“Now at last, spring really has come to Moominvalley..”

“Aw no, of course. of course-!

—You have to be free! I understand.”

-Troll,Moomin 2019

I tried out that air dry clay that I revived from drying out uwu

Moomins by: Tove Jansson

Moominvalley by: Marika Makaroff and Steve Box

Scene taken from: Moominvalley season 1 episode 2, “The Spring Tune”

Clay sculpture by: me

The wip is here

Mattilda rants:

It kept breaking :”))

I don’t know how to make snowdrops :”))

DEAR LORD THAT SCENE MAKES ME SO SOFT!!!

Snufkin was hallucinating lmfao (hope it wasn’t hypothermia :(( )

I tried so hard to paint it as soft as possible :”))

That one plant was from my mum’s plastic flowers 😂😂😂

Are the eyes right? :0

Also like- I remembered that one moomin meme while I was doing a close up to the camera in a video call when someone did so in the house HAHAHA

so like- I did it with my own clay figure 😂

That meme really made my day at that time 🤣🤣🤣 (especially with that snufkin response HAHAHAHA)

(Does anyone mind maybe telling me where it came from/ the original moomin meme was from? I couldn’t find it anymore :”(( and I really wanted to source them too :00)

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Brushing off some music I've had in my pocket for some time, hopefully I'll be doing some recording over the winter. This came to mind, poetic words for creativity in general from a children's book by Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson. If you don't know The Moomins (which means most Americans), you're missing out:

It’s the right evening for a tune, Snufkin thought. A new tune, one part expectation, two parts sadness, and for the rest, just the great delight of walking alone and liking it.

He had kept this tune under his hat for several days but hadn’t quite dared to take it out yet. It had to grow into a kind of happy conviction. Then, he would simply have to put his lips to the mouth organ, and all the notes would jump instantly into their places.

If he released them too soon they might get stuck crossways and make only a half-good tune, or he might lose them altogether and never be in the right mood to get hold of them again. Tunes are serious things, especially if they have to be jolly and sad at the same time.

But this evening Snufkin felt rather sure of his tune. It was there, waiting, nearly full-grown – and it was going to be the best he ever made.

Then, when he arrived in Moominvalley, he’d sit on the bridge rail and play it, and Moomintroll would say at once: That’s a good one. Really a good one.

- from “The Spring Tune”, Tales From Moominvalley