by popular demand (literally 2 people lmao) i have decided to actually write the snufkin moominvalley theme song essay that i was screaming about here
I AM GOING TO GO THROUGH. EVERY. SINGLE. LINE.
so obviously this is snufkin just as he is leaving the valley yknow ‘fly away like a leaf in the wind’ OH MY GOD WAIT AS I WAS TYPING THIS I JUST REALISED THIS ALSO MIGHT BE REFERING TO THE FACT THAT AUTUMN HAS JUST ENDED BECAUSE THATS WHEN WINTER STARTS AND THATS WHEN ALL THE TREES LOOSE THEIR LEAVES IT JUST GOES DEEPER THE CONSPIRACY NEVER ENDS
anyways so originally i was confused about this because why would snufkin be refering to his mother??? we dont even know if he knows who she is??? BUT THEN I REALISED IT SAYS WHEN ‘YOU FLY AWAY’ NOT ‘I’ WHICH MUST MEAN THIS IS IN THE POV OF SOMEONE WHO ISNT SNUFKIN. yes i think we all know its moomintroll and moominmama is literally refered to as just ‘mama’ in the show thats pretty self explanitory.
im gonna be honest idk what ‘paper rolls from that other place’ means. the only thing i can think of is that maybe the ‘paper’ its refering to is snufkins letters? idk?
‘where the bluebirds sing’ i just looked it up (NOT ME DOING ACTUAL RESEARCH FOR THIS FUGYUTYDF) and most bluebirds migrate south in the winter so the ‘where’ its talking about is the south.
it says ‘my fantasy’ and this is in the pov of moomintroll so clearly its about something he wants. ‘on the coast’ means hes very close to it/getting it and ‘theres a hope for a change’ means that the thing he wants is something he specifically has to change something to get. this could be him wanting to still be with snufkin during the winter but it could also yknow. just be him being the queerest troll to ever exist TFGYYFGYUH
tbh this just reminds me of that one part of starlight (the song that plays at the very beginning of the series when moomintroll flies on a cloud with snorkmaiden)
^^^^ STARLIGHT LYRICS ^^^^ (NOT THE THEME SONG)
WAIT THIS ACTUALLY HAS WAY MORE SIMILARITIES THAN I THOUGH SGGFFGFDFG OK SO
yea im basically just stealing half this point from this video so just go to 2:39 lmao
i think we can assume the fantasy in starlight and fantasy in the opening are the same thing (its both in moomintrolls pov) and both the theme and this specifc verse are refering to how snufkin leaves every winter. so theres a lot of evidence for the fantasy simply being that snufkin stays with moomintroll during the winter or it could be the point the video was making about how the change/fantasy could be being in a romantic relationship with snufkin instead of snork maiden because yea they are pretty gay i dont think anyone is disagreeing there KJKASGGFIGAFG
OK BACK TO THE THEME SONG
ok i take it back this is right after the whole ‘on the coast of my fantasy theres a hope for a change’ and this sounds way more like some gay internal conflict instead of just something ambigiously platonic like wanting to be with snufkin during winter so either theory works i guess TFYGYFGYDYTFGY
STOP snufkin considers moominvalley his home im CRYING
‘im far away’ i think we can assume is about snufkin being pretty far south and because of the change in pronouns (‘my’) so the song has now switched to snufkins pov
i had no idea what ‘stars in the storm meant’ originally but the offical music video literally just shows a shot of moomintroll so damn i guess snufkin just called moomintroll a fucking ‘STAR in the storm’ these bitches gay good for them good for them
obviously the next part is just snufkin and moomin being gay this whole thing is just them yearning for eachother what did you expect and not even this song thats literally every song and also the entire show what did you expect
‘on my way back’ is just snufkin travelling back to moomin valley and ‘your door’ surely is refering to moomintrolls ‘door’ (moominhouse) because yknow. snufkin doesnt have a house. he doesnt have a door. and also this is still snufkins pov and it specifically says ‘your door’ so it cant be something that belongs to him.
wait im SCREAMING ok so ive just realised this line is clearly a parallel to ‘im, im far away from my home’ which means the ‘home’ snufkin was talking about earlier isnt just moominvalley BUT ITS ALSO SPECIFICALLY MOOMINHOUSE AND PROBALY SPECIFICALLY MOOMINTROLL im SCREAMING
to be honest im a bit lost with this second verse DFYUUYDRFUGY
OK SO I WATCHED THIS VERSE IN THE MUSIC VIDEO (0:58)
‘mama’ as we already established is refering to moominmama which means its probably moomintrolls pov again.
in the music video ‘from the house on the hills’ shows the moominhouse. this could just be because the music video shows loads of visuals from the normal opening sequence but it does literally talk about a ‘house’ which is ‘on the hills’ so i think its pretty self explanitory.
‘let it shine’ could be? kind of like?? when you ‘shine a light’ on something?? like revealing or realising something?? idk??? WAIT this might not make ANY SENSE but in the first line it says ‘take the light from the house (moominhouse)’. so if we assume this is the same ‘light’ thats being talked about and its some sort of revelation or realisation to do with moominhouse/the people (OR SOMEONE) living in it then TLDR: gay. the revelation is that he is gay for moomintroll. I rest my case. (this would then mean this verse is in snufkins pov tho and not moomintrolls???? idk this is all just theories yall im going insane ydtfuYTF)
‘foreign night’ is probably refering to the places snufkin has stayed during nights in his winter travels. mans realises hes gay during his south trip sucks to be him.
‘when all hearts are still’ is when the visuals of the music video fade to the first shot in the series (the one of the camera circling around moominhouse before moomintroll flies on a cloud with snorkmaiden). yea idk what this means but its probably something gay and maybe a bit angsty idk fgyUYDFGYGYF
NEVERMIND I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT ok so normally people interpret beating hearts as the person feeling romantic attraction so surely ‘when all hearts are still’ would mean a complete lack of that. interesting how it plays this line when showing the only shot in this whole video that is (the beginning of) a snorkmaiden and moomintroll scene. interesting.
but like i guess beating hearts could also mean feeling anxiety so it could just be refering to being calm idk tfgyuTFGYUFTYDF
i would also like to mention that the scene being shown is the same scene where the song starlight would play. BACK TO THE STARLIGHT LYRICS
^^^^ STARLIGHT LYRICS ^^^^ (NOT THE THEME SONG)
so weve already esablished 2 different interpretations of this verse but lets just assume its refering to moomintroll yearning to be more than besties with snufkin instead of dating snorkmaiden and just essentially being queer as fuck.
wow no way whats this??? the line ‘on the clouds of my fantasy’ plays conviently while the music video shows the scene where starlight plays?? the scene which literally shows moomintroll on a ‘CLOUD’??? which also conviently happens to have a song that talks about a fantasy??? wouldnt it be crazy if all these coincidences were hinting to it all being the same fantasy??? wouldnt that be crazy????
‘we’ll be pushing the storm’ wow no way that also seems familiar??
remember this lyric?? when snufkin refers to moomintroll as a ‘star in the storm’?? what a crazy coincidence???
‘we’ll be pushing the storm’ could more specifically mean ‘pushing for the storm’ so possibly pushing for some kind of conflict? maybe the ending of snorkmaiden and moomintrolls relationship if were going to assume the lyric directly before (‘on the cloud of my fantasy’) is refering to the undeniable not heterosexuality going on between moomintroll and snufkin fytfyfyuUYG
i think we all know this part is refering to snufkin coming back to the valley
and then the final part of the song is just the chorus again bUT THIS HORRIFICALLY LONG TUMBLR ESSAY IS NOT OVER YET
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO PUT FORWARD A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THEORY ABOUT THIS SECOND VERSE VGYFTYGHYFG
so alternativley this verse could be a metephor for the moominhouse acting as some sort of lighthouse for snufkin when he returns
there is a lot of talk of ‘light’ coming from moominhouse in the first 3 lines. ‘let it shine in a foreign night’ weve already established that ‘foreign night’ is refering to the places snufkin stays during nights in winter and if we assume the ‘shine’ is coming from moominhouse or moominhouse itself then this turns it into a kind of metaphor for moominhouse being a lighthouse to snufkin (something that leads him back to the valley) IF THAT MAKES LITERALLY ANY SENSE
anyways yea then snufkin is led back to the valley nice good for him
ALSO this is EXCATLY WHAT HAPPENS IN SNUFKINS DREAM SEQUENCE (which has an absolutely stunning title btw)
at 1:13 he sees a light coming from moominhouse (’the light from the house on the hills’ ‘let it shine in a foreign night’)
then relaxes which means his heart rate would slow down (’hearts are still’)
‘on the clouds of my fantasy’ this is a dream about him returning to moomintroll this is quite literally the definition of a fantasy
‘well be pushing the storm’ (1:32) this is when hes reminded of his fears of being forgotten
‘so ill be where i need to be’ (1:45) this is when he returns to moominhouse
then the chorus begins again
its talking about how hes ‘far away from (his) home’ again so the begining of this chorus could signal when when he wakes up from the dream and is still in the south
then the final line is him deciding to go back to moominvalley (tO sEe mOoMinTroLl aS a mAtTeR oF fAcT i rEaLlY wAnT tO sEe hIm)
guys PLEASE i spent 2-3 HOURS WRITING THIS IM GOING INSANE
ANYWAY SHOUTOUT TO @syrene04 AND @frognun69 FOR BEING THE 2 PEOPLE WHO TOLD ME TO DO THIS SDTYETSRDYRD
