#tove jansson

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🍃Joxter🍃

[belovedapollo]

I’ve been eyeing this mug from the Moomin x Red Cross collab for so long! Finally I can add it to my collection ☺️ reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

[hannahlockillustration]

Little My causing chaos.

[furupops]

Tove Jansson's novel Moominland Midwinter deals with this. The moomin family hibernate, like any sensible beings, but one winter, Moomintroll wakes up and can't go back to sleep. So he has to learn to live in winter too. I've always felt like hibernation is a great idea, but after reading this book, I appreciate winter more.

« Hibernation allows many animals to time-travel from difficult times to plenty […but] it is something that eludes us humans. […] Is there something special about our nature that prevents us from hibernating? Will we ever know what it is like to hibernate? […] Humans have always been remarkably creative and imaginative with respect to changing their state of body and state of mind, for example by taking mind-altering drugs, entering a state of deep meditation, or even willingly changing metabolic rates […]. The lack of scientific theory behind the induction of artificial hibernation, and a poor understanding of the underlying biology, is likely an explanation for the lack of progress in this area. […]

Naturally, we are envious that so many creatures, big and small, around us have mastered and perfected the skill of hibernation, which still escapes our understanding. Is it because we are too obsessed with trying to make sense of what we can see and measure […]? Our efforts to understand hibernation go against its entire idea—to disappear, to disconnect, to stop time, to become one with the world. Is this why understanding hibernation eludes us? »

— "Could humans hibernate?" by Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, professor of sleep physiology at the University of Oxford

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[sweet-honey-blue]

here are my favorite moomin comic panels because why not

[vintagesapphics]

Tove Jansson (right), creator of Moomin, and her life partner Tuulikki Pietilä (left), an accomplished Finnish artist

[dinoknitting]

Baking vlog 👍

(All jokes aside, I knit these bastards by hand! Etsy link)

[amatesura]

Moomin dolls 1950-1969

[enchantedbook]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll illustrated by Tove Jansson, 1966

[happyheidi]

[petaltexturedskies]

Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

[brethilach]

did you know that Tove Jansson's protrayal of Gollum in her illustrations of the 1962 Finnish translation of the Hobbit is what caused Tolkien to rewrite his description of Gollum's appearance his second edition of the Hobbit because he found it so incredibly monstrous but realized that it was still wholly accurate to the original text

imagine that the author of a story you loved thought your intepretation of what a character looks like was so egregious that he went back and changed the canon description just so it didn't happen again

[no-tengo-ojos]

[juliavaccina-art]

Spring is here and so is Snufkin!

[little--skull]

Might share it here too