#Obi and Ani

[catladychronicles]

They were fighting so I put em’ in a time out so they couldn’t touch eachother and then they sat telepathically angry at eachother staring forward…

The 2nd photo was 2 minutes after

[melorivers]

[NOT SHIP ART! DO NOT TAG IT AS SUCH!!!]

[briliantlymad]

I always think about how obi and anakin never kinda told each other the depth of their care because they assumed the other person knew already.

I keep joking about how everything could've turned out better if obi had just told anakin so many things to his face but im also kinda serious about it?

[sweetmaggie]

From Cody's sketchbook (ft. Rex): General Kenobi loves his personal space. General Skywalker also loves General Kenobi's personal space

(Not Obikin!)

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[dontbelasagnax]

messy sketch from valentine's day I did while trying a different brush than the one I normally use 💗

[starwarjotta]

looking for someone on Tatooine

[ahhrenata]

when i went to watch the anniversary screening of phantom menace, this shot of obi-wan burrowed into my brain 😵‍💫

[raphaerolo]

wlw codywan anyone?

[pachkko]

-This mission debrief couldn't wait until the rest of the temple was awake?-

Those early morning surprise meetings are great right? I've been so tired lately because of early morning work so now these boys have the same problem. Also I just thought it would be cute to draw them all sleepy ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ

[sixtysixproblems]

am i doing this right

[catladychronicles]

The high counsel will see you now

[melorivers]

what if they hugged...

[briliantlymad]

I always think about how obi and anakin never kinda told each other the depth of their care because they assumed the other person knew already.

I keep joking about how everything could've turned out better if obi had just told anakin so many things to his face but im also kinda serious about it?

[rhaenyratargeryen]

You turned into your worst fears And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years

[human-rocket]

'Anakin carrying sleeping/injured Obi-Wan' for @ravenite-void

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