Did someone ask for a pedant? Don't worry, I am here! that was a brewery in the 1800s but had been abandoned for years I think she means that the brewery has been redeveloped, or renovated. 'Abandoned' sounds like something I'd put in as a placeholder with brackets around the word to fill in when I thought of the word I really meant. But then again, I don't write 80 percent gold.
Funnily enough, the place almost sounds word for word like the Distillery District in Toronto, which was founded in 1832 and left almost completely derelict in the late 20th century until it was bought to be sold as condo and office spaces, and now is a kick-ass pedestrian place. Wikipedia says it's served as a shooting place for over 800 films and t.v programs. GET OFF MA LAWN, LKH.
and she cites how the "opposites attract" lets them work well together Is this an actual law in the universe? In another series I'd imagine that this sentence is flippant and dismissive, but seeing as she starts talking about paranormal (sorry 'supernormal') powers right after this, it sounds like an actual law of the universe. WHICH IS STUPID BECAUSE RACE IS NOT A DICHOTOMY OR SCALE, FOR ONE.
I like the division between 'supernormal' and 'supernatural' that she's set up. We've already seen that supernatural creatures are second class citizens, so by placing other magical beings as similar to them but separate from them, you've built up a system of segregation. It doesn't really work in this universe, however, as we've already seen supernormal people also being discriminated against, usually to the same level as shapeshifters, but maybe this is a focused re-branding. "When a lycanthropy suspect started to shapeshift, Smith would sense it and warn everyone" This has the potential to be useful in the cases where the shapeshifter is a low level one, and thus shifts slower (if I'm remembering correctly), or when the shifter isn't in sight. That would be very helpful to know if they're going to arrest a super strong man, or a TIGER!
And now I pause to giggle once again at the whole !*~LONE WOLVES~*! classification. If she cared the slightest bit about realize, she could have at least been partnered with Ted. Then she could still have Anita thumb her nose at the rules, but have some semblance of actual police procedure. It would be a terrible idea, but at least the marshals would be less sparkly. OR why not a rookie who Anita could constantly compare herself to favourably, and who she could bully into doing all the paperwork!
"no one, absolutely no one, should be able to do that--not even me." Lampshades do nothing to hide the broken lamp. but I'd learned that his grandmother, like mine, had practiced as a Vaudun priestess, except his had been a bad person and mine hadn't been." I'm going to give her a bit of a pass on this one. I can see Smith associating Vaudun with zombies and zombie raising with his bad grandmother so that they all get intertwined with one another.
It had made him skittish around me, but not have a problem with Smith. What the hell kind of sentence structure is this? "Not have problem with Smith but it made him skittish around me". Well, I always thought Anita was a Neanderthal.
she kicks off her stilettos and slips on the steps because of her hose LKH means the stilettos that she was stuck in because they had a strap on them strong enough to support the weight of her body, which lead up to her flashing the whole room? She kicked off those shoes? Anita can smell blood, and so she grabs his arm and gets right beside him so the narrow walls almost press them together. TeeHee! Not her fault she's gotta press herself up against a man! It's the waaallllls!
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Date: 2013-12-07 10:05 pm (UTC)that was a brewery in the 1800s but had been abandoned for years
I think she means that the brewery has been redeveloped, or renovated. 'Abandoned' sounds like something I'd put in as a placeholder with brackets around the word to fill in when I thought of the word I really meant. But then again, I don't write 80 percent gold.
Funnily enough, the place almost sounds word for word like the Distillery District in Toronto, which was founded in 1832 and left almost completely derelict in the late 20th century until it was bought to be sold as condo and office spaces, and now is a kick-ass pedestrian place. Wikipedia says it's served as a shooting place for over 800 films and t.v programs.
GET OFF MA LAWN, LKH.
and she cites how the "opposites attract" lets them work well together
Is this an actual law in the universe? In another series I'd imagine that this sentence is flippant and dismissive, but seeing as she starts talking about paranormal (sorry 'supernormal') powers right after this, it sounds like an actual law of the universe. WHICH IS STUPID BECAUSE RACE IS NOT A DICHOTOMY OR SCALE, FOR ONE.
I like the division between 'supernormal' and 'supernatural' that she's set up. We've already seen that supernatural creatures are second class citizens, so by placing other magical beings as similar to them but separate from them, you've built up a system of segregation. It doesn't really work in this universe, however, as we've already seen supernormal people also being discriminated against, usually to the same level as shapeshifters, but maybe this is a focused re-branding.
"When a lycanthropy suspect started to shapeshift, Smith would sense it and warn everyone"
This has the potential to be useful in the cases where the shapeshifter is a low level one, and thus shifts slower (if I'm remembering correctly), or when the shifter isn't in sight. That would be very helpful to know if they're going to arrest a super strong man, or a TIGER!
And now I pause to giggle once again at the whole !*~LONE WOLVES~*! classification. If she cared the slightest bit about realize, she could have at least been partnered with Ted. Then she could still have Anita thumb her nose at the rules, but have some semblance of actual police procedure. It would be a terrible idea, but at least the marshals would be less sparkly. OR why not a rookie who Anita could constantly compare herself to favourably, and who she could bully into doing all the paperwork!
"no one, absolutely no one, should be able to do that--not even me."
Lampshades do nothing to hide the broken lamp.
but I'd learned that his grandmother, like mine, had practiced as a Vaudun priestess, except his had been a bad person and mine hadn't been."
I'm going to give her a bit of a pass on this one. I can see Smith associating Vaudun with zombies and zombie raising with his bad grandmother so that they all get intertwined with one another.
It had made him skittish around me, but not have a problem with Smith.
What the hell kind of sentence structure is this? "Not have problem with Smith but it made him skittish around me". Well, I always thought Anita was a Neanderthal.
she kicks off her stilettos and slips on the steps because of her hose
LKH means the stilettos that she was stuck in because they had a strap on them strong enough to support the weight of her body, which lead up to her flashing the whole room? She kicked off those shoes?
Anita can smell blood, and so she grabs his arm and gets right beside him so the narrow walls almost press them together.
TeeHee! Not her fault she's gotta press herself up against a man! It's the waaallllls!
I apparently have much to say! I'll start another comment