can someone explain the moomin lore

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  1. Sure. The moomins live in a valley populated by weird ass people with weird ass names.

    Snufkin is a bit shady but wise, likes to fish and travel. Sniff is a greedy dolt. Hemul likes to collect plants and might be secretly gay. Little My is a small annoying girl with a heart of gold. Fillyjonk is just annoying. Stinky is a dick, the Hattifatteners are weird electric dildos, the Hobgoblin rides a flying spacepanther and the Groke will haunt your dreams. Oh, and the Moomins are white plumpy critters.

    They go on adventures and it gets dicy at times but it all ends well with a pancake party.

    And we love them.

  2. It’s quite a tall order to ask someone just explain the whole thing for you here. You could just look it up yourself. All the info you need is available

  3. A Finnish women lived her live in a hut on an isolated island in the archipelago, started seeing all sorts of imaginary creatures, and boom, decades later we’ve got the Finnish most beloved fictive world and characters.

  4. During the war of the shattering, the being we call now Muumipappa was defeated by the Alliance of Good and Wisdom. His dark hat of evil was hiden in the depths of Mount Darkness, south of the forest of death.
    But eventually, that kangoroo guy found the hat and returned it to his dark master. Now he sits and waits in his Valley of torment and pain, waiting to gather strenght and multiply, so he will, eventually, have a army powerfull enough to take down his arch-nemesis Santa Clause.

  5. Why they have no genital apparatus while there are female and males? How are they born? 👀

  6. It is an analogy of idle burquoise life of Finland-Swedes. Many of the characters have roots in the close circle of the writer.

    Tove made the groke as image of herself.

  7. Visit Tampere’s Muumimuseo, and you will kind of understand.

    According to my personal experience, they are some kind of spiritual creatures, in a very close relationship with the nature around them (the forests, the sea and rocks), and with other, further mystical characters. Some of them are quite scary in my opinion, but even the scary ones are turn to be calm and they go on their way. It’s not a regular fairy tale / cartoon for sure. And all of this, somehow perfectly fits to Finnish way of life.

  8. Snufkin travels abroad every now and then to restock on snus. Everyone sleeps off kvitten punch hangover for all winter and Mörkö is a sad loner.

  9. Moomintroll seems super friendly but takes savage revange on anyone who tried to hurt his friends. Like lureing the Ant Lion into a magic hat that he knows turns water into raspberry juce, so basicly intentional murder. Once he also locked Stinky under a pile of rocks to die and once left Stinkey hanging from a rope over a fearsome river with sharp rocks.

  10. I think all the lore that one needs is on Klovharu Island. Finno-Swedish coastal culture has it’s own fling to the rustic naturalistic identity that comes with ships, sailing, islands, piers, beach houses and thin cottages.

  11. They used to smoke weed and drink whiskey before they had life habit change. (For real)
    Snufking is psychotic and chaotic. (For real)
    So is Lil My. (For real)
    Papa moomin has shotgun. (I guess in Moomin world gun lisence don’t exist.)
    That one guy stinks. ( Don’t remember name, but it’s obvious.)
    Moomins are real. (Says the legend.)

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