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Like brother is written to be fine as fuck. Like Noah Schnapp is dashing, don’t get me wrong, but it’s so funny to me that the writers felt the need to emphasise this to us on THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS.

Like I get that they were going for a different flavour of queercoding than Mike’s in the form of he pulls he just doesn’t want them but it’s so funny to me lmao.

Also I genuinely love that they wrote a queer character that can be seen as desirable. Not just in like a funny haha way that you usually see where the dynamic involves: atypically thirsty straight girl plus queer character that is lowkey disgusted.

Because most portrayals of gay people usually fall into the category of:

- oh they ugly/nerdy/unpopular so only someone of the same sex could want them, specifically a fellow ugly/nerdy/unpopular someone of the same sex with no depth who’s only defining characteristic is their sexuality

Or

- oh they fine as hell they’ve got half of the global population thirsting after them, what a shame that it’s not the half that they want, we aren’t going to give them that in the end though, cba also we don’t wanna reward that sort of behaviour

But William Byers is a snarky cringefail loser nerd (affectionate) with a fuckass bowl cut who likes drawing dragons and dressing up in obnoxious robes and listens to obscure britrock and he’s also canonically fine as hell and he’s also pulling every girl ever and he’s also getting his mans in season 5.

And he’s also the sweetest guy in the world with character development and depth outside of his sexuality. And we’ve seen 4 separate people crushing on him, and one of them can not only actually get with him, but it’s the one he’s been whipped for for years. The way that he’s written sparks joy.

What a guy.