#martin penderwick

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

BEST DAD BATTLE: DAD MANSION BREAK IN/SECOND CHANCE

#best dad battle #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #fandom bracket #fandom poll #dad mansion break in #buddy daddies #rei suwa #kazuki kusuru #martin penderwick #the penderwicks #Greg universe

[hanchewie]

Hmm... thinking about Jewish Penderwicks.

Specifically thinking about Martin (who is from a family of secular Jews) doing his best after Elizabeth’s death to recreate the traditions his wife brought to their home. She had a beautiful voice, and she laughed while she sang, and Martin feels terribly inadequate as he stumbles through a transliterated siddur in the weeks after her death. He wishes desperately that he had spent time learning this language, his children’s language, instead of Latin. But the truth is, none of this feels the same without Lizzy. It’s not just the Hebrew; it’s the fact that Martin feels like he can never capture his wife’s joy and passion for these traditions. He was never terribly religious, but he was in love with Elizabeth and the way she joyfully and effortlessly built their Jewish home. 

He sits the girls down one day and explains that he doesn’t know as much about these things as Mommy did. Looks each of them in the eye (even baby Batty, who is lying half on top of Hound and babbling nonsensically), and asks if they would like to learn together. Tells them honestly (because Martin has always believed in being honest with his children) that the songs and the candles and the holidays were very important to their mother. Tells them also that his family never did any of these things, and he and Aunt Claire still love each other very much. He tells them that he’ll learn with them, if they wish, because he loves them very much. But he’ll love them just as much if they don’t want to learn, or if it makes them too sad to think about Mommy singing those songs. He tells them they can think about it and decide when they’re ready.

He thinks Rosalind is the most like Elizabeth. She asks to go to synagogue most weeks, carefully sounds out Hebrew letters at their kitchen table, sings the prayers with a voice warm as honey. Batty goes wherever Rosalind does, of course, and she soaks up Rosalind’s blessings like a lullaby. Jane, Martin thinks, is most like him: in love with the stories and culture, smiling and singling loudly, lai, lai, lai, because she doesn’t know the words but is moved by the rhythm—but not so fussed with all the rituals. Skye is a bit of an enigma: she seems to have entirely replaced Judaism with math equations and soccer drills... until Martin comes home one day to find her sprawled on the floor, one of his old yarmulkes on her head, poring over a copy of the Tanakh and scrawling notes in the margins.

And for the first time in a long time, he thinks of his Hebrew name: Menachem. Comfort. Martin isn’t a rabbi, is better suited to the world of science than theology. But he comforts his children, and he is comforted by them in turn. He marvels at the truth of his name, and the wisdom of this ancient language that lays bare what he knows in his heart. 

Maybe he’ll learn some Hebrew, after all. 

#the penderwicks #martin penderwick #jewish penderwicks #the penderwicks are jewish because i say so. hope this helps <3 #anyways i have the /strongest/ mental image of skye on the floor #oversized kippah on her head #muttering quietly to herself as she writes sarcastic comments in the margins of mr penderwick's fancy tanakh #also: rosy absolutely sings hashkiveinu to batty every night before bed #batty doesn't 'officially' get into music until much later-- but she's had rosy's music in her ears since before she could speak

[a-hundred-jewels]

jane and martin learn cockney rhyming slang as a parent-child bonding activity

#Cockney rhyming slang #the penderwicks #penderwicks headcanons #Cameron rambles #unrelated but my fucking computer broke this weekend #mmmph #jane penderwick #martin 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

[izzielizzie]

chapter 5!! it took forever to write and i’m not fully happy with this chapter but i hope you enjoy <3

#the penderwicks #jane penderwick #rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #ben aaronson - penderwick #iantha aaronson-penderick #martin penderwick #jeffrey tifton mcgrath #jane/jeffrey

[holdoncallfailed]

can you do a longlist of the books about strong girl protags and female friendships, etc. that were really impactful/your favorites so i know what to gift/rec any young girls in my life?

aww!! i would literally love nothing more than to compile such a list ty anon. i tried to put them in an order vaguely representative of youngest audiences to older...i'm not sure how well some of these would hold up in 2023 but they're all ones i remember enjoying and having an impact on me somehow...

not one damsel in distress by jane yolen

the daring book for girls by andrea j. buchanan & miriam peskowitz

the whole dear america series!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ordinary princess by m. m. kaye

the caddie woodlawn series by carol ryrie brink

walk two moons by sharon creech (i used to have whole passages of this book memorized because i read it so often...potentially the most formative one on this list)

because of winn-dixie by kate dicamillo

the scholastic encyclopedia of U.S. women by sheila keenan (my elementary school art teacher had this book in her classroom library and i remember flipping through it when i was hanging around after school while my mom was doing PTA stuff...it was the first time i'd heard of so many of those women and further stoked my interest in history. i remember being so disturbed [and also intrigued] by the entry about ethel rosenberg specifically. i'm sure there are more updated versions of the book but this is the particular edition i remember reading.)

the penderwick sisters series by jeanne birdsall

bloomability by sharon creech

everything on a waffle by polly horvath

the tracy beaker series by jacqueline wilson

the outcasts of 19 schuyler place by e. l. konigsburg (also extremely formative)

saffy's angel / the whole casson family series by hilary mckay (i used to carry these books around with me as if they were security blankets)

p.s. longer letter later and snail mail no more by paula danziger & ann m. martin

the secret language of girls by frances o'roarke dowell

the tail of emily windsnap by liz kessler

savvy by ingrid law

love, stargirl by jerry spinelli (idk if any book had more of an impact on me as a child tbh like this rocked my world so completely i still think about it/quote it all the time. i know a lot of people read stargirl in school and honestly i don't think it's that good but the sequel is so underrated. so read it.)

a perfect gentle knight by kit pearson

feathers by jacqueline woodson

habibi by naomi shihab nye

the anastasia krupnik series by lois lowry

criss cross by lynne rae perkins

ella enchanted by gail carson levine........OBVIOUSLY

esperanza rising by pam muñoz ryan

kira-kira by cynthia kadohata

the city of ember by jeanne duprau

bad girls by cynthia voigt (tbh i REALLY don't know how this one holds up but i remember thinking it was pretty edgy as a kid)

little women by louisa may alcott

hurt go happy by ginny rorby

persepolis by marjane satrapi (obviously for slightly older readers)

the aforementioned rookie yearbook, natch. (also older)

#Anonymous

[martin-matchup]

Hello everyone! Please take a look at the finished bracket!

[Image ID: The first image is the first half of the bracket. The bracket itself is on a dark grey bg, drawn in white lines. There are 24 contestants on this side, 48 all together. In the middle is drawn a winners pedestal with the first three places. On the highest step, for the first place there is a golden trophy that says "best martin" on it in blue letters. There is confetti around the trophy.

The second image is the second half. It it styled the same, with 24 contestants on this side as well. End ID.]

The polls will each last a week and will be posted with a one day difference for each half (as in, the first twelve polls will go up, and then a day after, the next 12 and so on) until the final. I am currently organising the polls so if you have any feedback/suggestions/character images you'd like me to use, feel free to send an ask!

Contestants are listed under the cut.

First half:

Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

Martin Prince (The Simpsons)

Martin the gecko (GEICO)

Martini (alcohol, Real life)

Martini glass (glass, Real life)

Martin "Marty" Deeks (NCIS : Los Angeles)

Martyn Inthelittlewood (3rd life minecraft smp/life series, Datastream)

Marty McFly (Back to the Future)

Martin of Redwall/Martin the Warrior (The Redwall book series)

Martin Brenner (Stranger Things)

Martin Scorsese (Real life)

Martin Stein (DC's Legends of Tomorrow)

Martin Brody (Jaws)

Martin the butler (The Parent Trap)

Martin Fitzgerald (Without a Trace)

Martin Mystery (Martin Mystery)

Martin van Buren (The US, Real life)

Mars (Roman mythology)

Martin (The Mechanisms, Hereward the Wake, Tales to be Told Vol. 2)

Marty the zebra (Madagascar)

Martin Septim (The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion)

Martin Moone (Moone Boy)

M. (Lethal Weapon)

Marty (Papa Louie)

Second half:

Martina (The Four of Them)

Martin (Wii Sports)

Martin Mertens (Adventure Time)

Martin Wright (Big Nate)

Martin O’Hara (My Favourite Martian)

Martin Crane (Frasier)

Marty (Image Fashion Designer)

Martin Blyndeff (Epithet Erased)

Martin Martinaise (aka the smoker on the balcony, Disco Elysium)

Marty Farms (aka Marcus Barnes, The Electric Company)

Purple Martin (bird, Real life)

Martin Benson (Bee Movie)

Martin Whitly (Prodigal Son)

Martin Franklin (Fear Street)

Martin Murphy (Milo Murphy's law)

Pine Marten (animal, Real life)

Martin (Mysteries of providence)

Martin Chatwin (The Magicians (Also Fillory and Further, a series within the series))

Martin Penderwick (The Penderwicks)

Martin Banks (Magic 2.0 book series)

Martin Morning (Martin Morning)

Martin Ellingham (Doc Martin)

Martin Kratt (Wild Kratts)

Martín Cobblepot (Gotham)

#not a poll #but still important! #martin matchup

[flickeringflame216]

martin penderwick complaining in latin about his blind date will never not be funny

#the penderwicks on gardam street #the penderwicks #reading and rambles

[femmehysteria]

A few ideas you may not have yet in your submissions :

Gwendolyn (Saga comics) 

Tiffany Quilkin (Paper Girls)

Julian Amesbury (The Bone Season)

Martin Penderwick (The Penderwicks)

Martin Whitly (Prodigal Son)

Martin Mystery (Martin Mystery)

Jeffrey Tifton (The Penderwicks) 

Jeff (The Maze Runner)

Beth Ann Stanton (Why Women Kill)

Maria Nunez (West Side Story)

Bartolomeo (Winter's End) 

Cain (The Sandman)

Thanks for the suggestions!

#asks #best character named x

[r-a-b-talks]

Dæmons' names :

Lucie's name come from latin. Lux, lucis means, among other things, "light". I used the French spelling because A) I like it better and B) I have a childhood friend with this name

Skye is probably self explanatory but I'll add that I loved The Penderwicks' series as a kid.

Auberon represents Jason. It's the name of the King of fairies in medieval legends and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The "Au" spelling is from old French. I like the idea of a literary name for Jason's inner-self and I also liked the theater connection with Alfred (see Algernon)

For Cass and Barnabas, her Southern tiger car, the first thing I liked was how their names sounded together. There's a dog character with this name in The Sandman that I really like and since it's a talking dog, I thought it would make a good dæmon's name.

Brunhild, Tim's Labrador, is named after a Germanic/Scandinavian legendary warrior queen. Nice, um ?

Silas means "of the forest", which matched Babs' dæmon ape form. It's also the name of a vampire in The Graveyard Book and making bats' references is nice.

I picked Amaranth ("Mara") because of the red variety of the plant. African greys have red tails.

I picked Algernon for Alfred for two reasons. One of them is memories of crying my heart out over a fictional lab mouse in high school. The second is The Importance of Being Earnest, a comedy written by Oscar Wilde where one of the characters is named Algernon. Alfred has a theatrical background and it sounded nice.

I could tell you that Guinevere the Guinea pig didn't get her name because it sounded very satisfying but I would be lying. I picked Gwin as a nickname because of Dustfinger's marten in the Inkheart trilogy.

I could have just snatched Hero's name away from Shakespeare's hands but I'm borrowing it from the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, star-crossed lovers.

I didn't pick Titus. This good boy was gifted to Damian by Bruce in the comics.

I got the name for Saltan, Martha's honeybee, from a fairy tale written in verse by Alexander Pushkin. I misremembered seeing a honeybee there (it was a bumblebee, actually).

Apollonia, the name of Thomas' sable comes from Apollo, Greek God of beauty, music and others. I like to think of Martha has an accomplished musician (harpist ?) of great beauty.

Frankie, Barry's insect dæmon's name, comes from a bunch of associations my brain made. I wanted a masculine name for her and my thought process looked like this : green < Frankenstein's creature as sometimes portrayed < Frankie.

Samson the Golden Retriever got his name because of his hair. Samson, in the Old Testament, was a guy who got his strength from his hair. I imagine Samson the dog as a big hairy thing.

Jessica Jordan has a golden eagle named Prometheus. Hal jokes about it because, in Greek Mythology, Prometheus is condemned to have his liver eaten by an eagle every day as it reforms for having (allegedly) defied Gods (and Zeus in peculiar).

Martin Jordan's Scarlett is named as such because of Gone with the Wind, Jessica's falcon is named after the titular character of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Isadora "Isa", Oliver's canary, is named that way because I like the name (that I borrowed from dancer Isadora Duncan) but there's no more meaning behind those names.

I think you can guess why a jewel thief's magpie would be named Tiffany.

Oh and sweet Billie, Clark's non existent dæmon, probably got her name because I was thinking about rewatching New Who's first season.

#daemons au

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

BEST DAD BATTLE: BAPELSIN BRACKET

ROUND 1 GROUP 2 PART 1

#dad council supporting other polls #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #fandom bracket #fandom poll #alvin and the chipmunks #dave seville #the penderwicks #Mr Penderwick #Martin Penderwick

[hanchewie]

Currently rereading Gardam Street and I have nothing but love in my heart for Mr. Penderwick.

#mr penderwick: 'bah! romance! that date was ghastly' #skye: 'FINALLY someone is talking sense in this house' #the penderwicks #martin penderwick #skye penderwick

[a-hundred-jewels]

Sometimes, the Penderwick family holds a presentation night - a blatant excuse for Martin and Iantha to rehearse their lectures. Even still, it’s become a beloved family pastime. Ben’s first presentation was a list of reasons why Lydia was an alien. Once Lydia was old enough to understand it, she countered with a list of reasons why Ben was a worm. The most memorable presentation, however, was given by Jane, and solely consisted of pictures of her dad and Iantha as children that she’d scrounged up from god knows where. She’d made sure that aunt Claire was present as well, and the event went down in penderwick family history.

#the penderwicks #many days of penderwicks #cameron writes #cameron rambles

[aestheticstuffbystrixaluco]

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street aesthetic.

Part 3 - The adults. Martin Penderwick, Claire Penderwick and Iantha Aaronson.

#books aesthetic #the penderwicks #the pendewicks on gardam street #the penderwicks aesthetics #the penderwicks family #martin penderwick #claire penderwick #iantha aaronson #the astrophysicist #who is an amazing woman #and a genius #and i want to be friends with her #or marry her #ooops #spoiler #iantha penderwick

[izzielizzie]

could you write a Penderwicks fic about the relationship with any of the two siblings? They have really interesting interpersonal relationships.

#rosalind penderwick #skye penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #ben aaronson penderwick #lydia penderwick #martin penderwick #iantha aaronson penderwick #the penderwicks #the penderwicks fanfiction

[gardamyeet]

Martin: *looks at Batty* One taught me love

Martin: *looks at Skye* One taught me patience

Martin: *looks at Lydia eating dish soap cause Ben thought it looked yummy and she agreed* One taught me that kids are FUCKING STUPID, LYDIA PUT THAT DOWN OR I SWEAR-

#rosy and jane erasure sorry #martin penderwick #batty penderwick #skye penderwick #lydia penderwick #ben penderwick #the penderwicks incorrect quotes #the penderwicks