1 [Report This]Date: October 12, 2023 11:05 am Title: Safe and Sound
You know what I love about this? First of all these kinds of stories are my JAM, pun absolutely intended. Stress Relief's cold open has so many funny moments that it becomes distracting how actually terrifying that would have been and you've captured it so so well. Thank you for this! I love this genre of writing and I'm so stoked to read more!
Author's Response: Hehehe!!! I am so glad!!!!!
Date: March 06, 2023 05:33 pm Title: Safe and Sound
oh this is so sweet. I love how Jim knows exactly how to help her in life, and he’s so good at comforting her in this time. I also really enjoy the insight into this, I certainly felt there was a lot unsaid for this episode.
Author's Response: Total agreement! There needed to be more to that, more fallout… of course, none of this reads well for comedy 🤪
1 [Report This]Date: March 06, 2023 03:20 pm Title: Safe and Sound
I thought this was really sweet— and so realistic. While this episode always cracks me up, it’s easy to see how the adrenaline rush would end just to lead to a rush of emotions in regards to what could have possibly went wrong— thank God it didn’t. It almost makes you wonder why Phyllis was the only one hesitant about signing Dwight’s “statement of regret”. While your spicy scenes have been great, this was just as good— Jim taking care of his girl, and having a quiet night to reflect after all this undue stress… love that Jim can relax once he knows Pam is relaxed. Thanks for posting!!
Author's Response: Thank you so much, I really love writing the sweet stuff, and some just clearly screamed at me from behind the scenes. Sweet writing can be just as much fun as spicy 💕
1 [Report This]Date: March 03, 2023 12:26 pm Title: Safe and Sound
I really like Jim the protector coming out in this one, and even though Pam is totally safe, he really wants to take care of her anyway he can. Nice work
Author's Response:
💜thanks💜
I felt that episode got off a little too easily with not having Jim carry out anger with Dwight, as say we saw him push back at Michael over the Golden Ticket fiasco. I wanted to see a little bit more and so I turned it a different direction towards his worry with Pam.
1 [Report This]Date: March 03, 2023 12:05 pm Title: Safe and Sound
I know it's TV and all and of course in a comedy like that they couldn't just have Dwight fired and hauled off to jail, but in actuality, per PA state law he committed aggravated arson that day. That's a felony. In the real world Dwight not only should have been fired for a stunt like that but arrested and hauled off to jail for a very long time. So in that sense I 100% get why Jim is reacting like this. A tenet of masculinity is being a protector and he's feeling like he failed that. It doesn't matter that in the end it was fake, in the moment it was real and the feelings are real too. So yeah I get why he'd just want to throw away and scrub the day away. Like you very well said, he couldn't take care of Pam then, despite trying to with the copier battering ram, but he can take care of her now. So they'll just hold each other and take solace in their nearness. Love that.
Author's Response:
EXACTLY! I get it that it is a tv comedy and they of course will play on the comedic factor. But that was absolutely an event with legal repercussions, not just a scolding from the company. As soon as that fire alarm was pulled and all the 911 response that would have arrived for both the fire and Stanley, Dwight would have been hauled off in cuff for that stunt.
I kept replaying in my mind what I thought could have happened for the two of them, after spending so long apart to now be faced with being trapped inside a burning building.
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1 [Report This]Date: March 03, 2023 09:58 am Title: Safe and Sound
Ahhh, I love a good Stress Relief fic. I mean, it's hilarious, but there's a lot to be mined there if it's taken seriously, and Jim is really very sweet here. Love this moment you've crafted for them!
Author's Response: Thank you! Agreed...so much to be mined from the show outside of the hijinks and narratives shared d84;a039;