technically this wasn't on my comic itself but it's based on/adapted from a series of short stories i wrote for a creative writing class where we would hand out copies, everyone would read it and write down critiques on their individual copy and give them back to the writer (this was back in the Before Times when you could do such a thing without dying of the plague)
there was this one person i could kinda tell didn't really like my story on basis of the premise/tone/style alone and was a bit more harsh in their criticisms which stung a lot since that was my first real time getting feedback on my creative work in any meaningful capacity. but the one thing that stuck with me for some reason is when they called a bit where a character drew a pentagram on the ground to do magic "laughably cliche."
like, its kinda silly that it bothered me like that and, now that i think about it, isn't really a "hate comment." i had put things like that into my stories because i like occult/spooky stuff and that combined with the "laughably" i guess my brain interpreted that as them laughing at something i liked/me for liking it? because after that i developed this whole complex about sharing the things i like/create with people irl because im afraid they'll think its edgy/cringy/dumb.
so far i haven't gotten any actual hate comments on my actual comic so i just came into this thread to ramble for 3 paragraphs about how im emotionally unstable
