After a winterish month of emotional stabilization, i.e. pouring your heart out, exchanging inspirational quotes, you look forward to the real winter, december, low temperatures, indoor activity, candles, cooking, touching, loving, explicit content, pleasure, non-verbal ecstasy.
Followed quickly by the jesusy and christy xmas season when we behave and celebrate the birth of isa, the child of refugees who were turned away at every door.

Relating to a canon. The word is mostly used in fan fiction to describe a piece of information as official.

Another word for official. Used quite often in fan fiction to differentiate between the official storyline in which the fan fiction is based on.

In slang, a word used by those who write fanfiction. It refers to the original body of work that the fanfiction came from.

The real deal; a piece that is widely recognized as a genuine member of the body of work (oeuvre) of a given artist/writer/composer; a standard by which all others are compared.

The standard form of a mathmematical equation that can be written in many ways, making it easier to compare to other forms of the same equation.

A piece of work -usually in reference to literature- that was written by the original author. Spin-offs, fan fiction, and any work not written by the original author of that fictional universe is considered non-canon.