1 [Report This]Date: February 11, 2023 11:04 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
This is so great!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2020 04:08 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
In addition to being a lovely little slice of very plausible/canon-compliant Season 2 JAM, this has also inspired me to actually read Dr. Zhivago.
9 [Report This]Date: September 09, 2010 10:52 pm Title: Precipitation
Oh Colette - long time no... read. I suddenly remembered how much I liked your Clay Pot, so I moseyed back here to read it and found this gem too. You love your retrofic, and I don't blame you; I keep thinking about something I started writing a bit ago, taking us way back to S2. I think this is charming and painful and lovely. I love them like this: unsure but infatuated. It allows them to be hot and steamy without removing a stitch of clothing.
Date: February 28, 2010 04:48 am Title: We already know how this movie ends
Beautiful! Oh Jim. It will be as if it never happened. Perfect last line. Wonderful angst!
Author's Response: Thanks, SalR323 - appreciate the kind review!
Date: February 25, 2010 10:25 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
That was beautiful. I absolutely loved it.
Author's Response: Thanks so much, moonmouse!
Date: February 24, 2010 10:01 am Title: We already know how this movie ends
Oh, Pam. Her little rebellion, indeed- pasta, art club, and inviting other men over for date night. I loved exploring Pam's messed-up head during this time- she knew and at the same time totally and completely did not know what she was doing. Ialso love how this is sort of foreshadowing- because they do, certainly, have that easy domesticity, that casual carnality between them in the here-and-now. Another fabulous installment.
Author's Response: I agree - she was never quite as oblivious as she appeared. Denial is funny that way...And Jim was so pained to detect where she was in the spectrum of awareness, at any given moment. Pleased if that sense came across here...and I love that phrase: 'casual carnality.' Perfect - I may have to steal that ;-) Thanks so much, nqillisi!
Date: February 24, 2010 05:39 am Title: We already know how this movie ends
This is truly beautiful, but that last line would be too freaking painful to read if we didn't know how it all turned out. You've captured their little dance of "pretend we're only friends" so well. The pasta conversation was perfect. Pam giving Jim the tiniest glimmer of hope by buying pasta to rebel against the generic Roy, and his tiny message of encouragement by picking the curliest. Wow, that's good stuff. I also especially liked this line: "It would steady nothing, just dissolve the fragile glue that holds them in the same orbit at all." How true.
And then there's the perfect choice of the right movie...Awesome job.
Author's Response: You know, that pasta bit was originally just a line, that I expanded upon late in the game because I wasn't sure the meaning would 'read'...so glad I did! Also, pleased you picked that particular line - it was one I fretted over (wasn't sure about the word 'glue'. Yes, I'm obsessive ;-) Thanks much, jazzfan - much appreciated.
Date: February 24, 2010 04:02 am Title: Precipitation
So achingly sweet....the tension building within Jim (and us) as he can't help but imagine what could be...all the tentative "if onlys" and "what ifs" that we lived through for so long. This just said it all perfectly:
"He looks across the kitchen table at Pam’s face, lit by the small flickering candle she’s placed between them. He loves her like this, loose and relaxed, her cheeks flushed from the wine. He wonders what it would be like to see her this way every day, every night - for this to really be his ‘normal.’"
You've beautifully captured the bittersweet but elegant heartache of Jim's yearning and the undertone of Pam's own emerging feelings in a way that resonates so strongly for those of us who have been following this love story from the very beginning. Great job!
Author's Response: I like that: elegant heartache. Really glad this resonated with you, Mr. Bill - thanks for the generous review!
Date: February 24, 2010 03:23 am Title: We already know how this movie ends
Ouch! And I mean that in the best way possible. The tension, longing and "let's pretend there's nothing between us even though we both know better" is palpable in this. That last line killed me. This is beautiful, as always. And the proper words to say why escape me, as always. Thank you for this. A thousand times, thank you.
Author's Response: Oh, I think you found some perfect words - tension, longing, let's pretend - yep, there it is. Sorry to bring the ouch, but so glad you liked this, WIL!
Date: February 23, 2010 11:43 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
Wow. You effing rock my world...and that is not eloquent or appropriate at all. You had me at him finding the curviest? Screwiest? pasta he could find. That is love right there. You're so good (and always have been) at capturing the little ways Jim loved/loves her. The little things he did along the way -- in the vain of knowing about Mixed Berry. It's all those little things that always added up to such a BIG deal.
Thanks so very much for writing this. I hope the mood strikes you again sometime soon. :-)
Author's Response: The 'screwiest'? Hmm ;-) Anyway, you know I agree about the little things being BIG, so hooray if that came through here. Not sure where this mood came from, it could strike again in five minutes or five years - but thank you so much for jumping on board with me now, LoveFool!!
Date: February 23, 2010 04:59 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
You and Lovefool, killing me with the angst in the most delicious of ways. It's gotten so I forget what it was like back then - the heartbreaking reality of Pam being with Roy and Jim having to deal with it.
You've portrayed it here so perfectly. Not that I expected any different. :)
Author's Response: Yeah, what's up with all this S2 stuff? It's all a plot to kill you! Seriously, I'm just as interested now that they've 'evolved' beyond the unrequited stage, but I guess my latent masochism surfaces now and then...and apparently I feel compelled to share it ;-) Glad you found this tasty anyway - many thanks, Ms. xoxoxo!
10 [Report This]Date: February 23, 2010 04:57 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
I have thoughts (many of them), but no time at the moment to record them. I'll leave you with my most immediate reaction: it's a great testament to your skill that, even though I know full well how this movie ends, I was just as desperate as Jim for that shift, that something else. Brava.
I hope to find time to re-read and re-review in the next couple of days.
Author's Response: Love that this put you in Jim's frame of mind....Pam just wasn't there yet, back in the day - much though we/he yearned for it. Always appreciate hearing your thoughts and reactions - whether the short of long form.Thanks much, you!
Date: February 23, 2010 04:23 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
WHAT!?!?! no kiss....oww.
wow poor jim, i've been there and it sucks =/. at leats at the end i know they got their happy ending *baby*sigh*.
wow girl u use a lot of complicated words for me. i actually thought at first that he had an accident at the end, i had to reread it.=S ups.
but at leats this helps me with my english(spanish native[also why i cant write my own fic]) so thanks, i learn a lot with u girl..
Author's Response: Uh, thanks dmbd. Sorry no kiss, just not the story I was trying to tell. Maybe next time ;-)
Date: February 23, 2010 03:11 pm Title: We already know how this movie ends
No! The roads are impassable and Jim turns back!
This was just lovely. Excruciating, but lovely.
Author's Response: Hee! You know, I knew some were hoping I'd re-write history (oh, yeah, these are fictional characters...well,you know what I mean ;-) but my idea for this story just wasn't about that...hope no one is disappointed. (Though it's easier to stay within canon, knowing how it ended up, isn't it?) Thanks so much, VB!
Date: February 23, 2010 05:33 am Title: Precipitation
Oh this is a lovely tease!
I love this:
He usually resists, but sometimes the effort required to not simply pick up the phone (as if there’s anything simple about it) only intensifies the focus. It’s like holding his breath; all he can think about is drawing air.
Because that's it exactly, I can totally see him spending all his time trying not to think about her. You capture him perfectly.
And now I can't wait for part two (which I'm kind of hoping might drift somewhat off-canon!)
Author's Response: Glad to know you thought this captured Jim...I always thought he must have been exhausted, back in the day, from the monumental effort it took not to think about her 24/7. Thanks so much, SalR323 - so pleased you're enjoying this!
Date: February 22, 2010 05:21 pm Title: Precipitation
So glad you were inspired to write again. *favorites*
Author's Response: Thanks, babe!
Date: February 22, 2010 04:12 pm Title: Precipitation
i hoping for a storm and a sleep over. am i right? hope so i would lo to see that.
uh uh and no electricity, and they have to keep themselves warm xd. how could they posibly do that??.....
Author's Response: I don't know, but it sounds like quite a story, dmbd - I think you should write it, lol. Thanks for reading!
10 [Report This]Date: February 22, 2010 01:57 pm Title: Precipitation
Wow, this is fantastic, I can't wait to see what's next! The way you've described so much using so few words is just amazing. Really really great.
Author's Response: That is quite a compliment - thank you very much, Deedldee!
10 [Report This]Date: February 22, 2010 01:57 pm Title: Precipitation
Colette, how I've missed your writing! You have treated us to another beautiful, subtle, and pitch-perfect story. I eagerly await the next chapter!
Author's Response: Wow...so glad this is working for you so far. Many thanks, WhatAWaste!
Date: February 22, 2010 11:34 am Title: Precipitation
Oh...you have me edgy with anticipation...setting the mood beautifully with nary an extraneous word. So good! I'm eager for more!
Author's Response: Thanks so much, Mr. Bill...hope the second part doesn't disappoint!
Date: February 22, 2010 10:57 am Title: Precipitation
He’s learned to tread lightly around the ever-shifting boundaries of what’s acceptable to say when Pam is angry with Roy.
Beautifully captures Jim's sensitivity, without taking away his man card. I love the way you do this, Colette. Also, their teasing over marshamallows--so them.
Good exercise,’ he smiles, flexing a wool-obscured muscle for full he-man emphasis.
ZING! Love this. So often, Jim is portrayed almost as a girl (I am guilty of this myself), but a moment like this reminds us that under that drab exterior is a very competitive male. Nicely done.
Author's Response: I never understood the notion that Jim's sensitivity deleted his 'man card' (ha! good description) - just seems like such an anachronistic 'tude. So, yeah - his little he-man joke aside, I'm glad his cajones seem intact here. Thanks much, NEJ!
10 [Report This]Date: February 21, 2010 09:57 pm Title: Precipitation
Oh Colette, you exquisite flower! Welcome back, for you've been greatly missed by everyone who is anyone! And me.
Now that everything is happy-happy, I enjoy nothing more than reliving season 2. Heart wretched Jim was so in over his head, it was sick and you've made us feel the way he did (once upon a time.)
"…and Pam asked. How could he refuse?" Yeah.
Author's Response:
Exquisite flower?! Mom, is that you? ;-)
Funny - I find them just as interesting as they've evolved on the show, but the winter of their discontent will always have a soft spot in the achy-breaky quadrant of my heart. (How's that for mixing metaphors?) Thanks so much, Andastainonmyshirt!
Date: February 21, 2010 08:57 pm Title: Precipitation
With 'Bolsheviks' in the synopsis, who could avoid this? And I'm glad I didn't, because so far, so good! Loving the set-up, good characterization.
Favorite part was Jim recognizing her "other world" clothes, the ones he doesn't get to usually see. Love that kinda stuff.
Please, please continue soon!
Author's Response: Who knew Bolsheviks were such a draw? Glad you're enjoying...and pssst, I love stuff like the clothes bit too. What can I say, I'm a sucker for small details. Much thanks, Mel Like Mellow!
8 [Report This]Date: February 21, 2010 08:26 pm Title: Precipitation
I really like the idea of them eating dinner and watching the movie together, but I'm afraid Roy will do something Roy-ish to goof it up in Chapter 2.
Author's Response: Thing is, they were so good at goofing it up all by themselves back in the day, right? Hope you'll stay tuned...many thanks, kaystar!
Date: February 21, 2010 08:21 pm Title: Precipitation
You had me at "Snow. Wine. Bolsheviks." :) How can I pass this by?! I love this already, and that means, you have to drop everything right now and write the next chapter! That's right, never mind you life and whatever you need to do in it. I want to know what happens! :)
I love how atmospheric this story is. Perhaps because I am looking at the great snow piles outside my window right now, but this works for me on such an empirical level. :) And, of course, there's this anticipation hanging in the air... Can't wait!
Thank you!
Author's Response: Empirical? Wow! Glad you can feel the atmosphere here - and the anticipation. Hope part two doesn't disappoint. May I suggest reading it with a good shot of Russian vodka? Thanks, PG!