Date: March 18, 2023 02:33 pm Title: Chapter 14
Oh, I'll miss the college flashbacks a lot. However, I'm excited to read the rest!
1 [Report This]Date: June 11, 2021 04:21 am Title: Epilogue
Argh, this story was so perfect it almost hurt! I love how you wrote these two; even with the situation reversed, you still managed to capture all that pining and longing and love that kept me hooked on the show to begin with!
Author's Response:
Thank you so much! That's so lovely to hear - I'm really glad you enjoyed it :) The pining and longing was definitely what got me Hooke don the show too. Thanks for reading, and for taking the time to leave feedback - I really appreciate it!
1 [Report This]Date: June 11, 2021 01:43 am Title: Chapter 20
The comment about ‘not being a woman who only eats salad’ was actually so perfectly Ryan lmao. (Definitely made me want to slap him though!)
Author's Response: Haha, thanks - I'm glad you thought it was in character, I definitely felt like I could see him coming out with something that awful/irritating. And I was going for a generally slappable Ryan, so glad that came across lol.
1 [Report This]Date: June 10, 2021 02:25 am Title: Chapter 6
Ah, thin walls. You’re throwing me right back to my first year of uni with that. *shudders* at least you showed Pam some mercy haha! 🖤
Author's Response: Thanks very much! And yes, haha - thin walls at uni is definitely an unfortunate memory I can relate to...but I didn't want to be that cruel to Pam (I figured she's probably miserable enough at this point). Thanks so much for the review!
1 [Report This]Date: May 17, 2021 05:25 am Title: Epilogue
Absolutely loved this. So beautifully written. Vivid and beautiful characterisation. Thank you for writing this x
Author's Response: Sorry for the slow reply - but thank you so much! I'm so thrilled to hear you enjoyed it - thanks very much for taking the time to leave a review, I really appreciate it :)
Date: May 14, 2021 04:00 pm Title: Epilogue
Thank you so much for this beautiful story!
Author's Response: Thanks so much for your kind words!
Date: May 14, 2021 02:51 pm Title: Chapter 28
Such an incredible, five jelly bean (wish I could give more!) story!
Author's Response: Ah, thank you so much! And sorry for the slow reply - I'm really pleased you enjoyed it though, and really appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback: so thanks! :)
1 [Report This]Date: May 14, 2021 12:43 pm Title: Chapter 21
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1 [Report This]Date: May 14, 2021 10:55 am Title: Chapter 17
Ohhh now I'm gonna cry
1 [Report This]Date: May 14, 2021 10:48 am Title: Chapter 16
Ughhhhhhhhhhh I want to just shake them lol!
Author's Response: Haha, thanks and sorry! I actually had to check which chapter you were talking about lol, I realise I've probably got several chapters in this where they might need shaking...
1 [Report This]Date: May 14, 2021 04:59 am Title: Chapter 8
OK, so I was a UK student (in the 90s). We never went to Magaluf. But I did stay with a boyfriend in Palma Nova once. Split up with him there. Probably for the best as I met my now husband a few weeks later.
Just discovered this great story when I should be doing Tax Regulation training, even through the angst and the keeping them apart is driving me NUTS - it’s a must-read.
Author's Response:
Lol yeah to be fair, I think Magaluf is where everyone went when I was a student...which is probably out of date by now, not sure where the go-to place is these days. And nice! Sounds like that was definitely for the best haha.
Thanks so much for taking the time to review, really glad you're enjoying it (and sorry for the slow reply!) I have previously also managed to get through a surprisingly high volume of reading anything but the accountancy training modules I was meant to be reading, so know the feeling 😏
Date: May 02, 2021 07:52 pm Title: Epilogue
Absolutely loved the whole fic. Thanks for writing it.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! And thanks so much for reading and taking the time to leave reviews - I really appreciate it, I've loved reading all of them! :)
Date: May 02, 2021 07:50 pm Title: Chapter 28
I was really hoping he would end up going to Paris. I think you chose the perfect impetus for it. Loved this.
Author's Response: Thanks so much! So I did think it was time for Jim to step up after several chapters of Pam pretty much driving everything, lol. I'm really glad you liked it!
Date: May 02, 2021 07:44 pm Title: Chapter 27
I'm really glad you had Pam go to Paris. I'm really glad that Karen is professional Karen here. And Michael is very in character.
Author's Response: Thanks very much! I did feel like Pam needed to do that after everything that happened in college. And I pretty much loved writing every moment with Michael haha, so really glad he seemed in character!
Date: May 02, 2021 07:41 pm Title: Chapter 26
I think you did really really well with how this fallout works.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! Yeah, I think it sort of needed to happen - and as much as I wanted to get Jim and Pam to a happy ending after all the angst, I thought there was also a small element of this being a mess of their own making, with consequences...
Date: May 02, 2021 07:36 pm Title: Chapter 25
Yeah honestly Karen deserved that. I am very much rooting for these folks. That should not be a surprise given that we are on a Jim/Pam site but I'm rooting for specifically your versions.
Author's Response: Ah, thanks very much :) And yeah, she sort of had it coming...
Date: May 02, 2021 07:19 pm Title: Chapter 24
I mean I can see a chapter count and this story has enough angst in it to make me feel like a corner has not necessarily been turned. But I like where this is going.
Author's Response: Haha - an *almost* corner? They're getting there. Slowly. Thanks!
Date: May 02, 2021 06:56 pm Title: Chapter 23
Again Jim is way too passive here but I do get it in this case because Pam is asking him to be. But I really do think you've latched on to the weakness in Jim's character in a really interesting way. I really really enjoy this fic. Despite not usually being a connoisseur of angst.
Author's Response:
Thanks so much! That's really lovely to hear haha - I don't know that I was totally intending for it to be quite this angsty when I first started writing, but...
So I did go back and forth a bit on how quickly Jim would want to act if he was in this scenario. I think his instinct would've been to break up with Karen immediately - I think he's passive up to a point, but once he's realises he wants something he goes for it - but yeah, I also think he doesn't like making things difficult for people. I couldn't have seen him voluntarily carrying on with something like this for several weeks though, which is sort of the timeline in Something Borrowed.
Date: May 02, 2021 06:51 pm Title: Chapter 22
This is totally fair, and definitely something Jan would do. Interesting that Karen doesn't seem to have called Jim or anything like that... But then again the relationship is really not that great. Poor Pam.
Author's Response: Thanks! That is something I wanted to have a bit of in this chapter - it's not just that Karen isn't really there for Jim, it's also that Karen doesn't look to him for comfort/support, and he doesn't know how to offer that to her in a way that works for her. And her not calling him is just part of that. Which is a big contrast to his relationship with Pam. And I know, I think I've let Pam be screwed over by the timing quite a lot in this fic, oops.
Date: May 02, 2021 06:42 pm Title: Chapter 21
So I really enjoy how you use elements from both season two and season three here in a really productive way to make your own AU make perfect sense. I love what you did with the place.
Author's Response: Thank you very much! I'm really pleased you think it worked - although it is definitely easier when a lot of the excellent material is already there, haha.
Date: May 02, 2021 06:39 pm Title: Chapter 20
Ah there's the Jim and Pam banter. Love the choices you've made in this chapter and so glad you included Michael.
Author's Response: Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it :) And yes haha, I did want to bring Michael in at some point...
Date: May 01, 2021 09:00 pm Title: Chapter 19
I don't hate you. But I think I hate your Jim a little. Because he folded. Again. Without even thinking about what he's actually said. It's a very bleak S3 version of Jim (and maybe a little of when they made Athleap Jim a dick too) so it's in character--just the weakest parts.
Author's Response: Ooh so I'd not really thought as much about Athleap Jim while I was writing this...but yeah, he was a real dick at that point. He really doesn't come off great when he's cornered in an argument. And yes - I did come to the realisation that to make Jim into a version of the S1-2 Pam/Something Borrowed guy in this, I've made him pretty useless. But I think he can have some of the same tendencies as Pam on the passivity and self-delusion - I've just sort of leaned into them quite a lot here, lol.
Date: May 01, 2021 08:30 pm Title: Chapter 18
Ah that is SUCH A GOOD PRANK! So good. Also I like the tuna for Pam. Nice little switch.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! So I realised writing this that it's actually incredibly hard to come up with ingenious pranks, I have no idea how the writers on the show came up with so many. I'm really glad you enjoyed this one though! And the tuna hehe, I feel like the only way Andy could've made that more annoying would've been by making it Pam's nickname...but yeah, I'm assuming at this point that Jim is not trying to re-invent himself like he was in the show, so is happy with his ham and cheese sandwiches.