10 [Report This]Date: April 27, 2009 12:28 pm Title: Chapter 2
Wow. That's all, just wow. Love it.
Date: February 25, 2008 06:08 pm Title: Chapter 2
Karen. Karen there.
That can't be good.
" “Care to tell me what that was about?” She asked coolly.
He swallowed hard, then chuckled. “Not really, no.”
"
Haha! *giggle*
I like your Karen better than real Karen. Your Karen knows when to disappear. Real Karen just sticks aroud and mucks everythin up. Plus, your Karen seems like a real person. Which is why I am hating the fact that I am feeling sorry for her.
Girls have cooties? NOPE. Its boys who have them. Tons. They are everywhere on those icky boys.
I love contagious laughing. My boy's laugh is cotagious. Of course, he is two. But his laugh is so super contagious. Heck, his smile is contagious. I love my boy :)
Okay. That explains Karen and Jim's relationship. But Pam and Jim's is much better. :)
Author's Response:
Your entire review just cracked me up -- glad to hear that you like my Karen better than the real one, lol. And yep, boys do have cooties, but it's kind of nice when their smiles & laughter are contagious. I've always said that one of the best things about my husband is that he makes me laugh every single day of my life -- can't ask for better than that, right? ...Well, except for Karen to have dumped Jim after TR, but....
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: February 25, 2008 06:07 pm Title: Chapter 1
Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration to the Rescue. I can just imagine the costume. A blue cape, with a penguin in front of a fridge. That logo would be in a yellow circle, of course. The front logo would just say BV,VR. He would be more famous than superman. Colder than the artic, its BOB VANCE, VANCE REFRIGDERATION!
Okay, that "oh bob vance... yes" both distrubs me and makes me giggle.
And then you go and ruin it by bringing in Karen. Really, I like to think Karen really is just a figment of our collective nightmare. Or something like that.
Jim followed her.
I think I would be unable to look at Jim either. Okay, seriously, I am just like seeing this. I mean, its not just words, I can see it in my mind. Which means its great, totally awesome. Just imagine some girly Kelly seal of approval, and that's basically my train of thought. Because I really am a Kelly :P.
"“I didn’t fucking misinterpret anything.”"
Oh my god.
whoa.
wow
whoa
whoa
whoa
whoa
whoa
whoa
wow
Author's Response:
All right, here I am again, catching up on review responses, so get ready Emily. :o) (Actually, I've only got a little time left to devote to them today, but you'll be hearing from me sporadically for all those great reviews you left....)
Funny you mention the BV, VR bits, because I wrote this before Phyllis's Wedding aired, and it was hilarious to me that he said the full name/business affiliation in his wedding vows! I was hoping they'd do that.
Yep, I shouldn't have tried to make this more than a oneshot; I think it would've been stronger had I left it at one chapter with Jim's, "I didn't fucking misinterpret anything." I was really hoping we'd get to see Pam walk in on Karen and Jim kissing (though I suspect I'm the only person in America who wished for such a thing, lol) just because I think it would've forced them (Jim & Pam) to confront CN. But all's well that ends well, right?
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: December 08, 2006 12:45 pm Title: Chapter 2
Oh. My. God. THUD.
That was me reliving my teenaged angst as I wore a hole in my Duran Duran album playing "Save a Prayer". Then watching the video over and over. And I think there I may have read something about Jim and Pam and Karen in there somewhere? Oh, and forearms! How did I know there would be something about forearms. And there was some literary merit, imagery, blah, blah. Whatever, just update this will ya? Hee!
Author's Response:
Okay, so I think that's the first time a review has ever made me actually *squee.*
I was in love with Simon LeBon for close to twenty years until John Krasinski. (The video? Seriously? Running on the beach and picking up the little boy? Standing by the window in the white linen suit, closing his eyes all tortured-like when he said, "I try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin..." ? Holy mother of god.)
Anyhoo, when I saw the infamous John/chicken/Mean magazine picture, it clicked: Jesus, he looks like a young Simon LeBon! Now I've gone and zapped what little credibility I had left. :o)
(And for the record, I still have an affection for LeBon, but JK just impresses the hell out of me every time he speaks, so....)
Thanks so much for the review - and I'll update as soon as I can!
Date: December 07, 2006 02:13 pm Title: Chapter 1
So very good. I didn't realize that you had updated it until just a few min ago. HOT!
9 [Report This]Date: December 07, 2006 01:17 pm Title: Chapter 2
Um, wow. Is it a bad thing that I don't even care he's doing bad thing on the first day? Because, honestly, all I really want to do is have you finish that so I can have more delicious Jim. brava!
*melts*
10 [Report This]Date: December 07, 2006 12:42 pm Title: Chapter 2
Wow, I've read a couple different scenarios of how Jim and Karen get together and this is my favorite. It's canon in my mind now. Also? The end is hot. Please continue from right there. :)
Date: December 07, 2006 11:19 am Title: Chapter 2
"She knew now the source of the confidence beneath his charm."
WOW. Love everything that's implied in that sentence. *whew*
I like the self-confident tone you have here for Karen.
10 [Report This]Date: December 07, 2006 08:16 am Title: Chapter 2
Okay, Chapter 1 was great but Chapter 2 is even better. You describe Jim to a "T" with this: Jim didn’t come off as innocent, he did have a warmth about him – an easy, unaffected manner that clearly indicated the fact that he apparently had no idea how attractive he was.
And I like seeing things from Karen's point of view, and you've sort of nailed the fact that she's so confident yet she finds someone like Jim so intriguing because I think we've seen that in her since GWH. More, soon, please!
10 [Report This]Date: December 07, 2006 08:02 am Title: Chapter 2
the art of walking the line between a cautious kind of reticence and an urgency that manifested itself in a palpable heat
How hot is that combination? And I could so see Jim being that way.
smooth but not slick; charming but not disingenuous; so obviously a “good” guy but far from boring.
Yup, that's our boy. Well put. The way she likes watching him to simple things (pack boxes), notices how unaffected he is from hisll gestures...how could she not fall for him? Makes your beginning section all the sadder...because his one flaw is he's in love with someone else. Thanks for filling in some of Karen's blanks. Very insightful.
Date: December 07, 2006 07:24 am Title: Chapter 2
Karen's 'sheer calm' and how it unnerved Jim was excellent. I like how you gave us more of her character development & motivation behind moving to Scranton without making her too clingy. But I'll still do a happy dance when she realizes the Jam-covered elephant in the room and leaves :o)
9 [Report This]Date: December 07, 2006 06:32 am Title: Chapter 2
Loved this chapter. And I love that you included lyrics from "Save a Prayer". That's my favorite Duran Duran song!
Author's Response:
Thank you so much! And I'm so used to getting teased for my affinity for Duran Duran (from the late 80's-90's before they apparently came back with credibility - who'd have thunk it?) that your comment made me all kinds of happy. In intonations of Jim: Say what you will about Duran Duran, "Save A Prayer" is just haunting.
Thanks so much for the review - for all your reviews, actually!
10 [Report This]Date: November 29, 2006 02:39 pm Title: Chapter 1
you must write another chapter!!! please!!!
Author's Response: Done and done! :o)
10 [Report This]Date: November 29, 2006 08:59 am Title: Chapter 1
Wow. This...wow. So powerful, so possible.
He knew she’d never back down from a challenge – not even now.
That's it. That's the hidden truth about Pam that Jim knows and no one else understands. From pranks to impossible, dead-end relationships, Pam never backs down. She's not weak, she's tenacious, even if it means holding on to the wrong things. Love this, love you! Welcome to the short side!
Author's Response: Wow - Thank you so much. That's one of the best compliments you could give me - "so powerful, so possible." Wow again. Thanks, lis!
Date: November 28, 2006 05:59 pm Title: Chapter 1
I know a lot of people are calling for a continuation, but I loved the way this ended. It fits with how we've seen them act in the past--Jim telling the truth in moments of desperation and Pam continuing to hesitate.
Liked the way you wrote their thoughts too--Pam envisioning Phyllis and BVVR was great, and Jim's thoughts about being caught "cheating" really mirror what I think Jim would feel at this point. Particularly loved the line about him saying sorry and how he wasn't certain about how he should feel about it.
Author's Response: I agree with you, actually, about feeling like I should leave it alone. But I already started another chapter, though who knows what'll happen with it... Thank you so much for reviewing, as always!
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 05:41 pm Title: Chapter 1
Great start. Can't wait to see where you go next. And Jim's last line to Pam, perfect.
Author's Response: You're awesome for being such a great reviewer! Thank you so much!
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 02:50 pm Title: Chapter 1
Wow, what a "drabble"! Pam still in denial about everything (self-defense at this point, right?), Jim not willing to let her get away with it anymore...especially since the end of Karen and Jim probably happened the moment he left her to chase after Pam. Great stuff.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! And I agree that for Pam, it's suddenly self defense - so sad that it has to be, isn't it?
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 01:46 pm Title: Chapter 1
Wow. When I read "Karen was standing on her toes..." I literally had to stop reading and prepare myself. God help usif that ever happens on the show! Soooo heartbreaking, why can't Pam just SPEAK? Terrific fic though. Love the last line "I didn't fucking misiterpret anything"
He, certainly didn't.
Author's Response:
Yeah I know - but for some reason, I kinda want to see it! It's like picking at a scab or something.
thanks for reviewing!
Date: November 28, 2006 01:39 pm Title: Chapter 1
I love that there is so much unsaid in their confrontation; I think they are both too afraid to say something, particularly Pam. That just really worked for me as a setup.
Author's Response:
Thanks so much - I've written so, so, SO many confrontations between those two wherein they spill it all. But after the parking lot scene, I just keep thinking that it would probably go down something more like this - or at least, I wish it would.
Thanks for the review!
Date: November 28, 2006 12:39 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh, man. These two kill me. You've done such a great job with the season 3 tension between them.
Also, Pam imagining Bob Vance and Phyllis in bed? Had me laughing very hard.
Author's Response:
Thank you so much - and hey, Color Wheel is amazing, BTW!
Yeah, I always get a kick out of the way Phyllis says his full name whenever she mentions him. And the whole adding "Vance Refrigeration" thing after his name is one of my favorite jokes on the show.
Thanks for the review!
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 12:11 pm Title: Chapter 1
no! you can't leave it like this, this suspense is killing me, please post the next part soon, otherwise you'll have a dead body to explain.
Author's Response: Hee - thank you so much! And yes, it looks like I'll be working on this one some more...
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 11:28 am Title: Chapter 1
That was friggin awesome!!! You are continueing this right?
Author's Response:
Thanks so much - and yes, it looks like I'll be writing more, though I think it's gonna take a turn for the even angstier....
Love your name, by the way!
Thanks for reviewing --
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 10:47 am Title: Chapter 1
Now THIS is what I call enjoyable drabble. I think everything you have written should be considered "canon". You have a great ear for the dialogue between Jim & Pam and have the most convincing, realistic stories. LOVE your writing!
Author's Response:
Wow, what a sweet review - thank you so much! I'm not sure if this constitutes a drabble or not (I'm fairly certain I'm a billion words over the limit), but as I mentioned, it's the closest I'll ever get to one, I'm sure.
Thanks again for such a thoughtful review!
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2006 10:19 am Title: Chapter 1
“I didn’t fucking misinterpret anything.”
Damn straight! Loved this, girl7.
Author's Response: Hee - thank you so much!
Date: November 28, 2006 08:01 am Title: Chapter 1
YES. This is what I want to see. I'm so desperate to have them talk everything out I feel like I have Pam reciting monologues whenever they are together. But NearlySilentPam and PissedOffJim are oh so much better!!!
I need to see what's next.
Author's Response:
I am so with you, girl - I want them to just get it all out. I don't even need a long sappy conversation like the ones I usually write (and BTW - I've found all of yours to be absolutely realistic and not at all monologue-ish); I'd be satisfied with a good screaming fight, so long as they could get to the bottom of things. ...And to bed, but that's another matter, now isn't it?
Thanks as always for reviewing!