Winter Doesn’t Equal Dead and Dormant

existential-suggestion:

agwitow:

I’ve seen a few things talking about how fall and winter are the time when life-driven beings/characters would struggle because everything dies and/or goes dormant. But that’s not true!

Plants that remain active during winter:

• Spruce trees (and other evergreens)
• Wintergreen boxwood
• Sweet box
• Mock rush
• Holly

Plants that bloom during the winter:

• Winterberries
• Snowdrops
• Witchhazel
• Camellia
• Christmas rose

Animals that remain active during the winter:

• Arctic fox
• Shrews and deer mice
• Caribou
• Lynx
• Polar bear
• Snow leopard
• Penguins
• North American river otter
• Chickadee

Animals that give birth during the winter:

• Bears
• Squirrels
• Badgers

Instead of portraying fall and winter as the time when our nature-based characters became lethargic, depressed, and/or distant, why don’t we show them being playful and incapable of sitting still? Or constantly baking, eating, and socializing. They could be extra flirty/frisky. They could be loud and jovial. Maybe they wear bright splashes of colour (like red, green, bright orange) to ‘pop’ against the snow. Maybe they get bit by the travel bug. There are lots of different ways for nature-based characters to behave!

Just something to keep in mind ^.^

also, speaking as a north/winter witch, there’s nothing wrong with death and dormancy. i consistently find the most magic in the times when most of the world is sleeping–in being one of the few awake, quietly standing guard till spring.