Obscura’s Reviews > Moominland Midwinter > Status Update

"It was pushing through the warm spot under the south window, but wasn't even green yet.
'Let's put a glass over it,' said the Snork Maiden. 'It'll be better off in the night if there's a frost.'
'No, don't do that,' said Moomintroll. 'Let it fight it out. I believe it's going to do still better if things aren't so easy.'
Suddenly he felt so happy that he had to be alone."

"‘Now the bathing-house is vacant again!’
‘I’m of the opinion that the only one who can live in the bathing-house after this is Too-ticky herself,’ said Moominmamma. ‘To have a bathing-house is a bit coddling, really. One can just as well step into one’s trunks on the shore.’"

Mamma has immediately become my new biggest comfort character

"‘And he had sat half the winter just whining and pasting transfers on the walls.’
‘I know, I’ve seen them,’ said Moominmamma. ‘He must have felt
very lonely.’
‘Then he went and found some kind of an old ancestor of yours,’ Little My continued.
‘Let him tell the story himself when he awakes,’ said Moominmamma. ‘I can see that lots of things have happened while I slept.’"

Moominmamma I Love You.

Moominmamma waking from her hibernation the second her child falls ill, neverminding anything that happened to the house and rushing to put him to comfort is quintessential mother behavior

"‘Do people call you the squirrel with the marvellous tail?’ Moomintroll asked slowly.
‘Of course,’ said the squirrel.
‘Is it you?’ cried Moomintroll. ‘Is it really you? Who met the Lady of the Cold?’
‘I don’t remember,’ said the squirrel. ‘You know, I’m not very
bright at remembering things.’"

HE'S BACK!!! 😭

"‘I hope the silly asses won’t be hopping out here to save me,’ she
thought. ‘That’d spoil everything.’"

I just cannot with this b!tchs negativity oh my god

"Remember, I said once: “There were a lot of apples here.” And you just replied: “But now here’s a lot of snow.” Didn’t you understand that I was melancholy?’
Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. ‘One has to discover everything for oneself,’ she replied. ‘And get over it all alone.’"

2/2

bro uses the "throw them to the wolves" method. I like her

"‘Now the bathing-house’ll be a bathing-house again,’ she said. ‘When the summer’s hot and green, and you lie on your tummy on the warm boards of the landing-stage and listen to the waves chuckling and clucking…’
‘Why didn’t you talk like that in winter,’ said Moomintroll. ‘It’d
have been such a comfort."

1/2

"The room was filled with a smell of night and firs, and Moomintroll thought: 'Good. A family has to be ventilated at times.' He went out on the steps and stared out into the damp darkness. 'Now I've got everything,' Moomintroll said to himself. 'I've got the whole year. Winter too. I'm the first Moomin to have lived through an entire year.'"

"'I'm wise to you now. You're no worse than anything else when one gets to know you. Now you won't be able to pull my leg any more.' And the winter danced him all along the snowy shore, until he stumbled across the snowed-in landing-stage and ploughed his snout through a snowdrift. It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them any more and would like to have a little fun.’"