#from the ringleader

[the-alakazam-attraction]

THIS IS A PSA (Probably Stupid Al)

YOU ALL

ARE VERY COOL :3

#from the ringleader #al the ringleader #al being a dumbass

[ringleaderising]

"the production line has had a number of clear successes. I'll forward you their technical specifications... we may encounter some issues when they fall in battle, but our testing shows there is a very, very small likelihood of that, sir."

WAR MACHINES - 2498440

DOG OF WAR - 2498444

DOG BITE BACK - 2498447

HONOR MACHINE - 2498451

#flightrising #flight rising #FR #Dragon Dress up #Flight Rising Outfits #Ringleader's Atelier #This genuinely looks good on most breeds #some might benefit from swapping the jaw enhancement and the helmet around #but I prefer the idea of the jaw sealing the helmet shut and not the other way around and the clipping on most poses is minimal #you could also throw in the filigree boots from each set to gap-fill but this is already a very very full outfit. #14 pieces to be exact. obviously some poses can live without certain leg pieces to reduce the number

[mary-mythos]

Reposting from Instagram, but basically I'm gonna be doing more little character sheets like this, so hopefully I'll remember to post them lol

#michael afton #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf fanart #ringleader #character sheet #fnaf from the ashes

[pochapal]

in the aftermath of Beatrice speaking for the first time, what do you think are the biggest holes in the Genji Culprit Theory you've been building? you've mentioned having some doubts in it a few times now.

very tentative thoughts here but it basically boils down a number of curious contradictions i can't quite resolve.

first major thing massively concerns meshing genji culprit theory with the "natsuhi and krauss covered up kinzo's death for embezzlement reasons" theory. evidence in the story i think quite firmly points to the old man having been dead all along, which means that several questions need to be asked about why the terminally devoted genji let things play out as they did.

there's also the fact that the last few chapters have been very almost obviously leaning towards the Genji Culprit Theory with natsuhi outright declaring it at the height of her paranoia. i think the major point of the study scene is to indicate that everyone's suspicion and biases are leading them to completely incorrect conclusions (maria being culpable, kumasawa killing kanon, battler's assumption that beatrice and kinzo are on the same side) and thrown in among that is natsuhi's accusation that genji is the ringleader with the servants as his accomplices. by the logic of the story for that to have a grain of truth the theories it's juxtaposed with must also contain some grain of truth, and the rest of them are so blatantly false as to cast doubt on what is at this time the only theory left with a solid foundation. genji culprit theory was reached by a process of elimination and getting somewhere by default is different to pointing to one theory among a sea of equally likely ones.

the other thing is that genji's actions have been deviating from what it's looking like kinzo's scheme was. it's now appearing that kinzo's plan was to annihilate the family he loathed and bequeath his wealth and riches to his furniture servants as incestuous vicarious surrogates of himself and beatrice. kinzo setting shannon and/or kanon up as possible successors is something the story's not been shy about hinting to and while the chess metaphor does make it clear that there's a disconnect between kinzo's true desire and what's unfolding, it feels odd that the culprit's actions have totally sabotaged that so many times. genji knowing about whatever happened to beatrice is likely an indicator that he also knows about kinzo's furniture successor thing, so under that framework genji specifically letting kanon die does not make a shred of sense. shannon dying as an unfortunate accident due to factors beyond his control is one thing, but kanon? it's incongruent in a way that's hard to ignore.

basically outside of the weird chess metaphor stuff my problem is that genji has been portrayed as deeply and immovably devoted to kinzo where it's clear he would do anything to uphold his beloved master's will, but so much of beatrice's mission statement is directly meant to undermine kinzo and tarnish his legacy. this speaks to either the loyal servant personality being a total ruse hiding someone as desperate and resentful as kanon was, or this speaks to someone else involved in everything that has the gumption and drive to attack kinzo like he has been. the bulk of the events have not gone according to kinzo's plan, so it becomes a question of whose will is being accommodated here?

and finally more than all that is the fact that beatrice spoke in this chapter, and it was with her own voice. not only that, but she spoke in a room devoid of magic and illusion, meaning that for all intents and purposes beatrice has now been effectively defined as her own discrete entity separate from genji. the obvious read from that is that if you accept beatrice as true and tangible, then the culprit definitionally cannot be genji. he upholds the witch's narrative, but he himself is not the witch, which obviously casts major doubt on how you assume this situation is set up.

#fatesealyou #genji's culpable but so much of what's happened contradicts the way genji present himself and his feelings #like either genji holds some hatred for kinzo or there's someone else involved too #the problem with that is Genji Accomplice Theory leaves us with zero potential ringleader suspects so where do you go from there #very circular thinking with no conclusion yet but this is roughly where i'm at

[heraldofcrow]

I notice you have a theme for liking stabby people

Ciaran in DS1

The Crow and Eileen in Bloodborne

So who's your Elden Ring stabby blorbo?

(I leave shiny pebbles as a symbol of goodwill between the squid people and the crows)

BIM WE OF THE CROWS ACCEPT THIS GRACIOUS OFFERING OF SHINIES FROM THE BENEVOLENT SQUIDLINGS!

Also, HMMM SO YOU NOTICED! Yess, I do adore my stabby blorbos (Eileen, Ciaran, and Crow could stab me and I’d thank them tbh).

For Elden Ring, it probably will come as no surprise that, besides the beloved sword-birds, my favorite stabbers are the Black Knives. I love this Nazgul girl gang so much lol.

Especially Alecto!

(Ok, that’s not a picture of Alecto but anyway 💀)

My favorite headcanon is that Alecto was Marika’s elder sister, and they were both Numen royalty long before the Greater Will chose Marika as queen of the Lands Between. The other Black Knives were Alecto’s daughters and cousins. Thus also related to Marika.

Something went wrong, they fought, became enemies, etc.. can you tell I like a side of tragic siblings with my stabbers yet? 🤣

I may be projecting a little bit of Ciaran onto Alecto, but I just like the conflicted, morally-grey assassin archetype so much. Also Alecto’s fight is beautiful idk.

CHEERS M8!!

#STAB #tiche is my fav summon like everyone else sndbssj #she’s so cool #but i was drawn more towards alecto as a character for some reason #i think she was a tired goth mom that wanted to bring marika down #out of both mercy and anger somehow #like she saw marika’s darker side and knew it had to be suppressed #but she also knew marika needed to be set free from her puppet master #so Godwyn was a necessary sacrifice #i think ranni only meant to free herself but alecto took things into her own hands at some point #and everything went to hell #idk i have all these ideas on it #but most of all STAB #HAHAHAA #alecto elden ring #black knife ringleader alecto #elden ring #asks #mutuals

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Looking back on my childhood...some things become much funnier and also much sadder in hindsight.

#when i was in school for a brief window before my parents decided to homeschool us #there were two girls about two years older than me who i retrospectively realize were trying quite hard to bully me #(and did in fact bully many other girls...so badly in fact that there was a lawsuit and several children were pulled from the school) #the one girl was the ringleader and would rile up the other girls in her class and her special pet henchman would help her #they used to say really awful things about and to me #i have one very vivid memory of the three of us playing all alone at a park and we were fighting over what was essentially a kiddie-zipline #we were all three taking turns but the ringleader and her pet henchman wanted it to themselves #so they started telling me to go away and play by myself #i knew they weren't allowed to tell me to go away and i didn't want to go away #so i just kept taking my turn #when they tried to jostle me away i jostled back (and i was a very sturdy five year old) #when that didn't work they tried to tell me that they didn't like me #and i told them very frankly that that was okay because i didn't like them either #then they tried to tell me that NO ONE liked me #and i listed off three other girls who did like me #so they told me those other little girls had told them that they were just pretending to like me #and i told them that no i was pretty sure netty and angie and kayla wouldn't say that-- #(the most hilarious things was that these girls had never met kayla to begin with--a fact i was quick to point out) #--and that they were just saying that so they could hog the playground to themselves #it went on and on like that until all three of us had to go home #and i was completely unfazed by the whole thing #i only realized when i was MUCH MUCH older how vicious they were trying to be #but i was used to fighting with my siblings and that's how you warded off that kind of attack #you had to be matter-of-fact and a little brazen and never let anyone jostle you off the playground! #(not being afraid to tattle-tale was another asset XD)

[bijoumikhawal]

For the ship ask game: Sisko/Garak, Kira/Dax, O'Brien/Bashir

Sisko/Garak: ship it!

What made you ship it? I Do Not Remember. It may have been @ectogeo-rebubbles ITPM fic and it gradually grew on me but I don't know what to do with I now.

What are your favorite things about the ship? 1. Potential analysis for a very different way of being intimate with Garak, for one. With Julian he's always performing a bit, and his intimacy with Julian is cloaked in layers of complications and subterfuge- they're both very used to performing, performance is how that communicate. I find their dialogue often very easy to write because they're both very witty and vaudevillian (it's a dynamic some of the guys from my attempt at an audio drama have lol). But with Sisko I've noticed that Garak has points where he drops the jovial attitude and is very straightforward with him, kind of like he's dropping a ruse. It's not that Sisko doesn't enjoy those mannerisms of Garak's- as I think @wanderingwriter87 pointed out, Sisko appreciates Garak's bits- or that that's false behavior from Garak, but it's a kind of unmasking Garak is not prone to allow. 2. There's a very different power dynamic between them- perhaps controversial but during the run of the show I think Garak is put in a weak position, powerwise, compared to the vast majority of other characters as an exile who does not seem to have his citizenship sorted out. Socially, however, there are ways he wields power with Julian or even like, Quark where he's clearly got an upper hand that he doesn't with Sisko, who is of the same generation as Garak. Like, Garak does very notably manipulate him, but not the way he does with other people. And 3. Comparing and contrasting the social contexts they come from. Obviously Hebitians are like, my blorbo culture, but they're both middle aged men who adore children, and are pretty family oriented! However Sisko has a pretty healthy relationship to his family and Garak's family is an... on fire dumpster. Garak is very loyal to his father and craves his love and needs his approval for survival, while also calling him a monster and wishing him dead. Sisko seems to have trouble understanding that other people have severely negative relationships to their parents that may not be able to get resolved (it happens at least twice) because his father has been a good man to him. And to top all that off, Sisko has a son who's coming into adulthood! Children are their own whole people! Family is not a physically distant concept for him!

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I don't think there are popular opinions... maybe that I don't think Garak actually caught Sisko as off guard as people act like he did during IPTM. Like, Sisko’s anger is less about what Garak did and more about the fact that he knows what he did. Sisko knows who garak is, what he's capable of, and if not specifics of what he used to do, the kind of things he used to do. Hell, this is after Garak went to jail for trying to do mass murder. Sisko was planet side during that!

Kira/Dax: I have no hard feelings on it, but I think saying I ship it is lesbian-pair the spares type cheating. I find Kira interesting and have been trying to read more stuff about Jadzia to understand more about her, but I don't rotate them in my head as much separately or together to feel like it counts. I think I've written more like- character analysis? On Kai Winn than on Kira through my perspective of her as a martyr-that-wasn't and how I think DS9 fails to accurately understand and critique the religious context Bajor exists within. Which is funny, because I like Kira and think Winn is a super shitty person- I've mostly ended up thinking about her more because people have such bad takes about her.

O'Brien/Bashir- I don't ship it

Why don't you ship it? Honestly I genuinely think Miles is straight, I don't think his and Julian's relationship has that kind of intimacy and I struggle to understand the intimacy they do have as friends (Miles being an "everyman" means he's a bit of a "shittyman" and we'd be fine co-workers- he's a lot better than some of the people I worked with in welding, which is like winning and award for tallest dwarf- but I would not voluntarily talk to him on off hours). And frankly any openness I've had to it has been killed by the shitty and annoying behavior I've seen from Jiles fans towards their "competition". I'm sure some of it isn't like- sincere? But it's a style of humor and behavior I find rude and off-putting. Also like- I don't like how most people talking about it regard Keiko.

What would have made you like it? You could maybe analyze how Julian thinks he knows what's best for people and that makes him more inclined towards decisions in intrapersonal relationships that really are bad for everyone, I did read a ficlet like that once with it that I found compelling

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? I do think it can be an interesting analysis of repression on Miles's part and I hope people have fun with it

#cipher talk #ds9 #Plus the ringleader of the bad behavior for Jiles stuff made fun of the scene where Julian gets SAed by fake Jadzia in IWWH that I find #Really fucking disgusting as a 'male' SA survivor who is aware of the ways in which its socially acceptable to mock us and play off #Our suffering like it's nothing #Sure it's a joke but do you have any idea how many fucking jokes I hear??? Most of you people aren't funny #Plus there's a type of 'jokes' around how miles interacts with Julian founded on making fun of Julian for being British I find a little uh #Fucked up? I don't think joking about a white person calling a non white person slurs funny and I find a lack of understanding of race in #Their relationship very offputting #Like it's straight up canon that Miles is racist and his wife calls him out on it #And I don't buy that racism doesn't exist in human culture towards other humans. That's what happens when white people try to write that #For me I can't separate 'miles is racist' from him getting fixated on beating Julian at racquet ball and projecting that Julian must be #Being smug towards him about it onto him when he infodumps. Like thats a thing white men constantly do towards men of color #re: athletic ability. It comes off kind of subtly disturbing for me #Plus the Jem'hadar oh my fucking g-d there's such a blatant racial subtext to Miles thinking they need to be kept enslaved for the safety o #The quadrant and Julian thinking that's bad actually

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

I truly am making this a Merry Monday in the last hour of it

#and by merry I mean the one from circus sweets #heart of the void #selfshipping #potential F/Os #crush: wonderland's ringleader (merry) #she's the OC of my friend selwyn! #and I think she is very very pretty

[khaothanawat]

it’s mew saying “i know how to screen people” whilst staring directly at ray (regularly gets into bar fights) and boston (relentless snake)

#(SAID AFFECTIONATELY) #NONE OF THESE BOYS HAVE EVER DONE A THING WRONG IN THEIR LIVES #either mew is incredibly incorrect about himself or - presuming he is absolutely as smart as he seems #some heavy implications there on mew and his objectively wild choice of friends #(or a little bit of a mix of both) #i do think it’s interesting that mew is essentially just the ringleader of three queer goons #mew and his band of dummies… #this is making him sound a lot more devious than i intended #i just think that you’d never expect someone who looks so genuinely adorable and wholesome #to be the indisputable leader of any group #but he’s seems so perceptive and straightforward #there’s a good chance he maybe does not Realise #do u know how hard it has been to write these tags and NOT use the phrase alpha male???? #but i thought it and now i can’t uh-think it so. #should we reclaim the phrase alpha male from the men? maybe so #i’m sorry about these tags i’m very sleep deprived and i’m on a post only friends insanity kick #only friends #show: only friends #of: mew x chueam x boston x ray

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

AND SO IT BEGINS (you have excellent timing for getting to that ask lol) -Alex

Oizys you are amazing and we're so fucking lucky we met you, you literally are one of the first people we befriended online and led us to meeting so many more of our online friends through you and your blog. Love you to smithereens <3 -Moon

guys im going to cry what the fuck

#tone tag pos pos pos pos #the cryptid speaks #suroh system #whoops anon #soulmate anon #number anon #my anons!!!!! my beloved anons!!!!!!!!! #gods it really has been forever with some of y'all huh . how are u is life good do u miss the not-a-tardis anon closet ever #metaphorically i am sitting us all down at a tea table and we are chatting and eating #i am putting down my dukes this is no fight <33333 #this is so sweet of all of y'all; especially suroh sys seeing as it seems y'all've been ringleading here #gods . this is so nice really truly . everyone back in the inbox :] #going to give this a Specific tag in case there are other anons preparing to revisit from the woodworks for today #let's go withhhhhhh #anon reunion party bash 2024 #that's a string of letters and numbers

[the-alakazam-attraction]

(plummets through the tent and makes a cartoonishly deep hole)

uhg.. uh hey there where am i? who are you?

*Al looks down into the newly made hole in the floor* You all right down there?

I'm Al *Al extends his hand, offering to pull the stranger up out of the crevice* And who might you be?

#from the ringleader

[mau1ed]

when i tell you lottie was the only god van ever believed in ?

#it wasn't fair !!!!! but it's out there it's true #van being depicted as arguably the truest of believers from the beginning #the kneeling behind lottie with the bear heart #the taking her warnings and wearing her protection even when their own partner thought it was insane #liv hewson talking about when van realized the girls had chosen violence + how they believe van was the ringleader of what followed with #the hunt #how emotionless van looked throughout when it came to letting javi drown #+ when they brought him back to cabin #when two episodes earlier she was crying off to the side of shauna who'd just given birth and lost her child #how dramatic seeing lot again was presented in comparison to van seeing #the woman they probably were sure they'd spend the rest of their life with again #i'm rambling in the tags but !!!! #harley & i have been yelling back & forth i needed u guys to know too #delete.

[sassenach082]

your wish is my command, lovely readers

i'll be doing a companion piece to i'll ride from other character POVs

((ahahaha my brain already hates me for this decision, shit))

BUT it gives me a place to put all the little drabbles that exist both in random google docs called Untitled and deleted scenes, so

let me get it organized, beg my poor beta to help me make it make sense, and figure out if i'm posting it here on tumblr or on ao3. or both.

#i'll ride au #sassy writes #my brain hates me its fine #but guys i legit love slider so much i can't wait to share his thoughts #and wood and wolf are hilarious #as are viper and jester #having so much fun building these characters up from the ground since the series doesn't give us much to work with #i'm also SO fond of sunny and chip and the ms. anderson drama #wood and wolf speak in 98% dick euphemisms and puns #the flyboys have their own betting pool regarding mav and ice all the way back to top gun in 1986 #goose was their ringleader #listen i love them a lot okay. so much. SO MUCH-

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: January 18

"Settle Down" by The 1975

#song of the day #maybe one of the days I've had the hardest time choosing a song #it might have been 'Royals' by Neon Jungle (Lorde cover) which I talked to Lily about earlier #(the other day when we spent all that time traveling that was almost 'Eight Legged Blues' by Vixy and Tony #I played it for my family in the car on hour three of our drive and it was a big big hit #but it did get very cleanly overtaken by the Diva's Lament after I spent so much time with it on the train) #the original Lorde version of Royals played on Lily's playlist on the first hour of that drive and I mentioned I had a good cover #real good harmonies and neat acoustics in the big room they recorded in #and then today I finally remembered to send the link to Lily so that might have been today's song #or today's song also could have been 'Ringleader' by The Madison Letter which I tried but failed to sing in the shower #(I definitely don't know all the words yet. I did get a good echo off my 'ring-ring-ring-ringleader / ringleader' though which was nice) #and it also could have been 'Salt and the Sea' by the Lumineers which was in my single-song-by-artist playlist accidentally #no artist listed on the track somehow. very strange especially since it is so clearly a Lumineers song. they got the sound you know #anyway Salt and the Sea has some killer lines. 'from the destruction / out of the flame / you need a villain? give me a name #I'll be your friend / in the daylight again / there we will be / like an old enemy / like the salt and the sea' #but instead today is 'Settle Down' which is unbelievably fun to sing just for the way some of the words are pronounced and delivered #hits my brain just right every time #I had to do surgery on some of my poor plants (I can never leave them for so long again) and it was awful but the playlist provides #truly a wealth of song options today

[pochapal]

if every factor is accounted for then this means that the culprit wanted natsuhi to reach this conclusion which means that as readers we need to consider that "genji is the ringleader and the other servants is accomplices" may actually be an incomplete explanation of the facts

#umineko liveblog #even though genji carrying out the murderplan because kinzo died before he could tell him no makes so much sense in line with the themes #like. what answer is left if not that of misplaced devotion and manipulation of systems of abuse??? who else would do this???? #even under a more active culprit kanon theory it still made sense of the epitaph plan to come from kinzo and genji #so if there's something more to it i have no idea what the hell it is #genji not being the ringleader because kinzo technically is might make sense #but the idea of genji not being the main orchestrator of the events of the conference Cannot be true #literally not a single other person in the story fits on any level. it Has to be him #maybe this is a double fakeout because if not it means i might actually have been wrong about a lot of stuff

[wereonourwayhome]

do you think that john had adhd?

oh hmm, good question! i will try my best to answer it!

first, a disclaimer: i'm not mentally (or professionally) equipped to go full DSM-5 on him at the moment, but here are my observations, based on A) what i know about him as a public figure, B) that degree in psychology i never finished, and C) my own experiences having ADHD/C-PTSD:

so like, vibes alone, i definitely look at him and my gut instinct is "this is not a neurotypical person!" he's got the stink (affectionate) on him, whatever that means. like gaydar but for fellow neurodivergents, yanno?

(side note: all of the beatles ping this for me, and given my own experiences with making close friends and being neurodivergent, i feel like this explains a lot about why the bugs were so tight for so long. see also: george and bob dylan 👁👁)

anyway, back to john! he definitely has some (or a lot) of the dreamy/inattentive/fidgety/impulsive/obsessive/hyperfocused energy and Mood Disregulation™ that can come with ADHD. we've seen him call himself lazy (often a big red arrow pointing toward neurodivergence), as well as struggling to do things he doesn't want to do, which points to executive dysfunction. (describing song writing as "torture" and saying he literally cannot bring himself to play with his son, even though he wants to.)

he's also self-reported serious problems with impulse control (violence, overeating, verbal abuse, risky behavior, drug abuse, etc.) that he later feels shame or regret over. he's got a lot of internalized ego-dystonic behavior that comes with ADHD!

keep in mind, though--a lot of the above can also be attributed to PTSD, C-PTSD or BPD, which are diagnoses that i would be most confident putting money on. BUT, these are often comorbid with neurodivergence, and i'm inclined to argue that neurodivergence makes someone way more predisposed to developing C-PTSD or BPD.

sooo...i dunno! i think he's someone you could easily project ADHD onto, if you were so inclined, with a fair amount of reason to back it up. writing this out has certainly made me think about it more, and it might be something i intentionally include in future characterization.

in closing, i just want to say that i don't think there's any meaningful ethical concern wrt speculating about historical figures' personal lives and playing in the space and writing meta about your blorbos. as long as you aren't doing it AT them, where they'll likely see it, or in a way that might affect their career, i don't see the issue. (and, uh, that's definitely not a problem here lmao.) basically, if you can write fic about them, then you can write meta and armchair diagnose them for funsies 🤷‍♀️

but yeah! this might be something i actually dive into at some point. i skimmed some interviews for this, and the more i read, the more i'm like "oh...yeah. hmm!"

(spoiler: i probably won't. oops.)

#john lennon #understanding john #home.txt #discussion #will this upset some people? maybe! #is my defensiveness warranted? maybe! #paul definitely has ADHD though i will die on that hill #john definitely has 'i went to the nurse every day for my ritalin' energy #young john seemed like he was always two seconds away from chewing through the drywall from understimulation #good thing he was too busy being a ringleader and enticing other boys to Crimes