#that anna wouldn't have the same obsessive need to celebrate her sister's birthday as elsa had?

[frozenartscapes]

“And its all canon!”. Ok sure, in that these comics are technically published by Disney. But these particular comics are no more canon than any of the other comics or any of the storybooks. Second level canon at best. Don’t worry :)

I guess I’m mostly annoyed by the declaration that it is canon from someone who is not a lead writer of the movies and it was done so via twitter of all places. I’m not a fan of when actual creators get on social media and start giving us “canon” background info about characters, events, or worldbuilding. Especially when it’s done so as an off-hand, “hey did you guys know???” kind of way. For Frozen, for example, one tweet about when Anna and Elsa’s birthdays might be still causes arguments. And it’s made worse by the fact that an actual canon source relied on information about one of their birthdays but thanks to that tweet it creates big questions about the timeline of events. (And then there’s another canon source that also would have been affected by the “info” in that tweet but was not in any way whatsoever.)

I personally only consider the movies and the shorts - the stuff created by Walt Disney Animation and the original directors and writers - canon. Everything else - the musical, the comics, the novels, and the LEGO short - all of that is not canon to me. They’re all fun and enjoyable media, but in the same way fanfiction is. It’s the chance to see different scenarios play out with the characters without too much of the original story or character motivations being at stake. But I personally don’t like when canon material is spread out over multiple mediums. It becomes very easy to start relying on things like books or comics to explain little worldbuilding details that a movie wouldn’t have time to get into, but as a result requires fans to devote more time and resources into getting those other sources. And what’s worse is that these comics aren’t really doing that - they’re just giving us names of new characters and places (places which have worse names than anything you’d find on a random place name generator) that likely won’t even get a mention in the movies. To call these things canon is like calling a specific fanfic canon.

And I especially don’t consider tweets canon at all.