It charms me when older readers find they’re still enjoying the books when they come back to them. …But you know, when I’ve written these (and from the very beginning), I haven’t just been writing these for the younger readership. I’m one of the older readers, too… and my intention’s always been to keep myself interested. Otherwise I’d have stopped a long while back. :)
Anyway: glad you’re having a good time with these! Enjoy.
Yes!! I (re)read them last year because for some reason when I was a kid it was hard to get ahold of them so I never finished the series… I loved them and love the world building so much! (Also no spoilers but. Roshaun. I cried so so much. If you wanna know why go read them.)
actually I object to calling will just a sweaty pathetic disaster. he literally just had untreated encephalitis. the rest of the time he was an absolute legend who was playing 3d chess with a cannibals emotions and scheming and lying and killing and whatnot, and turned himself into something that’s almost scarier than hannibal: someone who has that kind of power and influence over hannibal the cannibal. he was a petty and jealous man who needed surgery to move his common sense from his dick to his brain and sailed to italy for a man, but that’s not the point
late s1 will is terrifying, actually. or at least terrifying To Hannibal in ways that must’ve been giving him the weirdest boners of his life, because s1 will is ALSO playing 3d chess. blindfolded. with one hand tied behind his back. and he plays hannibal lecter to a draw. as vulnerable as he is at that point, sweaty hallucinating disaster will graham is still a guy who can stalemate hannibal at his own game, even with his entire brain on fire and no idea who his opponent is until the very, very end.
“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.
His name is Mehdat Mamdouh, he’s a 22-year-old hip hop and dubstep recorder player from Cairo. He’s been teaching himself this style since he was 14. This article links to his social media sites. He’s on Facebook and YouTube and Soundcloud.
I think I missed his name and info last reblog
Fuck yes. That’s some talent!
Reblogging this again for his name and info.
Like, this is epic and all, BUT LOOK AT HIS SMILE AT THE END OMG I AM IN LOVE
Luna, Boxer (1.5 y/o), Hudson & Charles St., New York, NY • “She’s crazy – she bangs on the walls all the time. She’s scared of lots of things. Moving trucks, flags, loud noises. She chases motorized scooters. She also destroys paper, and she drinks out of the toilet.”
Some of you might remember a couple of years ago when Scarlett Johansson sued Disney because she was making significantly less money for Black Widow than was guaranteed in her contract because so many more people watched it on streaming than in theaters, how there was a massive misinformation campaign from Disney that a ton of people on this website (and Twitter and other social media) bought into: That she was a greedy bitch who didn’t respect people who needed to stay at home during the pandemic (I believe the word “ableist” was thrown around with aplomb) as opposed to someone who just wanted to be paid what she was owed. What was literally in her contract!!! And where everyone who took more than a couple minutes to actually look into and think about the situation could figure out that her issue wasn’t with streaming itself, but with how little streaming was allowed to get away with paying her and other actors. But of course, a lot of people just saw the chance to dunk on a rich woman, and didn’t think about it beyond readying some snarky tags and hit reblog. And in doing so, threw their support behind a much wealthier, greedier studio head who is already using similar language to describe the current strike.
Anyway we’re going to see a lot of that from studios now, especially now that actors have joined with the WGA and it’s easier to sell them as rich and greedy than writers, because of this cultural stereotype we have of all Hollywood actors as celebrities. Don’t fall for it. SAG-AFTRA represents people like Tom Cruise and ScarJo but it also represents the kind of people who played a Borg in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager in 1997 or who had one line in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as an enthusiastic audience member. Most actors are not crazy wealthy, and in fact, if you’re a big TV fan (especially older TV and genre TV) that likely includes some actor names that you know, who played supporting roles in your fav shows, or who were even a star in something decades ago but haven’t done anything major since. The AFTRA side also represents people like radio broadcasters. But even beside that, all workers deserve to be fairly compensated for the work they do, and the threat of replacing them with AI, or real actors being required to sign contracts to allow their likenesses to be used by AI forever without paying them, is an existential threat to acting as a profession in general. The actors are in the right. The writers are in the right. The studios are in the wrong. The studios have exploited new technology to get away with horrifying labor practices for years and their feet need to be put to the fire. Circulate the articles about how poorly the Orange is the New Black cast was compensated for making one of the defining shows of the early streaming boom, and of the studios saying they want to force writers to starve and lose their homes. Don’t get distracted by propaganda aping progressive-sounding language about wealthy celebrities. Focus on the real enemy, the truly greedy fat cats who care more about money than people and art: the studios.
I even remember seeing a very salient point at the time that said that ScarJo of all people doing this was kindof a huge deal. She can AFFORD to sue Disney for this kind of stuff while a lot of smaller actors can’t, and she had the name recognition to throw behind it - meaning in a way she was using that privilege to say,” hey you better start doing what you should before something worse happens.” As it is they didn’t listen, and the ‘something worse’ (call for a strike - keep in mind worse is to them, not me) happened. The person who made that post worded it so much better than me but I keep thinking about that whenever I see stuff mentioning her or people saying how the strike doesn’t really affect big-time actors/(extremely stupid) complaints about “why don’t these millionaire actors just scab so we can still have our content, they don’t need all this extra money.”
god i go absolutely apeshit every time i think about how much garrus loved shepard like. romantically or platonically he was unconditionally loyal to the one person who showed affection toward him and who had his back no matter what. he LOVED shepard like family and would die for them over and over again and that makes me go bonkers fucking yonkers
