Date: February 11, 2009 10:04 pm Title: Carved In Stone
there are not words for how beautiful this is. it hits home with me too b/c my PaPa just passed away and i think all the time how sad i am that my future husband will never get to meet him... and that moment of clarification Pam has is just... beautiful. i love this.
Author's Response: Wow, well let me first say I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your very kind words. They're so appreciated.
Date: January 10, 2009 12:03 pm Title: Carved In Stone
This was such a lovely peek into Jim and Pam's life outside of D-M. Beautifully written and incredibly sweet. I loved every word.
Author's Response: Why thank you so much! That's really kind of you to say; I'm glad you liked it.
Date: January 09, 2009 08:00 pm Title: Carved In Stone
I love this! I've never seen anything bring up a subject like this before, but I could absolutely picture and feel Pam's realization that there would be another stone that said HALPERT with James on one side and Pamela on the other because that's how their live was going to go now. Beautiful!
Author's Response: Thanks so much, Jenn! I'm happy you enjoyed it and thought it was original. I try to take new turns with our Pim and I'm glad you liked this!
Date: January 08, 2009 10:50 am Title: Carved In Stone
*cries*
Seriously, what is with all of the sad (yet totally beautiful and poignant) fanfic that's been updated in the last day or two?
I love this, and I love it a lot. I wish my grandpa was buried closer to me. Oh, wow.
Author's Response: I'm so happy you enjoyed this, Corking, although I'm sorry if I got the waterworks going. I try and alternate different emotions in these stories, and I guess this week's was a bit sad. Thank you so much!
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 09:27 pm Title: Carved In Stone
Okay, can you do me a favor, LC? Write like 49 more chapters of this story, please? Honestly, I'm suffering from a sinus infection right now, and it's killing me to even look at the computer screen, but this has been one of the few things that's made me happy today. So please, more more more more more! Okay, now that I am officially a raving lunatic, just letting you know that I thoroughly enjoyed this chapter. Not that I haven't enjoyed the others -- I just always love seeing Jim as this family-type guy that we all know he is. So, yep. If I'm going to invest painful time at the computer, at least it's worth my while.
Author's Response: Well first off, I'm sorry you're feeling so icky! I can't promise 49 chapters, but I can promise this story is one I'm constantly thinking about. Thanks for the review and I hope you feel better soon!
Date: January 07, 2009 09:17 pm Title: Carved In Stone
I don't think I've ever read a moment like this for Jim and Pam, and I'm happy because I feel like you hit the exact right notes here. Everything from Pam immediately getting up and whipping her hair into a ponytail to Jim's need for banter at the cemetery.
The detail you leave on the page is fantastic. Going back to Pam's ponytail for a moment....her speaking to him with the hairband in her teeth, Jim's explaining about the tree that's decorated by another woman who visits her mom at the cemetery. The beauty is definitely in the detail here.
Thanks for this.
Author's Response: Thank you so much, LoveFool - I tried to keep this one rather quiet, with just small details, and I'm really happy you thought that worked. I really appreciate your ongoing support!
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 07:51 pm Title: Carved In Stone
Lovely.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: January 07, 2009 05:48 pm Title: Carved In Stone
In its own way, I think that may have been one of the most romantic ideas I have ever heard. Wow.
Author's Response: Well thank you...that's kind of what I was going for. :)
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 04:52 pm Title: Carved In Stone
BEAUTIFUL :)
Author's Response: Thanks a lot!
Date: January 07, 2009 02:16 pm Title: Carved In Stone
This was really lovely. Such a sweet chapter. :)
Author's Response: Thanks so much!
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 01:14 pm Title: Carved In Stone
awww, that was really cute && sad, at the same time.
I always stay away from the stories of jim or pam dying before the other, && it makes me sad, 'cause they be fictional characters but they have an endpoint in their lives too.
but this fic, with its undertones of the future && death, I'm good with (:
Author's Response: Well I'm sorry you got sad, but I'm glad you enjoyed it nonetheless - thanks. :)
Date: January 07, 2009 11:17 am Title: Carved In Stone
I hate the idea there isn't a pretty next button waiting for me...
9:06! What in the world are they sleeping in for! I slept in until 8:03 this morning. Of course, I also have a four legged alarm clock who thinks I'm starving her to death if I don't feed her by 8:01...
They were together when Meredith broke her pelvis.... you mean that didn't totally affect them in the way a close friend or relative's hospitalizatin would?
This was sort of oddly poigment and sweet. Made me think. A lot. But I think that's a good thing....
Author's Response: Thank you, especially for powering through all these at once! And sorry, but 8:03 ISN"T sleeping in. I only call it that post-10 AM. ;)
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 11:03 am Title: Carved In Stone
That was lovely. Thank you.
Author's Response: Thank YOU for such a nice review!
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 10:44 am Title: Carved In Stone
this is so sweet. I got to go and clean/decorate my uncles' graves for Christmas this year. It's nice to "watch" Jim and Pam doing the same thing together :)
Author's Response: Thanks so much - it is a really peaceful experience, isn't it?
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 10:12 am Title: Carved In Stone
I feel like I keep leaving you the same reviews over and over again, but that's because these are all just so great. And this one...it jabbed at the same bone that almost made me cry at a sunset two days ago ;) But in such a good way. This was just absolutely lovely.
Oh and just because you love it so much: scurryscurryscurry :D
Author's Response: You're hilarious, but dammit! That scurry brought a giggle when I needed it. ;) Even if you feel redundant your reviews are so appreciated, WB. Like I said to a few others, high praise from the writers I dig? Kinda dawesome.
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 10:06 am Title: Carved In Stone
This chapter is so absolutely wonderful. Truly! So incredibly real and heartfelt. I seemed to nod my head the entire time while reading, knowing exactly what you/Pam were talking about, having been there. Bravo!
Author's Response: Wow, thanks - and from a talent such as yourelf it's an even higher compliment! I think any of us that have true love in our lives feel this; what better to do than pass it on to the future Halperts to experience? :) A heartfelt thank you, truly.
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 09:55 am Title: Carved In Stone
I *loved* this, so, so much. I especially empathized with this part:
It makes me ache sometimes that I’d never gotten to meet this man that meant so much to Jim, to know I’ve forever missed out on a part of his life; that I’ve missed any part of his life. I’m silly about these kinds of things, I guess. I’d gladly hop in a time machine just to get a chance to watch Jim on the playground with his elementary school friends. I’d love sit in the bleachers and cheer for him at one of his JV basketball games, give anything to have watched him cram in the library for one of his finals in college, highlighting lines in his textbooks like I’ve seen him do so many times on forms at work. I wish, somehow, I could have been a part of everything he’s done and been.
My Jim's mom died of breast cancer our senior year of high school. I would have loved to have gotten to know her, to have been around for all of my Jim's life before he met me. Great, great job LC. :)
Author's Response: Well thank you, Ms. Beesly, I really appreciate that. I'm sorry that you never met "Jim's" mother; I can relate in terms of people my "Jim" has lost as well that were important to him. Thanks so much again. :)
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 09:21 am Title: Carved In Stone
What a lovely way to explore what marriage ideally means. This was solemn but still entertaining, and you used the perfect light touch.
Author's Response: Thanks so much; I appreciate that. :)
Date: January 07, 2009 08:32 am Title: Carved In Stone
This was lovely. Pam's realization that she can't recapture his past, but that she is not irrevokably a part of his future was perfection. Thank you!
Author's Response: Oh, well thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked it. :)
9 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 08:00 am Title: Carved In Stone
A fantastic chapter, LC, and a valuable lesson for all Office writers to keep in mind (both writers of fic and the show itself): less is more. There's no need to keep going over the top like Stallone in order to try and blow your audience away. Small, subtle moments always--always--work best.
And that's what you've accomplished here in this quiet little moment. It's subtle, but it works beautifully.
Author's Response: Well thank you, friend! I'm always afraid I've gotten over the top about something (shmaltz, angst, drama, what have you), so your review was quite reassuring - much like Smuckers, with a review from Mose, it's gotta be good. ;) Thanks again!
Date: January 07, 2009 07:37 am Title: Carved In Stone
"more or less pleased with how it turned out?" It turned out great. Whoa.
a favorite line: Thoughts like these make me worry that maybe I’m too in love with him, if there is such a thing; that I’m almost obsessed with him.
And turning the joint headstone into a bond between two people that extends further than life itself? That is profound and intensely romantic in an odd sort of way.
The first time I was really in love, I remember fearing that moment way off in the future that mostly likely he would be the one to die first and then I'd have to go on without him. Something so far off, but an inevitable part of sharing a life together.
In other words, nicely done, LC. I adore Pam & Jim talking about themselves as 'future husband and wife'. Let's hope we see something on this front in the next month or so.
Author's Response: Oh Lisa...I'm never happy. I reread to the point of obsession and then some, but kind words like yours make me feel a bit better. I'm really glad that this worked for you. I think we all have to face the fact that eventually, one of us (in a relationship/marriage), ends up alone, and that you can't recapture the past to make up for more time you won't have together. Morbid? A little, but true. But knowing that you have this life you built together, despite this fact...kind of amazing. /LC spiel Thanks so much, my friend. :)
10 [Report This]Date: January 07, 2009 07:35 am Title: Carved In Stone
Little Comment, I like the calm feel to this chap, the peaceful beauty. You hold yourself to high standards obviously. You've explored the earthly end of the love story--the ending that not many of us take the time to envision because it's not the storybook happy ending we crave. Someone's gonna go first. Great job on exploring this side of a loving relationship. It could have been sappy or overly dramatic, and you managed to steer clear of that--no easy task, I'm sure. I'm not surprised, though, coming from you.
Author's Response: Thank you so much, Nan. I was so hoping it wasn't overly sappy and dramatic, just honest, and you've reassured me. I'd go on and on, but I already did that to poor LisaHoo so I'll spare you the agony. ;) Thanks again.
Date: January 07, 2009 07:16 am Title: Carved In Stone
Guh. Just guh. This was so very beautiful and touching. You captured what it's like to comprehend the real meaning of a relationship like this...
Guh.
This is my favorite of these yet, and that's saying a lot, because they're all good.
(ps, do you mean "For letting "me" come? in that last paragraph?)
Author's Response: Oh, the "guh"...high praise, and I appreciate it! :) Thanks a lot; I'm really glad that you enjoyed this so much. :)