#Snufkin kin

[furretsden]

Snufkin {Moomins} name suggestions for anon

Farren, which can mean "adventurous"

Finn, which means "fair"

Hugo, meaning "mind", "heart", "spirit" and so on

Olive, a shade of green similar to Snufkin's clothes

Ruth, meaning "friend", "friendship", "compassionate friend" and so on

Sage, a shade of green and the name of an aromatic plant. It can mean "wise", "healthy" and "prophet"

Vanda, a name meaning "wanderer"

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : snufkin (moomin valley - 90s anime) with survivalist stims

x | x | x x | x | x x | x | x

[evilbeing]

My main emotion is lord hater

[aariy]

really important question

[yellowocaballero]

Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

[leapdayowo]

Enjoy some characters that I love dearly :3 they have been sitting in my sketchbook for aaaaaaawwhilllleeee (for almost a year? Probably). I was attempting to do an art trend with them, but it wasn’t fun to keep painting these characters for that reason, so I stopped. But I finished snufkin today and felt like sharing the ones I’ve finished :))

[felinaunla]

[fruityfroggy]

The dichotomy of Fruiggy:

Fruiggy online:

Fruiggy irl

If you get it, you get it

[smile-files]

people keep finding the posts i'm putting on my kinlist sideblog... the tagging system i'm using involves tagging the piece of media the character came from (for personal navigation purposes), but each post is just a picture of the character, so people following the tag for that show or book or video game or whatever randomly find a post that's just an image of that character. and it's very funny because sometimes they reblog it for some reason

[flyingmishmeshincognito]

Uuhhhh here have a snufkin or something (???)

Glitter pen snufkin...

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

self care for : snufkin (moomin valley) with items to soothe POTS symptoms and decorate a cane

x | x | x x | - | x x | x | x

[mozzyspurt]

“low empathy autistic ppl are valid!” mfs after i say im not really a big fan of clingy people

[pipcoded]

i want that snufkin game it looks so cuteeee

[beadyeyes]

Moominvalley in November starts off with Fillyjonk almost dying horrifically and then realizing no one would care enough to check on her, let alone find her corpse....

[possum-tooth]

C!3

i have no words for this actually

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO also AWWW

they’re literally so stupid like