Me: I Ship Them

So the nightingale song was played by the Bentley at the end of season 2 just to be a dick about it lmaooo

I can see no evidence where Crowley mentions having an affinity for Queen. In the book he listens to classical, specifically Handel. In the show we see one copy of The Velvet Underground's greatest hits and three songs are canon via the authors.

You know who likes Queen, the Bently. This is why the Bently turns any music left in the car after a fortnight into Queen. If anything, Crowley is a victim of Queen.

also as pointed out" He considers leaving Hastur in the car stuck in voicemail until he turns into a best of queen but quickly decides that’s too horrible a deed even for a demon so I don’t think he likes them!"

Sometimes when Im sad i go look at those gay Air Nomads and everything is right in the world again

Every time Saiki says good grief I just imagine it being ‘for fucks sake’ and it’s already 10x better and 10x more in character

This screams Byler endgame.

'Do you think they had a situationship?'

Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

let's be honest, how else did we think he got all those fire extinguishers?

“You can’t leave this bookshop.”

“Oh Crowley,”

“… Nothing lasts forever.”

Happy (late) GO2 Anniversary ‼️😄

Nah but this is why I’m scared.

I suppose it's worth pointing out that, hypothetically, Byler could not happen. It wouldn't be because we were blind, or stupid, or overly hopeful, or anything like that. All the evidence is, indeed, there. However, the Duffers, again, hypothetically, could decide not to go with it for one reason or another. They could have Mike reject Will. They could use it simply to drive Will's gay coming-of-age story arc, including him learning to "move on." They could use it merely to make Will vulnerable to Henry, allowing him to be taken again. They could have one of them die (unlikely, given what we know). They could even have it never even be directly addressed.

However, none of this changes how bad this writing would be in this hypothetical universe.

They will have spent the better part of a decade building up a slowburn rejection. It wouldn't be any old slowburn rejection, though. It would be the slowburn rejection of a gay teen who did nothing but experience trauma and rejection since the very first episode, and even before. We will have gotten to see little glimpses into how happy he could be, but ultimately walk away knowing he will never be truly happy with the only one who would likely ever truly understand him.

I can't say that I've ever seen a slowburn rejection depicted on-screen in the first place. The fact that the rejection would come at the expense of a gay kid would be insensitive at best and homophobic at worst.

I choose to believe the Duffers are not that insensitive. I choose to believe that Noah, despite him seeming to enjoy playing a suffering person, wouldn't want Will to finish his story heartbroken. I choose to believe the writers know what they've been doing, not having fallen ass-backwards into a gay love story.

What do you believe?