#Moominvalley 1990 Cartoon Series

[amethyst-marie368]

I love a small Snufkin who does ✨ crime 🔪 ✨

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Hey, psst. Want to hear about one of my more meaningless pet peeves?

You know the Moomins, right? A few years ago the answer might've been no, but after the popularity of Moominvalley (2019) the Moomin franchise seems to have gained popularity outside of Europe and Japan. In any case, Moomins follows the adventures of hippo-like "trolls" in book, comic, TV show and movie form, animated, stop motion and live action alike. One of my very favourite characters from the Moomins is Edward the Booble.

(First image from here, the rest pulled from the episode Adventures of Moominpappa: Part 1)

My first introduction to him was in the animated Moomin (1990) series, and wow!!! What a creature, I'm sure you can assume why I immediately took a liking! A gigantic, reptilian beast, magnificently suited for aquatic living with his long body and finned tail! In this series it's even implied that he might be a dragon or related to dragons (this is not a feature of other Moomin series or books though) which made him infinitely cooler to me. Despite being the second largest creature on Earth he's always described to be a very friendly guy, if he ever steps on a person by accident he always pays for the funeral costs, they say.

Edward has other interpretations of himself, naturally, given the long lifespan of the Moomins as a franchise and the fact that he made his actual debut in the book Moominpappa's Memoirs. This is him as illustrated in the book:

(Image from here)

In the stop motion show The Moomins (1977) he looks like this:

(Image from The Moomins episode Edward the Booble)

The comics take perhaps the greatest divergence, as in those he looks like this:

(Image taken from here)

...Still pretty similar, usually.

Fortunately for me, despite his rather few appearances in any Moomin property, he gets his own spotlight in the Moomin World park! ...There's a theme park, by the way. Two parks, one in Naantali, Finland, one in Hanno, Japan. I'm talking about the Naantali park in this case, a place I've gone to significantly more than the average person. ^^' As you saw, certain characters (and places) look extremely different interpretation to interpretation, so Moomin World most closely sticks to the 90's animated show if there's any conflicting designs. This is Edward at the park, he floats near the Moomins' "bathing hut":

(Image from here)

Now look at that! Naturally they couldn't have made him a gigantic looming beast, but this is really darn close to how he is in the 90's series. He looks a lot like a long-necked dinosaur, I really enjoy his individually molded scales and hair strands, and his sort of claylike texture. It makes him look like he was brought into the real world straight from a cartoon: a look that's just right for the Moomin World! Just look at his face!!!

(Image from here)

A real big sweetie!!!! He's obviously fake, yet he feels real anyway. It's the way that he's shaped so naturally, how his raised neck and tail and arched back create a shape that flows from body part to part. It’s the way each part of him is textured, even in the parts of him where he lacks scales there’s a subtle unevenness to his surface, and certain features are raised. Despite being a purple yellow-haired reptilian creature he's very much like a real animal! All in all an excellent adaptation.

“Wait,” you might be thinking. “This is all good things. You like the Edward at the park. Where’s the pet peeve?”

You’d be quite right! All of this is indeed well and good, but that’s because I’ve withheld one crucial detail.

That is not Edward the Booble at the Moomin Park.

Not anymore. He was replaced some time ago, with an all new design.

Currently, Edward looks like this:

(Top image from here, bottom image from here)

......

What in the world. Do you see that??? Edward looks like his spine was mangled. I presented you with several different versions of Edward before so you could compare: does he look like any of his adaptations? Certainly not. He has never been a sea serpent!! Nevermind this ridiculously long snake torso, he's always depicted as having a long neck and tail but a normal, plump body. See those things shittily painted on his side? Those are fins! When did he ever have fins!!!?????

All of those wonderful sculpted scales have been replaced with an all smooth surface. His body's surface texture is instead communicated through paint. I do think the paint job is quite pretty as his colouration gets some variation (reminds me of a story book illustration, likely they were going for that look), but see how much the light reflects off of his plastic surface? When his scales were actually there, you'd see their shadows, but now that they went for an all smooth design he looks cheap, like any other theme park plastic statue out there. He looks factory-made. It makes his newly added fins appear like an afterthought, nevermind his hair that shifts from three-dimensional to painted on halfway down his neck. I suppose they just didn't feel like painting his hair all the way down his back like it is in Moomin...

I suppose his quizzical look is pretty cute, but yeeeouch that neck!!!! It has that weird bend right in the middle, and it's so skinny and short compared to his body. It widens so much at the bottom, he's like a watering can, man! His head is far too small and a real weird shape, though I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps his weird bulging teeth? They're awfully big in his mouth when previously they were more in proportion.

They insisted on this weird long noodle body and yet he doesn't even flow nicely anymore. There's an awkward hump between the neck and the body, and at the end of his body where logically his form would rise up, it instead straightens out for a bit, then his tail raises.

Now, obviously this is extremely minor in the grand scheme of things. I seldom bother myself with thoughts of the new Edward the Booble — only now did I get the idea of making a Tumblr post about this, lmao. This is just another case of “man, now why would they do that >:(“ rather than anything big. Because, really… man, now why would they do that!! Had a perfectly good Booble before. Perfect down to every last detail. Now he’s been replaced by some imposter! >:(

[janetkwallace]

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Filifjonkan | Fillyjonk, Muminmamman | Moominmamma, Mrs. Fillyjonk, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Snorken | The Snork, Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, Lilla My | Little My, Sniff (Mumintroll) Additional Tags: Family, Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Angst, Stream of Consciousness, Childhood, Adulthood, Art, POV First Person, POV Third Person, Soliloquy, Moominvalley (Mumintroll | Moomins), Emotional, Memories, Fluff and Angst, Motherhood, Existentialism, Some Humor, Mumintroll | Moomins References, Anxiety, Absurd, Betaed because I refuse to die, Headcanon Accepted Summary:

Mrs. Fillyjonk prioritizes tidiness and organization over everything. When she loses control of it, however... a tale about disasters arises.

[magnonette]

(And these ones too: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1849654 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1948144)

If you know me and have read my MANY moomins fics, then you KNOW how bad I am with them XD  Well, you haven't seen anything yet lmao

I’m currently working on two fics at the same time, one of them is one I’m gonna stream myself writing (if you want to pop in when i go live :3c) and OH MY FUCKING GOD I’m so bad! XD I’ve never not considered myself sadistic lol but now, I’m seeing how fucking crazy sadistic I really am LMAO I’M THE WORST I’M MAKING THEM SUFFER SO MUCH AND MY ONLY REACTION IS TO LAUGH AT IT TGIEZHFJKSLKM (ok I know that it’s a defense mechanism from when I’m actually crying inside but like lmao i’m fucking LAUGHING at something horrible happening to my FAVORITE characters erihjdskl) I can’t get over it lmaooooooo I need to know lol am I the only one that hurts them like that and actually laughs at it because of how messed up this is??? am i the only one with the defense mechanism???

Btw they OBVIOUSLY have a happy ending!

I’ll

ALWAYS

  give them a happy ending!!! never doubt that even though it might seem so when you read what i’m writing for the livestreams lmaooooTHEY NEED TO BE HAPPY AFTER EVERYTHING I PUT THEM THROUGH.Anyway thank you for reading my rambling lmao I just needed to talk about it somewhere X)Have a good day/night <3

[bunni-art]

“After a long and sleepless night, Moomin confides in Moominmamma who tells him about an old wives tale: “If you can’t sleep, there’s somebody out there thinking about you.” But who could have been the one thinking about Moomin so much? Perhaps there’s someone else in Moominvalley who couldn’t find sleep last night either.”




It’s finally done! Go have you some fluffy Snufmin for the soul 💖

[sharada-n]

Fandom: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019), 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Joxaren | The Joxter & Snusmumriken | Snufkin Characters: Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Joxaren | The Joxter Additional Tags: Whumptober 2020, Near Death Experiences, Family Fluff, Light Angst, Good Parent Joxaren | The Joxter, Joxter has forebodings Summary: Snufkin had been alone his entire life, and so far it hadn't kept him from getting out of any trouble he happened to stumbled into. At least, that was what he thought.

(For @whumptober2020 day 3 - Falling)

Based on a post made by @furornocturna

[ohshc-trash-14]

My Writing

I just finished my Snufmin story Your Love Astounds Me on Ao3. Please go check it out if you like Moomin stuff!  The story info will also be below the cut.

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

M/M

Fandoms:

Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson

楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990)

Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019)

Relationship:

Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin

Characters:

Snusmumriken | Snufkin

Mumintrollet | Moomintroll

Too-ticki | Too-Ticky

Muminmamman | Moominmamma

Lilla My | Little My

Additional Tags:

Snufkin is bad at feelings

Moomin has so many feelings and Snufkin is trying his best

it's the last day of fall by the way

y'all know what that means

specifically the fall after they start dating

so things are even more Complicated

Chapter 3: Snufkin talks to a fish

Also Too-ticky

But the fish first

Sorry that it just hops around between first and third person

narrating is my strongsuit

I started writing this story in first person and it went surprisingly well

I hope this chapter doesn't feel too disjointed cause of the different perspectives

because this story is going to keep doing that

sometimes it will be in third person and sometimes it will be Snufkin's POV

Language: English Series: Part 1 of the Knowing You series Words: 2476 Chapters: 5/5

Again here’s the link to the story 

[stingerpicnic]

just a little bit off (help me hit the mark)

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandoms: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019), 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990)

Relationship: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin

Characters: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Snusmumriken | Snufkin

Additional Tags: Snusmumriken | Snufkin Has Paws and a Tail, Pining, Love Confessions, Requited Love, First Kiss, Snufkin has freckles because I Said So, Moomin loves them, Idiots in Love, does this fic deserve that tag?, i think so, Humor

Words: 3969

Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

It's not that Moomin has been missing signals, really. It's more that he's been... misinterpreting them. But only barely so.

Or: Moomin has a very interesting morning.

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Read on AO3

[on-our-own-together]

Summary:

Playing Princess and faithful jest—erhm, Knight, with Moomin has left some long-lasting impressions on Snorkmaiden’s mind; especially regarding the courteous and clever Sir Galahad, or rather, Snufkin.

What will the glorious Prince of the Lonely Mountains make out of the new situation that has arised on his domains?

Chapters: 1/3

Fandom: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, Snorkfröken | The Snorkmaiden/Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Lilla My | Little My/Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, Muminmamman | Moominmamma/Muminpappan | Moominpappa Characters: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Lilla My | Little My, Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, Sniff (Mumintroll), Snorken | The Snork, Muminmamman | Moominmamma, Muminpappan | Moominpappa, Stinky (Mumintroll), Too-ticki | Too-Ticky

Additional Tags: Gossip, cause i love gossip, Alternate Universe - Medieval, haha not really, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Unrequited Love, Love Confessions, I Love Love, A Pinch of Salt, Angst, Light Angst, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, First Dance, First Kiss, Stinky is not that stinky, Snusmumriken | Snufkin Has a Tail, because he must, Flustered Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Canon Compliant, In a way

[ao3feed-goodomens]

Writing Commissions! (Open)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38IEszd

by Starry_Eyed_Writer

Want me to write something very specific for you? Your favorite ship? Your OC's? Yourself in a story? You've come to the right place! Come on in!

Words: 349, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019), 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson, Hamilton - Miranda, Undertale (Video Game)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi, Other

Characters: Sans (Undertale), Reader, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, OCs, Lilla My | Little My, Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Connor Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen), Evan Hansen

Relationships: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snorkfröken | The Snork Maiden, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), OC/OC, Canon/Reader, Evan Hansen/Connor Murphy, Evan Hansen/Jared Kleinman, Sans (Undertale)/Reader, Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton/Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler

Additional Tags: and so much more! - Freeform, whatever characters you like, Ill write em doing what you want, OCxOC - Freeform, Choose Your Own Adventure, Imagine your OTP, Choose Your Own Character, canon x reader, Self-Insert, commissions, commission, commission writing

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38IEszd

[joxterloft-blog]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Joxter/Reader, Joxaren | The Joxter/Original Character(s) Characters: Joxaren | The Joxter Summary:

Written thanks to a prompt I found on a moomin prompt blog, wish there were more. You take a nap with that one cat dad.

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Send me prompts and requests so I can write more stuff.

[amethyst-marie368]

Drew Moominhouse ✨

(~8.5mm height x ~5mm width)

[whenthedeeppurplefalls]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin Characters: Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Muminmamman | Moominmamma, Muminpappan | Moominpappa, Lilla My | Little My Additional Tags: First Meetings, Hadestown Influenced, borders into AU territory, Moomintroll falls in love at first sight Series: Part 1 of Snufmin Hadestown AU Summary:

Snufkin finds a strange, new, beautiful valley he's never been before. Moomintroll falls in love at first sight.

Based on the Hadestown songs of the same names. You don't need to listen to them to understand this, but I would highly recommend it.

Sort of an AU, but not entirely.

[punk-aziraphale]

hey what is moomin? i keep seeing it on my dash. it seems like it’s mostly queer people who are into it??? wh

Oh geeze oh man oh boy!!!!!

It’s kind of complicated but I’ll do my best to make it less complicated.

It’s a series of books, tv shows, a movie, comics etc.

It started with the books written by Finnish artist/author Tove Jansson starting in the 1940s. The first comics were also written and drawn by her. Over the years there’s been quite a lot of tv shows, the most popular ones, though, are the anime from the 1990s and the most recent Finnish cartoon Moominvalley (muumilaakso in Finnish)

Part of the reason it’s so popular with us queer folks is because Tove, herself, was one of us and spent much of her life in relationships with other women, and even based a beloved character in Moomin on her life partner.

The other reason is because the main focus of most of the media is Moomintroll’s relationship with his best friend Snufkin, which is STRONGLY queer coded (on purpose) and there’s a lot of yearning and pining involved, which, as we all know, we cant resist.

Basically it’s really soft and sweet and cute and is also the ultimate wlw/mlm solidarity imo so that’s why so many of us in the community love it :)

(I can give u a link to where u can watch them and also read a lot of the comics and books if you want, but the people who created the archive asked for it to be kept off public places, so I’ll have to PM it if you want it)

[magnonette]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, 楽しいムーミン一家 | Moomin (Anime 1990), Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin Characters: Snusmumriken | Snufkin, Mumintrollet | Moomintroll, Muminmamman | Moominmamma, Muminpappan | Moominpappa, Lilla My | Little My Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Injury Recovery, Amnesia Summary:

It's a beautiful day in MoominValley, a perfect one for a hike in the mountains. Snufkin and Moomin decide to go explore but something happens, leaving Moomin feeling guilty and worried for his dear friend.

Moomin will have to help Snufkin through some really hard times.

I made another one :)

[tchaikovbee]

what is moomin and how do i start

Hello! you’re probably Sick of seeing all the Moomin everywhere because that’s all I am now.

But to answer your question, Moomin is a Finnish-Swedish franchise made by bisexual (which is important to note due to the queer subtexts) Tove Jansson back in the 40s, originally comic strips in the newspaper and then whole books and children’s picture books. There have been numerous reboots of the series over the years as shows, movies, and shorts through tons of different animation forms, probably one of most popular being the 1990 Japanese collaboration anime “The Moomins” 

and the current “Moominvalley” that’s airing right now in numerous languages (I think the eps come out in Finland on Mondays?)

So far I’ve only seen the Moomins and Moominvalley, so I can’t say much for the rest of the series.

ANYWAY it’s just. a bunch of little creatures going on adventures and it has. So many profound tidbits of philosophy and important themes. Like there’s a whole arc on child abuse. The show radiates positivity and wholesomeness it’s a good dose of serotonin

Sorry if I got. aH TOO much but! To watch, the 1990 Moomin is found on essentially any cartoon website, and Youtube even has a bunch of episodes uploaded in English dub. To watch anything else, @happymoomin compiled a whole google drive file for anyone to watch essentially every movie and show (including the new Moominvalley) plus extra soundtracks, PDFs of the comics and books, and extras. But as of now, everyone is swarming into the drive to watch the 13 episodes of Moominvalley was just uploaded in English so. Good luck trying to watch I still haven’t been able to get my hands on them.

I hope that answers your questions I ! Get Excited Talking About Moomin ‘Cause It’s A Hyperfixation.

ALSO: there’s this post that goes over it a little more cleanly then I just did