These people are giving the game away. They want to create a world in which no one has the desire to read, create or think, and eventually no one has the capacity to. Reading, critical thinking, the humanities, are never wastes of time; they are what make us free.
@alexa_rielle I think the only time I really noticed/paid attention to tense was when reading the Hunger Games. Thought it was a genius style choice for heightening the tension/paranoia - we the audience are experiencing everything with Katniss and don’t know if she’ll survive.
Growing up, some of us had our joys and enthusiasms bullied out of us. There’s no high like getting older and embracing the parts of yourself you were shamed into hiding. Embrace the joy of being your passionate, nerdy, splendidly strange self.
Just a PSA is that fanfic is just as worthwhile a creative endeavor and a finished, final product as original fiction and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise has only a superficial understanding of literature.