Date: April 17, 2007 04:40 pm Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I can't believe it's over! But this ending was absolutely perfect - I can't really imagine it any other way. You are amazing!
Date: April 17, 2007 04:33 pm Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
wow! I liked it! I'm kind of glad it ended this way, that maybe she and Jim had their chance and they've moved beyond it.
All the references to Sex and the City and especially My Girl killed me! And Creed and Detroit!
Thanks so much for writing this, I earnestly await your next story!
Date: April 17, 2007 04:09 pm Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Brava! Lovely ending. I think it all worked out for the best. I always get sad with fics that involve *any* of the Dunder Mifflinites leaving, even if I know it's better for them, so I was a little upset through some of this final chapter, but happy for Pam underneath. And the Ryan/Pam ending was very nice. I'm still shipping Jim/Pam like whoa in canon, but in this story that you built up, the choices Jim made and the effort Ryan put into being there for her, I was with Pam in the end: her being with Jim just didn't feel right. So way to go on convincing me :)
Date: April 17, 2007 02:06 pm Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
“Dwight, you will be playing the role of Steve, the bartender with one testicle,” Michael moves on and Dwight pumps his fist in the air like he’s just won something.
Just wanted to say this made me laugh my ass off. :)
Date: April 17, 2007 12:54 pm Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!
I'm SO happy with how you ended this, because it's really perfect. Maybe at the beginning of the story I was still hoping she'd end up with Jim, but it just didn't make sense anymore and, seriously, your Pam and Ryan are SO CUTE together.
Michael WOULD be a "Sex and the City" fan. HEE!
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 11:57 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
“I don’t know that it’s supposed to work. It… it doesn’t really feel right anymore.”
No, it doesn't, and as painful as it is, I'm starting to think that your resolution to JAM (they do NOT get together) may be where the show is heading. If so, Pam/Ryan works for me. :)
Well done story, very engaging. I've enjoyed all of this. I especially like all the interior dialogue you gave Pam, showing us how she changes and grows. That's a tricky transition, and you made it believable. Thanks for sharing this story.
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 11:24 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Okay, so probably I will be leaving some long, coherent thing once I put my mind back together, but for now:
BEST. EVER.
Date: April 17, 2007 11:07 am Title: Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy one
Okay - I'm JAM to the bone, but this entire story was just so well written, I couldn't help but enjoy it. Even though to be honest, there were times when I was reading it though my fingers. The story was hot, and funny and silly and sad. You made Ryan/Pam entirely plausible. I found myself grinning like an idiot at the picture at the end. Congratulations universe, you win.
Date: April 17, 2007 10:58 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Aw man!!! I really wanted that to be Jim! But it's kind of perfect how it is. I got so invested in this story, and that's solely because of the writing. Keep it up, I love your stuff.
Date: April 17, 2007 10:15 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Well done, Ms. Flicka! I loved it. The best part is that the angst is so suspenseful, so emotional, but not overwhelming and depressing. What a terrific ending! Love love love.
9 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 10:11 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
MY HEART IS VERY FULL AT THIS MOMENT.
Oh, this is so great - YAY Pam/Ryan! YAY LEAVING DUNDER-MIFFLIN. And hee, the Sex in the City thing was awes.
And augh, her getting rid of things like the yogurt lid and paperclips hit ME in the griefbone, but also, it's so time. This was just so satisfying. WELL PLAYED, YOU.
Date: April 17, 2007 09:41 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I can't believe how you've turned The Office upside-down and made it believable to me.
It's not that I think Jim would ever do some of the stuff you have him doing (such as the scene in the ship's bar where he's showing Pam what he wants Ryan to do...), but you made me willing to suspend my disbelief and go along for the ride.
In this chapter, it's really interesting that Jim has dumped Karen. The Pam-ship has sailed without him, and now he's looking around for a boat to go after her. But he doesn't get a good fast boat, he gets a leaky half-assed boat. And he's clueless! "Um, I can go to New York, too! It'll be great! I just didn't waste months with someone I don't care about!" Too late, Jim - you should've just stayed with Karen!
Everyone was very much themselves here, except Ryan, and Jim, who are altered versions (that I'm accepting). Ryan is definitely an upgrade from the show; Jim plummets to a somewhat cowardly somewhat jerky guy.
I liked everyone's responses to the announcement Pam was leaving, the Kelly/lipstick response particularly.
Your Michael/Pam interchanges were very nice. I especially liked when Michael said if he had a daughter... and then she hugged him to cut him off in case he was about to say something to ruin it. (Like "If I ever had a daughter and she... liked girls, you are the person I would want her to have hot lesbian sex with." That's the kind of thing you were implying he might say, right? In any case, that's what Creed and I inferred.)
I do think Pam would still go to New York the next day (or maybe the day after, and just come back for the graduation. I have that trip as 2 hours, 13 minutes on Mapquest. Maybe I should check Wikipedia, so I can get the best possible information.
So, no garbage throwing from me. I was glad to see you updated this; I was wondering where you were!
I look forward to whatever you write next. Your stories always make me think, and I tend to enjoy your crazy dark view. (Of course, on the show, I'm really ready for some light, fluffy, JAMtastic moments.) I also like that you know where you want to go with a story, and you do it. Peer pressure be damned!
We'll see what the next story is, and if we ever get to that date at the dojo...
Date: April 17, 2007 09:07 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
OMG, what a GREAT ending!!! SO many great moments with each and every character. I'm so sad to see this end. LOVED this part:
“Maybe you’re right, Pam,” Kelly sniffs, standing up straight. “Maybe I inspired him to do great things, like Joey did for Dawson. And someday he’ll make a show that chronicles his first love with me and how our relationship totally changed the course of his whole life even if we weren’t meant to be together forever.”
“Yeah... that’s kind of specific, but maybe,” Pam nods and Kelly hugs her tightly.
You got Pam and Kelly's dialogue SO down, there! I really really really really REALLY hope you write more Pam/Ryan SOON!!!
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 08:41 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I wasn't liking the end because I thought it was Jim, despite the t-shirt thing (I was confused), because I am really dense. I didn't like the Jim in this at all, but I still thought he was believable, so it worked out. Pam and Ryan! This is the first time I was really rooting for them!
Date: April 17, 2007 08:40 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I'm still surprised by how much I like this story, and by extension Ryan. But this was a really well written ending. Even if it wasn't exactly the happily ever after I was hoping for.
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 08:20 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Simply a classic.
Date: April 17, 2007 08:01 am Title: Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy one
It was a good story. I did enjoy it. I usually steer away from the non Jim/Pam stories. It's just my preference. I guess a part of me is glad you didn't say up front that Jim and Pam weren't going to end up together in the end cause I never would have read this, but another part of me is kind of upset I get invested in this story to have it end without a Jim and Pam union. It was a very good story though, just not my cup of tea.
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 07:58 am Title: Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy one
Happy happy day! The right ending, and a wonderful story. Besides everything else you've done well here, you've written a fitting Pam farewell scene, and let all the other characters have a moment with her.
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 07:12 am Title: It's impractical, I'm not going to try to get a house like that.
Oh my goodness! I love this so much. You've drawn the lines very clearly: Jim equals stasis and safety and a step back, Ryan equals freedom and a fresh start. This is amazingly good. On to Chapter 13 (and the end... sniff).
8 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 07:09 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
It's over! [/Teen Girl Squad]. Noooooooo. :( But seriously, this was SO amazing. I loved that Pam was able to figure things out for herself, because that's so something she needs to do. And you KNOW I'm happy with who she ended up with in the end. Like, grinning like an idiot at my desk at work kind of happy. So YAY and thanks so much for this dawesome story! :)
Date: April 17, 2007 06:49 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
No garbage throwing! None! Well done :) And thanks for that pic at the end - that just makes it all work somehow! Anyway, great job on this story. More important to me than whether it's Ryan/Pam or Jim/Pam is that shes found her voice, she's being honest, and she's doing what she wants for herself and no one else. Yeah!
Date: April 17, 2007 06:41 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
Loved the ending. Hee, and you must be very brave to face the wrath of the JAM fanatics ;).
Date: April 17, 2007 06:36 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
I can't believe it's over. Yet, it ended so perfectly, that it makes it okay. You have written an amzing story here, from beginning to end. This last chapter was so sweet. I love that Karen might move to NY with Pam. I love how you made them friends! I also love your observations on Jim, such as "He's looking at her like maybe she can fix everything that's wrong in his life." Oh and another fantastic line is "When he says her name it sounds like the answer to a question that he's been asking himself for a long time now." Best of all, on this very very sad day (after the Virgina Tech incident) this story just made me smile. So, thank you!
Date: April 17, 2007 06:32 am Title: Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy one
You won't be finding any garbage throwing here. I actually can't believe that I'm saying that because I am the most ridiculous JAM shipper, but I'm not sure that this fic could have ended any other way.
Considering that both Ryan and Jim aren't exactly canon in this fic (Ryan... nice? WTF?! lol), it makes a lot of sense. I'm saying this as a good thing, because it's nice to see a little variation. I'm really glad the Ryan/Pam thing worked out, and most of all, that she's going to his graduation. ;)
Great work!
10 [Report This]Date: April 17, 2007 05:18 am Title: I think when I like someone again, I'll just kinda know.
So even though I kept hoping that you would change your mind and make this a Pam/Jim story... I am completely in love with this. It's fantastic. And I am bummed that it's over. Totally bummed.
It was great!! Great great great. Sorry I have nothing to say other than that :)