1 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2024 02:31 am Title: Outside the Office
i literally just binge read this whole thing in one night! i'm kinda new here and i'm still learning to use the site so believe it or not, of all the fics i've read this far, this is the first time i leave a review bc i'm usually more of a 5 jellybeans person haha. anyway, i just wanted to tell you that i really loved this story. it had everything!!! a good plot, interesting use of the characters in this situation and OF COURSE every jam interaction was so spot on!!! like i would totally buy this if it were the premise of the show. seriously, so amazing!!!
1 [Report This]Date: September 20, 2021 07:04 pm Title: Paper
This was so well done, I'm sure it is one I will be coming back to. The plot was intriguing & the characters managed to ring true even in an AU setting. I love badass Pam.
1 [Report This]Date: September 20, 2021 07:04 pm Title: Paper
This was so well done, I'm sure it is one I will be coming back to. The plot was intriguing & the characters managed to ring true even in an AU setting. I love badass Pam.
1 [Report This]Date: June 14, 2021 11:42 am Title: Outside the Office
This story was awesome! Chuck is my favorite show and combining the spy elements with The Office is brilliant!
1 [Report This]Date: May 23, 2021 04:03 pm Title: Outside the Office
Such a fun story!
Author's Response: Thank you very much! Thanks for reading!
Date: November 30, 2020 09:05 pm Title: Outside the Office
As so we come to the end... with a new version of the teapot letter reveal! Fun.
You have, once again, done a really impressive job bringing the themes and stories and characters of the office into a very different world - and in this case using this world to cast a whole new light on the stories we thought we knew. I enjoyed this one a lot.
Author's Response: Thank you so very much! This was an absolute blast of a fic to write, and re-recognizing its moments with your reviews was very special. Thanks for all the reviews, and all the kind words in them!
Date: November 30, 2020 09:01 pm Title: Costumes
You continue to do a really terrific Kelly voice - her worries about Ryan's potential gang membership on the grounds of his unwillingness to wear blue is classic her.
Pam wondering if Phyllis had also ripped off her spy tactics for her wedding planning is hilarious, and this was a solid repurposing of canon as well.
Author's Response: Thank you! I had a lot of fun with the slow ending of this one :)
Date: November 30, 2020 08:55 pm Title: Drinks
I like Karen going to Utica, but Andy having earned his way to Uzbekistan is definitely my favorite of the Stamford branch futures. And it's lovely to see them free to express themselves now.
Author's Response: Thank you! "Uzbekistan" is also just fun to write/say.
Date: November 30, 2020 08:53 pm Title: Office Games
This moment of her not realizing he's going for the mic in her underwear is both fun and sexy - feels like the show's sort of flirting. And him prominently displaying the Office Olympics medal is incredibly sweet.
Never get tired of reading this scene.
Author's Response: Thank you! That is high praise indeed.
Date: November 30, 2020 06:40 pm Title: Warehouse
I love seeing this all come together - Pam and Jim no longer fighting their connection and engaging in some classic Jam banter, David Wallace showing up to give them the cover they need. About time you two got things straightened out.
Author's Response: Thank you! Using DW this way was a fun side effect of this world.
Date: November 30, 2020 06:36 pm Title: Secrets
This was a terrific chapter, I thought.
I'm glad that the awkward Pam-Jim-Karen triangle turned out to be a classic win-win-win. Karen may not get Jim, but she gets the feather in her cap she came to Scranton looking for.
I thought Toby's backstory was interesting and well-crafted. He's not too far removed from canon Toby - just canon Toby a few mistakes down the road, which then became more mistakes, which then became MORE mistakes. The bit about him reconciling each wrong act by connecting it to something he's doing for Sasha feels like a pretty real calculation folks in that business make. And "He sobbed, as he did everything else, quietly, so no one would notice" is just a perfectly Toby line.
Dwight's reflections are cute. He really is a big ole softie under that very rough exterior.
Author's Response: Thank you very much! I think Karen deserves to get a good outcome too, especially if she's not actually between Pam and Jim. And thanks, I did try to make Toby interesting--and still Toby (cue Michael screaming "nothing he does is ever interesting!").
Date: November 30, 2020 06:28 pm Title: Wedding
This is a very sweet moment between Jim and Pam - these two do some quality non-verbal communication when they put their minds to it: "like she was the only thing he wanted to see, and he wanted her to know it."
And the line about her contemplating shooting him on purpose is great.
Author's Response: Thank you! It's the home stretch, so JAM sweetness is on the menu.
Date: November 30, 2020 05:46 pm Title: Take Your Daughter to Work Day
This chapter definitely made me curious to learn more about what's driving Toby's turn to the dark side. And I love the comic moment from Pam about the warehouse guys not being able to imagine not logging their work.
Author's Response: Thank you! Toby is a complex character even in canon, so I do try to make him interesting when I get the chance. Though this was probably my Tobiest fic.
Date: November 30, 2020 05:38 pm Title: Carpool
I love that Dwight basically works out that it's Toby on his own, and that his reaction is to praise Michael for picking on him so much. And him setting Jim straight about him and Pam is great - you've done a really solid Dwight voice throughout this story. He may be your breakout character for this fic.
Author's Response: Thank you! I have trouble with Dwight in general, so that's great to hear. Seriously, I appreciate it.
Date: November 30, 2020 05:34 pm Title: Valentine's Day
::sigh:: Oh, Toby. First you were the Scranton Strangler, and now this?
Author's Response: In this AU, I think it would be the other way around ;) Strangling second!
Date: November 30, 2020 04:26 pm Title: Work Clothes
Love Andy’s backstory here – obviously, this adds a lot of complexity to the Andy we see onscreen. And yet, Andy being used as bleeding bait is absolutely something you can imagine happening to canon Andy.
Author's Response: Thank you! I was trying to tiptoe on that line between fully-complex and still-canon-adjacent. Glad to know it seems to have worked!
Date: November 30, 2020 04:26 pm Title: Award
I love Dwight’s sheer Dwight-ness ending up immediately being an asset. Really, he was born for this sort of work.
Author's Response: He truly was. A shame that it's only in this AU the real CIA came calling.
Date: November 30, 2020 04:25 pm Title: Break Room
This is a really solidly constructed sequence here with the development of the plan, the communication with Jim and their trust and belief in each other, and the use of their potato chip and soda choices for tactical purposes. Plus the beginning of a mini-redemption for Karen. Very good chapter.
“The way his hands had slipped out of hers on Casino Night. The way he’d always looked at her with such intensity even when they were at a briefing where they didn’t need to keep in character (a sign she really should have picked up on earlier). The way he could handle an AK-47. That last one was probably going to be most useful right now, she reflected, but she liked the others more” is just really good writing.
Author's Response: Thank you! I am so glad you liked that bit--that sort of rhetorical technique is one of my favorites to use.
Date: November 30, 2020 04:24 pm Title: Drawing
Oooof. Again, terrible tactics from the bad guys up and down. And some quick thinking from Pam. I’m looking forward to seeing her pranking powers being unleashed on Roy, definitely not something we got to see in the show.
Author's Response: I mean, are the bad guys the most competent people in the Office universe? No, they are not ;)
Date: November 30, 2020 03:56 pm Title: Last Day
Great to see Pam in action, using this carefully cultivated personality and her spy tools to her advantage. Not a great show from Roy here - he ends up giving up more than he gets. Toby did not do his network a service by letting him go in like this
Author's Response: Thank you! Pam as competent spy was a lot of fun to get down.
Date: November 30, 2020 03:52 pm Title: Birthday
Nice way to sneak the prompt in here.
Author's Response: I had to actually plot this out to make sure I did.
Date: November 30, 2020 03:50 pm Title: Parking Lot
Very sweet moment followed by a very scary one - and now we start some of the more action-y stuff. Fun!
Author's Response: The balance of action and not-action was hard to get right--I'm glad this seems to imply I got it right here at least.
Date: November 30, 2020 03:48 pm Title: Battlestar Galactica
I really, REALLY enjoy the way you've brought Dwight into this, and repurposed the Morse Code prank, which I liked plenty in the first place. Dwight's mixture of annoyance and delight is really entertaining.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! That may be my favorite thing I did in this fic.
Date: November 30, 2020 03:46 pm Title: Office Crush
The last lines here are killer, as is the image of Jim and Pam having one of their Moments over Lonny's unconscious body.
I will also note here that you did, effectively, warn us that Roy was playing her in this chapter. Or at least warned those of us paying attention to the clues. ::glares at self::
Author's Response: Thank you! Poor Lonny...
Date: November 30, 2020 02:28 pm Title: Phone
Love the set-up with the mystery of Tony's headset here.
Author's Response: Thank you! I felt the need to use that concept as much as I could.