I started The Man Who Wasn't There because I couldn't find any Brian/Michael I liked to read. So much of it was so badly written--mechanical problems, clunky dialogue, and worst of all, unbearably schmoopy plotlines.

I think if you don't try to capture the real darkness in the Michael/Brian relationship--the mind games and possessiveness and shocking co-dependency, you miss a great deal of what makes their relationship so interesting. They love each other almost to distraction, but there's so much else underneath the love, and so little of it is healthy.

Though I am of the opinion that without each other, they'd both be much worse off. Their neuroses mesh so perfectly that they give each other a greater measure of stability than either would have alone. I think this is particularly true in Brian's case. Without Brian, Michael would be a closeted semi-virgin living in his mother's basement. Without Michael, Brian would be dead.

Anyway, I'm glad TMWWT is working so well for you, hon. It's on a brief hiatus while I work out another plot bunny that seized me. But since the bunny in question is a Brian/Michael fic, you should enjoy it.

Thanks so much for the pimpage, by the way! This story is such a strange brew that without my readers reccing it to others, I'd have maybe ten people reading this.