Shout Out / Revolving Door

• Hong Yi is mentioned to have read Homestuck in A Fish Out Of Water, and implied to consume enough Superhero media to be Genre Savvy about not revealing his powers.
• Hong Yi uses Facebook in the story. An allusion to his "actual" Facebook account, which can be accessed here.
• World 1 is one big reference to AlicesAdventuresInWonderland, with the Queen of Hearts (named Gertelina, actually the daughter of Alice in Wonderland's Queen) being a major character in the story, and Alice Liddell herself an historical figure in that world and a case study of particular interest to researchers of Cosmogony.
• The political unrest that swallows the Queendom's four noble houses is a shout-out to the real-world WarsOfTheRoses, and particularly William Shakespeare's portrayals of the subject. Manipulative Bastard and Chessmaster Adamanta is inspired by Shakespeare's RichardIII.
• A Take That! directed at Tesla Inc. in the form of Tesla Futures, a MegaCorp that has a concerning overreach of control over AI technology, computing devices and urban planning in the United States.