#camilla mickwitz

[anirobot]

Nyt on taas se aika vuodesta, jolloin ihmiset horrivat heikoille jäille!

Vasta viisi senttimetriä paksu teräsjää kantaa ihmisen!

VAROKAA HEIKKOA JÄÄTÄ! - BEWARE OF WEAK ICE!

Jäävaroituksen ohje pelasti pikkusiskon

[inhalingmagic]

By Camilla Mickwitz ✨

[etuusdominaattori]

[kaamosnoita]

“It is the most exciting moment of the year: The Easter Night and little Mimosa’s birthday party. Muskotti Mother has such a bad memory that she doesn't remember how old Mimosa is. Mimosa's Birthnight is a warm and magical film, yet also a subtle story about the girl's growth into adulthood. The story takes place entirely in the world of witches, which is flooded with the blue glow of the night.“

Mimosan Syntymäyö ( Mimosa's Birthnight ) 1987, Finland by Camilla Mickwitz

[sisullasuohon]

Alkuperäinen

Master post

Under the cut is a short translation note, and some talk about a Finnish animation that’s traumatised many children for over 30 years now, and stuff related to it.

big dark monster (iso paha hirviö) The most common translations for ’dark’ in Finnish are: -’pimeä’ which is describing a place without light, like a dark room. In everyday speak it also means tax avoidance or illegal money making, f.ex ’pimeä taksi’ is a taxi that doesn’t have a permission to operate in taxi business and they keep all of the money they collect, some of them even take advantage of their clients. In spoken Finnish (pimee) it means ’crazy’ or ’stupid’. -’tumma’ means dark hue, but it can in certain situations mean a Romani person, any person with brown hair(’pitkä, tumma ja komea’ is literally tall, dark, and handsome), or a person of colour too. -’synkkä’ means gloomy. All of these sounded weird to me in this Finnish context, so I changed it to ’paha’(bad). The brothers learn that word pretty young in the lab, maybe that could happen in this AU too.

Pikku Kakkonen (Little Two, because it airs on Finland’s TV channel two and is aimed at children) This is a TV-show from YLE(non-commercial public media) that’s been running since 1977. It has a wide range of different hosts that can be of any age or sometimes sock puppets, they show children’s drawings sent to them, send Name Day well wishes, do crafts and other activities kids can do at home too, and show short animations for children that are mostly bought from abroad and always dubbed. In 1986 they started showing a cautionary animation for children at the end of the show, warning them of thin ice. The animator was the same person who designed their logo(in the link above, see the number 2 that’s made of people and things) that’s still in use, Camilla Mickwitz.

Varokaa heikkoa jäätä (Original with English subs, from 1986) Varokaa heikkoa jäätä (Shortened with re-done sounds and music, no English subs, from 1996) I don’t know how I could check if these work abroad, I really hope they do.

The animation actually shows kids the correct way to handle a situation like this, it’s been even awarded for it; Stay calm, move on the ice as flat as possible, by crawling or rolling to distribute your weight. Don’t go all the way to the one being rescued (the ice is weaker around where it broke), instead throw them something they can get out with, a long object like a ski or a scarf. Once out of the situation, the person who fell needs to be warmed up asap. The sign on the house mentions Tohlopinranta, it’s a real place in Tampere, close to a studio where YLE shoots some of their programs and do their editing for TV and radio stuff. I’ve visited it once, it did not look like the studio in the animation, thankfully. The animation is only aired when it’s seasonally topical (autumn and spring, when the ice on lakes is not strong enough to walk on). For years they would show it only after the ending animation of Pikku Kakkonen, then they started switching it up, sometimes showing it before the show starts or anywhere in the evening slot that had children’s shows in it. If you get an immediate spike of fear in you when seeing or hearing even the first seconds of the animation, randomising when it airs is kind of a mean move. Thanks, YLE.

I’m one of those who got spooked badly by this animation when I was a small kid. After seeing it, every time I had a nightmare, the bear or the bird, or sometimes both, would show up in it. This lasted several years, until I went through an unrelated scary situation at 11 years old, replacing the old nightmares with new, differently scary stuff. I had to watch the animation in order to share the correct youtube links here, it still makes me uneasy. :,) This is not just me, though. In the comments on those YT videos, and everywhere else where Finnish people list or talk about stuff that scared them when they were little, this animation always gets a mention. I think it’s the soulless eyes that stare right at you several times during the animation that does it, some people mention the music too, idk.

Even though it’s given me a fair share of discomfort in the past, I feel a bit bad talking about it like this. It’s a solid animation considering how old it is and what they had to work with back then, it’s memorable, the makers had good intentions and an important message to tell, and it tells it in a way that’s easy for even small children to understand. It’s had and will have an impact on many Finnish generations past and present. Godspeed you little nightmare, may our paths never cross again.

[noitarumpusymposium]

You are challenged by a trainer Mimosa! I wonder if anyone of you is familiar with Mimosa by Camilla Mickwitz. I was having some nostalgia bursts and wanted to draw the little witch child Mimosa as a pokemon trainer.

[kissingpillows]

[inhalingmagic]

By Camilla Mickwitz

[inhalingmagic]

[inhalingmagic]

[inhalingmagic]

[inhalingmagic]

Another witch obsession as a kid to me was MIMOSA💗✨

[inhalingmagic]

[kissingpillows]