That awful moment when you learn that this wasn’t scripted. That Will Smith’s character was actually supposed to brush off the whole thing, but Will’s father actually had left him when he was younger and he just fell apart on the set and the hug at the end was from one actor to another, not one character to another.
That awful moment when Will Smiths father was present in his life and this moment was scripted and Will Smith is actually just a really good actor.
^ smartest baby in all the land
That awful moment when you realize it doesn’t matter one way or another what happened to Will Smith, because an actor’s individual motivations behind a performance are honestly as relevant to the emotional gravitas of that performance as authorial intent is to the experience of a reader. What matters is that this scene exists, and that it is masterfully played. What matters is that people like me, who HAVE had this happen, have this to look to in our times of need and loss and loneliness. In fact, isn’t it all the more remarkable if Will Smith didn’t have a neglectful father? Isn’t it more amazing that someone with a happy home life still managed to capture the pain and confusion that comes with being the victim of this kind of shit?
The performer’s intention is pointless. Stop the pedantic arguing about Will Smith’s life and just shut the fuck up and let those of us for whom this scene actually means something (gods forbid an episode of Fresh Prince actually hold emotional significance for someone!) continue to enjoy it and weep like babies every time it crosses their dashboard.
… Yes, I’m in a mood tonight. And I’m not apologizing.
AMEN
(via rubenesque-as-fuck)
The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.
Students make lots of money. They can afford 50% interest rates.
Banks are poor. They need 0.75% rates or the economy will collapse.
(via wilwheaton)
This twitter conversation between my wife and my Space Mom is the best thing in the world today.
COFFEE: BEFORE AND AFTER.
(Source: lookinglikethedoctor, via wilwheaton)
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: owlturdcomix: I thought I would share with y’all something that I’ve...
I thought I would share with y’all something that I’ve been playing recently: a little action roguelike called Delver. The game first piqued my interest several months ago, when it was in very early alpha and didn’t yet have a website; I downloaded it then and was…
she was a girl
he was a boy
can i make it any more convoluted and unnecessarily complicated
(via riker-wears-a-skant)
1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”
2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.
4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.
5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.
6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.
7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.
8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.
9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.
10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.
”Juan Cole, 08/09/2012
Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white supremacist/neo-Nazi hate groups.
(via sailorfemme)
Bleeding heart realist claptrap. Everyone *knows* if you’re white, it’s ok, or justified, or better yet, you’re just doing your part fighting back against Global Jihad/Immigration/Decency.
The sad thing is that the minor shakeup caused by the fact that white Caucasians (not redundant, as they were white with direct roots in the Caucasus) who underwent a radicalization of their religion, Islam, won’t alter this logic in the future. That they were Muslim gave people an out: “See? They might be white, but they’re the wrong kind of white!”.
The reality is that there are thousands, millions, of white Americans a step away from doing harm to their fellow Americans, on the excuses of religion, racial supremacy, gays taking over, government coming to get their guns, etc.
They, of course, are Real Americans, and freedom fighters.
(Source: juancole.com, via untowardness)
