#Moomin costumes

[darkandstormydolls]

My newest costume: the Snork Maiden! I hadn’t really considered myself that big of a Moomin fan, but on my second costume of the series, I feel like maybe I should think about revising that opinion

Of course, this one is a lot less of a direct recreation than my Snufkin outfit, most notably because the Snorkmaiden looks like this (IE does not wear clothes, and sort of resembles a stuffed hippo. Side note: we know that Moomins are a type of house troll, but has the jury come to a consensus on if Snorks are also a type of troll or are they something else?)

Resultingly, a great deal of creativity was called for, and so I ended up creating what was more of “what would the Snorkmaiden wear is she were a human, or at least a little more humanoid?”

The results: mostly white (since she’s pretty much always shown as white) with pink and gold trim, an excessive of bows and ribbons, a flower crown, fluffy skirts, and all sorts of fun things. This was definitely a “more is more” costume.

There’s a lot of decoration: trim on the underskirt, trim on the overskirt, bows and beads over top of that trim, trim, bow, and beads on the sleeve… basically, if it stood still long enough, I added bows

Closer looks at the overskirt and sleeve trims:

It doesn’t come across well in the pictures, but the bodice isn’t just pink, it’s like a holographic rainbow sort of fabric (which was hell to work with, by the way. It stretched and slid and refused pins and was just miserable. I had to both interface and flatline it to make it workable). I’m also really proud of how I managed to get it to look really seamless (it took an unholy amount of handsewing, but hey it looks cool and I totally didn’t do it because my thread didn’t match perfectly)

I also made a big, dramatic flower crown and a pair of little ears on hair clips, to finish off the outfit (and you get to enjoy my amazing photo editing skills, which is a pity because my makeup looks really cute in these pictures but alas having one’s face on the internet seems more trouble than it’s worth)

There’s a ton of little details in this costume that help tie it to the original Snorkmaiden design: the rainbow fabric of the bodice to mimic how Snorks change color, the pearl beads and necklace because in Comet in Moominland, Moomintroll gives her some of the pearls he found to turn into jewelry, and a gold bangle I had in my costume jewelry stash for her anklet

I’m really happy with the costume! It’s very cute and fairly comfy, and while there are some things that technically could be improved there isn’t really anything that I want to change

[itzedju]

More pictures :]

[gum-and-doc]

Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is one of three Halloween pictures I made this year! I'll post the others as we get closer to the holiday…

[lulu-spooks]

Only one correct costume for a girl with big blue eyes and a stupid hat

[ani-is-my-username]

Being an artist can be dangerous

[soni-dragon]

never have i ever felt more like snufkin

[tooth-with-eyes]

Yesterday I went to school dressed as snufkin

The only people that approached me about it were communists

[skruttet]

yay a proper video of the chinese musical! boo they stuck a stupid-ass song over it instead of the original audio!

[safetea]

happy halloween from me aka Stinky!! 🫶

[andybrawler]

Cardy wanted to show me this. He seems to be in a happy mood! I guess Halloween is his favorite season.

[bearswithpartyhats]

I colored something 🤯🤯 absolutely unheard of

Enjoy a moomin-sona I made 🕺💕 yes she is wearing a Swedish folk costume. She wishes you a lovely summer

[itzedju]

I went to a convention last month, it was really fun. I cosplayed as joxter :D. This was my first time ever making a cosplay so I’m pretty proud of it. my family helped me out a lot with making it :]. Someone even asked if I was advertising the new moomin trolls game(I didn’t even know there was a new game lol) so that made me really happy. I also entered a cosplay contest, I didn’t place but it was an awesome experience :]. And I also got to see a live showing of the new amazing digital circus episode! And I got a autograph from Michael Kovach too <333. Next cosplay I make will be transformers >:]

[grokepilled]

hello fellow groke warriors. I'm gonna make a groke costume this halloween, except I am in fact a college student so I am really just making a cool hat and a detachable collar and spray painting a goodwill lantern black but yeah I'm sure my beloved groke will understand and visit me in my dreams.

[pickled-platypus]

She wanted to help.

[red-eyed-girl]

O estouro em forma de jato

Que leva longe o que vem de dentro

É apenas reflexo da intensidade

Que dominava corpo e mente

Ainda escorre em forma de gotas

Na mais física tradução do desejo

Que o acaso lhe fez sentir…

Uma curtida nem texto meu

E o agradecimento subsequente

Numa forma de expressar gentilmente

Pelo tempo que ela a isso dedicou

Aproveito e leio o que escreve

As coisas que posta, numa busca sútil

De tentar entender um pouco mais

Não esperava resposta, mas tive

E do que era nada se fez conversa

Descubro que o que me inspira

É a mesma vida que a inspira

Embora ela seja menos sútil nas palavras

E mostre de forma mais clara

O que são seus desejos e vontades

Bem como deixa bem claro

As cores em que são escritas…

Mas a maior surpresa, inesperada

Foi ela me mostrar um texto meu

Um de meus tantos textos antigos

Que ela disse ter predileção…

A vida tem mistérios e momentos

E nesse instante algo se criou

Faz tempo que não sentia tesão

Ao reler algo escrito por mim

Mas desta vez ocorreu e veio forte

E mesmo sem nada saber e nem saber

Em minha mente se fez palco

No qual ela se fez a atriz principal

E encenou cada cena dedicadamente

De forma tão clara e eloquente

Que eu podia lhe ver em minha frente

Revivendo cada um dos momentos

Que me fizerem escrever o que li…

Não sei o que você sentiu

Não sei dizer o que você pensou

(Descaradamente copiado do legião)

Mas o que pensei e senti

Se fez tão intenso que se tornou jato

Que ainda goteja lentamente

Gota a gota sobre sua língua

E o brilho que vejo em teus olhos

Mesmo sem jamais tê-la visto

Me faz entender que o que houve

Foi apenas um leve reflexo

De algo que a vida deveria fazer

Se tornar mais que apenas um sonho…

[stillinthatweirdfaze]

wildly switching between wanting to go back to a con more than anything and being horrified in retrospect that nothing incredibly bad happened and petrified of what could happen