i was going to describe myself as a visiting parish priest of homestuck until i realized that everyone here is actually standing inside of my congregation. so, yeah, close enough.

@squiddo: so, this is a really good question! based on the definition rose gives, all doomed timelines as featured on-screen are "canon," just in the sense that they're inherently true, but are much less relevant/essential. examples of relevant doomed timelines include the one davesprite comes from, and the [s] game over timeline that we spent, uh, literal years in. examples of irrelevant doomed timelines are: all the other ones. dreambubbles are truthful, but only relevant as they relate to our living characters, etc. are you canon to homestuck? only time will tell. am i canon to homestuck? i show up in the background of a patreon comic, so i'm at best dubiously post-canon.

@biznasty: actually, dubiously canon was a term originating from jakemorph (who is pretty active on this forum!). post-canon actually didn't have any "terminology" for it until after it was released. all of the discussion of it was in-universe, so if we're going based on Hussie Text(tm) in particular: meat is canon, candy isn't. but is it ever that simple...