Aug 18, 2025
there’s maybe 1 person and a dust bunny who will understand this. but. penderwicksposting… skye is aroace. ben is gay. you agree
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there’s maybe 1 person and a dust bunny who will understand this. but. penderwicksposting… skye is aroace. ben is gay. you agree
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thinking about skye penderwick studying astrophysics in california……skye being away from her family for the first time. everyone so proud of her and so happy for her, thinking she’ll finally have the space to be who she is. skye finding that that space she dreamed of is maybe more lonely than she thought. her family doesn’t call much because they don’t want to bother her, only with the exception of ben, who needs skye’s advice on the science of his sci-fi film ideas (at first he went to iantha for this, but found her answers lacking excitement, as she’s bored of most action in movies. skye on the other hand is happy to hear about his space battles and explosions and stuff). skye never tells ben but sometimes it’s the highlight of her week.
but skye being so thrilled to study uninterrupted. staying up all night when she’s in the zone. i bet she gets adopted by multiple kind roomates over the years who sort of take her in like a stray cat, leaving food by her door when they learn her habits of working so long and forgetting to eat. i bet she meets friends who help her chill out. i bet she goes out just to end up in a drunken heated debate over dark matter theories or something nerdy like that with her academic rivals. she finds new things she loves: bands, fashion, maybe she tries out other pronouns. skye finding themself a little.
jeffery visits and they go to the symphony. i bet they play something by saint-saens and skye is actually kind of moved by it. they walk out and she grabs jeffery by the shoulders like, dude, i think i get it. why you’re obsessed with music. that made me feel something like i feel stargazing. jeffery grins and they hug and there’s so much love and it’s not the slightest bit romantic.
visiting home around christmas skye asks jane to cut their hair. jane is simultaneously ecstatic and terrified to mess it up. it ends in skye yelling JUST CUT IT OFF and it’s the middle of the night and it wakes everyone up. it looks terrible but iantha is able to patch it up a bit.
skye continues to tutor other students and becomes really well respected as a knowledgeable effective teacher. she has a good community.
maybe even including some european man. but they don’t get married lmao
just finished listening to the penderwicks at point mouette audiobook again and i just can't get over how clearly skye and jeffrey were set up to be something,,, romantically?? not even just with all the marriage talk and the post-alec-reveal-scene by the ocean where she would NOT leave his side but i had almost forgotten about the entire jealousy thing that skye briefly had going on when jeffrey mentioned his musician cousin (2000s childhood/teen media's obsession with kids dating their cousins should be studied but anyway) ??? i just still can't see why jeanne birdsall would handcraft them for each other and present their bond so visibly different from e.g. jane & jeffrey's or even batty & jeffrey's like there was something so open and honest and emotional about skyeffrey's relationship especially in book 3 that none of the other pairings even came close to, just for them to feel like different people in spring & at last. like she really made it look like jeffrey was forcing himself onto skye against her will when she was so obviously crushing on him (in a confused, skye-esque, 12-year-old kid kinda way) in point mouette. idk i just wish they were treated differently (and i really really really don't like the concept of battyffrey)
i'm rereading the penderwicks and am once again reminded that jeffrey and batty don't make sense together because of the age gap/sibling relationship but also the fact that batty isn't amy — she's beth. and beth doesn't have any romantic relationships, which makes so much sense since batty is literally the baby of the family for the first 3 books. if jeanne's plan was to always pair her books' versions of laurie (jeffrey) and amy together, then he ended up with the wrong sister.
instead, jane is the penderwick girl whose characterization is closest to amy's; jane is the one who is deeply passionate about her craft throughout the books, is determined to succeed above all else, and will do anything to ensure that she can (i.e. waitressing even though she hates it). she has amy's determination and her sometimes naive and childish outlook on life. and it's insinuated in the first book that jane liked jeffrey and didn't realize ("he didn't have tawny eyes and auburn hair, but jane all of a sudden understood that brown hair and green eyes could be nice"). she was jealous of skye visiting jeffrey in the second book, and skye herself even said that jane would have appreciated him if he liked her instead.
hinting at a relationship between jeffrey and jane in the last book would make sense based on their ages (they're only one year apart), and the fact that they both share deep passion for their respective art (music for jeffrey and writing for jane) and would have been compatible together, despite coming out of left field — just like amy and laurie.
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Do you kin any characters?
Whats your favorite rarepair?
aah i dont know it changes constantly, right now its either jegulus or rosekiller
percy jackson my traumatised and sarcastic king
mm skye and jeffery from the penderwicks and barron and daneca from the curseworkers. both couples deserved better or at least a good chance in the latter’s case
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writing a Gravity Falls/Penderwicks crossover fic rn and I will be giving Jane and Mabel the most insane aroace awakenings ever. if you even care
I’m working on an essay about this actually so expect more but I can’t stop thinking about Jo and Skye. Jo’s marriage to Bhaer wasn’t in itself radical but it allowed her to have a life that was non-standard and suited her much better than a typical mother/housewife role would have. It opened doors!! And Jeanne Birdsall writing At Last just saw ‘tomboy character marries European man’ and ran with it like bestie that is Not The Point
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Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood (Dracula) VS Mr. Penderwick, Rosalind, Skye, Jane, Batty and Hound (The Penderwicks: Book 1)
Jonathan, Mina, Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood
Mr. Penderwick, Rosalind, Skye, Jane, Batty and Hound
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