She/Her; consumer of Star Wars and Jedi enthusiast Iām here for Dusty Desert Daddy Kenobi and Space Daddy Din Djarin. My ao3:Ā DD1995 | Archive of Our Own
When Anakin can't sleep - which is most of the time - he tunes in to the local college radio station, just grateful to have someone else who sounds like they're awake at the same time he is.
His favorite quickly becomes Ben Kenobi, broadcasting his show Guiding Light from the station just a few miles away every Tuesday and Thursday from two to five a.m. Ben's musical tastes are...eclectic, to say the least, but he's funny and knowledgeable and Anakin looks forwarding to listening to him every week.
...and sure, okay, maybe Anakin's got a little bit of a crush on the guy. But it's not like that's ever going to go anywhere. Anakin is busy with his job, and his kids, and Ben is just a voice on the radio. They've never crossed paths. They're never going to cross paths.
That is, at least, until one cold November morning when Ben asks anyone out there who's listening to call into the station.
Anakin can't dial the phone fast enough.
This fic's first fan, way back in 2023 when I first started talking about writing radio DJ Obi-Wan, was @kingdomvel, and thank you, friend, because I know this is late but it likely wouldn't have (ever!) happened without you and your excitement for this concept.
Speaking of starting fics three years ago and not finishing them until now, I'm also grateful to @tideswept and the Order of Overdue Obikin for giving me a community and a deadline to actually sit down and write, and, as always, for @underacalicosky, @palfriendpatine66, and @somethingsteff.
For your help with the section in chapter four where Anakin talks about his favorite video game soundtracks, thank you to @aigoos, @lilredghost, @renlyslittlerose, and @kidrest!
I can't shout out any of them on Tumblr, but my inspiration for this fic took a lot of cues from Wolfman Jack (both the real person and the character of himself he played in American Graffiti), Obi-Wan in Lego Star Wars: Summer Vacation, DJ Matt Pinfield, and Nick Offerman, whose book Good Clean Fun really helped me out when I decided it was a good idea to make Anakin a woodworker despite the fact that I know nothing about woodworking.
Also my dad, who is the only person I know who listens to Mott the Hoople.
i think the key difference between george lucasās star wars and disneyās star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because thatās how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation canāt have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when youāre a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you canāt take sides. you canāt decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.
I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and itās finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.
#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40ās adventure serials#but disney are making a āstar wars filmā and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)
Thankfully managed to lock-in and get a house after years of renting plus itās not too far away from where we currently live so moving should be a breeze (we only have money due to dead parents/grandparents for a house)
At some point, my social media algorithms started to show me snippets from Lady and the Tramp, so that gave me the idea of reaching out to @kana7o to draw our Obikin boys enacting the famous spaghetti scene. Kana delivered wonderfully as always, and I am very happy with this art! Lord and the Tramp is now what I'll call this art, though XD. Kidding aside, as someone who grew up on the older Disney films, this art really warms my heart. I hope you all like this piece as well! Happy Force Month!
P.S. ~ This month also marks my third year of falling hard into the Obikin fandom (after only being a very casual fan of like one Obikin fic from 2006ish until May 2023), so here's to another year of fun!
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