#batty penderwick

[a-hundred-jewels]

happy autism acceptance month to batty penderwick!!!

#batty penderwick #the penderwicks #penderwicks #autism acceptence month #also happy autism acceptance month to ME #first month w diagnosis :3

[izzielizzie]

i have so many feelings about jane and batty. they hardly have scenes together in the first four books (because they don’t need to! because jane has skye. and batty has rosy) but it’s so easy to see how much they love each other. jane lets batty help her with her play because she knows that batty likes to be included. she's put away her distress on multiple occasions for batty, like when she told batty a bedtime story even though she was worried about rosalind, or asked if batty had any anxieties even though she was concerned about claire's ankle. and batty repeatedly jumped in to help with lydia and ben during at last when it was clear that jane was overwhelmed.

and so much of that stems from the fact that jane never holds any resentment towards batty. she always understood that lizzy didn't chose between her life and batty's. she never felt like her childhood was taken because she didn't have to help raise batty more than any other sister did. and batty, maybe because of the way jane treats her, never feels like she's ruined jane's life.

and because of that, they have the simplest relationship out of any of the original for sisters. and i think that's just so sweet.

#unclear where this came from BUT they're so sweet and i love them and i wish we got more of them #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #the penderwicks

[the-gardam-street-blog]

Omg the one for the money thing on tik tok rn, I can't edit for shit but Rosalind is Elvis, Batty is Taylor, Janr is Lana, and Skye is Tyler and i feel this so deeply in my soul that i had to come out of hibernation

#the penderwicks #no incorrect quote #rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #tik tok trend #one for the money two for the show

[wilder-and-lighter]

#the penderwicks #penderwicks #penderwicks memes #skye penderwick #jeffrey tifton #batty penderwick #jeanne birdsall

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

this painting always reminds me of elizabeth and batty

#there's a big print of this part of the painting hung in the waiting room at the dentist #so i end up thinking about the penderwicks every time i'm there lol #my words #the penderwicks #elizabeth penderwick #batty penderwick

[bugmancatchers]

penderwicks sexuality head cannons

Rosalind- pan

Tommy- supportive straight boy

Skye- demiromantic bi ace (elaboration on a different post)

Jeffery- BI BI BI BI BI BI

jane- jane is a demisexual lesbian… fight me

Batty- aroace

Ben- is straight but everyone thinks he is gay (or maybe he doesn’t know it yet hmm) 

Lydia- I have no idea man

Mr penderwick- identifies as Queer once he learnt what the term meant after one of his daughters came out

Iantha- is also queer as hell (astrophysics??? Come on man)

#the penderwicks #rosalind penderwick #Tommy geiger #skye penderwick #Jefferey the penderwicks #Jefferey penderwick #Jane penderwick #batty penderwick #ben penderwick #Lydia penderwick #mr penderwick

[skye-penderwick]

So I love Rosalind and batty's relationship. So could you maybe write a story about their relationship? You could do a long story or one shots but I would just really love to see a fanfiction about their relationship. I'm going through a really hard time and this all I'm asking

Took me a little longer to finally be able to sit down and write like I wanted to but now we're here. This little convo takes place after the events of In Spring.

Rosalind placed the last of her clothes in her suitcase. She stepped back and looked around her room. It was a little more sparse than it had been, most of her important things being in her dorm in Rhode Island.

Strange how much of her life was there now. But Cameron would always be home. Her family was here. The house she grew up in. Tommy.

Oh, how she was kicking herself for thinking there was anyone else out there for her but him.

Rosalind sighed and knelt down to zip up her suitcase. She was trying to leave in a few hours and if she got everything figured out now she’d have a little more time to sit and talk to her family.

Just as she had gotten the zipper around, she heard a little knock at the door.

“Come in.”

The door slowly opened and Batty shyly peered out from behind.

Rosalind smiled. While it was a little taboo to say, Batty had always been her favorite sister. She was just so sweet and innocent. They had a bond forged from years of care and Batty seeing Rosalind as the sister who always wanted her around.

“Hey Batty. What’s up?”

Batty stared at the ground and rung her hands together. “I was wanting to talk to you about something.”

“Sure.” Rosalind stood up and sat on her bed. She patted the spot next to her and Batty sat down.

Batty took a deep breath. “Why did you have to go so far away?”

Rosalind blinked. “What?”

“Why did have to go to Rhode Island? You could’ve stayed here in Cameron. Why are you leaving?”

“Oh Batty.” How could she explain to her sister she needed to leave, to get away from the responsibility that had a chokehold on her here. How could she explain that to the sister she basically raised and had gone through hell the past few weeks? “Cameron will always be my home. But I need to find who I am outside of Cameron.”

“Is that why you broke up with Tommy?”

“Partly. If anything, that stupid decision taught me that I never truly will leave.”

Batty nodded. “I missed you a lot. And you seemed like a different person.”

Rosalind reached out and pulled her sister into a hug. “I missed you too Battikins. And I’m sorry if I was someone you didn’t recognize. I’m still the same me. But you know that people change. You don’t notice it when you’re with them everyday but I don’t see you everyday anymore, do I?” Rosalind gave a dry laugh. “I’m sorry I left you, but I’ll always be there for you. You know I’m always a phone call away right?”

“Yeah. But a phone call doesn’t hug me or bake brownies.”

“I know. And phone call doesn’t let me see your concerts or sit in on your practices. But I’ll be back for the summer okay?”

“Ok.” Batty looked up and Rosalind and blinked tears out of her eyes.

“I love you Batty. That will never change.”

“I love you too.”

“Do you want to help me finish packing? I might have time to make some brownies for everyone before I leave.”

Batty nodded and hopped off the bed. They worked in tandem putting the rest of Rosalind’s stuff into her backpack and loading up the car.

Rosalind watched as her little sister worked alongside her. She knew leaving her would be difficult, but maybe she didn’t realize how difficult. But Batty would understand one day. She was already talking about touring and playing concerts. But before then, Rosalind was going to be there for her sister, even if it was from a few hours away.

#the penderwicks #penderwicks #rosalind penderwick #batty penderwick #i will fuel my own need for penderwicks content #i write a thing #ask

[the-beee-charmer]

I drew two of the Penderwicks!

Here is Skye and Batty😌

#the penderwicks #skye penderwick #batty penderwick #book fanart #Jeanne birdsall #drawing #thebeeecharmer art

[willow-lark]

ms birdsall i understand what you were going for with the whole little women thing with the penderwicks but jeffrey x batty was Not It

#the penderwicks #jeffrey tifton #batty penderwick #posts of lark

[pender-what-now]

Batty: ppl who say "the wife" instead of "my wife" are... suspect at minimum

Tommy: Why? You jealous of the man with the superlative wife? The wife against which all others are measured?

Dusek: The definitive wife.

Jane: One wife to rule them all and in the darkness, bind them

#the penderwicks #batty penderwick #tommy gieger #dusek #jane penderwick #source: tumblr

[crying-in-converse]

if you are a fan of the penderwicks follow @bugmancatchers !!!

its an active blog that is trying to keep the penderwick fandom on Tumblr alive !!!!

#the penderwicks #skye penderwick #rosalind penderwick #Jane penderwick #batty penderwick #jeffery the penderwicks #jeffery penderwick #Tommy geiger #nick geiger #mr penderwick #penderwicks #the penderwicks on gardam street #the penderwicks in spring time #noromo35 talks

[izzielizzie]

“Jane, the bird isn’t dead, and don’t you dare try to resuscitate it.” (Rosalind to jane) i feel like this would be set 2 years after gardan street for some reason.

let it be known that i spent at least two minutes cackling at the idea of jane trying to revive a bird

"Jane, the bird isn't dead, and don't you dare try to resuscitate it," Rosalind says harshly as she turns around to find her younger sister hovering over a robin on the sidewalk.

Jane's in her soccer uniform, peering up at Rosalind dubiously. "Are we sure about that?" Jane looks back down at the robin, who seems to have been frozen by the shock of being chased by Hound, who is now safely eyeing the bird behind Tommy.

Rosalind waves her hands around in frustration. She just wanted one peaceful walk in the park after school but her siblings just won't let her. "It's wings are moving Jane. What dead bird moves its wings?"

"Chickens run around after they've been deheaditated," Batty offers up serenely, her hand clutching Ben's.

"Decapitated you birdbrain." This is Skye, standing apart from the group with her arms crossed over her chest. Her blonde hair is flying everywhere in the autumn breeze.

"Okay Jane-o I think it'll be okay. Let's just give it some space." Tommy pulls Jane up so she's standing. "If it's not better on our way home you can try to revive it."

This seems to pacify Jane, who promptly cartwheels down the street after Skye.

Thank you Rosalind mouths at Tommy. He winks back in response and lopes an arm around her shoulder.

#the penderwicks #rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #ben aaronson penderwick #tommy geiger

[a-hundred-jewels]

batty and keiko had a brief obsession with turtles in fourth grade, leading to keiko getting a tortoise for her tenth birthday. his name is clyde and he wears little knitted cozies when it's cold. when he hibernates for the winter, keiko and batty hold a hibernation ceremony with some of their friends. this continues throughout college, even though some of the participants of the ceremony have to be there on facetime.

#slightly influenced by my love of clyde the tortoise in elementary #elementary #clyde my beloved #batty penderwick #keiko trice #many days of penderwicks #the penderwicks #cameron rambles

[wilder-and-lighter]

I'm thinking of making a playlist for each Penderwick sister, but only Taylor Swift songs

how are we feeling about Rosalind having mirrorball?

#the penderwicks #rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #lydia penderwick

[the-arundel-renegades]

Do you think Mommy would be angry? (Rosalind) Angry at our plans and counterplans, with your father sneaking out in the middle of it all to read a book? No, Rosy. I think she'd be laughing herself into fits.

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street 

I love how Elizabeth Penderwick is characterized in death. Loving and vivacious, yes, but we know from the bits of her that Skye embodies that she could be stubborn and hot-tempered. Human, in other words. Her family will think about her every day. There will be an empty seat for her at every wedding, every graduation, every heartbreak, but they will learn to love without her. They will know for certain that she would have been best friends with Iantha and fallen in love with Ben and Lydia, despite Lydia’s protests that they couldn’t both exist at the same time and Skye’s reassurances about parallel universes. I can only hope for a death this sweet.  

#the penderwicks #the penderwicks on gardam street #rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #claire penderwick #elizabeth penderwick #martin penderwick #death

[bugmancatchers]

Skye Penderwick is bi, here’s why

I have seen a lot of people on here saying that Skye was very obviously a lesbian. But in my opinion, Skye was most definitely queer. And on top of that, most definitely sapphic. But instead of just headcannoning every tom-boy character as a lesbian. I feel it is more fair to look at all the possible sexualities first.

I mean, if we’re talking about stereotypes I feel Skye fits in the bi category pretty well. In the books she is most often described wearing jeans, who says they aren’t cuffed? And math? astronomy? Screams bi to me.

But really, I do ship Skye and Jeffrey, and it’s because I felt their relationship had such a good build up. And most people would say that the romantic interest was one sided. In my opinion it was obviously not, there was clear evidence in the book that Skye cared about Jeffrey in a way that was way more deep than any of her other siblings, and all the other characters knew it (ahem, Jane letting Skye visit Jeffery first? Skye opening up to only Jeffery about her feelings/responsibilities? And many more instances)!

But, I do feel Skye would have a preference in girls, therefore this could add to the reason she was angry at herself and also continued to reject Jeffrey’s advances.

In my opinion Skye is probably also Demi-romantic. And a lot of times it’s really hard for demi people to admit they are in love, because a lot of the time they already have a great connection with this person, that they don’t want to ruin. The first time Skye rejects Jeffrey to his face (In Spring, hallway argument) she says she can’t be with him because she is scared of messing up, and ultimately hurting him.

I related to Skye so much as a kid, and still do. Yes, I legitimately cried while reading the last book, just thinking over and over again, this isn’t her! Skye wouldn’t do that! And I swear I am not projecting my sexuality on to her, but as a Demi-romantic bi I feel even more of my experiences and feelings being unintentionally, but very obviously represented in the book.

And, let me just say, Jeffrey is 100% bi as well. And who doesn’t love a bisexual power couple???

#skye penderwick #biseuxal #demiromantic #queer pride #sapphic #rosalind penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #lydia penderwick #mr penderwick #jefferey penderwick #ben penderwick #jefferey the penderwicks