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Are you seriously fucking telling me that his BC look was the toned down version
This kid tried to blend in for months in his bullet decal pants and his leathers, then he hit CHAOS and his first question was “What’s the policy on capes?” and everybody just shrugged and he knew he was home
Be the fashion disaster your heart longs to be, Robbie Eagles.
They can’t understand you.
No but they know what I’m feeling.
god made rats for gay and trans people
god creating rats:
kylo stans are so heinous it’s all “he needs a redemption arc because it would be so important to show someone escaping fascist ideology but it didn’t count when Finn did it because I don’t like him (for totally non-racist reasons) and anyway seeing a violent abusive white man who’s a willing member (and leader) of a fascist regime be treated sympathetically is super good and not at all in poor taste considering the current political climate, this is obviously where the movies are going and if you think otherwise you don’t understand how stories work and you’re a fake star wars fan” and then they go update their true crime blogs and harass people on twitter
Sterling K. Brown making five minutes of screen time in Black Panther monumental and heart-breaking.
i heard moomintroll starts waiting for you the second he wakes up from his winter sleep.
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I absolutely love the fact that along with the new Moominvalley animation the Moomins and Tove Jansson are getting a new wave of hype and admiration online, but I wish that more people knew that while Tove was adorable and her works of literature are full of joy and happiness and kindness, she was also bad ass!!! She openly impeached pretty much everything that was considered proper behaviour at the time; she dated several men without marrying them when such was considered highly indecent, was one of the few Finnish artists ballsy enough to publicly criticize Hitler when Germany and Finland were allies in WW II, wrote several novels and short stories about same sex couples (though the romance was always kinda hid in plain view) when homosexuality was illegal or classified a mental disorder, and in 1992 she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä were the first same sex couple to attend the president’s independence day party, an incident after which several public figures accused Tove of “Openly desecrating the president”. I like to imagine that Tove had a big old laugh after hearing that one. So yes, she was a beautiful soul whose artwork fills our world with wonder, but do not forget for a second that she was also what we in Finnish like to call a “vitun kova muija”! May she dance and sip on cut brandy in the afterlife for an eternity.
Endless Ships - Todd Brotzman/Dirk Gently, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. “We’re meant to know each other.”
I've heard that the Moomin characters' original Swedish names originally had some wordplay and pun elements in them, but that they were unfortunately totally lost in the English translation.. do you know what words or phrases all of the characters' names come from? And maybe why their English names became so different sometimes?
Yes, many character names have either puns or reference other meanings in Tove Jansson’s life. Wikipedia page “List of Moomin Characters” actually has a pretty good explanation, but also below is a list of names with significant or funny meanings:
Snusmumriken (Snufkin) - a person who snuffs and mumbles, a crodgy old man who talks with a snuff. Basically a person who talks without manner or consideration.
Mårran (The Groke) - from Swedish verb “morra” which means “to growl”. According to some sources, mårran was also a term used by Jansson’s social circle to refer to homophobia.
Hemul (Hemulen) - from pretty traditional Swedish word “hemul” which means proper or rightful.
Hattifnattar - can freely be translated as small creatures that wander around or get excited over something.
Mymla (Mymble) - Used in Tove Jansson’s social circle to refer to love, especially between two women
Filifjonkan (Fillyjonk) - Fjonkan means a fussy woman
Tofslan & Vifslan (Thingumy and Bob) - Most importantly refer to names Tove and Vivica
Joxaren (Joxter) - a person who joker and messes around
Rådd-djuret (The Muddler) - the animal that messes around
The main reason why the names were changes is because Swedish words can be a bit hard for English-speaking children to understand and remember. They can also be hard to pronounce. This is the main reason why they were also changed for other languages like Finnish and Japanese. Many English names are actually very close to the original names and some are simple translations like Snorkmaiden.
There are some minor characters as well, please let me know if you want me to continue the listing.
To be specific, “Mymla” was a word Tove’s social circle used for sex between women.
@juostenkustu This is actually a pretty common myth, but the word actually refers to actual romantic love between women. Sexual intercourse is of course implied as part of it, but the word itself is for love. Tove Jansson had a rowdy sense of humour but she was also a sensitive and sensible person who respected her characters and wanted to keep her books rather clean.
Could be that the Finnish translations of her personal letters don’t convey everything from Swedish perfectly then, for in them it definitely comes across as a verb for making love, not just for dating. But regardless, there would be nothing unclean about it if it was indeed a word for sex, since it was a slang word used by a rather small circle of swedish speaking Finnish gay women and thus no child could have ever heard of it’s origin then, and given how the Mymbles are kind of symbols for womanhood in general, it would make sense for Tove to use such word as an inspiration for their name given how important her sexuality was in her experience of womanhood.
Sure Tove was sensitive, but she was also daring and in-your-face in a way very few artists of her time were; She wrote short stories and novels about same sex- love in a time when homosexuality was illegal or a mental illness, openly dated men without marrying them when it was considered highly inappropriate and drew mocking cartoons of Hitler when Finland and Germany were allies at war. Considering that, it would be very in character of her to hide a reference to how much she enjoyed sex with women into her works of literature.
I’m basing my comments on multiple academic sources and books on Tove’s life which address her work and smaller details like character names. I would say it comes naturally that for someone with Tove Jansson’s personality and background, love between women would also include sexual intercourse between women as well. But it would be a disservice to say that mymla simply translated to sex and that is not how people who have investigated her letters or talked with her social circle have taken it.
Tove was a bold artist, but she only sought to offend when it was needed. It would be rather different to use political satire to address issues with Hitler than name a character after adult themes in a children’s book. Tove was actually rather specific about the themes in Moomin books and things that could be associated with them. She was very adamant about keeping them clean and family friendly during her life.
Please don’t take this as me arguing or saying you are wrong per say, it is up to interpretation. I’m just drawing this from my library of Tove-related materials, as I rarely voice my personal ideas here.
Well regardless, at times they did definitely use it as a verb to specifically mean “to have sex”, unless the translator of her letters has gone completely hog wild. It isn’t that big of a deal honestly and I admit that in my first reblog I did simplify the matter a bit.
But as I said: “there would be nothing unclean about it if it was indeed a word for sex, since it was a slang word used by a rather small circle of swedish speaking Finnish gay women and thus no child could have ever heard of it’s origin then, and given how the Mymbles are kind of symbols for womanhood in general, it would make sense for Tove to use such word as an inspiration for their name given how important her sexuality was in her experience of womanhood. “
Hans Zimmer ain’t have to go this hard but WOO SHIT BOI DID HE GO HWARD
Honestly a better song than When You Believe, and should have been the one they pushed for that Oscar.
Hey folks it’s Passover again, and that means time to share the rawest opening number in all of animated cinema.
When Hans Zimmer stepped up to the podium during a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999 to discuss his score of “The Last
‘asexuality’ as a personal descriptor for how you experience sex and attraction is completely fine, for adults.
but it doesn’t hold up as a social identity and that becomes extremely obvious whenever you hold it up to literally any other social identity. race, gender, class, ability, religion, sexuality, all of these are coherent identities that come with shared social, cultural, and political experiences. all of these are also things that children can be. all of them (except for race) can change over time of course, but children are still these things.
children can’t be asexual. point blank. to say there are asexual children is to say there are non-asexual children which is by definition sexualizing children, and extremely vile. this is also why ace =/= lgbt, bc children can be lgbt but they can’t be asexual.
im not even gonna get into all the ways the “asexual community” is non-cohesive bc it would take too long, but more importantly, the asexual/non-asexual dichotomy is false. made up. a lie. not grounded in any sort of reality.
i think conceptualizing “asexuality” as a social identity and presenting it as a go-to option if you’re even remotely uncomfortable or uninterested with sex is…. bad. it’s just bad! sex is COMPLICATED and personal and everything from your upbringing to religion to sexuality to race to gender to dysphoria to mental health etc is going to factor into your relationship to sex. minors are developing their sexualities. young adults are figuring out their rltshp to sex. grown ass adults are also still figuring it out!
if you have spent time with yourself reflecting on your rltshp to sex and figuring out with makes you happy and healthy, and the conclusion you came to is asexuality, that’s COMPLETELY fine. good for you!
but that’s not an identity the same way that someone coming to the conclusion that they love sex and having sex all the time, is also not an identity. and it’s also a conclusion that only adults can come to. to send any other message just makes it harder for minors to safely figure out their own rltshps to sex and attraction.
you literally have people suggesting to 15 year olds that they might be ace bc they’re “not interested in sex like all their friends are.” that’s bananas. completely ridiculous at best, actively damaging at worst. like that’s a literal child, and it’s completely normal for 15 year olds to not be interested in sex. again, if you believe a 15 year old can be asexual, what does that say about how you think of teenagers in general?
i think we’re too far gone in this current cultural moment to like, recalibrate people’s understanding of asexuality. and it’s worrisome. all i hope for is that minors aren’t harmed / repressing their sexuality even further / getting into situations that are unhealthy for them / etc as a result of this cultural moment.
I've heard that the Moomin characters' original Swedish names originally had some wordplay and pun elements in them, but that they were unfortunately totally lost in the English translation.. do you know what words or phrases all of the characters' names come from? And maybe why their English names became so different sometimes?
Yes, many character names have either puns or reference other meanings in Tove Jansson’s life. Wikipedia page “List of Moomin Characters” actually has a pretty good explanation, but also below is a list of names with significant or funny meanings:
Snusmumriken (Snufkin) - a person who snuffs and mumbles, a crodgy old man who talks with a snuff. Basically a person who talks without manner or consideration.
Mårran (The Groke) - from Swedish verb “morra” which means “to growl”. According to some sources, mårran was also a term used by Jansson’s social circle to refer to homophobia.
Hemul (Hemulen) - from pretty traditional Swedish word “hemul” which means proper or rightful.
Hattifnattar - can freely be translated as small creatures that wander around or get excited over something.
Mymla (Mymble) - Used in Tove Jansson’s social circle to refer to love, especially between two women
Filifjonkan (Fillyjonk) - Fjonkan means a fussy woman
Tofslan & Vifslan (Thingumy and Bob) - Most importantly refer to names Tove and Vivica
Joxaren (Joxter) - a person who joker and messes around
Rådd-djuret (The Muddler) - the animal that messes around
The main reason why the names were changes is because Swedish words can be a bit hard for English-speaking children to understand and remember. They can also be hard to pronounce. This is the main reason why they were also changed for other languages like Finnish and Japanese. Many English names are actually very close to the original names and some are simple translations like Snorkmaiden.
There are some minor characters as well, please let me know if you want me to continue the listing.
To be specific, “Mymla” was a word Tove’s social circle used for sex between women.
@juostenkustu This is actually a pretty common myth, but the word actually refers to actual romantic love between women. Sexual intercourse is of course implied as part of it, but the word itself is for love. Tove Jansson had a rowdy sense of humour but she was also a sensitive and sensible person who respected her characters and wanted to keep her books rather clean.
Could be that the Finnish translations of her personal letters don’t convey everything from Swedish perfectly then, for in them it definitely comes across as a verb for making love, not just for dating. But regardless, there would be nothing unclean about it if it was indeed a word for sex, since it was a slang word used by a rather small circle of swedish speaking Finnish gay women and thus no child could have ever heard of it’s origin then, and given how the Mymbles are kind of symbols for womanhood in general, it would make sense for Tove to use such word as an inspiration for their name given how important her sexuality was in her experience of womanhood.
Sure Tove was sensitive, but she was also daring and in-your-face in a way very few artists of her time were; She wrote short stories and novels about same sex- love in a time when homosexuality was illegal or a mental illness, openly dated men without marrying them when it was considered highly inappropriate and drew mocking cartoons of Hitler when Finland and Germany were allies at war. Considering that, it would be very in character of her to hide a reference to how much she enjoyed sex with women into her works of literature.
I've heard that the Moomin characters' original Swedish names originally had some wordplay and pun elements in them, but that they were unfortunately totally lost in the English translation.. do you know what words or phrases all of the characters' names come from? And maybe why their English names became so different sometimes?
Yes, many character names have either puns or reference other meanings in Tove Jansson’s life. Wikipedia page “List of Moomin Characters” actually has a pretty good explanation, but also below is a list of names with significant or funny meanings:
Snusmumriken (Snufkin) - a person who snuffs and mumbles, a crodgy old man who talks with a snuff. Basically a person who talks without manner or consideration.
Mårran (The Groke) - from Swedish verb “morra” which means “to growl”. According to some sources, mårran was also a term used by Jansson’s social circle to refer to homophobia.
Hemul (Hemulen) - from pretty traditional Swedish word “hemul” which means proper or rightful.
Hattifnattar - can freely be translated as small creatures that wander around or get excited over something.
Mymla (Mymble) - Used in Tove Jansson’s social circle to refer to love, especially between two women
Filifjonkan (Fillyjonk) - Fjonkan means a fussy woman
Tofslan & Vifslan (Thingumy and Bob) - Most importantly refer to names Tove and Vivica
Joxaren (Joxter) - a person who joker and messes around
Rådd-djuret (The Muddler) - the animal that messes around
The main reason why the names were changes is because Swedish words can be a bit hard for English-speaking children to understand and remember. They can also be hard to pronounce. This is the main reason why they were also changed for other languages like Finnish and Japanese. Many English names are actually very close to the original names and some are simple translations like Snorkmaiden.
There are some minor characters as well, please let me know if you want me to continue the listing.
To be specific, "Mymla" was a word Tove's social circle used for sex between women.
Il materiale di origine: Star Wars: Episode IX (SWCC 2019)
Miserable dad needs help.
He will stop at nothing to ensure that this plan never sees the light of day. And now you’re in the line of fire.
