#mumrik

[thunderland]

It's been more than 10y that I am on tumblr and never dared to post anything... So now's the time!!

I'm curently working on a BIG project about Snufkin and I'll try to show you some of the drawings (which are NUMEROUS) that I'm doing with him

[springdove]

snufmin snufmin only snufmin on the brain (featuring a little snufkin doodle)

[oatyy-yy]

maybe snufkin with a banjo for the drawing requests 👀 I'm obsessed with the way you draw him

Snufkin with a banjo what will he do

Thank you so much!!!! :)

[1863notesong]

Joxter tells a story to Snufkin

[pink-nubes]

Fancy boy

[benjimatorarts]

Summer Snuggles

[burgerkingsponge]

When i said i have 9472 different artstyles, i was being very honest about it.

So uh about the sentence i hope it makes sense in English because English is my second language bla bla bla so i tried to translate it as accurately as i could bla bla bla

Also i used an picsart effect, my original art looks like this if anyone cares idk

[0snufkin0]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, MOOMIN OFFICIAL CONFIRMED IN THEIR PODCAST THAT SNUFKIN AND MOOMIN MAY BE IN LOVE and you can interpret them however you would like

Moomin Official has released a podcast on YouTube and they said moomin and snorkmaiden are just good friends and then they CONFIRMED THAT SNUFKIN AND MOOMINTROLL MIGHT BE IN LOVE A LITTLE

https://youtu.be/rOL_g464kkA

SNUFMIN IS PRACTICALLY CANON AHAHSH

[snow-bees]

Fish fear him

[mumriksworld]

Mumrik on his wandering to warmer weather.

Charcoal, graphite and digital enhancements.

[springdove]

it was funny in my big ol brain

[kohibee]

Moomin stuff that I've made recently! :]

[amethyst-marie368]

Moomin & Snufkin mugs!

I'd appreciate if you took a look on my page, I upload Snufkin x Reader/Original Character fanfiction ^^ (if that's ur cup of tea)

[1863notesong]

Snufkin throughout the seasons

[honkygay]

winters gonna end in a couple months and all i can think about is moomin waking up in spring and waiting anxiously for snufkin to return to moominvalley and i might be making myself cry with that thought

[flowerbloom-arts]

If you don't mind me asking? Can you elaborate more on the problematic aspect of Mumrik please?

Don't take too much of my word for it because this isn't very researched and this is more of a stream of consciousness than anything but fanon "Mumriks" (Joxter and Snufkin), as I've seen here and there, fall dangerously close to antisemitic caricatures and Romani stereotypes.

For one thing, Joxter and Snufkin's personalities being equated leads to a mash of their negative traits, and their negative traits being laziness, deceitfulness, uncleanliness and tendency for thievery/utter disregard for the law to the point of amorality or indecency applied to both with either "natural explanations" (saying that's just an Inherent Part Of Their Species) or dubious motivations is deeply entrenched in stereotypes of the Roma throughout Europe.

The fandom tends to mystify Joxter and Snufkin alot on very shaky ground, with forebodings (gut feelings) that are treated as a magic litmus test for things to come or having a connection with ghosts or using divination like tarot which is based on either throwaway lines or background details that don't particularly affect the plot yet the fandom treats as one of their major traits that get used in plots alot. Romani people get stereotyped with that sort of mysticism alot, especially in association with the Fortune Telling business and to a lesser extent Mediumship and general superstition. I could also chalk this up to the mystic cat stereotype, particularly in association with witches and the like.

Joxter gets (or at least got, a while back) casted as the malevolent counterpart to Snufkin for the sake of Daddy Issues Angst, and that combined with people's dissatisfaction with Joxter and Snufkin's more human designs gave way to very impish or even monsterous depictions of Joxter (and sometimes Snufkin), which we can make parallels to antisemitic caricatures of Jewish people; sharp teeth, pointy ears, strange eyes, predominant nose, hind legs, tails, claws, generally untrustworthy vibes all around. Unclean and tattered, not to be trusted by others in any proximity; good for nothing thieves and tricksters.

People like to make "Mumriks" this massively marginalized group, afterall the two fellas we know are like... Hrm. But Joxter's lifestyle is hopelessly conflated with Snufkin's... Darn. People try to draw lines where they think they are but in doing so, it trying to replicate Tove's style of "some behaviors being inherent to a species" (which one can debunk with some critical thought and literacy) they accidentally create these stereotypes, they don't draw clear distinctions between Joxter and Snufkin even though Snufkin's mother is a Mymble, they don't consider how weird it would be within the context of our culture or even the context of these characters, yet somehow...

But this is just my thoughts as they currently are, I have thought about it alot but I do need to be on the lookout for more examples and do more proper digging. Again, I'm not accusing anyone of bigotry and purposefully baking them into characters who are clearly their darling faves, I'm just saying that there are certain things one must keep in mind when it comes to characterization and headcanons, or else one could accidentally recreate malicious bigotry without any malice.