Reviews For Jumping the Gun
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Reviewer: callisto Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: December 10, 2012 08:12 pm Title: Chapter 1

How did I never review this? One of my favorite pieces on the site. Spot-on in character, fantastic tight writing, super hot ending. Bravo!

Reviewer: madmen fanatic Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: May 16, 2011 01:39 pm Title: Chapter 1

This was so great! Jim's self-imposed "exile", Pam encouraging him through it (no visiting on Saturday-a prime date day), Karen's angry visit, the great sex. Nicely done, thanks for sharing it with us.

Reviewer: Corking Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: September 15, 2008 04:29 pm Title: Chapter 1

I don't know if I've ever reviewed this or not, but oh man.

I LOVE this story. You've got such a good grasp of both of these characters. So much of what makes the Jim/Pam relationship perfect is how much they communicate with nonverbals, and you really succeeded at getting that across here. They don't speak much, but when they do, oh man do they say a lot. This is so excellent.

Reviewer: allibabab Signed [Report This]
Date: February 07, 2008 08:27 pm Title: Chapter 1

Hoooooly shit.  Thank you for that!


Author's Response: I'm so sorry this is late, but thanks! :)

Reviewer: kaystar Signed 8 [Report This]
Date: January 27, 2008 09:48 pm Title: Chapter 1

"This is just silly post-S3 summer fluff" - oh no it isn't!  This is steamily sexy post-S3 awesomeness!  Wow.  And Jim's line "We are going to have so much fun." was so very romantic.   Wonderful job!


Author's Response: I'm so sorry this is late, but thank you!

Reviewer: Emilys List Anonymous 10 [Report This]
Date: January 26, 2008 08:00 am Title: Chapter 1

oh holy mother of god. i have no words. except to say this - that was absolutely phenomenal and real. or "real?" if the office was on showtime (which i pray about every day), this is what we would have seen. and the ending is just sweet and not sweet :) and fab. thank you!!

Author's Response: Gah, I'm so sorry this is late, but thank you! And man, Office on Showtime... now you have me thinking, haha.

Reviewer: waltisafox Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 25, 2008 11:14 pm Title: Chapter 1

you are easily one of my favorite authors and this once again does not disappoint. so hot and so lovely. write again soon, please please please!!

Author's Response: I'm so sorry this is late, but thank you so much! You're very kind. :)

Reviewer: juteux Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 25, 2008 11:46 am Title: Chapter 1

Holy moly, this was so delicious it made my toes curl. Love it.


Author's Response: I'm so sorry this is late, but thank you!

Reviewer: susanita Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 25, 2008 07:11 am Title: Chapter 1

How sweet and funny and then, wow. Smokin'.   Excellent characterizations and great dialogue. 

Author's Response: Thank you! :)

Reviewer: brokenloon Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 09:19 pm Title: Chapter 1

I agree--Cheer up, emo fangirl!  So glad to have you writing something like this, because I'm a wimp when it comes to dark and angsty, but I do love your writing.  This is great of course...actually Jim and Pam, rather than random steamy chcaracters on whom the author slpas the names Jim and Pam.

Author's Response: Thanks! To be honest, I wasn't even talking about my Office stories -- some of them are a little sad, but almost all of them end happily -- but the really ridiculous stuff I wrote six or eight years ago in other fandoms. Death and doom galore! (Though to be honest, both of my first fandoms had the constant threat of an apocalypse hanging over them, so possibly it was warranted. *g*)

Reviewer: Daoust Signed [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 08:20 am Title: Chapter 1

Hot and descriptive.  THis is some good no holds barred smut.  Great job.

Author's Response: Thank you! I admit, writing smug is one of my favorite things to do. ;)

Reviewer: Colette Signed [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 07:52 am Title: Chapter 1

This was so many flavors of excellent. Just the right balance of funny, awkward, sweet, poignant, tentative...great build-up of tension too.  The emotional connection between them is all the more vivid for not being overwrought. And writing a sex scene that hot, while keeping it in character and that realistic, ain't easy. Really well done.

Author's Response: Thank you! I admit, when I've thought about trying to write post-S3 first-time fic, I was tempted to make it Epic and Dramatic, but when I got down to it, it really did seem more in-character to be sweet, awkward... and then just kind of letting go. The difficult conversations can come later. :)

Reviewer: NanReg Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 06:49 am Title: Chapter 1

Sophia, I'm so happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!  I love your work, but I must admit that sometimes it scares me a little (*NanReg blushes*). This was so delicious.  Wow.  I love how this progressed from the awkward beginning to the shoot-em-up end ; )  Talk about letting the genie out of the bottle!  Instant favorite.

Author's Response: Aw, thanks! It was fun to write something slightly different.

Reviewer: xoxoxo Signed 9 [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 06:46 am Title: Chapter 1

I'm the first to admit, my version of fluff is decidedly more vanilla (and even that is an understatement) but I love what you've done here.  Sexy, sweet and so in character throughout - I was never left wondering who these two people were calling themselves Pam and Jim as I often do.  It's a skill or maybe even an art to show their personalities through the steam.  You've done that here to perfection.  Thanks for helping us through the drought!

Author's Response: Thanks! I'm really glad they felt real, since it's sometimes hard to convey that through dialogue and smut. And since there aren't really any obstacles here except them trying to pretend they don't just want to jump into bed, it feels like fluff to me. :) 

Reviewer: gotkona Signed [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 05:49 am Title: Chapter 1

I'd be surprised if they made it that long. I sure wouldn't if I was Pam.;)

Author's Response: Haha, thank you. I have definitely read a few good stories lately where they wait and actually have to resolve some of the weird stuff between them first, but it's certainly more fun to write it this way. ;)

Reviewer: kgreene Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 24, 2008 05:40 am Title: Chapter 1

Ok. THIS is one of my new all-time favorite Office fics. Funny, sweet.... I don't have anymore adjectives. LOVED IT.


Author's Response: Thanks! :)

Reviewer: thirtypercent Signed [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 11:56 pm Title: Chapter 1

Oh, loved the ending.  The way this managed to be sexy, vulnerable, awkward, uncertain, and funny at the same time was perfect.  I think it was realistic under the circumstances for Pam to be the aggressor for the most part, and Jim here --

Jim seems to be thinking the same thing, only he looks kind of overwhelmed and scared

Oh, Jim. 



Author's Response: Thank you! And yes, as I went along, it seemed clear that post-S3 Pam was going to have to take the lead, even if that meant trying to give Jim the space he needed (however impatiently *g*).

Reviewer: debbiebrown Signed [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 10:22 pm Title: Chapter 1

Oh so good. I love how the weirdness and awkwardness turns totally hot yet totally realistic.

I don't know what else to say except that your writing is fantastic and I always love your stuff!

Author's Response: Aw, thanks! I really appreciate that. :)

Reviewer: FinerThings Signed [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 10:16 pm Title: Chapter 1

Oh. My. Wow. Loved the initial timidity and hesitation between them...the phone conversation with Karen at Jim's was amazingly in character, the "hour one hundred and twenty-three" scene was just deliciously smoking hot, and that ending...awww!! That was just so perfectly them. Thanks so much for posting that. Hope it made past Sophia feel better, too. =)

Author's Response: Thank you! I'm glad the characterization felt real; sometimes it's hard to nail it with a story that's mostly dialogue since you're missing the actors' voices. And yes, I hope that retrospectively mopey college sophomore Sophia is thinking about writing less languidly-despairing fic. ;)

Reviewer: honeypioneer Signed [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 09:40 pm Title: Chapter 1

I loved it! Totally Jim and Pam...really in character, too. And sooo hot. Good job.

Author's Response: Thank you!

Reviewer: lisahoo Signed [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 08:49 pm Title: Chapter 1

Sweet jaysus, you are trying to kill us!

This is pretty much how I imagine it, trying to be all discreet and 'good', tip-toeing around the awkwardness and then Pam invites Jim up to see her etchings.  In her bedroom.  

They are going to have so much f-ing fun.  I miss them so.  Thanks for a glimpse into what we're missing.  (Not the HBO part, the giddy at finally being together part.)



Author's Response: Thanks! The "being good" v. "being very naughty" was what I was going for. And haha to "etchings"; I totally didn't even think of that. And now you're making me think the show should be on HBO. ;)

Reviewer: kells8995 Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 07:43 pm Title: Chapter 1

This was just the hottest thing ever.  So hot.  So good.  I love how impatient they are and once they let go they REALLY let go. 

Umm...you're pretty damn good at the happiness, you know :) 



Author's Response: Thank you so much! I do like writing happy stories too... I was mostly just laughing at how much doom n' gloom I used to write.

Reviewer: Shassafrass Signed 10 [Report This]
Date: January 23, 2008 07:33 pm Title: Chapter 1

Delicious.

Author's Response: Thanks! :)

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