Thought it was time this post got an update with more details and clear links.
So you want to know where to watch Ringsy with English subtitles?
First of all, someone better organised than me has created a spreadsheet with episode summaries and references to video names from the following links. It’s a good resource to have!
1. This is the pre-Ringsy stuff on VK, setting up characters and relationship and the early stuff. Worth watching for Ringo coming to terms with his bisexuality and the history between Easy and Ringo. There are playlists for a number of different aspects of their relationship:
Ringsy 2012 / 2013
Ringo’s coming out as bisexual
The death of Ringo’s parents
Ringsy 2014
Ringo & Aaron
Kira moves to Milan
Ringsy 2015 / 2016 / 2017
Ringo & Valentin
Don’t expect much in the way of hints and teases that Ringo and Easy will end up together - simply because there won’t be any. For a lot of this Easy isn’t out himself so there are a fair few girlfriends for him!
Ringo & Valentin is the start of what I would loosely term as the Ringsy storyline as Ringo falls for the ultimate straight guy which breaks his heart, and Easy gets involved (and really not in a good way!) and that then leads on to…
2. This is early Ringsy stuff on VK, how we start the “Enemies to friends to lovers” trope. Worth watching for Easy coming out which is the most beautifully done storyline. It starts with the Ringo/Valentin storyline (hence the RV video naming convention) and are numbered in order.
This has them flirting with the idea of being friends, Ringo actually being a decent human being when it comes to Easy’s coming out, and the humanisation of him when he fell in love with someone he couldn’t have.
SO YOU WANT THE GOOD STUFF?
3. This is the start of their relationship through to their marriage. There is a gap in the storyline between clips 160 and 161 of a few months. This was when the videos were being posted to Google Drive instead and those links are not valid anymore. The missing storyline includes Tobias’ stroke and the whole Leni’s father part. I didn’t download those and so even I have a gap in my playlist.
But this is the kiosk scam, the falling in love, the relationship and fall out, the Vegas interlude. All the highs and lows of their whole relationship, right up to the wedding. With a gap in the middle.
(If anyone has these clips drop me a message. We can try to work something out maybe?)
Update 07/01 - they’re baaack! Thank you so much, @magnoliaringo
4. Then we move to here for the next part (and thanks to @bolt147 for digging out the link!). This has some overlap as the early clips in the list are pre-wedding, but it goes on through Coco, the baby, and all the way up to Julius’ arrival.
After that it gets a bit fractured.
For a while, @drea-46 posted clips with English translations by @happyladybug93, covering the storyline of Ringo being arrested and the boys fighting for their family. Drea is still posting clips but the translations have stopped. It’s a scroll back through their blog but they’re there.
@snuggles85nn provided English summaries and commentaries for their episodes, starting with Easy’s disappearance in Morocco while Lars was off winning “Summerhouse of the Stars” through to Benedict thinking he was developing schizophrenia. You can find them all under her tag here (reverse chronological order)
@missringsy posts some clips with English translations, usually key and/or cute scenes. Think Ringo being released from prison on his and Easy’s wedding anniversary, the boys working their way back to each other.
5. @magnoliaringo is hoping to upload a weekly file to their VK, which is linked for y’all HERE. (Yes, it’s the same link as above but I’ve made things easier for you.) The clips being uploaded at the end of each week will be dependant on, y’know, life and having the time to do it, so hopefully people are going to be kind and patient and absolutely understand if they are late and/or stop.
This is also your reminder to be nice to your fandom translators. It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to translate things for us, and the fact they have the skills to be able to do so is more than most of us could do. I’ve already seen comments from people asking if the gaps will be filled… please don’t. Be nice. The fact we have all this is amazing, stop looking the gift horse in the mouth.
Shall pin this post for reference!
Updated 07/01/2023 with the status of the missing videos from VK and current translation provision/schedule.
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