Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

azirphales:

azirphales:
that one article about tove jansson which has the line like ‘her experience of growing up gay is there in the character of snufkin, who is all the more loved for being different’ i just………….. it makes my heart ache in such a gentle way
“In most fiction, family is what you escape from if you want to fulfil yourself. For Jansson, family is a place of tolerance, where we can fail and become ourselves. Her experience of growing up gay is there in Snufkin – who is all the more loved for being different. Like the prodigal son, everyone is so thrilled to see him, no one ever asks him where he has been. It’s there too, in Too-Ticky, Jansson’s portrait of her partner. And above all it’s there in the wonderful story where Moomintroll is transformed into the bug-eyed King of California, and his mother recognises him straight away.”

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04/17/19

queenoftheantz:

“and you are free to the magic
to whatever you want
but decide not to
and lie still.”
- The Moomin’s song

10/3/16

I just treated myself to the crosshatch brushset from Kyle who makes the best brush sets in the world so what better way to start messing about with using them than a bit of Tove Jansson

07/2/15

pavlovianmachinery:

Tove Jansson’s horses are so pretty.

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04/16/15

phoebe-bird:

Tove Jansson

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01/29/14

Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

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