Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.20.45.251-20161103165218/@comment-25266931-20161104053933

It's not pretentious, it's confident. I like what I write and I'm proud of it. Pretentious would be posting my work and saying it was better than RWBY and assuming yall would want to read my stuff between RWBY seasons. When I first read Naruto (back when people liked it) the author said we live in a time where some writers don't care about themes or morals. He said it was okay to write for entertainment, but not having any point behind the story beyond that in his opinion, was not productive. I agree. If you write something, teach with it. You can have fight scenes and romance and car chases, but there should be a point.

I figured if people thought JRR Tolkien stuff was good, and the Doyle Sherlock Holmes stuff and whatnot like those, then I was hoping other tales that constantly get referred to would be of the same. Something you could learn from, grow from, and build on. But if it means nothing, then what's the point of so many people recycling it? 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.