You Do Not Yield

Molly | 25 | 18+ blog | They/Them | AO3 itsthemaze | pfp by kestis_advent

[itsthemxze]

AO3 : https://archiveofourown.org/users/Itsthemaze/works

Main fandom I write for is The Maze Runner but I’m currently majorly fixated on LOTR and the hobbit

Other fandoms that pop up include stranger things, rwrb, osemanverse, supernatural, and probably so many more.

I make a bunch of text post and meme edits, often using Snapchat, and it’s chaos and I love it and I never plan to stop

Proship always, don’t like don’t read. I do my best to tag but sometimes forget when on mobile !

Occasionally reblog nsfw posts so listed as 18+ in bio. Minors are welcome but pls don’t engage with nsfw content.

Love getting asks but forever forgetting to reply it’s a curse 💔

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[goth-queen]

[my-dailydreams]

[wholesome-animal-images]

[ruinedchildhood]

[garashir]

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

[lesbiansforboromir]

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

[doberbutts]

“trans men don’t experience misogyny because they’re men thus cannot experience women’s oppression”

I hate to tell you this but even cis men experience misogyny if they step a toe over the line of what our incredibly sexist society sees as “proper” for a man. You really don’t think that a man with interests or expression the world sees as “female” aren’t treated with violence?

[doberbutts]

“would you say that of other privileged groups? do you think white people experience racism?”

I mean sometimes they do yeah. I know a white guy with monolid eyes and zero known Asian ancestors and he absolutely experiences anti-Asian racism on a fairly regular basis because people think he’s mixed Asian/white. I know a woman who was told throughout her life that she was Native as an adoptee with no known history or background who experienced incredibly violent amounts of anti-Native racism until she discovered as an adult through DNA test that she is 100% white. I know white people who tan incredibly dark in the summer comparatively that are constantly accused of being mixed race and experiencing racism due to that, usually anti-Mexican racism perpetrated against white people with Greek or Italian ancestors.

Their ability to make it stop by saying “hey, I’m white actually” only goes as far as the person enacting violence on them is willing to believe them. They still have to live with the trauma and physical scars from the altercations. We live in a racist world and thus there will be violent people who force all others to pass a whiteness test and eliminating or harming the rest.

[doberbutts]

Got an ask that I just block/deleted but it was basically “so you think cis people experience transphobia!?!?!?!?” and uh

If you think cis butches don’t experience both transphobia and misogyny and homophobia for daring to be women who break gender roles while still holding onto their womanhood you’ve sorely misunderstood just how bad butches have it in this world sorry. If you don’t think cis queens experience transphobia and homophobia and misogyny for daring to be men who break gender roles while being loud and proud about it and still holding onto their manhood then you’ve sorely mistaken just how bad they have it in this world as well.

Not to mention all of the cis men who wear dresses and skirts and makeup and nail polish and heels simply because they like them who experience all of these things. All of the cis straight women who simply just exist but something about them doesn’t pass society’s “woman enough” test, leading to them being caught in bathroom bills and sporting rules and being attacked by people who mistake them for being transgender or gay.

Just like how straight people experience homophobia to such a degree that they literally beat their children out of any potential deviance from rigidly upheld gender roles and let politicians make jokes on national TV about how they’d drown their pre-teen kids if they came out as LGBT. Do you really think a straight kid still figuring themselves out hears that and doesn’t internalize that homophobia? Doesn’t rigidly hold themselves to some impossible standard so that no one could ever possibly think they’re gay? You don’t think straight teenage boys who maybe don’t pass some bully’s straightness test are getting the shit kicked out of them for “being gay” when, surprise, they aren’t? You don’t think all those kids being attacked by their priests and coaches and teachers are being told “this wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t gay” when they’re literally not gay? Do you know how many straight kids had close calls at my school that famously expels all gay kids, because someone made up a believable enough rumor? Do you know how many of them still got their shit kicked in even though administration ultimately decided to let them stay?

All bigotry is violent and all bigotry catches people it doesn’t “intend” to and hurts them as well. It doesn’t matter what someone’s label is, or if they even have one. It matters if the person enacting the violence is doing it because their victim didn’t pass whatever “acceptable enough” test they didn’t know they were being subjected to.

Everyone is at risk. Oppression doesn’t care what your label is. Some people are more visible targets than others, and as a result those people are the more common targets. That doesn’t mean no one else experiences it.

[doberbutts]

My first post to reach 2k without people clowning in the notes I feel so proud

[sophie-baybey]

[queernobi]

I think a lot of y'all need to learn the difference between structural oppression and simply experiencing certain aspects of that oppression. Like, genuinely.

Like if I as a white person got really tan, to the point that people thought I might actually have brown skin, and then had a bunch of other white people call me the n word repeatedly based on that…that would still be fundamentally different than calling a Black person the same thing. Like, not even a little bit close. Even if by some freak accident some chemical in the tanning solution made me permanently dark-skinned and forced me to experience even a good chunk of the sort of structural pressures Black people experience everyday, I would still be able to point to ancestry and accumulated white social and actual capital to protect myself from the worst of it. “Whiteness” and race as concepts may not be tangibly real, but structures have been built and maintained to ensure that everyone is forced to accept them as if they are real. Currency may not really be “real,” but that doesn’t suddenly mean I can go to the bar with Monopoly money and buy the whole place out.

A white person experiencing certain aspects/consequences of structural racism does not suddenly mean you can be racist against white people*. A cis woman being stopped outside the bathroom because someone thought she was a trans/nonbinary woman is not the same as a trans/nonbinary woman experiencing the same. And while I think the question of whether or not transmasculine people experience misogyny is extremely myopic (as are most answers to that question), I wish more transmascs like me would start to consider the idea that a lot of the issues (though not all of them) we experience that we may be tempted to call misogyny might actually just be transphobia and anti-transmasculinity. Moreover, I wish generally people had an understanding of patriarchy where it was less “man vs. woman” and more “man vs. non-man,” where trans men–yes, even the most manly, straight, passing trans men you might know–will never fully be accepted as men broadly, simply because they are trans.

*There is a larger discussion to be had about how whiteness is defined differently outside of the U.S., and so a person who might be seen as “white” here may not be seen as such elsewhere, but considering most of the people reblogging this aren’t even able understand structural oppression broadly, I really don’t think y'all are ready for THAT conversation.

[doberbutts]

White guy tries to tell black guy how oppression works, more news at 10.

[queernobi]

Yeah, I guess that has to be the case, when you think that a white person having monolids experiencing anti-Asian sentiment is the same as actual anti-Asian racism. 🤷🏻

[doberbutts]

So when my ex gets beaten up and called racial slurs for Chinese people, he is not experiencing sinophobia. Gotcha. Thank you, white guy, for telling me how racism works 👍

I think you may need to tell that to the Sikhs killed due to Islamophobia, since white Americans can’t tell the difference.

This is a conversation about intersectionality.

[queernobi]

I’ve gotten my ass kicked because someone thought I was disabled. That doesn’t suddenly make me disabled.

And it should be telling to you that anti-Sikhism has its own section and is, notably, not under Islamophobia, despite them being related and generally based on anti-Middle Eastern/Arabic sentiment. The comparison is also not 1:1 given we are talking about groups that are made to directly benefit these oppressive forces being compared to ones that are directly harmed by them vs. two religious groups that have been marginalized and racialized in the U.S. based on misunderstandings of both.

[doberbutts]

It’s funny you say that, because it doesn’t make you disabled, but it does make you affected by ableism. Don’t believe me? Ask the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

My ex being injured by racists who thought he was mixed Chinese does not make him Chinese. That’s not at all within the text of this post so it’s a weird thing to argue. But it does make him affected by sinophobia, because it was the hatred of China and Chinese people that caused this problem. Bigotry comes from the bigot, not from the identity. Again, don’t believe me? Ask the US DOJ.

Read that again. Actual- or perceived- protected demographic. By definition, my ex experienced several anti-Asian hate crimes. So did my friend who turned out to not be Native. So did I when people more commonly mistook me for latina. That is the actual federal wording.

I’m not hiding behind my race or the argument of intersectionality. I am saying that you, a white person, are attempting to incorrectly explain how oppression works to me, a black person, who is using the actual definitions of what these words mean and how they are treated within political theory off of social media, because you are using a dramatically incorrect and incomplete view of the theory you’re trying to explain.

This is like. Really basic black theory knowledge. Really basic sociology theory. Even really basic feminist theory. If you are in the US, this is very literally how it works and how it’s defined. This is an intersectional conversation where thinga don’t quite fit into neatly sorted boxes.

Sikhs have long held an acknowledgement that some of the shit they go through is not even “supposed” to be directed at them. And a lot of Muslims have acknowledged the same, whether it’s in a wiki article or not.

It’s also weird that you’re so resistant to acknowledging that we have so much more in common than we don’t, and that things aren’t always so clear cut and easy to label. Someone experiencing oppression that’s not “for them” does not make them incapable of enacting that same oppression onto someone else, someone whose identity more fits the concept, or even someone just like them as a precautionary. Hell, someone experiencing oppression that DOES fit the label doesn’t even mean they can’t enact it on others- or did you miss that there are cis women on the Supreme Court that gleefully voted away reproductive rights? Did you miss the black politicians who happily buddy up to racists if that means they’ll get elected again? Did you forget that people like Kanye West and Caitlyn Jenner exist?

Learn to share. Learn to see yourself in your fellow human being. You might be surprised what you find there.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

[riverlarking]

i love clicking on somebody’s ao3 profile and seeing the most nonsensical collection of fandoms. like yess let's live a thousand lifetimes

[ruinedchildhood]

[catchymemes]

the cats be like

[corneliaavenue]

i love being a fangirl. i was always meant to care too deeply about the media i consume

[vile-things]

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[my-dailydreams]

[808-bantar]

Queen

[rimonoroni2]

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.

[targetedknowledge]

[ouidamforeman]

my hot take on the fantasy genre is that it's not inherently bad to do a medieval europe based fantasy world or really any european inspired fantasy world, in fact i like that stuff and think it can be very cool and while yeah definitely diversify the historical cultures the genre bases fantasy worlds on, that's always good and having european culture be the default for everything ever is bad, the problem here i never see anyone talk about is that people keep somehow making medieval and early modern europe boring as fuck and not understanding anything about it

[kriemhilde-in-the-castle]

No because LITERALLY. As both a fantasy enjoyer and huge nerd for (especially German) histroy having a setting similar to the HRE would be insane.

Like, y'all. You literally had this GIANT construct of a bunch of different-but-just-similar-enough cultures and lands from a huge ass empire that would end up being the major power in the continent and STILL couldn't get along. Imagine the political intrigue you could write with an HRE-esque super empire in a fantasy world.

Emperors weren't born but instead elected by nobles, each small dukedom and kingdom and bishopric and whatever had their own degree of independence, there was constant political intrigue. tHE SLOW DECLINE OF CENTURIES. They have rivalries with each other. Everyone is just similar enough to make for valuable allies against the outside while still beind different enough to wage war against. You could do so many cultures and different ideas. Just LOOK at the map of the thing irl!

YOU SEE THAT!? THE DRAMA THAT COULD BE DONE WITH A FANTASY HRE.

[imjunebitch]

"can mutuals dm" "can mutuals ask for your discord" girl, mutuals have an implied invitation to my wedding