supposed to be a beautiful thing where we can all get together and lift each other up and support each other, not a toxic cesspool of death threats and witch hunts. Shame on you all that threatened Myka.

[liamthemailman]

this man sold me fentanyl

[asterias-corner]

ok ok ok

hear me out: roach, but NOT cis

[m0rgu3wif3]

ppl rlly send hate to fanfic authors on here who write bimbo!reader....bitch don't read it then, damn!! like it's 2024 we're all grown-ass adults, if someone writes things you don't particularly enjoy, hell you could even HATE what they're writing, just BLOCK THEM. I promise you no one fucking cares. There will always be an audience for people who are brave enough to post what THEY like and what THEY create online. You won't be missed if it isn't your cup of tea, I promise you.

"it's misogynistic !!" what's misogynistic is you rn girl. berating and bullying creators, who are women or femmes, and whom indulge themselves and others. it's a fucking story. it's fake !!! it's words on your screen that no one is holding you at gunpoint to read. put your device down, go pet your cat and drink some water and fucking chill.