#pettey

[fudgycat]

there's no way this decision unity made is going to stick like... you think Nintendo's gonna just take it??? with the amount of money Pokemon go makes??? and what about miHoYo developer of genshin impact??? they both have more than enough money to take legal action and I doubt they're happy about this

also I read that Microsoft would be the one to pay for any game downloaded through gamepass and I assume it's the same for Sony and ps plus and I doubt they're gonna let this slide

so... unity is fucked

[ccc-south-dakota]

Father's Name Found

[morbidology]

Six-year-old Logan Tucker lived with his mother, Katherine Rutan, his four-year-old brother, Justin, and his mother’s roommate, Melody Lennington, in Woodward, Oklahoma. The two boys had faced challenges, having been previously removed from their mother's care by The Department of Human Services due to threats of harm. Despite this, they were returned to her custody shortly afterward.

On the early morning of June 23, 2002, Melody woke to the distressing sounds of Logan's cries. The following day, when she inquired about Logan's well-being, Katherine informed her that he was sick and still asleep. Upon returning from work, Katherine claimed to Melody that Logan had been taken by the DHS and would not be returning. Strangely, just days earlier, Katherine had requested the DHS to take her children into care, expressing her desire to relinquish parental rights. However, they couldn't accommodate her request immediately due to lack of space. Tragically, Logan was never seen again.

After Logan’s disappearance, Katherine provided conflicting statements about his whereabouts, claiming he was in another facility or on a camping trip with his uncle. She even told the DHS that he had been taken into custody. A couple of days after Logan went missing, Katherine borrowed a shovel from her boyfriend. Concerns escalated when Logan’s grandparents, alarmed by Katherine’s evasiveness, reported him missing on July 7.

A subsequent search of the residence uncovered bloodstains and masking tape with strands of hair in the basement, matching Logan's DNA. Additionally, Katherine's car held plastic sheeting, rope, and drain cleaner. Investigations disproved all of Katherine’s claims about Logan’s location. Despite extensive efforts, Logan's body remained undiscovered until 2006 when Katherine finally faced trial for his murder.

During the trial, Katherine was portrayed as indifferent, viewing her children as burdensome. Her desire to move in with her boyfriend, Michael Pettey, who claimed insufficient space for her and the children, added another layer to the case. The pivotal testimony came from Logan’s brother, Justin, who recounted witnessing his mother carrying Logan to the car with tape covering his eyes and mouth. He described Logan as limp and pale. Katherine allegedly drove them to an abandoned house near Fort Supply Lake, where she left Logan’s lifeless body before returning home.

Katherine was convicted of first-degree murder and received a life sentence without parole.

[carpehistoryandthepens]

pettey totally tripped that wing but they dropped the puck so CAN"T THAT AWAY BWAHAHAH

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

I read Dishwater World They Said Was Lemonade by scholarlydanmei and I loved it. Thank you for recommending it!

I have two fics in mind which are similar that you might like if you don’t mind supernatural elements:

1.)The Devil’s cut by thruspring

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20584403

It’s amazing. The tags don’t do it justice. Without spoiling too much I can say this story has a great twist and a bittersweet ending.

2.)a touch of sin by pettey(an amazing author who left)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10236242

It has horror elements and a lot of unexpected turns.

I’m pretty crap at describing things, but I’m very picky with what I read and I trust my taste so I highly recommend:)

The first one is supposedly inspired by Supernatural which is not a selling point for me at all 😭 But I might give it a chance if the writing is good.

As to A Touch of Sin, I didn't mention it in my list because I've talked about it in the past and I didn't want to sound like a broken record. Not only have I read it, I believe it's one of the best jikook fics out there. I think it might have been the reason why I made an ao3 account so I could read it in 2020. I rarely talk about fics to people outside fandoms, but I couldn't not say something about this one at that time. It's like a nordic noir, with its supernatural elements reminding me of Murakami (not the best writer out there, but I do appreciate the world building) and some Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring vibe. Imagine that story turned into a tv series. It's such good material.

Talking about fanfiction opened the floodgates and many of you are sending me links. Thank you, I'm bookmarking them. I may not answer all the asks, but I'm not ignoring it either.

[phytine]

About Biopics on Problematic Figures

With Oppenheimer being a hit in movie theaters, I see people complaining about problematic figures’ stories being told.

At first (the first seconds to be honest), I was a bit surprised because it was logical to me that biopic was not an inherently celebratory genre. But quickly, I remembered that it was the norm.

Most people think that biopics are celebratory.

That is true and false.

True because yes, at first, biopics were celebratory. They were about politicians, royalties, war heroes, etc. They were about models. But it was before. Quickly, other types of movies were brought to theaters. The most known are called “warts and all” (trying to show the flaws of the figure in a realistic or melodramatic tone). But there are also parody biopics, biopics on people with nothing remarkable, etc. And little by little, they all blend together, especially since the 2000s (the “neoclassical biopic”).

The idea that a biopic is and must be about positive role models is getting old and absolutely untrue. At some point it was, but it is not anymore today.

Sure, you can be inspired by biopics on heroic figures – students were moved about the Simone Veil’s biopic, Simone, le voyage du siècle. But the genre does not have to be solely about that.

It is true that the choice of the figure is usually motivated by the “message” it can gives. But it does not have to be straight-forward : “Look, it is a good person. You have to be like them.”

On top of being a bit shady given that the link between fiction and reality is nuanced and complex when it comes to biopics… not every moral matters have to be spoon-fed to the viewer.

It is even more ridiculous to think that way about Oppenheimer when the movie is explicit about where it stands. The portrayal of Oppenheimer is nuanced: the character is written to be complex and relatable – relatable in that you can understand where his reactions and emotions come from, not in a “we have that in common, I can relate to him!”. But the biopic is clear when it comes to its stands on the bomb: it is bad.

Sure, you can understand where Oppenheimer is coming from when he says to another scientist that it is not his own who are being slaughtered in Europe or that the bomb would have been built either way. But you have to be really biased to come out of the film and affirms that it is pro-bomb (or pro-USA).

(For the ones who are wondering why it does not focus on victims or the bombs more : it is a biopic, not a historical movie. Biopic is a contraction of biographical picture thus it is about someone’s life, not about History per se.)

So, yes, you absolutely can make biopics about problematic people. They are tones of them and they don’t even have to be some sort of cautionary tales (I could give you a lot of examples). But pretending that Oppenheimer is a celebratory biopic and thus is morally condemnable according to you… That is a very bad faith take.

 And if you want to learn more about biopics, there are tones of books about it. Just a few classics:

BINGHAM, Dennis, 2010. Whose lives are they anyway ? - The biopic as contemporary film genre. New Brunswick, London : Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4657-5.

BROWN, Tom et VIDAL, Belén (éd.), 2014. The biopic in contemporary film culture. New York, London : Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-89940-6.

EPSTEIN, William H. et PALMER, R. Barton, 2016. Invented lives, imagined communities: the biopic and American national identity. Albany : State University of New York Press. SUNY series, Horizons of cinema. ISBN 978-1-4384-6079-6.

PETTEY, Homer B. et PALMER, R. Barton (éd.), 2018. Rule, Britannia! - The biopic and British national identity. Albany : State University of New York Press. SUNY series, horizons of cinema. ISBN 978-1-4384-7111-2.

And if you speak French, there are these ones which are good stuff to begin:

FONTANEL, Rémi (dir.), 2011. Biopic: de la réalité à la fiction. Condé-sur-Noireau : C. Corlet. ISBN 978-2-84706-364-6.

MOINE, Raphaëlle, 2017. Vies héroïques - Biopics masculins, biopics féminins. Paris : Librairie Philosophique J.Vrin. Philosophie et cinéma. ISBN 978-2-7116-2778-3.

CHANTERANNE, David et VEYRAT-MASSON, Isabelle, 2003. Napoléon à l’écran. Paris : Nouveau Monde. ISBN 978-2-84736-018-9. (THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE USEFUL QUICKLY, I’M AFRAID)

[clarklovescarole]

December 1938: Hollywood's Unmarrieds

(Image from: December 13, 1938 – The Mercury)

Expose’ of Stars’ Unwedded Bliss Jolts Hollywood

Daily News – December 12, 1938

Hollywood’s greatest problem since the Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle case confronted the Will Hays office tonight – the problem of what to do about an article in Photoplay Magazine entitled “Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives.”

Describing in intimate detail the purported habits and activities of some of the moviedom’s most brilliant stars, the explosive article literally struck the office of the industry’s moral boss dumb.

It mentions as fact that Virginia Pine orders New York-cut steaks for handsome George Raft wherever he happens to be dining; that Carole Lombard calls Clark Gable “pappy” and “makes his interests dominate hers.” 

Some Names Named.

It states that while “Barbara Stanwyck is not Mrs. Robert Taylor,” the auburn-haired actress and Hollywood’s leading feminine heartthrob interest have built ranch homes next to each other. 

“Barbara,” writes Kirtley Baskette, “freezes homemade ice cream for Bob from a recipe her mother gave her.” 

Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard and Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland are two other couples named as having merged their interests and common likes. 

“Nowhere has domesticity, outside the marital state, reached such full flower as in Hollywood,” the article declares. “Nowhere are there so many famous unmarried husbands and wives.” 

Tom Pettey, in charge of multifarious public relations division of the Hays office, admitted his bewilderment over replying to the article. 

While Los Angeles newspapers generally ignored the film colony’s jittery reactions, Pettey said: 

“We expect there will be a printed protest. The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse than the story itself but it’s all bad.

“I don’t know what we’ll do about it, but we’ll certainly take some action.”

Photoplay’s article states that in most of the cases of the unmarried twosomes, wedlock is prohibited by the fact that one or both of the principals has a husband or wife.

Virginia Pine is credited with having made a sleek and sheikish George Raft “a solid citizen.”

When he came to Hollywood, Baskette relates, George “gloried in flash, extremely-cut clothes… Virginia talked him into seeing Watson, one of Hollywood’s most exclusive tailors. What’s more, she talked him out of the theatrical clothes and into a more conservative taste.”

No father, the writer goes on, could be more infatuated than George with Virginia’s 5-year-old daughter, Joan.

Charge It To George.

“One of the stores the salesgirls tell down at bullock’s-Wilshire, Los Angeles’ swankiest store,” he relates, “is about the day Virginia Pine and little Joan came into the shop. Joan spied something she wanted right then. But Virginia, wishing to impress upon her daughter that a person isn’t always able to have what he or she likes in this world, said, ‘But Joan, you can’t have that. You haven’t the money to pay for it!” 

“Oh, that’s all right,” stated Joan in a loud, clear voice. “Just charge it to George Raft.” 

Of Taylor and Stanwyck, the writer states:

“They’ve been practically a family since bob bought his ranch estate in Northridge and built a house there… Barbara was there first.” 

In the case of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, the article names glamorous Carole as having adapted to Clark’s pattern of things.

“Clark Gable doesn’t like night spots, or parties, or social chit-chat, or the frothy pretensions of society,” it declares. “Carole quite frankly used t eat it up. She gave the most charming and clever parties in town. She knew everyone, went everywhere.” 

All this, says Baskette, Carole abandoned to take up Clarks’ hobbies of skeet shooting, riding, playing tennis, and ranching. The moth of Hollywood’s night life became a vigorous, outdoor, he-man’s girl. 

“Like any good spouse might do, Carole has ways and means of chastening Clark, too. When she’s mad at him she wears a hat he particularly despises. Carole calls it her ‘hate hat.’”

In the Gable-Lombard combination, it is Clark who is married. And in the Raft-Pine twosome, it is Raft. Gilbert Roland could not marry Connie Bennett no matter how desperately he wanted to because Connie has a husband in the Marquis de la Falaise. 

“Years have passed,” says Baskette, “and the arrangement seems to please everybody as much now as it did at the start.” 

Baskette describes as the most tragic perhaps the most tender match of that late Jean Harlow and William Powell. 

“At the time of Jean Harlow’s untimely passing,” he states, “she and William Powell had reached an understanding that excluded any one else from each other’s thoughts. Both had fought for happiness without finding it, until they found each other. Then death stole Jean away and Bill has never recovered from the effect of that stunning blow.” 

[anoriabard]

I am kind of dying to know your top 3 jikook fic rec, because i kinda believe those will be good enough since its my fav author approved lol but pls do share your recs

hi! unfortunately I don't read fics, i haven't read fics in a few years, so uhm, my recs would probably be super dated and by super famous authors that you all have probably already read countless times. since it's been so long I don't remember the titles, unfortunately. I used to read stuff by pettey, cumrich, junghyunslisterine.... the bigs in 2016,basically.

actually, it's not factually true that I haven't read fics in years. I did read one fan fiction that I enjoyed immensely recently, and I do think it's one of the greatest I've ever read, if not THE greatest, but it's not jikook and it's not even bts or kpop related 😆 as much as I would like to promote it to the rest of the world it's kind of useless because it requires the reader to watch a whopping 145 three-to-five-hours episodes to understand it lmao, so I won't bother name dropping it 🤠

[conandaily2022]

Miss South Dakota USA 2024 results: Amber Hulse crowns Ahmitara Alwal in Watertown

South Dakota, United States currently has five Miss USA placements. The state finished in the Top 5 in 2018 via Madison Nipe, Top 10 in 2016 via Madison McKeown, Top 12 in 1974 via Debra Ann Brickley, Top 15 in 1958 via Helen Youngquist and Top 16 in 2021 via Caroline Pettey. beauty pageant: Miss South Dakota USAedition: 68thdate: May 12, 2024venue: Watertown Events Center, Watertown, South…

[vantagevu]

Traversing International Relocations

Traversing International Relocations: The Role of Cultural Intelligence As the Managing Director of Crown Relocations South Africa, a leading force in international relocation, Ian Pettey has witnessed firsthand the challenges and triumphs that come with moving families across borders. International relocations represent not just a change in geography but a profound shift in culture, lifestyle,…

[ko-solar]

🌟 Throwback to insightful coverage by Cheddar Climate on Ko-Solar's innovative plan! ��� Reflecting on the past year, as they explore highway barriers that absorb sound and harness solar energy. 🛣️ Let's ride the wave of sustainability into the future and transform our highways for a greener tomorrow! 🌐🚗 @ko-solar

[userjiminie]

for fic recs, pettey’s “a touch of sin” and “nocturnal animals” on ao3 changed the trajectory of my life. they’ve since orphaned their acc though!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10236242/chapters/22708973

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11413263?view_adult=true

a touch of sin is an absolute BEAST. i don't know if you were the one who recced me that one once before, but in any case i want to take a second to thank whoever it was, from the bottom of my heart. i don't think i've read nocturnal animals yet 👀 thank you, thank you 🤍

[morbidology]

Six-year-old Logan Tucker was living with his mother, Katherine Rutan, his four-year-old brother, Justin, and his mother’s roommate, Melody Lennington, in Woodward, Oklahoma. The two boys hadn’t had an easy life. They had previously been taken away from their mother by The Department of Human Services after after she threatened to harm them. Within days, they were returned to her care.

In the early morning hours of the 23rd of June, 2002, Melody awoke to the sound of Logan screaming and crying. She fell back to sleep, and when she awoke the next morning for work, Katherine told her that Logan had been sick and that he was still asleep. 

When she arrived back home, she asked how Logan was feeling. Kathrine exclaimed that he had been taken by the DHS and that he wouldn’t be returning. However, just a couple of days prior to this, Katherine had requested DHS take her children into care and that she wanted to relinquish her parental rights. However, they replied that they couldn’t take him straight away because they had no space. Logan was never seen again.

After Logan’s disappearance, Katherine gave conflicting statements regarding his whereabouts. She told the DHS he had been placed in another facility or that he was away camping with his uncle. He told others he was visiting his father who hadn’t seen him since he was a baby. A couple of days after his disappearance, Katherine borrowed a shovel from her boyfriend. It wouldn’t be until the 7th of July that Logan was finally reported missing. His grandparents had become increasingly concerned after Katherine was extremely evasive in regards to his whereabouts.

The residence was soon searched and investigators discovered bloodstains and masking tape with strands of hair stuck to it in the basement. The blood came back to match Logan’s. Furthermore, plastic sheeting, rope, and drain cleaner was uncovered in Katherine’s car. An investigation into all of Katherine’s claims as to where Logan was turned up empty. Logan’s body never turned up and it wouldn’t be until 2006 that Katherine was finally brought to trial for her son’s murder.

During the trial, Katherine came across as an uncaring mother who saw her children as more of an inconvenience. She had been dating a man called Michael Pettey and she had desperately wanted to move in with him but he said there wasn’t enough room for her and the children. 

The smoking gun, however, was the testimony from Logan’s brother, Justin. He recalled how he saw his mother carry Logan to the car with tape covering his eyes and mouth. He said Logan was limp and pale. Katherine then drove the three of them to an abandoned house west of Fort Supply Lake where she left Logan’s body before driving back home.

Katherine was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

[carpehistoryandthepens]

someone get some rest for tanger and pettey

[newswireml]

Alabama chiropractor charged after allegedly attempting to poison wife with lead-laced pills#Alabama #chiropractor #charged #allegedly #attempting #poison #wife #leadlaced #pills

Alabama chiropractor charged after allegedly attempting to poison wife with lead-laced pills#Alabama #chiropractor #charged #allegedly #attempting #poison #wife #leadlaced #pills

An Alabama chiropractor arrested and charged with allegedly attempting to kill his estranged wife by poisoning her with pills laced with lead was released on bond last week. Brian Mann, 34, was charged with attempted murder for “intentionally” causing his wife Hannah Pettey, 24, to “unwittingly ingest particles of lead” while the couple was going through a divorce, according to court documents…