“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.
“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.
“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”
And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:
Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.
“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know … they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.
It’s almost as if focusing on eradicating the factors that drive people to addiction, rather than criminalizing the addiction itself, has a better outcome. who would’ve guessed 🤔🤔🤔
OKAY WAIT I HAVE TO ADD SOMETHING.
One of the other consequences is that Lisbon now does have a drug problem… with fake drugs. Seriously. People are hawking flour as ‘cocaine’ and ground bay leaves as ‘hashish’ to tourists on the street. The police have run anti-bay-leaf campaigns, but they can’t arrest these dealers because the items they’re selling are perfectly legal, and technically if a tourist is stupid enough to buy flour and think it’s cocaine, that’s their own fault.
Them: It’s like [show] can’t decide whether it wants to be arc-driven or episodic, so it tries to have it both ways and ends up with all the drawbacks of both approaches and none of the benefits! It’s impossible to watch casually because you need to know about these big, elaborate myth-arcs to understand what’s going on, but that emotional investment never has any payoff because every single time the resolution is just “whoops, it turns out everybody was wrong about what’s really going on” and everything reverts to the status quo.
u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
Between Ryan Gosling Ken and Benoit Blanc I’m starting to think that it’s some sort of animal abuse to keep casting big name actors in stoic macho manly man rolls instead of giving them goofy little guys to play. Like look at them their coats are shiny, they seem so much more lively and energetic. We need to make sure all actors have enough goofy little guys to play before peta gets involved.
“Fandom doesnt like women because women are always out of focus and poorly written” PLEASE watch something other than Shounen anime, MCU movies, and Superwholock.
no you’re right rose tyler is an angel and i owe her my life. there’s a version of this post where i explicitly absolved doctor who but thats long and ambly and nitpicky and i thought it wasn’t worth sacrificing punchiness
to me supherwholock is not just those three shows, its a genre. overimportant shows about tormented men and the other tormented men they interact longingly with. hannibal is superwholock to me.
“superwholock is a genre that encapsulates shows beyond the sum of its parts” is a STRONG argument, and must be archived for future generations to read.
the amount of people in the replies saying “what career” lmao
Gladly
Don’t forget this meme exist because everyone on the set was hating him and they get super happy when he died.
Okay so I reblogged this somewhat uncritically at first I’ll admit. I remembered that media is going to attempt to turn actors into people that we can turn against. Despite his… Previous behaviors I wanted to be 100% sure. So here is his comments from Instagram on what he said:
Also here’s a link to the previous behaviors in question
Now you can see here he is just saying striking is something he does not like and he expects to be present on the picket line.
HOWEVER
He has already crossed the picket line. As many are aware SAG-AFTRA has called for all union members to STOP promotion and events. This includes social media promotion. For his show, Heels, new season he did this:
So not only has he promoted the show on social media, and done so in a way that shows that he clearly knows what he is doing. BUT he also attended a convention which if you look it up was 100% AFTER the union call to cut event attendance. AKA something DIRECTLY in opposition to his union’s strike requirements. If you check their website you can see it is one of the immediate things that is seen as a call to arms for striking actors.
To attend this convention and sign autographs and do promotion for the show with his attendance is a CLEAR CUT violation of the union rules for the strike. Full-stop right there, he’s a Scab 100%. No “he maybe had to do it to survive!!” Nick Cage has a crippling dinosaur bone addiction and somehow managed to stay the picket line soooo. Fuck Amell right there. Not to mention the people losing their homes and what not. He had a choice and he made it, scab right there. But I’ll continue because it’s kind of fun to rip him to shreds.
To promote his show on social media was to cross the picket line, to do so in this little “haha I’m not promoting it, it just happened to be there!” Bullshit way was a spit in the face of his union leadership and his fellow union members. ESPECIALLY combined with the fact that he promoted it at a convention with his attendance, and clearly in the timeframe of the strike.
You may be saying, “Maybe he’s really dumb and thought this was okay!” In regards to his social media posts. Okay sure but at best he thought it was wrong because he purposefully went out of his way to misdirect what he was doing. But hey I’ll give you that, maybe he’s the most braindead guy ever.
Except for this:
He was fully aware. He was told. He was informed. He continued to make this decision. If he shows on a picket line I highly suspect he will not be welcomed as a studio exec would not be welcomed. I hope they fully rescind his union leadership. The replies to the tweet are him defending his actions, to which the other replies with the gif in which he becomes big cry baby Jane about.
This is also COMPLETELY ignoring the Jordan Peterson retweet where he is happily saying he must be offensive to “think” which is just…. Well a defense for the braindead thing I’ll give you that. But the main message here is this:
Stephen Amell is 100% unmistakably and unapologetically a scab, and this is not just BS propaganda. May his union membership be revoked with prejudice.
