#stpposting

[fogbreo]

the shifting mound is the light. and the long quiet is the prism. and the voices are broken shards of that prism. and the princesses are the dancing speckles of rainbow

[dangthatscrayz]

Do you guys think the long quiet does random bird things like puff up his feathers when he’s tryna flirt?

[fogbreo]

hi guys so like

im redoing this old smitten wip. so old that it was meant to be voice of the sexyman propaganda actually 😭😭😭 i feel like that welcome home image

like yeah hi guys. heres a little stp. as a treat. its been a long time since ive drawn it. ill return to my regularly scheduled mcyt/mcsr after finishing this smitten though its got a tight grip on me 🥹🙏

[fogbreo]

so like. the voices. people usually call their collective a flock but wouldnt it be fun to play with the "voice" aspect of their names? a cacophony, perhaps a melody? a choir, a chorus.

[fogbreo]

translating stp character names to tagalog for the fun of it. some of these wont be literal and will be vibes-based. feel free to give suggestions as im not the best at tagaog (despite being a native 🥹 sigh the effects of colonization..)

The Main Players

the long quiet: ang adarnang walang kibo (literary reference: ibong adarna/adarna bird) (the still adarna)

the shifting mound: ang pabagu-bagong wakas (the ever-changing end)

the narrator: ang tagapagsalaysay/manunulat (writer)

The Voices

voice of the hero: boses ng bida (bayani would sound better but it has patriotic connotations while bida is a literary term that refers to the protagonist)

voice of the broken: boses ng matamlay (low-spirited)

voice of the cheated: boses ng kapos-palad (unfortunate)

voice of the cold: boses ng manhid (numb)

voice of the contrarian: boses ng suwail (defiant)

voice of the hunted: boses ng ninaso

voice of the opportunist: boses ng manlilinlang (deceiver)

voice of the paranoid: boses ng balisa (anxious, restless)

voice of the skeptic: boses ng makatwiran (rational)

voice of the smitten: boses ng makisig (gallant)

voice of the stubborn: boses ng matatag (strong)

The Vessels

the adversary: ang kalaban

the eye of the needle: ang demonyo (demon)

the tower: ang tore

the apotheosis: ang bathala (god)

the fury: ang poot

the beast: ang halimaw (monster)

the den: ang yungib (cave)

the witch: ang mangkukulam

the thorn: ang tinik

the wild: ang kagubatan (forest)

the damsel: ang maria clara (literary reference: noli me tangere)

happily ever after: ang ilaw ng tahanan (the role of the mother in the household)

the prisoner: ang bilanggo

the cage: ang kulungan

the grey: ang pangitain (apparition, phantasm)/guniguni (imagination, hallucination)

the nightmare: ang bangungot

the moment of clarity: ang pagkagising (the awakening)

the spectre: ang multo

the princess and the dragon: ang prinsesa at ang dragon

the wraith: ang aswang (evil spirit)

the razor: ang talim

the stranger: ang estranghero

[fogbreo]

if smitten and cold didnt have an antagonistic relationship (or maybe even when theyre not in good terms?), i think they would go into an infinite loop of "what do you want?" "idk, anything" when ordering food. smitten is a people pleaser so he would order what he thinks cold wants but cold is that type of person who just cant be bothered with choices. anything goes, as long as its something. a burger isnt any different from chicken, its still food.

so Obviously, the solution is to order two of everything in the face of such uncertainty. and bc smitten wants to cover all his bases in case cold doesnt want what he ordered.

so smitten asks, "do you like it?" and cold always answers, "its food," much to his dismay.

[fogbreo]

i like to think that oppy has bad eyesight bc How on earth do you miss stabbing the princess in the heart when she has a huge X mark on it??? girl do you actually want her dead or not

[fogbreo]

this is the smitten. btw. if you can even hear me