1 [Report This]Date: January 10, 2019 10:34 am Title: IV.
Jim saying, 'You have to say it' in this way I can HEAR was enough to set the stage for this amazing scene. Because you gave us TWO kisses, both so incredibly intimate and desperate. And when Pam said, "Shut up" because he said one word, I squealed. Her confidence in that moment was fantastic but also so realistic.
Oh, and her trying to commit the moment to memory was just too lovely and bittersweet.
I stand by Pam's Wild Summer. Actually, this adds a whole new level to Pam's Wild Summer. Ha! And her Owning him with that tease about wishing he hadn't used his follow up.
Oh my god, how do you do this though?? You make it funny and flirty and light and then *bam* there's this serious and cathartic conversation that actually moves the characters forward. AND you keep them in character with some of the teasing and self-deprecation.
Great moment having Pam clam up. Cause, you're right, she can't suddenly become completely and fully brave in one night, even if she has had a lot of tequila.
And there you go with another cliffhanger. I went back and read the previously posted chapters. WHAT did she lie about?!
Author's Response:
I mean, Jim wasn’t going to take any chances that he might misinterpret anything right there. Can’t vlame him for that.
I know, right? What -could- she have lied about? Get ready for another Pam rambles moment, because yeah, tequila makes her chatty. Just ask the school teacher ;) Thank you for the review!
1 [Report This]Date: January 10, 2019 07:28 am Title: IV.
Nice to see them getting all that out in the open like this. Very well written as always. Lots of good internal thoughts. It's very believable that both Pam and Jim would have behaved like they did post Casino night the way you've described here. However the fact that they're re-connecting like this is very good to see too.
Author's Response: Thank you! They’re definitely reconnecting here, aren’t they? ;)
1 [Report This]Date: January 10, 2019 05:52 am Title: IV.
That's an evil cliffhanger!
This fic is one of the best drunk!Pam/drunk!Jim ever. Thanks for sharing.
Author's Response: Thank you! One of these days, I swear I’m going to write something that doesn’t involve them drinking their feelings but until that day, I’m having too much fun with all the possibilities. Thanks for reading! :)
1 [Report This]Date: January 10, 2019 05:41 am Title: III.
Wow!! Just wow! I love it when Pam is sure of herself and risky, and it's such a nice contrast from that Pam at the beginning of the story, who was trying not to watch Jim and Karen kissing.
Author's Response:
Aw thank you! Maybe I’ve given it a little too much though, but I definitely feel like Pam would have felt this comfortable and confident as long as it was on her terms, in her house, and you know, the tequila doesn’t hurt things either. :)
1 [Report This]Date: January 10, 2019 01:18 am Title: IV.
NooooOOOOO I STARTED READING THIS THINKING IT WAS FINISHED, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO WAIT. Anyway, absolutely brilliant as always Coley. Here, have a jelly bean.
Author's Response: Oops. Sorry about that SP - I promise the last chapter will be worth the tiny wait! Thank you so much for reading :)
Date: January 09, 2019 11:34 pm Title: IV.
I’m so happy to see an update! I’m loving this story. Thanks so much for sharing! Can’t wait to read the final chapter.
Author's Response: Oh, thank you! This one has been a lot of fun to write so I’m really happy you’re enjoying it! Thanks for reading! :)
1 [Report This]Date: January 09, 2019 09:41 pm Title: IV.
You and the cliffhangers! A very good story but please, not 3 more weeks...
Author's Response: Hahaha, and this one was completely unintentional. It just felt like a good spot to end things before it dragged on for another couple of thousand words. The last update will be MUCH quicker. Because it’s January now and I have other Things to work on. Thanks for reading!
1 [Report This]Date: January 09, 2019 09:32 pm Title: IV.
Worth the wait! You write a great kissing scene. I really like this story.
Author's Response: Thank you! I was hoping it would be a fun one to read :)
1 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2019 05:50 pm Title: I.
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1 [Report This]Date: January 02, 2019 02:12 am Title: III.
Please please please finish this!
Author's Response: Updates coming very soon! :) Thanks for reading!
1 [Report This]Date: December 29, 2018 11:13 am Title: III.
This is so good!! How can you leave us with this cliffhanger? PLEASE post the next chapter soon
Author's Response: Soon, I promise! Thank you for reading! :)
1 [Report This]Date: December 26, 2018 08:58 pm Title: III.
That battery moment is perfection. PERFECTion.
I share in Pam's surprise that Kelly is his choice for a snowball. I always assumed Ryan. Except here maybe he doesn't know Things. :D
Beautiful reintroduction of their banter. God, you write their dialogue so wonderfully.
Okay, once you hit FMK, it just went into this blissful real conversation between two friends that I can't break it apart to dissect it. It's just so good!
I love that once they go off the rails with how this game should be played, I feel like Jim is here for this as much as we are. In all these perfect little gestures you totally showcase how intrigued he is with the situation he finds himself.
"Jim he didn't care. THat's the whole point." And I'm right out of that euphoric moment into how real and crushing the baggage is that these two carry around. Great moment that is so small and says SO MUCH about where Pam has been.
I knew the Katy/Karen thing was coming, but I was not prepared for how amazing it would be. Not prepared, at all.
Remember when we talked about how I love Karen (so I always write her as the BFF in AU) but I hate her for Jim and you warned me about this and I said "Crucify Karen" and then you wrote "Karen is boring in bed" and yesssssssssss! It IS too good not to repeat.
Ya know what deserves a "what the actual fuck"? That ending. Cause that's what I said when I read it. On the eve of Baby Jesus' birth. Seriously. And if you turn into one of those ff writers who just ends it there and we don't hear from you for, I don't know, EVER, I will cry. Or die. Or drink too much tequila. Or all three (but not necessarily in that order). Wow.
Author's Response:
How could you even know that the “Jim he didn’t care. That’s the whole point.” line was my favorite thing I wrote in this chapter? Yes, even more so then the last question.. seriously, I’m so happy you singled that little bit out!
And I’m only just getting started with the ruining of Karen. Don’t you worry about that. ;)
Hopefully you enjoy what’s coming up next!
1 [Report This]Date: December 26, 2018 08:24 pm Title: II.
"She couldn't let it go, 'Karen seemed mad.'" Go on, Pam.
Ugh. That IS the worst Christmas song ever. EVER. So glad you went with that.
I can't lie. When you mentioned candles, I cackled.
Damn. Pam's right; you are brilliant on that Dwight bit...
"Why don't you just get naked in my house. It's fine bc I love you." Oh. My. God. Pammmmmm. Yessssssss.
Pam's independence established through Christmas decorations is so wonderful and so realistic. Trust me on this one. ;)
The bread! Gah! The bread! Fantastic.
"She's not thrilled with this" "Are any of us?" I abso-freaking-lutely love Brutal Blunt Pam of few words. She slayed him here and I don't feel bad about it. Not even a little.
Excellent movie choice.
No power! The sophisticated fanfic upgrade over "there was only one bed." And I am here for it!
Author's Response:
Pam needling Jim about Karen is one of my new favorite things and she’s definitely not done yet. I mean, with the way Jim reacts, can you blame her?
“The sophisticated fanfic upgrade of there was only one bed” makes me laugh because it’s so true.
1 [Report This]Date: December 26, 2018 08:02 pm Title: I.
Sooo...idgaf that I got a sneak peek of this because I have Feelings about this chapter all over again.
To begin, jerks to leave Pam like that. J-E-R-K-S.
"Old times; it was such a stupid phrase..." That whole paragraph and sentiment GOT me again. Deep. (And that's not the eggnog talking.)
Ha! I love that Agian had the exact comment I did about vodka: Same, girl, same. Yet, here I sit with a fresh bottle of Tito's so...
Jesus. Karen buttoning his coat like the control-freak I love her to be (and, yes, overestimating how it might be taken) is a perfect contrast to who Jim is. So great.
The beauty of this chapter is how you write Pam's discomfort (during that kiss) in a way that I feel like I'm experiencing it. It is perfectly Pam. Really. Exactly how she would react and I felt so damn uncomfortable with her. Really beautifully written scene.
Author's Response:
You have no idea how much I love that you guys are all like “vodka is the devil but I’m gonna keep drinking it” because that means it’s not just me.
Date: December 26, 2018 07:49 am Title: I.
Oh, this cliffhanger! Wicked!
I so, so love that even half drunk (or if I had that many shots, totally drunk) they still can’t say the words they want to say. And they are both just trying to push the other one to say it first. Why do we do that to ourselves?!?! Made the cliffhanger even better! Can’t wait for more chapters!
Author's Response: Thank you so much for reading! :) And yes, it’s very much a game within the game with each of them trying to make the other break first. Hopefully it doesn’t take them too many more shots...
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 11:13 pm Title: III.
Stranded, drunk, and truth or shots?? Yes, yes , and heck yes! I’m all over this!
The progression Pam takes from not being able to watch them kiss in the office to a morbid curiosity for way too much information is so well done. Well, the progression of the story as a whole is really great and I am very much enjoying it :)
There were a few “scenes” in particular that had me cracking up. First the radio scene just struck me as hilarious, excellent song choices. Then the bread... of course the bread! I just knew that one of you talented writers would find a way to slip that in. I just hope that once they get through the angst the bread makes a reappearance. The batteries, nice, subtle, hilarious. And then “What. The. Actual. Fuck.” So maybe I’m a little high on my muscle relaxer right now but that killed me. I laughed about as much at that as I did at the fic where Jim say “holla” which is one of my all time favorite Jim lines in fic.
Not sure I’ll actually have enough to keep me busy the next couple days while I wait for the next chapter.
Author's Response:
Well now I must know what fic has Jim saying “holla”!
the scenes you singled out were some of my favorite moments of writing this so I’m glad that you enjoyed them! Thank you so much!
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 11:58 am Title: III.
Oh that is a nasty little cliffhanger. But I love this story very much. They are fairly in character if we add drunkenness and I like that it is Pam POV.
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 11:58 am Title: III.
Oh that is a nasty little cliffhanger. But I love this story very much. They are fairly in character if we add drunkenness and I like that it is Pam POV.
Author's Response:
Hahaha, I knew the cliffhanger was going to over as well as Phyllis’s homemade oven mitt, but I went ahead with it anyways ;)
Thank you for reading, I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far!
Author's Response:
Hahaha, I knew the cliffhanger was going to over as well as Phyllis’s homemade oven mitt, but I went ahead with it anyways ;)
Thank you for reading, I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far!
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 07:43 am Title: III.
If you really loved me and meant it you wouldn’t have left me with THAT for a cliffhanger 😩
Seriously though. You write their dialogue SO good. It’s one of my favorite parts about your writing—you make Pam and Jim come to life. And I love me some drunk Jam. They always seem to need alcohol to spill it, don’t they?
Also, totally caught onto the batteries right away, and I’ll be damned if that doesn’t get revisited.
Author's Response:
What can I say? I love cliffhangers as much as I love cliches.
Thank you so much! I love writing dialogue and I always hope it comes across as true to character. And yeah - I don’t know why I always have them hitting the bottle, I swear I’m not an alcoholic.
Lots of things will be revisited, don’t worry about that!
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 07:32 am Title: I.
This was so much fun but also, please write more! I really want to see what happens next.
I loved the bread baking nod to Jenna's current obsession.
Author's Response:
I wondered if someone was gonna catch the bread thing! ;)
I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far! I promise to update soon!
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 05:49 am Title: III.
You absolute tease! All the build up and that where we leave this? Ah well, makes things interesting. Very heartfelt conversations here. Looking forward to whenever this gets updated.
Author's Response:
Hahaha! It felt like a really good place to leave things for the moment, what can I say?
I’m glad you’re enjoying so far! Just think, they’ve each still got like, 3 questions to ask the other, too.
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 05:38 am Title: II.
Great way to get Jim stranded at Pam's place. Sitting by the fire, watching a movie, more relaxed than ever, pretty girl on the couch next to him, do you need a bigger sign Jim?
But now they power's out so I'm sure stuff will get really interesting.
Author's Response: He’s a good guy, but a little slow, that Jim. ;)
1 [Report This]Date: December 24, 2018 05:31 am Title: I.
Lots of stuff going on with this intro section. I like how Jim is still looking out for Pam even if Karen doesn't want him to. Onto the next chapter.
Author's Response: He’s a good guy, that Jim. :)
Date: December 23, 2018 11:23 pm Title: I.
“Maybe vodka made Karen bitchy too.”
These girls are weird, vodka always leads to fun.
I like how you sprinkle details about the setting and the characters’ thought processes. Keep it up and Merry Christmas!
Author's Response:
I don't know what it is... I love vodka but it does not love me - it always takes me on a trip from sad to whiny to flat out mean. But I don't stop drinking it?
Thanks for reading! Merry Christmas! :)
1 [Report This]Date: December 23, 2018 10:52 pm Title: II.
“While you’re naked. Why don’t you just get naked in my house? It’s fine because I love you.“
I laughed out loud at that, omg Coley 😂
Ugh. You write “Pam that can’t have Jim” Pam so well. Also fuck Karen. Also, those are also my favorite parts of Christmas Vacation so this is all right up my alley.
Also. Now I know why you were asking about terrible Christmas songs in chat that one night. I’m gonna stop now.
Author's Response: I mean, that entire movie is filled with 5 star dialogue, but Todd and Margo are forever my favorite. I'm so happy that one line made you laugh though, because it was one of my favorites. Thanks!