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I don't mind the non-shitty ones.

I would like to think that the doujin barrier to entry is a lot harder than some shitstain autismlord typing out his wet dreams on Word

Drawings have a certain objective level of being good. You need to actually make an effort to get good at drawing. Now for writting? Anyone, anyone can write. And often people that has this mindset write fan fictions. And they end up badly. And good authors generally can make out well-elaborated stories by themselves. When you actually are good at writting, I suppose that creativity flows throughout you, and you feel unable to limit yourself to some series or something like that.

Picture books with text != lots of text

There's a difference: There no shitty doujin while there shitty fanfics.

>>9336126
Is that you, Tokiko?

>>9336147
No, I'm not Tokiko. What makes you think that? I was just being honest.

>>9336132
>There no shitty doujin
Did you really just write this?

>>9336151
You should prove them wrong, anon!

>>9336132
>There no shitty doujin

Hahahahah go look at 70% of scanned touhou doujins.

>>9336162
>>9336162

I agree the hentai is shit

>>9336108
Nah, bro. Wrote/finished some myself. Got another in the works.

Anyone can write fanfics, but there are just a few guys who can draw doujins.

That's why.

>>9336126
>>9336174
Both writing and drawing take practice to get to a respectable point. Attaining proper grammar is only the first step in terms of writing.

That girl is so cute!

Anyone can draw. Anyone can write. To do either one well enough to describe something exactly how you envision it in your head takes at least some level of skill. They're different mediums. Some people like one better than the other.

As for me, I feel that when any type of story is done well, it's better than any drawing could be.

>>9336170

Yea thats what I meant.

>>9336191
Actually, who is it?

>>9337954
marisa kirisame you secondary

>>9337954

Saki from Natsuiro Kiseki

>>9337989
>Implying she remotely compares

>>9336201
Many doujinshi are 100% text, too. You're missing the real difference. Doujinshi are actually published. You need to put your own money behind it just to create one. Doujinshi are actually sold. You can even make money off them if you're actually good. There's positive and negative selection that weeds out much of the crap.

The funny thing is, fanfics used to be that way, too, back before the internet, when you had to print things to let other people read it. They didn't even mean "derivative works" originally, just something you distributed within the fandom. Basically, exactly what doujinshi are to this day. But then the internet took over, and with it kids and talentless idiots. They started writing solely derivative fiction because they had no creativity to create something of their own. They created circlejerks that discouraged real writers from participating. They published gigabytes of unredable repetitive crap and scared off readers. All of this gave the term its current bad reputation.

I read doujinshi because I've seen many that are good and that I greatly enjoyed. I have not seen a single good fanfiction in ages, so I'm not going to waste my time bothering with it.

I'd read fanfiction if most of it was as good as Hellstorm Evangelion, My Immortal, or Full Life Consequences. Usually it isn't.

>>9338097
I'm not sure why you picked that post to respond to.

are there any *good* touhou fapfics out there?

Fanfic:
>Bullshit self insert and twising the characters to act however you want
>So deep romance & sex with some retard plot
>I don't like how the story went so I'm going to write my own version
>**Original character do not steal**
>Shitty writing like a 10 year old over text message

Doujinshi:
>Parody or actually retelling of events that actually happened using only character that exist with their own personalities
>I wanted to fap so here's some naked characters, no plot, just dozens of cocks.
>I wanted to write some bullshit relationship that would never happen, but it's only 1 or 2 chapters long
>**Oh hey this one isn't based off an existing work**
>Retarded as fuck lines but at least it's trying

>>9340963
I'm not responding exclusively to that post. I'm responding to the thread. That particular post simply contained a statement I wanted to address directly.