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Darth_Biomech
Jun '20

My alien characters have unconventional "hair", that grow and shape the head roughly like human hairs would, but that have shape and size closer to a blade of grrass. I take care to draw the individual spikes in most shots, and render them differently from human characters hair. Flatting this area of the image is usually a pain in the ass because of the many sharp angled lineart corners it generates.

Cue the comment of a person thinking that my alien characters had regular human hair, and the spikeness was a case of bad art "anime hair" syndrome.

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phoenixrenaissance
Jun '20

That really sucks, especially when you're going through such an effort to portray your vision.


(I censor with pastel rainbow gradients rather than blackouts or whiteouts)
Maybe I'm being petty but I'm even more resistant to changing something if you're gonna have an attitude about it. :sip:

Lazu
Jun '20

A friend once commented that I had ONE spelling mistake somewhere in my story, without mentioning anything else about it.
I had spend days writing/editing/Proofreading and fine-tuning it, but to then have the single spelling mistake that managed to survive being the only thing catching any attention was pretty annoying... xD

AmazementComicsThe Best Fruit Smoothies
Jun '20

In my main series "The Action Fruit Society", I've gotten comments in the past of people saying things along the lines of "They're so cute." or "Are they going to fight the Veggietales?" Really annoying stuff because clearly some people can't seem to recognize that those characters are supposed to be unconventional yet mature in audience.

DasIstWunderblyat
Jun '20

So far the worst comments in my series are from "Friens" bots.

Other than that I have received comment for my earlier versions that my main character (14 years old boy) is too weak for not acting like normal anime protagonist and he should not cry because he is a boy.

AmysGames
Jun '20

Usually in fiction, you have to suspend your disbelief to some extent, because the story relies on something that obviously wouldn't happen in real life. So when I get comments that point these things out, it can be pretty annoying.

"This isn't how real ninjas work," yeah no kidding, guess you're gonna have to deal with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Darth_Biomech
Jun '20

Oh man. this is so useless a comment sine we just don't have ANY realistic depiction of ninjas in any type of media, period. None of the ninjas work like what people think a ninja is.

skicoak
Jun '20

Well... It was in her boudoir and a gentleman doesn't tell...

Even if it was the Lady doing all the pointing and giggling.

IsobelLynx
Jun '20

One person once corrected my use of "babe" to "baby."

It was a conscious use of an archaic term (spoken by a nasty raw-meat-eating hag). Just because you've only seen it used in rap music doesn't negate the origins of the word.
:rage:

Oh, but recently, I had a similar situation in my writing circle. Everyone started correcting my use of "pompon" and the best part - they all gave me a different spelling.
Pompon is the original spelling. I'm sticking with it. You won't convince me otherwise.

Learn to use google, people.

konori
Jun '20

A commenter accused me of author's bias when I pointed out something they missed in my comic. Said thing had been visible in my comic for more than a few times by that point. To this day that comment still stings.

Kiweevil
Jun '20

The small wall of text trying to give constructive criticism over how much my character cussed (I counted a grand total of four cuss words in that entire update) when it was actually completely relevant to the story ^w^" Like, the commenter was under the assumption that I just made him cuss so he'd look cool and edgy?? :upside_down::upside_down::upside_down:

I know it hadn't been explained yet why Shilo cusses so much, but it is an important aspect of his character development throughout the series. I mean, he's literally a creature from Hell who is drunken half the time, and was raised by giant demonic lizards in a forest. He's not exactly a "proper" gentleman. But that's important.

Because after he ends up being the caretaker of his unexpected adopted daughter, Genesis, you notice that he makes it a point to cuss less, drink less, etc. He is actively trying throughout the series to better himself as a role model. So although I didn't say anything rude to the original commenter, I did find it slightly annoying that they assumed I didn't know how to write a character just because he cussed.

Kajaysee
Jun '20

Other than the spam, I haven't had any annoying comments (yet).

Kiweevil
Jun '20
AmysGames

Whaaaa? You mean to say something fictional can happen in the fiction genre?! That's preposterous! :joy:

Also @phoenixrenaissance pastel rainbow is lit. I love using it for the lighting in gory horror scenes because it's so unsettling in contrast. Also, if it makes you feel any better, I usually censor text with cat emojis and audio with kitten meows.

demthorshie
Jun '20

I dislike receiving comments on minor typos on long pages. I've gotten a comment on a page that I was otherwise very happy with about a single period missing from one of the sentences. That was the comment, nothing else about the page, just about a minor punctuation error. :confounded:

thedude3445
Jun '20

On a different site I made a joke that a character can fire a bow with one hand while running away, which is obviously not possible in any realistic circumstance. This one-off joke became the source of constant nagging comments telling me to change it or remove it because of how unrealistic it is, for months. Instead I doubled down and had him do it several more times throughout the story >:slight_smile:

Kura
Jun '20

Because the characters where talking because plot is a thing, instead of having sex.

DeleteThisAccountFag
Jun '20

Years ago, 2 decades perhaps, there was a girl who drew great anime art. This was at a time before social media and communities gathered in forums (just like this one) more often. This was a small niche community for game making software and to see really good anime art style was so rare in this community that it stood out. But of course, you had that one person asking for some cartoon porn. I still shake my head about that to this day.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.