@Wrzlprmft I didn't see your message in chat until just now. I go through new tags every now and then and do the obvious synonyms, so I did marking yesterday and I just did morale for you.
@Wrzlprmft I don't like to unilaterally approve synonyms that I'm not totally sure about. Some of those have some subtle differences that people might care about
The rule is simple in general: use the present tenses when discussing events in literary works. One situation where this gets more complicated is where you have to switch timelines because, for example, we enter events through a narrator's memories.
I set an exercise about this in an academic w...
@D.Hutchinson @D.Hutchinson This is a late response, but the answer is no. Academia.SE is pretty much a concentrated clearing house of the worst of academia, but it's not nearly that bad. Just no one posts about the good stuff, because "How awesome and supportive is my advisor?" does not make for a good question. Honestly, the same is true of academic Twitter.