Literally got told one of the main characters in my story came off as a rapist and that my story was triggering and offensive. Basically the person went on a tangent about how awful it was. Not gonna lie, that really hit hard.
Mind you, the worst he's ever done is flirted or leaned in close in a teasing manner.
One reader recommended that I should do the story again, but instead of guys that I should use girls? Like, my friend, I know that there should be more GL stories as opposed to the massive influx of BL stories, but the fact that they are guys is actually kind of important for the story to work.
I get variations of that one as well.
Honestly I have gotten SO much hate for the simple fact that BL is a thing in my story that it's just depressing at times. Either people saying they should be straight, or I should make one of them a girl, or I should draw lesbians, etc etc.
There's an uncomfortable amount of hate toward BL to a point I don't share it so much anymore.
don't know about critiques I've received personally but I always laugh at the 'artist: draws breasts ever so slightly off-shape' to 'viewer: hAvE yOu EvEr SeEn A rEaL wOmAn BeFoRe' critiques
Yeah it's so weird and double. I understand people also want lesbian relationships represented but to act that out on BL stories is so odd to me. Not to mention that the BL genre continues to be one of the most popular and pushed ones.
The common thread in all these critiques is that they tell more about the reader than they do about your story
next, they're gonna ask if you've ever been on a date or something. Then try to dig up all the personal stuff about you and mock you for it. Best part is that it doesn't really matter.
I say fuck em. Honestly here and webtoons. Bl does thrive so I say. Let the haters seeve whilst seeing you thrive as an artist and writer.
Dont ever let them get you down. It comes from a place of jealously and at the end of the day small minded crabs in a bucket mentality. In other words I mostly see that vitriol from losers 
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I never really gotten a critique that honestly maybe me upset... I guess other than "draws my characters too androgynously" a long time ago
Yeah.
I'm a woman and bi, and most of my relationships have been with other women. I've only dated a couple of guys ever. I did write a GL once but the only thing it attracted was a bunch of horny guys complaining for action or asking what page the sex scenes were on so they could skip to it (and there weren't any sex scenes). It really didn't attract any other sort of reader. So that was a massive turn off for me. Still, I wanted to write romance and my experience with 'straight' romance is so limited, it was awkward for me to try (and I did try). So finally I went with a BL because I felt BL relationships were a little more similar to what I was used to. It's probably weird sounding, but that was just more comfortable for me.
There are pervs in the BL community as well, but I just feel like it's a bit less toxic. It's definitely gotten better over the years.
But the homophobia is really hard to handle sometimes.
Ironically I had NO idea how popular BL was until I started publishing my own story, lol. I starting looking into the BL fandoms/communities just because it was becoming the only place I felt safe to share it, at first. You know when you're in that early stage where you're nervous to share your work and how people will judge you. I'm a little more jaded now, but there's still a pretty big population of people who will automatically insult, downvote, and otherwise attack your work if they realize it's BL. I've deleted a number of comments like "ew gay" and I barely have any comments to begin with.
C'est la vie, we must continue on.
Yeah, I can honestly relate though for different reasons. I'm an ace woman and the further something is from my own experiences in terms of relationships the easier it is to write. I can more easily detach myself from BL than from hetero or GL romance stories. Now it's become easier to write those as well as I get more experience with the genre but BL was and still is a subgenre that feels safe to explore romance genre tropes in and such.
Very well said. I think that's probably why it attracts a lot of women in general as readers, but I can only guess. Either way, ever since I started exploring the genre I've found some really amazing stories, so I hope it continues to grow.
That’s a def yikes. Being flirtatious doesn’t equate to being a rapist so I don’t know where the person got that idea. Also what someone finds triggering or offensive Varys from person to person so in general, I wouldn’t really listen to that type of criticism
Not sure how "weird" this is as a feedback, but I got a character design critique about a year ago and the stand out line was that the character looked like a "supporting character." Which I thought was funny, especially since the character was the MC, and sort of an off way to critique a design, at least to me. And some of the 'fixes' they offered really solidified to me that context is very important in critiquing a character design.
There was no strange critique, but on another platform I got a weird review. The reviewer liked my novel, but what was strange was that they completely made up their own story about what is gonna happen XD Like I have my two main chars and my genre is BL, so yeah that these are the ones to become a couple I thought was clear, but nope not to them. They planned a huge dramatic scenario about my MC will get together with some villain that hasnt shown up yet and this isn't gonna end well and so my novel won't have fluff in it and wont have a good ending. (all not true XD) That was what they stated in the review after like uhm just a few chapters I had posted at that time.
I honestly didn't know whether to laugh or cry XD
This isn't a critique I've gotten from other people, but I have "Baby Got Back" syndrome. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to redraw character's hindquarters because I accidentally gave them a fat booty.
Someone didn't much care for my series. They found it too childish but they described it as it being for hyperactive 6 year olds. I told them that later on my comic goes into depression and trauma (plus the swearing), I later found out they only read the first 10 pages and a lot of their criticisms were fixed later on in the series. When I told them this, they suggested deleting half of my series and uploading it as a separate series. I was 200 pages into my series, and it seems so unnecessary to try to reupload 100 pages especially if the later pages make call backs.
I heard there are people who will delete their series and reupload it hoping it will get more tracken the 2nd time. Yeah, stop recommending this to people. Focus more on promoting your series.
