#yeah hi people who follow me for IZ and WH

[gay-ppl-real]

Love the trope of "Snufkin coming back late to the valley and Moomin attentively waiting for him" that Moominsummer Madness and the adaptations inspired by that aspect of that story have given us in the Moomin community, but I do feel sad that because of its popularity and the interpretation of this 'cold/tsundere Snufkin' who's aloof and off doing his own thing that so many people accept from that and The Spring Tune, so few explore the alternative.

The year that Snufkin arrives early, and the Moomins aren't awake yet. There's so much opportunity there! So many different ways it could go!

Does he set up his tent and wait? Go and spend the last few days with Too-Ticky? Let himself in to Moominhouse and go to sleep in his bed? (Drives me crazy that non-book readers have no way of knowing that pre-Finn Family Moomintroll he hibernated WITH the Moomins and he HAS A BED IN MOOMIN'S ROOM for when it's too cold or dangerous out for the tent. Grrr biting chewing gnawing) Does he quietly start prepping the house for when they do wake so that their spring workload is reduced? Does he wake Moomin up himself?

There are ways that all those events could make sense for his character, and I want to see themmm T-T