what a sweet boy! falling for rey, falling for poe, falling for rose, and fighting for the galaxy all at once. he’s loyal and kind and funny and just the perfect man honestly. I just want everything good for finn
Okay, thinking about this got me weirdly very emotional. Cuz, we've all got our list of favorite queer characters, but we've also got this list of our favorite characters that we desperately wish were queer more than anything. The ones we held out hope for years and years that they would one day be confirmed queer, but never did. How many times does it actually happen that we can say that those characters made the jump to the other list?
Most of the time, queerness is established very early. Either as something that the character has already discovered, or as a coming out story within the first season or two. How often have fans been seeing queerness, and it never getting acknowledged? How often has that been ignored all because no one said it early? Fans loved Buck for so long, and have seen that he's queer, and have held onto that hope that one day it would be in the actual show. How often have fans waited to hear "you were right"?
Almost any time something queer happens it needs to be established fast, and anything straight cannot change. But this did, and honestly, the fact that I can say that Buck is now one of my favorite queer characters, makes me cry. There are so many others I hoped for over the years, but thank you 9-1-1 for being the first to let that hope not be wasted.
finn wolfhard is genuinely sick for this scene, i truly believe this is his best performance this season. like he made it so clear that mike wheeler is in love with will byers. mike is literally looking at him as if will hung the moon and stars, lit up the sun and painted the entire landscape around them.