>>281125670 (OP)I read a lot of fanfics when I was a kid, but then I became a schizo teenager and couldnt help but imagine the real characters reading with me their own fics and making a disgusted face, I also became obsessed with the purity with which a character has to be portrayed. At the end of the day the only one who really knows the character is the author, so everything else , regardless of how well it may be written feels like a poorly characterized copy to me, and that irritates me.
With doujins, if they are well drawn, I can turn a blind eye, the artist has more sensitivity, I don't feel like they are the same characters but I can imagine and fantasize that they are their own thing.