I Am Completely Serious

What I mostly remember from the Vanyel books was that everyone spent inordinate amounts of time explaining to each other about how it was OK to be gay, and less time actually showing that, which struck me as an unbalanced way of doing that, and which could have been rewritten to be better.

Yes, I was actually going to comment on just that. Even when I was ten years old, growing up in semi-rural Texas, I was like, "yeah I know it's okay to be gay, now can we talk about something else?" I was also kinda sad that for all the talk about how being gay was perfectly fine, we didn't actually see a whole lot of it. It was like "I hate you! I love you! You're dead!" in what seemed to be the space of ten pages.