#Solsbury

[jt1674]

[grapenehifics]

Solsbury Hill question!!

Okay….so Obi-Wan said he was done moving…but then Anakin of course got them a house to rent and move in to!! But, after those 2 years are up….do they move again😳😳😳😳 orrrrr does Anakin and Obi-Wan buyout the house from them??

I don’t know why my brain is suddenly like…WHAT DO THEY DO….but my brain won’t stop thinking about it🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

MY FRIEND you have tickled my brain no end with this ask and I can't stop thinking about it. Because 'what next' - that's the question, isn't it?? I'm bad at endings - I 'stopped' (ha) Solsbury Hill because I thought that was a really good stopping point, but then obviously kept going and now there's a whole Bonus Scenes fic because I can't stop thinking about what they do next either! So, here's some random thoughts that haven't (yet) made it into the Bonus Scenes.

-They've got to figure out Obi-Wan's job, or at least his working conditions. They're trying! Anakin looked into that airplane mechanic program and Obi-Wan started adjuncting but ultimately decided having an on-call schedule wasn't for him/their family. But what he can do, and the direction I think he's eventually going to shift, is social work through the school district (rather than the county). He is using his degree, he's working with kids, but it's going to be a more standard business hours schedule (no more weekends!) and while he's certainly got a lot of kids to work with (the school district of course hires far fewer social workers than they should) he's also not the last line of defense for any of them, and can liaise with their 'regular' county social workers for things they need outside of school. And, side benefit for their family, LAUSD is an enormous district and he can transfer almost anywhere if he needs to.

-By the time the Ersos get back from Europe, a lot of things have changed with their kids. Ahsoka (in the Sick Kids chapters of Bonus Scenes) was in her freshman year of college, living at home and commuting to class. But as she keeps going to school she makes some friends who start talking about getting an apartment near campus together. Anakin and Obi-Wan are of course very determined that she always has a home with them anytime she wants/needs it, but she just isn't at home quite as often as she grows up and could maybe have a pull-out couch, or share bunk beds with Leia, rather than needing her own bedroom. The twins, too, are older and starting to be in school during the day for longer and longer periods of time.

So, all of that, plus Obi-Wan having a related but new, slightly less-stressful job, plus having to leave the house they'd been renting for two years, they talk about changes they could make and things they could give up so that Anakin could quit his job at Mr. Plo's shop and do the airplane mechanic program - but the track that holds classes during the day, rather than in the evenings/at night. So they're down to just Obi-Wan's income, which isn't great, but they take advantage of being a little more mobile and moving so Anakin's commute isn't so long, and by the time he gets out of class either he or Obi-Wan can pick the twins up from daycare and then still have the whole evening to spend with them and do dinner and baths and bedtime and all of that without Obi-Wan and Ahsoka trying to do all of that without Anakin around. (Anakin also makes some money on the side on weekends by flipping classic cars. Obi-Wan is annoyed at having to always find street parking because their assigned parking spots are taken up by Anakin's latest clunker projects, but it makes Anakin happy and he does make them extra income off it so Obi-Wan deals with it.) It still takes two years and yeah it's a big letdown from having their own (rented) house with a little yard and actual bedrooms for the kids AND the adults to not have to sleep in the living room but...

-After two years Anakin gets a much-better paying job at any one of the major or minor airfields in the area (still staying pretty local for both Obi-Wan and Padmé's jobs, because they've got split custody of the twins, and for Ahsoka's school, so that she can come home holidays and weekends without having to travel too far) and THEN they can actually relax a little bit and start thinking about 'what do we WANT to do' and 'where do we WANT to be' without having things they HAVE to do and decisions they HAVE to make just to stay solvent hanging over their heads. But it is a process and I don't want to make it too easy for them ;)

(I also like to think that Obi-Wan really does end up transitioning out of being a full-time social worker himself and into teaching future MSW students at a university. He has the credentials and the experience for it and who doesn't love Professor!Obi-Wan? But that doesn't happen immediately.)

So, in a very long answer to your question, they do have to move a few times again even after leaving the Erso's house, and they may never be the sort of family who can save up enough for a down payment and buy their own home/stop renting but they just might conceivably become the sort of family who isn't quite living paycheck-to-paycheck anymore and that's a really big deal for them and a ton of progress that they really have to fight for but they do it!

Thank you for asking this and getting me back into the swing of this fic because I love and miss them, too ♥

[br00f]

And now for peak content. Peter Gabriel filmed on a nintendo 3ds

[ineffableobikin]

Me, every time I go to the thrift store: “someone tell Obi-Wan and Satine there’s lots of crockpots here!!”

(This is a Solsbury Hill reference, the slow burn Obikin modern AU fic written by the brilliant @grapenehifics. I stayed up all night reading it once and I think it permanently rewired my brain, lol. I’ve re-read it countless times since then.)

[farmerbebop]

Today it's Peter Gabriel's turn to ruin my plan of going to sleep early.

[shrekgogurt]

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel

as performed by me

[satureja13]

Jack stepped out of the portal. So his version takes place in Moonwood Mill! And he is standing right before the Bunker! This means Noxee will be his guide! Oh he's so excited! (Since she lives here. Noxee was Jack's first crush.)

But no one was around. So Jack went to the cliff above Lake Lunvik to get an overview. He told Little Goat to stay near the Bunker. Moonwood Mill is full of wolves who would love a little goat appetizer before dinner.

He arrived at the cliff just at the border between night and day. But where is Noxee?

Oh no - he knows that smell. It's Greg! Why their former PE teacher of all creatures?

Greg: "Is this how you dress when you enter the otherworld? Show a little respect!" Jack: "These are my best trousers!" (Yes, now. Since he ripped his best trousers the other day...)

And when Greg asked Jack what he wants to let go, there was only one answer: "You! I want to let go of you! Go where ever you want but don't cross my way anymore! What are you even doing here? And where is Noxee?"

'So I went from day to day, though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say, which connection I should cut'

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Greg: "Well, let's have a fight. If you win, you will never see me again." Jack: "Agreed! You must know, I never loose a fight!" (Well except against Kiyoshi. But only because Kiyoshi is his alpha and also fights with Jack's strength. This won't happen with Greg, Jack is sure.) And so they went to the fighting grounds and Greg transformed.

But Jack lost again! How is this possible? Maybe because it's the otherworld and the fight is tied to the offering?

Greg: "That was a weak offering. Your gain will be greater when you let something more important go, son." Jack: "Don't call me that! So - the most important thing in my life are my friends. I certainly won't let them go. Second is ... uhm... Pizza. (since their relationship is a secret, he can't say 'Kiyoshi') But I can't let that go either. But I will let my ... uhm let's say... 'weird obsession' for it go. That's my highest bid." (Jack is insanely jealous and has a lot of weird suspicions about Kiyoshi going on in his crazy head. Since Kiyoshi can't tell him about his actions concerning the Council and the Resistance. And that everyone (except Noxee) falls for his demonic charms doesn't make it easier...).

Greg: "Accepted. Let's call the horse then." They transformed back and waited for the horse. Greg: "There it comes!" Jack: "That's not a horse! What's wrong with you?" Greg: "Behind that girl! What's wrong with you!"

Ah there it is!

And it runs right past Jack! Just like Kiyoshi on their first date! Hahaha this game!

Jack: "He's wonderful! What's his name?" Greg: "Haha he's Lunatic, just like you!"

Lunatic: "Take that back!" Greg: "Sorry, pal."

Greg: "His name actually is 'Lunatic'. He's a Galineers Cob." ('Luna' = 'the moon' in many languages).

Time is short, the portal is overgrowing on the other side. And so Jack mounted and tried to steer Lunatic to the portal. But before they could discuss the deal there with Little Goat, Lunatic trotted right in the opposite direction.

Where they vanished into the woods...

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[sarahtarth]

listening to solsbury hill by peter gabriel is a euphoric experience

[wickedhawtwexler]

there’s this guy in his sixties or seventies who’s singing song after song from my karaoke jams playlist and i’m living for it

[prolibytherium]

I've been listening to your always sunny drawing ost and I've got to say you've some A+ taste in music. And I wanted to ask what your 3 favourites of Peter Gabriel's less popular songs are?

[FROTHING] I feel normal about this question

OK so this is a really hard one because I could not possibly narrow it down to three but I will do my best (also not going to include I/O since that just came out):

Humdrum (I love the musical tone shifts in the song, the way it slowly builds into that ethereal finale, etc)

Darkness (It sounds like a Nine Inch Nails song, the drop into that edgy industrial shit 30 seconds in is phenomenal, "I'm afraid of being mothered with my balls shut in a pen, I'm afraid of loving women and I'm scared of loving men" closest thing he's ever done to making gay music even if that's not the intended meaning, bi suffering yay!!!!)

No Self Control (This was the song that got me into PG for real, because up until then I had only heard stuff off So (which is a good album but probably his most conventional and pop-y work) and hearing this was like "Oh he actually gets a little weird with it". Also Kate Bush backing vocals and Phil Collins on drums is so good here)

Physically incapable of stopping myself from adding more so also 'Lay Your Hands On Me' (best PG love song bar none fuck a 'In Your Eyes'), 'Digging In The Dirt' (I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU etc). 'And Through The Wire' and 'Growing Up'. Also just the entirety of Car. I limited this post to one per album because it would probably be three songs from Car if not. Please listen to Car every song on it is incredible (except for 'Excuse Me' which isn't great). I could talk about every song on Car for hours. I love Car.

[luvofdeath]

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

[grapenehifics]

Hi! What's your happiest memory related to your favorite fandom? :)

Hands-down, bar-none: making friends. I met @palfriendpatine66 and @willameena and @evieswips and @kittonafoxgirl (and others!) in the comments of Solsbury Hill, and have made more friends since in the comments sections of their fics (If you want fandom friends, gush in the comments of people's fics and they'll love you for life, honestly) and they bring me joy every single day. 100/10 experience, would friend again. Thank you for the ask!

[jerek]

Still my only opinion on voltron is that Peter Gabriel could have made it to oriande

[timmurleyart]

A night with Peter Gabriel. 🎤⬛️🔉🟪🎵

[petergabrielyuri]

all the non classical/mark mothersbaugh songs in our flag means death season 1 were either from the 60s (cobra, the empty boat, our prayer) or 70s (miles from nowhere, avalanche, perfect day, the chain, high on a rocky ledge) so i think based on the trailer the season 2 songs are all gonna be from the 80s or possibly late 70s.