#riviera snufkin

[happyheidi]

𝖬𝗈𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗌 𝗈𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖱𝗂𝗏𝗂𝖾𝗋𝖺 (𝟤𝟢𝟣𝟦)

[jemi-jimi-jam]

Into the Snufkinverse

[fizzingwizard]

[sweet-honey-blue]

moomin at barnes and noble usa! haul + extra info!

i was lucky enough to live only about 30 minutes from a store with the moomin merchandise! the selection at the b&n near me was a lot smaller than other stores i’ve seen pictures of online (but you get used to that sort of thing when you live in middle of nowhere, michigan haha.)

the selection included many books (not all from the series), kids toys, stationary, accessories, dishes, etc! here’s what i got!

in total, i spent $80ish-i actually think things were priced pretty well! buying merchandise from moominshop online and shipping it internationally to the us can be very expensive, so i was pretty pleased!

the most expensive i bought i believe was the tote bag for around $30. it is made of 100% recycled cotton and the print on it is absolutely beautiful and so vibrant! there were two tote bags options, but i chose this one because i love love love moomins on the riviera.

my mom and i immediately fawned over the jewelry dish! it is so adorable! the hand-painted ceramic is incredibly stunning and the details on snorkmaiden’s hair and anklet are amazing. it was only $20 for such a beautiful, one of a kind piece!

the coasters are another favorite find of mine! they had two different sets, but i decided on these two because i love the quotes! i also adore that the quotes have the book they’re from below the text! they costed $10 for the set of two!

this waterbottle is also absolutely gorgeous- it is thermal, so it keeps hot liquids hot and cold liquids cold! i was actually in the market for a new waterbottle, since my old one recently broke, and i love this! they had two different water bottles, both 500ml (a big step up from how tiny the arabia mugs are haha). it cost me $24.99 and i am so excited to bring it to college this autumn! :)

there were many enamel pins- one for each character in the main cast (aside from sniff, sorry sniff) to choose from! i decided on the snufkin one since unfortunately there wasn’t any other merchandise at my location that focused on him, which was a tad disappointing because he is my favorite character (aside from ninny, who had absolutely no merchandise at all.) the pins cost $5 each!

i had so much fun on my barnes and noble moomin adventure! i even dressed up for it! (is this a face reveal??? lol)

all in all- it would be awesome to live in a state that had a bigger collection (CA and NY had the most) but i am beyond happy that i got the opportunity to buy moomin things in person!

thank you for reading! cheers! ❤️❤️❤️

[turtleplushi]

it's minnow season

[ani-is-my-username]

Infodumping about Snufkin on 2 guys I barely know bc they asked who I was drawing/referring to 👍

[amethysts-angel214]

And another one! :3

Ten very talented Snufkins showing off their musical abilities! (click for names and dates)

Bonus:

[mugges]

Lmao I saw your Snufkin post and tried to follow you a second time XDD

Where’d you find all the Snufkins?? I recognize some but would love a time/place for all of em if it’s not too hard

oh probably should've made some labels oops starting with the left column going from top-down: 1. OG(Tove's) snufkin

2. 60's anime snufkin

3. 70's anime Snufkin

4. fuzy felt moomins snufkin

5. 90's anime snufkin

right column 1. Moomins on the Riviera snufkin

2. 2019 moominvalley snufkin

3. welcome to moominvalley mobile game snufkin

4. melody of moomin valley snufkin

5. Japanese happy meal snufkin

i like your icon btw

[flowerbloom-arts]

Hey what are you singing and instrument headcanons. I headcanon that Snufkin, his family, and all the moomins are terrible at singing and Sniff, snorkmaiden, muddler, and the botanist hemulen are really good at it, but what do you think?

My Musical brain that listens to songs all the time keeps imagining any character being able to sing that song, so in those terms I imagine anyone can sing 😅

But like, besides that, we have;

Actual canon:

Snufkin: harmonica/mouth-organ (books, 90s series, MV2019), flute (Who Will Comfort Toffle?), accordion (comics, one Tove illustration), guitar (Shin Moomin).

Sniff: Accordion (Moomins on the Riviera movie)

Snorkmaiden: piano (Shin Moomin)

Snork: violin (Shin Moomin)

Mr. Hemulen: french horn (Shin Moomin)

The Skier Hemulen: french horn or bugle horn, not too clear (Moominland Midwinter and subsequent adaptations of it)

Mr. Brisk: Trumpet (Moominvalley 2019)

Salome: accordion (Who Will Comfort Toffle?)

Too-Ticky: barrel organ (Moominland Midwinter and most adaptations)

The Lighthouse Keeper: Accordion (Moominvalley 2019)

Little My (Moominsummer Madness, Moominvalley 2019), Snufkin (Comet in Moominland, Finn Family Moomintroll) and Mr. Brisk (comics) have sung songs/jingles, although how good their singing abilities are is up to interpretation.

Moominpappa has tried singing but he's extremely bad at it according to 1969 and 90s Moomin, and Moominmamma sung a lullaby in Comet in Moominland but her actual musical abilities are also up to interpretation.

The Groke also sings in Moominpappa at Sea.

Moominpappa is terrible at playing the banjo (comics).

Dubious canon:

There's this one drawing where Moominpappa played the violin and the whole family was enjoying it, it's very close to the 90s style but I've no idea what the origin of this is so...

Mumintrollet (1969) has a musical number sung by most of the characters for each of the 13 episodes but due to the nature of musical numbers it's difficult to tell if their singing abilities are diagetic or not.

There is also the Moomin Voices album originally written by Tove that are written/sung from the perspective of the characters they're meant for but how well they'd sing them is unknown.

In the Moomin Park, Fuzzy and Too-Ticky play the ukulele and most of the characters sing songs, there's even musical stage shows, but the canon is dubious because they're just actors playing the characters instead of the actual characters themselves.

Mere headcanon:

I like to think Mrs. Fillyjonk played the harp when she was younger and her eldest child plays the violin.

The banjo Moominpappa had originally belonged to Wimsy and he was fairly decent at it.

Muddler and Fuddler like playing percussion, particularly drums or even diy drums. I'm also going to carry over some of the park details and say Fuzzy plays the ukulele. All of them can actually sing (Sniff is meh at it, though.)

Joxter is a self-taught guitarist, his skill level is up to your imagination.

Mymblemamma and Mymble Jr make up for their lack of singing skill by doing it all cheerfully.

[writers-in-moominvalley]

💝Snorkmaiden and Love Life💝 (pt. 2)

In which I analyze Snorkmaiden's relationship with her main love interest; Moomintroll.

Ever since I made the post rating Snorkmaiden's crushes and love interests, I tried chewing on what they exactly mean for Snorkmaiden's character, because if you look hard enough there is indeed a pattern of taste to be discerned here.

And with this, I think I could finally better conclude on what the real wedge between Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden is.

When people talk about Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden's relationship they only talk about Moomintroll's gripes about the relationship, that his genuine interests lie elsewhere (Snufkin, "obviously") and he needs to get out of it purely on that. But, especially in the comics, this is a far more complex issue than a boy crushing on his best friend and a girl trying too hard to make the ship work, because this is a cyclical on-and-off relationship that withstands all else to an unhealthy degree, and the root of which is a fundamental incompatibility of desires and stubbornness.

Moomins on the Riviera is the third episode of the comic strip, and the first one in which this dynamic is established; Snorkmaiden falls for a guy, Moomintroll gets violently jealous and does anything in his power to get her back, Snorkmaiden returns to his arms.

But here's the important question: Why did Snorkmaiden date Clark of all people instead of sharing her ventures with her current boyfriend?

That's exactly where the fundamental disagreement lies, Moomintroll is a homebody like Moominmamma who doesn't take a particular liking to socializing in an unfamiliar environment, Snorkmaiden and Moominpappa do. And here's where the parallels between Snorkmin and the Moominparents are drawn, both of which are relationships between an outgoing extrovert and a tagalong who is very comfortable at home.

And this is a point I've seen some people make about Snorkmin — that they're merely trying to copy the Moominparents for the Perfect Heteronormative Relationship that's expected of them, but it isn't that they look to the parents for example in the slightest, not even a reference to the idea, no direct copying of action or sentiment, no, if it was the case then it would've been an easy joke to make for the comics but it never was made. It's actually quite the opposite:

They ARE natural parallels of the Moominparents, but Snorkmin fails where the Moominparents don't. Moominpappa's romantic interest has only ever belonged to Moominmamma, Snorkmaiden's doesn't. Moominmamma is a very patient and thoughtful person, Moomintroll isn't.

The Moominparents have compromise and don't cross their lines, Snorkmin lacks it and they do. That's the fundamental failure of Snorkmaiden and Moomintroll.

Another crack in the foundation is their conflict of interest about what they get from the relationship. Remember when I mentioned the pattern you can see with Snorkmaiden's love interests? All of them seem like severely different types of people to fall for, but they do have something that Snorkmaiden apparently wants:

They all provide novelty and/or intellectual stimulation. Clark came packaged with the new and exciting lifestyle of the Riviera, the Pirates were a fun and novel kind of danger, Mr. Brisk was a talented sportsman well-versed in the then-foreign land of winter, the Fillyjonk was packaged with following the Prophet's teachings of a new life, the Nobleman came with exploring the 16th century which she found terribly romantic, the Revolutionary was an intellectual and good writer, the Accountant Fillyjonk had a passion for accountancy, the Poet wrote poems and thusly had a way with words, and Dr. Hatter was a psychiatrist with a strange sort of exoticism in his work.

What does this mean for Snorkmaiden? Given her almost direct parallel with Moominpappa, the answer would be obvious; she wants to experience new things and new perspectives, and she finds a connection with men to be the safe and fun way to do it. Moominpappa expands his horizons by leaping at opportunities for adventure while Snorkmaiden takes the subtle route by forming relationships with people that could guide her through those horizons.

(….. iiiit just so happens that she didn't have a discussion with Moomintroll to establish that their relationship is open. But hypocrite that she is, she also gets mad at HIM for falling in love with someone else)

And the reasons these relationships fall apart is either because of circumstances separating Snorkmaiden from her interest or because she's grown bored/tired of them. Moomintroll didn't need to intervene with any of them, really, they would've run their course naturally.

But on the contrary, in Snorkmaiden Goes Rococo we are provided a reason as to why Snorkmaiden stays with Moomintroll: he's familiar. She knows what foods he likes and how to make them, he's willing to do the low-key things she likes like go to the beach, unlike the Revolutionary who outright dismisses and insults her for such things. So while she may want to experience new things in the great wide somewhere, she's become too comfortable with Moomintroll by the time Snorkmaiden Goes Rococo takes place, and it's how the cycle finally takes on its unbreakable effect.

On the other hand, Moomintroll is someone who is extremely comfortable with homelife, he actually isn't characterized as a thrill-seeker, even if he tries to have fun with his circumstances as much as he can. In Tove's run, the only other person Moomintroll falls for is the leading lady of a circus, La Goona, who is an incredibly gorgeous woman and also a vamp, the latter of which is the main point of her character. Moomintroll REVELS in falling with her, in fact, very much to Snorkmaiden's dismay (although he does ask her about the situation and she pretends not to care a little too well).

What does this say about Moomintroll? He… likes pretty women. It is in fact the reason why he was interested in Snorkmaiden in the first place, for him it was infatuation at first sight and he hasn't been able to let go of it since.

His possessiveness of Snorkmaiden is partially inheritance from of father's fragile masculinity, but where Moominpappa's manifests in his insecurity as a husband and father, Moomintroll's manifests in his domineering and violent jealousy towards Snorkmaiden's love interests. So rather than communicating with his girlfriend like a rational person, he challenges the new interests by sabotaging them in direct confrontations or other dishonorable means.

Snorkmaiden may find this violence attractive (she finds it terribly exciting in general, multiple times, even outside of romantic contexts) for the short term, but it only returns both of them to their purgatory-esque dissatisfaction once the romantic euphoria wears off.

Moomintroll is stubborn in that he is unwilling to accept change in the status quo, to accept Snorkmaiden's apparent disinterest in him.

Snorkmaiden is stubborn in that she tries to do the same thing over and over with complete disregard or even ignorance of Moomintroll's reaction.

And this stubbornness keeps perpetuating the cycle yet again.

This is a relationship where both of them are at fault, their total lack of communication and commitment leaves the same bitter taste in eachother's mouths but unable to separate due to their familiarity.

This is a comic strip and thus everything is set up to return to the status quo at the end of each episode so that the new one may begin, but there is a distinct lack of fans truly reading their relationship outside of the lens of Moomintroll's frankly sparing queer coding in the strip. Snorkmaiden also has her own unfulfilled desires due to Moomintroll, they may not be pertaining to a girl but Moomintroll is stuck to her arm as she is stuck to his.

It's a hodgepodge of gendered expectations, unmet desires, lack of communication and plain stubbornness from both parties.

They have their genuinely sweet moments but they work so much better without the expectation of romance in the way, they are far better off as friends.

(Rest in peace book and Brigands Snorkmin you were incredibly cute before The Things happened)

[welcometotheunknownlosers]

I made snufkinverse (is that the right name for it) alignment charts last night because I’ve lost control over my life

[hunsa-jars]

hot take

[closetghostperson]

Mumriken: Don't talk to strangers, okay Little One?

Feltin: And certainly don't accept candy from them!

Samur: Send us a letter when you get there, okay?

Jasmine: Stay safe, and if someone hurts you, I'll whoop their ass!

Little One, who is now 13: I am literally just going to go fishing with River right in front of all of you-

[moomin-toons]

The boy got an outfit redesign due to a realization I had with his last one. (@ my friends who know what the fuck I’m talking about.) River had some extra fabric in his pack for when he may need to patch up his smock, but he had enough to make Little One a new dress. It’s... decent enough. Think of all the park keepers Little One can smack with that long ass sleeve. I like to think that Snukin, in general, knows how to sew properly, but every time he does need a new outfit, he just steals one, which means he doesn't know how to make his clothes entirely from scratch. Alright, that's about it. I hope you like the redesign!

Riviera Snufkin - River 2019 Snufkin - Little One

[studyingmoominvalley]

Riviera Snufkin voice impression demo reel (in case you need a Snufkin for anything)

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