Synchronicity in a Paranormal World...Not!

[parafan.livejournal.com]

Sadly I must say I read a great many paranormal novels and find myself unduly influenced by LKH’s Anita Blake legacy. As I devour each supernatural morsel (you can pity me later) I am constantly on the lookout and find echoes from her characters and stories in the work of others.

I recently read Lilith Saintcrows’ Night Shift whose principal character Jill Kismet is another in a long line of empowered female Hunters, in this case of the demon variety. Here are a few tidbits from the novel that have striking similarities to things we have seen in the Anitaverse.

LKH: Zerbrowski, Anita’s RPIT police buddy in the early novels would show up at crime scenes directly from bed wearing his PJ’s with the choo choo trains.

Night Shift (pg.21) – Montaigne [Jill’s police counterpart], his dark hair rumpled was in a pair of black-striped pajama pants.

LKH: Even though cell phones existed Anita insisted on running around with a pager until all but the most recent books.

Night Shift (pg.76) – [JILL] Yet another night spent on the run. I opened my mouth, but my pager buzzed again. “Jesus Christ.” [Anita’s attitude too]
[Avery] “Why don’t you get a cell phone?”

LKH: The whole touchy-feely thing and puppy-piles with weres. Ad nauseum.

Night Shift (pg. 135) – Right into my personal space as a matter of fact. I took a deep breath controlling my twitch. Weres don’t have the same concept of space that humans do, and most every hunter gets itchy when someone else gets too close. When a were moves in like that it means they’re offering support. Cats and canine weres are very touchy-feely…”

LKH: Nathaniel, Anita’s little leopard that looks after her every domestic need and is often referred to as a proper wife for Anita.

Night Shift (pg.235) – He [Saul, also a were, also Jill’s love interest] nodded, took a bite off his beer. A Corona, and he’d even rubbed the mouth of the bottle with a slice of lime. He’d make someone a fine wife someday.

There must be a universal template somewhere…

Coincidence. Subconscious influence….maybe. Go figure. Her tentacles are everywhere.

Comments

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

'assuming it ever gets done', I said.

And it's about 3/4, because I'm not happy with parts of it. And I've started over twice.

(oh, and if you have an ff.net account, do you know about all the drama going on with that 'fan wiki' thing?)

[roguetailkinker.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard, care to elaborate? (I do have a ff.net account, but I hardly do anything with it.)

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

Apparently, some woman is trying to make cash off of a 'fan history' wiki. She has some sort of bot that trolls through ff.net's user profiles and turns them into wiki articles automatically, and (I think) posts pages with wrong facts so people will register to fix them, and keep fixing them, thus being traffic and creating revenue. Her entire aim is to make money off fandom, and she doesn't care who she hurts or offends in the process. She doesn't even inform people that she's putting their info up. I found out myself because a friend alerted me and everyone who reads her journal to it.

There's a more (faaaaaar more) comprehensive description here:

http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/521028.html