I hardly ever remember to leave reviews (I know, it’s terrible, I’m so sorry), but I re-found this fic after having read it once years again and I consumed it all in a day. I can’t put into words as beautiful as yours how it has impacted me and made me feel. The fact that you wrote this in 2011, before so much of Parks canon was established? Mind blowing.

You made me feel so much with your words—I have sentences of your writing, screenshots saved forever that made me feel seen...in a fictional story about a fictional television show about places I’ll never go and people I’ll never meet. Your writing about love, and being in love, and what that means, what a lifelong commitment to someone means, arranging your life for that commitment, how terrifying and wonderful burning in those flames makes you feel...that’s my life. I’ve lived some of those feelings. Thank you.

I’ve read this tons of times over the years but never reviewed. This is absolutely amazing! Just everything about it, the character development, emotions, and writing style. Loved it, one of my favorite fanfics ever.

I cried from "Hello, Leslie" to halfway through the bar-scene.
I felt it all. It just moved me.

I just binged watched Parks and Rec for the first time and am now reading all the fan fiction there is on leslie and Ben because I need more of them. This story was amazing. Of course I’m glad this is not the way their relationship went in the show but this story was so well written and I couldn’t wait to get to the next chapter to see what happened.

I know this is an old fic, but i absolutely loved it. I've read it several times in fact. Great job!

I've come back to this story for years now and it reads just as beautifully every time I read it. This line particularly struck me this time around: Her fingertips fly up to his lips of their own accord, and she doesn't know whether she's trying to hold on to the words or push them back in. Maybe a little bit of both. You write beautifully!

I read this and reviewed it on LJ many times when we were still deep in the throws of P&R fandoming. It is one of my favorite fics I've ever read in any fandom and I still feel that way all these years later. I just reread it again and the angst kills me every time. Your writing style is so unique and palpable. I wish you were still writing for a fandom...

Ben's parents are so messed up, brothey hatw each other.

amazing story, just 2 correction- Leslie's father died when when she was little (10 or 12 maybe), in previous chapter Leslie pulls of laptop's adapter, hello, Laptop runs on battery.

I have read a lot of fanfiction, in a lot of fandoms. I've read comedies and dramas. One shots and drawn out series. Stories that paint a beautiful picture, and ones that are incomprehensible dribble. Ben and Leslie have been one of my all time favorite couples since the first time I watched them interact on screen, but when I clicked on this story, I must say, I did not expect to find the most beautiful fanfiction I have ever read. But that is exactly what this little masterpiece turned out to be. The way you weave your words through all nine chapters is absolutely breath taking, the level of detail making the reader feel every little thing right along with Leslie and Ben. Based on the summary (and the fact that I didn't check the word count somehow) I expected this to be your everyday, run of the mill, "5 times these people did this" fic that you see so often ("and I mean, Parks and Rec is a COMEDY surely this will just be light, heartfelt, feel good fic!") but wow was this so much more, and WOW was I wrong... I laughed, I cried, I cheered, and I cursed... and I will definitely be suggesting this story to every person who will listen to me, because Snapshots Left on the Negative is without a doubt the most beautiful writing I have ever read.

PS: Snapshots Left on the Negative is the PERFECT title for this story. The way it so simply lays out Ben and Leslie's relationship... it's just so poetic, it hurts.

Oh ALSO. This is canon in my head because if parks and rec was a drama and not a comedy this is EXACTLY how it should have gone. I'd have cried endlessly (the only reason I stopped crying reading this is because I knew in a few chapters time everything would be ok) but it would also have been perfect.

I was the last guest reviewer not signed in. This is AMAZING. Honestly the characterisation is so perfect I can actually hear their voices, see heir faces as they say these things. The short sentence paragraphs are amazing and so well done and I literally can't praise this enough. I love all of it. I want to marry it. I can't stop gushing. I love it.

OH MY GOD THIS IS TOO MUCH MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT. I always thought I could handle Benslie angst but good lord this is like my insides being carved out with a spork, and is just reinforcing that these two are MEANT TO BE.

This is an EXCELLENT story - so well written, and the scenes after her father's death made me cry (tbh, a lot of this story made me cry, but that's your brilliant writing). You've really mastered that short sentence/paragraph form, and how to write angst without it getting ridiculous. Also thank you so much for keeping Ben such a lovely character - even making him kinder - and letting their struggles be the real ones of two good people. Well done!

that was beautiful and sad at the same time! Wonderful! I was about to freak out and then I read your author note and thank you for that!