Inception fandom really epitomised what I like in a reading community - that fandom was high on symbolism and coding, but never really got into One True Canon-ism. By and large it treated the canon and the surplus of meaning generated by the canon as _something we could use to communicate with each other_.

Just a couple of hours ago I used Inception to justify my argument that fanfic depends upon a preagreed shared reality similar to gamespace, rather than necessarily needing to be deriviative works based off a specific text

(Basically, we all know that the painted lines on the court don’t actually stop anyone from doing anything but that doesn’t mean that, if we all agree on what game we’re playing, the effects of the lines can’t be real & we also all know that the characters are fictional and can therefore technically be and do anything, but that doesn’t stop us from collaboratively drawing our own set of court lines to play in)