Passage of Anita time?

[easol.livejournal.com]

This has actually been discussed before, talking about how Hamilton is slowing time within her series, so as to keep Anita in her late twenties... apparently forever. Over the course of the whole series, we've had what, three years pass? Four, five, max?

(I can't remember how old she was at the start of the series, so maybe someone can help me out here. I think she's been twenty-seven for a number of books now).

But I recently realized that apparently time is only warping for Whorenita and her carousel of penii. They have only aged a few years (or not, if vampiric), but LKH makes mentions of "the eighties" in the far past tense (in terms of derogatory dress criticism, hilariously enough). And her last book has Nathaniel dragging Whorenita to go watch Peter Jackson's "King Kong," which came out two years ago. (On a side note, I'm relieved that she didn't pay attention to the movie -- since it's a man-woman-ape love triangle, she'd be demanding sexxors)

Meaning that Whorenita, Nathaniel and the rest have aged a mere three-ish years since the early nineties, right up to 2005. That's more than a decade that has been compressed into just a couple of years! Is LKH really so deluded that she thinks she can bend time within her novels and not have anyone notice?

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[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

The saddest thing is that it would be so EASY to arrange slowed aging, because of all these mystical supernatural vampire connections.

You know, that's one thing that really bugs me. I thought that Anita had stopped aging, and that even if she were pushing thirty or thirty five, she wouldn't look a day over twenty-four. (Or however hold she was when JC marked her in The Killing Dance.) Since JC's laid the first three marks on her. I know she'd have to take the fourth mark to acheive true immortality. I remember waaaaaay back when I read Guilty Pleasures, and JC gave her (I think) it was the first mark, and he told her that she "aged almost as slowly as they [the vampires] did."

I also (vaguely) remember in Obsidian Butterfly when she was in the hospital, she told the doctor she was twenty-six, and he told her she looked younger. So...from what I surmised, I had guessed that she aged, but it was at a much much slower rate than a normal human, and she was therefore semi-immortal courtesy of the marks. I mean, she had all those other super-speshul powers, why not that one?

I don't think LKH has mentioned anything about Anita aging, really...but the passage of time slowing to a snail's pace in the books is an interesting indicator that Laurell doesn't want her precious AnitaSue to hit the big 3-0, as has been stated by other posters. But as easol has mentioned...if Laurell can make it where her characters no longer age, WHY DOESN'T SHE??? It's painfully obvious, and it would MAKE SENSE, and would seem like a logical step for the author to take with her characters.

...And...and...my brain hurts trying to make sense of this. This is LKH we're talking about here, so logic and consistency plays no part in the Anitaverse.

*HEADDESKS* I hope I managed to sound at least semi-articulate.

[easol.livejournal.com]

I really don't know -- it's like the number matters to her more the actual physical age. If Whorenita's aging stops, and we see her ten years later at thirty-seven, then who cares? It matters as much as JC's chronological age, which she's mentioned inconsistently many, many times!

It's especially sad because if ladyravana recalls it all correctly, then LKH had the basis for a nigh-immortal heroine who would never grow old... and now she's warping time because of a NUMBER.

(It's not like it's unusual, either. Look at Harry Dresden -- he's fortyish at least, but no big deal because the wizards age verrrry slowly)