I mean the running it through the water supply and land property of one community versus the water supply and land property of another community. The people of Bismarck were concerned that the pipeline would directly put the quality of their water at risk, so they abandoned that route for another where Native American…

We'll allow The Peacekeeper Wars on a technicality

To specify, I work in reading and writing education/research, so this kind of stuff right here is particularly terrifying

This has always been the most baffling part of the election to me. Trump golfs and dines with these people. He's one of them. Why on earth would he set up a scenario where he imposes more restrictions and regulations on himself?

Because linguistics/language plays a huge part in my professional and personal interests, it's been equal parts interesting and terrifying to see the repurposing of conventionally leftist buzzwords and catchphrases for more extreme conservative viewpoints

Apparently the citizens of Bismarck (and the planners who listened to them) thought it was enough of a concern to have it rerouted somewhere else instead of through their water

I actually think the Inhumans could work if they would ever get the right writer to handle it. Tom King would knock it out of the park, but it looks like he's been conscripted into Batman duties for a while (and I sure as hell wouldn't trade writing Batman for writing the Inhumans)

Mentioning it because everyone's gushed about Lockjaw while forgetting about Karnak who "sees the flaws in all things", proceeds to break the shit out of them, and utters ominous and condescending monologues while doing so.

"a future in which Earth is no longer able to sustain life thanks to humanity’s action (so, in like, five years?)"

"Oh boy. I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars."

Ewan McGregor as Black Widow? Bold casting.

Just use the clone technology to make a Newbie Wan Kenobi!

Imagine an entire novel told from his first-person perspective with that dialect of his.

Freddy because you'll be sleeping,
Jason because you'll be in a cabin,
or Leatherface because you'll be in Texas.

This is one of those "agree to disagree" moments I guess. I can cite other authors and literary critics who make the case Dylan shouldn't have received the award, but they're in the minority, so I'm obviously against the consensus here (I've also never been a Robbins fan, so being outside of the consensus is nothing…

Well, lots of people think of themselves as poets. Go to any creative writing department at any university in the country and see how many undergrads self-identify as poets. Which is perfectly fine. I love that people want to write poetry. But if your goal when writing the poetry is to think of how this can then be…

Only sorta. It's the kind of rationale that proliferated all over the place from the 70s through the 90s as kids who grew up on counter-culture music were trying to legitimize it in college literature departments by saying ancient oral traditions are exactly the same as songwriting now. They aren't, though, because…

Literati in the US have been moaning for years about how rarely they seem to win the Nobel. Part of me hopes this is some hardcore trolling from the Swedes

My gripe is that songwriting and lyricism aren't the same as poetry specifically or literary writing broadly. They're two different art forms entirely, and awarding Dylan for literary writing both cheapens what he actually did by basically ignoring the musicality while also cheapening poetry which includes far more…

Could be wrong as I'm behind, but didn't Vision construct his family based on some sort of mental imaging imprint Wanda gave him?