#i love this job

[ageless-soul-au]

hey so asau has destroyed my perception of what is and is not a long story. i started reading the jurassic park novel and got curious about how many words it has and i was genuinely a bit disappointed when i saw that, according to google, it has 117,645 words and that the second book has 108,000, because hey just Confidential is longer than those combined. and then i realized that just Confidential is longer than both of the jurassic park books combined.

and i need you to understand that the jp books ain’t small. the lost world width is only a little under the length of my pinky. both are over 400 pages long. confidential and the stolen altars have a little over double the words of the entire jurassic park book series. and then you add on faction and all the other stuff y’all have currently published on ao3 and it ends up being 475,278. that’s longer than IT, which is 445,134 words long (and that book is thick as FUCK it’s such a pain in the ass to carry around. asau would be even more of a pain in the ass to carry around if printed. that’s so fucking cool)

and then for kicks n gigs, i looked up the word count of Les Misérables, the book commonly referred to as The Brick due to it literally being the size of a brick (using the pinky scale again: a little wider than the length of my pinky.) turns out, it’s 545,925 words long. y’all are gaining on les misérables. and, from what i can tell, the story’s still relatively at the beginning. what the fuck. what are you two on. how have you guys done this. this is genuinely one of the most impressive things i have ever seen what the fuck. give yourselves the biggest pats on the back you more than deserve it

i definitely could’ve made this way more concise and coherent but i need y’all to understand that asau has permanently altered the way i see book length. i finished a tale of two cities in a week because i was like “pfft this is nothing compared to asau.” you guys are insane and i am here for it. waiting for the day y’all pass the bible’s word count (783,137)

Okay so anon,,,,, I (Kio) decided to look into my ao3, because your ask put me in hysterics (the "what are you two on" got me in particular, and I couldn't fucking tell u)

The main asau fics that make up "the series" imo are, in order, counterpart, confidential, and the stolen altars. The words counts of those combined are 437,910.

If you add in the main things on our ao3s, which I consider the 3 series asau fics above, faction, and ofc peaches & cream, that's a combined word count of 546,196. That's 5 fics.

But what most people don't know is that asau had a false start. Counterpart was the first one to be published (on July 29, 2021) and it's the only one that remains after the initial run, which we started redoing with Con (published March 9, 2022). That's a pretty significant gap! In that space, we published 4 fics with a combined word count of 71,239. That's not anything to sneeze at, but nowhere near what we operate at now. They didn't perform super well and we wanted to rework the story to be better paced, more fleshed out, to have some actual meat on there, yknow?? So we made those works private and just considered confidential as the start of an entire overhaul of the plot.

But that brings us to a combined word count of 628,101 just with the most important and active things included. And, buddy, we're not even a quarter into altars yet. Altars won't even be the end of the series.

We will top the bible's word count. Easy.

-Kio

#Ask #Comments #I love this job #(not getting paid for it but it IS work. Passion projects are jobs.)

[sga-owns-my-soul]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 i'm working for a new company and we just had our grand opening today and i got our management team a thank you card that i got everyone to sign (bc they've been working INSANE hours getting stuff ready for today) and 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 one of the heads of the company thanked us with tears in her eyes and said she's never had a staff thank her like that

i fucking love it here

#IM GONNA CRY #I LOVE THIS JOB #SO MUCH #everyone is so amazing and so supportive #i just. i'm so happy here #i'm so happy with the team #i'm so happy with the business #we sell GOOD brands and products and it's just. fuck i'm so happy #and i love how much of a community there already is #everyone is so close and we work so well together #i'm gonna cry omg i'm so happy #today was fucking insanity but it was SO good #sigh. i'm so happy at this job #work rambles #personal rambles #ignore this #not stargate

[rom-e-o]

Some of you may know I started a new job in the pet sector. We bake things for pets (this is all in-house baking, no factories or assembly lines.)

I work an office marketing job in the corporate HQ, which is what I'm trained in. BUUUT, it's the holidays. Nobody needs marketing/promotions. Stuff is flying off the shelves faster than we can bake it.

This is a long-winded way to say that I just got home from baking bone-shaped dog birthday cakes and frosting them with yogurt all day.

Did I get lots of puppy kisses? SO MANY. One black pitbull literally jumped up and licked my face senseless, and I...literally can not express how much better this job is.

#personal #I love this job

[raspberrywiskey]

had the most wonderful indepth conversation with a coworker about star trek today. the world is beautiful 😊😊

#we were talking ab neurodivergency in star trek specifically and i got to bring up odo 😁😁😁😁 !!!!!! #and we talked ab all her nuances and introcracies #i love this job #its made me feel like theres a place in the world for me 😊 #txt

[thegeekyartist]

More adventures in art teaching.

Me: "So, to keep in the spirit of Renaissance frescoes, I want your paintings to tell a story or show some kind of scene."

Student: "So, like, a presidential death scene?"

Me: "...You mean like the Kennedy assassination?"

Student: "Yes."

Me: ".........Sure."

#these kids are 9 #i love this job #personal

[handsomegentlebutch]

Moved in 3 clients this week. Peace and love on planet earth.

#butch speaks #tenderness tag #i love this job

[churmandurr]

hehe hoohoo took sum selfies at work today can u guess what store I work in LOL

#work #gpoy #plus size #body positive #body postivity #fat girl #i love this job #ive never even liked a job before #this one rocks #who knew id love working in retail

[pentanguine]

I’M GETTING PAID TO READ LOCUS MAGAZINE

#i love this job #personal

[kiwikoopa]

I have a full time job and at least 5 hours a day I just sit outside on my phone.

#my handbook literally told me its okay to be on my phone just dont do anything illegal with it while on the clock lol #im also the only person who works here #the owner hired me and explained my position then left #over the past month i see him kike twice a day for like 15 minutes each #personal #i love this job #the other three hours is me playing with doggies

[idylls-in-juniper]

Got 12hrs 20min tomorrow after my ten today. Just seeing the schedule made me so tired. And that's after 10s, 12s, and a 14 last week. Kill me kill me kill me

#i love this job #today so many people said thank you to me for being kind #its beautiful and makes a difference #but its exhausting #im gonna go home and eat junk food and take a bath

[kirillmarchenko]

guys. i got called a cunt and got charged at by a 60 year old man.

#i love this job #at least he did Not kick me. bc that would not be new

[stellaron-hunter]

closing period🌸🥰💕✨

#im being paid to play games on my phone for 8 hours #i love this job #i dont even need to pay attention when finance closes anymore??? #bc my finance bestie (i hate her) told me shell notify me??? #yes please

[sheepdog-and-fakegoldenretriever]

Ahhhh, have to join a meeting on my day off but it's a Dr Sarah Fisher seminar and I still get to take my own dog out.

#i love this job #omggg

[formulafc]

i’m in a meeting with a brand who are an f1 teams sponsors and thy’re sending me merch 🥹🥹🥹🥹

#i love this job #rambles

[thegeekyartist]

So pissed rn. I teach art on Tuesdays, but as a makeup day/fun field trip we planned an art museum lesson at one of the big ones in the city today. I normally work on Sundays but I was able to call off (even though it's a bakery and we're this close to the holidays which was a miracle) and I already paid for my nonrefundable $20 ticket.

Guess who got an email first thing this morning saying my students were too tired from their weekend and that we needed to reschedule?

#i knew this was going to happen #i could just feel it #they didnt have their group tickets purchased on Friday #and yesterday was the sabbath so i knew i wouldnt hear from them then #it was like pulling teeth to get anyone to email me back about scheduling this in the first place #and now im out $20 PLUS my work day at the bakery #bc frankly at this point its not worth still going in #i love this job #and im super flexible all the time with the schedule changes we've already had this semester #but i need some stability here! #personal #/rant

[lovelyporridge]

working in this library's archives is like *tries not to hyperventilate over the fact that i am holding clippings of newspapers from 100 years ago* *remembers what being human is* *fucking hell, this archive is so badly organised* *VIRGINIA WOOLF???*

#i love this job