i would like to give a huge thank you to @skruttet for giving me some subtitles to go off of! these subtitles were made using a mix of her google translated ones, my own hand-translated ones directly from the original finnish subtitles, and fact-checking from some finnish friends!
thanks so much to my friends who checked the subs! they are listed here:
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has nobody ever thought of how if snufkin represents independence and freedom due to his nature and characteristics while moomintroll represents comfort, familiarity, and home, both of them just inherently yearn for one another in a metaphorical sense
because moomintroll’s character arc is learning to be alone sometimes. he craves independence from his parents and those who coddle him, and eventually he achieves it. he yearns for independence, and snufkin embodies that.
snufkin is similar. he never grew up with a home, joxter/mymble having left him in a box as a child, and his very nature defies any semblance of staying put — he must wander, he must travel, and to do that he must not have many ties.
moominvalley — and, more likely than not, moomin himself — changes that, even if slightly. he will always wander. he will always crave a sense of travel and the freedom which comes from it. but at the end of the day, snufkin needs somewhere to return to, he yearns for it, and moominvalley, especially a particular moomin within it, provides that to him. snufkin yearns for home, and home to him is moomintroll.
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