I just came back to Tumblr after a couple of weeks and then sees the big ass complicated drama…. WHAT IS HAPPENING, GENUINELY 😭
well, @/391780/@/fulltacs have both uploaded posts and provided reasons to believe that myka (@codslut) and hannah (@sheheal) are lying about a death.
honestly, after reading all the posts about this situation, @sheheal seems weirdly suspicious about this entire thing, and their story isn't very clear, imo. there's not enough details, information, and evidence to back up their claim that myka has passed away.
hannah explained that they'd provide information to anyone who asked for it, but when someone actually DID ask for the information, they became ridiculously defensive and completely refused to explain how they'd found out about myka's death, before blocking them.
there are even screenshots of myka (@codslut) blocking someone after they had supposedly passed away... 😶
some people believe that "hannah" and myka are the same person, others believe that myka is deceased, and some believe that this is nothing but a sick and twisted lie. 😬
Feelin' a little zesty, gonna yap about the CoD fandom's repetitiveness
Aight, so before we begin, please understand that this is not an attack on anyone. I'm venting a lot of frustration, but ultimately, I mean no harm. I do not mean to make people feel bad about how they want to engage with this fandom. However, I've noticed a problem, and I think I need to point it out.
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The Call of Duty Fandom has a problem with doing the same thing over and over.
If it isn't with your fanfiction, it's with your fanart, and if it isn't with that, it's your headcanons. Listen, I'm sorry but I can't stand seeing the same shit over and over again. It's the same plot and the same dynamics over and over again.
To provide an example, in Ao3 there was a trend of making wolfshifter AUs, but they did the exact same plot again and again. It's all the same ship with the same plot. "Ghost is a hurt wolfshifter and Soap wants to help him" or it's reversed. Either way, in the end, you know they're gonna kiss and say they love each other.
I was reading a wolf shifter fic (that I won't name), and I just didn't quite like it. I felt kind of bad because the fic was perfectly fine—it was excellently written, but I just couldn't shake off this bad feeling. I got to the last finished chapter because the author hadn't finished the story yet, and I finally realized what it was. I have read the plot before, I knew the basic beats of the story before I even got an idea of what the ending looked like.
The plot is the same plot I've been reading since I got into this fandom in 2020: Ghost is a hurt man, Soap wants to help him, Ghost doesn't want him to, they get separated somehow, and then they both realize how much they need each other and they kiss. The end.
It's the same thing with fan art too. It's just Ghoap over and over and over again. It's the same dynamic again. Ghost is reserved or edgy, Soap is outgoing and sunny, and they both love each other. There's nothing wrong with that. My problem is that everyone is doing that ship, that dynamic, and nothing else. Guys, these two are not the only interesting CoD characters with cute dynamics. Please do something new.
Then there are characters like Roach. Honestly, this character also became tiresome because Roach x Ghost or Roach/Ghost/Soap is the new Ghoap. They do the same dynamic again and again until it's not interesting anymore. Or worst yet, they use Roach as an angst catalyst to prop up the upcoming Ghoap ship. They made this interesting character tiresome. I used to be excited to click on a Roach x Ghost fic, but now it's tiresome again because it's the same dynamic. It's literally Ghoap but the character in place of Soap is a quieter one. Wow! So interesting /s.
Then there's Keegan. Now, I don't harp on him too much because people try different things with the Logan Walker x Keegan fics, so there's not much to complain about there. I actually can't predict how these stories are gonna go because nobody has a real mold for these two. I see something new every time I see these guys.
Hell, the new Roach/Keegan ship is a new one and it's pretty exciting to see because I don't know what's going to happen. These two have something incredibly different going on, and it really makes you ask "Why do these two like each other? Where are they gonna go?".
The point of this post isn't to bash people or to shame them, but I really have to ask you guys: do you like seeing the same thing over and over? Do you like seeing the same story again with new words and a new author? Is it not boring? This isn't a comment on anyone's skill, but my point is that you guys should break out of the mold for a while. Come up with new dynamics and plots.
There's no shame in going against a fandom's norm or the 'fanon'. It gets stale following the same story again and again.
hi, Ive been writing and want to post fics in the future and I saw your post about tagging fics correctly. I’m not super knowledgeable on that could you give some examples on how to correctly tag fics? and then especially with dark fics, smut, fluff etc. as well?? sorry if you’ve already posted something about it I couldn’t find it ☺️
I haven't really made a post on how to properly tag posts (I say posts instead of fics because I'm talking strictly about Tumblr writings and not Ao3 works) but I'll do it now!
(NOTE: This post became so long that I'm too lazy to go through fully and edit it. So beware of any typos.)
How to Properly Tag Your Posts:
So I'm assuming that you already know how to tag posts in general. There's a section at the bottom of the post where it says "add tags to help people find your post" and you can just add up to 30 tags.
It's recommended that you at least have five tags, as the first five (I believe it's five, I'm going based off of memory of me seeing that somewhere) are specifically used to push your post out into the Tumblr world for everyone to see. That's not to say you can't use more than five, it's just that five is like the minimum you should use if you want people to see your posts.
Onto how to properly tag your posts.
How To Properly Tag "x reader" Posts:
First, I will be talking about how to properly tag your posts using the example x reader posts (because this issue was the start of this entire thing).
If you're writing with a female reader in mind (ie you use she/her pronouns to refer to the Reader or you use feminine terms ((good girl, wife, girlfriend, waitress, queen))), you should tag your post as female reader. Now there's many different ways you can tag it as female reader:
fem!reader
fem reader
female!reader
female reader
f!reader
f reader
x fem!reader
x female reader
x f!reader
There's also tagging it as "(Character) x female reader" (any of the female reader variations listed above). "(Character)" is just used in place for the character in which the reader is romancing/in a romance with. Just input whatever character is being romanced and voilà!
For example, if you wrote a Simon "Ghost" Riley fic with a female reader, you can tag it: "simon ghost riley x female reader" or "simon ghost riley x fem!reader".
(NOTE: I believe the use of capitalization ((or lack thereof )) is key to posts being tagged correctly and showing up in that specific tag, simply because after posting, any tag that I've had something capitalized is lowercase when posted. I don't know if this truly makes a difference, but I try my best to just do lowercase when tagging anyways.)
Now for any other reader (male reader and gender neutral reader), the same thing applies but with those variation of male reader tags and gender neutral reader tags: male reader, mreader, m!reader, gender neutral reader, gnreader, gn!reader.
How to Properly Tag Dark Fic Posts:
Now tagging for dark fics! Here are the most common tags I see when seeing properly tagged dark fics. (Before I scroll.)
dark fic
darkfic
dead dove
dead dove do not eat
tw: (input whatever trigger here)
cw: (input whatever content warning here)
Not a lot, but again, I don't read a lot of dark fics. I'll expand on trigger warning (tw) and content warning (cw) tags because I know how I worded that might be confusing.
So for example, say you're writing something with stalking. You'd tag it as "tw: stalking" or "cw: stalking". So basically anything you feel like you need to warn readers ahead of time before they go further into the post, you tag it using trigger warning or content warning followed by that thing.
Also, I believe it's good to add content/trigger warnings onto the post itself as well as tagging it with the content/trigger warnings. Just so that those who like dark fics can see what is in the post instead of looking in the tags (if the post is very long and doesn't have a "read more" thing, then a reader will have to scroll all the way down just to see the tags).
How to Properly Tag Smut and Fluff:
And lastly, we'll be talking about to properly tag smut and fluff. (Because there's also a problem in the COD fandom where smut isn't properly tagged.)
When tagging a smutty fic, it's important to not only tag it as smut, but also to tag what you may see in the post. (Similar to dark fics, but you don't have to put tw/cw in the tag.)
Examples of this would be:
tw: smut (I know I said you don't have to put tw/cw, but I do this tag simply just to cover my bases)
smut
bottom reader
bottom male reader
top reader
top male reader
sub reader
sub male reader
dom reader
dom male reader
x bottom reader
x bottom male reader
x top reader
x top male reader
x sub reader
x sub male reader
x dom reader
x dom male reader
(input whatever is being done in the post ((ie: oral)))
I'm going to stop there, because if I continue, the list will be very long and I've covered the gist of it. (Hopefully).
Now, again, I recommend also labeling in the post what's going on in the post, just because I know from personal experience that I don't really check the tags (until I've hit something where I'm like "is this tagged correctly, because this post should fall under my tagging filter) and it's just so nice to know what type of reader (bottom/top or sub/dom) the post is written for.
Now for fluff, it's easier because you can just tag it as "fluff" or "sfw". Not much needs to be done for tagging fluff. You can just tag it as fluff.
Some More Things of Note:
I have two more things to talk about. The first being the "read more" feature.
The "read more" feature can be put on your post when you start a new paragraph/start writing your post, as a whole set of options appear when you make a new paragraph/click on the "type here" when staring writing. (At least on web you can do that. On mobile, the read more feature is down at the bottom, right below where you can enter the tags.)
The "read more" symbol looks like this (and it's the same symbol on both mobile and web):
(Forgive my terrible screenshot abilities.)
Just click that symbol and it'll have a squiggly line with the words "keep reading" in between (and after posting it'll just appear as the words). The reason to use this post is when you have a very long post, as it will help others when they stumble upon your post while searching in a particular tag.
The last thing I wanted to talk about was the content label of post.
You find content label at the bottom right next to post (when you're on the web) or at the top right next to post when you click the meatball menu (when you're on mobile). The default is set to "For Everyone" but you can change it to mature (and select why it's mature, either for sexual themes, violence, or drug and alcohol addiction). Changing the content label of your post to mature can help give an extra security measure in addition to tagging your post.
So say you're writing a dark fic or smut, you can choose to change it to mature for violence (for a dark fic) or change it to mature for sexual themes (for smut). Just toggle on whichever you feel best fits the post and if the reader has that specific content hidden, it'll hide the post.
Anyways, that's all I can think of right now. I hope this post helped you!
(EDIT: I can't believe I wrote this post and forgot to talk about angst! Anyways, I hope whoever asked this is still reading this post, so they can know this answer.
So for angst, I'd follow the same steps for tagging dark fics with the tags being: tw: angst (again just to cover my bases), angst, and then input whatever tw/cw you want.
Again, I'd also label it on post that it has angst and then the content warnings for said angst.)
Before you decide to ban me, read this Google Doc. My side.
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. As well as spreading defamation, not showing full context, engaging in abusive behavior, being hypocrites, etc.
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.
i’ll be joining you because tell me why a x reader is tagged as gender neutral and then i’m slapped with the words ‘pussy’ and ‘cunt’???? i wouldn’t even care thaaat much if it was just that because i feel like i could maybe transmascify it, but i cannot excuse ‘princess’ ????? and ‘good girl’ ????
Righttt, I was recently reading a Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader post where the writer was talking about pegging Ghost and I was like "Okay, I can deal with this. I can place myself in the place of this Reader." Only for the writer to then hit me with the word "wife".
And like why?????
Oh God, I had to filter out the words "good girl" because writers looove to use it and not tag their posts as female reader! It's so annoying, especially when I go into the simon ghost riley x reader tag for some gender neutral reader since I've already read all of the male reader ones for the day and I just keep getting hit with untagged female reader posts.
And I hate the fact that I feel so rude for thinking about asking these writers to properly tag their posts. Like it's been normalized (for a lack of a better word) for the majority of x reader posts to not be tagged female reader. It's just so ridiculous, because they make it so much harder for us to filter out what we don't want to see.
And one last thing on this subject, I vehemently dislike the writers where they'll label their posts (like on the post) female reader but do it in a way where it's not exactly labeled as female reader and then they don't even tag it as female reader. What I mean by not labeling it as female reader, I mean they do like the word "fem!" and have something in between "fem!" and "reader", so my post filtering doesn't even work on it because I only filter "fem!reader" (and any variation of it).
The saddest thing is that I don't think this problem will be changing any time soon, unless we go asking for them to please tag their posts. But I'm sure they'd find a way to not do that and to put this all on us not scrolling away and not reading what we don't like.
I get a visceral reaction whenever I see someone say "If you don't like something, don't read it! Scroll away and block it!" When nine times out of ten, they're part of the problem because they don't tag their posts properly.
(And to no one's surprise, this is also a problem with darkfic writers, where they'll not properly tag their posts as darkfic. Like I have tag filter and post filters for this and still, I see darkfic shit because they manage to evade the filters. Some of this responsibility should be on the writers and not just all on the readers!)
Every day in this COD fandom, I fight the urge to comment on people's posts, asking them to please tag an x reader fic as fem!reader instead of just x reader. Because it's clearly fem!reader (they use feminine terms to reference/address Reader) and tags exist for a reason.
And every day I have to fight the urge because it seems rude, so I have to read every x reader fic and know that it's so, so likely that it's an untagged female reader fic.
