<p>Also, I’ve been having some weird thoughts about the loss of innocence after watching <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&list=PLJA_jUddXvY62dhVThbeegLPpvQlR4CjF">that series</a> by Innuendo Studios. Something about how being confronted with new knowledge and being asked to internalize it feels like being robbed of innocence. I don’t know how much I want to reference that directly or just make it a metaphor or what. Given the New Weird nature of it, metaphor is probably better: sudden change of those around (maybe sudden new knowledge?) leading to a challenge of prior assumptions. It’ll have to be long enough to get all those words in there; maybe a novella?</p>