#jeffrey tifton

[wilder-and-lighter]

[jeffrey-penderwick]

Hee hee I finally wrote a Penderwicks fanfic!

[misted-buttercup-enjoyer]

You know how in the past sometimes artists, philosophers, storytellers, etc. would find a rich patron to support them so they could do their work? I'm thinking about how after Jane stayed at the Arundel carriage house and talked about liking it Jeffrey got to thinking and he thought: Hey. I have more money than I know what to do with and Jane works a waitressing job and would probably love writing full-time.

So he decides to give his honorary sister a lift up and offers to become her patron. Jane would love the poetic-ness of it, but I can't decide whether she'd take it. She might want to be self-sustaining, but the chance to do nothing but write as a job? That'd be hard to resist.

Well, Penderwicks corner of Tumblr, what do you think?

(Maybe I'll make a fanfic outta this)

[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

[a-hundred-jewels]

What are your thoughts on Jane and Jeffry as a couple? I read a fic on ao3 that paired them together and I kind of really liked it!!

hi sorry it took me literally forever to respond to this!!! i assume you're talking about "you are in love" by @izzielizzie? i absolutely love that fic! I htink im behind a chapter bc of school stuff and scatterbrain but i extremely look forward to catching up!

in terms of jane and jeffrey as a couple, i really like them! tbh when i was reading in spring with my mum i distinctly remember asking her "why can't jeffrey just fall in love with jane instead, wouldn't that be more convenient?" and then my poor mother trying to explain romantic feelings to a ten year old. i think that jane and jeffrey would be such chaos honestly, like they would be so good for each other in the worst way for everyone around them.

the more i think about it the better it is... shit i may be adding to my (gazillion) wips...

my actual favourite jane otp still remains her with rachel dare (from percy jackson), a ship that makes almost no sense but that i love and have devoted approximately 70k words of fic to (only some of which i've gotten around to posting thus far). jane and jeffrey is much more reasonable... penderwickians, we've been sleeping on gold, it's time to revere @izzielizzie as the wisdomous prophet they are

anyway, thank you for the ask! love a good penderwicks rant as always :3

[whotellsourstories]

it’s 10:14pm on a saturday night and i, a 27-year-old, am lamenting the fact that there are only 13 skye penderwick/jeffrey tifton fics on ao3

[messofcontradictions01]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Penderwicks Series - Jeanne Birdsall Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jeffrey Tifton/Skye Penderwick, Rosalind Penderwick & Skye Penderwick & Jane Penderwick & Elizabeth "Batty" Penderwick Characters: Skye Penderwick, Jeffrey Tifton, Jane Penderwick, Rosalind Penderwick, Elizabeth "Batty" Penderwick Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends, Romance, Fluff, Love Confessions, Sisters, Sister-Sister Relationship, Siblings, Family, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, basically ignoring all the plot of 'in spring' and 'at last', Autistic Elizabeth "Batty" Penderwick, relevant for like two seconds but it's important to me that you know Summary:

"It was a perfectly normal Saturday in the Penderwick household, or about as normal as things ever got there on Gardam Street, when Jeffrey Tifton decided to throw everything into flux by finally confessing his years-long passion for Skye Penderwick."

Or, when Jeffrey tells Skye how he feels about her, she decides to ignore the issue and never talk about it again. Luckily, she has three sisters who aren't willing to let that happen. Let the MOPS commence!

I hear that there’s at least a moderately active Penderwicks community on tumblr, so I thought I’d throw this new fic of mine out into the wild and see if anyone reads it.

[izzielizzie]

lydia being the only penderwick mrs tifton can stand will never not be funny to me

[francesderwent]

The Most Romance, the Complete List

Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene, Far From the Madding Crowd

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, Anne of Green Gables

Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Wimsey mysteries

Frankie Derwent and Bobby Jones, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans (2022)

Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, Persuasion

Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries

Eugenides and Irene, Queen’s Thief series

Jack Traven and Annie, Speed

Jude Duarte and Cardan Greenbriar, Folk of the Air trilogy

Sam Vimes and Sybil Ramkin, Discworld (also Carrot and Angua tbh)

Penelope and Johnny, Penelope

Ella and Kit, Cinderella (2015)

Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, Parks and Rec

Steve Harrington and Nancy Wheeler, Stranger Things

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games trilogy

Lyla Novacek and Louis Connelly, August Rush

Frank Castle and Karen Page, Daredevil and The Punisher

Batty Penderwick and Jeffrey Tifton, Penderwicks At Last

Special Mentions: Bluesey, Farawyn, El and Orion, Carol and Doug, Rory and Amy, Troy and Gabriella, Zutara, Warren Peace and Layla Williams, Lorelai and Luke, Jackson and Hayley, Peggy and Sousa, Veronica and Logan, Sara Tancredi and Michael Scofield

[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!

[wilder-and-lighter]

[nebris]

The Jon S. Randal Peace Page · Jon has offered this story three times since the Jon S. Randal Peace Page was born. The last time was three years ago yesterday. The tale it tell is important, and in recognition of Labor Day. ~~~ The dark-haired girl on the right with the impish smile, her name was Eddie Lou, she was about 8 years old when this photo was taken in 1909. The picture was taken at the Tifton Cotton Mill, Tifton, Georgia. The girls worked there.

The photograph was taken by Lewis Hine, who visited factories such as this mill and took photographs of the children who worked there as evidence for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). At times, Hines had to disguise himself, even posing as a bible salesman in order to get on company grounds because as a photographer he was prohibited.

"In the early 1900s, Hine traveled across the United States to photograph preteen boys descending into dangerous mines, shoeless 7-year-olds selling newspapers on the street and 4-year-olds toiling on tobacco farms. Though the country had unions to protect laborers at that time — and Labor Day, a federal holiday to honor them — child labor was widespread and widely accepted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that around the turn of the century, at least 18 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 15 were employed," according to the Washington Post.

Many industries hid the fact that they employed children. They took advantage of poor families, such as Eddie Lou's family. Eddie Lou's father had died and left her mother with 11 children and no income. Her mother was forced to work at the cotton mill for $4.50 a week. Eddie Lou and four siblings also worked there and they were all together paid $4.50 as well. Eddie Lou and her youngest siblings would eventually be sent to an orphanage because her mother wasn't able to provide for them.

Hine had been a teacher, but he left the teaching profession when he realized a camera could be used as an educational tool for social reform. He became a photographer for the NCLC to help change the laws and end child labor.

It was sometimes a dangerous job, and Hine was frequently threatened by factory police and foremen. He visited factories, sweatshops, and other businesses touted as the pillars of the community. He would find the young children, like Eddie Lou, working at these places, toiling their childhood away. Hine also photographed immigrants at Ellis Island at a time when popular opinion of immigrants wasn't good. According to The Tenement Museum, which preserves and interprets the history of immigration, Hine "sought to humanize immigrants, to make their journeys, their wants, their struggles indistinguishable from any American". Hines' photographs would be instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. If it were not for him and his photographs, industries would have been able to hide the immorality of child labor and would have been able to continue exploiting children. If it were not for him, children today, instead of enjoying a three day weekend, would probably be working.

“It was Lewis Hine who made sure that millions of children are not working today,” said Jeffrey Newman, a former president of the New York-based committee."

According to the Washington Post, "though there had been investigations that attempted to expose these circumstances in the past, the industry simply dismissed those reports as — the term they would use today is — ‘fake news,’ ” said Hugh Hindman, a historian of child labor. “When Hine comes along and supplements the investigations with pictures, it creates a set of facts that can’t be denied anymore.”

Hine didn't have to do what he did, yet he did. At the time, he was one of the most hated men in America because of his photographs. He would be threatened with violence and even death. But, he felt it was his moral obligation to do what needed to be done, what some refused to do, what others were not capable of doing. Some inferred that it was unpatriotic to do what he did. Others, however, would realize later that what he did was one of the most patriotic things you can do.

According to the Washington Post, back then "there was no such thing as going viral in the early 1900s. The spread of Hine’s photos and the reform that they inspired was extremely slow. The Fair Labor Standards Act, the federal law that would prohibit most employment of minors, wasn’t passed until 1938. Hine died two years later — long before his work would be recognized for the impact it had."

People would forget about Lewis Hine and the work he did. He died at the age of 66.

But his photographs remain a reminder and a testament to his work, to his dedication to do what was right.

[misted-buttercup-enjoyer]

something something batty was wearing jane's old sunglasses and ben was wearing batty's goggles (they were BOTH wearing hand-me-downs from their older siblings, they just didn't know it yet.) something something jane said Iantha reminded her of someone when she smiled (presumably their mother.) something something the penderwicks were starting to drive iantha and ben around, visit them constantly, babysit each other's kids. something something iantha was already a mother figure for batty and had no hesitation in cheering up Jane and taking her home and letting her hug her (before Jane had time to think whether or not she should, it just came nautrally.) something something rosalind didn't even blink an eye before telling jane to invite iantha and ben to the VERY IMPORTANT Skye and Jane's soccer game and that's ROSALIND we're talking about. something something Martin and Iantha didn't even notice they were in love until their families were already merging into one. It came naturally. they loved each other when they cared for each other's kids because it's all about family and how their families came together. driving each other places and steadying each other when they're laughing and the mundane but actually exciting if you take the time to notice everyday stuff, that's how Mr. Penderwick and Iantha courted each other. cause that's how penderwicks love each other. handwritten cake recipes and helping with glasses (the hand-me-downs, jeffrey giving mr. penderwick a glasses case) and singing happy birthday even though they sound like "a flock of depressed sheep" and playing clue and choosing their own unique characters while aunt claire loses on purpose to be nice (she thinks her nieces don't notice they do) and secrecy and schemes and a code of honor (Jane spilled the save-daddy plan to her remember? cause she was such a good listener and they trusted her) and FAMILY. it just came naturally.

[princerobot-iv]

I am so glad to discover that a Penderwicks fandom is a thing that exists but I'm even more glad that the general consensus seems to be that skye is aro/ace/definitely queer

[willow-lark]

growing up means going from thinking that skye penderwick and jeffrey tifton are the ultimate otp to knowing that skye is definitely a lesbian and jeffrey is by so they’re actually the ultimate queerplatonic duo

[aestheticstuffbystrixaluco]

Осень принесла воспоминания о любимых книгах с полки средней школы. Встречайте, сёстры Пендервик из книги Джинн Бёрдселл и их друг Джеффри (и, конечно, Пёс)