Just a guy with Jim and Pam on the brain, trying to get the song out of his head by singing it.
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The ladies get a turn. Spoilers up to Phyllis' Wedding. 1 This defined my personal headcanon for Phyllis' one-night stand.
1 The last paragraph of this is an utter gutpunch.
Pam spills her secret, but Karen is listening.
1 This one makes me laugh every single time.
Author's Response: Yay! I am glad to make you smile.
1 I love this style of fic, the brief look at what everyone in the ensemble was thinking during a given moment. Feels like you really captured them well. (Ryan and Michael are definitely favorites, and you did good work with Toby's fundamental sadness.)
1 Wow - I didn't make the connection until this came up in random story that the WildBerryJam in the shoutbox was THAT WildBerryJam - should've realized you might be looking for an older work! Nice to see you're still around!
I love what you've done to give Pam's pieces in Business School a little more context. Her pure glee at the Jello prank was really charming, and the way this sketch ends up walking us through the tensions of that love triangle and sparking Pam's comment in the pilot.
But really, Pam - forget the symbolism. This is a GLARING red flag, girl. Run before he, I don't know, starts tearing up a bar or something.
1 I love how *happy* she is about the teapot, and their banter combined with their underlying conscious and unconscious longing for each other. This sort of repeated pattern of these things that she feels connect her to Jim getting destroyed feels very Season 3-appropriate.
There are some really great individual lines in this: " Her things always seemed to fit intermingled with his things", "It seemed like an omen at the time, but she’s starting to wonder if Dwight has a thing against her coffee mugs."
1 Ugh. Roy is just so wildly insensitive here, here when he's trying his best.
But I really like this backstory for the flowers.
1 This is brutal... but also REALLY clever - and I like that the emotion attached to these things is starting to show up in not just her selection of subjects, but also in the paintings themselves.
1 I LOVE the way you wrapped this up - and not just because you cleared the decks for them to be together. You end up basically giving us a tour of their entire relationship from first meeting to first real date. Her discovering herself in that exact same spot from the lunch and actually doing what she vowed to do... and then him remembering it? Too sweet.
And her letting him know she loves him through a sketch is VERY appropriately JAM.
1 There NEEDS to be more Phyllis fic. Thank you for helping fill the gap.
1 I really like this - and that image absolutely would've been tattooed on his brain forever more.
Author's Response: I remember I specifically wanted to catch that early season 2 feeling when we were in the midst of the angst after Phyllis’s wedding. We needed the fun!
1 I love this idea of Pam's parents discussing the wedding to Roy in the context of them both knowing Pam was in love with Jim. And this is a VERY different backstory for how Pam got to where she was in Cocktails. Fun take!
Yup, it’s a post-Cocktails fic! With a bit of a twist. Karen does a bad thing, and Jim is about to suffer the consequences…1 I am truly in awe of your writing - you've managed to write both the quintessential post-Dundies and post-Cocktails fix-it fics.
It may be a bruise on the surface, but it goes deeper than that.
Young Pam/Roy and then spoilers through Cocktails.
1 The contrast here is lovely - you've said a lot about Jim/Pam and Pam/Roy without having to run on with it. And it's just very well written.
Once upon a time, Prince Charming plucked you out of shy teenage obscurity, and you expected to live happily ever after.
1 Oh, man. This is a lovely analogy for Pam's Season 3 growth.
Author's Response:
Ah, thank you! I think I wrote this before we knew how everything was going to play out (I could look up the dates but that seems like effort. Ha). I remember being concerned that this was too "out there," but reading it now, I think it works well enough to overcome how really bizarre it actually is.
It's not that Karen didn't see the signs, she just chose to ignore them...
Vignettes take place either during or close to episodes, including a post-Cocktails vignette.
1 Canon-compliant or no, I love this. (Also, jeez, Karen - I bet Jim high-fives Pam literally all the time.)
Michael decides that the office needs CPR training. Mid Season Two time frame.
1 This is funny, but more importantly: I am blown away by how well you predicted Stress Relief.
1 I really love the way you've used their connection here - lasting years after it should have faded.
Jim and Pam reconnect. No Spoilers.
1 TOO SWEET.
Author's Response:
Much, much too sweet. But I still like the idea that a little bit of physical contact lit a fire that helped them cut through the BS.
I've had too much fun this morning looking at these with you. Thank you!
1 This is wildly creative. I love it.
1 Oh, man. This is high-quality Pam seduction - equally sexy and playful.
1 This is such a lovely metaphor for Pam's growth - and it's also very much about PAM, rather than JAM, without minimizing or dismissing the role that Jim has played in changing her life.
“For one hundred dollars: Which of the following cheeses is typically used in grilled cheese?”
Now she lets herself cry.
She's moved to a new city with a new life and a new job, but getting over him is going to be harder than she thought.
1 Oh. This hurts. And as much as I hate unhappy endings for Jam, I do love a well done POV on an unhappy ending for them. Well done and also rude.
6 A lovely little look inside Pam's mind.
1 Wow. Take a basically funny piece of writing and break my heart with it at the end for CREED of all people.