User blog comment:BrianBerta/Are all ritual pastas pretentious?/@comment-24466828-20160116223128/@comment-24101790-20160117031949

Really because I didn't see how it was pretentious (one of the main reasons you marked it in the first place) in any way. It doesn't use purple prose, it doesn't name drop important terms, or discuss intricate theories. Additionally being short or 'short writing' isn't a valid reason for deletion. There's a number of flash fiction on/off the site that focus on telling a story effectively with 1-2 sentences.

It isn't as much a ritual as it is a 'what to do' scenario if an entity is outside your window, tapping on the glass. The others were generic/cookie-cutter. ('I'm a demon/shadow, do this. OOOOoooooOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!"), and tended to have that 'why am I doing this ritual?' tendency that weakens a story.