#went to the moomin shop

[lulu-spooks]

London antics :)

[cowboysmp3]

playing AAI now and god i’m so sick in the head about edgeworth for real

[cerealandchoccymilk]

the Criminal has been Captured

[skruttet]

hey I was wondering if you live in Europe or USA ? And how you buy (if you do) the merchandise from Japan or Asia in general ?

I live in the UK! I mainly use buyee to buy stuff from Japan (from sites like mercari and rakuten). Like pretty much every proxy shopping site you have to pay a lil additional fee and the shipping will always be more expensive than domestic ofc but it's reliable.

[twelfth-dykector]

aaaaaaagghhhhhh these are absolutely wonderful🥹🥹🥹🥹

some stuff heheee

[oatyy-yy]

I went to the moomin shop in camden / London today and it was so cute !! ✶

Had to stop myself from splurging woopsies

Anyways here's what I bought!!

These are some things in the shop that were very silly :p

Byebye ꩜

[moominpup]

Some family of mine went to London & brought me back some cute things from the London Moomin Shop!

Hope everyone is doing well <3

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[suomeen]

Kirppis

Kirppis is a flea market or a thrift shop, though Finns also include consignment shops. There are many of them in Finland and they are very popular. Kirppis shopping is a sort of national sport. It’s partly about sustainability. But of course, many people come for a chance to get cheap treasures. You can find all sorts of people here. There are a lot of mothers looking to buy clothes for their rapidly growing infants. There are elderly people looking at porcelain that is beautiful but wildly impractical. There are middle-aged men looking at old records and CDs. There are green-haired piercing-covered youths looking for something weird and edgy. And of course, a lot of immigrants, looking for cheap basic things and clothing. It truly makes you feel the saying “one man's trash is another man's treasure”. The town isn’t very big so it feels like over the years half the stuffs in town have changed hands.

I go to one kirppis a lot. Of course, more than anything, it’s a way to find cheap good things. But to me, it’s also an adventure. You never know what you may come across. Everyone has a weak spot for a certain type of things that they find hard to pass by. For me it’s stuffed toys, beautiful ceramics and children’s books. I also acquired a few too many boxes and containers. I think it’s a middle-aged thing to try to organize your mess of a life.

Finding something good and cheap gives you a rush. But these places always give a bit of a melancholy vibe as essentially, they’re a collection of unwanted things. I especially get that at consignment stores where people rent shelves to sell their things. There are a lot of clothes, dishes and glassware, toys and books, decorative items, even plants. Also a massive number of Moomin mugs, but that’s another story. And there are many reasons for people to sell things. Some clothes no longer fit and some are unwanted gifts. But sometimes a shelf tells a story. A hobby abandoned, a child grown up. And sometimes looking at someone’s things I wonder what event brought them here. Was the owner just bored with these things? Did they get them from an elderly relative who just died? Were those things unwanted reminders from a bad breakup? I sometimes come across books with lovely inscriptions inside, from friends or relatives. Those make me a bit sad. There’s one shelf that’s from a girl who went through an intense goth and anime stage and later apparently went on to study linguistics. I wonder how she’s doing… I guess I’m just weird like that.

[To Eveliina Christmas 2010, From Granny and Grandpa]

[no-tengo-ojos]

Guess where I went today :3

COVENT GARDEN MOOMIN SHOP!!!!!!!!!

[mini-ghostly]

Moomin Babyre collage!!

im feelin a bit smaller than normal rn so this ones a little younger i think. i loovee moomin and went "shopping" from the moomin shop for alla the funn stuff that i wanned! then i took it all and made a little collage board!

[cocoasnail]

We went to London this weekend and visited the Moomin Shop in Covent Garden but everything was so expensive I didn't buy anything lol. It was also too crowded to properly look around. There was a queue to the Moomin Shop! Unbelievable.

Kind of regret not getting at least something small like the Moominpapa cookie cutter (not pictured).

[desk-drawerr]

Mall Dreams

i have these recurring dreams about a mall. it's similar to my local mall but much bigger and extremely different in layout. I seem to find new locations every time i dream about it, and i just wanted to put it into words so i don't forget. It feels liminal despite being full of people. the people themselves are always in my peripheral vision, like blurry shadows that seem to disappear when i get close, or stay if they're impeding my progress somehow. sometimes i speak to them, but i never remember what exactly they say. the whole style of the mall appears to be similar to the actual mall i go to. mostly white and beige, tiled floor, and glass ceilings to let the light in on the upper floors.

some key locations are: - the 2 floor gaming store: a shop with a red and white colour scheme that sells mostly xbox 360 games and accessories, with a dark bottom floor i don't recall ever going to. - the giant arcade: bigger than the arcade in my actual local mall (which is pretty big). large entrance with glass windows spanning almost the whole arcade. often extremely dark, a cafeteria type area on the far left side, crane and prize games on the right. in the middle is assorted skill based or leisure games like basketball, and some other weird unknowable games only understandable in a dream. this arcade always features at least 1 version of DDR, usually multiple machines. i am almost always much worse at DDR in this arcade than i am when i'm awake. crane machines once had moomin merchandise inside. one time it was closed and the whole place was pitch black save for a few spotlights. - the clothing store: a store that sells clothes. brightly lit with high ceilings and a black and white mid 2000s chic look to the logo and walls, whatever my brain thinks that means. thin black lines and flower designs. sells makeup stuff, clothes, and sometimes giant stuffed animals. has an escalator going to an upper floor - The ice cream shop: an ice cream shop. darkly lit with a mostly red colour scheme, sells ice cream and milkshakes too, although i have never been able to acquire anything from this store due to lack of funds. - The window: the back entrance of the mall, always brightly lit with sunlight coming into the mall through the window. i think there's a pretzel shop around here somewhere, but i can't find it. banks and other back of the mall places live here. the exit leads to a car park. the car park has no cars parked. reminds me of an airport. - The platform: somewhere in the middle of the mall. a circular platform one can walk on on the second floor. tiny escalators allow access from the main mall floor to the platform. there are no railings to stop you from falling through to the bottom floor. very unstable. it shifts under your weight.

Key characters: the gaming store guy: works at the 2 floor gaming store, very friendly and lets me look around even if i'm not buying anything. offered to show me the lower floor. i can't remember if i went down there or not. the ice cream shop worker: works at the ice cream shop. a stickler for dream rules as evidenced by my inability to buy ice cream with insufficient funds. the pursuer: i don't know who this man is. in my most recent dream he stalked me through the mall. i don't recall anything becoming of it but it made me uneasy. the guy on the DDR machine who just won't leave: actually this is more like multiple people, but in my mall dreams that have featured DDR, more than once has there been someone playing on the machine making me unable to play myself. when i do get a chance to play, the Dream Anti-Gravity™ kicks in and i suck at the game.

I really like my mall dreams. Would probably make a good game.

[kaunisbaby]

✨ giulia's adventures in blorboland ✨

man i don't even know where to start 😭😭 helsinki was beautiful and i loved everything!! it was so quiet, the fish you can eat was insane, the people were amazing and everything was so clean and well organized and aaaaaaahh

so the first night we (i was there with my best friend) went to the riff because obviously we did. it was perfect, the music was like right out of my playlist, the alcohol was great and i feel in love with lonkero, we made many many friends and talked to a lot of people!! which i genuinely didn't expect. finns are super friendly and kind!! we also saw hannes kett from shiraz lane chilling out with his friends lol of course we didn't bother him but it was so cool

the second day we went sightseeing. and then in the evening we tried finnish sauna at allas sea pool!! man i love sauna so much, it relaxed me like nothing. ngl i was kinda scared after trying some sort of steamroom here in italy, where the temperature was lower (like 63 degrees) and it was much moister... that one didn't exactly feel too good, i couldn't even speak and i couldn't wait to get out, but the finnish sauna... man i love everything about it. if i had finnish saunas in italy i'd be there so often

third day we went sightseeing some more, then sadly i happened to have a panic attack at the market by the market square, probably due to the fact that i had been super anxious the days prior before i left rome and i was finally letting go of some tension, and it was really really bad... thankfully my best friend is an angel and she helped me manage it. i didn't feel like doing much in the afternoon and we went to a shopping mall to just chill. then in the evening i was feeling okay again and we went to the riff one more time. the second time the music wasn't as good as the first and i avoided alcohol as it always makes my anxiety worse, but it was a chill and pleasant night to hang out just the same. there were more tourists there than finns that day for some reason

today we sightsaw (?) one last time, i had my last salmon soup at the market and then we left!

so in conclusion. pros and cons of helsinki and the trip.

pros:

perfect and amazing i will keep on romanticizing this place until i die (listen everyone needs a distant place to romanticize don't @ at me)

the fucking salmon

lonkero and salmiakki are GOOD

THE SAUNA!!!

i love everything

the moomin shops were so cute!!

the parks were so green and so full of beautiful flowers!!!!!

cons:

a damn seagull stole my reindeer sausage at the market square 😡 now i understand joel

my dog wasn't there with me

my brain that gives me panic attacks when im having the time of my life

thank you for coming to my ted talk 🖤

[mitamicah]

My experiences in Finland through one picture a day

At the beginning of this month I took time off to follow Käärijä around for a week starting with his gig at Restraurant Backas in Vantaa July 3 and ending with Kääriä and Joker Out’s performances at Ruisrock festival at Roussalo, Turku July 7 2024.

I have thought about how to best share my experiences for a while so this is what I came up with at the end:

I will feature one picture from each day together with a picture symbolizing the beginning and end of the journey. To best respect the wishes of my fellow kääryleet I have limited the chosen pictures to be of myself or have no people in it. Accompanying each picture will be a short (or I tried to make it short) rapport of the highlights from the given day. (the fullish gig rapports will be submitted in their own posts).

Beginning:

This is me thinking I am funny wearing my Joker Out ‘See You Soon’ tour shirt waiting for the flight to take me to Finland. I remember being excited yet trying to keep my expectations relatively low (expectations already being succeeded when my flight arrives in time and flight me directly to Finland without any delays).

June 2 2024:

When landing in Finland I meet up with other Kääryleet from the fittingly named Kääryle Summer Camp. We spend the day hanging out in the tattoo studio were two of five of us (Missy, @clovermoonspell and Jay, @j-restlessgeek) get their part of a set of matching tattoos and then also hanging out in this cozy café with a all full of post-it notes visitors have drawn (pictured above). Later we split into to find food. My group gets traditional finnish reindeer. I end up having a slightly dramatic end to the day when circling the area of my Airbnb for an hour unable to understand the directions I was given by the host. After an hour I am saved by another host driving by, so I can lock myself into the apartment around midnight.

June 3 2024:

Day of the Backas gig. Check gig repport here.

June 4 2024:

Today the other half of kääryleet from the summer camp getting matching tattoos had their appointment. Since I was the first to show up I also ended up being the first in (pictured). @bisonaari and later @jaarijani would complete the set. @katinkulta, Missy, @teal-skull, @carpblu, @formulalakana and later @pianist-chan would hang out with us in the studio before we went to a nearby park to eat some early dinner and fool around. Elsa then took on the role of being our tour guide showing us around the city to find a karaoke bar to hang out in. We found one of the only ones open before 9 pm yet the vibes didn’t vibe with me or Bison so we only stayed until our group had performed ICIP (which they did really well). Wandering around Helsinki we learned that there was a ship race in town, so we saw many boats from Poland, Estonia and even Denmark. We called the day early around 8 yet before departing we went back to the library to get the snacks and the stuff people had left behind the day before including my textile markers.  

June 5 2024: Day of the Allas Sea Pool gig. (picture feature cornpea Käärijä drawn by @omppupiiras) Check out gig repport here.

Saturday July 6 2024:

Today I checked out of the Airbnb before going to the central station to meet @smimon and gift her a drawing of Jesse (I hadn’t had anymore stickers left from Allas gifting my last one to Tiia so this was my compromise). After that I went to the mural to meet up with Magda, @fornowimwinter that gave me the most adorable 3D printed moomin and a mixtape with Rouska spotify code on it. We hung out at a local café in Tikkurilu before shopping for souvenirs in Käärijä prisma and for Pirrka shoes (pictured) for me at K-Supermarket. Then we took the Z train to the central station (pictured) and ate some Hesburger before I had to take the bus to Turku, where Cass would meet me a few hours later (we’d planned to camp together at the official Ruisrock camp).

Our road to the camping site was a nightmare; the official festival bus ditched us and two Swedish girls three times before we called a Volt taxi that was only able to take us halfway there since the festival is held on a sacred island. Security gave us conflicting messages about where to go and what roads to use and after two hours of this we had grown very annoyed and very, very tired (we angry screamed Hirttää Kiini and Cass shared with me the art of dutch cursing).

We at one point met Anniina and Caro that told us about a uncomfortable experience they’d had during queuing for Kuuma were a person had been trampled on their ribcage so I was very scared for how queue for Käärijä would go the next day.

After finally arriving to the campsite at midnight (hallelujah for midnight sunset) we put up our tents and went to bed.

Sunday July 7 2024:

Day of the Ruisrock concerts. Check out gig repport here.

Monday July 8 2024:

Me and Skull followed Cass to Turku bus station and then went to say goodbye to Anniina and Caro (the prior having her cute little dog with her). After that Skull was so kind to be my badass tourguide telling me all about the city. After a good half day in the city we said our goodbyes close to the old cruise ship turned hostel Borre where I’d be staying the night (pictured). I had a bit of a hotel curse again when the key wouldn’t work but luckily it was quickly fixed.

Tuesday July 9 2024:

After eating breakfast buffet on Borre I walked 3,5 km to the bus station since I didn’t trust the Turku public transportation anymore. On my way there I found Logomo, the venue where Käärijä had won UMK the previous year (pictured). After driving the two hours to Helsinki I met up with Anna (finnish fan that doesn't have tumblr) that joined me to the airport, and we got a great conversation over some hot cocoa where we also exchanged gifts before I had to board. I had less time than I thought I would so I had to run to my gate only to learn the flight hadn’t even started packing the luggage yet so we’d be a bit delayed (good for me, then it meant I could catch my breath). Arriving at Copenhagen Airport to my horror I learned I’d forgotten to close my suitcase tightly yet luckily nothing had been falling out (my luck seemed to continue).

After the trip:

And so concludes the story of my trip to Finland. Here’s me wearing every single bracelet I got this week (not to talk about stickers, prints, good conversations and experiences). What a wild ride! Only the day later I went out with friends in Copenhagen to yap pretty much the same story of event as I’ve done here and the day after I went to my apartment and found Lidl shoes (something that hasn’t happened the previous 7+ years I’ve lived in this city) for the first time ever. I am not joking when I say I am still in some ways recovering from this amazing experience that seemed to only grow wilder and more surreal for each day. Thank you all so much for being a part of it and I miss you all so much. Hopefully I’ll get to see you all again some day and until then thank you for having read this far. Here is a picture of me wearing every single bracelet I was gifted at the three (four) concerts. Take care and have a great rest of July <33.

[magn-animously]

Is it really Jon and Martin?

We all know that the TMAGP takes place in parallel universe that's similar to the TMA universe and our own universe: we've got our Magnus Institute, the technology seems to be the same, the popular culture and language sound familar...

Which has lead to some (many?) people speculate that if there is a Magnus Intitute of this world, should there not be also alternate universe versions of Jon and Martin and Elias? If yes, what would happen if the computer versions met their TMAGP-AU twins?

One theory that would avoid creating a weird "hey you look... familiar" situation a la that one episode in the Moomins (below) is that Norris and Chester are not Jon and Martin themselves. I don't know how many people have thought about this, but there was at least this post by feathered-serpents that argued only part of Jon and Martin were pulled through the cosmic hole: their voices, which had been trapped in the tapes. I really like that idea and it would certainly solve the "who are you" "please don't scream I know it's weird but I am you" situation (albeit funny, it could be difficult to solve without any pipe murder incidents - kill your double, you know). However... My biggest problem with this theory is that I'd expect the voices stay robotic, computer-like, throughout the statements. I know there's all kind of spooky things involved but it feels to me like reliving the fear and voice acting the story requires more personhood than an echo of a voice could have, and I bet we all noticed how their voices changed when they got to the statement part of the cases.

(It's in Finnish but you'll get the idea. The dialogue can be summarised as "you look like me" "that's because I am you!" Replace them with Jon and Martin and Elias.)

If we believe Jon and Martin are Norris and Chester, or at least Jon and Martin enough to be self-aware and have an identity, we go back to the piper-murder-your-doubles problem. But here I think people forget a few facts we've been given so far.

There is Magnus Institute in this universe, so it makes sense there would also be Jon and Martin. There was also the story of Anya Villette who got a VIP trial of cosmic hole transportation. She confimed there was a Hill Road Top house in both universes, and that she could find her friends in this alternate (to her) universe as well. So far so good... Except that she didn't say I talked to my friends. She said "I’ve tried to talk to my friends about it. Those of my friends I can find, but they seem distant, like they don’t really know me. Everything is just… wrong. I can’t find my favourite coffee shop. And I don’t know who you people are." This seems to suggest that not everybody has a copy in both universes. Maybe this is just A Feature, or maybe they've died, or maybe they live in some other city - look at the Institute, which in TMAGP universe is in Manchester, not London! So we could have Jon and Martin in this world, but it's not guaranteed they'd live in London or even be alive anymore. There's also a chance they just... never existed here. .

We don't know how much different the history of TMAGP universe is from TMA universe. We already know some things are changed: the Institute was located in Manchester, not London, and burnt down in the 90s, which didn't happen in TMA universe. We also know the fears were a later update to the world, although time shenanigans might be happening here; look at Anya Vilette saying "I went to clean that house on April the 23rd, 2009 which, according to all of you, is tomorrow. But it can’t be. That was two weeks ago." Since it's not just place-hopping but time-hoppin as well, there's no guarantee that cosmic hole transportation takes all the passengers to the same date in their destination. Maybe the Fears arrived just in time to torment the dinosaurs (I know, I know, i'm sorry to give you this thought!) and Martin and Jon got out in the year 2023. Or it could be the Fears have existed only for a few years or even arrived at the same time with Martin and Jon in -23, and the OAROAROSD whatever its name is was founded for... just spooky things people had experienced but weren't true. We don't know yet. Moreover, different history means that Jon and Martin's pasts were also different in this universe. Remember Anya Villette again and how she described people she had met in TMA universe: "People I thought I knew, but they were different." This is especially true for Jon. It's easy to forget that he didn't start his spooky jorney when Elias/Jonah gave him a promotion. He didn't start the jorney even when he joined the Institute. No, he was chosen by the Web when he was still a child. A big part of his life, he was guided towards the Eyepocalypse. But that didn't happen in this universe. There's a chance the Web didn't even exist in his childhood, and if it did, it had no reason to do anything to him. She had already achieved her goal of opening up the cosmic hole transportation. She had no need for Jon in this universe. (At least no need that we'd know of yet.) Which means that even if TMA!Jon and TMAGP!Jon were to meet, the conversation would not be an easy one. TMAGP!Jon could live in different city or even different country, have no idea of any spooky businesses, get pretty scared by a sudden appearance of his alternate universe self who both knows and Knows everything about him, and have no idea what the Magnus Institute is/was. It would not be easy to convince him everything's fine, that he can trust his double and his double's boyfriend, and to explain just what had happened and why they were there and why TMA!Jon knows so much and why this is not a bad thing (honestly, TMA!Jon and Martin would probably agree that it is a bad thing). .

Finally, we don't know how much Jon and Martin have changed. It's been a year, apparently, since they arrived in TMAGP universe. We know that A) only the Fears were supposed to get the ticket to the new cosmic hole transportation journey, since even the oldest avatars like Simon Fairchild were left behind B) humans did not fare well with the cosmic universe travel. Look at Anya Villette again: she seemed to have disappeared after a while (although this could be just an indication that her double had slightly different name in TMA universe, like Anna Villette or something, and that's why Jon couldn't find her or her double) C) Jon and Martin are now in a computer?? So, whether you believe it was just their voices that got through or if you'd like to think it is them, they must've changed a lot since we last heard of them. And I'm really curious to hear how and how much they've changed. How much of the Jon and Martin we knew remains? P.s. Since we could argue Martin died during the whole explosion-cosmic-transportation, and we know he was marked by the Eye and Lonely... Could he be an avatar now? If yes, which entity?

[ahappydnp]

do you know if dnp have ever talked about moomin? they definitely have a moominhouse tin (?) in the phitchen and i think what look like a couple different moomin mugs on the shelves.. i was just wondering if theyve ever talked about it and i missed it lol

they went to the moomin shop in festive ditl! and the moomin mugs were a gift from a fan (x)

also phil mentioning it