#ninny the invisible girl

[sundownvalentine]

Some moomin doodles from school this past week

[fabledflowerss]

Quick Ninny doodle as I love and adore her and she deserves so much <33 !!!

[ifwebefriends]

I’m in my ex-people-pleasing era and Ninny is getting a bit too relatable

[gareteddybear]

Hello, citizens of Moominvalley!

[trees-to-meet-you]

I forgot that the first episode Stinky appeared in was the one introducing the invisible girl. I’m going to skewer him.

[brinkle-brackle]

@synthsays !!!

Stuff I never rlly posted only on discord !!

[ardenti-corde]

If I didn’t include your fave please include them in the tags:)

[roman-cup]

Just rewatched epsiodes 9 and 10 of the 90s moomins show ans gosh Ninny's story always makes me emotional

Its...it's a sad abused girl who feels so frightened and unloved that she literally turns invisible until she is shown actual care and friendship and she is able to regain her appearance and even gain enough confidence to want to protect the person who cared for her....

[rosebloodcat]

Invisible Wally AU

Quick Explanation of the Invisibility before I get into the AU: In Moomins, they say that Invisibility is caused by being scared. The character who was invisible, a little girl named Ninny, had been in the care of her very mean/verbally cruel Aunt and turned invisible because of how awfully her aunt treated her. And it took the care/kindness of the Moomin family who wanted to both see and know her that got her to become visible again.

It's very much an abuse victim reaction/mindset, but I don't think it's the only kind of "fear" that could cause invisibility.

As someone who went through a bout of depression in middle/high school and decided that I didn't want to have people notice me, I tend to liken that "Fear" to it too.

Fear of being noticed or a bother to people around you that you care about (and plenty that you don’t even know). Fear of people you love growing to hate you/not want you around. Fear of being hurt again because the people around you won't want to see or be around the "real" you if they saw it.

The invisibility isn’t just being unseen; nothing the person writes can be seen either, and they have no voice and can’t make sounds with instruments. It’s genuinely like they aren’t there EXCEPT: They’re still physical (able to touch and be touched) and they still cast a shadow.

With that done, let’s get into the au!

Invisible Wally AU:

(Heads up, this will get upsetting bc I'm also explaining the root feelings that cause the invisibility and they’re a mix of fear, depression, and self-depreciation)

First off; Wally starts as the only one in Home that's Self-Aware, as such he's carrying the brunt of the Audience's attention, good and bad. (Technically, Home is also self-aware but it doesn't get even half the weight of this as Wally does.)

For the entire day, when he's outside Home (and even when he isn't sometimes) he can feel the weight of the Audience's gaze on his back and the pressing Need for everything to be perfect, all the time. From the styling of his hair to his clothes to the way he talks, everything has to be perfect. Perfectly in place and perfectly blank. No getting angry, no getting frustrated, no sadness, no wanting to be alone, not being able to say "No" when someone else wants to do something, nothing that wouldn't be seen as "negative" in some form. Like the host of a Daytime TV show, he can't be seen as anything but agreeable and willing to go along with anything he's asked.

That feeling doesn't leave until nightfall, quickly becoming the only time Wally feels like he can breathe and be himself.

Where he can groan in frustration, wrap himself in heavy blankets and lay on the floor in heap, screaming into pillows and throwing them around, complain to Home about the tedium that's driving him mad.

(He used to like bright colors, but now he hates them and wishes he could wear something, anything, else instead.)

After a while, he notes that he and Home seem to realize something is wrong. They're the only ones to notice/feel this impossible pressure to always be "TV ready" as he's started thinking of it. They just go through their days following the pre-decided, unspoken "schedule" that's fallen over their neighborhood.

If anything, they seem happy with everything happening. (Perfectly Happy, even.)

And it's wearing him down because when he tries to defy those Needs, he gets "punished" for it.

Trying to refuse to do something, like not going out for the day, makes his anxiety (which he did not have prior to this) spike wildly, driving him into a panic that usually forces him to follow the "plan" of the day. Trying to speak up makes his throat close up or for the wrong words to start spilling out. He can't argue against something that someone else wants to do, even if he tried (and he has, on several occasions).

He feels trapped, and that this "Audience" doesn't actually give a damn about him, just the entertainment he can act as a vehicle for.

They don't want to hear what he thinks or feels, they don't even want to see real him. Just the alternate "Perfect" version that follows their direction without voice or resistance. And that idea spreads, over time, until he wonders if his friends even care about the real him, or just the Perfect version that they've been interacting with.

These thoughts are what make him start to disappear, starting with his voice which grows fainter and fainter with each passing day. (And yet no one seems to notice how much quieter he is.)

When he starts to visibly fade from sight, Home tries to help by keeping him inside. They think that, if they can keep him out of the Audience’s view (even for just a little while) Wally will start to feel/get better.

Unfortunately, this isn’t as helpful as Home thinks it is.

“Leaving Home” is part of the schedule and not doing that trigger’s a “punishment” for Wally. He knows that Home was trying to help, but Home doesn’t feel the Audience’s displeasure the same way Wally did. Thankfully, “sick” days seem to allow some leeway, so he’s able to spend at least one day alone with just Home for company.

Then Home keeps him in another day, and then another, and another, until he’s spent almost a week inside Home instead of following the Script of the Day. (And suffering the punishments for not doing so) He feels like a miserable wreck, has probably cried a few times, and just…

He feels terrible.

But what makes it worse (in Wally’s mind) is the fact that none of his friends come looking for him.

He hadn’t seen or spoken to anyone in a week (other than Home), and yet no one came by to try and find out what was wrong. And Home hadn’t mentioned anyone trying to speak with them. It was like no one had even noticed that he wasn’t there.

And that thought stings. It hurts. It hurt much more than he’d thought it could.

(He had hoped that had been real, on some level. That they cared about HIM and not the Perfect him. Maybe he’d been wrong…)

He goes to bed that night with an aching heart, and climbs out the next morning completely invisible and completely silent.

Home, of course, is panicked. They had seen him fading, slowing vanishing before their eyes but there had been nothing they could do. They hadn’t been able to stop it, all they could do was curse the Audience for starting all of this.

Strangely though, there’s relief. The Audience can’t see him anymore and, though he can feel their displeasure at not being able to find him, he can’t feel a “punishment” taking hold of him. He still feels miserable, but it feels like a tremendous weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He can’t be forced to follow the script if no one can see him, he can do what he wants, go where he liked, and no one would be able to stop him.

(But there was nowhere he wanted to go, few things he wanted to do. He had the options, but no drive to follow them through…)

Through a bit of trial and error, the two build a new “normal”.

They figure out that, while he can’t be seen or heard, Home can still feel where Wally is and, if he taps on things using the same mores-code that Home uses, they can still “Talk” to each other. Which soothes some of Home’s fears, since they now know where he is and can still check on him.

It takes a bit for them to figure out the other details of this strange situation. Like how far the invisibility extends.

Whatever Wally wears/puts on will turn invisible too, and the stuff he takes off will turn visible again after a while. He finds clothes in muted colors at the back of his wardrobe and ends up making them his “standard” clothes while in this state. No one but he and Home know they’re there, but the control it gives him helps his mood a bit. It was nice knowing that he wasn’t letting himself be completely controlled by the Need to be Perfect anymore.

What ends up distressing Wally the most is that he can’t seem to paint anymore. When he tries to put paint on canvas, it’s as invisible as he is. As an artist (and as someone who just enjoyed painting) this was understandably upsetting since painting had been one of the few outlets he had for his feelings.

He spends a lot of his time puttering around and wrestling with his emotions and the situation he’s found himself in.

Of course, that’s just Wally’s side of things.

[nurseanya404]

If I was a moomin character, I'd be that one invisible girl... what's her name... oh, right! NINNY! I'd be ninny!

[comradebestie]

relating a little too much to the invisible girl Ninny from the moomins

[yermes]

PAC :🌾

LISTEN LINDA. Im getting another moomin themed tattoo this time it’ll be ninny. I blew all my savings on my last tatt but since its my birthday imma blow that shit too. One in the bank and tha rest for me 🥴😔✋. But heres WHY I want the ninny tatt. She is a girl who’s invisible because she was mistreated and slowly becomes visible with the help, support, and healing. I feel this is very akin to my personal journey and hey you can learn a lot from some cute characters written by the OG bisexual queen. Here are some ways you can have and express love in your life FT a painting my friend gave me (:

Now for another REALISTIC LOVE READING.

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The Empress 🫐

Venus in Taurus, Axis between Chokmah and Binah, Earth

The friendly or approachable aspect of femininity in the divine. This could represent love between you and a maternal figure (note this isn’t always a biological mom but a mother figure). I also believe it is important to celebrate love with a maternal figure as well it is important to look into maternal figures influence over us in shadow work so we can better understand ourselves. Go out and have a day with your momma.

The Magician (Reversed) 🕯️

The Magus of Power, Beth, House, Mercury

Insecurities, weak will, ineptitude not great for a realistic love reading. This may mean that you are feeling insecure in some kind of relationship or you need to work on that self love. It’s not uncommon to feel insecure in a relationship with yourself and others just realize you are enough and you are still growing however you cannot force yourself to be something you are not.

The Sun 🌻

Sun in the house of 5, fire, the axis from Hod to Yesod

Why haven’t you texted the light of your life back? Weather it be a friend, a S/O, a crush or anyone. SOMEONE is lighting shit up. The love is generous and unconditional. You GENUINELY like them and wish to be around them (lucky) this is a relationship worth perusing. Do not hold any doubt with yourself. However, be carful with promising a lot and giving nothing and beware of people who do not carry their weight in a relationship.

Nine of Swords (reversed) 🎯

Lord of despair and cruelty, Yesod, Mars in Gemini, 10°–20°. Angels Aaaneval and Mochayel

LOWKEY THIS IS GIVING YOU HAVE A FUN LIL CRUSH VIBE. A type of unselfish and patient kind of love. However you are kinda shy and doubtful if it will work or if they like you back. However, you do feel a small little spark and this crush is kinda different maybe instead of it being a crush based upon physical features its based upon them being kind to you. Or their sense of humor.

[iwillbreakyourfuckingskull]

Remember the little girl ninny from the moomins who turned invisible because she was neglected by her family - literally turning invisible because she was treated like she didn't exist - but when she moved into the moomin family and they actively made an effort to see and hear her by dressing her in new clothes and giving her a bell so she made noise where she went, she became visible again

Because I think about her a lot

[alwaysmanages]

I want to talk about this actually, because I’m uploading it on inkblot and going into more description/analysis/headcanon territory there that I realize I don’t think I’ve talked about much here.

CW for child neglect and mention of verbal abuse

Inspired by the Invisible Child, invisibility in Moomins is brought on when one is lacking the appropriate care and attention that's needed for the individual to grow properly. Ninny, the invisible girl, had turned invisible out of fear for her aunt, a woman who criticized her at every turn until all that remained of her was a little bell tied around her neck so that she could at least be heard walking around. With the Moomin family's help, she became visible once again and even got her voice back.

Little My, however, makes a comment that inspired a lot of thought on my end:

"You’ll never have a face of your own until you’ve learned to fight. Believe me.”

And then you think about it. Little My comes from a household of over 30 children with a mother who's characterized as being forgetful and who essentially says she has no time to pay mind to each individual child (which I get it, that’s a LOT of kids to manage alone).

Little My is the smallest mymble out of them all, and she herself has said that the reason she's the most terrible of them all is because she's "compensating" for her size.

I believe (headcanon, even) Little My has been invisible before from her mother's (unintentional) neglect. I think she's particularly in need of attention that her mother couldn't give and that being the worst of the mymble children was a survival tactic, or a cry for help, so that she could keep her own face. So she fought a crowd of siblings for some attention to stand above them all, and in the end, she was mostly visible.

Mostly...

I headcanon that she doesn't get her tail back until after a while of living with the Moomin family who--with proper love and care--teach her that she doesn't have to fight so much for love and attention anymore.

[pluttskutt]

Blog Musings

This blog has existed since 2016. Mind you, I've been on tumblr since before then and I had a writeblr since I can't remember. It was a sideblog then for my fantasy series, but I moved everything to this one when it became my main somewhere around 2018/2019.

I already lamented about how things have changed so this isn't about that. This is about this blog changing. Not a lot, so if you're holding your breath for me to declare this a fandom blog you needn't worry, darling.

In my determination to keep this a writeblr, I didn't stop to consider is that what I really want? Ask games are fun, and so are tag games, I love reading fellow writers' replies and what y'all are up to. It's fun, but pouring my heart into wip intros that have 5 notes (which are my own reblogs) isn't. It also wasn't fun that time I actually got a taglist for a wip and was super excited to share only to have no one interact with the posts.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised or even upset. After all, Ninni is the invisible girl from Mumin so I am a self-fulfilling prophecy :')

Not going turbo and turning into a fandom blog but I'll mostly be posting fanfic, unless a tag game or ask game prompts me otherwise. Cheers mate.

[hungergamesimulatorplayer]

I will do a night and a day to move faster

Night 3

In the third night the light house keeper passes out from exhaustion, but I´m not sure if that mean he is out for the count. A sponsor give Sr Hemulen an explosive, the right choice all the way, and without snufkin  Moomintroll don’t know what to do so he gets involved in a fist fight with hobgoblin, but hobgoblin being taller and infinitely stronger in that way easily defeat moomin and … strangles him. Reuniting moomin with his love snufkin.

Day 4

Snorkmaiden really hates Ninny but that sneaky invisible girl manages to escape once again. So The light house keeper try to kill Mymble but She beg for his life and it works, and after that Mymble backstab The light house keeper and kill him. I mean, after joxter she might not be the person who miss this kind of opportunity. Finally by this point the team M is officially dissolved , Moominpapa after losing Moominmama find out that Miss Fillyjonk could be the best replacement available, that enrages Misabel who fight along snork with them. Unfortunately Misabel and Snork lose the battle and find their final demise. Moominpapa and miss Fillijonk new power couple?

Deaths:

Moomintroll

The light house keeper

Misabel

Snork

DISTRICT 1

Moomintroll and Snufkin

-They could die for eachother (and probably will)

- Snufkin is a survival expert and moomintroll is a mom´s child

- They are really close but snufkin will leave moomin at the first chance

DISTRICT 2

Moominpapa and Moominmama

-They are literally married

-Moominpapa is an old adventurer and Moominmama is jesus incarnate

-Sometimes they are oblivious of whats really happening

DISTRICT 3

Little my and Mymble

-Mother and daughter (they hate eachother)

- Little my is like a little assassin and Mymble is a fighting mother

-Mymble once survive months in the sea with hundreds of childrens to feed

DISTRICT 4

Snork and Snorkmaiden

-Brother and Sister (not really close)

-Snork is an autistic inventor and snorkmaiden is a mistress in distress

-One time snorkmaiden try to kill his boyfriend´s friend by throwing him into the sea, so she could be a cold heart bitch

DISTRICT 5

Thingumy and Bob

-They could easily be the same person

-They carry a big ruby

-professional thieves

DISTRICT 6

Sniff and teety woo

-The animals

-Sniff is a coward who is obsessed with money and teety is snufkin´s  number one fan

-the guys who are no one best friends

DISTRICT 7

Hobgoblin and the Groke

-The literal gods

-Hobgoblin is a powerfull wizard and Groke can freeze anything she get close

-One time the Hobgoblin stole THE SUN

DISTRICT 8

Mr. Hemulen and The light house keeper

-The old men

-One live alone on an island and Hemulen is obsessed with collection

-Both are kinda crazy

DISTRICT 9

Stinky and Mis. Fillyjonk

-The villians

- a wanted criminal and a Karen

-Everybody wants to kill Fillyjonk more than stinky

DISTRICT 10

Toffle and Misabel

-The sad ones

-a foster chaild and a maid who hates his job

-probably they will die but not by assassination

DISTRICT 11

Ninny and too ticky

-the kind ones

-Ticky is a kind woman and ninny is mostly invisible

-Probably the smartest of the bunch

DISTRICT 12

Mr. Brisk and Muskrat

-the opposites

 -Mr brisk is a pro skier and Muskrat is a dr in philosophy

-Both to selfish and narcissistic