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Reviewer: Basscop69 Signed [Report This]
Date: June 14, 2021 01:57 pm Title: Chapter 17

I really enjoyed Jim's thought process throughout this, his instant assumption that Pam's rejecting him and then him getting totally thrown by the realisation that she might not be, lol. And I like him noticing that she's careful with her words. Also this line, which just feels so them: 'Well of course she was stressed! He was stressed too! It was a stressful situation! He was—apparently they were—being put on the spot!' I love them mutually bonding over their inability to face things head on (thanks Izzy). And YES the tea! This was the perfect line from him.

Author's Response: Thank you! I wanted the tea to show up at a narratively convincing point :)

Reviewer: Maxine Abbott Signed [Report This]
Date: June 04, 2021 04:47 am Title: Chapter 17

he’d do something stupid like go after her and kiss her, only to get rejected again, and have to face the reality that he was more of a jerk than he wanted to think. I see what you did here - nicely played Casino night reference.

Of course I was also hearing in my head the Sinatra and Sinatra song of the same title 'Something Stupid" so thanks for getting that stuck in there (I guess worse songs could be plaguing me so not all bad).

I'm late on the reading so I already know from notes there will be tea- yeah finally. 



Author's Response: Thank you! I like needling canon when I get the chance :)

Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed [Report This]
Date: May 23, 2021 11:36 am Title: Chapter 17

Lots of good lines in this one: "the debate club singles night had ended up attracting way too many of the kind of guys who thought that “no” was not only not a complete sentence but the first step in a debate that they were going to win by sheer volume" is a solid description both of uncomfortable male behavior and of the kind of people a debate club singles night might be inclined to interest, and Jim's coding errors were a fun way to describe his thoughts here. The reference to his actions on Casino Night was great - sorry, Jim, but I'm pretty sure that you're right that that's something you might do. And I appreciate the note about Jim's befuddlement of Dwight's ability to attract women.

I'm on the edge of my seat about the tea.

Author's Response: There will be tea! I'm glad you liked the chapter :)

Reviewer: Dernhelm Signed [Report This]
Date: May 23, 2021 07:55 am Title: Chapter 17

Okay, so I'm VERY glad I read both your updates at once. I was slightly confused at first because I didn't immediately get who was talking to Jim (my brain... ugh...), but the rest is perfection!
Here's the list of things that made me giggle/extremely happy:
1) Pam thinking over the ways of murdering Izzy;
2) References to the canon events (oh, Jim...);
3) Dwight got two numbers!!!
4) 'Nice guys.' They're ruined for me forever, but that's perfectly fine;
5) 'Abort/Retry/Fail' and generally the way Jim thinking;
6) 'Would some tea help?'
Dear author, please, let them have some tea!

Author's Response:

Awwww...I'm so glad you liked it! I realize the formatting was not completely clear that I just copypasted (and swapped into first person) from the last chapter of what Pam didn't realize she was blurting out...glad it became clear as it went. 

 And yes! Tea appears next chapter! 

Reviewer: Merria Signed [Report This]
Date: May 22, 2021 10:23 pm Title: Chapter 17

Jellybeans!!!

Author's Response: Repeated thanks!

Reviewer: Merria Signed [Report This]
Date: May 22, 2021 10:23 pm Title: Chapter 17

Jellybeans!!!

Reviewer: warrior4 Signed [Report This]
Date: May 22, 2021 08:58 pm Title: Chapter 17

So I'll admit, it's been close to two decades since my college philosophy class. Yay gen eds. Even longer since my own days on the high school debate team. Thus I had to force myself to slow down in order to read this chapter and let it settle in. The back and forth between the two sides of Jim's thought process here demanded it. The humanities side with more open ended responses vs. the logic side where things can boil down to one or the other. However I also do like to think that I can be fairly logical and analytical from time to time. That is until mind altering computer errors force a hard re-start.

So, here's Jim having his own freak out moment. His brain going speeding off somewhere past light speed straight into plaid colored ludicrous speed. Enough so that Barista Jim's mind somehow blurs the lines of the mulitverse of fandom and has a brief mind meld with near around Casino Night Canon Jim and all of a sudden the theoretical astrophysists have enterd the conversastion. Probably due to common friends with the computer nerds.

Then even though his mind seems to be travelling at multiverse bending speeds the progam crashed to a halt leaving one heck of a dent in his helmet. Fortunatly for our hero his brain kicks back in at a more reasonable speed. The days he's spent watching Pam in a totally non-creeper way, you know the good kind of watching someone as you build a friendship with them, that kind of way, serve him well. He's able to skirt past any unintended misinterpretations and say what seems to be probably the best words he could say at that given time.

Suffice it to say I really enjoyed this chapter and once more wish I had more than five jellybeans to award you. Here's to hoping for some tea in the near future. Brilliant writing as always.

Author's Response: I'm always glad to force you to recall the deep cuts out of your own gen ed experience ;). I'm deeply unsurprised to discover you and I were both HS debaters. Jim here has...a lot...of me in him, even though I was not a philosophy major, so I'm glad it came through and wasn't just in my head.

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