Date: March 29, 2008 11:52 pm Title: I'm dying to respond, but I promised Harold Pinter I would pause.
OK, you know what? I give up. I'm completely out of words and ways to tell you how much I love this story and what an amazing writer you are. Big, huge, gushy love. AH-FRAKKING-MAZING. But really quickly before I go? These two moments just about made me lose it for good:
she feels one side of her mouth pull up in a half smile and she thinks her grandmother would call her ‘smitten’ at this point, but, god look at him. Of course she’s smitten.
He pulls her fast around to face him and he slides his fingers through her hair and he bends down low and presses his already open mouth against hers and she thinks he tastes like chocolate this time and she thinks she’s going to die. He’s going to kill her with this shit.
Aw, frak it. I lost it anyway....Excuse me while I go get something to wipe my brains up off the floor and sew my head back together.
10 [Report This]Date: March 29, 2008 11:42 pm Title: It's not that I hate you, it's just that I hate everything about you.
The best RPF ever posted on MTT.
;)
Date: March 29, 2008 11:27 pm Title: I'm dying to respond, but I promised Harold Pinter I would pause.
aaaaahhhh!!!! i love love love this story, this is so hot...i am blushing...jimrules, and so do u stablergirl!
Date: March 29, 2008 11:16 pm Title: I'm dying to respond, but I promised Harold Pinter I would pause.
"He’s going to kill her with this shit." Hee and H.O.T. In other news, I really love the beginning of this chapter, I can see Pam sitting in her dressing room so vividly, you really captured that well, and her working things out in her head. I can't wait until they DO have to eventually talk about all this. Should be interesting.
Date: March 29, 2008 11:12 pm Title: I'm dying to respond, but I promised Harold Pinter I would pause.
ok I squealed like a little girl when I got the email notification that there was new chapter. I love it. Ok some of my favorite parts:
- she chuckles and he looks up at her in surprise, probably having expected her to demand his head on a platter, not expecting her to laugh because this is all so…unplanned
- he just chews because it’s something else to do with her tongue besides say something stupid or stick it in his mouth or ear or wherever
- Jim & Pam talking about how an implusive kiss is better
- The kiss at the end of the chapter is so hot. I also burst into flames.
Date: March 29, 2008 05:13 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Guh indeed. I love that the kiss was not intended for an audience and the one that "we saw" was actually a second take. That's so perfect. Can't wait to see where this goes after that!
Date: March 29, 2008 04:59 pm Title: Are we really flirting? Or are you just pretending to be you flirting with me actually being me?
Wow. That was so intense. I love the complete merging of Real Jim's and Show Jim's feelings. I hadn't realized that *this* was the script you were leading them towards. It's spot-on.
And I LOVE Sports Night.
Date: March 29, 2008 04:53 pm Title: Basically the only person who never changes in this equation is you. Coincidence? Probably not.
OK honestly, now I know why I tend to save fic reading for at work: it took me 4 tries to get through this chapter with all the toddler- and husband-related interruptions!
That was a great apology/confession from Pam and I really like how Jim's starting to both come to terms with his cad-self and realize that he's, ahem, more than that. Plus, who doesn't love a few good Shut Up Kelly fantasies?!
Date: March 29, 2008 12:32 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
this is absolutly amazing!!!!!!
Date: March 29, 2008 12:25 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
JAY-SUS. I don't even think "GUH" covers it. I don't know when it happened, but this is now my favorite piece of AU crack!fic EVER. Ever, ever, EVER. I don't know how you've done it, but I'm totally obsessed with this story. Sad but true.
Before I dive into what is sure to be a novella of a review, I have to tell you that you so thoroughly .... DEMOLISHED my brain after I read this the first time yesterday afternoon I had to seek a specialist to reconstruct my mind and then take a 24 hour sabbatical before I could come back and write something remotely coherent.
I think I've probably read this chapter about five times now -- it's by far my favorite in this already amazing story -- and I think the thing that really gets me is how urgent the whole thing feels. Urgent and poignant and almost out of control in the best way possible. Just....GUH. WOW.
She wonders if this is because she apologized. Or maybe because their chemistry is ridiculous. Or maybe it’s just that his penis could hear her calling out to it all weekend and now it’s just answering, responding…ok this is just an insane train of thought. OK, that made me laugh my ass off. I loved the call back to her "penis" mantra and the way this moment so clearly shows how she is starting to spiral out of control.
Like he wanted her. Like she was killing him just by existing. Like if he had his choice of any woman in the world, in that moment, he would’ve chosen her without a single thought. She wants that look. She covets it. She wants to push him up against the wall and run her hands over him until that look is burned onto his face forever and every time she so much as glances at him he looks at her that particular way. And...just...DAMN. That is it. To me, in one paragraph, you have summed up that thing that makes Jim's love for Pam so compelling to the rest of us. It's that LOOK. Because who wouldn't want to relish that look, drown in that look, swim around in it until it permeated every fiber of your being?? Just GENIUS.
Jim walks in a room and she has a level four nervous breakdown and turns into some kind of spastic jungle animal who can‘t decide whether she wants to eat him or sleep with him. Or something like that. This, paired with her description of that "tightly coiled thrill" that rolls down her spine from that old "Jim Magic" was so sizzling and perfect and hilarious in the way that these feelings for Jim have completely robbed her of her ability to be reasonable or rational. Plus, totally hilarious!
“Yeah,” he tells her firmly, “It was,” and she has no idea what that means. I cannot wait until she knows EXACTLY what that means. It also leads me to ask the question: will we get an opportunity to see any of this from Jim's perspective? I'd like to think that in some ways he's just as confused and out of control as Pam is -- the only difference is that he's decided he likes it that way and he's embraced it.
And now, the kiss. OH. MY. FRAKKING. GOD. It was just .... flnjk&%cioyha!^&ahd;@ ... my brain is starting to become unstable again. It was hot and steamy. It was intense. It was emotional and moving and elemental and just....WOW. I love beyond words that the kiss was spontaneous and unplanned and 100% Jim's inability to fight his feelings for Pam. And the way you incorporated that into the reality that the public would forever have a piece of a moment that was so terribly personal and intimate was so perfectly accurate (in this 'verse) and simultaneously heartbreaking.
And this moment: He kisses her like he’s sorry and like he’s concerned and like he’s in love with her, and she’s completely dying inside because she thinks she‘s been dreaming about somebody kissing her like this her entire life and she‘s sure she‘ll be remembering this kiss forever even though it might not be meant for her, really meant for her, because she doesn‘t even know who she is anymore. Sheer perfection.
I don't know how on earth you are ever going to top this chapter but I can't wait to see you try -- because I have no doubt that the next installment will be just as mind-blowing.
YOU. TOTALLY. RULE. (Is there a rating higher than a 10?)
Date: March 29, 2008 02:19 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Absolute brilliance.
I....
just FREAKING WOW. All of it. Especially these last two chapters had me... soooooo... into the story I was getting confused about what was real and... sheesh. Amazing. Can't wait for an update!
Date: March 28, 2008 07:17 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
ummm.... yeah, that was amazing!
M
Date: March 28, 2008 07:01 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
...um...this is so awesome..you rock my world stablergirl! thank you!!!!
Date: March 28, 2008 05:34 pm Title: Wait a second, I feel like I've seen this movie before.
Oh Iove the journey. The angst doesn't bother me at all because of how you've structured this. Damn that list of Jim's faults was cold! Yowza!
10 [Report This]Date: March 28, 2008 02:56 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Also, I forgot to mention that this c hapter made me all teary-eyed. Like Pam.
Date: March 28, 2008 02:47 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Oh. My. God.
Oh. My. God.
I am hyperventilating over here. Please lord let Jim tell her soon that he was being Real Jim all along!! This chapter is so uplifting, heartbreaking and hot all at once.
Oh. My. God. Again. Some more.
Date: March 28, 2008 02:47 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Look, this was like being an incredibly greedy diner at the best Chinese restaurant in town.
YOU: “Sweetpea, here are your selections for Column A. If you don’t like Column A, let me know, because I have everything from Column B pretty much ready and I could serve it in, like, an hour.”
ME: “Stablergirl, Column A is delicious! In fact, I’m still picking my teeth and I’ve barely digested it, but…uh…hey. Whaddya got in Column B?”
YOU: “Sweetpea, here is Column B, everything deliciously and expertly prepared. Tell me what you like and what you don’t like.”
ME: “GAH! I’m so FULL! But…I can’t resist! It all looks so good! What about a special order? You know, like some from Column A and some from Column B, and what do you think about grilling instead of frying #37? Is that wild boar? Bring me the wild boar!! And more sauce!
YOU: “Settle down, there’s more where that came from.”
Man, it's just such an amazing treat. Thank you.
10 [Report This]Date: March 28, 2008 01:22 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
WOW! What an amazing chapter! I love how they've both fallen completely for each other, but they both are still so unsure about what the other really feels.
I loved the last part with the office kiss, and how the first kiss was so intense and amazing and how Pam was so confused as to whether it was her Jim, or the TV show Jim, and then how the second kiss was the one we know from the show and how it made her cry and how she's so confused! GUH is right!! I can't wait for more!
And yay! You got a ribbon!
Also, I still didn't get an e-mail notification that there was a new chapter! *grumble*. I'm glad I decided to check the site! Eee!!
Date: March 28, 2008 01:05 pm Title: It's not that I hate you, it's just that I hate everything about you.
Yayyyyy! A blue ribbon! So very well deserved. Great job, Stablergirl!!!
Date: March 28, 2008 12:08 pm Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Wow. Incredible. I love the way this chapter ended too. Why do you give me unrealistic expectations on love and romance? You're killing me!
10 [Report This]Date: March 28, 2008 11:59 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Um, yeah, double-GUH. So good! I am really loving this!!
10 [Report This]Date: March 28, 2008 11:55 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
wow. wow wow wow wow wow.
you broke my brain. most definitely. i have no words left but wow. and this was amazing. like quite possibly the most amazing thing ive ever read on this site.
wow.
Date: March 28, 2008 11:51 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
Um, I'm sorry for the bad word in my previous review. I was overcome. I just have one more thing to add . . . you've actually made me a bit worried that I might just be disappointed (gasp!) when the real Office comes back on April 10th. Seriously. I'm not sure any kind of Jim and Pam story could compete with this.
Date: March 28, 2008 11:42 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
effffffffffffff! guh!!! this is all kinds of delicious. i love the heat, the funny (pam calling out to his penis all weekend, haha!), the earth-shattering realization that this is what they want. so good, so wonderful!
Date: March 28, 2008 11:41 am Title: Um, I think you have my gum in your mouth.
GUUHHH.. umm... my brain is a tad melted right now, and I'm a bit too incoherent to leave a proper review, so I'll be back later to do just that.
One thing though:
Jim Magic... so that's what its called!!!