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Okay so I’m thinking about when I was a kid watching TNG with my dad, and how the TNG fandom even now mocks Wesley Crusher. My dad did it too, but when I was younger I actually secretly loved his character and I’ll explain why.

I was a kid who was always told how smart they were. I was told that, but I was dismissed, all the time. When a subject would come around that I knew a lot about, or I’d voice something about a subject my parents or my teachers NEEDED to know (typically about me, about the difficulties I was having) they’d wave it off or say I was telling outlandish stories.

Wesley Crusher was a smart kid. But more importantly, he’d suggest things or speak up about subjects he knew better on, and he would be RIGHT. Like. That’s so important for a kid like me to see.

Wesley sometimes knew better than adults. Wesley was sometimes listened to and respected like a peer. Wesley proved to me that just because I was young, didn’t mean I didn’t know what I was talking about, and that maybe eventually someone would listen.

I get that the fandom joke is ‘shut up, Wesley’, but I shut up for most of the childhood I could remember. And then I spoke up until someone listened. That was important, and characters like Wesley Crusher are important for that reason too.

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shutup-wesley

yo read this ^^^^^^^^^^^

shutup-wesley
necrofuturism
me: [sees a post demonizing wesley crusher]
me: [eyes glaze over and roll back into my skull]
me, internally: WESLEY CRUSHER WAS PRESSURED INTO JOINING STARFLEET FROM THE MOMENT HE WAS BORN AND YES, WHILE HE MAY HAVE HAD A GENIUS INTELLECT, HE SPENT A GOOD PART OF HIS FORMATIVE YEARS ON THE LITERAL FLAGSHIP OF FEDERATION DOGMA AND HUMAN PREJUDICE, AND IN THE END HE REALIZED THAT IT WAS NOT THE THING FOR HIM, NOT TO MENTION THAT HE WAS CONSTANTLY EXPECTED TO BE THE MODEL OF A JUNIOR OFFICER BUT WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE ANY PART OF THAT RESPONSIBILITY ON HIS SHOULDERS IN ACTION HIS SUPERIORS CONSISTENTLY DENOUNCED HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SITUATION WHEN, IN FACT, HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS RIGHT SO FUCKING TELL ME WHY THIS KID DESERVES TO BE THROWN ABOUT AND LAMBASTED FOR BEING OCCASIONALLY VISIBLY AND VOCALLY UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT HIS OWN SITUATION ONE MORE TIME I DARE YOU
#omg thank you
shutup-wesley

let's all give a big belated shout-out to our main man WIL WHEATON, whose birthday i awkwardly forgot about yesterday because i was eating pizza.

let's celebrate with the only gif of wesley i have on my computer

#wesley+crusher#wil wheaton