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Slight aside: anyone who grew up reading Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books will remember the Groke—the closest thing that the Moomin world had to a monster. She spent
by _zzaw 5y ago
Slight aside: anyone who grew up reading Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books will remember the Groke—the closest thing that the Moomin world had to a monster. She spent all of her time wandering the world looking for warmth and (mostly inadvertently) terrifying people.
It’s interesting to me that they named their company after her.
- ethbr0 5y agoYou make me want to reread my childhood. I came across some Moomin coffee cups at a random thrift store, and bought them for my mother. For those who didn't have an odd American childhood like me (or a normal Finnish one?), context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins
- AstroDogCatcher 5y agoThere is one particular episode of the cartoon where the Groke is waiting in the field outside the Moonin house, then when they open the door she is gone... because she is now stood on the porch right beside the door. Still sends a shiver down my spine at 35.