Silence is Silver

18+. they/them

[depsidase]

[jarl-deathwolf]

If anyone would like to read a thorough take down of Sparta as a state not worth emulating, then ive got just the series of articles for you!

[heroineimages]

Reblogging because pissing on Sparta is one of my hobbies. And yes, totally check out the link above. Brett has a lot of great discussion and scholarship on why Sparta was proto-fascist garbage, and he presents it with both snark and accessibility.

[fierceawakening]

Holy shit. That’s… that’s worse than I thought it would be. Yikes.

[doctorjanedee]

Reblogging because more people should read the ACOUP Sparta takedown and fewer people should get their concept of history from fucking 300.

[fierceawakening]

No one should get their concept of history from 300, and I say that as someone who enjoyed 300. 300 is a comicbookification of a legend, and legends are already exaggerations.

[disorganisedautodidact]

A Great Divorce has also done an audio version of the ACOUP Spart takedown if audio is easier for you!

[heretherebedork]

Every babygirl needs two vibes...

[shijiujun]

We got our real last scene of Revenged Love guys!!! Chi Cheng and Wu Suowei at Papa and Mama Wu's graves.

— 逆爱 Revenged Love (2025) | EP. 24 - Full Finale

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[secriden]

This is a really small thing, but I wish the subs were a bit more clear that what Chi Cheng is saying here is just much more soothing and comforting in Chinese then "that's enough, don't cry, be good" is in English.

Chi Chen either says 后了(it's over/finished) or 好了(good enough) but either way, it implies something along the lines of it's okay, the worse is over or the worse has already happened which is a lot more comforting than "that's enough" IMO.

And 不哭了 does literally translate to 'stop crying' but it's in a much more coaxing/pleading and soft way, so more like please, stop crying, okay? rather than if someone were to say 'don't cry' as a command.

He also says 听话 which literally means "be obedient" (which they translated as 'be good), but also it's something a parent would say when they're soothing a kid who just skinned their knee and are helping them calm down and stop crying. I feel like "be good" in English has a much colder connotation, like he's telling Wu Suowei to suppress his sadness, and he very much isn't. The implication is more like listen to me, trust me, when I say things will be okay eventually.

I know the music and the way Chi Cheng is hugging Wu Suowei already tells the audience that Chi Cheng comes from a place of care, so I know this isn't crucial, but it just makes this scene so much sweeter and more tender and makes me appreciate how soft and caring Chi Cheng is being here.

[juliawvicker]

REVENGED LOVE EP. 05 / EP. 10 / EP. 12 vs. BEHIND THE SCENES

[markpakin-archived]

the shared braincell is on vacation

REVENGED LOVE (2025)

[dysphoria-things]

is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?

[dysphoria-things]

this is a part of the problem

[dysphoria-things]

you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.

but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!

you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”

[byjove]

Sometimes I see people from countries with public healthcare systems post videos that are like “This is the reality of socialized medicine. I had to wait in the ER with my sick baby for 4 hours.” “I had to wait 8 months to see a specialist. That’s egregious.” or “They didn’t have a bed for my loved one in mental health treatment.” and it’s like. Come to America babygirl. You can experience all of this and have your insurance deny it and pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it. Like I know healthcare systems in countries with public health can be bad but when I see someone imply they’re bad because the healthcare is universal, I want to jump through the screen and put my elbow on their throat. “The NHS is deeply flawed, therefore we should abolish it and go back to private healthcare. That will definitely make healthcare in this country better!” I am going to Kill You.

[allthestuffandeverything]

"socialized medicine is bad because I went to a doctor and they were shitty and dismissive and didn't help"

like yeah dude same here we just ALSO have to pay crazy amounts for it.

[rageprufrock]

Some random Chinese romantic/social dynamics I don’t see discussed in Western fujo communities that may help elevate the viewing experiences of other people who are fighting for their lives in the Revenged Love trenches:

Biting your boyfriend when you’re mad is a common enough joke/thing that there’s a running meme about handing your mans a stick or a towel to gnaw on and disinfecting his arm before you chomp him in rage. And I say joke or thing because regrettably my mom once had a dream where she got mad at my dad and she BIT HIM AWAKE and I have to live in a world where I have to know about this.

This is a sex dynamic I don’t think I’ve really seen elsewhere, but in Chinese relationships — especially if the couple is 30+ but generally after folks have gotten together — the sort of ongoing jokingly sexually aggressive person is usually the female partner. To the point where it’s ALSO a running joke that men will hide in the living room to sleep so they aren’t forced into sexual servitude by their partners. Or there’s one incredible Chinese TikTok bit where this guy is swaddled in his blankets looking all used up and wronged and his wife rolls out of bed pulling up her pants saying like “hey pretty good job today, keep it up,” and throws a bunch of random bills and vitamins at him while he cries and I cackled like a witch. (You can also see this in the extras of the Princess Royal, where our female lead is cheerful and great and our male lead is covered in hickeys crying about his back.) Probably an offshoot of yin/yang beliefs I’m guessing!

In episode 8, when Chi Cheng calls Suowei, and says what is subbed as “I’m going to fucking kill you,” it is actually a pun/homonyms(ish?) for “I want to fuck you to death,” which obviously our sweet stupid boy Suowei snarks back and interprets in the less phone sex murder sense until he actually clocks it when Chi Cheng is most the way to finishing while jerking off with the fucking belt I hate this show. I screamed like a panther through this entire scene. Tian Xuning is going to have to spend Chinese New Year alone in 2026 he absolutely cannot go home to the village after this.

This show is ruining my life and I’m only on episode 8. I’m almost grateful for censorship because if this is the high quality toxic yaoi I could have been eating since 2018 I would already be dead.

[mooninagust]

certified pet and pet owner REVENGED LOVE EP. 9

[secriden]

I need everyone to consciously process that Dou Dou is calling Wu Suowei 舅媽 (jiu ma) which isn't 'aunt/aunty' in the generic way that 阿姨 (a-yi) is, but is the specific term used to address your mother's brother's wife.

So when his sister gives Chi Cheng a look after asking '舅媽?' and he nods, that's him confirming to her what his intensions are to Wu Suowei - this is the person Chi Cheng would marry if he legally could. This is Chi Cheng making it absolutely clear that Wu Suowei is not another one of his flings or short-term partners. This is serious.

And I adore the way Wu Suowei checks that Chi Cheng is okay with this before he wholeheartedly embraces it. He specifically refers to himself as 舅媽 when he says "your uncle (舅舅) and I (舅媽) will visit you" which is his own overt way of confirming to Chi Cheng's sister that they're on the same page. Like gender norms be damned, Wu Suowei will stand by his man and make it clear that he's proud to be his partner.

God they make me feel insane. ;A; <3

(Also bless this kid for taking in the fond and affectionate look that Chi Cheng was giving to Wu Suowei and instantly deciding that the only logical explanation was that this had to be his jiu jiu's wife. xD)

[one-2nd]

I am cackling, no wonder dad almost jumped a back flip at his words.

[shijiujun]

"Dad, I found you a daughter-in-law. Aside from the fact that he's a man, he's perfect."

[dearbisexual]

dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

[dearbisexual]

for some reason, with this website, i was able to complete small tasks ive been fruitlessly bugging myself to do for weeks??

anyway, i feel almost good now :^)

[dearbisexual]

im glad this got some notes!!!! i hope it helps y’all find some measure of peace or comfort <3

[flavoracle]

Reblogging for my own reference later, and in case it benefits anyone else reading this.

[qillermeme]

[bundibird]

This is. Uh. A completely true story, apparently.

Ita not a recent story, but it is a true story.

[lumiklovstad]

You weren't gonna leave that awesome nuance in the whisper section, were you?

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[insomniac-arrest]

I hear god is testing us, do you want to copy off each other’s answers?