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Trivial Pursuits by Comfect Rated: T [Reviews - 56] 51
Summary: Past Featured Story

The Office meets Parfumerie/She Loves Me/Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail. Pam and Jim meet earlier in life in AOL trivia chatrooms without knowing who each other are. 

In addition to the above-mentioned sources, also owes a lot to a number of fics on this site, most notably Expressions in Emoticons and the Love-Song of Squirrel McPants. 

Now Complete: AU, starting before S1 (and thus also a Prior Meeting), running into S2.


Categories: Jim and Pam, Present, Past, Episode Related, Alternate Universe
Characters: Dwight, Jim, Kelly, Oscar, Pam, Roy, Toby
Genres: Angst, Childhood, Drunk Pam/Jim, Fluff, Holiday, Inner Monologue, Romance
Warnings: None
Challenges: Prior Meeting, Instant Messaging
Series: None
Chapters: 32 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 32205 Read Count: 44236 ePub Downloads: 28
[Report This] Published: December 01, 2017 Updated: December 26, 2017
Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 21, 2017 Title: Chapter 24: "Halloween"

I like the end of 24, seems like Pam is totally projecting!

And the story is really immersive too, checking up on this story everyday, it feels like I'm living vicariously through these chats. :)

Also, just a thought, it would be really cool to see the timestamps on the IMs... but that would look too cluttered. Maybe at the end, this story could be adapted into images like NobleLandMermaid's Expressions in Emoticons, but with timestamps included? It would be sweet to see the hesitant pauses each of them take even in sending short messages. :D

Author's Response:

I was hoping that would be the effect of the posting schedule; I'm glad to know it's working for you.

I would totally love to put timestamps on these, but I do think that in the simple graphical format here it would be just added clutter. But maybe as you say after it's all over...because you're right, there are definitely some pauses in here that aren't otherwise marked. If I wasn't very committed in-story to this being over AOL/AIM, I'd use the Gchat system, where only pauses longer than a minute or so are explicitly marked. But that would be immersion-breaking for me.

 

Thanks for reading! 

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 23, 2017 Title: Chapter 27: "Performance Review"

There's no way she doesn't know now after hearing about the Friday prank! :O

Author's Response: Can you tell we are in the home stretch? :-)

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 24, 2017 Title: Chapter 29: "Email Surveillance" Part 2

JESUS. THE SUSPENSE! Have your damn jellybean and let them figure it out, I'm on the edge of my seat, OMG! :OOOO

Author's Response: It'll all be over soon! And in a happy way, I promise :). Thanks for reading.

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed
Date: December 25, 2017 Title: Chapter 31: "Christmas Party" Part 2

My face hurts from the huge grin on my face this whole chapter...

Author's Response: I'm really glad to hear that :-)

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed
Date: December 26, 2017 Title: Chapter 32: Epilogue

Great job! What a beautiful story this turned out to be. :') Now I can't wait for your next one!!

Author's Response: Thank you! 

Wake Me Up by agian18 Rated: MA [Reviews - 100] 113
Summary: Past Featured Story

**NOW COMPLETE!!**

Jim receives a peculiar call from Pam in the middle of the night that slowly turns into a habit for the pair.

Multi-Chapter, set after Booze Cruise.

Based loosely on the lyrics to "Wake Me Up" by Billy Currington (wait, I'm writing a fic based on a song?!? Who would've thought? ;) 


Categories: Jim and Pam
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Fluff, Humor, Romance, Weekend
Warnings: Adult language, Explicit sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 36 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 129656 Read Count: 107411 ePub Downloads: 87
[Report This] Published: December 03, 2017 Updated: May 21, 2018
Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 10, 2017 Title: Chapter 1: Weekend 1: Part 1

"I feel like these get longer and longer as I write them...oops.."

Hope so! I've gotten really invested in this story, often quickly looking over to the scroll bar, making sure there's still lots left to read.

Author's Response: Thanks so much! That really means a lot :) Honestly, the chapters will probably all average out to about the same, and I love being wordy, so you don't have to worry too much there ;)

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 18, 2017 Title: Chapter 9: Valentine's Day Part 2: Jim

Yess, happy drunk Jim!

I love this story so much and don't want it to end, and at the same time I'm so looking forward to rereading it when it does.... but hopefully that'll be 500 chapters from now.

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 26, 2017 Title: Chapter 13: February 15th: Part 2

Poor angsty Pam!!!

Also I have to ask... do you write like this, so naturally on the first try? Every sentence is so beautifully descriptive and perfectly worded.
Either you've got an editor on your payroll, or you're professionally published. LOL

Like I said before, I can't wait to read this story again!

Author's Response: Wow, you are too kind! I'm seriously blushing :) I am not published yet, but I do write quite a bit. I am my own editor, so I usually end up reading and rereading all of this several times before I publish. Thanks for the kind words!

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: December 29, 2017 Title: Chapter 14: February 15th: Part 3

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these IMs. These extreme in-depth conversations were what was missing from Comfect's story. Not to take any ting away from their story, which was perfect, but it's just so nice to have IMs again. :)

Author's Response: Thank you! I love reading stories with IM/email/text conversations, because I feel like those are the intimate little details that we never really get to see much of. I thought I'd dabble a little and see how it went :)

Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: January 14, 2018 Title: Chapter 16: The Morning After

*Flash... flash ... flash*
"Do me a favor and drink another bottle of water, okay?....Wine hangovers are a nasty monster."

Too real... Too damn real.
I keep checking a few times a day to see if there's a new agian update... keep it going! There aren't enough jellybeans in the world!

Author's Response: Wow, thank you! That means so much :) I try to keep it as real as possible. Here's to hoping it continues that way!

He Lifts Me,But Never Once Carried by middleclassfraud Rated: T [Reviews - 4] 5
Summary: Her room is filled with colors,painted with the mess that she creates.Her room is always filled with her drawings,not on the walls but in corner ,in one pile stacked on top of one another ,or scrunched in a ball because they were just not good enough,at least not yet.
Categories: Jim and Pam, Present
Characters: Ensemble, Jim, Jim/Karen, Jim/Katy, Jim/Other, Jim/Pam, Karen, Katy, Mark, Other, Pam, Pam/Other, Pam/Roy, Roy
Genres: Angst, Childhood, Dream/Fantasy, Drunk Pam/Jim, Fluff, Holiday, Inner Monologue, Kids/Family, Married, Romance, Weekend, Workdays
Warnings: Adult language, Mild sexual content, Other Adult Theme
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 1003 Read Count: 1653 ePub Downloads: 0
[Report This] Published: January 06, 2018 Updated: January 07, 2018
Reviewer: DannyCordray Signed 1
Date: January 07, 2018 Title: Chapter 1: Beautiful Lies

Little Pam!! :D I'd love to see where this goes!
You write well, but use, too many - choppy (sometimes unnecessary), commas. Maybe make some sentences shorter or split them into separate sentences. :)

Also I've never heard of Sara Barellies. Looked her up, thanks for the recommendation! Me right now: https://i.imgur.com/2X3fAs1.gif