#moomintroll icons

[groovyic0ns]

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[dummydumbbee]

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۪ 𝆬 𔓘 ⭑𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐩 🍂

[kirbyfigure]

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[kohibee]

oh, just to be a little moomin

[shibumi-tanuki]

Pride Moomin icons!! (please credit if used)

Flag and pose kinda referenced from @jookpubstock !

[moomley]

snufmin matching icons ! <333

[ghostiesandghoulss]

“He’s a fictional character whose barely in it, get over it”

Disrespectfully??? NO. I miss the Joxter *cries*

[fullmetalnihongostudy]

[cyanocean-anemic]

I got a Moomin/Moomintroll plushie!!!

[zeppozzoe]

free to use icons please at least like or reblog if using

[pridewishes]

♔ || MOOMINTROLL ICONS

250x250 || light pink || bordered circle

like / rb + credit + read dni if using

requested by anon !!

[liam-is-so-cool]

PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO LOOK AT THESE TINY BOYS <333

[dummydumbbee]

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Trying to take things less complicated that they are, It can be difficult if you are not used to it. But it is possible.

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[hee-blee-art]

some moomintroll pride icon variants!  rb & credit if you use them please & thnk you!

[image ID: six digitally drawn portrait icons of moomintroll from the moomins, who is smiling and holding a small rainbow pride flag. in order, the flag backgrounds for each icon are: the lesbian flag, the rainbow pride flag, the bi flag, the trans flag, the nonbinary flag, and the progress pride flag. end ID]

[jasontoddssuper]

Calling Moomintroll x Snorkmaiden a het ship is a hate crime cause Snorkmaiden is genderfluid

[homunculus-argument]

I'm pretty sure I've made a post about this exact specific thing before, but I'm going to type this out anyway, because I can't get over how Tove Jansson's work depicts masculinity, and the idea of gender in general.

While she was - and still 100% is - absolutely a wlw icon (being the first woman to bring a same-sex date to Finland's annual independence day ball in the Presidental Palace), and her work doesn't focus on men or masculinity, she had no resentment towards the male sex as a whole. In her works, the male characters are mainly amusing creatures, up to their silly masculine antics that men are bound to do just the same as squirrels are bound to build their certain type of nests and migratory birds are bound to fly to the south for winter.

There are characters - whole species, in fact - that more or less represent people trying to perform their respective gender roles, like the Fillyjonk who manages to be a strictly normative Housewife without any mention of her having a husband, and the masculine counterpart of generally male hemulens. While there are both fillyjonks and hemulens that are happy being Traditionally Feminine and Traditionally Masculine, there's one short story of a fillyjonk who doesn't enjoy micro-managing an immaculate household, and another one of a hemulen who doesn't enjoy any traditionally masculine hobbies but tries to arbitrarily pick one anyway, because of societal expectations to have one.

But the thing is, the characters who don't fit into standard strict gender presentations are perfectly comfortable with themselves and neither they nor anyone else really gives a shit. Jansson was born in 1914, and it's remarkable how neutral the characters' depictions are to a modern eye. Being personally finnish and introduced to her works in a language that doesn't have gendered pronouns, I literally did not know what gender a few of the characters were before encountering their english or swedish descriptions with pronouns. And I never wondered whether they're supposed to be male or female. Hell, even the character representing the love of her life is depicted like this, and it never crossed my mind to wonder whether Too-Ticky is male or female. She's just Too-Ticky, who dispels wisdom.

But coming back to masculinity, the way Jansson depicts male characters and The Masculine Urge To Do Shit isn't depicted as either superior nor inferior to her female characters' ways of doing their own thing. Sure, men cause problems on purpose from time to time, but the narrative doesn't depict this as inherently bad any more than it is inherently good. The protagonist Moomintroll is a boy and does his best to perform some ideal of being manly, but it's depicted as a part of him trying to grow up. His father's misadventures in trying to be either a wildhearted Manly Adventurer or a Stable Provider For His Family - and the conflict between these two ideals - aren't depicted as bad things to want, or something he shouldn't want, but just an inherent part of being a man.

The protagonist's girlfriend Snorkmaiden is depicted as vain and frivolous as much as she is kind and loving, but her girlish silliness and genuinely kind heart aren't depicted as being contradictory to each other, it's just who she is as a person. The protagonist's mother, Moominmamma, is the platonic ideal of a loving and patient mother and wife, and The moomins' TvTropes page actually goes as far as describing her as fitting the definition of the platonic ideal of the perfect traditional japanese woman, being gentle, loving and hospitable, but strong and unhesitant to protect her family. She doesn't humour her husband's whims out of some schooled and practiced dedication to the role of feminine submissiveness, she puts up with his stupid shit because she loves him.

Tove Jansson was a splendid woman and her work and art are rightfully one of Finland's proudest gifts to the world, and whether she was gay or bisexual, it clearly shines through her work how as much as she loved women, she didn't dislike men. The Masculine Urge To Do Shit is aknowledged with a jovial shrug: "Yeah, they do that sometimes."