Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.20.45.251-20161103165218/@comment-27082610-20161104054557

KNN005 wrote: It's not pretentious, it's confident.

Just because it's familiar? You know how many Red Riding Hood and Wizard of Oz refs there are in games and modern books. I mean look at Ever After or Once Upon a Time. Everyone and their mama does "their version" of those tales. Their spin. And they're all just making homages to stories that really have no point in the grand scheme of things? They're the equivalent of filler chit-chat around a camp fire when you're out of shmores. 1. Those two things are not in any way mutually exclusive. You don't need to shove sublminal crap into everything you write, and doing so doesn't neccessarily make what you're writing better than someone who doesn't.

2. Yes. That is exactly why so many people make references to those things. Common ground makes things relatable. And stop acting like every story needs to be The Red and The Black or The Crucible or Paradise lost. People have been and will continue to make stories for the sake of telling stories since the dawn of langauge.