Obikin Reverse Bang 2025

✨Obikin Big Bang 2024 Masterlist✨

Happy New Year, everyone!

After two months of posting, over 50 teams posted their words and art for the 2024 Obikin Big Bang! They all deserve celebration and appreciation, so remember to check out their works and leave your love with kudos, likes, and comments.

To make everything more accessible, we've created a Masterlist [https://obikinbb.tumblr.com/Masterlist%202024] with all the links to the respective Masterposts, art pieces and works.

We are absolutely thrilled with the amazing works the Big Bang brought to the Obikin fandom!

Until next time!

✨ Obikin Reverse Bang 2025 Sign-Ups ✨

Hi there! The time for everyone to join the Obikin Reverse Bang of 2025 is finally here! We're very excited about this event and all the fanworks it will bring to our fandom.

If you'd like to Sign-Up as an Artist, click here to fill out our form.

For Authors, the Sign-Up form can be found here.

Beta Readers and Cheer Readers can join through this form.

Remember that you can join in more than one role, but if you sign up as an Artist and an Author, you won't be allowed to do write for your own Art Piece.

Please check out our Frequently Asked Questions for more information of our event and contact us if you have any questions or doubts.

@swfandomevents , @obikin-events

✨Author Requirements✨

Just one day until Authors, Beta, and Cheer Readers can join our Reverse Bang!

We're very excited about this new stage of this event, but in the meantime, here is what Authors need to know:

1. Authors will write a fic of at least 5,000 words long based on the Art Piece they’ve claimed after Moderators have made the teams. Authors have three (3) months to write their story and must consider this timeline when making a claim. Please be mindful of your schedule and the writing period we have given so you do not claim something you cannot write in that window of time.

2. Authors can only claim one (1) art piece for this challenge. Authors may pinch-hit for another art piece but only, and only if their first story is completed. Moderators will request proof of completion before assigning a second Art Prompt.

✨ Art Claims are June 7th 18:00 UTC to June 15th 6:59 UTC

3. Authors must respect restrictions specified by the Artist during Art Claims. The fic must be related to the art for which it is written, and it cannot have been already posted elsewhere. Sequels won’t be allowed either, as all stories must be brand new and original. 

4. While writing, you may stumble upon a topic that your teammate was not aware of that made them uncomfortable. We ask that you do your best to always communicate with your teammate at all times and reach a compromise if need be so that you both have a good time during this event.

5. Authors won’t demand changes to the art to fit the fic unless your artist has expressly permitted this.

7. Authors will not commission additional art for this challenge, even if your artist permits it. Additionally, Authors are not allowed to illustrate their own fic or ask artistic friends to make art for their fic as a gift, until after the event is over. 

For more information about Author Requirements, please check our Tumblr page

Artists can still join our event through here!

Hi there!

We understand that inspiration can be a fickle thing, and hopefully that doesn't happen. But if it does, the deadline for authors to drop out, no questions asked is July 27th, right when the First Authors' Check-In closes. That means that, from the moment you sign up until July 27th, you can drop out without penalty or consequence, for whatever reason.

However, past that deadline you can only drop out due to emergencies, so please be mindful of your schedule so no penalties have to be enforced your way

✨ What is a Reverse Bang?

A Reverse Bang is a creative challenge that is the opposite of a Big Bang. Instead of Authors writing their fic and Artists creating art for it, it’s the Artists who first create a piece of artwork. Then, Authors will claim the Art Pieces during an anonymous process and proceed to write a fic based on that artwork and following the guidelines given by the Artist for content they don’t want associated with their Art Work.

Artists can suggest prompts alongside their art piece, but Authors are not obligated to fulfil the suggested prompt, just adhere to the content the Artist stipulated they are uncomfortable with having in the created work.

✨ How does this Reverse Bang work?

After Artist Sign-Ups open, Artists will have a little over a month to submit a sketch that most looks like the finished art piece(s) they will submit during Final Check-In. It doesn’t have to be the finished piece, but it must be completely sketched and with a semblance of background that gives the general idea of how the final art piece will look like. The Authors must be able to write a fic based on the art as-is.

Along with their art, Artists must include a list of restrictions on fic content (eg. no Underage, no MCD, no Rape/Dub-Con, no TopWan, no TopAnakin, etc) that Authors must adhere to when they claim an Art Piece. The more clear Artists are with what they don’t want, the better time everyone will have during this event.

Artist may also include a suggested prompt or details they’d like to see paired up with their Art Piece, but always keeping in mind that it is up to the Author if they wish to fulfil the prompt or not. (For more information check Artists Requirements)

After an anonymous process in which Authors will claim one (1) Art Piece they wish to create a story for, Moderators will partner Authors and Artists.

Once partnered up, teams will collaborate to produce their finished work by their posting date (assigned by the Moderators based on the availability and preference of teams stated in the Posting Poll that will be published on September 6th at 18:00 UTC)

✨ How do claims work?

Once Artists have sent us their first mandatory Check-In, the moderators will share the anonymous art pieces and content restrictions with the Authors, so they can claim which work they want to create a fic for. Each art piece will include at least one finished fic/story.

For more questions you may have, don't forget to check out our Frequently Asked Questions page and remember that you have until April 30th 18:00 UTC to Sign Up as an Artist

Hi! We saw your other ask but we thought it was good to answer this one in case anyone else had the same question as you.

Yes, your art piece is your own and, during First Check-In you will stipulate which content you don't want attached to your art piece (in your case, no m/m or m/f interpretations of Obikin). You can also include a small prompt if it's something you'd like, but with the knowledge that the Author that gets assigned your art piece after claims does not necessarily need to follow said prompt, just what you state you don't want to see

✨Artist Requirements✨

Artists will make at least one (1) piece of brand new, previously unpublished, finished art featuring both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, as well as Promotional Art for the Author(s) they will be paired with. For the Reverse Bang, we will consider one (1) piece of art in the form of:

Note: if you’d like to sign as an Artist with a different form of art, please contact the Moderators with a proposal of what you believe will be equivalent to the guidelines above and we will consider your proposal.

Additionally, promotional art can be in the form of SFW cropping or a preview of the actual art piece with the name of the fanfic.

AI (artificial intelligence) created images are not permitted and will be banned when seen.

For more information about Artist Requirements, please click here.

✨ Obikin Reverse Bang 2025 Artist Sign-Ups ✨

Hello there! We're very excited to bring you this new event and we can't wait to see what it will bring to our fandom!

Artist Sign-Ups are open from now until May 1st 6:59 UTC.

Check when that is in your time zone here.

Author, Beta and Cheer Reader Sign-Ups will open on March 29th, 2025.

Please check out our Frequently Asked Questions, Rules and Requirements, and General Information to learn more about the event and contact us if you have any questions or doubts!

@swfandomevents , @obikin-events

Hi there! We didn't delete the server, but we did remove everyone on there who participated in the Obikin Big Bang 2024 last year so we can have a clean slate for the Obikin Reverse Bang 2025 this year. If you sign up to participate this year, then you will receive a new invite to join the server again!

Hi there!

Yes, it will. We thought it’d be a little repetitive to have Big Bangs two years in a row, so we wanted to change things a bit and make a Reverse Bang happen.

If all goes well, next year we’ll be making the Big Bang happen again

Hi there! Currently, we're considering allowing writing in English and Spanish, as those are the languages the mods understand. This is so we can be sure that the appropriate content warnings are applied to each fic. However, nothing is official yet, but we will be announcing soon the guidelines and rules for this Reverse Bang

Never be embarrassed to ask! We're happy to answer any questions you or anyone else may have!

A Reverse Bang is the opposite of a Big Bang. Instead of authors writing their fic and artists creating art for it, it's the artists who first create a piece of artwork. Then, authors write a fic based on that artwork and guidelines created by the artist for content they don't want. Artists can suggest prompts alongside their art piece, but authors are not obligated to fulfil the suggested prompt, just follow the content the artist stipulated they are uncomfortable with having in the created work.

We will have more information when sign-ups are available, since we know that not everyone has heard of it.

The Interest Check is here!

Please answer the form to help us tune the final details for the event (dates, etc.) and let us know how many people are interested in the Obikin Reverse Bang 2025 happening.

If you have any questions or doubts, our DMs and asks are open!

Valentine Day has come and gone but we’re just getting started!

Obikin Reverse Bang 2025: Coming Soon

Stay tuned!