First and foremost I loved how ... hyperactive Mike is. How he's almost manic in all things but focuses that into pointed brilliance. You managed to write all of this about his time with Harvey and yet still have him be this phenomenal character in his own right, not just in the context of his connection to Harvey and that was lovely and new to read. Because these are all of Mike's thoughts on Harvey, but I feel like they tell us so much more about Mike than that premise would initially suggest, and you kind of wrote that like a sneak attack and I loved it.
Obviously this was utterly hilarious. Devastatingly witty. I wasn't laughing at anyone's shortcomings, I was gasping in delight at how ridiculously on point Mike's comparisons and references were.
It killed me that Mike's grammy died, but it was really well done. I have read character death in fiction exactly four times in eight years of fandoms and I still resent those authors for killing people who didn't need to die, but this is the first time I've read it and was able to accept it for what it was. I really liked how you opened that section by describing how Mike felt and didn't reveal why until a couple of paragraphs in, it worked very well, it was .. engaging.
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Date: 2011-09-06 12:31 am (UTC)First and foremost I loved how ... hyperactive Mike is. How he's almost manic in all things but focuses that into pointed brilliance. You managed to write all of this about his time with Harvey and yet still have him be this phenomenal character in his own right, not just in the context of his connection to Harvey and that was lovely and new to read. Because these are all of Mike's thoughts on Harvey, but I feel like they tell us so much more about Mike than that premise would initially suggest, and you kind of wrote that like a sneak attack and I loved it.
Obviously this was utterly hilarious. Devastatingly witty. I wasn't laughing at anyone's shortcomings, I was gasping in delight at how ridiculously on point Mike's comparisons and references were.
It killed me that Mike's grammy died, but it was really well done. I have read character death in fiction exactly four times in eight years of fandoms and I still resent those authors for killing people who didn't need to die, but this is the first time I've read it and was able to accept it for what it was. I really liked how you opened that section by describing how Mike felt and didn't reveal why until a couple of paragraphs in, it worked very well, it was .. engaging.
Ugh, so lovely, all of this. ♥