What Does This Mean?
Details in a story, such as an offhand line, an unexplained habit or a blank in a character's past, that leave room for fans to build their own interpretations (headcanons). The word "fuel" marks the detail as raw material rather than the interpretation itself.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""One throwaway line about his old job is pure headcanon fuel for the whole fandom.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia describes a headcanon as a fan's personal interpretation of a fictional universe, as opposed to official canon, and relates it to fanon, ideas widely accepted within fan communities; it does not say where the word came from. "Headcanon fuel" is the fandom phrasing for material that invites such readings. TV Tropes could not be opened here, so no page documenting the exact phrase or a date was read. This is a thin entry and makes no claim about any fandom.
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