Date: May 22, 2009 01:08 pm Title: Sunburned.
You know, I really enjoy post-breakup Roy fic. And this is a great example, because it hits just the right note of a guy who isn't very introspective trying to sort things out. Not to mention Darryl, who is awesome.
Author's Response: thank you! i like post-breakup Roy fic too :)
Date: May 18, 2009 02:53 pm Title: Sunburned.
I liked this a lot. It's very rare to get a glimpse into Roy's life, and I like that you chose to showcase the friendship between Roy and Darryl and juxtapose it with what must have been an incredibly trying time for Roy. (Look at me, talking like they're real people.) Great great job, just like everything else you do!
Author's Response: oh, thank you! i think it's hard to be on the receiving end of a break up, and i think roy deserves some credit. also, i really have trouble with fic that paints roy as such a simple, one note kind of guy. i think he is a little more complicated than that.
Date: May 18, 2009 07:31 am Title: Sunburned.
I really like this, Emily's List. I never hated Roy - he's kind of an average guy. He's just not right for Pam and he took everything for granted. I thought this sentence really expressed that well:
Really, he’d never felt this much at once before.
Author's Response: thank you for the feedback! yeah - i think roy is an okay guy. perhaps not as cute, smart, or funny as one jim halpert, or more fitting for pam, but he had his heart broken. i love that line from "phyllis' wedding" when he says to pam: how do you think i feel? i'm the one who wanted to get married.
Date: May 18, 2009 06:49 am Title: Sunburned.
My quirky friend, Emily. Whenever I see something new from you posted, I smile. Just can't help it. Everyone's warm and fuzzy, writing about babies and you bring the Roy angst and Pink Floyd. LOL! Great job, as always.
Author's Response: well, i will confess here, NanReg, i don't know what to say about the finale! of course i loved it. of course i almost teared up. but what is there to write that the show or our fandom has already said? i am cooking up a post-company picnic fic, much in the vein of all the weird crap i write :) thank you so much for your feedback; i love to know you are reading my work.
Date: May 18, 2009 03:33 am Title: Sunburned.
Interesting. I never really liked Roy, but it's obvious that his life was really tied up in Pam's, so I can't help feeling a little bad for him. And this story highlights that line I walk, and also confirms my love of Darryl. :) Well done! Except -- "Comfortably Numb" is by Pink Floyd, not the Who. ;)
Author's Response: oh darryl --yes! someone wrote something brilliant about him and roy, one part was called "casio" i think? i just love darryl but it can be hard to loop him into a story. rnpink floyd. of course. i have to say, the version i listen to is actually sung by dar williams and ani difranco, so i'm really more off the mark than i meant to be. thanks!
10 [Report This]Date: May 17, 2009 06:10 pm Title: Sunburned.
Great story idea! :)
Author's Response: thanks! i have to confess, the whole thing was cooked up while i was on the jersey shore myself...