To whom it may concern

Thank you so much for a year of paid account time for the Eerie Indiana comm on Dreamwidth! I guess I'd better start by taking advantage of some of the amazing icons this fandom has made over the years! Thank you so much!

As some of you may know, a new Moomin animated series is currently seeking backers on Indiegogo. They have sixteen days to go and have raised almost 40% of their $200,000 goal.

As some of you may also know, I am a huge Moomin fan. The kind of fan who travelled 400 miles to see the Moomin exhibit at the Southbank Centre in London (seriously it was amazing, go if you get the chance) and is really bitter that I'll miss the exhibit at Kew Gardens this Easter, because if I wasn't attending a wedding I'd totally deal with Gatwick Airport again.

I grew up on the Moomins, first the books and then the 1990s cartoon as a kid, and the comic strip (and the cartoon again when the dvds came out) at university and beyond. When I was in college, my friends and I claimed the Church of Snufkin as our religion and "Snufkin's Tent of Wisdom" as our house of worship. We waged war on our rivals, the Church of the Breadlike God, which ended when we stole the Holy Loaf and ate him. My final project for A Level Media Studies was on children's entertainment as a way of conveying complex ideas in a way that a young audience can comprehend, and I chose it specifically because I wanted to talk about the Moomins.

The versions of the "core canon" books that I own are the ones I've had since I was seven, and the preface on each says that Tove Jansson lived alone on an island, because God forbid you mention an author's same sex relationship in a kids' book in the nineties.

I read the truth years later in various biographies, but my point is that the Southbank tour I was on was for all ages, and the guide straight up said that Thingumy and Bob were Tove Jansson and theatre director Vivica Bandler. They had a whole room about Too-Ticky and Tuulikki Pietilä and the way that her relationship with Tove Jansson shaped Moominland Midwinter.

Afterwards, in the privacy of my cheap hotel room , I full on cried that I hadn't had the comfort of knowing that as a kid, that I found out years later in books aimed at adults. I don't know that it would have made my own journey easy, but I think it would have made it a little less hard.

I really want this new series to get made. I want an animated version of Comet in Moominland, and I want a Moominpapa at Sea where Moominpapa is a selfish dick and the seahorses are shallow and beautiful and cruel, and I want the Hemulen Who Loved Silence on my screen in all his sad, quiet longing.

The Moomins aren't necessarily a fandom we have in common, I know. But we do have at least one fandom in common, and so, for every $5 you donate to the Moomin Indiegogo, I will either write you a minimum of 100 words of eerie_indiana fanfic, or draw you two pieces of shitty biro art. Just head over to the Indiegogo page, make your donation, then drop me a comment or a private message letting me know what name you've used on the backers page.

You can request specific characters and give me specific prompts, and if you donate more than $5, I can either do multiple drabbles or longer pieces. Sadly, donating larger amounts will not result in you getting bigger or better art, because this represents the limit of my artistic ability.

So, a few months ago, I was bemoaning the relative scarcity of EI fanart, and lipstickcat came along and was all like, did you know you can totally commission artists to do fanart for you, which for some reason was a thing that never occurred to me before even though I've commissioned clothes and jewellery, because idk sometimes I am a poobrained horse.

So I went off and asked some peeps whose work I liked and this totally amazing dude called Scott Weston, http://hoborobo.co.uk/, was all, YES I WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR QUEST, and I was like, SWEET HERE IS MY IDEA, and he was all, HERE IS WHAT I DID WITH IT and I was like HOLY SHIT THAT IS LIKE TEN TIMES BETTER THAN IT WAS IN MY HEAD.

And then I got keychains because I was like THIS WILL BE AN EXCELLENT GIVEAWAY TO CELEBRATE THE HALFWAY POINT OF OUR REWATCH, except that was like two weeks ago so for two weeks I've been like HURRY THE FUCK UP TIME I wanna show this sweet Eerie art!

And now we're offically past the halfway point, and you guys are all amazing and THERE ARE KEYCHAINS IF YOU WANT THEM.

Just PM me your address and you can have this SWEET FANART on your keys!

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Also, this is available to everyone on the comm, whether you live in the UK or the US or some other place, so please dont be shy.

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