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dragonlady7Tove Jansson is dead!!
*weep*
no more Moomintroll, no more Snork Maiden!!!
You know, she sold the rights to a Japanese company to pay for medical bills? Isn't that horrible?
She was also bisexual. That's pretty cool.
To tell the truth I never knew much about her, and wasn't even sure whether she was male or female, until I read the obit. online. *shrug* I just read all the books as a kid and absolutely loved them. Enough so that my first online identity was The Snork Maiden, when i was in high school--- that's how I signed my emails back then. I didn't have the penguin vest yet, from whence came the PenguinQueen nickname, and I hadn't come up with the title of Our Lady of the Seventh Purple Dragon of the Mountain Hall yet (that one came not so long ago, i think-- i don't remember, but i have a vague notion it was in college that i came up with it, or thought to standardize it at all. I know originally Laureleai's dragon was blue-green/turquoise, in the early '90s; she didn't become purple until later when I grew away from Abbie a little bit and started making up new ideas on my own about the dragons.) But anyhow, I was the Snork Maiden in 1995 or so... just to have some kind of creative name for myself. I think I even managed to change my name within telnet, back when I was still bridkell@emma.troy.ny.us ... i got such odd email back then. I think they changed me to bkelly@emma.troy.ny.us my senior year... wonder if they've deleted that one yet. I should surf around Emma some more...
I just didn't appreciate how cool it was to have webspace in 1995. I wish I'd made a website then... oh well. Kearlet tried to teach me HTML then, and i made a page, but i never did anything with it.
You know, i don't even remember her IM name? And where did she end up going to college? I wonder if she kept studying Latin... Caecilia erat puella intelegens. Cornelia erat mihi nomen...
...
i wonder if they still have those 4 random PCs in the basement of the library?
I wonder what kind of computer program they have. I hope they offer programming classes.
I wonder if they'd hire me to teach a practicum in computer literature...
hm... i should contact people there.
anyhow, a little trip down memory lane... i haven't been able to find any Tove Jannson artwork online, which makes me sad. I must go home and find those books and read them all again; such wonderful strangeness and anarchy. She had a character that was basically an embodiment of Nordic depression... and another who was a total anarchist... there were some wonderful allegories in there, but the stories functioned perfectly well on the surface as simply entertainment for young children.
I think Aunt Judy sent us the books. They were sweet...
*weep*
no more Moomintroll, no more Snork Maiden!!!
You know, she sold the rights to a Japanese company to pay for medical bills? Isn't that horrible?
She was also bisexual. That's pretty cool.
To tell the truth I never knew much about her, and wasn't even sure whether she was male or female, until I read the obit. online. *shrug* I just read all the books as a kid and absolutely loved them. Enough so that my first online identity was The Snork Maiden, when i was in high school--- that's how I signed my emails back then. I didn't have the penguin vest yet, from whence came the PenguinQueen nickname, and I hadn't come up with the title of Our Lady of the Seventh Purple Dragon of the Mountain Hall yet (that one came not so long ago, i think-- i don't remember, but i have a vague notion it was in college that i came up with it, or thought to standardize it at all. I know originally Laureleai's dragon was blue-green/turquoise, in the early '90s; she didn't become purple until later when I grew away from Abbie a little bit and started making up new ideas on my own about the dragons.) But anyhow, I was the Snork Maiden in 1995 or so... just to have some kind of creative name for myself. I think I even managed to change my name within telnet, back when I was still bridkell@emma.troy.ny.us ... i got such odd email back then. I think they changed me to bkelly@emma.troy.ny.us my senior year... wonder if they've deleted that one yet. I should surf around Emma some more...
I just didn't appreciate how cool it was to have webspace in 1995. I wish I'd made a website then... oh well. Kearlet tried to teach me HTML then, and i made a page, but i never did anything with it.
You know, i don't even remember her IM name? And where did she end up going to college? I wonder if she kept studying Latin... Caecilia erat puella intelegens. Cornelia erat mihi nomen...
...
i wonder if they still have those 4 random PCs in the basement of the library?
I wonder what kind of computer program they have. I hope they offer programming classes.
I wonder if they'd hire me to teach a practicum in computer literature...
hm... i should contact people there.
anyhow, a little trip down memory lane... i haven't been able to find any Tove Jannson artwork online, which makes me sad. I must go home and find those books and read them all again; such wonderful strangeness and anarchy. She had a character that was basically an embodiment of Nordic depression... and another who was a total anarchist... there were some wonderful allegories in there, but the stories functioned perfectly well on the surface as simply entertainment for young children.
I think Aunt Judy sent us the books. They were sweet...
