it’s 2025. stranger things season 5 comes out in a few weeks, and the cast of stranger things are currently on the press tour for the final season, going to many interviews. noah schnapp is very disappointed with the way the last seasons script played out, the duffers basically queerbaited an entire fandom with byler, just to have the ship go nowhere. why build it all up, the lingering looks, the many retakes of scenes to get the facial expressions just right.. all the little details.. and up meaning absolutely nothing. the writing of the last season is just shitty all around, els character gets an ambiguous death, no update on the rovickie ship, nancy and jonathan broke up, and the worst of all. the fact that the character mike wheeler could have went down as one of the best repressed queer representations ever. its not like noah just let it all happen, he certainly suggested scenes and ideas to the duffs, but of course they were never used maybe it all felt a little too real for noah, hit a little too close to home. it bothers him, think about all the young will’s out in the world who would have felt seen, all the old gay men who were around in the 80s, seeing a story so similar to themselves. maybe it felt a little too real because of how close noah and finn wolfhard are. noah’s had a crush on finn for years, how could you not? i mean, have you even *seen* finn wolfhard? the two are close, of course they are, they’ve spent nearly a decade acting along side each other, growing up with each other. so here’s the deal. millie knows that noah likes finn, obviously.. since millie and noah are best friends. caleb and gaten both have a feeling that finn likes noah back. noah, for years, has had to push aside his feelings for finn.. i mean cmon.. finn might not even like guys. sure, he was always really touchy and close with jack dylan grazer during the ‘it’ movie press, and there was that one interview when they were younger where finn pulled up his pant leg to show his long socks, which had what appeared to be the colors of the bisexual flag on it. noah’s seen the posts online, people analyzing every little detail between finn and noah.. they even gave them a ship name; ‘foah’. everytime noah sees an edit of them, or a post of people discussing their body language, it makes his stomach flip. because he has a feeling that the fans may not be wrong, but he couldn’t live with himself if he made a move on finn, and he was wrong about his assumptions.