Heyy! Idk if you heard but there's a new french disney novel collection by hachette/salvat with a novel of frozen, would you mind talking about it? Would love to know ur opinion! Also the books are superr pretty
OMG yes it’s actually on my wish list! I love the idea of telling the story with the concept arts. And the cover is beautiful 😍 I hope they make international editions of this.
i know i’m a marvel account, but i also post little things from other fandoms. as it is frozen’s 10th anniversary, ten frozen authors wrote “all is found”, a book filled with ten short stories that take place within different times in the frozen franchise.
so due to my hyperfixation of anything frozen, and my desperate need for more frozen content, i will be
over analyzing “all is found” and breaking down each story for details and references !! (part one!)
spoilers ahead ⚠️
Anna and the Silver Skates
Author: Diana Peterfreund
this first story takes place during anna and elsa’s childhood, probably less than five years after anna and elsa were separated.
elsa secretly leaves anna a pair of their mothers old ice skates as anna couldn’t find her own (and spent hours trying to skate with cloths tied to her boots).
this inspires anna to secretly leave the castle to enter a skating competition in disguise, as she hasn’t been to the village since before the gates were closed.
anna needs a disguise, but cannot find anything, so elsa (without anna knowing again) sneaks her some of her mother’s old clothes.
anna successfully sneaks out to the village and joins the competition. elsa, being so worried about anna sneaking out, causes problems with her magic, so iduna invites her to watch the festival with her from the royal carriage.
elsa agrees, hoping to distract iduna from seeing anna. but while they’re watching the race, anna’s disguise comes off and iduna catches her. instead of being mad, iduna lets anna have fun.
iduna later explains she feels bad that anna had to sneak out because she is so desperate for interaction, and promises to talk to agnarr about stopping the isolation.
we know from the movies that this never happens though, and i wonder what would have happened if this plan had actually went through.
other facts: this story claims that elsa never spoke back to anna when they were separated (anna would speak to elsa’s door, but elsa would never respond).
there’s no other big references i caught other than some quick nods to iduna and agnarr’s childhoods together in Dangerous Secrets.
my rating: 4/5 ⭐️
(this is going to be the longest story explanation, i didn’t know how else to write it)
Engaging Anna and Kristoff
Author: Jen Calonita (author of Conceal Don’t Feel & Polar Nights)
this story takes place after frozen 2, and tells the story of elsa trying to plan an engagement party for anna and kristoff.
she hires oaken, who tries to make the party fit for a queen, along with asking the trolls to help, who try to make it a troll engagement party.
so they go back and forth trying to outdo each others decorations and elsa finally convinces them to do a bit of both to represent both anna and kristoff.
meanwhile, anna and kristoff are trying to keep each other busy both thinking their distracting each other for different surprises.
they’re so many little details from other frozen novels and frozen properties!!
oaken’s party service is a reference from the arendelle dinner experience aboard the disney wish cruise ship
my favorite reference came from a list of bakeries anna and kristoff had to pick up cookies from as a distraction. blodget’s and the waffle brothers have both been mentioned in other frozen books, the olsen’s could be a reference from olaf’s frozen adventure, and tomally’s is a reference to the family that raised anna in Conceal Don’t Feel.
Lesbian characters who praised a man's physical appearance at some point in their lives and "fans" began to use that phrase to disparage their sexual orientations.
Vi saying that Jayce is a "pretty boy" in "Arcane"
Ellie saying that Jesse is "handsome" in "The Last of Us part 2"
Anna in "All is Found: a Frozen Anthology" in the tale inspired by "Wandavision" says that the random guy Elsa danced with is "handsome" and the blonde apparently agrees
"Is it possible that Kristoff inadvertently unearthed memories of a draugr, and thus unleashed the monster upon Arendelle? Anna and Elsa must uncover the real story behind the tale before everyone in Arendelle forgets who they are and is cast into darkness forever…."
But what if that princess from the fairytale is just the fairytale and in the present time someone else, more evil and monstrous is hidden behind the monster? Someone who was already evil when they were alive?..
I've read about this draugr/draug and it sounds like a Scandinavian zombie.
"Is an undead creature, lives in their graves or royal palaces, often guarding treasures. Draug is and animated corpse that is believed to have revived from death to haunt the living. It has many magic abilities, including shape-shifting, entering the dreams, and immunity to weapon. Any mean, nasty, greedy and evil person can become a draug. Only a hero has the strength and courage needed to stop it."
So, I have a strange guess. What if the draug is Runeard who died in the Forest? And it's not Kristoff's campfire fairy tales who awakened Runeard from the dead, but something to do with magic and that the Forest and the people he hated, Northuldra are now living freely?.. I could imagine that the creature wants to erasure the memories about his evil deeds, because now every Arendellian dislikes Runeard and does not honor the memory of his? Sounds like a horror, but it would be cool to discuss his legacy in more depth. Maybe Anna and Elsa will have to bury him, and accept that there are both bad and good sides in the history of Arendelle and they should remember the all?.. 😶