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mlmxreader · 6 months

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horangi needs more love

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getting back into CoD is and has been a fucking nightmare why is everyone so into mediocre white men (sorry lucky) gaz and horangi and farah are right there please love them instead i have decided to take it upon myself to husband the fuck out of all three and this is my horangi madness

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You're not invincible (horangi x m!reader, reader gets injured + lectured?)

You're all doomed (damsel in distress!horangi x knight in shining armor!m!reader)

I am the shadow where there once was light (murdered!horangi x vengeant!m!reader)

u get ONE mcd. as a treat. ONE.

okay but, like, you're so right? like, broadly speaking about the fandom itself of course bc tbh I don't engage with it widely and unlikely will again, but; from what I've seen, when it comes to characters who aren't White (Horangi, Gaz and Farah specifically), they're often brushed aside and treated as lesser by the fandom as a whole. I mean, almost every "141 group" piece of media (fanfic, edits, etc) almost always excludes Gaz and replaces him with König. even tho Gaz has a personality.

even tho Gaz is the protagonist of the games. and it goes further than that, bc like w Horangi, the fandom makes him into some "UWU soft boy who needs Königs attention 247 or else he gets upset uwu" stereotype of Korean men. w Farah, there's just... there's so little content about her but it's almost always somehow either demeaning or erasing the fact that she is canonically a Muslim.

and like, if it was just a one off, a sorta "oh, okay, Gaz isn't in this fic but he's in tens of thousands of others", it'd be less prominent, but the fact remains that the COD fandom has a serious issue with race and cannot and DO NOT treat the characters they claim to "love" NEARLY as well or w as much dignity as they do White ones.

like, people won't even do a quick Google search of what Muslims believe before doing HC lists, and will include things that just simply aren't done by most Muslims. (bc ik you remember THAT hc list that we both saw)

it's sickening, like, when a fandom that calls itself a "community" consistently and constantly aligns itself with racist ideology of which is most often on the side of fetishisation when it isn't on blatant erasure, it kinda loses its right to turn around and say that it's "so inclusive" because it's not. it aligns itself with this liberal ideology that, hey, as long as you're NICE about it, you can be racist!

and obviously I'm not Black, Korean or Arab, but it has to be extremely exhausting, dehumanising and demoralising for people who ARE who have just joined the fandom only to find out that it's so drenched in racism that, if you turn around and you call people out for being racist, you're branded as "needing to go outside".

it's disgusting. like, point blank. it's absolutely vile.

and like, it's VERY similar to ao3 in that the MAJORITY of people who are doing these kinds of things are White Women as well, so OF COURSE they always put on the "I'm innocent I swear!!!" White Woman Tears™ when their behaviour is rightfully addressed, and that only ADDS to the toxic and abusive nature of the cod fandom, bc it makes it unsafe for people who aren't White EVEN MORE.

it's just gross. stop it. stop being fucking racist you ghouls.

anyway. rant over.

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