#i dont like MCGA

[lesbianbanana]

what if i went into a shop. and what if in that shop i walked to the book section. and what if then i found the place where the rick riordan books were. what if i saw pjo and hoo and toa and mcga and tsats. what if then i tried to find tkc. and what if i couldn't. what then. what.

#cue instantaneous violent rage #bc i can NEVER find where tkc books are #ITS THE ONE SERIES OF RICKS THAT I DONT HAVE #AND ITS MY FAVOURITE AFTER TOA #like please. please. #tkc #the kane chronicles #pjo #hoo #rick riordan #toa #mcga #percy jackson #sadie kane #carter kane #zia rashid

[green446004]

Alex💥

#mcga #magnus chase #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #mcatgoa #fan art #alex fierro #my art #a few more of these to come #of Samirah and Hearth #I’ve drawn these characters so many times and I still dont feel like I have a solid grasp of them OTL #also thanks for 1k wtf

[thaliasthunder]

no bc i know alex would eventually give magnus a nose piercing herself

#u dont know them like i do #fierrochase #magnus chase #alex fierro #samirah al abbas #incorrect mcga #mcga #mcatgoa #rick riordan #riordanverse #riordanverse headcanons

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

When you and your friends all have entirely different aesthetics

Merry Christmas everyone!

#mcga #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #magnus chase #alex fierro #samirah al abbas #samirah al abbas fanart #alex fierro fanart #magnus chase fanart #i actually REALLY dont like this piece but whateves #my art app glitched out on me halfway thru so sorry if the qualitys bad #dont zoom in #i dont draw any of these characters looking like this

[ah0yh0y]

so sad about the lack of hype for the kane chronicles

LIKE DID EVERYONE JUST FORGET ABOUT HOW GOOD THEY ARE

LIKE APOPHIS THAT WHOLE CHAOS AGAINST ORDER THING TERRIFYING

SO MUCH MORE THAN GAEA

#like magnus chase gets more love huh #dont get me wrong i loveee mcga but like WHAT ABOUT TKC #THE SEVEN FRIENDHSIP FELT WAAAAY MORE OFF COMPARED TO THE GUYS HERE #THE PODCAST FORMAT LIKE #the kane chronicles #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #tkc #hoo #pjo #ahoys thoughts

[incorrect-riordanverse]

Samirah: okay, i’m going to need you to be straight with me from now on

Magnus: i’m always straight

Samriah: that’s quite literally the biggest lie you’ve ever told

#i feel like i dont do enough of this iconic duo #also watching the aus election rn and im stressed #if the liberal party wins again im throwing myself off the nearest bridge #riordanverse #incorrect riordanverse #rick riordan #mcga #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #magnus chase #samirah al abbas

[howdyboh]

FierroChase week 2022, day 3: Earth/Craft

Competition to mold a portrait of the other except Magnus has no idea what he's doing (and Alex knows that) !

#fierrochaseweek2022 #mcga #alex fierro #magnus chase #fierrochase #this brought me back to my year and a half of sculpture classes in high school and i was very bad at it thank god it's over #my art #i dont like this one much but i didnt have time to color it again </3 it's a lesson for next time #ignore the table.please.

[raspberryjellybrains]

its been a billion years since I posted anything meaningful about mcga but I'm thinking about Alex helping Magnus with clothes.

I think Blitzen would love to help style Magnus, but I think he might accidentally end up being a bit overbearing, albeit with good intentions. He wants to help, but would probably end up tripping over his own fashion opinions more often than not, and Magnus would want to make his friend happy too much to actually voice his own opinions consistently. But Alex would understand that identity through fashion is something slow to be discovered on your own. It's not instant, it's a slow process of trying things and finding out what makes you feel good physically and emotionally. You can't pressure a person finding their own style, especially someone who's never had much room to do so and will likely feel guilty about making that room. She's gone through the process, and she'd probably be more than happy to help someone with it too.

I'm thinking about them going around to different stores and finding that Magnus likes second hand and low-end boutique stuff more than anything. Alex letting him onto her etsy account and buying his first piece of jewelry, taking him around to all of her favorite stores where she's greeted as a friend. Yeah, they could do all this in Valhalla, but where's the fun in that?

I think Magnus would like earth tones and dark, muted colors. He would avoid synthetic materials for their unnaturally soft textures and blue would make rare appearances. Alex would parade him around in his first pair of White Guy Khaki Shorts in five years, glowing with a silly sort of pride and Magnus feeling something kindle back to life in his chest at a growing collection or flannels, just like his mom. I'm imagining Magnus learning what it's like to live with his body, rather than despite it, and feel comfortable with himself in his surroundings for the first time since he was a little kid, taking a hike in the woods. And I'm thinking of Alex holding his hand the whole time.

#feeling sooooo sos normal rn #and i dont mean to make this post and trample the people who feel clothing has no bearing on their comfort or self perception #i just want to talk about how much it can mean to someone trying to find who they really are and come to terms with that person #and when i say style i dont mean aesthetic or fashion. i simply mean personal preferences for comfort and look (if that matters) #your personal style can literally be cheap graphic tees and basketball shorts and if that makes you happy then have fun!! live your truth!! #this is just me noting that magnus seems to almost intentionally avoid clothes except to mention discomfort and i think he should get a #happier relationship with his outer appearance than he has especially considering the royal fuckery thats happened with his bodily autonomy #and confidence within the context of the series #i might be crazy and projecting but i just want to give him something kind. as a treat. #and alex does seem to enjoy sharing her passions with those she cares about!! its quality time without any kind of social expectations #regarding the nature of their attachment. she can just spend time with someone she likes doing something she likes no strings attached. #im sure its qlso fun to gently heckle things throughout the process with someone whos gonna just nod along 💀 #im thinking way too hard about this #but im gonna hit post and know. i am still thinking. #magnus chase #alex fierro #mcga #mcga headcannon #raspberry rambles

[bakedbananners]

do you think there'd be a Pride event in Hotel Valhalla?

HOTEL VALHALLA WOULD HAVE THE MOST INSANE PRIDE EVENTS LMAO all the queer einherjar are fucking maniacs but also I think Odin would be so painfully Corporate about it all the time like seeling those gay couches and tote bags in the hotel IKEA agshdfkjashkdjfksjd

#but its all for funsies because technically they dont have capitalism in asgard. (?) i think lol #their pride flags r like the edits with flames and skulls and dinos on em #it doesnt matter if theres homophobic thanes what r they gonna do about it #odin likes them so they just sulk or whatever. die mad! #magnus chase #mcga #riordanverse #pjo #me talking #ask

[wolffoxnation2]

The absolute Loki slander in The Sword of Summer when he hasnt even done anything (yet) is hilarious to me.

Everyone is absolutely bullying this poor lad and he's just sitting there eating his purple pop tarts and talking to Magnus.

Gunilla: Loki and his spawn are pure evil and want to cause Ragnarok.

Samirah: My father is evil and i hate him.

Odin: Loki is not to be trusted he is pure evil! and manipulative and wants to start Ragnarok!

Meanwhile Loki: *eating poptarts and sitting on odin's throne* I dont wanna start Ragnarok, im having too much fun, you should probably not bring the sword to the place where its fated to start Ragnarok, bud. You should leave it with your uncle who is a Viking nerd and would probably love it. Also fuck the gods, they suck. Also i like you Magnus, youre funny :)

So this:

(From Hammer of Thor) was just uneeded.

(also funfact we dont actually know what Loki is the god of. The fire giant thing was him being mixed up with Logi, a fire giant/god)

The worst thing he does in the first book is hold Rudolph's—Randolph fuck, whatever his name is— family hostage and burn him. But Magnus doesn't know that yet so theres not any reason for him to be hostile, infact Magnus has littarly expressed feeling sorry for Loki when Loki tells him about his punishment.

Also how is Thor the first, and likely only god to say that Loki isn't pure evil

#Rick what are you doing #I know he ends up being the main villian but please make him like Luke Castellan and sympathetic. #rick riordanverse #mcga samirah #mcga loki #alex fierro mcga #mcga #Release my mans hes only killed a couple of people! #And Balder is better off anyways! #Mans living in a cool castle with a badass half rotten lady! #magnus chase and the hammer of thor #magnus chase and the sword of summer #Wolffox speaks #Why do i feel like his character is gonna do a complete 180? #Like it does seem like he does half way care for his kids and is angry at the gods for genuine reasons #Rick dont blow this for us

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think i’ve pinned down one of the things that’s bugged me about the recent series/books - over time there’s been a slow over-saturation of the mythological aspects, at least in how they’re presented to us. The first series and TKC balance the mundane and mythological really well, but as things go on there’s more and more emphasis on mythological things as separate rather than merged with the mortal world. The best two examples I can think of for this are Tartarus (We’ll ignore Tartarus in mythology versus how it is in PJO for now, that’s a topic for another day) and MCGA -

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in the first series, Tartarus is scary and ominous because we don’t know anything about it, we’re just told it’s bad and the only things down there are Kronos and reforming monsters (who can actually relatively easily escape Tartarus, it just takes them a minute), essentially. All we ever see of it is glimpses in the first book of the edge of it and a little bit later in the Labyrinth when there’s some cracks that lead to it. In the beginning of HoO it’s still scary because we still haven’t seen it, but we know Nico went down there and it was extremely bad for him. We still know nothing else! This also adds something special - Nico now has the unique trait of being the only mortal to have passed through Tartarus and survived. All of that then immediately falls apart when Percy and Annabeth fall into Tartarus and... it’s not that impressive. They actually get through it relatively fine. They run into a friendly giant who gives them soup and we get a literal deus ex machina as Iapetus/Bob shows up out of nowhere to help them out too. So now we’ve revoked the fact that it’s a special trait to have been able to survive Tartarus, that apparently means nothing, and apparently there’s enough friendly/useful things in Tartarus to make your life easier while you’re there AND now with TSATS we’re revisiting it again and now Will gets to have survived Tartarus too, I guess, because just anybody can do that now. Not to mention the whole “Oh, btw, Nico actually also has Super Special Tartarus Vision but Percy also temporarily got that too so that’s also not special.”

With MCGA, the series is supposed to be set in Boston, right? Except, it’s not, really. It’s set in the Nine Worlds. And it’s set in the Nine Worlds in such a way that we the reader are essentially just on a convenient guided tour of the Nine Worlds for some reason. We didn’t need to see a guided tour of the Nine Worlds! It’s just shoehorning in mythology for the sake of showing it off. PJO and TKC being set in New York worked because we actually see New York and New York is important to how the story functions. The mythology stuff is in New York! Camp Half-Blood is on Long Island Sound! Olympus is in the Empire State Building! The Grey Sisters drive a taxi! Camp Jupiter works because it’s in California. TLH and SoN work because we are in different real-world locations, but mythology stuff is happening in those spots. That’s what made PJO unique! And that’s what starts falling apart later in the books - Team Statue’s trip is memorable because we get some details about the places they end up. That one scene where Hazel, Frank, and Nico are wandering through Venice is memorable because we see Venice! Most of the rest of HoO we don’t get that same description. In TOA we lose it even more - yes, we’re in these different spots, but they feel disconnected because it’s less “We’re in this location! and there’s mythology stuff here too!” and more “OMG MYTHOLOGY STUFF and we’re like, vaguely in this location, I guess.” You could essentially interchange the mundane location of those scenes in HoO or TOA or MCGA without disrupting the story at all because it doesn’t play into it at all. In the first series it matters that we’re at the Gateway Arch and the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas and Manhattan. In TKC it matters that we’re in London and Brooklyn. In TLH it matters that we’re at the Grand Canyon! In SoN it matters that we’re in California or Alaska! Heck, it matters that the Princess Andromeda was a normal cruise ship with mortal passengers still on it! But in MOA-BoO and TOA and MCGA it doesn’t! You can interchange any random place with Greco-Roman ruins because we’re just apparently on a tour of Europe anyways. You can interchange the setting of TOA because for the most part between Camp Half-Blood, Camp Jupiter, and the Labyrinth, we’re either just vaguely somewhere or some new randomly introduced demigod-or-mythological-related place. You can interchange the setting of MCGA to any large North American city because we barely see the city, it’s just a backdrop for Hotel Valhalla and spots are chosen at complete random as access points to the Nine Worlds.

It takes away some of the meaning, to me, to over-emphasize the mythological aspects of the universe when it’s supposed to be this big special thing. The entire first series emphasizes how the mythological world has merged with modern mundane life, and especially that demigods struggle to locate and interact with a lot of these mythological locations. Trips to Olympus are rare and special occasions.Trips to the Underworld are difficult and extremely uncommon unless you have specific access or are summoned there, so every time we do go there it’s exciting! In TKC it takes effort and difficulty and specific circumstances to gain access to many mythological-related things and places in the first place, which in turns makes it rewarding when we do see it. There are absolutely some mythological locations we see in the series that it makes sense to repeatedly visit or have easier access to - the camps and nomes, obviously, are safe havens we expect to return to. The Labyrinth has access points everywhere. But the cool part of the Labyrinth in the first series versus TOA is that in PJO, where the Labyrinth was entered and exited was important and created interesting scenarios - such as fighting Kampe in Alcatraz, or having to guard the entrance into CHB because it was dangerous. In TOA it’s always just kind of... somewhere?

There’s also a lot of rehashing of places and monsters and beings we’ve met before - it doesn’t make sense to return to Ogygia a whole two times after Percy’s trip (which is supposed to be, yknow, impossible to reach unless you get hopelessly lost) or for Calypso to even show up again after the first series since part of Percy’s deal at the end of TLO was supposed to be for Calypso to be freed. Returning to Ogygia’s island and reintroducing Calypso there feels like a retcon more than anything at that point, when if you wanted to reintroduce her you could have just had her show up somewhere else, having been freed from her island and gone traveling to see the sights of the world. Why revisit Ogygia? Or Tartarus? These places that are supposed to be impossible to reach or survive? Every time you go back it just invalidates the intended feeling and structure of those settings. Why not revisit like, Triple-G Ranch? Which is just kind of there and a perfectly open spot with a known location that’s not difficult to find at all? Or the Amazon headquarters, which is also a known and easy to access building. Neither of those were totally explored when we were introduced to them! And we haven’t seen them again! Heck, we could even revisit the ruins of Circe’s Island, see if anything’s going on there now! What happened to all the sorceresses and pirates? Did the sorceresses become pirates and take back the island? That’d be cool to see! That’s an interesting revisitation of past mythological-based locations, not going back again and again to these impossible-to-reach places. It’s why we never went back to the Garden of Hesperides - we know where it is and under what circumstances to gain access it, but we only went there once and saw it maybe twice and that’s good! Because the less we see the mythological places the more special they are! And the more we see the mundane places and how mythological things have taken root in these modern mortal spaces, then the more grounded the universe feels! Not a random private building entirely occupied by Nero’s forces or magic grottos hidden in already magic summer camps, but furies and centaurs hiding as teachers and satyrs disguised as students. That was what made the universe feel so unique. And I’d like to see more of that instead of things feeling so disjointed like they have recently.

#pjo #tkc #mcga #riordanverse #tsats #meta #analysis #long post // #the whole ''oh yeah no its actually kind of easy for monsters to leave tartarus it just takes them a couple of years'' #''but if theyre a titan or giant or something that isnt cursed to be bound there its even easier'' thing feels so forgotten #which bugs me a ton because it. completely negates the entire need for the ENTIRE plot of TSATS #Bob is not being held prisoner in Tartarus! He's just. there? and we know as a Titan not being specifically punished he can just. leave. #like Damasen cant. yeah. because he's cursed to stay there forever. Kronos couldn't leave because he was CHOPPED UP INTO TINY BITS #AND BEING FORCIBLY HELD THERE #he couldnt leave until he had his team do a little ritual and then he just SNAPPED BACK TO THE OVERWORLD #most of the other Titans were imprisoned elsewhere or not imprisoned to begin with! #like under a mountain or. oh i dont know. HOLDING UP THE SKY. #Bob has been freed from his punishment because he's helping Olympus now! He's a janitor for Hades! he should be able to just leave! #There's no reason for Nico and Will go to on a quest for him because HE CAN GET OUT ON HIS OWN #it might take him a little bit but he can do it #also the gist of the ''Tartarus in mythology versus pjo'' thing is that Tartarus is basically the same as the Fields of Punishment #Rick just kind of made Tartarus Superhell(tm) for no particular reason #like yeah it's where the punished souls go. not exactly GIANT PIT IN THE UNDERWORLD (OF DOOM) #so that by itself extra negates like. all the tartarus arc drama. #cause then it's not ''20 demigods survived the Superhell Pit'' #it instead becomes ''Nico took a little jaunt through the Fields of Punishment and stubbed his toe i guess'' #and i will accept that edit for story purposes but i will not accept throwing demigods into Tartarus because we've run out of plots #theres so many plots we could still do. we're just picking the lazy options

[mustardizer]

blitzen from mcga would listen to KISS send post

#mcga #magnus chase #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #blitzen mcga #i dont even like KISS that much #he just..would

[green446004]

ᖭི༏ᖫྀ

#mcga #hearthstone mcga #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #fan art #to this day i dont understand why he was acting like that #why was he talking about butterflies and washing machines #my art

[thaliasthunder]

as an atheist that was even physically forced to hear unsolicited religious discourses of "how wrong i am", how "im gonna burn in hell" or "god hates/is dissapointed of me" from believers after saying im atheist, magnus being atheist without being antagonized or questioned for it is something so fucking personal to me

#not me opening up about my religious trauma #anyway jokes aside #i think magnus is really the first openly atheist character that is not antagonized for it #or in his 'spiritual path of becoming a believer' #he's just a silly guy that happens to be atheist #(bonus points bc this is a CHILDREN'S BOOK) #guys u dont understand the first time magnus said he was atheist in tsos my eyes literally got WATERY #like my city is not even that religious people just act stupid and intolerant when they see something that they're not used to #and trust me after years it gets fucking FRUSTRATING constantly having to hear believers telling me 'why i should believe' #like bitch leAVE ME ALONEEEE #it's not like i go around telling believers 'why the should not believe' bc i know that's nOT MY FUCKING BUSINESS #anyway every time magnus reminds the reader he's atheist it feels like a comfort hug to me #like him doing a pat pat on my head and saying 'u'r doing nothing wrong u silly girl' #😔 #atheist magnus i hold u close to my heart #magnus chase #mcga #alex fierro #samirah al abbas #fierrochase #pjo #hoo #percy jackson #rick riordan

[raepritewrites]

maybe it's my freaky good memory for my special interests, maybe i just dont have anything better to think about, or maybe its that ive been in this fandom for too long and i am now a Wisen Elder but it seems like i come across a lot of posts or questions from demigods who dont know lore thats been known for a long while and im genuinely curious

No judgment if you haven't, and hey im not here to gatekeep. I am always down to gush about this series so if you have questions hit up my dms and ill answer

#percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #kane chronicles #demigod diaries #demigod files #demigods and magicians #hotel valhalla #demigods and monsters #percy jacksons greek gods #percy jacksons greek heroes #thats a lot of books #polls #im genuinely curious #no judgment zone #i just really love these books #someone once asked me if you have to read one series to understand the others #and i kind of bluescreened #like why wouldnt you want to read them all? #but looking at this list #yeah its kind of a lot #i can see why its intimidating

[chipadequeso]

umm i dont really like this but still. i started the hammer of thor yesterday n i think alex is a very cool guy

i think as a society of mcga artists we should start giving him more body hair bc he looks good n why not

#alex fierro #mcga #the hammer of thor #the ship of the dead #magnus chase #his hair was so much fun #messy lineart. per usual #magnus chase and the hammer of thor #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #digital art #. . . 🗂