@Phantom Rider: True. Though I do think that the comics, the chapter books, and the show are a shared continuity to an extent. Meaning that what happens in one continuity does happen in another. However, not every single detail mentioned in one is exact in another. That is unless if there’s some outright detail that happens in one continuity that can’t plausibly fit in the other two.
 
With that said, I would like to see something in either the comics or the chapter books to be referenced in the show one day. A guy like me can only hope at this point.

@Pepsi_Al  
After Daring Don’t aired, he said something to the effect of “well, I guess it could be an award or something.” It’s still something being made to fit instead of something that was written to fit.
 
But even if every moment of one didn’t necessarily happen in the other it doesn’t mean they’re bad, like “eww, yuck, this can’t be canon.” Like I said, it doesn’t have to have been written to fit to be very good and enjoyable. It’s well-written and it’s the only place where you’re getting that “episode” about the princesses or Cheerilee, etc. The 100th episode of the show was fun but it only spotlights the fact that letting someone other than one of the Mane Six or CMC get to be that important is a once-in-a-lifetime and-now-for-something-completely-different moment. So yeah, big fan of the comics here.

@Phantom Rider: One that could be supported by what one of the minds behind the comic said himself no less.

@Pepsi_Al  
Yes, that is a very good, not entirely implausible bit of speculation that could be used to patch the inconsistency.

@Phantom Rider: It could most likely be an award akin to an Emmy. To me, that doesn’t seem to have any bearing on whether Daring Do is an actual pony or not.

Jayzis, what the hell is wrong with kids these days that they don’t know the damn difference between canon and continuity?
 
@Phantom Rider  
a fictional character in the comic and not in the show  
That assertion is so fragile I can break it with a Foreword of four words: “Based on a true story”. I’m pretty sure Nikola Tesla was still a real person irrespective of how many atomic robots he may have created in comic books.

@ED-SKaR  
I’m not “upset” about anything. Just stating a fact. She’s a fictional character in the comic and not in the show, which means the show and the comic aren’t the same.
 
But they don’t need to be the same to be enjoyable.

I just went to look up the picture: https://derpiboo.ru/434693
 
There are several things that look like awards and also a self portrait, that doesn’t have mean she wrote the Daring Do books.

@Phantom Rider
 
 
Seriously?
 
Y’all upset about that?
 
tiny tiny detail thrown in as a shoutout to a thing.

@ED-SKaR
 
Well, the biggest difference is Daring Do. Twilight Velvet has an award for the series on her wall, and there’s one incident where Daring is brought out of the world of fiction. It was pretty clearly written by writers who didn’t think of her as a real person. Then Daring Don’t comes out and the situation is… not the same.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Yes, because they’ve already agreed on what’s cannon and what stories the comics will tell and what stories the show will tell so that they don’t have to go against eachother.
 
 
@Phantom Rider  
The show doesn’t even adhere to every line in the show itself.  
And yes, they’re awesome. I just got Friends Forever V3 :D

The comics are awesome. But it’s not like every line is adhered to in the show.

@ED-SKaR  
That being said though, you think the show writers are going to even so much as hesitate to write a story they want to write, just because it goes against what the comics established?

@DanielTepesKraus  

 
 
Except that you are wrong:
 
The comic writers and show writers get together and agree on storylines so that they still fit together, but they can’t go into the depth of every single line. so what if one line in the comics goes against one action in the show. Bear in mind that Twilight used magic against other ponies in the comics as well. Add to that the fact that Starlight was actively shooting at Twi first.

@Digitalgame  
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the comics don’t count. I don’t mean that as an insult either. Whether or not the comics are canon is irrelevant, because the showrunners are going to do whatever the hell they want with the show, and to hell with whether or not it contradicts something established in the comics.
 
Case in point, Season 5 premiere. Twi went right ahead and tried to pwn Starlight head-on with a blast of magic, and to hell with IDW’s “abuse of power” bullshit.

Who the fuck claims IDW isnt cannon?
 
It isnt like the Archie sonic series where they are out of character filled with the OCs of the comic writers.

>Did’nt

@Digitalgame  

 
Oh yea, the forum!
 
I always forget we have one of those.

@ED-SKaR  
Not sure if joking but this site does have an IDW comics discussion forum with several hundred pages to browse.

@Background Pony #27E6  

 
Where are these mytical fruitful discussions about the comics?  
I always end up late to any party because I’m buying them as the volumes of four issues together, rather than each individual issue, so by the time I’ve read them, the first one is 4-5 months old.

@ED-SKaR  
Yeah, seems like everytime a comic comes out somebody has to throw a whiny fit talking about how their ‘non-canon’. I just tend to ignore it and have actually fruitful discussions about them.

I guess if you want to be subjective about it, just believe whatever the hell you want.
 
Objectively though there have been several instances when a writer like cook will insinuate that the comics are either non-canon, canon as long as they don’t interfere with the show, or alternate tales about her previous adventures. At this point there really isn’t any way to resolve this issue as nobody seems to understand what the comics are, it doesn’t help that several writers seem to be unaware of each others work.

@ED-SKaR  
I think it’d be easier to list things that people aren’t still fighting over.

Didn’t*

People still fighting over this?  
Gah, pointless drama about a thing that certain people refuse to accept.