1 [Report This]Date: November 03, 2022 11:03 am Title: Casino Night
*There were some things you couldn’t convey with the written word, like the shape of Dwight’s hat.*
As someone who's actually attempted this, I concur, lol.
I really enjoyed this entire story, it seems like a well-placed Karen would have actually flown in and gotten the job done, then vanished into the good night where she belongs. (Kidding. I actually like Karen in this circumstance.)
Hope to see more from you in the future!
1 [Report This]Date: October 26, 2022 02:39 am Title: Booze Cruise
This was really sweet. I like the Karen/Pam friend dynamic. The way you used Karen's go getter attitude for her to help Jim and Pam get their stuff together was great! It was a nice glimpse into Karen/Danny, we don't often read that and I think they would be good together.
Author's Response: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, including the random pairing that came to me somehow.
1 [Report This]Date: October 18, 2022 10:26 am Title: Casino Night
Well this is a casino night ending I can get on board with. It is sad that Pam will lose her best office girlfriend but like a fairy godmother, she came and did her job and it’s now time for her to move on. I hope they can still stay close.
Nice job and congratulations on finishing your first MTT fic.
1 [Report This]Date: October 18, 2022 10:26 am Title: Casino Night
Well this is a casino night ending I can get on board with. It is sad that Pam will lose her best office girlfriend but like a fairy godmother, she came and did her job and it’s now time for her to move on. I hope they can still stay close.
Nice job and congratulations on finishing your first MTT fic.
Author's Response: Thank you! In my head, they stay close and reconvene often to go over the office's shenanigans (among other things). And thank you for commenting from the beginning, it made this experience truly special to me.
1 [Report This]Date: October 17, 2022 07:29 pm Title: Casino Night
And here we go to Casio Night, but MUCH better result this time around. At least with Jim and Pam that is. Kind figured it would be this night that they get it all figured out. Nice job there.
Dwight and Michael's reactions to Danny felt very on point for them. Dwight sensing a threat and as you wonderfully said, Michael not knowing what awkwardness is.
This has been a delightful AU for sure. Karen as the sounding board both Jim and Pam needed but never got. Loved that she was the voice of reason rather than a foil. Really liked that for sure. Congrats on finishing up your first fic. This one was a lot of fun.
Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat
(Fortune Favors the Bold)
Author's Response: Thank you! Glad that Dwight and Michael seemed on point, I was less confident about finding their voices. And thank you for commenting on this fic from the beginning. I had this idea percolating for awhile, and it was a joy to finally write it. I felt very welcome here and I truly appreciated the support.
Date: October 17, 2022 03:11 pm Title: Casino Night
I am *extremely* glad we got to see Dwight's reaction to the Danny-Karen relationship here.
'"Don’t let your weak female impulses blind you.” She was fighting her weak female impulses to knee him in the junk.' *sigh* A Karen not overwhelmed by Jim angst would have been a really fun addition to this show's universe.
"My reputation precedes yours" Lol.
I love Karen rationalizing spying on them. I mean, it IS way more HER business than the camera crew's. And nice to see those two crazy kids figuring it out in a relatively painless way. Whole different spin on Casino Night.
Congrats on wrapping this one up! A fun ride. Hope we'll see more from you again soon!
Author's Response: Thank you! I'm happy to hear you enjoyed Dwight's reaction. And you were once again able to pinpoint some of my favorite lines. I definitely want to thank you for the support all along the process, it made a huge difference for me :)
Date: October 13, 2022 06:02 pm Title: Drug Testing
So, more Karen as a sounding board here, which of course is great. Early season Pam needed that a lot more than what she got. Yes she eventually found her courage on her own and more power to her for it. Though I wonder if she would have been able to find it sooner had she really had someone in her corner like this. So this a great way to see how that would play out.
Nice that Karen and Danny are getting on too. Though part of me worries that he's "fascinated by the inner workings of Dunder-Mifflin" for some other reason than simply being companionable with Karen. He's not a good salesman for nothing.
Regardless it's also fun to have a different perspective on the day of the jinx. Pam realizing it was very flirty and now that she's single there's nothing to say "we were just friends goofing around" like she probably told herself in canon. Nice job in bringing that out.
Author's Response: Thanks! Yes, I think Pam would have benefited a lot from having someone in her corner outside of Jim, even in the later seasons.
Date: October 13, 2022 05:54 pm Title: Drug Testing
“Oh wow, I didn’t even think about that. I can’t imagine Michael on drugs.” Write THAT fic.
"I keep thinking we’ve reached the bottom of the insanity that is the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, and I keep being wrong." There is no bottom, Karen. Save yourself.
Drug Testing, up until the end, is a very cute Jam episode. Very interesting to think about how this would have played out with a single Jim/Pam. Still a loaded moment but a different tenor of loaded.
And I like that Pam is a resource for Karen here in this chapter!
Author's Response: Thanks :). Unfortunately, I don't think I have enough of a handle on Michael's voice to write a story about him. And I'm glad you picked on Pam being a resource for Karen, I'm enjoying writing the Pam-Karen friendship as a two-way street.
Date: October 11, 2022 10:15 am Title: Michael's Birthday
"black hole of longing and anticipation and half-spoken promises" feels like a Jam fic in and of itself. Really like that line.
A Karen/Danny pairing! Fun! And probably a better fit than either of them were with their respective Jam person.
Author's Response:
Thanks :D
Yes, anyone coming in between Pam and Jim didn't stand a chance, so it's fun to explore other pairings instead.
Date: October 11, 2022 09:42 am Title: The Injury
Love this story so far!!!!! Keep it up!
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2022 09:23 pm Title: Michael's Birthday
Karen and Danny Cordray is the ship I didn't know I needed.
Catching up on this and truly, your Pam/ Karen scenes are giving me life. I like her so much more as a wingman than as Jim's jealous girlfriend who never stood a chance.
*She was no closer to understanding how such a man-child was able to fake it as a productive member of society enough to be in charge of other people. But her new reality had started to set in a little, and she was now almost sure she wasn’t unwittingly taking part in a long format of the show Punk’d.*
This is such a good description of Karen being dropped into our familiar DM world.
I'm really, really enjoying this. Awesome work!
Author's Response:
Thank you! Glad that you're enjoying the Karen/Danny pairing.
And I am happy that you appreciate the Pam/Karen friendship. It was one of the main driver for me to write the story.
Date: October 09, 2022 05:57 pm Title: Michael's Birthday
Tbh I never got the appeal of Danny Cordray but I enjoyed how you brought him and Karen together. And at least now he won’t have had dated Pam.
Date: October 09, 2022 05:57 pm Title: Michael's Birthday
Tbh I never got the appeal of Danny Cordray but I enjoyed how you brought him and Karen together. And at least now he won’t have had dated Pam.
Author's Response: Thanks! I am a huge fan of Timothy Olyphant so I have a soft spot for Danny Cordray :)
Date: October 09, 2022 02:12 pm Title: Michael's Birthday
Nice to get a bit of a break from the craziness at DM for sure. Danny hitting on Karen? Yeah, I can see that easily. They seem to be a decent match for each other. Kinda fun to see that.
Author's Response: Thanks! Glad that Karen/Danny doesn't seem too far fetched :)
Date: October 08, 2022 07:19 pm Title: Valentine's Day
Way to go Pam for taking that big leap. Just goes to show that if she had someone who could really offer her some perspective (other than Jim) it would lead to some serious reflecting on Pam's part and a big change a lot earlier. of course it's also completely understandable she'd be upset about the breakup. Despite it not being great at the end, she did have significant history with Roy and that's not nothing. And she's going for the design program too. Lots of great movement that's for sure!
More good advice from Karen to Jim. Be there for her. Be her best friend. It's going to take some time for her to calm down. This is one of the best Karen's I've ever read so I'm 100% here for it.
Author's Response: Thanks!! I'm glad you liked this version of Karen, she is really fun to write for.
1 [Report This]Date: October 08, 2022 06:28 pm Title: Valentine's Day
WHOA. TWIST.
“Maybe you’re right.” “I often am.” Lol again. This is a really fun Karen voice you've cultivated here.
"Michael had apparently called in from New York to say he was going to get a counseling certificate online to help Pam and Roy through this difficult time once he got back." It is a crime that we never got to see Michael's extremely well-meaning and totally counter-productive attempts to help Pam through her break-up with Roy.
This is exactly how Andy and Angela would've responded to a Roy-Pam breakup.
EEEEP. Love these moves for Pam.
Author's Response:
I really enjoy seeing what lines you enjoyed! And they are usually the ones I had the most fun coming up with.
Thanks for taking the time to comment :)
1 [Report This]Date: October 08, 2022 06:23 pm Title: Boys and Girls
“I will literally buy you anything you want from this machine if you promise never to tell me what those ideas were.” Lol. Love it.
Feels like a strong example of how both Jim and Pam would've benefited from someone to bounce things off of and offer them some perspective on their own behavior at this point in canon. And Karen has such a clear-eyed view of Pam... this idea of there being a difference between what Pam knows and what she accepts is crucial.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: October 04, 2022 09:07 pm Title: Boys and Girls
Jim's turn again to get some needed perspective. This is the kind of Karen I really like. Not a foil for either Jim or Pam but a straight shooter who blasts right past all the BS JAM has put up between them, mostly.
Really like how Karen is also not giving up on making Pam reflect about her life and choices. Seems to be working too as we're seeing a bit more courage out of the Beesly. Love that.
Author's Response: Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying this side of Karen :)
Date: October 03, 2022 05:44 pm Title: The Carpet
Full on with you that Pam is not a big skier but that she would be the one to make the compromise (as she always does)…glad someone is pointing it out to her. She does deserve more.
Author's Response: Thanks!
1 [Report This]Date: October 03, 2022 12:46 pm Title: The Carpet
Feels like there's something significant in that it's Michael and not Dwight who really pushes Karen's buttons... like he's the one you really need to make peace with to function normally in the Scranton branch.
I also think you have Karen hit on something important here - Pam's unconscious sense that marrying Roy is going to change him somehow. I think just having someone unbiased telling her she deserves better is big, but making her confront that underlying assumption is a game-changer.
Author's Response: Thanks! To me, Karen would be more bothered by Michael because he is her boss whereas Dwight is at the same level as her and has very little power over her. Also Dwight has no qualms about alienating people because of who he is, whereas Michael does some crazy stupid stuff but still expects people to love him for it. That lack of awareness would drive her nuts I think.
Date: October 01, 2022 05:54 pm Title: The Carpet
Wow! No more beating around the bush that's for sure! And Pam's not really getting defensive about it. Kind of different take one usually sees about the ski trip. Roy basically just leave Pam for his buddies on what's supposed to be their vacation. No wonder Karen is pissed for Pam. At little at Pam too for letting Roy walk over her like that.
However besides all that, what I really like is that Karen is asking Pam some of the hard but important questions. Why indeed is Pam with Roy, when that's how Roy treats her? I've long thought in canon Pam never really got that kind of perspective. Has she, the engagement might have ended a lot sooner. Which it kind of feels like is what we're seeing here so there you go.
Really looking forward to seeing where we go from here. Will Pam listen to Karen? Will Pam get upset at Karen? Great way to keep up the suspense, that's for sure.
Author's Response: Thanks! Karen seemed to me like the kind of friend that would not let you get away with lying to yourself, and Pam could really use that.
1 [Report This]Date: October 01, 2022 12:23 pm Title: The Carpet
There were moments that were make-or-break in a friendship, and right now she didn’t want to be the type of friend that said nothing when you had a piece of salad stuck between your teeth. But, you know, with a fianc? instead of a piece of salad. - this line had me HOWLING. So funny
Author's Response: Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Date: September 30, 2022 09:48 pm Title: The Injury
This is such an interesting premise that I don’t recall seeing on MTT before and you write extremely well. I’ve enjoyed the first couple of chapters and looking forward to more.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: September 29, 2022 12:22 pm Title: The Injury
I like how Karen is laying the groundwork for a good friendship before she goes into anything deeper. She's a smart cookie for sure. Feels like Pam is starting to relax and open up too. Glad to see that.
Author's Response: Thanks!
1 [Report This]Date: September 29, 2022 12:18 pm Title: Booze Cruise
Welcome to posting on MTT! I like this concept. Pam and Karen as friends. A much needed dose of perspective for both of them. I really like that Karen is seeing right through the usual BS the Jim and Pam put up during S2. Looking forward to seeing how this will pan out.