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Moomin Valley

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This is a community for all things Moomin.

The Moomins is a franchise created by finnish author/illustrator Tove Jansson. It features a vast amount of comics, TV series, movies, books and games, telling various stories mostly set in moominvalley.

If you are new to the Moomins, this video essay is a fantastic starting point to learn about this family-owned franchise.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh-oh. The helicopter is upset.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just what we need: a down helicopter

[–] m_f@discuss.online 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it can stand up to anything but a typhoon or a tornado. Kind of feels like the helicopter could've flown just fine but decided to crash land just because.

The tornado was pretty far away too, so the urgency to land, however unsafely, seems strange.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Little friend: "Aight imma head out"

[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that Shadow? Looks very similar to https://discuss.online/post/17415320, but has a white belly instead of being all black.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The original little friend had a white belly.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/21872961

Shadow replaced him when he got married.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Do we know what this one's name is?

EDIT: To answer my own question, it appears not. Swedish text here says in English:

Sofus is a small black animal that accompanies Moomin and helps and to some extent imitates him in some of Tove Jansson's episodes of the series, something that is reflected in his English name Shadow, which means "shadow". In the first episode, it is Sofu's cousin who has this role, but the cousin then does not have time to be in the series anymore and hands over to Sofus at the beginning of the second episode. The name of Sofu's cousin is never mentioned in the series