the brave soul (Pam)
Title: the brave soul
Character/Pairings: Pam; Jim/Pam, Pam/Toby, Pam/Roy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,551
Spoilers: "Business School"
Summary: There are certain paintings she leaves out. She doesn't like looking at them; they feel like accidents more than anything else.
Author's Note: This last episode reminded me exactly why and how much I love a ( Read more... )
Character/Pairings: Pam; Jim/Pam, Pam/Toby, Pam/Roy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,551
Spoilers: "Business School"
Summary: There are certain paintings she leaves out. She doesn't like looking at them; they feel like accidents more than anything else.
Author's Note: This last episode reminded me exactly why and how much I love a ( Read more... )
I know I'm going to go all out of order reviewing this but so many things come to mind that I'd rather not forget them then try to remember which part they came in the story.
Oscar and Gil? Okay you officially win simply because you wrote Oscar and Gil, and so perfectly, too.
Kelly in this is sooo Kelly...
Toby kind of broke my heart, which he always does, but the way you did Toby and Pam's exchange was so wonderful and just...Toby has his own reasons for being sad and so does Pam, and when they talk it's like, I don't know. I'm sorry this is such a useless review. I just can't stop gushing.
I love that Jim remembered the "unicorns in a field of flowers," and that he brought it up in their conversation. I don't know why that sticks out to me so much, but it does.
Roy...god, he really means the best and it's not his fault. Really it isn't, and I love the way you captured them at home being together.
The way you've written Pam is just so perfect and I have no way of describing how much I felt like this was really her and that this is really what happened afterwards.
They aren’t quite standing in the right places, but it’s close enough, with the dark and the two of them alone here and that look on his face. Most of the time, she thinks she can’t really remember what it was like to kiss him (it was too fast and too soon; all terror and bliss colliding or maybe entwining and it would have been so easy to just forget and invent something else, something better).
Just...brilliant.
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Oscar and Gil? Okay you officially win simply because you wrote Oscar and Gil, and so perfectly, too.
Dude? More people need to write Oscar and Gil. And by more people, I mean the entirety of this fandom's fic community! Yeah, that's right. I went there.
(Um. I might love them a little . . . too much.)
I love that Jim remembered the "unicorns in a field of flowers," and that he brought it up in their conversation. I don't know why that sticks out to me so much, but it does.
Aww, I love that that detail stuck out to you. I figure that even when Jim's in the place he is now, where he and Pam aren't quite friends anymore and he's with Karen and trying so desperately to move forward, he's never going to be able to forget anything about Pam and the times they shared, and the fact that he remembers every little detail (oh, Yankee Swap teapot!) is so natural to him that he doesn't even quite notice and sometimes he slips up even now. So, um, yes. It was sort of a throwaway line-ish, and I'm just really glad that you picked up on that. :D
Thank you soooo much for your beautiful feedback. You win everything!
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I think a lot of the reason why Jim's comment about the unicorns stuck out to me is because I imagine that it would really stick out to Pam. It was such a small, like you said, throwaway line, but I think for a long time after Jim came back, she was really grasping to hold on to their old relationship, and anything that happened or anything they did that was a shoutout to it, Pam seemed to get all excited over. Plus, like you also mentioned, Jim spent years memorizing every little thing about Pam and he's not going to readily forget those details just because he's trying to move on.
Anyway. I wanted to point out one more thing:
He dozes off before King of Queens starts, and there’s something comical about the sight of him scrunched onto her tiny garage sale sofa with little pink flowers all over it. He doesn’t look right here. That might have been on purpose originally, back when she still felt like she needed to escape from him.
YES. Because the Pam that I saw in GWH is the Pam that would have done something like that. That is such an amazing detail.
I...think I'm done reviewing this now?
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