1 [Report This]Date: November 21, 2020 12:02 am Title: Chapter 1
This is a *really* interesting choice to make Pam fully aware of what’s going on with her and Jim, and for some of these decisions that cause problems between them to be very deliberately intended to mark boundaries in a relationship she’s struggling with managing. It’s a take on Pam you don’t see much, and I dig it – it’s a fun read and it has a surprising amount of explanatory power for her behavior in Season 2, the sense that she thinks she and Jim have an understanding and that’s she’s communicating to him that she wants things to stay this way.
Which is not to say it doesn’t hurt my heart both for Jim and for Pam. A Pam who knows full well she doesn’t have the courage to do what it takes to be happy is a Pam I desperately want to give a blanket and some tea too but also shake because she’s so in denial of how much pain she’s causing Jim.
It also makes for a Pam who is much more easily able to pick herself up and make a move in the post-Casino Night summer – that seems fully justified by the way you’ve developed her as a character, that that moment would come quite a bit faster. (And I am a sucker for the “Pam repeatedly drives to Stamford” trope, so I really love this image of her in that lot looking up at Jim’s apartment night after night.)
There’s a lot of great material in this extended proto-Beach Games speech too. Kudos.
1 [Report This]Date: August 15, 2020 04:21 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh I was so worried you were going to have Karen there. Instead, I really liked the ending. Good use of canon words in a non-canon moment and good of Jim to listen more than he did in canon.
1 [Report This]Date: July 30, 2020 10:14 am Title: Chapter 1
This was so good! I really enjoyed it. I am loving all the Taylor inspired fics!
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 05:36 pm Title: Chapter 1
I didn't know where he was going when he kept trying to interrupt her and was terrified a sleepy Karen was going to pop out and AM SO GLAD SHE DIDN'T.
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 05:36 pm Title: Chapter 1
I didn't know where he was going when he kept trying to interrupt her and was terrified a sleepy Karen was going to pop out and AM SO GLAD SHE DIDN'T.
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 02:09 pm Title: Chapter 1
I'd have been delighted to see this happen in Series 3! Think of the stress you could have saved us...
This is super. Thanks!
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 12:53 pm Title: Chapter 1
First of all, you are crazy fast. Like I’m not even home yet and you have already posted! I’m impressed. Secondly, this was a fantastic use and interpretation of the lyrics and I just really, really love the ending.
I think this means you win the dundie, right?
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 11:45 am Title: Chapter 1
Yay, our first folklore-inspired fic and very worthy of the title! I like the threading of the song lyrics through the fic, though I admit like warrior I was a little worried someone would come around the corner when Pam finally worked up the courage to knock XD I like the ending, I appreciate it was a few months after casino night so Pam has fully struck out on her own and had some time to process everything, but of course also appreciate this cuts most of the season 3 angst out.
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 11:44 am Title: Chapter 1
Aly, yes!!! This is so awesome! I actually really like the ending and now I'm craving more Folklore fanfic (send help) haha. The lyrics fit so well with the scene and with Jam overall!
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 10:53 am Title: Chapter 1
Not thrilled with the ending? How do you say something like that? That was the best of endings. Here I was thinking that the reason Jim is trying to cut off Pam's speech is because Karen is going to come around the corner and break all our hearts again. Thank you for not doing that.
Ok, so I've gotten ahead of myself. Outstanding look into the mess of things Pam let herself get into. The fact that she knows what she's doing with her 'friendship' with Jim was a great way to portray this. The half-known, half-unknown denial of everything she feels for him really sells this.
Then of course once he's gone and everything is finally laid bare, she has no choice but to finally accept everything. I really like that before she went after Jim, she went after herself first. She built herself back up and inso doing gained the courage to finally knock on that door. The reward for everything is just the best.
Great job, even considering the late-night scramble to write. Sometimes that's when we get our best stuff done.
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 07:16 am Title: Chapter 1
I love the journey that you take Pam on here. The courage that it took her to open that car door and knock was admirable, and I'm so glad everything turned out well in the end, you are a writer after my own heart! Great job, looking forward to your next work!
Author's Response: I always debate whether I should get them together or not in stories like these but how could I not? Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!!
1 [Report This]Date: July 25, 2020 05:17 am Title: Chapter 1
Aly. Aly. ALY. Girl.
I can’t believe you got this up like one whole day after the album dropped. I am SO impressed and it’s SO good. You have done the song and the characters justice and please add a chapter for every song on the entire album. Please.
Author's Response: I'm so glad that it's actually comprehensible, I'm pretty sure I was running on straight fumes by that last paragraph lol but thank you so much!! I'm so happy that you liked it!! I'll add more chapters if you write your own folklore fics!!