#because of the mixture of ways they handle snorkmaiden

[intrepidtrickster]

Just thinking about Moominvalley and everything with Snufkin and Moomin. The team knows what they’re doing. The stuff they say in QnAs. And the music choices from the earlier seasons! I’m still not over the Love me with all of your heart scene. And the looks and sass Little My gives them. She knows what’s up. A lot of Moomin’s episodes with Snorkmaiden focus on this conflict between them and they don’t seem as happy usually. Meanwhile, he and Snufkin usually have episodes with problems that they navigate together, even if there’s some push and pull due to their differences regarding freedom and closeness. And the fact that the team describes Snorkmaiden and Moomin’s interactions as something akin to playing pretend and taking roles. Don’t even get me started on The Lonely Mountain. There’s so much I can say about their conversation on the ledge, but it’s not even just that. It’s the way Moominmama and Little My act in a knowing way about him and Snufkin. And when Moominpapa wonders if Moomin really did go all that way for ‘his friend’ Moominmama says that friendship does wonderful and strange things. And right after when she asks if he wishes he could be on adventures with his friends, he says no need and that his best friend is right there with him. And just! The parallel! Calling them both best friends when one of the couples is literally married. There’s no way that wasn’t deliberate. There’s just so much about Snufkin and Moomin that feels so carefully and meaningfully placed. And it feels like, logically, it would lead to something. That there’s more we have to see from them.

But at the same time, I don’t know if they’ll go through with it. Snorkmaiden and Moomin had their break up, but it felt somewhat undone. They don’t seem to be together in the same way they used to be in most of Season 3, but she still calls him her soulmate in the final episode. But then that same episode ends with him and Snufkin in such a beautiful and soft queer way. I hope they commit to Snufmin because the narrative for that has been so genuine and beautiful. It goes deeper than many of the previous adaptations. I really hope that they end in a more romantic way this time. I’m really looking forward to Season 4