In the middle of writing a comment to this answer. Should I encourage Liz to to expand the answer to include why Eliot read the word this way?
Also which posts (if any) about authorial intent should go in that comment?
@Gallifreyan Yes. Some of that went a little over my head (I don't remember all six pieces that he discussed, nor am I confident in my ability to explain it to someone else), and is one of the sections that definitely deserves a better reading on my end.
Also, whoa those are really nice arts that you just pasted in here, @Gallifreyan.
Hiya, @AndrewCarter. What's up? ...I'm curious if you can speak in this room, because you don't (as far as I can tell) have 20 points on any SE site, and shouldn't be able to use chat unless a moderator or room owner grants you permission. Can you talk in here? (Do you want to?)
...that's not actually helpful if you can't speak. Um...
Are you around, @Randal'Thor? I think someone may need to be granted permission to speak in here.
Actually, I don't know if that's possible. I just tried creating a room and granting access, but I was told that you don't have 20 rep (but then what is the purpose of granting explicit write access in a public room?). Hopefully that's different for a moderator.
Adam makes it happen!
This is the new UI for flagging comments:
The first flag replaces the former "rude or offensive" flag; the last replaces "other". The middle flag - "no longer needed" - is new, and is intended to cover both "too chatty" and the non-abusive uses of "not constructive".
I...
@Randal'Thor It shouldn't have been. I can't find MSE guidance on that flag reason atm (and anyway, it's obsolete) but I'm pretty sure that "not constructive" was reserved for Bad Comments that were under the threshold the "rude" reason. But it basically confused everyone.
@Randal'Thor Yeah.
Also, I only just noticed that flag reason guidance is included in the flag dialog! That's huge!
I mean, AFAIK q/a flags always had that, but comment flags didn't.
In Binti by NNedi Okorafor, the main character Binti has an object she refers to as an "edan" - it's an object that allows her to communicate with another species she encounters, and seems to have other properties as well. She mentions that it's some sort of ancient technology that no one knows w...
Based on interviews and BTS and the like... yes, very much so.
Edward and Bella are easy characters to dislike; I'm on record saying Twilight would've been a much better series if it'd been written as a psychological horror romance about two toxically dysfunctional people who are, separately, self-destructive--but together they reinforce each others' neuroses so that they can inflict themselves on the world.
> A dangerous combination of a passionate and powerful [vampire] and a young woman so very similar to him. Companions who are willing to push each other to extremes. [...] One wonders what the pair of you will get up to next.