#72 moomins

[snnufkiinn]

Look how cool Snufkin is!!!

[cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea]

72's snufkin on the way to his tent with half empty barrel of wine that was left over from the midsummer party and the Moomin's insisted he keep it. He couldn't say no.

He is so going to drink it all tho.

Had a rough day so, nothing makes me feel better than drawing this handsome fella. Truly ma comfort character xdd.

Tagging @hunsa-jars until I annoy her with my 72's snuf drawings XD. (Hope you're doing fine dear <3)

Also, here's the sketch :3

[flowerbloom-arts]

It was midnight. Then one o'clock struck. A little after two the Muskrat woke up and wanted to get out of bed. He staggered sleepily downstairs and stopped in amazement in front of the sofa which stood across the door. 'What an idea!' he muttered, trying to drag it away, and then of course the alarm clock that Moominpappa had put there started ringing.

(...)

'Oh, it was only me,' said the Muskrat peevishly. 'I just wanted to look at the stars. I forgot all about your stupid Groke.'

- Finn Family Moomintroll

Also inspired by the Shin Moomin episode Useless Scandals Are Useless

[cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea]

This scene from the '72 series lives rent-free in my heart

[stupiderat]

So I heard Season 4 is finally out 🍁 🌳

Here is my Joxter for the 72 version of moomins! He's called Shadow Joxter

The concept is someone who instead of becoming invisible by their own choice, becomes a shadow by being forgotten by the world 🫶

[writers-in-moominvalley]

The Length Of Almost Every Episode In The Moomin Comic Strip

The Moomin comic strip written and drawn by Tove Jansson, then written by Lars and drawn by Tove Jansson, then written and drawn by Lars Jansson, had a total of 73 distinct stories under its banner after a lifetime of 21 years, but how long are those individual stories, by strip number? If you want to find out, this post is for you!

Unfortunately unlike some Moomin fans I don't have every single story (especially the later ones) in my grubby little paws so I can't tell you the length of those, but if you happen to be one of those fans who do have those comics in their grubby little paws, please be a dear and tell me for how many strips those stories took to tell their truly wonderful stories of borderline illegal shenaniganary committed by the main characters, underbaked political commentary and benevolent racism (uhm. Just talking about Lars' writing choices there).

TOVE JANSSON/JANSSON COMICS

1. Moomin and the Brigands: 91

2. Moomin and Family Life: 68

3. Moomins on the Riviera: 85

4. Moomin's Desert Island: 74

5. Moomin Winter Follies: 82

6. Moominmamma's Maid: 82

7. Moomin Builds a House: 60

8. Moomin Begins a New Life: 62

9. Moomin Falls in Love: 51

10. Moomin Valley Turns Jungle: 65

11. Moomin and the Martians: 68

12. Moomin and the Sea: 101

13. Club Life in Moomin Valley: 61

14. Moomin Goes Wild West: 63

15. Snorkmaiden Goes Rococo: 52

16. The Conscientious Moomins: 81

17. Moomin and the Comet: 81

18. Moomin and the Golden Tail: 109

19. Moomin Winter: 97

20. Moomin Under Sail: 102

21. Fuddler's Courtship: 102

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Longest comic: Moomin and the Golden Tail (109 strips)

Shortest comic: Moomin Falls in Love (51 strips)

Total strip number: 1556 strips

Average length: ≈72 strips

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LARS JANSSON COMICS (published by Drawn & Quarterly)

1. Moomin's Lamp: 76

2. Moomin and the Railway: 79

3. Moominpappa and the Spies: 79

4. Moomin and the Circus: 80

5. Moomin the Colonist: 81

6. Moomin and the Scouts: 82

7. Moomin and the Farm: 80

8. Moomin and the Goldfields: 76

9. Moomin Family Robinson: 82

10. Artists in Moominvalley: 93

11. Sniff's Holiday Camp: 75

12. The Inspector's Nephew: 77

13. Damsel in Distress: 75

14. Fuddler and Married Life: 94

15. Sniff's Sports Shop: 75

16. Mymble's Diamond: 64

17. Moomin and the Vampire: 71

18. Moomin and the TV: 67

19. The Underdeveloped Moomins:95

20. Moomin and Aunt Jane: 96

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Longest comic: Moomin and Aunt Jane (96 strips)

Shortest comic: Mymble's Diamond (64 strips)

Total strip number: 1597 strips

Average length: ≈79 strips

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LARS JANSSON COMICS (NOT published by Drawn & Quarterly)

1. Moomin and the National Park: 76

2. Moomin and the Good Old Days: 80

3. Moomin's Pet: 94

4. Moomin the Private Eye: 89

5. Spring in Moomin Valley: 84

6. Moomin Rescues a Princess: 77

7. Moomin and Agent 008 ½: 95

8. Moomin Lives Dangerously: 89

9. Moomins in Torrellorca: 92

10. Snorkmaiden Crashes Society: 95

11. Moomins in Ancient Greece: 81

12. Sniff Goes Good: 84

13. Moomin the Journalist: 83

14. Moomin and the Orphans: 111

15. Sir Moomin: (Not Available Yet/NAY)

16. Horsey Moomin: (NAY)

17. Moomin and the Mermaid: (NAY)

18. Emancipated Moomins: 88

19. Moomin and the Radicals: (NAY)

20. Moomin Christmas: 85

21. Moomin in Ancient Egypt: (NAY)

22. Sniff Falls in Love: (NAY)

23. Moomin Engagement: 80

24. Moomin and the Flying Dutchman: (NAY)

25. Snorkmaiden the Seer: 94

26. Moomin and the Beach: (NAY)

27. Moomin Gets Rich: (NAY)

28. Moomin and the Guru: (NAY)

29. Moominpappa and Old Age: (NAY)

30. Moomins in Battle: 91

31. Moomin in Neander Valley: (NAY)

32. Moomin and the Ten Piggy Banks: (NAY)

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Longest comic: Moomin and the Orphans (111 strips)

Shortest comic: Moomin and the National Park (76 strips)

Total strip number: 1668 strips (excluding missing comics)

Average length: ≈88 strips

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TOTAL total strip number: 4821 strips (excluding missing strips)

Overall average length: ≈80 strips

[mushroom-madness]

🍄 Round 1: Match 11 🍄

🍄 Vote for your Favorite Fungi! 🍄

Descriptions Below ⬇️

Ragel

“Mushroom dance Mushroom dance Whatever could it mean” - Submission 30

“i don't know if this guy has a name but it's the mushroom dance guy. from undertale

mushroom dance

mushroom dance

whatever could it mean” - Submission 72

“Mushroom dance

Mushroom dance

Whatever could it mean” - Submission 101

“When spoken to, Ragel does what the game calls a mysterious mushroom dance (complete with its own music). Its moves are swaying side to side with arms bent in a right angle position that which change from up and down, always the opposite of the other. They keep their head down, so the two dots of their nostrils look more like eyes, before lifting their head to reveal their real eyes. They then say something to the protagonist, which differs depending on the protagonist's actions during the game.” - Temmie Wikia

Hattifatteners

“this is maybe too mush of a stretch but [they] are basically sentient bioluminescent fungi creatures

pretty sure the fungal nature of the hattifatteners is established in moomin summer madness specifically” - Askbox Submission

“Hattifatteners are mysterious creatures whose only motivation in life is to keep moving towards the horizon. They are pale grey-white in colour and look something like mushroom stalks with paws that extend directly from their trunks. They grow from little white seeds – but only if the seeds are sown on Midsummer’s Eve – and can become charged up with electricity in lightning storms.” - Moomin.Com

Moomin Wiki

[cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea]

Thank you rye for feeding my 72's snufkin obsession jsjsjsjs <3

Hope you're doing well:3

i wish i could find a decent picture of him on google to draw over so i could show you his little cowboy boots but oh well. he got his hat and head wrap from joxter btw 🤭 that’s why it’s so old and worn.

[official-moomin]

What will be Moominvalley snufkin reaction to the 1972 version of himself.

Let's bring 72's snufkin back for a snufkin verse episode 👀👏

Hello,

The different versions of Snufkin are imperceptible to one another. They cannot communicate nor comprehend one another's existences.

Have a Moominous day!

[alwaysmanages]

Your western Moomin au reminds me of the Moomin/Lucky Luke-crossover/au/whatever my mind keeps making up without my permission. I love your work!❤️

Btw. Have you watched or read Moomins in Cowboyland yet?

Oh gosh thank you so much anon!! Don't you just love when the imagination just refuses to ask before taking the reigns? I have a special love for southern goth and western influence, and I know very well that I'm not the first to come up with a western Moomin au (ex. @sunburnedsnufkin's Pistolero au is chef's kiss!), but it's such a fun concept and now that I've taken a dive into '72 moomins I have a better understanding where the cowboy Snufkin comes from and it rules!

I haven't seen the 1990s cowboy episode with Billy the Kid yet, but I have read the comic Moomin Goes Wild West! I own Tove's complete comic collection, so I'll have to go back and look at it as it's been a minute.

[cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea]

"Nowhere man please listen

You don't know what you're missing

Nowhere man, The world is at your command"

(update under the cut)

Hey!! Sorry for being so inactive lately.

A lot has happened, but the most important thing is that I finally graduate college! I've got a job as a part time teacher and I also enrolled in a master program. I will receive the results this Friday, fingers crossed and I hope I get in🤞.

So, while I get used to all these new changes, I will slowly start posting again, this time more than just Moomin stuff so I hope y'all get to stick around to see it. In the meantime, I'll post stuff that I already have ready

Thanks for reading this and to all my muts, I hope y'all doing well, and feel free to pop an ask to say hi, I really missed you guys.

-Jazz <3

Different versions here :3

And tagging @hunsa-jars as always :3

[flowerbloom-arts]

It makes me sad that in general Moomin adaptations some characters just, disappear, I mean, I understand, there's not that much history for characters like ninny, primadonna and others, but idk, I kinda miss them and I kinda want them to take some creative liberty and add them more¿ idk

(her NAME is LA GOONA-)

You see, the thing is that both the books and comics tend to be episodic in nature. Characters come and go as the Janssons pleased, characters like Snork, Muskrat and Mr. Hemulen were only in Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll then disappeared without an explanation and their roles were greatly inflated in almost all the animated adaptations in one way or another, Little My became a main-stay since day one of every adaptation even though she became a main character in the latter half of the books and a mere handful of comics, the Postman is a reoccurring side character in the 90s even though he only appeared in one Tove comic and atleast one Lars comic, I think? So on and so forth.

The reason why is so many characters show up and disappear is due to plot utility and Tove/Lars not bothering with explanations or epilogues for these characters, the franchise is essentially episodic from story to story despite the obvious time progression, even the comics have a stated time progression - Moomin Winter references Winter Follies as having happened a whole year ago, meaning the comics between those 2 stories happened within a year, and that's alongside the self-referential humor that became a thing when Lars was brought on to assist Tove with writing.

Many of the side character introduced in individual stories tend to be one-and-done, and so the stories move forward onto other things. Ninny got her visibility fixed and doesn't need the Moomins anymore, La Goona realized that her self-interest was harmful to the one person she mildly cared about and went off to become an entertainer for Emeraldo as he was for her, etc etc.

Characters like them don't need to come back, because what other stories are you going to tell with them within their simplicity? Although, Lars did enjoy bringing a few one-off Tove characters back into his own comics, like how Mabel became a reoccurring character whenever Mrs. Fillyjonk is involved even though she only existed for Moominmamma's Maid, or how he brought mr. Brisk, Fuddler, Jumble and Misabel in their own individual comic stories, or when he gave cameos to Ms. Fluffins for a plot point. But ultimately, most characters fall to the wayside because that's just how episodic series work, they come in, do what they need to do for a story, and then leave/disappear when the next story begins.

Now, if it were up to me on what to do on an adaptation, I would definitely bring a few of them back for another story or two, like checking on the cast of Moominsummer Madness for an episode or have a cast of Moominvalley in November cameo in earlier stories so their characters in MVinN feel more naturally tied to the rest of the show, or even have a few one-off characters cameo in the background/crowd shots before and after their stories are told.

But the staff for adaptations aren't me, Moomin 1969/72 did its own thing and their one-off characters always had a reason to leave, 90s Moomin was overly concerned with not doing what the previous adaptation did and stuck to the source material all the while pleasing the general media sensibilities of the time, and Moominvalley 2019 is so strained in its budget for character models that they have no choice but to limit its cast and even still they decided to keep season 1 characters like Emma and Ninny as one-offs. Alot of them are riddled with strange creative decisions for its characters, like the 90s series bringing back the Skier Hemulen and somehow making him the most out of character he can be, or MV19 creating ridiculous intrigue about Brisk possibly being Little My's dad because they couldn't think up another character to create daddy issues for her, but it is what it is.

I think it all comes down to the show's story structure and the utility of the characters, the source material was very utilitarian with its characters, and the adaptations tried very hard to reconcile with that while also adding more to its designated main cast. Neither are overly concerned with adding epilogues for everyone, once their character arc and purpose is over then so too is their presence.

Fandom is a great tool to fix this issue but guess what-

[sator-the-wanderer]

Hullo there sator 👋👋👋.

First of all, how have you been?

Second, I just saw your 72's Moomin drawing. Looks beautiful and flawless as always. I absolutely adore that scene too <333.

And finally

Please, for my sanity, can we please get a close up on that panel of 72's snufkin looking down 🥺🥺🥺🥺???? Xdddd

That's it, I hope you have a lovely day 💕

Awww thank you! 🥺♥

Here's the boi:

[stupiderat]

I absolutely adore the 72 version of moomin, so here are some doodles of snufkin becoming like his dad!

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[cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea]

Jsjsjsjs thanks for the tag Rye, ya just made my day <3

1972 snufkin my beloved <333333

(ps. im sorry if i fucked up the Japanese writing, im still learning)

[mangifera]

72 moomins would’ve peaked if the writers weren’t insane.