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sillyfudgemonkeys · 2 days

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So Rangi just isn't a horse stance fanatic, there was a method to her madness TT0TT (just two more years Kyoshi and you can finally learn your forms! uwu)

#rangi #kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #rangi sei'naka #rangi seinaka #aksfdjlljfljsfaf #i knew she had her reasons I was sure there was a good explanation #but it's just funnier thinking Rangi is just a horse stance fanatic

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meg-noel-art · 2 months

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Canon Rangi and Kyoshi moment

#my art #fanart #rangshi #rangi sei'naka #kyoshi #avatar kyoshi #atla #avatar the last airbender #shadow of kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #kyoshi novels #rangi x kyoshi #meme #meme redraw

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faunshiii · 6 months

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has anyone read the kyoshi books :33

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bastart13 · 8 months

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I've been rereading the Kyoshi books, and I'm in a character design mood, so I thought of designing Team Avatar: Kuruk edition

It's so much fun designing Avatar characters. I love getting to research the different influences that contribute to the worldbuilding

#avatar #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #atla #kuruk #jianzhu #kelsang #hei-ran #nyahitha #character design #costume design #art #they're about late teens/early twenties here

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shellomantic · 21 days

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rangshi calling out heituat

based on this post (reposted it below) i cant help but redraw it because i can definitely see this happening like--

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hei-ran tired of the allegations, atuat embraces it.

#rangshi #heituat #gay sei'naka #rangi sei'naka #hei ran #hei-ran #hei-ran sei'naka #kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #kyoshi novels #gays #lesbians

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goddess-of-fire-rangi · 10 months

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Confident sapphic x Dork loser sapphic

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thyinum · 1 year

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Them 🤲

#kyoshi #atla rangi #rangshi #avatar the last airbender #the rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #fanart #artists on tumblr #укртумбочка #украрт

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lilrobinbird · 8 months

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repost bc I wanted to fix some small details + rangi doodles

#hei-ran jianzhu kelsang you are next #rangshi #kyoshi x rangi #kyoshi #rangi sei'naka #avatar kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #the shadow of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #the rise of kyoshi #rangi #kyoshi novels #atla #atla fanart #myart #avatar #avatar the last airbender #fc yee

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allgremlinart · 9 months

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The Most Underrated Line In All Of ATLA/TLOK And Its Many Worldbuilding Implications - A Ramble

In S2E7 of TLOK we get this dialogue from Wan and The Aye-Aye Spirit: "There are other Lion Turtles?" "Of course there are - dozens of them!" [timestamp 3:38 in this video]

It's such a quick line it's easy to miss, but there's one thing about it that made a LOT of things click into place for me about the Avatar universe's worldbuilding; the fact that there are (or were) dozens of Lion Turtles. NOT four, with one for each element, like you would assume. Dozens.

What does this mean in terms of the Four Nations? What connections might this have with other previously established lore? Well uhm follow me on this journey. I guess.

Pre-Unifications - A Global Warring States Era?

A warring states era on a wouldn't be nearly as compelling if there were only four Lion Turtles. If this were the case, everything would be perfectly balanced; why would there be disarray, violence, cultural disparity and struggles for power within each elemental group if the world was already perfectly divided into four solid groups? Why would a national identity be in question at all?

But the fact that there are more than one Lion Turtle per element... that means different groups of people being isolated from one another for long periods of time. This means different bodies of identity, regardless of element. Different city states, regional Kings, Queens, fiefdoms, dynastic power struggle, etc etc, before any sort of inherent loyalty the ones element as a national and cultural identity was established.

We know the Avatar world was not always divided into Four Nations. In Chapter 21 of The Rise Of Kyoshi we learn that Guru Laghima - a name you'll recognize from TLOK S3 - was from an era when the Four Nations had not yet been formed. We also know from Zaheer that he lived about 4,000 years before the events of TLOK (for context, thats about 6,000 years after Wan became the first Avatar).

There's further confirmation of this in Smoke And Shadow, where we learn about the first Firelord and the Fire Nation's unification wars.

However there's implications of this even in the original series; it's not some sloppy ret-con from the books and comics, it fits. Think Omashu:

In S2E2 of ATLA we get the story of Oma and Shu - and we learn that they come from "warring villages." Now why exactly would their villages be warring if The Earth Kingdom already existed? Why the need for a power struggle? Why is it not presented as a civil insurrection or civil war, but as a conflict between two distinct groups of people? The answer is that the "Earth Kingdom" as we conceptualize it did not exist. I'd go further and say that we can assume that after Omashu was established it became a powerful regional kingdom, and created strong sphere of cultural influence. Think about it - Bumi is King Of Omashu. King. NOT the Earth King, King Of The Earth Kingdom, but still King Of Omashu.

[Now there's some debate about where Omashu's founding sits on the timeline but to me it HAS to be post-Wan, probably very nearly immediately post-Wan. The line that calls them the "first earthbenders" and that they "learned earthbending from the badger moles" has caused some to question if they fit in with the "Lion Turtles bestowed bending" lore, but to me it fits pretty easily. The Lion Turtles may have bestowed the power but the actual technique was learned from the badger moles and dragons and blah blah blah.]

I also find this line from Jianzhu in The Rise Of Kyoshi very illuminating:

VINDICATION !! And Jianzhu's moaning over the cultural diversity within his country brings me to the second part of this post...

FC Yee And Gene Luen Yang Accidentally (?) Make Avatar's Cultural Mish Mash Make More Sense

Avatar's cultural gumbo of visuals has always been a little hard to parse. If you follow @atlaculture then you know it'd be kind of fruitless to try and apply any one single ethnicity/culture to one nation. A common, and very valid, criticism of Avatar is the pan-asian approach it takes to worldbuilding. I'm not here to defend that lol. I think people who dislike Avatar on that basis are well within their rights to do so, and I also think it's important to enjoy things critically.

HOWEVER, from a worldbuilding perspective, the mish mash becomes easier to swallow when you think of it in terms of multiple groups of people being unified into different nation states over a very long period of time and slowly intertwining their cultures into a single(ish) identity.

Take the Fire Nation for example: in FC Yee's The Shadow Of Kyoshi we learn that the government was much more decentralized and the country was controlled by different clans, like the Saowon and Keosho, who had individual spheres of influence and strong senses of identity. It makes me think about Mai and Ty Lee

They're both Fire Nation nobles and they both live in the Fire Nation capital - but their styles/clothes are completely different. Now, obviously that can be boiled down to personality-based character design but. There's a wide discrepancy between Mai's Edo Japan inspired hair and Ty Lee's Thai inspired performance outfit, and a little retroactive canon about them being part of different but powerful clans .. ? Yeah. That'd be fun, at the very least.

I could go on about this... was there a Water Lion Turtle at the north AND the south? How did the airbenders transition from relatively sedentary life on a Lion Turtle to nomadism? etc etc etc BUT in conclusion: TLOK and the comics have some very fun worldbuilding implications snuck in there !! Which makes up for a lot in my opinion. Personally I'd KILL for an Avatar series set in the warring states/unification period... I think that could be insanely cool...idk. The End. For Now.

#atla #tlok #shadow of kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #this post may get even more added onto it after I read the Yangchen novels...#worldbuilding #like. I REALLY could go on and on but I'm tired and bound to make less and less sense to longer I type #FC Yee #gene luen yang

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the-legit-boss · 8 months

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My love language is staring at you because you look so perfect.

Art by @kkachi95

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razables · 2 months

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something something kyoshi novels text posts

#razables #kyoshi novels #kyoshi sei’naka #kyoshi #yun #kyoshi novels yun #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #rangi #rangi sei'naka #we interrupt the fmab posting to bring you my ultimate sillies :)

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spaceforraquet · 2 months

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Kyoshi

#so i read kyoshi's book #i loved it #i need to draw rangi next #avatar #atla #shadow of kyoshi #avatar the last airbender #atla kyoshi #kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #fanart #my art #art #atla fanart #artist on tumblr #avatar kyoshi

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meg-noel-art · 2 months

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POV: Rangi's not that interested in holding her back

(Reuploaded with makeup-less Kyoshi version)

#fanart #rangi #rangi sei'naka #avatar kyoshi #kyoshi #atla #avatar the last airbender #POV you aboutta get messed up #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #freckles tho #rangshi #rangi x kyoshi

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 15 days

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How I've seen most people write Rangi coming out to her mom:

Rangi: Mom, I have something to tell you.

Hei-Ran: Go on.

Rangi: Kyoshi and I.....are.....together.

Hei-Ran: Oh I'm so happy for you.

*they hug it out, much wholesome*

How I think the coming out scene went:

Rangi: Mother. I need to tell you something, Kyoshi and I are together.

Hei-Ran: Oh thank the spirits. It finally happened.

Rangi: ???? You knew????

Hei-Ran: Sweetie, everyone in the mansion-no, all of Yokoya knew about it! Well except for Kyoshi.

Rangi: ????!! WHAT?!

Hei-Ran: I'm pretty sure Jianzhu thought you were dating, that's probably why he kidnapped you, you know?

Rangi: WH-HOW?!

Hei-Ran: Oh please, we saw your gay little ass running all over the damn mansion just to be near Kyoshi and to impress her. We were mute, not blind and deaf!

Rangi, having a crisis: I-wha-but-

Hei-Ran: Well, you aren't very good at hiding your emotions sweetie.

Rangi, flipping a nearby table: The fuck you mean I'm not?????!

Hei-Ran: Oh curses, go get Atuat, I owe her $5.

Rangi: YOU BETTED ON THIS????? WITH YOUR DOCTOR?????

Hei-Ran: Well Kelsang is dead, so I had to keep our bet alive somehow.

Rangi: I-*inhales* YOu know what? Doesn't matter! Do you accept Kyoshi or not?

Hei-Ran: Anybody who gives my girl that much cardio is 100% welcome into our family. In fact, I already added her to our family registry 2 years ago. As far as the Fire Nation is concerned, you two have been married for a while.

#rangi #hei-ran #rangi sei'naka #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #rangi seinaka #hei-ran sei'naka #hei-ran seinaka #rangshi #rangi thought she was good at hiding stuff but it turns out that kyoshi is just THAT DENSE #everyone wants a sweet moment #i want rangi's blood pressure to rise #rangi didn't talk to her mom for 3 days after that because of the all the emotions she was feeling #i'm right this is 100% in character #(tbf I think most of the stuff i've seen was pre shadow of Kyoshi which misses out on Rangi's unhinged-ness u_u)#i'm sorry I just....need a kyoshi prequel where there's a running gag of Rangi just showing up TT0TT #kyoshi: oh she's so punctual and cool I wonder how she does it?#us: *trying not to lose it bc we know rangi is BUSTING HER ASS to look that way*#rangi the loser: *trying so fucking hard not to wheeze keel over and die in front of kyoshi*#rangi is somehow both girlboss and girlfail it's great the duality #rangi: i'm doing so well #narrator: she in fact was not doing well at all

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skyekarnsteins · 10 months

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#rangshi #avatar kyoshi #rangi sei'naka #kyoshi novels #shadow of kyoshi #atla #FINALLY read the novels #happy pride have some gfs #hollie doodles #m

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jewelartbyjewel · 2 years

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Day 1 of Rangshi Week, Love Across Timelines

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