What have you learned from your readers/commenters?

[Maps]

Sometimes we make small mistakes in our writing that can be an area that our readers are well-versed in. Or an area that everyone is "versed" in and you have to face palm for not catching it yourself. What have you learned from comments on your work?

I've been schooled that:

An IV goes straight to the blood, not the stomach. So if you're character is on an empty stomach and an IV, they're probably not gonna be throwing up liquid, but dry gagging. No wondered I was a steady D in science...

Red velvet is chocolate cake with food coloring (I want to cry)...

[DualDragons]

Today I learned from my comment section that cats in comics have a bigger chance of being the most popular character in said comic.

[foxnflames]

I ask my fiancé vague, out of context questions to help with my story. So I have an upcoming episode where I have one character teach another how to shoot an arrow properly. Me with my nonexistent athletic prowess was like, cool I’ll keep it purposely vague. So when I went to edit, I asked him how to properly shoot an arrow and he said you use your dominant eye not hand and I was like....wut. So that’s how I found out he was certified in archery and I had to rework my whole scene

[Maps]

Good to know... I've always had a feline planned

[Maps]

Hahaha! I empathize with you!

[Kiweevil]

I've learned that people are easily amused by any character with a fluffy ass. Or, uh, googly eyes.

And while they're not necessarily comments on my comic pages, two of my readers irl have been helping me out with advice regarding knives and cooking. One of my character is a blade enthusiast (I'm scared of knives) and one is an excellent cook and baker (I suck at both.)

[Kura]

I have learned that they are really very horny and apparently have no issues announcing or getting into details about that.

Also, shipping is SERIOUS BUSINESS and 'shipping wars' is more of a literal term than a 'ha ha fun' term.

Joking aside, they mostly point out when I'm using the wrong English words or terms because my English is not very great.

[RyzaCobalion]

i find it hilarious whenever i make a typo and i didn't notice it until i post it and this was before i got an editing program. XD When someone points it out in the comments and i have to rush in and fix it. But i love reading the comments for their reactions to certain scenes in my novel

[pilot-obvious]

I've learned that people love to speculate what will happen... and oftentimes predict the next episode correctly! I want to keep people on their toes and have all sorts of twists, but I guess I haven't mastered that yet! haha

[Maps]

Oh yes.. I have some clever readers in my comments. And I've even had a reader predict something that made me think "Should I do that?"

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Probably the most important thing I learned is that only about 0.001% of my hard work will ever be recognized, so it's best that I simply stop expecting recognition. :]

But also once someone told me that macarons and macaroons are two different kinds of cookies. ^^ I've mentioned that here before...

[Maps]

That has shaken me as well. Macarons and macaroons.

[Rhonder]

One of my favorite instances of this is I had a number of episodes scheduled ahead, and in the author's note for one of them I put a reader question "I wonder if anyone can guess what they're up to?" or something like that.

But then the readers beat me to the punch and began predicting already on the page before that one xD I left the question in place the following week though and people continued with more guesses based on the new page though ahaha.

[Random_Guy]

I've learned that people are easily amused by any character with a fluffy ass.

Some people like the fluffbutt, what can you do?

[DukeOfOool]

Well I had @Ramonkey tell me multiple lore texts, I didn't know.
-> Like half of it is cannon now.

[Ramonkey]

Hahaha I'm so glad to know. think I can say the same about you.

I think reader's imagination must be key to a story; narrative must make you think and wonder, not just assimilate. Storytelling can be a thing of two, an active action and not a passive one. Which better place than a social sharing site to nurture this?

This is just how I view things, so it is very personal.

[Random_Guy]

In a mostly stationary medium like webcomics, people enjoy it when you toss in a bit of animation for flavor.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I learned that I have a knack for creating cute characters. Never my intention. I don't like cute stuff for the sake of cute stuff.

[ButterflyEmpress]

Cats will always be popular. Every time a Youtuber makes a video and there's a cat in the background, most of the comments would be people addressing said cat.

[ryoko]

That's because the internet is made of cats