#obi-wan/quigon

[antheiasilva]

Something unbelievable happened this week.

A few months ago @mythrilthread  wrote to me asking if they could make a hand bound book of my fanfiction, three stories After the War, Water and Sunlight and Invitation, approx 85,000 words, as a gift for their close friend @lootthecoyote who is a longtime and fabulous reader of mine.

And they asked WOULD I LIKE A COPY as an author gift?

Of course I said yes.

The volume arrived this week! And I am BLOWN AWAY.

No lie, I cried.

Above are photos of the absolutely masterpiece of bookbinding art. Everything about the object is completely unbelievable - the cover, the art, the layout. It's bound with teal thread! Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's lightsabers line the top of the pages, facing each other no less. The original abstract art is on point.

I don't know if I'll ever publish a book, but it was SO moving to see this work in print. Even more than my phd dissertation, which, honestly, was not the labour of love this fanfic was.

I feel so seen and appreciated, all warm and fuzzy and full of awe.

Fandom is a magical place!

May the Force be with you @mythrilthread and @lootthecoyote

It is a dream come true to write for readers like you.

[milkcioccolato]

Coming out comic since it’s pride month yayyyyyyy

[raphaerolo]

i am not good at drawing kiddos but here's my best rendition of Dino Kid Obi-Wan Kenobi 🦖🦕

I'm imagining Qui-Gon opening his door in the middle of the night to see lil Obi crying cuz he had a nightmare that featured the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

[bon-sides-sw]

Uni Au I was talking about with @babygirlbridger

Single mother literature professor gets flirted by his TA

[stealthetrees]

I saw a post I can’t find anymore about a clone wars au where the clones where mass produced and grown at like 10x the normal rate but they’re actually parasitic worms that live in a host so if a clone dies they don’t have to train another one, just get it a new host.

And I remembered the scene on Genanosis when Obi-wan wanted to study the worm and it got me thinking.

So Cody and Obi-wan go do something and Cody steps on a land mine and dies. But the worm crawls out. And obi-wan, the freak he is, is fascinated by the worm and takes it back with him. He makes a little habitat for worm Cody to live in and study’s him with a magnifying glass.

Someone eventually rescues worm Cody and gets him a new host and Cody immediately starts crying about how his crush would still love him if he was a worm.

[pachkko]

"You may be wondering why my padawan is hiding from padawan quin. Well, I would also like to know." Something Qui gon has said at some point.

I'm experimenting with some new coloring styles, so here's more quigon and padawan obi.

By this point, qui-gon doesn't even question what trouble obi-wan and quinlan get into anymore.

[corvidscreams]

Back again with art for This AU (as written by the lovely @iwishtocountthestars), specifically art for “Intermission”. A lovely little peak at Obi-Wans adjustment period and the turmoil within his lineage.

[star-wars-comics]

Star Wars #50 (2024) The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary variant cover by Chris Sprouse

[kingdomvel]

More Welcome to our castle lore

(Because it looks like I can’t let go of this au and some of you can’t either)

About the family portrait, Obi-Wan’s family and inheritance.

If you have ever visited a castle/palace, you must have noticed that portraits normally look like this:

or this:

You have noticed, right? All of them are individual. So, why then did Dooku commission a family portrait?

Dooku was born in 1924 as the oldest son and heir of the Count of Serenno title. Everyone, of course, expected him to marry and have his own heir but he got older and older, and the marriage and heir didn’t come. His younger sister did have a son, and everyone, to the annoyance of Dooku, started treating him as the future heir, as they had all lost hope of Dooku having a son of his own. Maybe he has been married for a while, but she has not been able to get pregnant. But then! Miracle! Little Qui-Gon is born when Dooku is already 41 years-old.

Qui-Gon is a bit of a wayward from the beginning, so the talk about who is going to inherit the title is finished, but other kind of talk starts. And then, Qui-Gon has Obi-Wan when he is only 20 years old, in a very scandalous way that leaves the mum out of the picture. Dooku decides that there’s enough talk about them, and takes charge of Obi-Wan’s “upbringing” (mostly private boarding schools, and trying to get him to not repeat Qui-Gon’s “mistakes”).

SO.

The family portrait.

It is basically a way for Dooku to solidify his succession line, a way of saying ‘yes, despite all your talk and your attempts to get the title I still have it, and my son and his son will be the Counts after me’.

The family tree (overly simplified) is then something like this:

(And why did Obi-Wan commission a family portrait? That’s easy, he loves Anakin and Ben too much)

[yookbiwan]

Seeing scar was painful to him

+

I think this is not the end

If I think about next story, I'll draw it again

[engagemythrusters]

honestly? “Qui-Gon abused Obi-Wan” such a BORING ass take

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

qui-gon: let obiwan sleep. please.

maul: train. the boy. to kill. sidious.

quigon: listen. maybe you should jus. go join the force.

maul: zero percent chance, jedi. train the boy.

[yellowocaballero]

I said a little bit about this in a comment a few hours ago (hey kenny) and I actually really felt like saying more.

For all that gay people/Tumblr people/AO3 peope/waves hand are really, really into found family they are actually pretty allergic to conceptualizing familial relationships outside of nuclear family roles.

I see a billion posts on Tumblr about how friendships can be just as important as romantic relationships, if not more, but nobody ever actually writes the friendship as important as a romantic relationship. Or friendships are interpreted as romantic, or friendships are sidelined for the romantic relationship. It's always a weird disparity between what people say are important and people actually find important for me.

So when we do step out of romantic relationship and into gen relationships, we typically enter the trope world of #foundfamily. But the same kind of flattening of characters for the sake of shoving them into yaoi ghost archetypes honestly also really happens with family relationships.

There is always a dad. There's always a mom. There's always siblings (frequently the canon female love interest). Maybe an uncle? Ex-wife if we are feeling sexy that day.

I really rarely see people interested in #foundfamily relationships outside of those boxes. It is overwhelmingly, entirely American-centric. There's no recognition of the unbelievable diversity and breadth of human relationships, or the very many ways there are to love somebody. In fanfic, if there's a much older male character emotional close to younger characters, he's dad mode. And the relationship then follows the character and story beats of the father-child relationship intended to draw out those fuzzy family feelings. Damn, I read found family stuff to get away from the intense claustrophobia of the fandom's favorite ship, I'm not here to get family yaoi ghosted here too.

I think you can create a very unique and engaging relationship if you're wiling to engage with the unknown and uncomfortable. Make a path without the paint by numbers story beats and character arcs. Please stop letting tropes rule your writing instead of construct it.

Write stories about love. Write relationships about loving each other. Just start from there, and don't worry about anything else. Create a relationship that is its own. Let it breathe. It can stand on its own two feet. It'll be a richer relationship and a richer story.

[tennessoui]

um Stacy's Mom au au is taking me OUT they fuck with Ahsoka asleep in the next room?? THEY ARE SO MESSY WHAT

in reference to this post's last few paragraphs:

in a stacy's mom au au, let's say instead of master skywalker comming ahsoka to tell her to come back in the first chapter, he goes to get her and decides to personally escort all padawans back to the temple - not vos though as he is a knight and can choke. ahsoka ends up passed out in her bed and obi-wan is really planning to leave but now it's just him and master skywalker and there's something about the man that makes him seem...approachable right now...willing. it may be the exhaustion around his eyes, it may be because this is the first time they've really been alone together since zygerria, it may be because master skywalker had his hand on his lower back the entire time he escorted him and ahsoka back to the temple, it may be because he caught master skywalker looking at his lips at least once tonight, it may be because obi-wan has had way too much to drink really and anakin's pouring a drink of his own because apparently there's important paperwork he must do and and and and it may be a thousand different things that make obi-wan feel just confident enough to drop into master skywalker's lap and ask him if he wants to fuck around - but they have to be quiet because ahsoka is asleep in the next room and because neither would be able to just do it once, because they're both still in love with each other, they start sneaking around to do it more. there's no bet, just a lot of guilt. quinlan doesn't know, ahsoka doesn't know, and it turns out in the shadows is a good place to kiss and a bad place to have the conversations they need to have....so they don't have them and they don't have them and they don't have them and obi-wan tries to tell himself this is enough this is more than he deserves, more than he ever thought he'd get and anakin tries to tell himself that this is all he deserves and more than he ever thought he'd get

they would though!! padawan obi-wan is only going to be this confident around master skywalker once so he has to throw caution to the wind and just try and master skywalker is feeling close to snapping because padawan obi-wan is wearing clothing that is NOT temple approved and looking at him with big eyes and wet lips and he needs this he wants this he is a weak, dirty old man who is going to allow obi-wan to crawl into his lap and suck on his fingers and call him master

even if his actual padawan, and obi-wan's good friend, is in the next room sleeping

[bon-sides-sw]

Younger Days before Uni

You need to read @babygirlbridger 's Jangobi fic (E) too to see how Obi got into that situation :3

[drydak]

hello everyone have we considered 25 year old obi wan moving to a small town when he gets custody of his 9 year old half-brother after their father unexpectedly dies and meeting a kind but stoic diner owner named cody......hello...........