As the focus of the plot in this novel is a cartoon, the characters talk about the attack in the Charlie Hebdo headquarters. On 7 January 2015 the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers. The duo murdered 12 people and injured 11 others.
The cartoon "The Ink Black Heart" originated when its creators were at Highgate Cemetery.
At the cemetery Robin sees famous graves:
- The famous horse statue in London's Highgate Cemetery marks the grave of John "Jack" Atcheler (1792–1867), a prosperous Victorian knacker who styled himself "Horse Slaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria".
- Mary Nichols is famous for her striking grave monument in West Highgate Cemetery in London. Known as "The Sleeping Angel," the grave features a lifelike sculpted angel resting peacefully on a bed of stone clouds.
- Baroness Elizabeth de Munck (1767–1841) is buried in the West Cemetery of Highgate Cemetery in London. Her striking and unusual tomb features a carving of a pelican feeding its young, symbolizing ultimate maternal sacrifice.
-The renowned English poet Christina Rossetti is buried in the historic family plot on the West side of Highgate Cemetery in North London. She was laid to rest there on January 2, 1895, following her death on December 29, 1894. Her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, famously had the grave opened in 1869 to exhume a manuscript of his poems that he had buried with Elizabeth Siddal
They also use the term sock puppet account. a fake online identity used to deceive people. People or groups make these secret secondary accounts to pretend they are independent, rig online votes, praise themselves, or trick others into thinking a large crowd agrees with them.
Cancel culture is something that the characters also mention. a modern form of public shaming and social ostracism where people use social media to withdraw support, boycott, or call for professional consequences against individuals or organizations accused of unacceptable behavior or offensive statements.
Kea claims that Edie stole her ideas for the cartoon because she says that she told Josh about Margaret Read, accused of witchcraft. Margaret Read (also called "Shady Meg") was an English woman. She was burned at the stake for witchcraft in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1590. Legend says her heart flew out of the fire and hit a nearby building.
Robin and Pez go to a pub in Highgate called The Flask. The Flask is a Grade II listed public house at 74–76 Highgate West Hill, Highgate. The pub is believed to have been named after the flasks of Hampstead mineral water that could be purchased here when Hampstead was popular for its wells in the 18th century.
The Flask pub in Highgate, North London, include a tragic Spanish barmaid who reportedly hanged herself in the cellar out of unrequited love, and a phantom man dressed in a 17th-century Cavalier uniform who walks through the main bar before vanishing into a pillar.
Kea lives in King's Lynn. King's Lynn is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk.
Kea calls himself a spoonie. A spoonie is a person who lives with a chronic illness, invisible disability, chronic pain, or mental health challenge that limits their daily energy. The word comes from the "Spoon Theory," a metaphor created by writer Christine Miserandino in 2003, where physical spoons represent units of daily energy.
Edie and Josh met at North Grove, an art collective. An art collective is a group of creative people who work together to share tools, space, ideas, and goals. They often unite around a shared style, political goal, or social belief, choosing cooperation over traditional business rules.
The nicknames that are used on Twitter represent famosu people. One is Julius Evola, who is also the philosopher who Nils follows. Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974), better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as traditionalist, aristocratic, martial and imperialist. An esoteric thinker in Fascist Italy he also had ties to Nazi Germany.
Zoltan Kodali was a Hungarian composer. Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
Scaramouche is a nickname connnected Bohemian Rhapsody. In Queen’s "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Scaramouche" refers to a stock clown or buffoon character from 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte theater. Traditionally depicted as a boastful, cowardly, and deceitful character who gets outwitted or beaten up, the term sets a theatrical, dramatic, and slightly absurd tone for the song's operatic section.
Marc Lépine was a Canadian misogynistic terrorist and mass murderer who perpetrated the École Polytechnique massacre, where he murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 women and four men at École Polytechnique de Montréal, on December 6, 1989.
Maz Reger was a composer. Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.
John Baldwin was another composer. John Baldwin (d. 1615) was a singer and music scribe, affiliated with St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and later with the Chapel Royal, who copied more than 400 pieces of music.
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