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I just finished sewing in the ends to them :D

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late ass pride post but i always do something w these 2 so….

This is vector art but u probly can’t even tell bc i rendered onto the vectors 😭 oh well it was a fun exercise!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019), 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin Characters: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Lilla My | Little My, Muminmamman | Moominmamma, Sniff (Mumintroll) Additional Tags: characters in order of presence in this fic, Sniff is passed out the whole time sorry sniff fans, Drinking, Underage Drinking, (Referenced) - Freeform, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff Summary:

“Snufkin was no stranger to the way Moomin acted after drinking. He didn’t, however, remember Moomin being such a lightweight. Snufkin knew that Moomin tended to get… chatty, a long-buried compulsion to fill silence with chatter which only popped to the surface in situations like these, but really he was hoping to get his mind dulled enough that he could take it in stride.”

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Snorkmaiden has broken up with Moomin. After rambling to Snufkin for an hour, his friend suggests a night of drinking to aide in his healing process. Silliness & feelings ensue.

(inspired by that meme with the wine bottle with a hippo named ‘Le Fat Bastard’).

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instagram doesnt get this yet bc i care a little about peak post hours but i can put it here as a treat (to myself)

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I’m trans (non binary)

YIPPEE!!

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I love them soo much… had 2 revisit them w a little doodle page. That christmas comic is still a WIP who knows if it will even be done by next christmas (joke) (but should i wait to post it until then?) (nahh…) (i may or may not just repost it…)

As always, Tap for quality & to read all the lil snippets

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Little My's humble abode

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very underrated duo in my opinion

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A sweet young man

he looks so sweetums and darlingful here

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hope u guys r like really hungry for Christmas moomin art bc im… still in the middle of finishing a comic….

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let him talk moomin

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TIL that in the 70s anime Snufkin is an adult and Moomin is 10 years old. This is what happens when there are no official subtitles… I THOUGHT THEY WERE SO CUTE IN IT TOO 💔💔💔

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Something I’ve been thinking about… because of recent moominous events & also the classes I’m taking:

Queer artistry is so so special. & when a queer artist creates something, it resonates with other queer people. The art becomes inherently queer. I think it could probably be debated if all art made by a queer person is, necessarily, queer- separation of art and artist and all that- but at least I think that’s the case.

The question is: does this remain the case after the artist is gone and their art is altered? You probably see where I’m going with this. We think of these characters as inherently queer because of their long and storied history, but at the same time, we know that Moominvalley has changed these characters, too. I’m not going to definitively state that they’re made… not queer, because I don’t believe that to be fully true, but if fundamental aspects of their character and how we perceive it can be changed, can their queerness be so as well? And if the queerness is not erased, then what is it? tamped down? undermined? mishandled?

& Maybe this is the point where you go “okay static it’s not that deep” but I really do think it is! Moominvalley 2019 mishandles a lot of things, i daresay even skirts around the queerness of itself without fully leaving it out. Here is my main case: If they were going to be more explicit with Moomin and Snufkin’s queercoding, that very much should have been followed through with. & let’s speak on how much Moominvalley played around with and constantly changed the nature of Snorkmaiden and Moomin’s romantic relationship with little to no actual explanation or context? Guys I don’t know. It’s odd, it’s weird, and it certainly doesn’t sit right with me.

To me, Season 3 left off in a place where Snufkin and Moomin’s relationship was at it’s tipping point between romantic and platonic- the season literally ends with them arm and arm- And that’s why season 4 falls flat in the demonstration of their relationship. I never expected season 4 to deliver on that front in the first place- by season 2 I felt that the Moomin/Snufkin moments were heavy handed and a bit too forced to be completely natural, and I knew it wasn’t about to become explicitly canon in the first place because Moomin and Snufkin never have been- but to me it’s about follow through and writing, and the fact they were dropping such obnoxious hints only for that tension to be dropped last season feels like both a cop-out, and perhaps even intentional.

The contemporary Moomin boom occurred in 2019, in the wake of the series. Shippers went wild. absolutely nuts. If Moomin has no fans, the world is dead, but this definitely contributed to a spike in viewership. and listen. Season 1 had its flaws but if every season onwards was of the same quality, and each season included the snufmin subtext only as much as season 1, I would not be upset right now. I do, in fact, believe, that the queer fanbase of this show was teased and strung along with the Moomin/Snufkin relationship. And I think the way it was handled in season 4 was due to the fact that they wouldn’t need that part of the show to, excuse my terminology, bait viewers along because it was the last season. Obviously this is all speculation, but I really don’t think it’s all that unlikely. And I’m not even saying that it’s strictly the writers’ fault, but I think there was someone in power who let the queer shit- the shit was was just obvious enough to give young queer viewers fuel- pass by for as long as it was useful, but by no means could the show surpass a certain limit.

Ahem anyways I love Moomins and I dislike Moominvalley 2019… for many reasons but also for this… sorry for incoherencies, typos, the like.

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Society if The Oh Hellos made a song for Moominvalley Season 4

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I passed oyt and was blessed with a vision...

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my chemical romance made an album about this. it's called Danger Days.