#the moomins 90s tv

[thatflyingmishmesh]

Hi this is a drawing I did for a friend's birthday

Reference pic below

[kala-mies]

Well, I let little things happen to me and then I think they are tremendous

[artichow]

fake 90s moomin screencap with the tinies <3

my commissions are open on my ko-fi page

[twinkpeaked]

i know a spot

[vioyume]

Some Cartoons that you can Watch on YouTube

Many of which are shows from the 90's, 2000s and early 2010's. Was this mostly done out of nostalgia? Yeah, but it's nice to have something to watch casually when you're not witch hunting on pirated websites or don't want to go to them.

I try to have playlists of fully uploaded series or have the majority of the episodes since I feel like it wouldn't be as satisfactory to have only one episode of a series.

The majority of the shows here are from my own childhood but it's a mixture of shows for children to adult audiences. Though I did not add every single preschool cartoon from my memory.

Don't feel like watching cartoons? Old TV Time has many infomercials, PSAs and mini documentaries from the 1900s!

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The Moomins 90's Show

Sam and Max Freelance Police

Sonic X

Popee the Performer (CW: Disturbing/Graphic Imagery and Crude Humor)

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 1

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 2

My Little Pony Gen 3 + 3.5

Hi HI Puffy Ami Yumi

Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat (Most Episodes)

All of The Backyardigans

All of Milly & Molly

House of Mouse (Most Episodes, but I'm surprised that it's not on Disney Plus)

A Playlist of Pokemon Episodes/Shorts that are Available from the Official Account

Ruby Gloom

The Super Mario Bros Super Show

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic SATAM

Sonic Underground

2003 Strawberry Shortcake

Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse

Many of the Older Barbie Movies

Cat Soup (It's a Surreal film)

Pucca Season 1

Clone High (It's an Adult show, so expect what you're going to see from one)

Domo Shorts

Ninjago: Wu's Teas Shorts

Growing up Creepie

101 Dalmations 90's Show

Quack Pack

Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets (CW: Disturbing and creepy[?] Imagery and Loud Noises, they're just shorts I really like.)

[tsub1t]

big fan of moomin comic strips. i even got a few copies! thinking of watching 90s tv series sometime in future

[littleeyesofpallas]

With the new Snufkin game out I will take this time to remind Bleach fans where our favorite shady shopkeeper got some of his shtick from.

And in general Moomin is always worth checking out if you've never read/watched any iteration. The original novels and comics are timeless. The 1969 TV anime features animation by a young and up and coming Hayao Miyazaki. The 90s Moomin anime is perhaps the better known adaptation as it got translated and distributed in a few other countries outside of Japan. And in 2019 Netflix launched a new animated series called Moominvalley.

[pillowspace]

Sea slug spotted in the 73rd episode of the 90's Moomin TV show!

Massive win for the ria community today

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Ok listen I love the Moomins I really do and the 90s anime is so cozy and sweet but there's a flaw: In Sweden they have BANNED a bunch of episodes... many for literally no reason.

We have the Groke eps. We keep the tradition of scaring generations, of course.

But the pirate episode is banned because it was "too violent".

"The terrible little My" episode is also banned because ???????? Little My broke Moomin's legs???????? I don't know????? Other characters broke their legs and that was aired.

Some episodes they might've just not gotten the rights to, idk...

I'm also slightly pissed there's an entire season of 90s moomins that only ever aired in Japan and in Finland. Even Norway got some episodes from that season. NORWEGIANS GOT MORE EPISODES AND WE DIDN'T?!

I can ofc watch Moomins in other languages but it's one of the few things I prefer watching swedubbed so it bugs me a little bit there's not as many eps especially of the anime.

I guess we have the 1969 live action show where their noses fly off and the king tries to make them civilized and also that live action christmas tv calendar but like. still.

[ishouldfindarealjob]

[mymoominblog]

A very kind person has uploaded all episodes from the 90s Moomin in (Finland)swedish to YouTube and I am very grateful for thatl!!!

Please note that 15 episodes were “banned” in Sweden for various reasons.

[rye-in-a-coat]

where were u wen gulf war broke out

i was at house watching moomin, snufkin say "let's fill moominvalley with crime, c'mon", when phone ring

"The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated."

"no"

Context under cut below.

It seems like the T.V. channel that broadcasted the 90's Moomin show, TV Tokyo is somewhat infamous for the urban legend of always having an usual broadcasting schedule even during emergencies.

When the Gulf War broke out on January 17th, 1991; truth is that TV Tokyo just like all the TV stations had a news broadcast on Operation Desert Storm.

However, after 6 p.m. while all the other stations continued with an extended block of news covering what was happening in the middle east at the moment; TV Tokyo went back to show their usual anime programming, this included ofc, Moomin.

The audience rating for Moomin was of 18.7%, think on this and compare it to the fact that such progamming would usually get 8-10%, and remind yourself again in what scenario this happened.

So what episode was brodcasted that day?

[piilukko]

The Otaniemi district in Espoo, Finland is the home of the main campus of the Aalto University (formerly independent Helsinki University of Technology) as well as several student dormitories.

While niemi means just a cape (as in "landmass extending into a body water", in this case the Baltic Sea), scholars are less certain what ota means, as usual the story is a mess and includes hundreds if not thousands of years and several languages. However, in typical Finnish custom, today the area contains several roads, streets and other features named with the "ota"-prefix, like Otakaari, the looping main street of the district.

Some jokers call the district "Onaniemi", implying that the stereotypically male and geeky students of, say, computer science might have trouble finding sexual partners and would instead end up masturbating more than the general populace. An unsourced but plausible claim is that for decades, of all the small kiosks in the nation-wide R-Kioski chain, the one in Otaniemi was the top-seller of porn mags, but also the first place to suddenly lose those sales when the internet became fast enough to transfer photos and the campus network was expanded to the dorm rooms.

Like probably everywhere in the world, also in Finland the students of technology gravitated towards science fiction and fantasy, American shows like Star Trek and Babylon 5 of course being popular. However, around mid 90s, when the rest of us still relied on what our three-ish TV channels decided to air and what a couple of companies decided to publish (and what a handful of magazines decided to write about), they had the means and skills to learn about and acquire all kind of works of entertainment unknown to the internet-deprived masses. So, while everyone knew the 90s Moomin series, some had seen a couple of Miyazaki films on the TV and random kids were exposed to the mess that it is Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, quite unsurprisingly the tech students were among the pioneers of the Finnish anime and manga scene as a separate hobby.

Which is probably why even on the Google Maps, it says basically (Here be) otakus over this seemingly innocent-lookíng small driveway.

[river-taxbird]

I am becoming dangerously obsessed with The Moomins.

In which I explore my deeply ingrained weakness for furry media, and why a weird kids series that comes from a queer, poly, anti fascist place speaks to me deeply.

The moomins were always something I was aware of. I saw a couple of episodes of the 90s show when I was a kid, and we had one of the books in the house when I was a kid, but I never read it. Not sure why, but discussing it with my mum she said she never liked the moomins much.

A while ago my roomate introduced me to Comet in Moominland, the 90s movie that is a prequel to the TV series, and based on the first full length moomin book. It was a beautiful and harrowing movie about the moomins dealing with the knowledge that a comet is going to hit the earth, and having to deal with an apocalypse of biblical proportions.

After that, my partner and I decided to watch the 90s anime that follows on from the movie. It's cute and charming, it's wholesome and positive. It is depicting the childhood you maybe wish you had, with good friends and positive role models. I also picked up some of the books, those are my own copies in the picture.

Now throughout my life, I have always been a sucker for furry media. Being a furry is essentially my favorite thing and defines a lot of my identity. Most of my favourite media is furry media, be it core fandom, or wider furry adjacent media. On the surface, Moomin is obviously furry media, it deals with creatures having adventures, but I believe the furry connection goes deeper.

I found this video from youtube channel Culturally F'd, that gives a queer, poly, anti fascist reading of the moomins.

The video basically alleges that the Moomin's creator, Tove Jasson, was queer and for much of her life was in what we would now call a poly relationship with a man and a woman at the same time. It also notes how the moomins first appeared in a left wing magazine, hence the anti fascist element. If you want an example of cottagecore media without a hint of fascism, the moomins is probably a good place to look. It's not apolitical of course. There is that one post that is doing the rounds like "I only want apolitical media, like studio ghibli and the moomins" which is very funny and has never left my head.

While the text may not be explicitly queer, you could call Moomintroll textually "In love" with Snufkin, as well as his girlfriend, it's not like they openly date, but I have verified the things that video says about the author with other sources and it seems to be true. It does seem like the moomins comes from a queer, poly worldview, and now I have realised that, I think that is when I crossed the line from interest to obsession. That is how my life works, I tend to become obsessed with a specific piece of furry media for a year or so, hyperfixate on it as much as I can, then I move on but can always engage with furry fan work for it.

I think a lot of the appeal of furry stuff is explored in this awesome video from Patricia Taxxon. It argues that a lot of the appeal of being a furry lies in "The symbolic, the sensory, and the autistic" and that a lot of furries also have other intersecting identities that may have made you feel simultaneously human and inhuman. I guess what I am trying to say here is that I feel the moomins are very deeply furry media in a way that a lot of mainstream "furry" media isn't. Don't get me wrong, I still love a lot of mainstream furry stuff, but I think the true appeal for me is using symbolism effectively. Using your funny little animal creatures to explore things about the world and your life.

The moomins come from a genuinely weird, non corporate place. I would maybe even say if the author were still around today, we would probably consider her a furry. It may be a pleasant, pastoral, almost childish setting, but it deals with all aspects of childhood, from scary or dangerous events you don't understand, to interpersonal conflict, to even stuff as simple as getting sick. It's speaking to me on a level that not many things have before, with its depiction of subtextual, yet healthy and real feeling poly relationships, and real classical feeling adventures and family dynamics. This isn't a word I use much but it's wholesome, yet deep. I know I am only scratching the surface of the moomins and I can't believe it has taken me this long to get into them. I know this is probably fairly incoherent and it is mainly just my initial thoughts on what I have been getting into for the past month or so. I will probably post about it more going forward but just wanted to say something.

[snooferatu]

Do you prefer the book or tv series of the moomins? I’ve been listening to the podgoblin’s hat and it’s honestly been a hoot since I can’t take time to properly read

Ohh good question.. I prefer the original novels, personally! I always enjoy going back to the novels for character reference. From the adaptations I have knowledge on, as good as they all are in their own ways, they never fully captured the depth of every character the way Tove Jansson originally written it.

I do love the Tove comics too! I've not properly read the comics past when she handed it over to Lars, so I can't say much on his side of things.

As for TV series, I do enjoy the togetherness of the 90's series! I haven't watched much of it, though. I've only watched Moominvalley 2019 all the way through, and whilst it's put a big spin on a lot of characters and storylines, I still appreciate it and the artistry behind it. It has a familiarity to it because I recognise over half of the voice cast from various bri ish television shows haha

[erdariel]

Hi! This is a bit random, but I’m always really interested by your Finnish posts, and was wondering if you have any recommendations for learning more about your country?

Any stories/bits of art or music that are particularly special?

No need to answer this if it’s intrusive or anything, of course!

Hello! Let me see... This post gets quite long, so I'll put my recommendations under a readmore! To be honest, most of them are just random Finnish stuff, not necessarily specifically oriented to teach anything about Finland, but it's something.

Any other Finns can reblog and add stuff if you've got better recommendations than I have, btw!

Music-wise I suppose it depends on what kind of music you like - if you're into metal music, there's a lot of Finnish metal bands and I think some of them even sing in Finnish, but it's not a genre I personally listen to a lot. What I myself listen to is frankly a mess that doesn't make any sense, but here's a couple relatively well-known Finnish songs that I personally occasionally listen to (the method of choosing was random "whatever comes to mind first"):

Autiotalo by Dingo

Rakkaus on lumivalkoinen by Yö

As for stories - I have to admit I read shamefully little Finnish literature. One thing that comes to mind, however, is Maria Turtschaninoff's Red Abbey Chronicles fantasy series! I heard of them from a friend and read them some years back, and personally I really liked them. I don't know that they'll tell you particularly much about Finland as a country, but I like them as books. And Moomins, of course - I haven't read the books since I was a child, and I've never seen the entirety of the 90s anime adaptation because we didn't have a tv when I was a kid, but they're lovely stories, and if they don't tell you about Finland as a country as such, they're still a big part of Finnish culture.

I suppose I could also point you towards some classics of Finnish literature (Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi, The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, that sort of thing) but I also don't read a lot of classics, and I try to keep to a rule of never recommend books I haven't read and/or don't like personally, so I can't actually recommend them as such, all I can state is that they are classics of Finnish literature that exist and are set in Finland (of the two I mentioned, Seven Brothers is set in the 19th century in rural Finland, it's fairly comedic in tone, and generally held to be the first novel actually written in Finnish, while The Unknown Soldier follows a machine gun company throughout the Continuation War; so in terms of that, expect a number of violent deaths and all of that) and I'm relatively certain there are English translations of them (though whether those are easily available anywhere, that I cannot say)

Speaking of classics, there's Kalevala. You should be able to find one or two different English translations of it in Project Gutenberg. Now, with Kalevala there's a whole can of worms regarding cultural appropriation of Karelian culture and stories that I do not understand thoroughly enough to explain it properly, but I don't think there's any argument that it shaped the Finnish culture and national identity when that was still in the process of being created in the 19th century.

As for artwork, I don't have a lot of specific ones in mind, but you could take a look at the Finnish National Gallery's website and see what stuff there speaks to you!

You can also search for specific artist's works on the website, so here's for example pictures of the works of Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg, Albert Edelfelt, and Eero Järnefelt, to name a few of our famous painters (note: i haven't refined those searches beyond selecting for a given artist, which means the search result includes a lot of sketches and stuff, but if you like, you can further refine the search to only show you paintings, for example).

Personally, I quite like the bunch of Hugo Simberg's paintings that portray Death (as in death as a character, pretty much the black-robed skeleton type). The most famous of those, I think, is this one, the Garden of Death: