#i'm lying

[itsis0k]

An invitation

Finally had free time to do a fully rendered drawing 👏

[oscnoopy]

i'm completely normal about this

[odeu-m]

Nathalie and emilie quick b4 work

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

[Voice of a person who is lying] I am capable of acting normal while "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Harlan Guthrie in the voice of Kayne, which was canon in part 60 of Malevolent: Blackstone is playing.

[baldurs-your-gate]

Forever normal about Gale Dekarios

[nevernovember]

Data & Statistics: AO3 Cinderella Boy - Punko (Webcomics)

I know how much you guys like data analysis, so I took the liberty of clearing up my weekend in order to start work on this mini-project.

Starting us off easy, we can look at the fics by month.

All this graph shows is the number of fics uploaded in a given month. It's non-cumulative meaning at the start of each month, the count is reset to zero.

The data for this graph begins when the first Cinderella Boy fic was posted in July 2023 and continues until July 2026. August is not on here because I didn't want to remake this graph every day until finishing this post.

Highlights from this graph:

The three highest datapoints were Jan '26 (114), Dec '25 (111), and Oct '25 (100)

The greatest spike in fics was from Nov '25 (65) to Dec '25 (111) a +46 fic difference

The Greatest drop in fics was from Oct '25 (100) to Nov '25 (65)

The three months with the highest average fic count were Jan(56), Jun(55), and Jul/Dec tied at (49)

Just for fun, I wanted to share what the cumulative graph of CBfics looks like. This one is showing how many AO3 fics existed at a given point in time.

Now for the author stats.

Sorting by creator, there are at least 317 of you. One of you is my new email password.

For the criteria I followed, pseudonyms were counted as one author with the fic total summed across all pseuds. Similarly, I added some orphaned fics back to accounts with the same name, if there was a username attached to the orphaned work. Fics by multiple authors added a value of "1" per writer. If you were to add up the number of fics I have paired to an author, you would get a higher number than there are total fics.

That's a lot of names to read through, so I put it into an easily digestible pie chart.

I don't know why I thought this would work.

Different approach, why don't we just look at the top ten authors.

If you look here, you'll see Inkspotsandstains is our Spiders Georg of this dataset with over double the fics of any other author.

MagicPerson and Shadows_Mirror share 3rd highest fic number with 54 works each. [orphan_account] and [Anonymous] are not actual spots. The rest is self-explanatory.

Those are some real impressive numbers, but what about the average CB writer? How many fics are they contributing overall?

The total here was taken by adding the number of CBfics each author has under their name. This is why the total is greater than the actual number of fics under the tag.

This means The average Cinderella Boy AO3 author has written 11.7 fics.

While I chided that Inkspotsandstains writing rate was comparable to Spiders Georg, is that an accurate assessment? Math can tell us:

In this example, The average Cinderella Boy AO3 author has written 10.8 fics.

Meaning Inkspots is only skewing the average by .9 of a fic. So no, they are not making a statistically significant difference to the average.

Yet.

I know this analysis was very surface level and doesn't cover nearly everyone who put their work out there, so if you would like to explore it further, linked below is all of the information I compiled together.

Monthly Data

Authors Data

You are welcome to use this data any way you want.

[oken-art]

more fem Jack 🙂‍↕️

[bilolli]

Hi @spadillelicious , yesterday I read your fic and I'm normal about it. Take a messy fanart.