moomin love

I am giving up on my quest for moomin, having barely begun. This is because the nice things moomin that you can buy are from finland and cost about £20 for a MUG which I don't really want and I will break, and all the other stuff is from hong kong and is creepy crust and a rip off; it all looks like when i saw some Homer Simpson rizla at glastonbury about 11 years ago, a drawing of Homer made to look stoned with all bloodshot eyes, or like when people have t shirts with Mickey and Minnie having sex or something, you can recognise it as being the lovely childhood character, but then it distorts in front of your eyes and makes your knees weak and makes you want to cry! They call them Moomin HIPPOS as well, on the Hong Kong websites, IDIOTS! Moomins are TROLLS, the whole thing would take on a completely different angle if they were African Hippos living in Finland but made white! COme OONN CAn'T YOU SEe I'm ANnnnNGRYYYYYY!!!

I shall stick to collecting the books. After all, it is the stories which give pleasure and not the stuff.

Shall I tell you about Moomin? You really should read it, it is brilliant, I'm not just saying that, it's so amazingly drawn as well, Tove Jansson is some kind of genius.

So, Moomin is the crux of the moomin books, we meet him first, he is a boy moomin who lives alone and is too sweet to kick out his relatives when they come and take over his house, (his relatives look like wobbly sticks with eyes and hands and there's thousands of them, they're called Hattifatteners and they become electric in a storm) in the end he gets Stinky to move in who is like a hairy black brush with antennae, he is so stinky that they all leave, the drawback being that he eats moomin's house, with salt and pepper, slowly, starting in the attic.

Snorkmaiden is the love interest, she has a fringe and wears an anklet, her and moomin fall in love, but she is very shallow, so this love is by no means constant, she leaves for rich men sometimes and she is very vain.

Moominmama and Moominpapa arrive one day on a boat and are reunited with Moomin who they haven't seen since he was a baby. Moominmama is a good mama, she looks after everyone but is really quite vacant and goes along with everything rather than putting her foot down. She has quiet control though.

Moominpapa is a maniac. He wears a top hat and he craves adventure, he is constantly heading off on crazy excursions as he bores really easily, he is very self involved and puts his desire for pleasure over everything. This cause Moomin and Moominmama to worry. It is usually Moominpapa and Snorkmaiden who unite in this drive for adventure.

There are loads of other characters, Mymble and Little My are human-ish little girls with buns on their heads. Mymble falls in love a lot and competes with Snorkmaiden for affections of ski instructors and so on, Little My is incredibly scampish and is always doing very naughty things.

There's also a human-ish man with a green outfit and hat and a clay pipe called Snufkin, he's Moomin's best friend, he is a drifter, always travelling about and carefree. Sniff looks a bit like a kangaroo or a giant dog, he's a bit of a spiv and is always trying to make a bt of dosh but he's nice really. Stinky is the baddie, who comes up with bad schemes and gets Sniff involved.

There's loads more.... the main thing is that they are REALLY well written, they aren't like childrens' books, they have such an adult level. I Love LOVE them.