Favorite Story Motifs I Don't See Explored Often Enough.
The weight of all that you inherit; from your family, your childhood, your identity, your heritage, your race, your skin color, your health, your disability, your economic status, your appearance, all these subgroups that precede you and have their own history and culture that only makes up one aspect of who you are but never the whole (Yet manages to feed into the collective trauma you have.).
Memory as a binding force and an agent that can be tied to damn well anything and the mutability of that.
Human beings as living mosaics that are composed of several differing parts and pieces, along with the inevitable fact that not even you know the entirety of all that you embody or will embody in the future.
Devotion; weather it's to the wrong people or the right reasons and how it can consume you or rule your entire life.
Interpretation and how the context of an event, emotion, or situation can affect how one views something based purely on their point of view.
The act of surveillance and the experience of being seen or watched; either wanted or unwanted and how that can feed into the need or compulsion to perform or hide away.
Religion, belief, and one's relationship to the known and unknown parts of the universe and how that particular lens affects everything about how you relate to the world around you and other people.
The unspoken understanding that can exist between two or multiple people or lack thereof.
Intimacy and the myriad forms it can take shape: Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, verbal.
The roles that have existed for so long and just how disconcerting or confusing it can be when you or someone else doesn't fulfill or fit into it like their expected to.
Gateways and liminal spaces that are in-between areas that everyone eventually must pass through to get to where they want or need to go.
The hidden borders that separate us from eachother due to our differing perceptions and the frustration that comes with being unable to bridge them fully.
The very fine line between socialization and grooming and how that overlaps with the concept of natural inherent belief and expectations we internalize due to reinforced learning.
A person, space, or event just being allowed to breathe and exist in the moment without needing to soliloquize everything and having that be enough.