Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.