Queers of fiction & Hakuji are life 🎆🏳️‍🌈

I love how the manga translated Steve's hurt so well..😭 My baby was just hurt and tired of being abandoned. The one boy who he loved the most doing it broke him to pieces and he was never able to let go. It became his obsession. Darren was his obsession.

Steve's obsession with Darren is heavily tied to the idea that Darren is the person who defined his life. Darren is the one person Steve feels connected to, betrayed by, and unable to let go of.

The tragedy of Steve and Darren is that Darren's transformation into a half-vampire fundamentally changes everything. Their old friendship becomes something Steve can't return to, and he keeps trying to force Darren back into the narrative he believes.

Anyone who gets between them becomes an obstacle, and Darren’s “safer” vampire life, as safe as being a vampire can really be, can never erase the bond Steve believes they share. So Steve keeps disrupting it, forcing his way back into Darren’s life again and again.

Without Steve, Darren probably would’ve had a relatively unremarkable, fairly uneventful existence as a vampire. Instead, one badass gray-haired obsessive fiend somehow turned Darren’s roughly 20 years as a vampire into 12 whole novels, while Crepsley’s first 100 years fit into two books. xD

Steve's relationship with Darren is not a normal friendship. Darren is the person who understands him, challenges him, and remains tied to his life in a way nobody else does. Darren represents excitement, danger, the supernatural world, the part of himself he can't escape. Steve would absolutely see himself as the person who brings out something Darren tries to suppress.

Steve's energy is all, "You think you can walk away and forget all about me? You think you can become a vampire and leave me behind?"

Which is darker and less romantic (because even tho I ship them so hard, I know they're not gay at all ^^;).

And Steve's hatred isn't just "I want Darren back." It's also jealousy, resentment, obsession, and wanting to prove that Darren's choices are wrong. He has a strong possessive "you can't escape me" undertone.

Thanks to animal ag/omnivore diet, in 4 yrs we're headed for global crop failures, and by then only 10% of forests will remain. Livestock grazing alone is responsible for 38% to 40% of global deforestation, with cattle ranching accounting for 72% of deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. 

The Climate Healers reported that animal ag/omnivore diet is responsible for at least 87% of greenhouse emissions. Lobbyists of meat & dairy coverup is why you never hear about this.