#personified objects

Snow. It reflects everything.

Of the purest white on Earth, it reflects all color. There is a reason there is a color called “snow white”. Personally, I believe the princess should have been given a different name. She couldn’t possibly embody the color. The white is so pure it quickly blankets whatever is under it and makes it nearly impossible to know what lies beneath. Unfortunately, in all its pureness, it’s quickly tainted by any speck of dirt which causes spots to appear and ruin the mysticality.

The snow reflects all light, due to the billions of crystals embedded within a blanket on the ground. A spec of sunshine can be seen for miles above my its reflective personality. I feel the snow simply wants to say “hello” back to the Sun as its been so long since living in the sky. Reflecting without hesitation, it also often sparkles in the light; weather’s diamonds. Stealing the spotlight in fantasy, pure bright fantasy making way for a game with the sun to see just how long it will last.

Snow has multiple personalities it likes to juggle around. There is feather snow which lifts off the ground any time a breeze goes by and loves to dance with the wind. There’s fluff snow which is playful and moldable yet still crunches under your weight and begs for a snowball fight. There’s dense snow which is tougher to crack and even moreso to form, much more content to keep shape and sparkle in the Sun, now too lazy to do more than keep cold. With snow, quickly your hands grow cold from its contact as it itches to feel warmth again or perhaps to have its voice be heard.

Snow is quiet and prefers to silence the chaos around to favor the beautiful call of a bird or the rustle of the trees. Even the wind hears its plea as it is channeled over crystals and through snowfall - playing with the snowflakes. I implore you to find a quiet spot to listen to the wind through the snow. Hear the snow’s request for calm silence and the wind’s eerie answer, weaving through the swaying pine trees and over the blanketed rocks.

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An object's wants and needs being defined by their function is fascinating, seeing as many objects can be used for a lot of things they weren't intended to. This could make a wonderful commentary on breaking gender roles and stereotypes, but is more often used in place of establishing a distinct personality.

An object's wants and needs being defined by their personhood on the other hand creates a world where disability, transness and privilege can be addressed in a really cool way.

For disability it would be a character who's objective purpose makes them unable to do most labor, like a pair of glasses being to fragile, or a set of pinking shears not being able to cut like other scissors in a work environment that hires for objective function rather than ability.

Transness would be obvious, a switch between objective function, but it makes nonbinary people fascinating, specifically agender identities. It presents the idea that in a world that values specific, pre defined ideas and uses/castes you don't have to actually have to change or be something you aren't in order to cater to those ideas.

Privilege could be addressed by objects like tools being able to very easily get jobs and being held in high regards, while less versatile objects struggling to find work. There could also be objects having families of specific tools, like scalpels, getting good jobs (doctors in this case) just for being born an object used specifically for that job.

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