The Lessons Not Learned.

[vanaii]

I am not interested in writing for 50+ year olds with the tastes of children. I find those people extremely creepy and off-putting, especially with the fever with which they've defended the catastrophic state of Endwalker's writing. I consider my rewrite superior to the anime fanfic that was the MSQ that released in 6.0, and I say that with 0 reservation.

Why not write for children, then? XIV is for 13+, and a huge chunk of the Final Fantasy series itself could be snootily waved away as mere "fairy tales." Heck, Heavensward could be considered the biggest fairytale of them all: Dragon falls in love with a girl? Puh-leeze.

Dunno, I've fallen for the "I want it to be adult" trap myself; I've come to get over myself and simply enjoy things. Life would be boring looking down at my nose at anything that wasn't literary enough. That's what that CS Lewis quote is about, after all.

I am proud to say that not even high-school me would have liked that. Maybe as a literal child, I don't know. But in high-school you already have access to quality writing so you kinda know how it looks like.

Middle/elementary school you probably had the chance to read Bridge to Terabithia. I'm convinced librarians like to sneak that onto shelves as a trap!