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Jul 5

After reading it, my introverted, book enthusiast friend told me she resonated with my character PARIS-
Which you just gotta read to find out why it’s WILD to admit that
(It does make sense a little later on…)

Honestly can't think of them off the top of my head, and I can't bring myself to find them, I've gotten so many interesting comments over the years. A lot of really nice ones that would make you feel shy, good guesses about where the story is going, guesstimations on why certain characters are the way they are based on what they've talked about and flashbacks.

Some of the more interesting ones came from a discussion I got on my comic a few years ago on the Webcomics Garden server, I regret signing up for it so soon since you can only do it so many times. Another cool one was Comic Tea Party, a discontinued group that picked comics to talk about as a sort of review/open discussion. Unfortunately I can no longer access the archive to retrieve my entry.

this is a fun kind of comment to receive, to me. it shows people are invested

lol, it could even be something someone you know said. my editors commentary isn't in the comments directly XD

20 days later

This comment was tough, but it was good to know people were getting invested in the character:

Spoiler warning

"Oof...talk about a mental breakdown. Poor Alicia...she's been through hell and holds on to so much. She must know her mother's OD wasn't really her fault...

Right?"

21 days later

Spoiler warning:

A comment from CEWashbrun


The first kiss!!! Desperate and hungry...damn that had my eyes pop out.

I feel so bad for Kattar. His mom didn't want him to know his father, kept him sheltered like he was her own personal little project that couldn't go wrong, couldn't have the potential to be anything like his father. Maybe he was a jerk? Or maybe he wasn't and Mrs Moon is just too possessive of her own son to allow his father to ever...

GASP!

Does Kat's dad even know he exists?!?!?!?!?! 🤯:scream:

19 days later

Another comment from CEWashburn lol


"Cream cheese is LIFE!! I eat it on almost everything, sometimes on its own. It's a problem, really."


This makes sense in context

and this is the chapter it was commented under

this comment was from Hostilefren:

"I'm totally screaming if there's a snake in the bathroom. I'm probably also going to be running away for good measure XD"

Just people telling me stories that relate to the book from their own lives. I once wrote a scene where clearly the characters were in the Stonewall in NYC in the 1960's (a historic gay bar where riots caused the modern queer rights movement). The characters were introducing their new friend to the other drag queens there to initiate him into the circle of friends, and the friend was under age. An old gay commented on this, telling an engaging story of his own time at Stonewall during that time period. I read his story open mouthed. He said what was in the book was so accurate. It reminded him if old times and he was nostalgic. He was like, "ah, under age queens! There were always under age queens!" The character was based on homeless youths who did frequent the Stonewall due to its proximity to a park where they could relatively safely sleep at night. There were indeed many under age people in there. His story delighted me. Best comment I ever received in the 15 years that my work has been online. This was for my book Audrey Hepburn's Pearls, about drag queen and transgender culture in the 1960's and 1990's in NYC.

Yeah but in universe her grey eyes mark her ability to kill hundreds of grim, so it's very important.

Some studies have shown that, on a global scale, grey eyes are actually the 2nd rarest eye color, green being the most rare.

rare isn't the same thing as weird, I already acknowledge that they were rare.

19 days later
11 days later

When I shared my novel to a friend, he referred me to a Jump+ manga called Empyreal Cabinet because the characters were "Gatekeepers". That was when I realized that the story I'm working on is, in a sense, an exorcism story, as it deals with otherworldly menace that's mostly supernatural and can possess people.

I don´t remember the exact words but the negative comments are always more
meaningful and interesting for me.
2 negative comments were like:
- the story is full of clichés and tropes (correct)
-the other comment was from a guy who was angry how predictable
he thought my story was (interesting)

19 days later

A collection of comments where people described just how much they hate one of the novel's antagonists:


Wow I do not like this new agent! So rude!


I'm not gonna lie, I think I'd like to throw a chair at this Ms. Howard too!


Emelia needs to get hit in the face with a tree. How does someone like that even become an agent for artists? She's so d*mn condescending and nasty...ugh I hate her so muuuuuch! 🤬🤬🤬


Alicia sounds a lot more confident in this chapter. I got me a good grin when she shook that nasty bixxh up by saying "no." Good for you, Lise. Well done. :clap::clap::clap:

28 days later

The nice comments when a story comes to an end... They're not interesting, per say, but some of them really stick with me. Real proof people liked my work and thanks for it... It's sweet.


& Watching people dissect my story in real time is always a treat. Their thoughts and how they perceive things is always interesting to me. Any and all theories, truly. Here's some examples of someone who read a completed comic of mine but kept updating their thought process on how they read the robotic twins in the story;

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When it comes to my written work I don't get internet comments so it's just what folks say at writing group. And their interesting comments were more the implications behind their words and not the words themselves. Asking me how to go abouts getting published, just assuming I had been from my writing. The implying I have a post-secondary background in English when all I got is a high school diploma. I suppose those are just interesting because I don't particularly think myself a good writer, but watching folks mental image of me shift and form from just some words on a page-- words not even about myself-- is interesting...

And when I brought in my short story "A Mother's Love" (it's in my short story collection on tapas. chapter 2 or 3 or something.) someone said "When you were explaining all this dread Marlo was feeling about going home I was ready for something scary-- but when it was just his mother I wanted to laugh. Moms are supposed to be safe. But then you read how she treated him..." He went on to praise how I picked a mother instead of a father and how it made him think and such. I grew up with a less than great mother and everyone could see and agreed as much, so I guess it never occurred to me that some people can't see moms as bad or cruel and that some stupid little mommy issue story I wrote could really change how someone views the world, even just a little-- just helps them be that little bit less judgmental was just... awe inspiring, I guess. In a way. I'm a nobody, and yet even then I can change how a person thinks and make them reflect on themselves.

But I'm starting to sound entirely too self important now. So. Hope these count.