#rangi is drunk

[shellomantic]

rangshi in 2024??? no way heres art because i dont know where else to post this. ive been in a deep rangshi brainrot and there isnt enough content of them so as an artist i feel onliged to make my own content. (ignore the hands)

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Yuri on Ice x Rangshi Edit

Putting the real yuri in Yuri on Ice. >:3c Aka "I wanted a reason to edit Rangi drunk and then I spiraled outta control into four more pics TT0TTεミ(ο_ _)ο"

[blorboazula]

don't think i'm capable of media literacy when it took me readiing the rise of kyoshi three fucking times to notice one of the most obvious details ever

[prying-pandora666]

Azula And The Tides: The Most Misread Scene in ATLA

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

“The tides scene shows how irrational and spoiled Azula is! She got lucky! She endangered her whole crew for her pride!”

Or any similar variation.

The only problem is it’s not even remotely close to true. Let’s talk about that.

Here is the scene in question for reference:

Seems pretty straightforward, right? I mean, the Captain warned Azula about the tides and she put her ego before reason and made the crew take a huge risk. Horrible leadership and narcissism on her part, right?

Except for one little detail.

Azula was right.

Remember in “The Storm” when Zuko demands his ship chase after the Avatar and his crew warns him that it’s a fool’s errand because they’ll surely perish in the storm? Zuko stubbornly insists his goals are more important than anyone else’s lives, including his Uncle, and demands they drive recklessly into the storm. Sure enough, the crew nearly perishes in the storm, just as predicted, and Zuko is humbled enough to even rescue his Lieutenant that he disrespected earlier in the episode.

I bring this up so we understand how ATLA sets up and then demonstrates its narrative cause and effect. It’s rather straightforward as, after all, this is being written to be inteligible to children.

So what happens with Azula’s ship when she demands they dock right away despite her Captain’s warnings?

The ship docks without incident or injury.

In fact, they dock stealthily enough that neither Zuko nor Iroh see Azula coming and she’s able to surprise them. How would this be possible if the Captain had been correct in his assessment and Azula had just been acting out of ego?

I���ve seen some people argue that Azula just got lucky, like a drunk person driving home in a car. Not that I expect the average person to have extensive knowledge about docking a ship, but it demonstrates a severe gap in knowledge of the subject matter. When it comes to the tides you cannot half-ass it. Either the tides are in or they’re not. Either they’re high enough or they’re not.

And if they’re not, what happens? The rocks you can’t see beneath the waves will shred your ship apart and you will get stuck or outright sink. Best case scenario, if by an act of divine intervention you avoided all the rocks, you’re still screwed because your ship is going to get beached and tip over. Especially with a ship of that size!

You cannot squeak by here. Even with all of our tech and modern day ships, if you don’t respect the tides, you’re going to have a bad time. There is no avoiding this.

It boggles my mind why people assume Azula is the one in the wrong here and not the Captain who is later shown to be so incompetent that he spoils the mission. He was talking down to her and she rightfully put in his place. Cold and ruthless as her method may have been, she was making it clear that she is not to be talked down to or to have her authority questioned. An important skill for a young leader. Look at the comparison with Zuko who couldn’t wrangle his men. They were about to mutiny and would’ve if Iroh hadn’t intervened! Azula has no Iroh to fall back on. She has to manage on her own. And she does! In this same episode we are shown that Azula is a perfectionist who can’t tolerate a single hair out of place. But somehow we are supposed to believe she is also reckless and incompetent? I don’t think so.

We also know that Azula canonically attended the Royal Fire Academy for girls. This wasn’t some preppy finishing school, it was an intense military academy with survival training so deadly that Rangi described having to eat worse than rats to make it out alive. We know Azula excelled in school. Why wouldn’t she know something as basic as how to read the tides? That’s seafaring 101.

Combine that with the fact that all their best naval officers probably perished at the North Pole and it’s easy to glean that this Captain isn’t exactly their A-Team.

So what IS the point of this scene if not to show Azula being irrational, egotistical, or incompetent?

Remember our comparisons to Zuko? The point of this scene is to show how much better and scarier of a leader Azula is. It’s a simple way to convey to the audience that unlike Zuko, Azula *can* and *does* command like a true military leader. She is therefor a more frightening and dangerous opponent for our heroes to face than the already dangerous Prince they’ve been battling since the previous season.

I don’t think this misinterpretation would’ve ever spread so far if some fans weren’t dead set on trying to tear down Azula for the simple crime of being better at things than fan-favorite Zuko.

And I say this as someone who adores Zuko.

[foibles-fables]

WIP WednesThursday

Thanks for the tag, @askweisswolf !!! <3

More Rangshi, quelle surprise. Really trying to finish this one before the HZD remaster drops next week and I likely lose my brain cells to Aloy/Talanah again. WARNING it's spicy:

With permission granted, satisfied excitement flashes bold and bright across Rangi’s face. She slants forward to kiss an ambling path up Kyoshi’s inner thigh, all steamed breath and gentle-grazing teeth. Kyoshi watches, groans, tenses and trembles, strains at the hips while her fingers claw against the chair’s armrests. Knows Rangi loves to tease but struggles at the limits of her own patience. The thought of coming with Rangi’s mouth on her—already well-aware that she won’t last long—carves out a depth of desire that’s fierce and desperate and whetted keen upon itself alone. By the time Rangi’s mouth reaches the crease of her groin, Kyoshi is drunk with anticipation, perched on the brink of begging. She doesn’t have to. Doesn’t get the chance. Rangi only holds off for one heartbeat, one shaking, lovelorn breath, before diving in headlong.

Tagging: @http-mandy @coleyoly @mehoymalloy @bluntblade and anyone else who's got something to share--tag me as your tagger!

[xan-ity]

Parental Figures: Day 2

Modern AU:

Kyoshi: hey Kelsang, can I go out?

Kelsang: where to?

Kyoshi: a group of friends party, it won’t be long

Kelsang: hm, alright, don’t get drunk and be back by 12.

Kyoshi: thanks! I’ll be back before 12, I promise

*at the party*

Kyoshis hanging out with rangi and some other friends getting drunk as hell. Kyoshi takes another sip of her drink.

*a few hours later at 11:30pm*

Kyoshi, calling Kelsang, drunk: kesangg… c- *hiccup* can you come pick me up????

Kelsang: kyoshi? Are you drunk?

Kyoshi, slurred: y-yes….

Kelsang: I’ll be over in a bit… where’s the house at?

Kyoshi: uhhh…. It’s… it’s at Kirimas house

Kelsang: ok then… I’ll be over in a tad.

*about 10 minutes later, kelsang drives up*

Kelsang: cmon kyoshi, over here.

Kyoshi, stumbling over into his car, closing the door: hey kelsang…

Kelsang: are you ok, kyoshi? You look a little dull.

Kyoshi, tearing up starting to ugly cry: w-we where playing truth or dare an-and I got dared to go in the closet alone with rangi for 7 minutes- and- and *sniff* i-I was a total turn off in there, and- and I said something stupiddd!!! *sob*

Kelsang, looking a bit concerned: kyoshi, it’s ok, rangi is a really good friend of yours and I’m screw nothing can ever screw your guy’s friendship. I also know how much you like her, I’m sure it will be fine, kyoshi. *kelsang wrapped his arms around her, introducing a warm, gentle hug*

Kyoshi, calmed down a bit: y-you think so??

Kelsang, still hugging her: I know so…

End cuz I’m lazy! :)

@kyoshi-era-week-24

[atuats-sidechick]

saw something about random asks what’s your favorite alcoholic beverage and what character form the Kyoshi books can’t hold their liquor ?

Ooh I love asks! Ty :)

I love anything with gin. I had a drink the other day that was just gin, lemon and basil and it was **perfection**. I need to figure out how to get the basil flavor in the drink like that. I'll probably soak basil in different amounts of gin during the weekend to find out LOL

I think Rangi probably never had a drink and that she genuinely believes Hei-Ran never drinks either. Nobody tell Rangi her mother likes whisky, okay? So I can easily imagine her getting completely destroyed by something like beer even well into adulthood hehe she'd be such a cute drunk too!

Ty again! <3

[ranger-kellyn]

Ignore me I’m drunk and Sad (also rise of kyoshi spoilers I guess lmao)

Hhhhhhh spent most of the day at the symposium reading The Rise of Kyoshi between my registration duties and I got all the way to the part where kyoshi and rangi kiss for the first time. Right as I got to that part it was time to head out for dinner and one of our buddies who is an absolute. Party Guy. Bought drinks and shots for everyone and I’m already on a downward spiral and not smoking so like. Swap substances I guess. Had fun it was great and lots of laughs like always but now I’m back at my hotel room and I’ve already had one crying fit because I’m so fucking lonely I cant see straight and I literally had a come apart bc I just wish I had my own “kyoshi” I was coming home to. I wish I had my “Cynthia” or “Diantha” but I don’t. I just have a stupid empty apartment I’m going home to with nobody who’s going to be happy that im home other than my cat. And trust me while I love that silly little animal more than life itself most days, it’s just. Not. A substitute for the companionship I’m desperate for.

Ugh I hate it here. I just want to be someone’s first choice. I want to not doubt where I stand with a person. I want to have a genuine emotional bond to someone that isn’t one sided. I want to be someone’s FIRST. CHOICE. Not all the being the bitch on the side shit I dealt with in college. I want someone to want me. I want an open two way street. I want to be loved and loved on and the most basic vanilla sex bc all I care about is the emotional bonding part of it and UGH

ihateithere

[leanstooneside]

sportswriter

A GRAY

A NOTABLE

A MENTAL

A SAFE

A BLACK

AN EQUAL

A FEELING

A LITTLE

A NEW

A FAR

A RANGY

A WIDE

A DIFFICULT

A NAGGING

A DEEP

A FORMIDABLE

A DOUBLE

A BAD

A DRUNK

[the-unspeakable-tsar]

X-Manson Chapter 4 - By Doctor Benway

[Shot of a rangy, extraordinarily tough-looking woman with a black eye-patch. She looks like a biker chick who hasn't quite figured out that she's dressed like a stereotypical butch lesbo.]

*Rudeness aside, that's a pretty accurate assessment.

[Caption: Callisto, Salem Centre, NY]

C: You don't use the word ghetto to describe this place, right? We got no rules. Anyone can live here.

Int: Is it not true that over 90% of your inhabitants are mutants?

C: Well, yeah, but the others aren't. This is an open Libertarian community, even to the Eloi who we name after the characters from HG Wells' novel the Time Machine.

*And you instantly lost me, Callisto.

Int: Why did you come to live here?

C: 'Cause it's cheap. Gives me a big kick to live in an Eloi house.

Int: Why do you call yourselves Morlocks?

C: We call ourselves Morlocks, just like the characters out of the novel the Time Machine by HG Wells. We do all the work so the nice Eloi can live out their lives in luxury.

Int: It was my understanding that most of you were unemployed.

C: You wanna be smart? You want me to kick your face in?

Int: I'm just making a point.

C: Well, we'd do the work if anyone let us. We're the ones who can't pass.

Int: So the Kelly Amendment had little effect on your lives?

C: Didn't give us 40 acres and a mule, if that's what you mean. Now if the cops and the feds come down here to kick butt we've got something to fight them with.

Int: Did you come here because of the School?

C: Kinda, but not really . We came here because it was cheap, and it was cheap because of the School.

[Shot of a portly middle-aged man in the world's last yellow and brown plain polyester sport coat worn as a serious fashion item instead of an expression of hipness.]

[Caption: William Loman Jr, Insurance Agent, Rye, NY]

*Reference to Death of A Salesman.

WL: I used to work in Salem Centre. Used to be a really nice town.

Int: What happened?

WL: Mutants. I'm not supposed to say that now, am I?

Int: Don't worry about it. Weren't there mutants in the town before the School?

WL: Well, sure, but if they were deformed, people kept them out of sight, sent them to a hospital or a residential school or something.

*is that why there has been no mention of Kurt?

Int: The School For Gifted Children was a residential school.

WL: Yeah, but it was where people lived, like as in real close. I mean like those schools that they've got up on the St. Lawrence or up by Lake Placid.

Int: The School had no obvious mutants.

WL: The point was that they came into town. We used to have 4 bars in town. Good family places where you take the kids. These guys from the School, Logan and Rasputin, start showing up and getting real drunk, even on weeknights. At first, they kept to themselves. Then one day the Russkie picks a fight with some guy up from the city who turns out to be like the hulk strength-wise and they take out the bar, the hair salon next door, and the front window of the supermarket across the street. I'd written the policies on all of them, but I'd been smart and I knew what was coming. I mean, Staten Island in 1955 was a great place to live, but today, it's all mutants. Just about every single one of them. I made all my clients take out riders if they wanted protection from mutant damage. No payouts at all.

*The second reference to the juggernaut in this story. This fight is a reference to Uncanny X-Men 183, but a key element of the fight is missing. Kurt Wagner is not here.

Int: What were the consequences?

WL: I got to see Xavier for the first time. He brought a suitcase of cash to the Town Meeting and paid for all the damages. He also brought lots of food.

Int: Good pate?

WL: Really great pate.

Int: Were any charges pressed?

WL: No, kinda weird that no-one did. Guess they just took the money and ran. Maybe he was fucking with their heads. Dunno.

Int: What happened after that?

WL: Didn't see anyone from the School for about three months. Then we lost two more bars. I made some money on mutant damage waivers for a while, but then people just decided to give up and move out. When the supermarket got hit in the middle of the afternoon, everyone started shopping in Bedford. They closed the supermarket, and by Christmas half the stores downtown were empty and the place was starting to look like Harlem used to look. I lost a ton of money, so I upped and moved to Rye. The only bar in the area was this biker hangout called Harry's, and he only kept his place open by letting S&M types know about it.

Int: People went there to get beaten up?

WL: Yeah. As word got out, so many people left that a quarter of the houses were vacant. Vanderbylt moved in bought most of them up on the cheap.

*Vanderbylt moved in after Xavier set up shop?

Int: Henry Vanderbylt?

WL: That's the one.

[Shot of Henry Vanderbylt]

HV: I didn't buy those properties. I'm merely a board member of a company that did.

Int: We have SEC documents here stating that you are the majority shareholder in the New Salem Housing Corporation.

HV: I was a passive investor. I sold out several months ago.

Int: Who owns the numbered company that bought it?

HV: No idea.

[Shot of William Loman Jr]

WL: He still owns the place, like his ancestors did. People were lucky if they got a quarter on the dollar for what they paid for their houses.

Int: New Salem then rented the houses?

WL: Yeah, to anyone who would rent them. In the hills, it was parents with mutant kids. In the middle of town, it was the kind that you didn't see a lot of in public. A lot of them were criminal types. We started seeing the FBI and the Sheriff in here all the time.

Int: How much does New Salem own?

WL: In town, everything.

Int: Everything?

WL: Every store, every house. Everything. Even the gas stations. They run the only food store in town.

[Shot of a grim looking middle-aged white guy who looks like he last smiled during the McCarthy administration.]

[Caption: Willard Whipple, Food Store Manager, Salem Centre NY]

WW: I run this store. Stop squeezing that.

Int: Do you own the store?

WW: I run it.

Int: Who owns it?

WW: The owner.

Int: Who is the owner?

WW: Salem Food Stores.

Int: You're listed as the managing partner.

WW: Yes.

Int: So you must know who the owner is.

WW: Yes.

Int: But it isn't you.

WW: No.

Int: But the owner decides on the prices?

WW: After a fashion.

Int: The milk here is more expensive than it is in Manhattan.

WW: I charge what the market will bear.

Int: But almost everyone here lives in deep poverty.

WW: I charge what the market will bear.

*Intense stupidity? Cold capitalistic stupidity? The result of psychic brain tampering? You decide.

Int: Why are five of the six aisles in the store filled with beer and wine and liquor?

WW: I don't like the tone of your questions. Get out.

[Shot of William Loman Jr]

WL: You used to see shops like that in Harlem, before the guaranteed annual income. This is one of the few places that still has them.

Int: Would you come back, now that the School's closed?

WL: You nuts? No way. No way I'd live anywhere near that place. Don't know how anyone could.

[Shot of Callisto]

Int: Do you enjoy living here?

C: Shit yeah, it's better than some places I've lived in.

Int: Like?

C: The sewer.

Int: Ah. I understand that you have some authority in Salem Centre.

C: I lead the Morlocks, who are named after the characters in HG Wells' novel The Time Machine. Nothing happens here without my say-so.

*that's twice now that she's repeated that. More psychic tampering?

Int: Then we have your permission to conduct the interviews in town?

C: Shit, yeah.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Kyoshi going to the NWT for the 1st time

Northern WT Chief: Welcome Avatar Kyoshi! It's great to see- Kyoshi: *shivering, wrapped in a blanket, hugging Rangi from behind who is also the same blanket* Rangi, face half covered by the blanket, voice slightly muffled: She's not used to the cold.

Photo for visulaization:

[islandtarochips]

Tiala - She knows how to drive during High School. At the age of 17. during her senior year. Her dad taught her...and she's gonna be HONEST with you. She would rather have the ACTUAL driving instructor instead of her dad. Why, you ask? .........yelling. (Don't tell her dad-)

Kanoa - At the age of 20 when he was still in the military. His older brother, Rangi, has to teach him. In order for him to drive a military vehicles. (And he had failed more than 10 times...but he got it at the 15th try!)

Nigel (Squirrel) - Graves taught him how to drive ever since he joined into the Shadow Company.

Agnes - She doesn't have a CAR. So...she's a passenger princess.

Aelan - Her Uncle taught her after her graduation from her medical school. Before signing up to the military.

Alana - Her brother taught her how to drive during high school before graduating. In case she needs to go somewhere while he or his girlfriend isn't around.

Koa (BOCW) - He knows how to drive after being married. Since he wanted to take his wife around...until that behavior has changed and him being reckless and drunk driving...

Does your OC know how to drive a car? If so, when did they learn?

[disasterkyoshi]

ok hear me out 

i just have this FEELING that the reason Rangi asks Kyoshi if she’d been drinking on the iceberg in ROK is because they definitely had all gotten drunk together before and Kyoshi is most certainly the “pass out anywhere” kind of drunk

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

I finished reading Shadow of Kyoshi a few days ago and now I have thoughts about Kuruk and his Team Avatar. 

Spoilers from both The Rise of Kyoshi and The Shadow of Kyoshi under the cut.

First of all - his friends.

In all honesty, his friends sucked, except for the fire sage. They were horrible people except for Kelsang. I think they were kind of shit people to begin with, just that the chaotic time after Kuruk’s death made them worse than they already were.

I mean, Jianzhu was allegedly a good person before Kuruk died and he became so influential in the Earth Kingdom. But, he massacred a shit-ton of people at some point after Kuruk’s death, even if they weren’t innocent, and shows no remorse for it at all. He becomes known as the Gravedigger and is hated and feared by the daofei. He later abuses Yun, turning him into a trained killer, and does unspeakable things in order to possess and control the Avatar. The fact that Yun or Kyoshi was his old friend’s reincarnation didn’t seem to matter to him.

Hei-Ran had the highest number of “accidental” kills in the Fire Academy. And she also played a role in the abuse Yun went through, who again, they all thought was Kuruk’s reincarnation.

Kelsang is the least worst, mostly because he showed remorse for the dirty shit he did to keep peace in the Earth Kingdom, and didn’t take part in abusing Yun (he probably didn’t even know about it). He even tried to protect Kyoshi from Jianzhu and paid for it with his life. He was mostly just a terrible friend. I mean, what kind of close friend reacts to their friend’s love confession poem by making him destroy it? It’s unbelievably cruel. And even if he didn’t mean to cause a massacre through his air-bending, he still is culpable for those deaths and Tagaka was right to hate him for what he did.

Now - their friendship with Kuruk. I don’t think any of them were that close friends with him. Maybe they were true companions to the Avatar, but not true close friends to Kuruk. Hell, the fire sage looked like he was a better friend than the three of them. They stuck with him during the good times, but when he started secretly spiralling (ie. getting drunk, partying, womanizing) they apparently just assumed that he was being lazy and selfish and purposefully not doing his duty as the Avatar. 

At the very end, they view him as a disappointment of an Avatar and think negatively about him. Jianzhu thinks about his death as “the only time he was ever early for anything”. Hei-Ran complains about Kuruk’s fire sage friend ruining him. Kelsang also doesn’t share any positive memories of Kuruk, as far as I can tell--the only memory he shares is the time he yelled at Kuruk and made him destroy the love poem he wrote.  

Contrast this with how Rangi and Kyoshi’s friends thinks about Kyoshi. “You may be the Avatar, but there is only one Kyoshi”. Rangi is focused on Kyoshi becoming the best Avatar she can be, but she clearly cares about her as an individual as well. She and Kyoshi’s other friends care about her well-being, insisting that she look after herself properly. We see the same thing with Aang and his friends, and Korra and her friends. They all love and care about their Avatar as a person first and Avatar second. 

I do not see that in Kuruk’s Team Avatar. To me, it just looks like Kuruk’s friends were mainly focused on training him to be a good Avatar and didn’t know him that well as a person, at least not enough to care unconditionally about him. So when he seemingly started shirking his Avatar duties and doing what they coined “being Kuruk”, they were disappointed and treated him like a failing Avatar first instead of someone who needed help.  

I cannot imagine the Gaang or Korra’s friends treating Aang or Korra the way Kuruk’s friends treat Kuruk.

Finally, Kuruk.

Kuruk is a total sweetheart and his friends didn’t deserve him. Is he flawed? Yes. Did he make mistakes? Hell yes. But he’s also actually a very sweet guy who tried to do his best with the situation he found himself in. 

He loved his friends so much. In his flashback passages, you can clearly see just how much he loves them and it’s so heart-breaking how they end up believing the worst of him. And he chose to keep his spirit hunting secret from them, to protect them from what the dark spirits had done to him.        

They really didn’t deserve him. I do wonder if Kuruk might have been a bit blind to their worse flaws? Or maybe he just loved them anyway. 

And that’s pretty much all I have to say about this right now. I’ll probably write up more of my thoughts later, about Kuruk’s relationship with Kyoshi and Yangchen, why I think Kelsang behaved terribly during the love poem incident, and about Hei-Ran’s reaction when Kuruk is found sleeping with that maid during the severe illness he receives after killing one of the dark spirits.         

[bitchontheprairie]

when joanna newsom said come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now !! blossoms all have fallen and the pollen ruins the plow peonies nod in the breeze and while they wetly bow with hydrocephalitic listlessness ants mop up-a their brow !!! and everything with wings is restless aimless drunk and dour the butterflies and birds collide at hot ungodly hours and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangy reclines come on home now !!! all my bones are dolorous with vines.......!!!!!!

[moonglowmagic]

─── · 。ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

Dilan sighed at his oh before embarrassment crept up her cheeks. “You see I might have got drunk earlier this week and made a fool of myself at Shipfaced.” She explained quietly. Fidgeting with her napkin rather than looking at him in the eyes. “So I put myself in time out.” Finally looking up at him with a cringe on her face. “I know it’s embarrassing and my parents taught me better than that, but I just believed that I could—“ Trailing off as she let her hands drop in her lap. “It’s all yours I promise.” Reassuring him that she wouldn’t be asking for any, for at least a while. 

“Yep, I mean I did want to stab Rangi with it, but also she could have transferred the injury back to me if she used her powers so it’s not like she was a defenseless helpless little fae.” Dilan remarked as she rolled her eyes at fact she was having to do therapy for a year. “To be honest I think it’s just the old fae queen was salty I pushed her. Although she could have defended herself. She chose to fall back and do nothing.” Dilan remarked with the shrug. “Although she ran off so I’m hoping that Leyla’s boyfriend can appeal my sentence and get it lessened. Personally I think it’s way too long. Plus, therapy really? I mean I’m doing just fine without it.” 

Catching up with Dilan was never dull. While no conversation would ever top his introduction into the supernatural, this one was anything but boring. Still, what surprised him the most was Dilan declining a drink. "Oh?" A request for additional information. He wasn't aware of any issues she had with alcohol and wonder what had happened. "I'll have a glass." He agreed as he poured himself one. "We can take the rest home."

Meal mostly finished, Devrim sipped his wine and reflected on the conversation. "One year of therapy for possessing a knife, huh?" A medical school rotation in psych hardly made him an expert on rehabilitation, but a year looked like a lot more like retaliation. "Who'd you piss off on the council to get a sentence like that?" He'd only lived in Lunar Cove for two years, but Devrim took the time when he first arrived to familarize himself with the law of the land. Regulations that appeared riddled with corruption and personal bias. A leadership not unsimiliar to the rest of American politics.