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Jun 2020

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

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:

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

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.

Any variation of when are the humans coming. Including when will the humans be build by the robots.

Some of PTS from humans.

Most can't exist if humans are around because they are considered dangerous.

There are no secret humans of cloning labs

Humans be GONE.

I don’t get a lot of comments however, which makes some people think they are clever for posting “First”, which I usually just delete.

I have got some misgendering of characters.

Not quite verbatim but "This would be so good if it was a hetero relationship like God intended it to be." (Actually, is this still minor? :thinking:)

I get those a lot of the time and I've taken to actually answer them with either congratulations or anything witty I can come up with. Sometimes, I've managed to get a conversation out of that :grin:

Fan theories can be wild.......XD.

Some people may have wrong theories, but is still fun to see how they reached those conclusions.

This commenter looks nearly illiterate, no wonder they just want illustrations of sex.

1 year later

Also when they comment, “Update Please!” When I just updated :sob:

My main character is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. A few readers (mostly not from tapas) have felt the need to comment on how awkward they find this. :unamused:

I’m Filipino and English is my 3rd language. I know the meaning of “his” and “her” but I usually make a mistake with my characters pronouns when I write and thankfully my readers are very understanding when I make these mistakes. I’m very blessed. I hope your readers can try and understand your characters. Mine is clearly my mistake but yours is just created like that and readers are pointing out how they feel uncomfortable about it 🥲🥲

Yeah, and it could totally be that the people in question don't live somewhere where this is a common thing. I'm just not someone who would leave negative feedback if a critique wasn't specifically requested, so I find it a bit irking.

Complaining about the pronouns is really too much. They are not forced to read if they don't like the characters...
I have a related, but different problem. I am NB but at this point in my story, all the charcters already presented are cis. But (I suppose?) because of my identity, several people are confused about the gender of several of my characters, especially my main one (my profile pic on the forum). He is a he, but gets a lot of she and a few them.
I don't mind, and I know I don't draw very gendered. But it's peculiar. Sometimes it makes me feel that I'm unable to write binary characters :sweat_smile:. But no hard feelings.