They probably have PRONOUNS too frothingfash

In all seriousness, as a kid I wondered why they looked like little pixie gnomes in American media when in Finland they typically look like smaller clones of Santa

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Earlier today I watched part of a 1976 Norwegian film called Reisen til julestjernen, and the nisser were literally just small children with mustaches glued on and dubbed over grown man voices.

    Thesis: bearded Scandinavian nisser/tomter

    Antithesis: American low-T pixie gnome style Christras elves

    Synthesis: the wonders of 1970s Norwegian cinema