Last week I discovered this new Moomin game, and the Snook and I are both obsessed with it now. It’s basically Farmville, BUT WITH MOOMINS. It’s on iOS and Android, and it’s free (though you can pay for extras). Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go brew up some lingonberry syrup so I can throw a party for the Hemulen.

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Things I learned today:

• There is an official Moomin Twitter account.
• The Moomins also have a blog.
• There are a number of apps and games involving the Moomins, including an upcoming Japanese-made role-playing Moomin game where, if you register early, you get a digital hattifattener boat. DIGITAL HATTIFATTENER BOAT, PEOPLE.
• There’s a new animated film out called Moomins on the Riviera, which I somehow managed to miss entirely last year.
• I need every damn thing in the Moomin online shop, but also especially Snorkmaiden and Hattifatteners beach towels, plush Groke, this stunning duvet set, and WHOA, laptop stickers!
• That image, by the way, is from the live action 1969 TV series that featured human actors in giant Moomin suits, sometimes appearing without their heads! “Taking of the heads caused a Moomin fear among children in Sweden and Moomins were considered as a scary characters. Nowadays it is not allowed Moomins to show up without the head.” I BET.

Cook Like a Moomin. EEEEK! Moomin cookbook! Oh man, how cute. I’m not sure about how the Finns eat their fish, but I do enjoy lingonberries…

Moomins and the Comet Chase. That site – not to mention the movie – looks so amazing that I don’t even mind that it made me install Silverlight. Hooray for Moomintroll and Sniff and the Hemulen! I can’t wait.

Moominvalley – an interior design project inspired by the works of Tove Jansson. That looks really cool, but I can’t figure out what sort of a space it’s supposed to be. It looks more like the play area of an IKEA than something you’d have in your house. (Link shared by peacay on GoogleReader.)

“Bjork writes new song for Moomins film.” Yay! It sounds like Comet in Moominland is going to be filmed. That’s my favorite of the books by far. Sniff! The Snork Maiden! The Hemulen!