Fate is a tricky thing.
WWII based AU.
Well now this is just as intriguing as they come. I'm very interested to see where you go with this (although I think you've given some very good hints already). Very well written, and it's always nice to meet family of Jim and Pam, yes? :)
I will definitely be following this one.
Hi-freaking-larious. How wonderfully funny is it that Dwight's 9 room farmhouse doesn't have a bathroom? It actually explains quite a bit about him, doesn't it?
Yeah. I'll be following this one, I'm sure. Great job!
Owen's first trip to the zoo!
Part of my future series about the Halpert family.
Takes place a few months before The Wedding.
Hey, this is quite good. I'm not usually one for "Jim and Pam have kids" stories, but that's only because I'm only just getting my head around the idea that they are really going to get together! :)
So many nice images here, but I think my favorite is Jim sitting on a beach in Australia, imagining Pam in her different wedding dresses with different husbands. I really liked that one.
Very good work!
Let me see if I can help you with this. THEY'RE GETTING TOGETHER, THEY'RE GETTING TOGETHER, THEY'RE GETTING TOGETHER!!!! Just keep saying it to yourself all summer long and savor the sweetness of a TV couple actually getting together before the last season. And if they pull some stupid stunt on us after I've enjoyed an entire summer of thinking all is well in Jam-ville I will personally throttle Greg Daniels with my bare hands. Hm... maybe I'm taking this a little too far, but you get the idea.
Thanks for the review!
I think I've reviewed an earlier chapter, but I'm just now getting around to this one. And it's great! Love "corporate Pam!" :) Amazing how Fancier Miss Beesly gets with every incarnation around here, yes? Well done!
Author's Response: I'm so glad you picked up on that "fancier" thing...I think she's come so far already, but with Jim's love and support she's going to keep getting more and more confident and generally awesome. I'm so glad you're enjoying this! Thank you!
Yes! Silly superstitions about seeing the bride in her dress before the wedding be hanged!! (heck, I took my wife's bridal photos two months before we got married!) This is such a nice little series of glimpses. I am really enjoying them.
Author's Response: I'm so glad you like! We did our photos before the ceremony...but we did clear everyone out of my dressing room so we could have "a moment" beforehand. I was calmer instantly (like Pam in my story, obviously). Thank you, again- it's great to have a guy's seal of approval on all this fluff!
Ah. Thank you for clueing me in. I am one of the three or four people in the world who has never read any Harry Potter, nor seen any of the films. So, I appreciate you explaining this to me. :)
What a nice little chapter here! I don't go in for the smut either, but this was sweet and funny with just the right mix of sexy. I'm becoming quite the fan of your work, nqllisi!
Thank you so much! That's so cool, especially since I enjoy your work so much as well! I just thihk that these two will have a very passionate relationship, but it won't change their primary connection, which is their shared sense of humor.
Also, I would be remiss not to encourage you to look into Harry Potter. :)
Awww..now if that's not the most impossibly cute thing ever, I don't know what is! :)
Author's Response: Aw, thanks! Heh, I like them so much.
“God, Angela would have made an excellent Puritan.”
BRAVO!! *applause* *confetti!!* *fireworks*
Actually, since this was so Puritan-themed, perhaps my exuberance is not well-met. Perhaps a better way to celebrate would be as follows: *AHEM*
*Temperance* *Fortitude* *Forbearance* *Constancy* *Chastity*
Yes, I think that is much more appropriate. :)
This was FANTASTIC! And could there have been a better way to end this than with a scarlet A on Angela's sweater? Not hardly. Well done, my friend!
Take thee a bow, for thou hast surely earn'd it!
OH. MY. HEAD. I need to take a moment here and collect myself--I'm laughing that hard! "D.A.R.R.Y.L.?" "Black cloth that wasn't black enough?"
My sides are literally splitting here! WHEW! Okay...I'll be okay... until the next chapter, I'm sure... :)
Wow...those houses are creepy! And I like the balance you're striking here between the darkness of witch trials and the silliness inherent with these characters. The fact that the Michael would be happily munching on food while his "bewitching" wife labors in jail is both hilarious and sad, all at the same time. Excellent work!
Willst thou continue this fine tale?
"Angela deeply detested Goody Scott; purposely trodding through the mud so she could raise her skirts above her clog-clad feet, the harlot."
Oxygen! I'm gonna need some oxygen over here!! BAHAHAHAA!! That line was cast in awesomeness, fired in the furnace of brillance, and tempered in the cool waters of hilarity. :)
And Meredith "Temperance"...well, that was the extra gravy on the potatoes, now wasn't it?
Love it!
And here I thought that "Tobias" was a sly attempt to crossove, if ever so briefly, to Arrested Development! :D Hey, I am still loving this story. What an original concept! But then, I love crossover and alternate universe stories like this. (I have a friend named HalloweenJack138 at ff.net who writes stuff like this, and it's good as well.)
So yes, I am now off to read the next chapter! (Oh, and Michael Scott's ancestor going to Harvard? Brilliant. Probably the last member of the Scott family to attend college, but still...)
Question: How in the world have I missed this?? Seriously? This is BRILLIANT. Of course, being both a history geek myself, as well as a dyed in the wool Blackadder fan, what else would you expect me to say? :) Okay...I have to go read the next couple of chapters. Excellent!
Author's Response: Yeah! Mutual appreciation society!!! It is kind of scary how perfect some of these characters fit with the actual Salem people. I am loving this historical deally-bob, so I might bust out some more in the same vein...be on the look out Mose!
Snicker....Angela Chastity Putnam...snort...Widow Vance...guffaw. This is like a breath of fresh air around here! Oh, and I forgot to mention in my first review how glad I am that you mentioned witches being hung instead of burned at the stake. People perpetuate the stake-burning thing because it's more exciting, but we know that of the 19 witches executed during the trials, all were either hung or stoned to death. (wow. way to bring a light and cheery tone to this review, Mose!)
Anyway, I am loving this so far. Authentic, period-sounding dialogue and characters, and really, really funny. On to the next chapter!
10 BAHAHAHAAA!!! <---an amalgamation of various snorts, snickers, and outright guffaws all packed into one nonsensical word.
I can't believe I'm about to write this next sentence, but... I LOVE KAREN!! That was perhaps the coolest thing I've seen all day long. Ah, if only she'd acted more like that on the show, I would have been a little more sympathetic towards her. But probably not. :) I will definitely be following this one...
Y'know...I had been kicking around writing a "Ryan as boss" story, but I've since given up. This is just too good!!
BAHAHA!! you're killing me over here, Night Swept!! Do you hear me?? They're going to find me asphyxiated from laughing to death in my chair, my lap top still open to this story... :) I hope you can live with that.
Author's Response: This has to be the coolest thing anyone has ever written about a story of mine. Thanks a bunch.
*BOOM* The paramedics kick in Mose's front door. He's slumped over in his chair.
"Quick" one of them yells, "Get some oxygen! I'm starting compressions!"
"V-tac!!" the other yells, handing the paddles over. "Charge 250...CLEAR!!"
zzzzzap! "Anything?"
"No! charge 300... CLEAR!!"
zzzzzzap! "Check it again."
"Nothing...he's gone... flatline..."
"What is this on his computer? Looks like some kind of story."
"Let's read it."
*few moments later*
BAHAHAAAHAHA!!!
*thump.....thump* <------sound of both paramedics hitting the floor after dying of laughter as well.
See what you've done here? :)
The documentary makers ask the employees of Dunder-Mifflin to review the events that occured the past weeks, through anecdotes. (It takes place after "The Job".)
All talking heads.
"Ryan: Gollum Creed! I swear to God!"
Hey, I love talking heads as part of my stories, so it's fun to see a whole bunch of them strung together to make a story of their own!
Very nicely done overall. Some very funny stuff here, especially Jim and Pam being vague about their date, as well as Dwight reminiscing about his happy childhood.
I suppose my only critique would be that one or two of the talking heads felt just a little out of character, especially Karen's last one. I don't know--I guess I can't see her saying that to the camera. But, that's a pretty minor nitpick in an otherwise funny piece! Well done!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to compose a story just with the talking heads. After all they had a lot to talk about.
And for as far Karen goes..... I don't know, she might finally explode. After all her patience towards Jim, putting up with that crazy place just to be with that tall handsome guy that left his heart at reception..... but true it doesn't exactly sound like her. It's probably just my dark side talking =)
While I missed the a cappella and cheer inside jokes, I nonetheless learned a lesson which I wish I would have known in high school: do not wee-mo-way near the gym.
Oh, Young Mose....there's so much I wish I could tell you. And yet, tragically, I cannot.
Anyway, this was hysterical all across the board. My only wish would have been for a Mister Miyagi reference during the karate club spiel. :)
NOOOO! You wee-mo-wayed near the... Oh, Mose. I'm so sorry. :-( So, YOU know the results of wee-mo-waying there. (Tell me sometime. It turns out, Andy would only tell the other guys.)
I'm so glad you liked this, Mose. I'm afraid I couldn't put in Mister Miyagi, because until I just Googled him, I didn't know anything about him. I think I saw Karate Kid once, long ago, but it didn't really stick with me. (Hangs head in shame.)
Thanks for reading and reviewing.
10 Hey! It's so great to see some new work from you!
I love that it took Andy so long to "get his resume" together. He certainly seems the procrastinating type. And his relationship with "Little Tapioca" was quite funny. Poor lady. :D
Andy the barnacle... wow. That's a brilliant image right there. I'm sure there's more than one person at DM who would agree with that analogy. ;)
Great job, Kev, and here's hoping that inspiration strikes in the near future!
Thanks, Cousin Mose. This is actually not new work, just "finally posted" work. I wrote this one well before chapter 2, but I was waiting to post until I finished a Junior High chapter and a College chapter. Sadly, I've never quite found the right angle on those two, so I'm finishing the story where it was always meant to be finished. Someday I may be able to get those other chapters to "sparkle" ;) and add them in their rightful places here.
Little Tapioca was "helping" Andy make all the wrong decisions, probably thinking it served him right for sticking her with that nickname. Did you notice it took him 9 months to find a job with that resume, and even then the person who hired him was someone who owed his dad money? Little Tapioca didn't do Andy any favors, although I think she was sort of long-suffering of Andy, so I can forgive her.
Andy does keep going, though, doesn't he? He has that "perseverance, perseverance, perseverance" that coaches talk about. The obliviousness to what people think about him helps a lot. Remember Michael saying "I don't understand how someone could have so little self-awareness"? Michael!!! ;) The barnacle line was a suggestion from Swedge in beta; I liked that, too.
I do love Andy, though. He's been a great addition to the mix, as far as I'm concerned. I'm hoping we have the same sort of wonderful new character with Holly as well (so far, so good, but I have no idea what will happen next there.)
As for actual new fic, I wrote a very short story last night which has gone to beta. We'll see. ;)
I never thought I was The Kid until now. Thanks a lot for shattering my psyche and making me riddled with self doubt over the first few years of my school life. :)
I love Andy-centric stories, have written two of my own, and this one is quite funny. Therefore I will certainly follow it and show it all the love it deserves. After all, I know the ratio of JAM to NOT JAM stories around here, and when one like this comes along, you gotta strike while the iron's hot! Excellent!
Cousin Mose, maybe it's like Michael Scott (or was it David Brent?): If you don't know a Michael Scott, perhaps you are a Michael Scott. But you seem to have gotten past your Kid-status, right? I mean, somebody married you and stuck around a while! Seriously, though, we all have aspects of The Kid, or our siblings do/did, or our kids do/did. I do love the idea that Andy overheard this and decided he'd do something about it. Maybe he didn't entirely succeed, but he was trying.
I'm writing stories I get ideas for, and stories I think I can write. I'm not sure I could do a great job at a traditional (or non-traditional) JAM story, plus I think there's so many good JAM stories out there, I'd rather find my weird little niche. Welcome to my weird little niche. It's like Hotel California, you can never leave. ;)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Sometimes art captures life. Sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes that line between art and life becomes a little blurry.
10 You already know my feelings about this story and especially this chapter, but I'll reiterate some of them here. This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. Period. Not just fan fiction, either. But ever read. This scene is so incredibly powerful, and the song choice is the perfect way to juxtapose Pam's emotions with her painting.
In short: this is simply beautiful. :)
10 You may claim "I'm not really a writer" in your end notes, but this story disproves your theory. You are very much a writer. There is such a gentleness and grace to your style, which is perfect for Pam and her art.
How did I miss this story when it first came out? I'm at a loss, but I'm glad I found it now. It reminds me a lot of "Quantum Mechanics," which you just reviewed for me, but focusing on art instead of science.
I just thought of something pretty cool. Follow me on this.
The random story of the moment led you to Quantum Mechanics, which you hadn't seen the first time around, and your review led me back to this story, which I hadn't seen the first time around, like one great circle. So, the question is: was it really "random?" :) (my head hurts now just thinking about it.)
Anyway, have I mentioned that I thought this story was amazing? You really need to write more. Like, soon. For real.
Thanks Cousin Mose. This review means so much to me. I hadn't even realized some of the similarities between your story and mine, until I re-read my chapter earlier today. I don't think I've read it since I posted it.
So shall we continue this story of influence and randomness that seems to run laps around us? When I wrote that review of Quantum Mechanics, I never expected you to read it, since you posted the story months ago. For some reason, I was still compelled to check and was so happy and excited with your response. When I returned to the homepage, I was shocked to see my story there. Thus, leading me to read your review. Your review has compelled me to focus a little more on finishing my next few chapters, something that I have been completely neglecting (I was beginning to fear that it was going to fall to the wayside). I had no idea that when I read Quantum Mechanics that it would have lead to all this. :)
Anyway, I've been waiting to finish all chapters before I began posting them again. Now that I have them all roughed in, there shouldn't be a long gap of time between chapters like there is now. *Crosses Fingers*.
10 Oh wow... I love the changes you made! The whole chapter is so much stronger as a result. And that's saying something, considering how strong it was to begin with!
BJB, Thank you for allowing me to help in any small way I could with this. I'm the one who feels lucky to have read early drafts of a lot of this--sorta like seeing a sneak preview of a great film. :) You are an amazingly talented writer, and I hope to see much, MUCH more of your work in the future! Well done!