Fanfiction is.... not an acquired taste, but it's something that some people just aren't interested. Which is fine. As blademistress said, some of it is shockingly awful, some of it is amazingly wonderful. But as for what's the point of it? - it's fun. Sometimes it's hot. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's a way of finding out something new about a character, or interpreting their behaviour through a certain lens. Sometimes it's about going where canon won't - like Tom/Carl, for example. There is no possible way T/C will ever become canonical. But I think a significant proportion of the fandom thinks they're doing it anyway.
I don't really get what you mean when you ask why slash fiction is "necessary". No fanfiction is really necessary; nor are a lot of novels. But people write slash for the same reason people write het: to explore relationships, because it's hot, because there seems to be canonical support for it (I'm thinking particularly of Tom/Carl here. Even if you don't believe in it, there is undeniable support for it in canon), because there are no girls... whatever.
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Date: 2006-08-12 08:28 pm (UTC)I don't really get what you mean when you ask why slash fiction is "necessary". No fanfiction is really necessary; nor are a lot of novels. But people write slash for the same reason people write het: to explore relationships, because it's hot, because there seems to be canonical support for it (I'm thinking particularly of Tom/Carl here. Even if you don't believe in it, there is undeniable support for it in canon), because there are no girls... whatever.