the brave soul (Pam)

[dollsome]

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

Comments

[dollsome]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm so flattered that you liked it and that it rang true - pshaw, your comment was in no way dumb or inarticulate, and I am seriously lucky to get such lovely feedback. :D

Thanks again!

[likeatuesday]

Oh, this is wonderful, just as is everything you write. Still, here are a few things I particularly loved...

“Nice,” Creed declares, nodding slightly and shoving his hands into his pockets. “Now where’s this supposed to be, exactly?”

This almost made me topple off my chair in amusement. I could so see Creed saying that, leaning forward a little, peering at it all... Creed-like. Hee.

Oh, and the art commissions from Jim made me smile, and really a bit sad for them. rather miss the Jam, when I really think about it. *sigh*

Toby! Hee. This line, here-

"She slips out of the break room just as he heads back in, and when she turns to look back at him for no particular reason, he still hasn’t picked anything - he’s just standing there. She kinda knows the feeling."It's the stuff great writing is made of, methinks. Oh, Toby. Not to mention it really shows your rather strange bias for... Tam? Poby? Whatever. Because that sort of line, with its fantastic pitch perfect-ness, if any other writer thought of it, would probably have been

[dollsome]

Aw, thank you! You are too sweet. :) I'm glad you liked it!

Not to mention it really shows your rather strange bias for... Tam? Poby?

Bwahaha. Guilty. I really do love them. I do like to experiment with putting their characters together, even if it's not really overtly romantic, because they're so similar, in a way, and something about them just fascinates me.

Plus, crush havin' Toby is possibly the cutest, most soul-melting thing I have ever encountered.

[fiorie]

Oh, goodnessss...you slay me every time with your fabulous writing.

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

[dollsome]

Aww, thank you so muchhh! I am not worthy of such awesome feedback, seriously. :D I'm all overwhelmed and stuff.

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

[fiorie]

First, I think Gil needs to be in the show more often, because I'm pretty sure his two little lines stole the entire episode. He and Oscar are adorable, and oh, I love him and his art-snobbiness and his brutal honesty.

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

[falsifiability]

I... can't really put together coherence, because my heart's in my throat and breaking just a little bit for everyone in this story.

But I'll try anyway.

Pam's point of view is so quiet and subtle, and this mirrors the show so well in that there's so much more you (the viewer you) want her to see. Especially with Toby and Jim. Kelly and Creed - so funny. CREED. Every time I see him I want to say his name like Dwight does in the S2 blooper reel, when they're tossing the football around. CREED

[dollsome]

Wow, thank you so much! I am seriously just touched that you enjoyed this so much. :)

I still don't know how I feel about Oscar and Gil. They were needed to give Pam that reality check, but it's difficult to get over my Pam-love and not be angry with them for insulting her. I just keep telling myself she needed it.

Hee, I'm probably lucky that I have this sort of overwhelming love for Oscar and Gil, and I was just so thrilled to see Gil all with Oscar and having lines that I couldn't be angry at either of them, even though my heart broke for poor Pam. I really do think that it was something she desperately needed to hear, and I think it'll do her a lot of good in the future.

(Plus, there was GIL. SAYING THINGS. My life just might be made forever.)

[miss_bennie]

As always, this is amazing.

I mean, Pam running into Oscar and Gil and Kelly and Creed just...being so perfect and I am seriously incoherent right now, but this is just one of those times. I apologize for the ensuing thought jumble:

And for a second, it seems like a really good idea: he’s staring at her like he actually cares, even though they barely know each other, and she knows that he’s good at his job and something about being here with him even now makes everything seem a little less hard.

You + Pam/Toby makes my life just so happy.

And the art commissions and unicorns and Grandma Schrute and just...perfect Jim and Pam interaction.

Oh, and Roy on her little garage sale flowered couch with a hole in his sock? Good lord.

Basically, I am choosing to believe that this actually did happen on the show. You ftw, always.

[dollsome]

Awww, thank you so much! I'm so glad that you liked it. :) You ftw, always!