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iemondropsss · 3 years

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Hello friends. So, like many a person waiting on haitus I too have imagined what the perfect next season of moominvalley will be like. I'm sure there's bound to be SOMETHING wrong with it because idk no one at studios ever listens to common sense and community input? Idk man but here we are. I myself have decided to create a pretty solid season 3 and we'll see how much I get right or wrong. I'm sure this will age like Orange Juice (which by orange juice I actually how no idea if orange juice can spoil just like I have no idea WHAT the studio has in plan) but we do know a few things so I kind of tried to keep with the spirit, the way their characters have progressed and how far they still have to go, and also what we all want. Some things I have in mind will continue/happen in my fake season 4 so maybe I'll do that later we'll see but for now have a presentable season :)

(I'll put it under the cut I know it'll be long lol. also apparently there is a 10 image limit so I'll put the second part of the season in a new reblog don't worry)

Episode 1 - Moomintroll's grand adventure

-moomintroll gets a sea adventure all on his own. he learns the struggles of independence and gets to feel the wind in his fur. it's all rather lovely, but he finds that it isn't exactly as easy as he thought.

-Things to keep in mind: in this ep we want to show how he has become more independent and drifting from the kind of shadow his father left. He still wants to fit under it a little (that's why it's a sea adventure) but as it goes on he needs to realize he is his own person and that is great

Episode 2 - If snufkin feels one (1) more emotion he's gonna snap

-the moominparents, little my, and the lightouse keeper return to the valley on the keeper's boat

-the moomins go into hiberations and the fisherman and toft/toffle bond and find family in each other and go back to the island. This way they are both able to find the companionship they both so desperatly need and the fisherman basically adopts toffle, that way they don't need the moomins anymore :)

-so anyway, naturally, during all this snufkin is emotionally DESTROYED and runs off to the woods. there is nothing worse than skyrocketing your hopes only to have them come crashing down once again

-however, before runing away completely snufkin consults too-ticky who has just recently started to settle down in the boathouse for the winter

-he talks about his emotions, because he feels that she would understand this kind of thing, and how it's really weird. he's always missed moomintroll while he's away but it's different now and there's something different and maybe there alway has been he doesn't know!! it's all so confusing

-too-ticky gives him some wise words (basically: aye, ye gaye bastard) and he goes on his way

-Through the forest he sees several memories flash before him in the form of magical looking apparition that look really cool (the animators can flex their particle engines with the memories as illustrated below which I think would be,,, pretty cool)

-The memories are old, like when he and moomintroll first met or a few small adventures they've had

-he realized that he's never had a friend like this ever not even with the rest of his group or even the several interesting characters he's met on his travels

-at least.... never someone to come home to

-home. that scares him. he heads on his way and promises to find moomintroll again no matter what

-this memory montage has an indie banger over it, of course

Episode 3- Little My the Asexual Pirate Queen

-Little My isn't hibernating this year. She's decided to have her own adventure, if everyone else is getting one

-Pirates come to the valley and she boards their ship but gets thrown in the brig before she can do too much

-She meets a few people in the brig with her and they all stage a mutiny against the captain

-little my becomes the new captain with the person who helped her as her first mate

Episode 4 - Beauty Queen gets character development

-sniff and snorkmaiden look for snork

-they face a couple things and snorkmaiden shows how she can be a really great and independent leader

-snork, when they find him, is excited to go to the valley with them because he will be able to finally get all the materials to build his flying ship with/finally fly/test it!

Episode 5: The Real treasure was the bf (best friend) we had all along

-moomintroll meet little my and her pirate crew

-one of the pirates says they know about a treasure on an island and they go to find it

-kind of like the hattifattener episode

-but now with actual pirates and real treasure lol

-the find the chest and celebrate theier newfound riches

-now that moomintroll has had his adventures he decides that it's time to go back to the valley

-after all it is almost spring and he doesn't want to miss snufkin

-through this adventure moomintroll and little my aren't as mean to each other and understand each other more, becoming more like adopted siblings

Episode 6 - Backstreets back alright dunununn

-Snufkin is playing his newest spring tune solemnly against a tree

-here he is back in the valley but moomintroll still hasn't returned

-he puts up his tent anyway and basically mopes

-moominmamma comforts him over tea and they talk a bit

-the finally finally he's back babyyy

-now here's the most important part pay attention

-they both run across the way and collapse into a

-you guessed it

-spin hug!!

-which is as it sounds moomintroll picks snufkin up and they spin around (kind of like when snorkmaiden and moomintroll broke up but it's better and means the opposite)

-another indie song plays over this scene of course so everytime we listen to it on the album we can cry

-snufkin whispers "I missed you" in moomintroll's ear

-moomintroll laughs and says "now you know what it feel like" but in a teasing way he doesn't mean anything bad by it. he gets it now.

-but snufkin still stiffens and realizes what that means. he tries to apologize for leaving all the time and tries to promise things moomintroll knows it would hurt him to keep so he assures him that it is okay he understands and loves him no matter if they're appart

-snufkin has a gay panic moment obviously he doesnt mean it like *that*

-so they part each other's embrace on good terms and snufkin thanks him

-there is probably a sub plot to this episode but none of us remember what it was because we had whiplash for like a full 10 minutes after this

to be continued.....

#moomins #moominvalley season 3 #but its not actually season 3 I made it up myself because I know they're going to mess it up #snufkin #moominvalley

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flowerbloom-arts · 3 years

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Welp, since two people asked (@xanzusx and @ratdaduniverse ) I suppose I have an excuse to do an unnecessarily deep dive into a character literally nobody cared about that much or bothers to draw before I came along with my thing for all too unpopular characters!

Let's start with a quick tl;dr :

Aunt Jane is (probably, this is more speculative than anything) a victim of capitalism and misogyny working together to create a damaged woman with anger issues and a toxic relationship with money.

How, you may ask? Well, let's take a close look at her titular, starring, and only episode of the 90s series;

episode 27: Aunt Jane

In the beginning of the episode, Moominpappa receives a letter from an aunt from his father's side and it's made immediately clear that he is not a fan of his aunt or the reason she sent the letter to him, it's also stated that Aunt Jane had no one else to turn to besides her nephew to "discuss money matters" as the episode puts it. Moominpappa says that he isn't really scared of Aunt Jane herself (though she is quite scary and a not-great person as MP himself describes, being bossy and not letting people have a moment of peace) but it's the money he's afraid of, he's afraid of having to discuss something he knows nothing about with someone he dislikes, so he takes it upon himself to leave before she arrives. (sidenote: this may tie into some fear Moominpappa has of looking dumb and ruining his ego, aswell as generally not being able to put up with people he finds unpleasant for very long)

Then Aunt Jane arrives on a rowboat down the Moomin Valley river with someone else rowing for her (cool detail: her boat actually matches her umbrella! We can assume she owns the boat based on this and the rower is either an employee or some guy she paid [his mustache is delightful by the way, I love the round little fella]) and she just has this... Very odd blank stare as our very first shot of her? It's an odd first impression for the viewer to be sure.

Jane gets off the boat and the rower simply continues down stream without her, Jane notices Snufkin fishing and asks for directions to Moominhouse, Snufkin gives her the tip and then Jane asks Snufkin if he could carry her suitcase of gold coins for her. Snufkin politely declines, saying he's busy, and then Jane attempts to bribe Snufkin by offering a "handsome reward" in a very confident manner, almost as if that trick has always worked before. Snufkin still declines, saying he just wants to fish. Aunt Jane is legitimately shocked at Snufkin not wanting money, now a first-time viewer might interpret this as Jane being vain with her wealth but it actually ties into how everyone in her life would simply be interested in her money (which is something that'll be elaborated further on) so Snufkin is perhaps the first person in a long while to not be interested.

Jane has little time to let that sink in as Sniff (the ultimate capitalist of the show) runs in, introduces himself as simply someone to help take her to Moominhouse and goes to help Jane carry her suitcase, to which Jane simply acts like a more poised individual and bimbles behind Sniff.

They arrive at Moominhouse right after Moominpappa had already left in the previous scene, Aunt Jane adjusts her glasses and says "A round house? How stupi- typical of my nephew." which establishes that Jane... doesn't like her nephew (and considers round shaped houses as being dumb [which I think a couple architects/engineers would agree but correct me if I'm wrong])

Jane gets welcomed by Moominmamma and after Moomintroll introduces himself Jane's attention immediately goes to Little My, assuming that My is a child of the family, she says that My's too small for a daughter (her expression says that she's bothered by it more than anything), then Moominmamma explains that Little My's not related but lives with them and My says she won't get any bigger, to which Jane simply squints at the small creature in a strange but I guess concerned manner? It's easy to assume that there were some strange beliefs about daughters that she was raised on.

Jane then asks where her "worthless nephew" is (again, she doesn't think highly of him), Moominmamma barely manages to not tell her the truth and Moomintroll saves her by saying Pappa's away to find inspiration for his work. Jane says "When has he ever worked? I'm here to see him!" (Score 3 for putting down her nephew) and Moomintroll suggests she should talk to him instead, Sniff butts in saying Moomintroll knows nothing about money and Aunt Jane simply says "In that case it's about high time he learned! As for his father, I may still disinherit him." (Score 4), Sniff says he's a member of the family and she can talk to him about money, Moomintroll says he's a great friend of his, and Jane adjusts her glasses then says "But hardly a member of the family" (we can see here she only really cares about relations more than anything when it comes to others taking care of her money, perhaps the money was passed down through generations and she wants to uphold that tradition, which is only one major reason she wants to get rid of it)

Snork and Snorkmaiden walk in, Snork introduces himself and explains how his sister is a "special friend" to Moomintroll and basically that they might get married someday, thus merging the Snork and Moomin family together, thus making them practically family already (Which I find just so utterly hilarious, he can be such a weasel I love him). Jane doesn't accept that as an argument (OBVIOUSLY) so Snork explains that he needs money to fund his flying ship project, and then Mr. Hemulen walks in with a very happy confidence (that chaotic metallic theme [you know the one if you pay attention to the soundtrack] cues but then stops shortly, I got so hyped and it just ended like that :( ) and he tells Aunt Jane about himself and asks her to fund his scientific research (assuming Sniff had already told her about it) and Sniff tries to save it by explaining that they could grow a greenhouse of orchids and roses and sell them to make money, he corrects himself by saying "I mean you'll make alot of money!" instead of "we'll" which he thinks might make her more lenient to the idea, but Jane shuts it down by saying she already has plenty of money (showing that she really isn't interested in hoarding wealth, she's satisfied with what she has especially since the whole point of going to the Valley was to shove her money-related issues onto her nephew)

The three guys try to talk over eachother trying to explain themselves, Jane is overwhelmed and confused so she stops them and asks Snork to clarify that he's Snorkmaiden and it goes downhill from there, Snork asks if he's explained his connection to the moomins well enough, Sniff says he's a friend of Moomin's, Mr. Hemulen asks Sniff if he could explain his research to her for him, and they all talk over eachother, Aunt Jane looks back in forth in a confused and overwhelmed manner and then gets angry, then she yells "BE QUIET EVERYONE!" with an overhead shot of Moominhouse (this sort of sets up Jane's anger issues which builds and builds until the climax of the episode)

Moominmamma escorts Jane to her room and tells her that she can call if she needs anything before leaving Jane alone, Jane more or less just observes her surroundings (it's clear she wasn't used to such a simple environment but she isn't opposed to it either) and then sits down on her bed with her eyes closed, looking peaceful for literally less than two seconds before Sniff knocks and she stands up instantly with her hands held in front of her like a "proper woman" sort of pose. Sniff stumbles in the room with the suitcase of gold and sets it on the floor, Jane thanks him and then Sniff stands there and looks around as if he's looking for something and goes "Ehem". Jane sees this and unenthusiastically asks "What is it? Want a reward?" (This is like the most telling scene of the episode and shows that this kind of thing is something that she's used to) Sniff lies at first but then admits it after a second thought, he hesitates and looks around if anyone would eavesdrop on them, Jane tells him to make up his mind and then Sniff gets close to her and whispers that he knows where Moominpappa is, Jane dismisses it saying she knows that he's on a trip (atleast she's willing to believe it? Doesn't revert any of her put-down points tho), Sniff corrects her by saying he's actually nearby and Jane is immediately interested and asks Sniff where he is, Sniff says Pappa said not to tell her where he is since it's a secret and after teasing it with her Sniff says he'll be taking a risk if he tells her so Jane asks "Oh, how much do you want?" knowing full well Sniff wanted to get paid for this without him even saying it, Sniff plays it safe and says she can decide how much she'll give him.

Sniff leads her on the beach, Snufkin notices this and runs to the cave to warn Moominpappa before she arrives (what a champ, that Snufkin) and then Sniff and Jane enter the cave with it's watery floor, Jane thanks him with a singular silver coin, Sniff asks if that's it and then Jane replies (with a very angry tone) that yes that's it until she actually sees her nephew, the two enter the cave with no Moominpappa in sight, Sniff is bewildered by this and Jane is very angrily disappointed that her "worthless nephew" (Score 5, though it's just a repeated insult, it still counts) isn't there, Sniff says "this is very strange!" while desperately looking for Moominpappa and Jane assumes Sniff had tricked her and takes away Sniff's one coin as punishment and simply leaves despite Sniff's desperate cries that he has to be there somewhere.

Jane goes back to Moominhouse and enters the kitchen to ask Moominmamma where Moominpappa is hiding, Moominmamma gasps and tries to reiterate the lie Moomintroll said, but Jane says she wants to know the TRUTH, so Moominmamma stutters and Jane tells her to hurry up, Mamma sadly admits that Moominpappa is hiding in the cave but Jane says she's already been there and didn't find him. Mamma is suddenly hopeful and is like "Oh so he really must have gone on a trip!", Jane proceeds to ask why Moominpappa would want to hide from her anyway, Moominmamma "suggests" that maybe Moominpappa is afraid of her, and Jane gets legitimately surprised and furious over this and asks "But why!?", Mamma says that he's mostly afraid of money matters, Jane exclaims "Incredible!" and contemplates "Afraid of me because of money matters...?" and then storms out of the kitchen saying "He must be utterly mad!" (Score 6)

Jane sits down on the table in her room and talks to herself about how this family is so confusing and only Sniff seems to know anything about money, Little My enters smuggly and shits the behind her, saying she knows where Moominpappa is at that moment, Jane assumes Little My wants gold from her and My says she couldn't care less about her silly gold, Jane strangely enough seems to try and defend the thing by saying "My 'silly gold' indeed! With my 'silly gold' I can assure you you could do just about anything you want!" and My claps back with how it isn't helping her find Moominpappa, this arouses Jane and My continues saying she should forget about her money. Jane responds by turning around in her chair to look at Little My directly and says "Young lady, money isn't something you could just forget about! It needs constant looking after- that's why I must talk to Moominpappa at once! Now take me to that rascal nephew you of mine if you really know where he is, you hear me!?"

My and Jane walk down the dirt path and see Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden being all lovey-dovey with eachother on a tree stump, saying how they love eachother and such, Jane scoffs "Oh, how frivolous!" and My smugky responds with "Not really, if I could find a small enough boyfriend, I'd be frivolous just like them too!" and starts to walk away, Aunt Jane turns to her and says with a very strong sense of longing "Ah well, Fredrick and I were frivolous once..." (With an inexplicable voice change by the way) and My just teasingly says "Really? If you says so! Suppose I'll have to believe you!" while still walking away, and Jane gets so mad at this dismissal/mockery that she almost snaps her umbrella but stops herself and stomps forward to follow Little My. The marshmallow couple notices the two and follow them.

Little My interrupts a game of chess between Snufkin and Moominpappa in Snufkin's tent, she introduces them to Jane as a "special guest" and Snufkin is shocked by her presence, he says Moominpappa's name and he looks up to look at his very angry aunt, Moominpappa runs out of the tent and Jane chases him with her umbrella around a tree and stomps on the ground with enough force to make Moominpappa, Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden hop off the ground (OKAY I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO THIS PART SINCE IT DOESN'T REALLY TIE INTO THE THESIS THAT MUCH AND WOULD BE TOO SPECULATIVE BUT HOLY CRAP??? HOW??? WHY DOES SHE HAVE THAT KIND OF STRENGTH??? IS IT SUPERNATURAL??? HELP????), this causes Moominpappa to fall over on the ground and Snufkin intervenes by saying Moominpappa was just coming back from his trip and stopping by to play chess with him, Moominpappa tries to go along with this but Little My says it's no use since Moominmamma already told her the truth, Moominpappa gets all defeated and Jane asks him why he's afraid of her, Moominpappa says it's not that he's afraid of her, he's afraid of her money. Jane gets enraged by this and stomps of the ground again to send everyone hopping, she then tries to "reason" with Moominpappa on this by saying "It's perfectly good money and all in gold coins! Listen nephew, I'm depending on you as my only relative!" (For some reason her voice gradually gets higher pitched in this line? But anyway this just confirms Moominpappa is literally the only family she has left), Moominpappa echoes "Yes, yes, depend." and Jane continues with "When I get too old to do it, you must look after my gold for me! I'm relying on you!", Moominpappa gets spooked by this and desperately suggests they should just give it away to people who need it, Jane blurts out "HOW UNGRATEFUL!" and turns red from rage but then is subsides, the red fades away and Jane, probably after having a thought, breaks into actual sobbing and falls to the ground to cry even more, Moominpappa tries to comfort her and suggests that maybe they should put it in a bank, Jane retorts through her sobbing that her money would hate being in a bank and it's a terrible idea (which is the start of her talking about it like it's a person/entity which follows to the very end of the episode), Moominpappa reassures her by saying banks are so nice these days and Jane looks up asking "They are...?", Moominpappa continues by describing how they have "Flowers and shiny little piggy banks and paintings on the wall!" and Jane lifts herself up asking "Is that really true...?", then Moominpappa tells everyone they should go home and fix a welcoming party for Aunt Jane, the scene ends with a shot of a sad Aunt Jane looking around everyone, possibly confused or even sorry.

We cut to the dinner party when Mamma is putting the cake on the table saying it's her grandma's best recipe (I have to note that Aunt Jane's face here is just... So sad and guilty-looking), Moominpappa gets up and says to drink a toast to the only millionaire in their small circle and how he hopes she'll live a long and happy life. Everyone drinks except for Jane who simply looks around and then looks down at her glass to sigh, Moominmamma asks what's wrong and Jane says "Never in my life have I and my money felt ourselves so welcomed before, I'm so happy I could cry" (jeez woman that is actually sad to hear considering just earlier that day 3 complete strangers went to her asking for money and her nephew literally tried to hide from her before she even arrived, that must've been one heck of a welcoming party) and then she genuinely starts crying saying "And once you start crying- you just wanna go on and on-" and proceeds to sob a bit and says "Oh dear- oh deAr- Moominmamma-" and looks up "Moominpappa-?" Moominpappa answers and she says "I'll put some of my gold in a bag, but you must look after the rest when I'm too old!", Moominpappa hesitates and then Jane snaps into anger mode by asking "Why not?" and slamming her fists against the table, Moominpappa sheepishly describes how they'll take care of it and Jane says it's not what she had in mind though it does sound nice and sufficient, but then she says how the money will miss her. She decides then and there that she'll leave the suitcase of gold to Moominpappa so they can "get sorta used to eachother" and use it as they please, even complimenting the flying ship and botanical research funding as rather splendid. Everyone is happy except Sniff who laments he should've gotten a better idea than flowers, and the episode ends with Jane smiling and a pan out of the house as the narrator closes off the episode.

Alright so already we have quite alot to unpack here and it's all gonna get a bit rambly and jumbled if I don't segment it into specific parts so let's do that. We're gonna put allllll of that baggage into 5 parts

1. Moominpappa and the lack of a family

2. Money is not a good partner

3. A woman millionaire

4. A bitter, lonely maiden

5. Conclusion

1. Moominpappa and the lack of a family

It's been stated twice that Moominpappa is Aunt Jane's only relative, and it's said that they relate through Moominpappa's father.

(Side note: We'll be going by the 90s cartoon canon because Aunt Jane is a moomin comic strip character and in the comic strip Moominpappa wasn't left at an orphanage I don't think, so it's logical to assume they just met eachother because they're family. But we're talking about the 90s canon where Moominpappa WAS left at an orphanage like in Moominpappa's Memoirs/Exploits of Moominpappa)

It's really unclear on the backstory of their relationship. It's unclear how these two met, it's unclear when they've met, and it's unclear how they knew they were related. Moominpappa clearly met her atleast without anyone in his current family (esp. Moominmamma) and hasn't talked about her ever since (given how literally nobody INCLUDING MOOMINMAMMA knew who she was) which to me signifies that their encounter was both somewhat isolated and unpleasant given how he describes her as bossy and not letting people have a moment of peace (which only brings images of some kind of business setting when they met in my mind, and knowing how Moomin stories operate Moominpappa probably found himself as one of her employees somehow). Whatever happened between them has certainly put a sour taste in eachother's mouths, making Moominpappa believe Aunt Jane to be unpleasant enough to avoid at all cost (he probably also witnessed the horrors of wealth which is why he's scared of her money) and Jane believing Moominpappa to be incompetent, worthless and idiotic.

Pulling back from whatever encounter they had... Was Aunt Jane aware of her nephew's existence before then? We don't know the circumstances which lead to Moominpappa's parents leaving him at an orphanage in a paper grocery bag (if the person/people who left him ever WERE his parents), and since him and Aunt Jane are the last members of their family, it's easy assume something tragic most likely happened to the parents. And not only that, the rest of Jane's family would've been gone aswell, leaving Jane as the sole heir and possibly not knowing about her orphaned nephew. Can you imagine being in such a position? Your whole family is gone for whatever reason, you're the only one left to your knowledge, and you have all the money you could ever want in the early 20th century. You are responsible for millions of [money unit] in gold coins. Jane is responsible of that kind of money. And what is that to her?

2. Money is not a good partner

Aunt Jane's relationship with money is extremely weird but clearly somewhat toxic in a sense. We know she has it in the millions and she's not interested in making more of it (though we do have to ask if she runs a business or if all of it is inheritance and nothing more, does she turn in a profit? What business does she work in? How big is her paycheck? Does she work with employees? Why is it all in gold coins? Where does she even live? Nobody knows! It's all vague and unspecified and there really is no point in speculating something like this because there's literally no evidence to speculate about)

Anyway, money is 3 things to her: it's something people use to get what they want, it's a burden and it's something that needs to be taken great care of. It's both a commodity and a child to her, she doesn't particularly "like" having it yet she thinks it's in need of care by someone she knows she could trust, it's a pet she doesn't want since it attracts so many people who want to pet it. By the end of the episode she treats her money like it has feelings, it "hates being in a bank" (presumably because it's "uncomfortable" since Aunt Jane is swayed as Moominpappa describes how nice they are), it "has never felt so welcomed", it "will miss [Jane]" and it "needs to get used to Moominpappa", the thing is she hasn't treated it like an entity with feelings until her breakdown near the end of the episode. Moominpappa's "ungratefulness" broke her so much that she resorted to characterizing her money, and it's unclear if she ever has done this before in her life. It's odd to me, but her life does revolve around the thing, for all we know she's gone for extended periods of time talking to her money when she feels particularly unsafe/alone, but I digress.

Aunt Jane has presumably spent alot of her life taking care of her money and fears growing too old to do so anymore, so she turns to the only person she believes she could trust to continue that legacy. She has enough wealth to do whatever her heart desires, And what is her social reward for having such wealth to look after?

3. A woman millionaire

Misogyny exists. Yes, even in the moominverse, it sucks but it's true even if it isn't explicit sexism. Jane is presumably single, she had someone by the name of Fredrick who she was "frivolous" with but clearly that didn't work out as implied with the tone of her voice when she drops that information, Jane is alone in her wealth and that leaves her open to many people who believe they can get themselves some cash for whatever venture they want to pursue. It has happened plenty of times before in her life and it has happened within the episode when 3 males come up to her asking for funds, of course they didn't seem to care that she is a woman, not a word of it was even mentioned, but it's an issue that may be less present if she wasn't. Nobody is intimidated by her aside from Moominpappa who has met her, Snork and Sniff think they can weasel a family inheritance if they just do enough logical leaps, Mr. Hemulen just assumes she'd be interested from his botany credentials alone, and none of them really listen to her, they just talk over eachother trying to convince her to give them money until she bursts out yelling at them to shut up.

And she has to have some traditional feminity instilled in her, given the way she stands when Sniff knocks and gets in her room, how she arrived to Moomin Valley under a pink shade with curtains, having someone else carry her suitcase for her, being bothered at how small Little My is, her whole outfit among other small things, she seems to have been raised on traditional values, and those values, well, they don't lend well to someone of her status. She can be bossy and terrifying (and surprisingly powerful) but she's not respected by anyone that we know of, nobody's explicitly treated her kindly besides Moominmamma and maybe everyone at the welcome party if you count that, everyone only cares about her because of her money. Moominpappa is scared of her money and every other male only cares to get it from her for their own gain, she just can't win as a millionairess because any care directed towards her is actually care directed towards her money. And what does that treatment leave her as?

4. A bitter, lonely maiden

Jane is very, very alone. Nobody likes her as a person and the fact nobody likes her as a person only makes her more bitter and unlikable, it's a feedback loop. She doesn't seem to have anyone, and I mean, literally ANYONE. We have her rower but he's just a random guy she pays for all we know, she just sits there and stares blankly at the pink curtains until the guy rings the bell and she gets out, she just has no personal connection with anyone even by the end of the episode. Speaking of the end of the episode; she literally cries because she hasn't felt so welcomed by anyone IN HER LIFE (side note: I know I'm not supposed to bring up the comics but she actually cries when Moominpappa uses the word fond on her and it makes me so upset because she's treated even worse there too)

She's angry and alone because people use her for her money and don't care about her, everybody cares only about her money including herself, the only times she'd pay mind to her own self as a person is when she's flabbergasted at Moominpappa "BEING AFRAID OF HIS OWN AUNT!?" or when she feels disrespected by My teasing her about how she used to be frivolous with someone, Little My doesn't really care about her, she just takes her to Moominpappa to view the chaos that would ensue at such a meeting of two worlds. Moominpappa says she doesn't let people have a moment of peace yet it looks like she doesn't have a moment's peace herself, there's literally one moment and it's the one second she sits on her bed before Sniff knocks on the door.

Aunt Jane is both pitiful and somewhat sympathetic, she's an antagonist who's clearly not a good person but she has her own very understandable reasons as to why she's the way that she is. And what do we take from this?

5. Conclusion

I don't know if you know this but uhm, capitalism is bad, folks. It really just brings out the worst in people wether it's the scummy ways they gain money or the problems money causes for your mental health, and in Jane's case it's the latter. It's unclear how she got the money to begin with, I assume it's inherited but I could be wrong obviously, though I don't think that question could truly be answered. Aunt Jane is insistent on keeping her wealth and only giving her wealth away to her own family even if it's the root of her problems, but also Snork and Mr. Hemulen only ask for her money so they can continue with their hopes and dreams, Sniff is well, Sniff, but I'm pretty sure he's traumatized into believing he's only worth the wealth he has so that's another capitalistic problem.

Moominpappa is happy the way he is without the money, the Moomin family is decidedly non-capitalistic and Moominpappa knows nothing about how it works, so he chooses to simply not have it. They simply don't need it with the way things are.

And I suppose that was the appeal of the Moomins franchise that got people hooked into the fantasy of living there, it's pure freedom from an oppressive system that doesn't even give people what they're worth, it's being able to be yourself with a small, loving and accepting community.

But Aunt Jane never had that, which makes her feel out of place in this valley more than other outsider characters do in the show. And like the weirdly smooth and good animation that was clearly outsourced to a different studio for this one specific episode, being rich looks nice, but the cutthroat system of how it's made probably doesn't make it worth it.

#moomins #moominvalley #aunt jane #character analysis #character essay #long post #the moomins #tanoshii muumin ikka #screenshots #this is literally 16 words away from being 5 thousand words #what's a life and where do I get one? /j

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newtonsheffield · 3 years

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Lol, I finally booked an appointment for a helix, but now I'm also seriously concidering having my nipples pierced. And this is all because off Good Girls!Kate. 😂🙈 But maybe I'll start with those helixes (I did book a time for two helixes but let's see if I'll actually get two 😅).

Ooooo Boy.

The number of you that have told me they've finally gotten a piercing or tattoo after something I've written about or one of my personal posts is a little surprising to me honestly.

Like... Am I a bad influence????

I am going to say this: If you've never had cartilage pierced before... get ready.

Should I like... List out my piercings and tattoos and give them a pain rating just for fun even though no one asked me??

Okay Let's! It's under the cut! But before We do this I feel like I should say (As you guys know) I have a very chaotic personality, and most of the time I'm able to suppress it, but then the recklessness builds and I go and do something stupid. Do not be like me. And fair warning, I have a very high pain threshold (I have given myself stitches without anaesthetic)

Piercings

Helix left ear- This one, I will be honest, hurt like a MOFO, and the healing was nothing short of horrific. This was my own fault, I went to do it impulsively on my lunch break, (It was done with a needle not a gun) there was blood running into my ear while I was working. but it got very badly infected, swelled to three times the normal size and I ended up in Accident and Emergency, had a course of antibiotics and now I have a dope ass helix piercing. Pain of procedure 6/10 healing pain 10/10 (Always research your piercer fam)

Tragus left ear- This barely hurt at all, I did get a little bit of soft tissue swelling for about 3 days post, just on the side of my face, it was pretty comfortable and now I can even wear earbuds again! Pain:4/10

Daith, right ear. This was, the most painful thing I have ever done in my fucking life. I will never ever ever ever ever do this again. The anatomy of my daith is allegedly quite difficilt, and my piercer Mark (Who also did my tragus and who I throughly researched and is great) told me it's the most difficult piercing he's done in 10 years. Apparently it's really wide, and really thick. Took him 2 minutes to finally thread the needle through, (which looked like a huge fish hook) and I think I blacked out for a moment. That being said, it is my favourite one, looks sick. But you know it's bad when a man who has done this for 35 years says "You are hardcore, that was fucking rough" Pain: 8.75/10

Tattoos!

3 good fairies from sleeping beauty! Left side of ribs. This is the first tattoo I ever got done, I got it for my Uncle who is also my god father who has terminal cancer. They're flying down my ribs and they're in watercolour and I love them Pain: 4/10

Time turner, right side of ribs: This is probably my favourite one that I have, it just looks cool, it's like a sketch of a time turner in motion. This was the most uncomfortable purely because it took the longest. Pain 5/10

Right inside arm: Moomintroll, whom I call Jeff. He's holding a dandelion, and I love him. Pain: 3/10

Right outside forearm: Tulips! The stems are greyscale the tulips are pink! And funfact: My tattoo artist was colour blind so I had to mix the colour for him! This one did not hurt at all, but it did make my Mum furious Pain 2/10

The Honest truth is tattoos don't hurt the vibrations of the gun feel kind of nice to me, and I'm not sure what my next tattoo is going to be, but I know it's going to be on my collarbone.

Just as some general advice, I don't have a nipple piercing but I don't think it would hurt that much: It's just flesh, It would heal so quickly. Cartilage piercings carry a really high risk of infection so make sure you follow the correct aftercare.

And they're going to pierce it with a stud, Wait the 8-12 weeks like they tell you before changing it to a ring. I waited to my infection to heal and then changed out the ring myself Do not do this. It was stupid, and it hurt a lot!

Anyway! I'm excited for you! Get that body mod and good luck!

#molly irl #honestly #piercings hurt way more than tattoos I have no idea why people are so scared of tattoos #that buzz feels good #and they're so addictive #I was sitting there at lunch yesterday like should I get my septum pierced #no right?#that would look bad on me

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camellia-salazar · 4 years

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I finished it. Took me a few days but I'm proud of the results.

So basically what I was doing is drawing the characters from my favorite fandoms that have floated on clouds before.

Yellow Guy from DHMIS experience floating on clouds in dhmis3. When he floated on a cloud to the love land or whatever to learn about love.

Rainbow Dash has experienced sleeping in a cloud many times in My Little Pony; Friendship Is Magic. Being the Pegasus that she is, she can walk on clouds like many pegasi.

And finally we have moomintroll who experience cloud flying in the first episode on both the moomins (90s') and in moominValley. I just drew the older moomin because I want to draw the current Moomin show.

I hope you guys like the drawing. You probibly already know all of this stuff when you know these fandoms, but I want to type the data anyways.

Cya! :3

#DHMIS #Don't Hug Me Im Scared #DHMISdoi #DHMISmanny #DHMISyellowguy #MLP #MyLittlePony #MLPrainbowdash #Moomin #TheMoomins #MoominValley #Moomintroll #my little pony #fandom Friday

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lollytea · 5 years

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can you tell us more about the snufmin kids, if thats okay?

Oh of course, of course!! i love those children so much dude!!!

[Original OC post]

Beginnings

-Torben’s origins are kinda a downer but basically his mom was a witch on the outskirts of a little village (real far away from moominvalley) who was killed after a lot of fearmongering. they raided her cottage afterwards and found baby torben and assumed him to be a child she stole.

- They couldnt find the “real mother” and he ended up in the care of a childrens’ home. He actually bounced around a few of them until he ended up in the home where he met with his future siblings. according to those working there, he had a rather unnerving stare and a lot of them felt there was something not quite right about him. (the rumor going around was it was something the witch had “done to him” and that “the poor child might never be the same”) he was a lot more sullen as a baby who didnt have much of an interest in toys and had a hard time connecting with the other children. He brightened up considerably when he found Birch and Essi

- Birch was an oddity from the start. (Species headcanon from here) Its natural for woodies grow in groups, usually from trees and bushes, so theyre biologically social creatures who are hardly ever seen alone. But Birch may have been a spectacle of his species, as he was formed in a moss patch and born all on his own.

- Another thing that was considered strange about him was his lack of imprinting. Woodies tend to latch on to the first “safe” person they meet, who then forcibly becomes their “parent”. (Woodies are produced asexually and have no “real parents” so finding a person of protection is often done as a survival tactic. It’s recommended that one stay away from woodies if one is not ready for children.) Baby Birch was discovered by a farmer and surprisingly did not take to him right away, like any woodie does. Actually he was rather standoffish and even bit if the old man touched him. He was sent to the home not long after.

- Space was tight and there werent a lot of cribs/beds to go around, so Birch didn’t have one to himself. Instead they just squeezed him into 2 year old torben’s crib for the two children to share. Here they became inseparable, with Birch, maybe not imprinting but forming a close bond with somebody and finally finding a source of comfort. He bit a little less after this. Likewise with Torben, who gained a caring gleam in his eye once he had a little one to care for. Even when Torben was old enough for a proper bed, he insisted Birch sleep with him and would not budge on the matter. The home gave in and allowed it.

- Essi’s origin was a simple one, of just being born at the wrong time. In a house packed with mumrik children, one more simply could not be accommodated. I dont want to say her birth parents were terrible people but with the amount of kids they had, they were rather jaded to a fresh baby face and werent too emotional in deciding they need to be rid of her.

- She was never an angry or intentionally misbehaved baby when under the care of the home. She just needed a lot of stimulation that she wasnt getting and tended to tear up her clothes, curtains and bedsheets. It was also concerning that she never cried, or babbled or made any sound at all. It had falsely interpreted as some fort of defect child. They didnt know if it was right to mix her with the other babies, seeing as with the damage her claws had already done, they felt she could be dangerous. She was left on her own a lot.

- The other two met Essi when they were caught stealing food from the kitchen and locked away on their own to think about how sorry they were. But being tight on space, the only isolated room was the one where Essi was kept. They had heard about her being “the baby who didnt cry” and were very intrigued. but upon further inspection of the wriggling little girl in the cot, Torben observed that she looked lonely. They wondered if she simply wasnt capable of crying, which would be awful if one wanted to express their sadness. After entertaining her throughout their isolation period, the two decided that she was now their baby. And they would be her siblings. They would all belong to each other. As a family.

Miscellaneous HCs:

-Torben sleeps like he’s fucking comatose. There is no waking him. Even when living with Moomintroll and Snufkin, he and Birch still share a bed and Torben kicks and Birch (a light sleeper) hates it. But no matter how much arguments and late night brawls this causes, they still refuse to get separate beds.

- Essi has a crib in Moomintroll’s room and sleeps there until she’s like 4. (She always magically ends up from her crib to her papa’s stomach by morning.) They tried to get her a “big girl room” when she was bigger but she didnt adapt very well as she couldnt sleep when she was alone. They had to move her into her siblings’ room. She slept soundly after that.

- Moomintroll and Snufkin often tell the kids stories from their youth, sometimes using anonymous names to work as “fictional stories” lest they frighten them (or for the sake of their own dignity). Essi is very disturbed by the story of the the hobgoblin’s hat, while Birch can only scoff and wonder aloud what sort of idiot was that moomin who went and put the thing on his head. Moomintroll stares dead ahead and refuses to meet eyes with a highly amused Snufkin.

- Early on in his training, Alicia gifts Torben with his own witch hat. With much excitement, he immediately plops the thing on only for his whole head to disappear under it. Alicia laughs, informing him only a fully trained witch can wear it properly and the hat will adjust accordingly once he’s ready. (The hat freaks Moomin the fuck out. He does not care for magical hats anymore.)

- Essi has a little stuffed yellow bird that Mymble got her, which she carries around (often in her mouth) everywhere. She named him Comet, based on the story of when her papas first met.

- Speaking of Mymble (the younger), she loves doing Essi’s hair, although it took her a while to get accustomed to the little mumrik’s big mop of curls and couldnt understand why brushing it was so hard at first. She’s familiar with it now and often weaves in little flowers and ribbons.

- Birch is very close with Snorkmaiden who thinks his flowering skin is very pretty and encourages his writing and curiosity. (Being a huge fan of the written word herself, mostly fairytales.)

- Moominpapa is also supportive of his eloquent grandchild (Splendid! Another writer in the family, eh?) but he’s a little more pushy and it takes a bit of chiding from moominmama to get him to stop saying “have you considered writing about Me??”

- Torben loves Snork. Snork.....hates Torben really. Well, its not that they hate him, its just that Snork has spent their entire life on this flying machine project and torben+flying broomstick= a mockery of it all. Not to mention Torben is annoying as fuck and spends way too much time pestering Snork about god knows what.

- Essi and Little My hunt bugs together. Lov the cronch

- Birch is afraid of thunderstorms. The whole family usually piles into his bed on thundery nights to make him feel safe.

- Once Torben is at an adequate stage of witching training, he’s allowed a familiar. Of all creatures, he chooses Essi, the closest thing to a black cat he has. She happily obliges and spends most of her late childhood, mid teens operating under this duty.

- Snufkin has composed a tune for each of his children that he plays when alone and thinking about them, or by their bedside and playing them to sleep. Torben’s tune is called ‘Bonfire in the Rain’ Birch’s is ‘Baring Shards of One’s Looking Glass’ and Essi’s is ‘She Who Stirs the Stars’

- To help with Birch’s collecting hobby, Torben enchants a little velveteen pouch an gifts it to him. It never overflows and Birch can fit the whole forest in there if he wishes. It’s very handy to carry around when Birch is vagabond. Extremely light luggage.

- Torben also gifts Essi with a locket encapsulated with the essence of a star. Just enough heat and light to illuminate her way and keep her warm at night. It’s her prized possession.

- Birch is ace and a he/him nonbinary. He’s not entirely sure if he’s aro as he feels pretty picky about close friends too. but romance has never appealed to him much.

- Essi is bi. She’s only briefly been involved with like 3 people before meeting the love of her life, Sislaf.

- Torben is as fluid as can be. He doesnt really have a way to describe his sexuality, he just knows that he loves and loves and loves a lot. He’s a bit like Mymble in the sense that he dates a lot and is always very naive and devoted right away, only to get himself hurt later. He’s quite sensitive about all that.

Futures

- Once the kids are grown, they do end up going their separate ways in life but remain close and visit eachother frequently. They keep in contact by letters. Birch is eternally pissed about his messy handwriting compared to Essi’s beautiful scrawl and Torben’s neat yet flashy one.

- Torben becomes the Moominvalley Witch, now that Alicia’s family have moved on to other places. He builds himself a small cottage on the outskirts so he can have time alone to think and brew. He’s still a walking distance from his parents home though. Flying distance if he’s feeling lazy.

- Birch’s travels become longer and in time and through word of mouth, the tale he tells become quite well known. He’s a famous storyteller now, whether he wants to be or not. Luckily, he’s begrudgingly embraced it (better than Snufkin did with his fame) and spends a lot of time in taverns, entertaining the regulars.

- Essi was the one who found it the hardest to grow up. Shes a family oriented person so she didnt want to be alone but she also dreamed of adventure and couldnt just drag her whole family along with her (especially her papas who were at the point where they just wanted to rest and settle down) But she found her calling. Criminal. Leader of a pack of criminals actually. Some were old friends from moominvalley, some she met along the way but Essi was lucky enough to find herself a group that became like a family to her. They traveled land and sea, doing all the righteous work and righting the injustices that Snufkin used to do. Only this time, its not just one little man. Its one little woman and her gang.

- The siblings meet up a lot, usually around a campfire where they share a pipe and laugh about nostalgia. Torben’s particularly good at animating the smoke into moving images, while Birch tells a story to accompany it and Essi claps along. And even when shes grown and tough, during moments like this Essi still feels the comforting warmth of being a baby sister

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stinkyvalley-blog · 5 years

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Zombievalley!AU

Hey, hey, you there, how many terrible things I can do to Snufkin? Moomin suffering is like a delicious bonus yum

Feel free to play along.

Beware zombie typical blood and gore and injury, violence, guns, death, tears and crying.

“Spring is finally here and we rise from our seasonal slumber.

With great horror we'd come to realize the living where not the only ones rising at the time.”

Moominpappa's Memoirs.

Who didn't know of the great friendship between Moomintroll and Snufkin?

It would be unfair to not call for Moomin as soon as his best friend was back.

The southern border patrol sent the call and soon news arrived at Moominhouse where Moominmamma coordinated a fair number of children into tending to vegetable gardens and picking fruits for preserving.

"Moomin needs to come! It's Snufkin!"

Many little voices started to call as loud as possible at the news, crying for Moomin to go quickly because Snufkin was back! Snufkin is here! Moomin needs to go see Snufkin!

The young troll got up from where he was pulling weeds and before his brain even could fully understand what was going on he was already running.

Moominmamma watched her son go, tightly holding a basket full of herbs.

Why couldn't they bring Snufkin home already? What was holding him back?

They won't let Moomin get any closer and he can't hold back his tears.

"Snufkin!"

And Snufkin smiled despise the bloody wound on his shoulder, the bite mark that signaled someone had been infected and would soon turn into one of the monsters they all feared.

"Moomintroll... Sorry I'm late."

There's a shotgun flush against the vagabond's head and many hands held Moomin back, too far from his friend. Snufkin isn't fighting, just smiling at Moomin while kneeling at the border of the valley.

"We can help him! Mama will know what to do! We didn't search Grandma's Book well enough, there has to be something!"

"Do you want to hear my new song?"

"Please! Please, it's Snufkin! We need to help him!"

"I hope you like it."

His movements are slow and painful but he soon has his mouth organ in place and the first notes fill the air while Moomin cry, begging for his friends life.

His last few steps into Moominvalley where a blur. He was so tired he barely felt Moominpappa helping him walk down the patch. His mind was filled with memories of Moomin running and calling his name, eager to meet after winter.

"Snufkin! Snufkin!"

Maybe his fever had finally gotten the best of him, because he could swear Moomin was actually calling his name. A sudden collision make his vision turn black for a second and Snufkin was sure he had fallen down, and after blinking a few times all he saw was white.

Was he dead?

"Careful, we need to get him to a warm bed as soon as possible."

"Oh, Snufkin! I'm so glad you're safe! I was so worried, I could barely think!"

Oh, the white was from Moomin's fur. How nice. Maybe he should take a nap, just a small one, to recover some energy.

Even if he lost all the strength in his legs Moomin was holding him now. Moominvalley was safe. Snufkin could rest, could sleep and heal.

Moomin had pride in saying he was Snufkin’s best friend. They had adventures together, laughed and played, learned new things and shared secrets.

What a terrible thing to see someone you loved tied and gagged, empty eyes fixed forward and unseeing.

"He was crossing into the valley. I almost didn't recognize him without the hat... I'm sorry, Moomin."

His hat was gone, true, and also was his voice and light and life. No more songs and laughter and adventures, no secrets or shared jokes ever again.

There was tension when Moomin got closer, Snufkin was rocking in place and didn't react as his pockets where looked at. The famous mouth organ was still shiny, kept safe despise whatever Snufkin went through.

Maybe it was the metal reflection, or some smell or movement, but suddenly Snufkin threw his body forward and knocked Moomin down. The moving corpse was trying to get on top of the young Moomin, shaking his head as if wanting to get rid of the gag keeping his mouth from biting and tearing.

As fast as it happened everyone was running to separate the two, pushing Snufkin away and dragging Moomintroll behind armed adults.

Moomin didn't react much, looking from Snufkin to the mouth organ in his hands.

Had he ever had a chance to make a spring song before he...?

"I'm sorry, Moomintroll. This will be hard but I figured out if it had to be done then he'd want it to be you."

Pappa's shotgun was heavy and Snufkin was dead-but-not-dead.

"Make it quick. He deserves to rest now."

They were watched, as Moomin carried the gun and Moominpappa pulled the rope tying Snufkin, making him slowly drag his feet into the direction he was forced into.

It didn't take long to get into a nice clearing, somewhere Moomin could see Snufkin laying down to watch the clouds and nap. Moominpappa pulled Snufkin a few more steps.

The gunshot made the few birds in the area fly away.

4.5

Moominmamma just finished knitting a lovely yellow scarf, soft and warm and full of love, just the way Moomintroll had asked for.

Now, where was her dear child?

She searched around the house and couldn't see to find him, even being sure she hadn't seen him going out. There still was one place left to look: the cellar. Lately Moomin had spent lots of his time there, even if in the past he seemed to think it was too dark and scary. He sure had grown in the last year.

Step by step Mama got closer to where she could hear Moomin whispering, sometimes soft laughing. What was her boy up to?

Finally she saw him, at the deepest corner of the cellar, holding the shackled hands of an obviously living dead Snufkin who had the bottom half of his face covered in thick leather neatly sewed. Both boys had their foreheads touching, but only one seemed aware of their situation.

Mama gasped and Moomin turned sharply in her direction.

"Oh, Moomintroll! What is that?!"

"Don't you like it, Mama?"

"Of course I do! It's wonderful! Where did you find a hat just like the one Snufkin used to have?"

"Papa found the hat and we dyed it the right shade of green."

"That's quite clever. We should take Snufkin up the house for dinner to commemorate. Oh, that reminds me... Here's his new scarf."

Moomintroll smiled brightly as Mama fussed over Snufkin, adjusting his yellow scarf and fixing kinks in his clean new clothes.

"Is there a party going down here without me?"

"Papa! Let's bring Snufkin up for dinner!"

"That's a marvelous idea! What's on the menu tonight, my dear?"

"That's a surprise dear, but I can guarantee it's something Snufkin will enjoy quite a bit."

The happy family smiled, bringing their dear Snufkin to sit at a special place at their dinner table filled with delicious thing that made his eyes sparkle in a terrible way.

...

tbh I really want groundhog day moomin? I'm so sure I saw a fic with that idea, didn't get the chance to read it but now I really want to ):<

side note that zombie snufkin and or moomin is not new google and thee shall find but I'm a goblin I wanted MORE so I made more

Quality? Never heard of it bruh

#moomin #snufkin #moominvalley #tw blood #tw death #tw gore #tw zombies #tw gun mention #zombievalley!au #tw tears #tw crying

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liderfin · 7 years

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Rules: tag nine people you want to get to know better

Thanks so much for the tag @galadrieljones and @theblackdomino :)

questions:

1. what’s your age?

34 ouch!

2. what’s your current job?

I work at a hospital as a Project Manager. It’s the e-Health project with a goal to fully implement hospital information system so that no paper documents / paper-based medical records will ever be used again. It’s quite a challenge, especially where I live. But it’s exciting too, cause the system is tailor-made for us.

3. what are you talented at?

That’s a part when I usually cannot think of anything hehe. What is safe to say: maybe cooking and baking.

4. what is a big goal you are working toward (or have already achieved)?

To improve my photography skills, especially studio photography (but my lazy ass won’t let me. Also, it’s hard for me to stay focused). Another is to earn enough to do more trips: to visit New Zealand and Patagonia, and several other far-away places. :P

5. what’s your aesthetic?

I wonder if I got this question right???? heather moorlands, dead trees, lavender twigs, waves crashing against a rocky Scottish shoreline on a cloudy day, but also slow motion close-up footage of gravel splashing out from tires of a rally car hehe does scent count too? because that would be the smell of pine trees and freshly cut grass.

6. do you collect anything?

I used to collect Moomintrolls mugs, now I only collect board-games (well, I have more that I can play)

7. what’s a topic you always talk about?

I would talk about video games a lot, but my friends are not interested in the slightest hehe I still do. Trips and travels (past, in the planning and future dream trips) and music, recently politics too (cause it is such a disaster here!!!).

8. what’s a pet peeve of yours?

I mostly get annoyed while driving a car hehe I know - quite typical. So that would include people turning without signalling or driving painfully slow on a passing line and finally people forcing their car in front of mine and again going so slowly I have to use breaks :) yes, mainly that :)

9. good advice to give?

Hmmm to never give up, even when you fail, because it usually gets easier in time, usually hehe - and when you get there, don’t stop either, cause you can always improve :). Actually, there is a fitting quote from my childhood hero, Ayrton Senna:

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” ― Ayrton Senna

10. what are three songs you’d recommend?

Hmm, do they need to be super new? Hopefully not :P

1) Steven Wilson - Drive Home (I would recommend anything from Porcupine Tree, Storm Corrosion or Steven Wilson in general)

youtube

2) Archive - The Empty Bottle (and anything by Archive or Birdpen)

youtube

3) Laibach - The Whistleblowers

youtube

I’d really wanted to recommend smth. from my all time favorite band, Coil. Sadly they are not around anymore, but I still cannot live without their music. I know it may be difficult to digest at first though so I didn’t include it here, but if you’d like to listen anyways, maybe try this: Coil - Love's Secret Domain

So I’d like to tag: @solaslover @diagk @smuttine @littleblue-eyedbird @lisutarid-a if you’re interested at all :)

#questions #personal #a bit about me

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hymn2000 · 6 years

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Called To Be A Rock - Frostiron feat. Spiderson AU fanfic - C25

Previous chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Comments/reviews/questions welcome as always

Overall Desc.: Peter is staying with Tony and Loki one summer while his aunt is away working/travelling.

Chapter Desc.: Being so high up in the air can be strange, especially for extended periods of time

Ship(s) involved: Tony x Loki aka Frostiron

Verse: Personal AU

Ongoing Warnings/themes/cw mentions: domestic, hurt/comfort, family dynamic, Tony in Dad Mode, holiday stuff, conflict

Chapter 25 - Get Over Your Hill And See What You Find There

Peter looked out of the window until civilisation as he knew it faded from sight, left far below. The seat belt light turned off, and once the others did, he slowly undid his seat belt and got up again, having a little wander over to the other side of the plane and seeing if the view was any different. It wasn’t.

“Are you two going to watch that film then?”

Peter shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe”

“Well, do whatever you like, as long as you don’t disturb me” Tony said, going over and flopping down on one of the sofas. “I’m driving when we land, so I could do with the rest”

He put a pillow under his head and closed his eyes. Loki went and lay on top of him, and Tony held onto him and turned onto his side, cuddling up against him and soon falling asleep. Peter watched them for a little while, half wishing the sofa was big enough for him too. He tried not to feel left out. He looked round the jet. It was like nothing he’d ever seen before, with plush seats and sofas, a soft thick carpet, a small kitchenette, a big telly, charging ports, tables, and all sorts of other home comforts. He wanted to have a proper look at everything - but he was still so tired. It was still only about 6.30am, although it didn’t really feel like it. Tony had left his shoulder bag on one of the units. Peter rifled through it, finding a thin fleece blanket and Loki’s pig, and he took them over to one of the other sofas. He curled up on his side, wrapped up in the blanket while the pig served as a makeshift pillow. The soft sounds of the plane flying through the sky acted as a soothing white noise, and it wasn’t long before Peter fell asleep again.

Peter woke up a couple of hours later. He looked over at the other sofa, and saw that Tony was still fast asleep, but Loki was awake, scrolling on his phone. Loki sensed himself being watched, and looked up, making eye contact with Peter. He set the phone down and got up, careful not to disturb Tony. Peter didn’t move. Loki knelt down on the floor in front of him.

“You’ve taken my pig”

“He makes a good cushion”

“I know. Do you want to go back to sleep?”

“No, I’m ok now. I’m hungry though. Have we got anything to eat?”

Loki stood up, going over to the kitchenette and opening the cupboards. “What do you fancy?”

Peter sat up, pulling the blanket back round himself. “I don’t know. I’d be happy with just cereal, to be honest”

He got up, keeping the pig in his arms, and went over to him. He was surprised at how much stuff was in the cupboards.

“I- I don’t suppose we’ve got any tea?”

Loki switched the kettle on and took down a couple of tin mugs from the cupboard. Peter looked at them.

“Moomins!”

Loki smiled. “Moomins. They’re lovely mugs, don’t you think?”

Peter nodded, picking them up and having a proper look at the pictures. He held up the navy one depicting Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden by the campfire.

“Can I use this one?”

“If you’d like. Here, put them down now: kettles nearly boiled”

Peter did as he was asked. He was happy to see they’d brought the chai tea with them: he’d developed quite a taste for it. He was impressed by the little fridge too. He now understood what Tony meant when he’d said you sometimes forgot you were flying while on the jet: it definitely felt more like a little hotel suite than a plane.

Loki sat back, looking at the picture of Moomin’s in a boat on his own mug. Peter sat beside him, pig under one arm, leaning his back against his side.

“Shall we watch that film now?”

“Sure, if you’d like” Loki answered, turning the telly on and flicking through the Roku menu until he found it. “I love this: it’s definitely my favourite Wallace and Gromit one”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. It’s such a classic: it’s so charming. It’s the little details that make it”

Peter smiled up at him. “I love it when you like human things. I swear you get cuter every day”

“Don’t get carried away” Loki said, but he put an arm round his chest and held him close.

They both got lost in the film. They were quiet, aside a few laughs and comments about how nice the cheese looked and how scary the robot was.

Loki switched the telly off once the credits started rolling.

“Have we got a pack of cards anywhere?” Peter asked.

“Ah, you want to make a tower?” Loki said. “I think there’s some in that drawer over there”

Peter set his empty mug down and left the pig on the sofa while he went and found the pack of cards. He settled on the floor and begun making his tower of cards. Loki sat down on the floor to talk to him. They were quiet at first, but as the conversation progressed, they grew louder, joking and mucking about together, making quite a racket.

A book collided with the side of Loki’s head, and he flinched at the impact. It hurt a lot, and his eyes smarted.

“What was that for?!” he looked up at Tony, who stood with the heavy book in his hand, looking less than impressed.

“I asked you to be quiet and let me rest”

“Well, sorry, but there’s no need to whack me one”

“Isn’t there?” he said, and smacked him with the book again, just to prove a point.

“OW! Tony!”

"Be quiet” Tony looked at Peter. “The same goes for you, Mister”

He gave Peter a gentle tap with the book. He barely touched him, but Peter still blinked a bit. He looked over at Loki, who rubbing his head and looking pretty sorry for himself.

“Keep the noise down, please” Tony said, going back over to the sofa.

“Are we nearly there yet?” Peter asked.

Tony checked his watch. “We’re not yet half way. We’ve still got a while to go, kiddo”

He lay down and pulled a cushion over his face, blocking them out. Peter turned to Loki, only to find that he’d retreated to the back sofa. Peter swallowed. There’d definitely been a mood shift.

Peter tidied up and then went over to the back sofa. Loki was on his side, facing the back of the sofa, his pig over his face.

“Mr Loki? Are you ok?”

“I’m fine” Loki mumbled.

Peter didn’t know what else to say. He clambered onto the sofa, squeezing into the gap between Loki and the back of the sofa, wriggling under the mans arm. Loki sighed, taking the pig from his face and holding it, and Peter, under his arm.

“You shouldn’t lie to me. I’m just a kid: I’m very impressionable”

Loki couldn’t help laughing. “You’re a weird kid alright. Maybe that’s why we get on so well”

“Maybe, or maybe it’s the opposites thing. Y’know, young and old, human and god, sweet and... not”

“Did you just call me old?”

“Well, you’re like, a thousand years old. That is old, even if you don’t look it. By human standards, anyway. But yeah, even if you weren’t a god, just going off looks, still older than me”

“Ok, ok, I get it. And hold on a moment; who ever said I wasn’t sweet? And more to the point, who ever said you were?”

“What are you saying? I’m sweet! Kinda”

“You’re many things, Peter, but you’re not sweet. Not all the time, anyway: just sometimes. It’s not your most defining personality trait” Loki said.

“Which is?”

“Stubbornness”

Peter was surprised. “Stubbornness?”

“Yes. And persistence. You’re very like Tony, in that respect. And you’re clever. Maybe that’s another reason you fit in so well with us”

Peter decided to be flattered. “I like it with you and Mr Stark, y’know. I was pretty nervous at first, especially after when we first met...”

“Well, perhaps jumping you with a training session wasn’t the best way to make a first impression” Loki admitted. “I really wasn’t going to stab you, I hope you know that”

“I know. You said right back then. I believed you. I still do. It was still scary though. You do still scare me sometimes, but so does Mr Stark”

“Really? Why?”

Peter shrugged. “I don’t know. I don’t like it when you two get angry or start arguing. And there was that whole thing where you went to stay with your brother and Mr Stark went all funny. That was pretty scary”

Loki looked at him sadly. “I didn’t realise we scared you”

“Well, ok, maybe ‘scared’ is too strong a word. That night, that one I mentioned? I really did get scared then. And I got scared that night I got into trouble for drinking and smoking. But that was proper fear, not little fear”

“You’ve lost me”

“Well, it’s a different kind of fear. Like, you know how there’s a difference between being scared about a dentist appointment and being scared because you nearly fell down the stairs? Nervous! That’s the word I was looking for. I do get nervous when you two argue. I’m glad you don’t do it much”

Loki stroked Peter’s hair. “You don’t have to be scared, and you certainly don’t have to be nervous. Disregard our spats for a moment: does Tony make you nervous?”

“Not any more. I know him so much better now. I think he’s great. I know what I can get away with and when I need to watch myself. I’m comfortable with him. He’s kinda like family now...”

“You two are so far in the father-and-son zone, it’s almost embarrassing” Loki teased. “What about me? Do I make you nervous?”

Peter rested his forehead against Loki’s chest so he didn’t have to look at him. “Yeah. But mainly because- well, because... Because I like you”

“I know” Loki sat up, pulling Peter onto his lap so they were facing each other.

“But, yknow, aside from that, you don’t make me nervous. I’m comfortable with you too. I never really expected to be. Ned loves it, thinks its cool”

“Thinks what’s cool?”

“Well, you know, us. Being friends with you. Messing about with you. Being close to you...” he paused, thinking of their wrestling matches and cuddle sessions and their trips to the shops. “You know I love you”

“I love you too. You’ve grown to mean such a lot to me while you’ve been with us”

Peter nodded, touching his cheekbone gently. One side of his face was still rather red. “Does it still hurt?”

“It’s fine” Loki said. Peter gave him a look. “Ok, it still hurts a little bit”

Peter knelt up, one hand on Loki’s shoulder, and he planted a series of kisses over his sore cheek.

“What are you up to, kiddo?”

Peter pulled back for a moment, and kissed him firmly on the lips.

“Better?”

Loki burst out laughing, and Peter quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

“Shh! We’ll wake Mr Stark again”

“Sod it; he’ll cope”

Loki pinned Peter down on his back on the sofa. Peter squeaked, trying to stay quiet. He didn’t want Tony getting grumpy at them again. He looked up at Loki.

“I think it’s about time someone made a fuss of you for a change”

“Mr Stark’s always fussing over me. You saw all the new stuff he bought me”

“I was thinking of a different sort of fussing”

A sudden image of being pulled close and kissed deeply flashed through Peter’s mind, and he blushed at the thought. The reality was of course much more chaste. Loki rubbed his nose against Peter’s for a moment, and started kissing all over his face. Peter giggled, living up to his claim of being sweet. He couldn’t help basking in the attention and appreciating the feel of Loki’s body against his own. He kept trying to think of Loki as a father figure, but his crush was still going strong and this ambition wasn’t seeing any kind of success just yet. He felt Loki’s hand on his hip, and the kissing stopped. Loki smiled down at him.

“You’ve gone all red”

Peter just stuck his tongue out at him. Loki grinned, slipping his hand under Peter’s shirt and tickling his stomach. Peter shrieked, grabbing at Loki’s hand.

“Don’t! Don’t, I’m ticklish!”

“I know” Loki said, continuing.

Peter shrieked again - and suddenly remembered Tony. He craned his head to look, thankfully finding him asleep. Still, he was bubbling over with laughter now, and was forced to cover his mouth with his hand to stop himself from being too loud.

“Mr Loki, stop it! We’re gonna wake Mr Stark!”

They did indeed wake him - but he was in a much better mood this time. He went over to them.

“Are you torturing our little guest?”

“Perhaps” Loki answered, not taking his eyes off the funny creature collapsed in a fit of giggles beneath him.

“Do you need a hand?”

Not waiting for a reply, he grabbed Peter’s wrists, pinning them above his head and tickling under his arms. Peter shrieked, trying to pull free.

“Stop! This isn’t fair; I’m outnumbered!”

Loki and Tony exchanged a mischievous look, and both continued until the boy was weak and helpless with laughter.

Peter was greatly relieved to be released. He continued to giggle weakly for a good thirty seconds afterwards, and they both laughed at him.

“You’re a funny thing” Loki said, ruffling his hair.

“Have you had anything to eat, kiddo?”

Peter nodded. “Yeah, I had something before we watched the film”

“Good. Can’t have you going hungry” Tony looked at Loki. “And yourself?”

“I’m not hungry”

“You should have something anyway”

“Oh Tony, don’t start”

Tony didn’t push it. “Why don’t we stick something on the telly? Pass the time a bit”

Peter sat up. “What do you wanna watch?”

“I don’t know... Hey, how about the one with the evil penguin?”

“What, Feathers Mcgraw?” Loki said. “I think you’ll find he’s actually a chicken”

“He’s also the scariest villain on earth” Peter said, laughing.

“It’s the fucking trousers that creep me out” Loki said, wrinkling his nose.

Tony gave him a tap. “Hey, what have I told you about swearing in front of the kid?”

Loki merely rolled his eyes. He felt Tony was being hypocritical.

Tony had something to eat while they settled to watch the film. Peter sat on Loki’s lap, squeaking and shuddering in exaggerated fear whenever the penguin was on screen. Loki joined in on the charade, holding Peter tight and claiming he felt threatened.

Tony watched them fondly, quite enjoying their little game. He knew there was a level of sincerity to their claims (“I’m terrified of this penguin and I don’t care who knows it”), but mostly he was just happy to see how close they were. He loved Loki with every fibre of his being, and Peter was very quickly gaining the same level of devotion from him - not that he’d ever admit it. He was overcome with a feeling of utter contentment as he sat there, half watching the film, and half watching his funny little family.

“Right, well, I’m suitably scared to death” Peter said, grabbing the remote and turning the telly off. “So, what now?”

“Diamond heist?” Loki suggested.

Peter gave him a look. “I’m being serious”

“So am I”

“You two are ridiculous” Tony said, going over to the kitchenette.

“How long have we been in the air for?” Peter asked.

Tony checked his watch. “Around five hours now”

“Woah, really? That’s mad”

“Lolly, why don’t you get your book out and read to him for a bit?” Tony suggested.

Loki got up, finding Tony’s bag and digging out Anne of Green Gables.

“Where did we get up to?”

Peter thought for a moment. “We’d just finished chapter fourteen”

It had been quite a while since they’d read together. Loki sat back on the sofa, and Peter climbed into his lap again, wrapping the fleece blanket round his legs and settling back against his chest. Loki opened the book, cleared his throat, and begun to read:

“‘What a splendid day!’ said Anne, drawing a long breath. ‘Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it’s splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn’t it?’”

“‘Miss Barry was a kindred spirit, after all’, Anne confided to Marilla. ‘You wouldn’t think so to look at her, but she is. You don’t find it right out at first, as in Matthew’s case, but after a while you come to see it. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world’”

Loki set the book down on the arm of the sofa and kissed Peter on the cheek.

“That’ll do for now”

“Aww” Peter whined, disappointment, but accepted it.

“You ought to do audio books, darling” Tony said, glancing up from his phone. “You’ve got a good reading voice: I never knew that about you”

“Well, you learn something new every day” Loki said.

He pushed Peter off his lap and went to sit next to Tony, cuddling up against him. Peter decided to interfere, and plonked himself down in the middle of them. Tony smiled, wrapping the blanket round him better and holding both of them close against himself.

Loki and Peter both fell asleep again. Tony eventually got up to sort some things, leaving them curled up in a little huddle like a couple of little aardvarks.

The day was getting on. They’d flown many miles, passing over water and landmasses unknown, passing through different countries and timezones - different worlds than the one they knew.

The eighth hour was approaching. A notice was passed to him, and he smiled to himself. He gave Loki and Peter a little shake.

“Wake up now, darlings”

They did, blinking a bit and leaning against each other as they looked up at him. Tony smiled at them.

“Get up now” he said gently. “We’ll be landing soon”

Peter and Loki looked at each other, and got up, hurrying over to the window, peering out. It was dusky, seemingly early evening, which felt very strange indeed, considering it could be no later than about 2pm in New York. They could see a city, or a town, all bright lights and buildings and roads as far as the eye could see. Well, not quite: there was definitely some greenery in the distance. It looked so normal - but so different too.

Soon, an airport came into view. They knew they’d soon have to sit and put their belts back on, so they made the most of the view they had now, still at a loss. Loki had his arms round Peter. Peter looked up at him, his expression asking if Loki knew where they were. Loki looked at Tony, so Peter did too. Tony was looking very pleased with himself. He grinned at them.

“Welcome to England”

#my writing #fanfiction #marvel fanfiction #mcu fanfiction #frostiron

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MOOMINVALLEY SEASON 3 EPISODE TITLES & SYNOPSES

Episode 1 - Homecoming - The Moomins return home to find a wise leader telling everyone there should be no rules, and Moominvalley falls into chaos.

Episode 2 - Moomintroll's Grand Adventure - When Moomintroll’s sea adventure ends poorly he meets Snork and tries to impress his new friend with tall tales; but will his fibs catch up with him?

Episode 3 - Brisk & Breezy - When Mr Brisk sets up a summer camp Little My joins the camp and puts Brisk through a series of rigorous tests!

Episode 4 - Inventing Snork - Moomintroll tries to help Snork make friends in the valley using his clever inventions but Snork's gifts backfire.

Episode 5 - The Stinky Caper - When Moomintroll accidentally becomes an accomplice to a burglary the Moomins try to put things right by staging a reverse heist but nothing goes to plan.

Episode 6 - Toffle's Tall Tales - Moomintroll and Sniff volunteer to walk Toffle home through the woods but all is not what it seems!

Episode 7 - Winter Secrets - When Stinky breaks out of jail the Moomins postpone their winter hibernation to shelter their neighbours and hunt for the fugitive.

Episode 8 - Lonely Mountain - Moomintroll cancels his hibernation to go find Snufkin in the mysterious Lonely Mountains but Snufkin doesn’t like having his solitude disrupted!

Episode 9 - Mrs Fillyjonk’s Last Hurrah - When Mrs Fillyjonk thinks she is not long for this world Moominpappa steps in to make all her wildest dreams come true.

Episode 10 - Snufkin and the Fairground - After Snufkin advises a silence-loving Hemulen to leave his noisy job at the fairground he is left to run the rides with the help of his friends.

Episode 11 - Call of the Hattifatteners - When a lost Hattifattener’s spark starts to fade Moominpappa the Fisherman and Little My set out to sea to return it home.

Episode 12 - Moominmamma’s Flying Dream - Moomintroll learns of Moominmamma’s love of hot air ballooning and decides to make her dream come true.

Episode 13 - Midsummer Magic - As preparations begin for the Midsummer party the sun goes missing from Moominvalley!

#i have so many things to say lmao #12 seems very cute aww #moominvalley #moominvalley season 3

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Moomins in Torrelorca Pages 1-10 (Google translation below)

PAGE 1

Pappa: Well? Moomin: The cord is in the wall.

Pappa: Can I fix it? Mamma: That’s how it goes.

Pappa: This is easily fixed. Mamma: I suppose so...

Snorkmaiden: Uh-oh. Mamma: It was an old, good fridge.

Moomin: Now we start living as we used to, when the ice was stored... Snorkmaiden: And the milk sour.

PAGE 2

Pappa: Stupidly assembled refrigerator. That part belongs here.

Pappa: And that little one hardly has any service. Mamma: Dear, why do men always repair machines?

Pappa: Because we are skilled and helpful. Mamma: I suppose so.

Pappa: Moominmamma, I’ve fixed the refrigerator. Mamma: Yes, dear. That’s fine.

Pappa: But you don’t understand! Mamma: I’m a woman. I understand better than you think.

Pappa: No! It works!

PAGE 3:

Moomin: What’s wrong with dad? Mamma: He has just fixed the fridge.

Mamma: His first successful repair job.

Moomin: Mum, the fridge is smoking!

Mamma: The fridge is burning! Pappa: Burning? Then tell it to go straight back home. [must be a language joke/pun]

Moomin: But it is in flames. Pappa: The flames flare once only...

Mamma: Will the flame burn the steaks?

PAGE 4

Snorkmaiden: The cream is sour again. Pappa: Black coffee is much healthier.

Moomin: The butter tastes weird. Pappa: Just imagine.

Pappa: Would you please get me some ice? Mamma: We have no ice.

Pappa: Family, we must get a new fridge!

Pappa: I’d like a refrigerator. Salesman: Aha! Here we have “Snow White”, with built-in support and a padded vodka rack.

Salesman: And here’s the “Pour Amour”. It has an air-conditioned bread box and a coffee machine that starts when the door is opened.

Pappa: Can I have a 10 pound ice cube?

PAGE 5

Pappa: Listen, we can get a fridge if we come up with a good slogan and win one of the prizes 2-10. Moomin: “If you buy this cabinet you will raise your standard of living”

Pappa: Too good. It will become the first prize right away. Snorkmaiden: “Brrr”?

Pappa: Brilliant, Snorkmaiden!

Moomin: Post brought notice! Pappa: A fridge! We won!

Pappa: Where is it? Post Office Worker: Here!

PAGE 6

Mamma: Well, where’s the fridge? Pappa: We won the first prize!

Moomin: A trip to Torrelorca. Mamma: Everybody’s going there.

Snorkmaiden: Did you say Torrelorca? Everybody’s going there!

Mamma: Surely we’re not going on a prize tour to Torrelorca? Pappa: No... the boat trip is so long.

Pappa: Many days. On a big steamer... in the luxury class, of course.

Pappa: Family! Mamma: Yes, dear. Here’s the suitcase.

PAGE 7

Pappa: Oh Fridge Company Worker: I am from Pole Refrigerators. Congratulations on your victory.

Fridge Company Worker: Frozen rose for the lady. I’ll take you to the airport. Pappa: Don’t we travel with a luxury cruise ship?

Fridge Company Worker: Oh no. Are these all yours? Only one small bag per person!

Pappa: I think a luxury cruise ship would have been better. Moomin: Not bad for a jet engine.

Moomin: Always a new lunch, when you turn the clock back. / A new lunch each time you turn the clock back [?] Pappa: Pah. Chickens in jelly and potato salad.

Fridge Company Worker: Here’s your boarding pass. You’re flying over there on the BC-1.

PAGE 8

Speaker: Passengers boarding a BRHM BRHM BRHM port two. Pappa: Snorkmaiden, ask! Snorkmaiden: Did that mean us?

Snorkmaiden: No, it didn’t mean us. Pappa: Ssh! Speaker: BRHM BRHM port four.

Snorkmaiden: Moomintroll, you ask, he doesn’t recognise me.

Mamma: It’s beautiful here. Pappa: Sorry, but isn’t the machine a bit old? Flight Attendant: It is!

Attendant: This year, Captain Wright and his brother fly their millionth flight.

PAGE 9

Snorkmaiden: When is lunch served? Attendant: We do not serve food. We leave immediately after lunch and arrive just before the late dinner.

Attendant: You’re welcome.

Attendant: Sir took two!

Attendant: Fasten seat belts.

Passenger: Hands off! Insolent man!

PAGE 10

Passenger: He was forcibly trying to pull me back in his chair!

Hawaiian Shirt Passenger: Don Juan. Dress Passenger: There is something like that on every tour. Suit Passenger: And married! Dress Passenger: A bit old, but considerate.

Moomin: Did he do it? Mamma: Ssh!

Man w/ Cane: The hotel is so close that we can walk there.

Pappa: Are we not ready yet? Man: Sure sure! Behind that mountain!

Man: This is the new group. They are too tired to eat anything.

#moomins in torrelorca #moomin comics #lars jansson

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Moomins in Torrelorca Pages 31-40 (Google translation below)

PAGE 31

Moomin: We need to find a more secret place here. Mamma: Dear, people are watching! Pappa: Stupid things.

Pappa: The police just think we’ve bought a modern sculpture.

Pappa: The moonshine still must be taken to a secluded place.

Moomin: Here is the city boundary. Pappa: Still a little way.

Moomin: But this is where the next town begins.

PAGE 32

Pappa: I don’t see a suitable hiding place. Mamma: Moominpappa, that is not what Torrelorca does.

Pappa: Family! Phoenician catacombs! They’re made for smuggling!

Pappa: Now fire under the pot. There’s enough draught here.

Swede: Look now! I told you Torrelorca is a volcanic area. Person: Help!

Person: Run before the lava flows! Other Person: The sea! Swede: No, the mountains!

PAGE 33

Key Guy: Torrelorca is doomed! Commissioner: Fortunately, we have time to evacuate! Telescope Person: Glowing rocks fly from the volcano!

Pappa: That was the last. Turn off the fire under the pot.

Moomin: No people! Pappa: Everyone spends siesta.

Pappa: 20 bottles of Manhattan Dynamite. That should be enough for the day. Moomin: The city is still quite deserted.

Commissioner: The volcanic eruption is over. Telescope Person: Look! There’s a bar open! Key Person [Mayor?]: After that, I want something to drink.

Pappa: My bar is a complete fiasco! Person: Drinks! Mayor(?): And soon! Commissioner: Double!

PAGE 34

Telescope Person: One more, please! Pappa: Moomintroll, open a new bottle!

Pappa: Oops. Everyone left unpaid.

Pappa: Oops.

Pappa: Did you remember to dilute the Manhattan Dynamite? Mamma: No, dear.

Pappa: Tonight we will do better than yesterday.

Pappa: What are you doing? I have bought this bar as well as the rooftop terrace. Person: But you do not own the airspace above it. It’s the old Torrelorian way.

Person: Yeah, do another coat.

Snorkmaiden: Maybe we could open a basement bar. They are very popular.

PAGE 35

Pappa: The bar was our last chance to get the money back home. Moomin: How do foreigners live here?

Pappa: They have either a bar or a boutique. Snorkmaiden: I’ll invent! Nobody has noticed/discovered this before!

Snorkmaiden: I’ll start giving language lessons!

Creep: Do you give language lessons? Snorkmaiden: Yes. Do you have a pen and paper?

Creep: How do you say “beautiful Finnish maiden”? Snorkmaiden: No, start here: “this is my aunt’s pen.”

Creep: Mamma mia. It was a language lesson.

Snorkmaiden: Weird.

PAGE 36

Snorkmaiden: Ssh! I have a new student.

Pappa: After Snorkmaiden has had 500 lessons, we can buy tickets for the return trip.

Snorkmaiden: Moomintroll. You can continue!

Moomintroll: He didn’t want to learn. The man left as soon as I came.

Snorkmaiden: I want to make it clear I give language classes. Absolute Dickhead: Clear. Scandinavian blondes always need a good excuse.

Absolute Dickhead: You talk, I love, ok?

Snorkmaiden: These Torrelorians don’t want to learn languages.

PAGE 37

Moomin: Snorkmaiden, I forbid you to give language classes to Torrelorcans. Snorkmaiden: Huh! I don’t want to give them.

Snorkmaiden: You should give Torrelorian language lessons instead.

Snorkmaiden: Moomintroll, wait, I didn’t mean it!

Snorkmaiden: Could you not report in the magazine that you only give lessons to old ladies? Moominmamma: It doesn’t improve the situation.

Snorkmaiden: Why? Well, that they are old? / Are they old?

Moomin: No. Someone with a rose behind their ear and a parasol.

PAGE 38

Pappa: Well, do you have many students? Moomin: No. I sent everyone away. They weren’t what I expected.

Pappa: Let’s go eat. Mamma: No can do.

Mamma: This might be enough for oatmeal, from which we can make porridge. Pappa: Porridge! We’ve not been so poor before.

Swede 1: What is this? Swede 2: I don’t know. Already taken your EnteroVioform?

Mamma: Family, porridge is ready! Swede 2: Did someone say “porridge”?

Swede 1: Porridge... just like at home. Swede 2: Can we buy a little.

PAGE 39

Tourist 1: What’s in there? Tourist 2: They’re eating porridge. Just like at home!

Swede: Can I also? Mamma: Moomintroll, run to buy more oatmeal.

Snorkmaiden: Do we have enough money to buy the hat I saw? Mamma: Certainly!

Snorkmaiden: I want that hat.

Tourist 1: Look! There are women police here! Tourist 2: Best to go back to Paris.

PAGE 40

Mamma: More porridge? Swede: What is that? Tourist: They cook the same kind of food as at home.

Person 1: Can I have some real meatballs? Person 2: Pizza! Person 3: Hamburger and strawberry ice cream. Person 4: Lammaskaali! [it’s a traditional Finnish dish with lamb and cabbage! the more you know~] Person 5: Jansson’s temptation?

Pappa: We made it! Homemade food is a goldmine. Commissioner: And what is this?

Commissioner: Do you have a work permit? Mamma: No...

Commissioner: Ouch, you should get one. Mamma: Yes, Commissioner.

Snorkmaiden: Hey, what do you like about my new hat? Commissioner: Ha! Degrading the official uniform!

Commissioner: You’re going to jail, and the porridge is confiscated!

#sorry about the names they're all over the place lol #moomins in torrelorca #moomin comics #lars jansson

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Little My is a Trickster God, Albeit One with Surprisingly Good Intentions

Okay well really she’s just super wise and wants what’s best for her brother and knows everyone’s secrets, but here’s some instances of her sneakily affecting the plot in Moominvalley or her Knowing What’s Up:

Episode 1 - This one’s very obvious since she literally says “you don’t have to be big to stand up for yourself, you know. haven’t you learned anything yet?” and after he finally stands up to her she says “at last! he’d finally woken up.” Basically she comes to his house, sees how scared Moomintroll is by just a gaggle of children, thinks “if he’s gonna be my adoptive brother then he’s gonna have to grow some balls” and then proceeds to annoy tf outta him to push him to finally stand up for himself. Also ends with her calling Snufkin “someone special” so like......she knows he fancies him.

Episode 2 - You could argue that her asking Moomintroll to annoy the Muskrat with her is really her trying to distract Moomintroll from his sadness as he misses his boyfriend, which is very sweet of her. She knows that Snufkin’s gonna come eventually so Moomintroll might as well have fun whilst he waits rather than just mope on the bridge. Ofc Moomintroll declines the offer because he’s dumb and gay.

Episode 3 - When Moomintroll tells her he’s trying to catch a wobblybug, she says “you want a pet you can keep in a jar and boss around. with friends like you, who needs enemies?”. Before the dragon and its symbolism of Moomintroll’s love for Snufkin even enters the story, Little My has hit the nail on the head and called Moomintroll out on his clinginess. She then says that he’ll just catch a bad cold and he sneezes almost immediately afterwards as a cloud covers the sun, driving home the point that she’s very very right (also if you take the God headcanon seriously then she could’ve moved the cloud herself lmao). Later she says “your dragon? don’t you mean snufkin’s.” but by that point basically everyone knows it prefers Snufkin so that’s not very remarkable.

Episode 4 - Her smiling and rolling her eyes at Moomintroll being gay at the start of this episode is very sweet, but then she gets jealous about the bark boat and decides to teach him a lesson. Since the beginning of the episode, she’s playing with the dragonfly that symbolises change & self-realisation, and she purposely sends it off like a dog - “Things can change, you know! Go get him, Fido!”. “Fido” then proceeds to fly around the bark boat, causing it to spin anti-clockwise and Moomintroll tries to forcibly make it spin clockwise, ultimately leading to the boat just sinking. The flood happens (Little My being a God?? she does say “what a beautiful disaster”), Little My is the one to suggest that they “jump ship” onto the theatre, she pulls back the curtain to reveal Emma, and Moomintroll eventually realises that “sometimes bad things just happen” and comes to accept change, or at least accept the fact that he knows he’ll be able to deal with it whatever life throws at him. She rolls her eyes again when Moomintroll tries to be cool with Snufkin and Fido ends the episode.

Episode 5 - Little My has been given what was basically Snufkin’s role in the comic; she immediately doesn’t like the golden tail and can foresee the effect it will have on him as it brings him fame and makes his head bigger (her quick quip about making the hat bigger is one of my favourite jokes from this episode) - “just wait ‘till the gaudy glow reaches his head!” & “yep, another puffed-up twerp”. She knows that deep down, Moomintroll is not his father and certainly not as full of himself as Moominpappa can be. She helps him realise this by fucking up the performance with the fan (she says “sometimes you gotta be cruel to be kind” which sums up the majority of her actions in the series v well), then passes the “make moomin realise” baton to her brother, when Snufkin and Moomintroll have that cute happy ending scene. When Moomintroll becomes the director, she winks at him (kind of their thing now since episode 1), and he smiles back.

Episode 6 - Moomintroll tells Snorkmaiden that he wants to go on a real adventure, but quickly changes his mind when the latter brings up their “future children”. Little My doesn’t seem to hear that bit but but she does hear him being a little bitch about it and making excuses for not sailing out, so she decides to once again take the story reigns in her hands and casts off the boat. She does also interrupt the others’ "romantic adventure” now and again but honestly they do a lot of that on their own, with Snorkmaiden appreciating her own reflection more than the natural wonders of the island. I love her casual “yeah” after snorkmaiden exclaims that she rescued herself xD She encourages Moomintroll to keep going forward with the barometer with a wave of her hand before following him, and they experience the strange beauty of the storm together.

Episode 7 - Sibling! Crime! Time! Little My doesn’t seemingly bring the work basket to Snufkin on purpose, but it is rather fateful that it’s what she arrived in, and holds the hattifattener seeds that are so perfect for Snufkin’s plan. She watches him like he’s a bloody maniac when he’s cooing over the freshly grown hattifatteners as if they were his children, and I think that’s when it clicks in her head that maybe what he told her about “needing his space” might have some exceptions. She wants him to realise this himself so he can open up more to people Moomintroll and in the process realise that leaving Moomintroll at the party without saying anything was wrong of him to do. The woodies give her the perfect opportunity to do this as well as being incredibly amusing for her to watch him struggle with them, and so she makes sure he doesn’t separate himself from them. When he feeds them beans, she repeats his own words back to him: “every now and again, just for a while, I need my space” before laughing. She spies on Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden having their bonfire, I believe to ensure that they do get arrested, then tells Snufkin about the arrest so that he’ll go and rescue them (she even says it’s “thanks to you”, already sowing the guilt seed that’ll lead to him feeling guilty for leaving moomintroll at the party). As she leaves, we get confirmation that everything is coming together as she planned - “perfect! all the nasty little loose ends neatly tied up.”

Episode 8 - Little My actually doesn’t have much agency over the story in this episode, since the majority of the episode is being a story told by Moomintroll, so she isn’t given as much freedom over her own role in it as she usually would have. She does say “you’re just like your potty father” which inspires Moomintroll to become the hero of the story, though it doesn’t seem like that was the desired effect of her words lol. There’s a funny part where there’s a freeze-frame of the plant attacking them, but Little My just walks away with a roll of her eyes xD And she does go along with being the “trusty chimp”, despite her complaints. She also realises that the plants are dying because the sun is setting.

Episode 10 - Little My clearly knows that their messy happiness is better than depressing cleanliness - “I think everybody’s gone clean out of their-” after Fillyjonk says they must be much happier.

Episode 11 - Little My is the one who tells Moomintroll that their house is haunted, but otherwise her role in this episode is just teasing her brother mercilessly as usual. She’s also called “terrifying” by a ghost.

Episode 12 - She’s kind of terrible at knowing what’s best in this episode, however she IS right when she says “you’ll never have a face of your own until you’ve learned to stand up for yourself, believe me”. This ultimately becomes the thing that makes Ninny completely visible again - by pulling a Little My-like prank on Pappa to get him back for scaring her.

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