Moomins

Uh, there's a l- I w- I've got low interest.

Um, I've seen, I've seen Adrian randomly watch the Moomins and the Raccoons on, like-

Oh, yeah.

[laughs]

What was inspiring you? You said Robin Hood and Bronze Age Warrior, but what, what else? What was your favorite?

I- my favorite books were probably from a very young age, and remain favorite books, um, are the Moomin books by Tove Jansson.

Oh, yes.

And the thing about them is even though they're kids' stories, they sort of aren't, and if you read them again and knowing how autobiographical parts of it are, and the fact that she is Moomintroll and the Snorkmaiden and, you know, and sh- it was at a time when she couldn't, um, basically be out, you know, as a, as a lesbian, so it's, you know, th- that is so clear.

And the fact that she had this kind of feckless, um, father who was a painter, and so was her mother, but her mother kind of grafted away and kept them all fed and everything, and her father was just, like, off on one grand scheme after another.

So if you know the books, you've got the characters of Moominmama and Moominpappa, and they're like that.

And all that just c- And also the fact that she'd come through World War II in Finland.

Mm.

Cut corner.

i'm quite excited because this weekend i'm off to see some moomins Do you remember the Moomins? Yeah, of course, I love it.

Moomin Mama, Moomin Papa, Moomin Baba.

Yeah, and the books are really nice to read, really short, and they're still nice at whatever age.

Oh, no, I'm talking about the girl I'm taking.

What's

the nasty girl in the Moomins?

Oh, I don't know.

But

an alien landing on the island of Lidingö, where I was born and raised, which is just outside of Stockholm, like a posh sort of little Moomin island.

So I started doing that, and then it turned out...

My first introduction to role-playing games was the Swedish game now known as Dragonbane, internationally.

I think one of the things that children need to know is that the world is infinite and various and awaits their courage.

And I think great children's literature, things like Pippi Longstocking and the Moomins, Northern Lights, Philip Pullman, Shana Jackson, Mallory Blackman, these are people who have created worlds that children can enter.

And when they are in them, they can find joy.

variety of ways of being a person who is able to give and receive love but also a variety of ways of being funny tough brave bold the greatest children's stories I think are about endurance about power about death about hope and I think we underestimate them at our peril because we need them both I think in childhood in childhood when they are the building blocks for joy and But also in adulthood, I think if you go back and read children's books in your adulthood, you can find in them some of that spirit of imaginative intensity and some of the process of discovery becomes lit within you again.

That is so relatable.

By filtering the script through her own immediate reality, Moomin unlocked a deeply cathartic understanding of the narrative.

She grounded it.

Exactly.

For 2,000.

In the Harry Potter books, which term is used to describe a non-magic person? Muggle, Moomin, Munchkin, or Minions? I'm pretty sure it's

Muggle.

So I'm going to say that's my