skygiants

I remember the "personified cities" thing being a Les Mis fanwork (where Grantaire was the personification of Paris) that effectively became a fandom of its own as people (maybe also the original author but certainly other fans) started writing about other cities. Not that Jemisin must have plagiarized the concept or anything (I doubt either of them was the first), but it's intriguing to me how much of the criticism of the worldbuilding seems to be similar.