One reader said one time that my chapters are too wordy. 
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? 
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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 
Fan theories can be wild.......XD.
Some people may have wrong theories, but is still fun to see how they reached those conclusions.
1 year later
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. 
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 . But no hard feelings.
If your series has anything remotely similar to a popular anime series, people will jump on you like you're the first person to draw inspiration from something else. This persists even if the similarities are minor and it's only for a short portion of the entire series.
It is unrelated to my current comic, but the most annoying comment I got happened at an anime convention when I was selling hair clips that I had made.
The clips in question: Angel wing hairclips (Gaia Online...that is how long ago this was). I carefully sculpted them to clearly be a matching pair that would sit on each side of the head. The pieces that went up for sale were resin-cast replicas because they were lightweight and durable.
A young woman walked up and scrutinized my clips. She took one of my business cards and I thanked her for stopping by. She gives me a look and says, "I can make these myself." I wished her luck in doing it.
A week later, I get an email from her. She wants to know how I made a mirror copy of the hairclip because she could not sculpt a matching pair, so I must have a special technique. I tell her that there is no such technique that I am aware of, and she will simply have to work to make both sides match. She got mad at me for hiding an easy technique, and told me that I was full of crap.
It is such a silly situation for such a trivial thing, but I still wonder if she ever figured figured out how to get her mirror copy without sculpting it...and I am still a bit miffed over it.
I get that all the time with customers, as a farmer.
They don't want to buy stuff that they 'can grow [them]selves', sometimes even call me a scammer, but they are unable to grow it, by lack of knowledge or doing very stupid things, thus, they ask advice to me! After calling me a scammer! 
Good thing there are also some nice, grateful ones 
As someone who has been pleading with some onion sprouts to keep growing, I definitely appreciate the work that goes into growing good things! X-D
I believe a lot of people have a hard time appreciating the experience and effort that goes into doing something. I always try to approach the artisan with a good deal of respect and if they are willing to impart any information because that is the kind of thing that you can't easily get!
(long story alert)
I visited a jewelry/cameo shop in Naples where an old man was in the corner, carving shells to make the cameos that created the foundation of the jewelry. As I watched people go in and buy the jewelry, no one noticed the man. I purchased some jewelry, then carefully approached and asked him if I could watch and ask questions, and he was great! He patiently answered questions, showed me the tools, let me watch, and seemed to enjoy the conversation. He even gave me a "faulty" cameo that he had given up on, then we talked about it and how I thought it was amazing, despite the flaws he was aware of.
Long story short, by being respectful to the master artisan, I walked away with a boatload of information on cameos that I could not have obtained anywhere else, and I bought the proper shell so that I can take a whack at it myself. I hope to show him if I can make it out there, and I really hope he is okay despite the pandemic.
Thanks!
I love your story. That's what I try to do too with customers. Those who are respectful get a lot of advice from us, even if it means they may not need to buy some produce because they are now successfully growing it. There are always more difficult crops for them to buy from me, and I get new customers from them. If it starts with mutual respect, it is positive for everyone. However, when it starts with entitlement.. it won't go anywhere.
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