I just read what amounts to a character assassination of the Mymble. The author of this scurrilous description suggests that the Mymble “sleeps around” and is somehow a feckless mother in general. I find this an offensive and ignorant comment. Mymbles actually reproduce parthenogenetically and only use sex as a way to get someone to clean the house or do the shopping. When a Queen Mymble dies, it is the next eldest daughter that continues budding off othe mymbles. There are no male mymbles, merely sterile drones, so Snufkin is likely to be shooting blanks with his microphallus. It takes a true Moomin fan to have unearthed this starling and remarkable fact about Moomin biology.