intellect and romance over brute force & cynicism

“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.

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Other Half / T / 9K / stupidinformation The Pitt crew know Dr. Robby Robinavitch has a husband. They just don’t expect him to arrive in the middle of a SWAT trauma activation covered in blood and taking over a trauma bay.

As the chaos unfolds, the ED staff quickly realize their boss’s mysterious husband might be even more chaotic than he is. coming home to a place he’s never been / E / 11.3K / @icemav86 “What the fuck?” Jack breathed, his attention locked across the bar, on fucking Robby, who was being led toward a back exit by his pool partner, the guy’s hand resting possessively on Robby’s lower back.

Robby returns from sabbatical, still trying to find his way forward, and it appears to Jack that Robby’s plans don’t include him. Generally Speaking / T / 5.8K / RiaRose Robby works himself up into a tizzy during the one day the AC is out, making himself sick. It's also the day he's planning to confess to Jack that he's in love with him. Keeping things simple is for the weak. Emergency Lighting / T / 20K / Stupidinformation A brutal winter storm traps both day and night shift inside the Pitt for days, cutting the hospital off from the outside world as power failures, flooding and exhaustion push the ED to its limits. Under emergency lighting and surrounded by people running on fumes, the Pitt stops feeling like a hospital and starts feeling like a survival situation. old dog, new tricks / E / 3.5K / Leaveanote “Did you come here to fuck me?” he asks, gasping as Jack licks a line down his throat.

“I came here to help you get some goddamn sleep,” Jack says. “Fucking you’s a bonus.” anytime, anyplace, anyhow / T / 3.9K / @abbotsdogtags Robby can't get back to sleep after a nightmare, but at least Jack is right there with him. He always is. Acts of Service / M / 9.7K / @wolvesinthenight Robby and Jack, seven years of friendship, two years of whatever the hell this is, five acts of service and one act of asking. wake up in the morning feeling like / E / 2K / morphosyntactic It’s the morning after the PTMC winter party, and Robby has a hangover. Blues / E / 17.2K / cosmogram “Say you got married,” Robby found himself asking. “Would you wear your dress blues? Or civilian clothes?”

It had only been an idle thought, no different than any number of easy, directionless musings of the sort that often came over the two of them on mornings like this one, when no one had a shift to go to for at least thirty-six hours. Robby didn’t mean anything by it. But he regretted the words the instant they left his mouth, even before he saw the incredulous grin slide over Jack’s face.

“Say I got married?” Limited release / G / 9.2K / elsanoelle Everyone at the Pitt knows Robby and Jack behave like an old married couple. Robby maintains that this is slander. The nurses maintain they have eyes until you're resting here with me / E / 11.2K / bleakmidwinter The time Jack learns he's Robby's emergency contact through an unexpected appendectomy.

DADT: Domestic Edition / T / 6.9K / Vamillepudding When Jack invites an old veteran friend to stay with them, it turns out Robby's vague worries about homophobia are only the tip of the iceberg. Must Be Date Night / T / 6.4K / Vesper90 Dana clocks that Jack has been courting Robby for months, Robby predictably is completely calm and composed about it.*