1 [Report This]Date: May 07, 2023 12:01 am Title: Chapter 1
“Well, except for Michael. Michael was like a neon sign in a bar.” One of the best ways to describe Michael.
Jim is so instantly taken with Pam! Of course. Ouch when he learn she’s engaged. (Don’t worry Jim. One day you will have her. Just wait and see.)
If only Pam was single, huh?
Your Michael and Dwight makes me chuckle.
Oh Jim… the habit will never ends.
Oh Dwight is definitely the kid that add extra questions and staple them behind the tests.
Jim always love pulling pranks but… “ “Nothing happens here. Anything you want to do to keep Dwight’s attention away from the rest of us will be very appreciated.” “ Pam is the one that put the seed that leads to the idea of his pranking Dwight all the time!
Oh Jim, just you wait. A long wait but you will get there.
This is a good one!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 04:51 pm Title: Chapter 1
Hee, this is such a great prompt. And this was a brilliant version of Jim meeting Pam! Michael hiring Jim on the spot is exactly how I imagined Michael hiring Jim, and I greatly enjoyed the bunny hopping and Cinnamon Toast Crunch out of a mint chocolate chip carton. And corporate banning Michael’s hazing, lol. I also really liked the little notes of young!Jim still living with his parents and wearing his dad’s suits, and his initial nervousness about working out how the office works (which makes Dwight jumping down his throat even worse, and the Jim needing to take him down a peg even more justified). Jim winding him up with the sidekicks was also brilliant (I think Dwight being the Luigi to Michael’s Mario was my favourite).
Jim and Pam are so adorable here - the matching outfits and the hair clip chat, the umbrella sharing, and the way you’ve written them sparking off each other right from the start 😍 I also really like how you made their Cugino’s date happen, it feels very organic (and solves a minor point of show inconsistency for me, which is how the Jim who advises Michael and Kevin to take it slow is also the Jim who asked Pam out within his first week of knowing her). And then his reaction to Roy is just…ouch. As is him thinking that he needs to get out while he can. This bit in particular is v painful:
‘He was tall, big, and blandly handsome. Pam smiled when she saw him, and Jim felt his heart free fall into his stomach. Dear lord, is that her fiancĂ©? Please don’t be him, please don’t be him.’
The little note of forced optimism at the end is also very Jim. This was so, so great!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 10:56 am Title: Chapter 1
TPB, well done! This was so cute!
*She was the only light in the office, a warm candle in a dull room. Well, except for Michael. Michael was like a neon sign in a bar.*
Ha! Very nice.
*He would do something one day, though, Jim decided as he sat back down. A day when no one was expecting it. He would do something subtle, but brilliant, and funny. And Pam would laugh at it, and he would smile like it was the easiest thing in the world. Maybe she would look at him and remember their conversation in the kitchen, and she would know that she was the inspiration for whatever he did.*
Love this. Absolutely share the headcanon that Jim pranks mainly to impress Pam.
* It was then--actually, it was every moment he looked at her, but it was especially then--that he knew what would be making this job worth it. His boss was crazy, his deskmate was crazier, but tomorrow couldn’t come soon enough.*
Such a great setup for Jim’s apparent masochism, I really enjoyed this!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 09:29 am Title: Chapter 1
Aw TPB! This was SO good! You should totally write fics based on puns more often!
I love being able to know Jim’s thought through his first day!
Ugh, please write more of these!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 09:23 am Title: Chapter 1
UGHHH I loved this, lady. You wrote every character spot freakin' on. Michael eating cereal out of an ice cream container made me laugh out loud and Dwight was perfection. Not to mention the heartbreaking struggle Jim has of trying desperately not to crush on Pam but failing. So so good!
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 08:25 am Title: Chapter 1
Omg tpb. This was the CUTEST. This is one of the best first day stories Ive read. I think you captured Jim perfectly here, accepting that she has a fiance but also knowing hes in trouble because he already likes her so much. Their banter and comments and looks were perfect as well. Jim and Dwight were amazing as well. The hero and sidekick banter made me laugh and you built their relationship perfectly from the start. I loved this.
1 [Report This]Date: September 13, 2021 04:38 am Title: Chapter 1
Oh this has all the hallmarks of early seasons. Jim falling for Pam right away. Messing with Dwight, The infamous lunch at Cuginos. And of course the instant connection Jim and Pam have. But of course we also have the early season angst too. Patience you two, you'll get there eventually.
Still it was also a lot of fun to read as well. Really liked how you had Jim and Pam bonding over various things as the day went on. Nice work.
1 [Report This]Date: September 12, 2021 09:59 pm Title: Chapter 1
I mean, that's a FANTASTIC writing prompt for Jam. And you did well working it in organically!
I always love a take on Michael doing interviews, and him greeting Jim with an ice cream carton full of milk and cereal is just... very Michael. And the metaphor of Michael as neon bar sign and Pam as warm candle is sweet. I also like the idea that Jim instantly took to mentally fencing with Dwight, and won from the beginning.
I actually really like this version of the Pam and Jim first lunch. It allows Jim's initial crush on Pam to be a little more subtle, the sort of thing Pam might be more easily able to file away as unimportant and not let it get in the way of them becoming friends.
"Her musical smile seemed contraband now, in a way that it hadn’t before. He didn’t know if it was okay for him to make her laugh this way." Love this bit.
I also like that Jim tests out the tone of the office a bit - that he makes sure the wildly unprofessional behavior we see subsequently isn't going to raise any red flags before just leaping into it and finding out.
Ah, poor Jim. You've got a lot of kicks in the stomach ahead of you, pal. But still... not a bad first day.
Liked this one a lot! Lovely little one-shot.