#moomin 80

[morebedsidebooks]

It must have been late in the afternoon one day at the end of August when Moomintroll and his mother arrived at the deepest part of the great forest. It was completely quiet, and so dim between the trees that it was as though twilight had already fallen. Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and further in among the shadows moved tiny dots of cold green.

— Moomin and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson, translated by David McDuff (1945)

[therandomginger]

HI YALL. I kinda evaporate but ITS FINE. Idrk what to say but I just wanted to say hi.

Also:

MINECRAFT MOOMIN HOUSE.

I MINECRAFTED THIS. AYYYYYYY

[pikapika0u0]

IK IM 2 DAYS LATE BUT , HAPPY MOOMIN DAYYYY ^^ I love the moomins , happy bday tove jannson

[spectrav10]

Moomins are now 80 years old, so I did something back in last year for this.

I have some other art for Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (with Rachel and Ralph), for the film being 6 years old.

Wow, I guess two anniversaries of my favorites in the same day, huh?

[morebedsidebooks]

Moomin 80th Anniversary

It was the winter of war, in 1939. One’s work stood still; it felt completely pointless to try to create pictures. Perhaps it was understandable that I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with “Once upon a time.” What followed had to be a fariytale—that was inevitable— but I excused myself with avoiding princes, princesses, and small children and chose instead my angry signature character from the cartoons and called him Moomintroll.

Born of a period of hardship, queer Finnish creative Tove Jansson would come to complete and illustrate the story that became Moomin and the Great Flood published in 1945. Introducing, though it wasn’t apparent at the time, what would become an iconic philosophical children’s book series with a message of finding refuge and embracing community.

Further that little angry animal resembling Moomintroll, a childhood doodle and addition to some of her paintings notably appeared in Jansson’s work for the political satire magazine Garm. Where she would criticize Hitler and others, later lending the Moomins anti-fascist connotations as well.

A changed world is perhaps why the first two Moomin novels are the more perilous with characters facing disaster, separation, even the possible end of the world in Comet in Moominland. Echoing war, the nuclear age and ecological concerns. Besides progress in Jansson’s craft, maybe also why the third book Finn Family Moomintroll, shifting from the late summer into autumn from the two previous books, beginning in springtime was actually the first translated to English. In fact it took The Moomins and the Great Flood quite many years to appear, while other Moomin books (and media) were revised and translated to many languages. (The English translators for the novels David McDuff, Elizabeth Portch, Thomas Warbuton, and Kingsley Hart.) Though the new home of Moominvalley would still give space and have its share of the disturbing. Another flood, winter’s cold death, a child made invisible by abuse but finding the safety to be seen again to name a few. Jansson was able to explore and let readers explore a world and perspectives in ways that were far from naive. Further by the end of the novels in 1970 with Moominvalley in November Jansson was battling with grief and the demanding success of her most popular creation. But still even if melancholic and in absence and goodbye offering a place of community. Of those touched by others picking up where they may leave off. As the Moomin 80 celebration motto: “The door is always open.”

Celebrating 80 years, the Moomins are still a story to turn to young or old. I know in uncertain times I’ve opened a Moomin book many times over.

[totallyhussein-blog]

Get ready for a Moomin celebration!

On the 9th August, do something special for Moomin Day! This year marks 80 years since 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' was first published and everybody is invited to this global celebration. How will you take part?

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they asked themselves how they could celebrate 80 years of the beloved moomins with a t shirt design, and the answer? seductive stinky.

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details about the moomin 80 refugee week events in gloucester