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-<p>Backronym this :P</p>
+<p>Backronym this :P <em>A Time Approaching</em>?</p>
 <p>Initial challenge: some sort of New Weird story that must incorporate all those lovely words that pluralize with -ata.</p>
 <ul>
 <li>dogmata</li>
-<li>enemata</li>
 <li>miasmata</li>
 <li>stigmata</li>
 <li>traumata</li>
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 <p>Maybe also:</p>
 <ul>
+<li>enemata</li>
 <li>carcinomata</li>
 <li>lymphomata</li>
 <li>melanomata</li>
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 <p>Secondary challenge: first usage of MarkMyWords</p>
 <p>Also, I&rsquo;ve been having some weird thoughts about the loss of innocence after watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&amp;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll have to be long enough to get all those words in there; maybe a novella?</p>
+<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
+<p>Stigmata and Miasmata: Marks appear on <em>everyone&rsquo;s</em> bodies somewhere, intricate and fuliginous, sometimes shifting. It&rsquo;s as if they do not exist; appear to eyes, in photos, etc, but only when viewed by people, not electronics. Scans show that they are being seen and recognized by people, but even attempting to register the input in retinas fails. No one knows what they mean; it is apparently up to us to figure out what they are.</p>
+<p>Traumata and Dogmata: It becomes divisive, but mostly among older generations. A small portion apparently have theirs on the inside somewhere, as proven by autopsy, but they nonetheless attempt to declare themselves somehow more pure. Various other divisions begin to form, based on shape, whether to celebrate or hide, etc.</p>
+<p>(unsure from here on out, it feels dangerously close to preachy)</p>
+<p>Lemmata and Schemata: Some are drawn to the fact that it seems to draw attention away from other divisive factors, or at least prove their absurdity; what matters race when we so easily form groups around non-existent marks?</p>
+<p>Anathemata: The generation who grows up in the era of the stigmata are universally changed in some ineffable way. More organized, more filled with light, more chill, resistant to adopting parents&rsquo; attitudes, less religious, almost nihilistic except in that meaning in life is what you create, some shared knowledge etc. ~~Perhaps they can&rsquo;t see the marks?~~ This does not go well with parents. Try to war, doesn&rsquo;t work; drafts universally fail, etc.</p>
+<p>Melismata: To whom does the future belong? Certainly not to you. It belongs to us, and then it doesn&rsquo;t. There is a taste of the metamodern to time itself which cares not for belief and meaning, cares not for us. It is our responsibility to create meaning, to believe as we will. And yet by virtue of that these things are melismata in the world: fluttering, changing, and then gone. And that&rsquo;s the beauty of the whole thing.</p>
+<h2 id="outline">Outline</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>Epigraph - Isaiah 49:16 - See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.</li>
+<li>Stigmata</li>
+<li>Miasmata</li>
+<li>Traumata</li>
+<li>Dogmata</li>
+<li>Lemmata</li>
+<li>Schemata</li>
+<li>Anathemata</li>
+<li>Melismata</li>
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