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pocketedxoxo · 4 months

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in greek theatre, there was this trope called "hamartia" which was essentially a fatal flaw of the main character which dooms them. i assume it was pretty well known, because it carried on to some of shakespeare's tragic plays as well. sound familiar? rick riordan wrote a series about the greek gods. a key theme throughout the series was a fatal flaw, or, hamartia, which is **typical of the tragedy genre** rick was writing a greek tragedy all along

#mind blown istg #look it may be small but i love finding connections #this is the saddest connection i have ever found #it's just because they mention fatal flaws so much #i'm aware they're in lots of books but it's not often brought up #as it is in pjo #im crying #percy was literally doomed by the narrative #pjo #pjo hoo toa #rick riordan #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pocketedxoxo

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lovevalley45 · 2 months

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i think bc the series didn’t point out the whole ‘are the demigods committing incest if their godly parents are technically related’ it's a hot topic atm and while yeah it has been debunked in the books. i also think u have to look at a family tree of the gods n remember they’re kinda fucked up when it comes to dating their own family members like if the gods themselves are fuckin their own siblings n siblings’ kids i don’t think they have any leg to stand on telling their kids which other demigods they can date

#alli says shit #like this mostly applies to the gods born directly of kronos #but ye like if it IS incest. look at who they’re learning from fhegdgd #listen i’m too used to TLT n the in death series #where im like. the incest is outrunable. its just there #deadass the first in death book was wild with that shit #BUT. do we really think rick riordan would be able to get away with non-godly incest in his middle grade series #THAT’S UR FUCKING ANSWER

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chironshorseass · 3 months

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what bugs me most about the pjo show is that i know they could’ve done better. i knowwwww they could’ve been as faithful as they wanted to the books. for anyone saying “oh, but it’s an adaptation! it isn’t meant to be the same so stop whining that they took stuff out or that they’re adding things in different order!” well yes, i agree that adaptations aren’t meant to be a carbon copy of the source material for the simple fact that it’s adapting the source material into a different medium (television), yet it’s just that! a form of adapting the things that are unable to be channeled from, say, a book—or on the contrary, adding things that make sense for television but couldn’t be channeled into the books otherwise…all of this in a faithful manner. a good adaptation is one that stays true to the source material by properly adapting its themes, characters, symbolism, context, pacing, and the overall story/plot so as to not only be seen as a sort of love letter to the fans, but also to reach a wider audience.

just look at the hunger games! the movies are so faithful to the books to the point that most of the scenes are taken straight out of the books, dialogue and all. and they’re movies, aka less runtime than a freaking tv show and they still did it better. did the hg movies have to take a few scenes out? yes; they have only so much time to tell the story as it is told in the books. did they resume things, like the games themselves? also yes. but did most of the important scenes and character moments stay in the movies? also also yes. again, THESE ARE MOVIES!!!!! a medium much more limited than a freaking tv series with multiple episodes that have enough run time to add even more scenes from the books than what could be possible in a 2 hour (max) movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and yet they STILL changed so much that rly had no business being changed other than that the writers decided they felt like it because…..a lot of it im not even sure. and the worst thing of it all is that freaking rick riordan took part in script writing yet so much of the source material has been watered down???? they make a whole ass episode about a monster fight with the majority of the scenes from said episode not even present in the books instead of sticking to the perfectly good source material???? and by doing so they delete the small details that are very much integral to character development and plot???? huh???? the math isn’t mathing. don’t get me wrong, i do like some changes, but then i think: at what cost do they add these things when there was a perfectly good narrative without it? like, at what cost do we get the whole turning to gold sacrifice scene if they’re gonna take out all the fun details that make the lightning thief the lightning thief? for example the silly water park merch and then annabeth displaying her spider phobia and her mortification at going to the thrill ride of love with percy and then being broadcasted to olympus. this is just one episode, but they’ve been doing it in all of them. and u know, it’s not that i don’t hate-hate most these changes. again, what bugs me is that this was supposed to be a faithful adaptation. again, it’s a tv series, with so much more time to develop everything from the books. rick is behind it, who apparently hated the movies for how unfaithful they were. the cast is great. and yet…the script is so mediocre. the spark is lost. character traits are looked over in place for weird pacing and even weirder changes. if the hunger games could do it, then surely a pjo tv series could as well? apparently not? i really really Don’t Get It.

#pjo adaptation #pjo tv show #pjo tv crit #i wanted to Not Talk about the show but i have so much to say #i’ve given up i’ll keep ranting

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aroaceleovaldez · 1 year

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im rick rordian ur right nico is autistic

okay i know this is a silly goofy haha and I could just respond to this "so true thank you rick" but i haven't talked about this in awhile and i feel like it again since this is apparently an under-recognized topic -

Nico is, in the books, autistic-coded! This is not a headcanon thing I personally have, there is textual and contextual evidence that he is purposefully autistic-coded.

The main point for this is that the first series featured a very overt theme about awareness for learning disabilities, particularly in the first three books. Obviously The Lightning Thief focuses primarily on characters with ADHD/dyslexia - Percy and Annabeth (since we don't actually know if Grover has adhd/dyslexia or not). But in Sea of Monsters the scope begins expanding and we have Tyson as a major character, who is very clearly coded as having down syndrome.

Then in Titan's Curse we have Nico, who upon introduction is very stereotypically autistic - He's immediately introduced as having a clear hyperfixation, missing social cues or otherwise behaving socially inappropriately/having difficulty with empathy and emotions, getting easily emotional particularly due to change, relying heavily on familiar things/people for stability, etc etc. And this is clearly described as being different to standard demigod ADHD. Especially given TTC was written in the mid-2000s, this is basically neon arrows pointing at Nico saying "look! This kid's autistic!" except not explicitly saying that, just like nobody explicitly ever said Tyson has down syndrome (or Percy having PTSD from Gabe, or Reyna being ace, or etc etc etc) - because that's what coding is. It's implying it without explicitly stating it. That doesn't mean it's not canon, it's just you have to actually read between the lines of the text to go "ah, okay, this is what this character has going on."

And this isn't just a thing that goes away with Nico's character - it's a basis for Nico's characterization for the rest of the series and into the next two series as well. He continues to explicitly have difficulty with emotions and social cues. He continues to reference having hyperfixations (mythomagic, pirates). Heck, we even get more notes about him having both sensory aversions (touch, potentially implied also bright colors/lights, etc) and being sensory-seeking (wearing oversized layers often, seeking out clothing with specific patterns [skeletons/skulls], etc), and stimming (twisting skull ring) later on.

So yeah, Rick Riordan, I am right, Nico is autistic. Because you wrote it in your books, very clearly. You just didn't explicitly say "autistic." And you didn't have to, because the point is for people to figure it out on their own.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #analysis #i need to make a ''Nico is Autistic'' tag #ask #Anonymous #cause i talk about this a lot #and a lot of people seem to be of the misconception that i'm talking about it like it's a headcanon when it's not - it's in the books!#so i should probably consolidate my ramblings at some point #autistic nico #< there we go this has a tag now #autism

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moonlitlex · 7 months

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i have so much to say abt chalice of the gods so im just gonna copy paste my review from goodreads here. you can also read it on goodreads

ok. i promised i would hate this book. and i do. i hate this book. i also hate rick riordan. in addition, i hate capitalism. i promise that’s relevant.

let’s talk about the book now. i’ll cover the things i love first. i love percy jackson. i love grover. i love annabeth. i love sally. i love paul. i love percy annabeth and grover together. all of these things are very obvious and self-explanatory. percy is hands down THE main character of all time. i have nothing bad to say about him. his literal fatal flaw is loyalty. he’s actually perfect and has no flaws. this is expected from the son of sally jackson, the perfect person. paul is sweet and kind to sally and that’s really all that matters. annabeth is awesome and supportive and so is grover and they’re all besties forever. you get it. you’ve read percy jackson.

the jokes are better than before. there are definitely some legitimately funny jokes in this book, which i was really missing from the last few rick riordan installments. and i don’t think this is because rick suddenly got funnier. i think it’s because this style of joke works for percy. of all of rick’s protagonists, percy seems the most natural fit for these jokes.

sally is great. grover and annabeth are generally on form. so is percy, as much as can be expected from rick riordan at this point. i will elaborate on this later.

now to complain. this is the stupidest premise i’ve ever heard of. percy is a high school senior. he is going to go to new rome university. he needs 3 divine recommendations. this is already a stupid premise but don’t worry, it gets worse. poseidon reveals that the reason percy needs these recommendations is that it’s a special requirement for him specifically made by zeus. and the reason he gets to have this stupid requirement is that he’s a child of the big three and shouldn’t exist.

hello. zeus. yes, lord zeus, it’s me. alexis.

what the absolute FUCK are you saying.

this doesn’t MAKE SENSE. the only reason percy shouldn’t have existed was that the gods had a stupid pact to not have any kids because of a stupid prophecy. two things here. one - that prophecy is OVER. everything turned out fine. thanks to percy jackson. you’re welcome, gods of olympus. two - percy has literally saved olympus TWICE now. two times. this is genuinely such a dumb and made up reason to send percy on a quest that i can’t even turn my brain off and enjoy it. it’s not fun. leave percy alone. LEAVE HIM ALONE.

it’s literally insane how stupid this setup is. rick keeps writing books about how the gods are horrible and take advantage of the demigods and the demigods live terrible lives. in this book, percy has LITERALLY saved olympus TWICE and motherfucking zeus (literally) had to be talked down from making him get 25 letters of recommendation to 3. this is AFTER percy spent 3 years in pjo almost being killed and got his memory wiped for 6-8 months depending on which book you read in hoo and then got sent on a quest to save the entire world AGAIN. this CHILD got like a 2-4 month break (depending on which book you’re reading) and he woke up with no fucking memory and had to spend like 2 more months fighting monsters and the literal primordial earth goddess. and now he has to go on literally pointless quests that someone who didn’t just get back home from saving the actual world could ALSO just do. because he needs to get some fucking letters of recommendation.

look. genuinely. percy jackson should snap at this point in the story. this boy should’ve snapped like at least 5 books ago. at minimum. rick wrote the perfect setup to show us percy’s instant descent into madness. he should LOSE it. all the gods have done for the ENTIRE time he’s known he’s a demigod is treat demigods like disposable tools. this is the point in the story where percy goes. wow. luke was right. you guys are all assholes who don’t care about us even a little bit. i am NOT saying what needs to follow is a fanfic-esque dark!percy story where he successfully destroys olympus or something. what i AM saying. is at bare minimum this is where percy goes you know what fuck you i hate you guys and washes his hands of being a demigod at least temporarily. at the very least he should sit back and think yeah, i don’t really want to go to new rome university. it’s not worth it. i will just go to a different university. look. it’s percy jackson. he can literally one shot all but the most fearsome monsters (typhon, the giants, a drakon, etc). he is literally going to be 100% completely fine going to mortal university AND he wont have to deal with zeus’s annoying ass.

listen. MY percy jackson wanted to kill smelly gabe as a 12 year old because he abused his mother. MY percy jackson doesn’t like bullies. MY percy jackson challenged ares to a fight just on the basis that ares was a fucking asshole.

MY percy jackson is not going on useless fucking quests to go to new rome university of all places.

which reminds me. why DOES he want to go to new rome university. this is percy jackson. he LOVES new york. why is percy “what did they do to my city” jackson going to university ACROSS THE COUNTRY from the city he loves. why is he doing that. and hey look. sally and paul (and soon estelle) are ALSO going to be in new york. so like WHY is he leaving for real. percy my fatal flaw is loyalty jackson. IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE OK! it’s percy he is seriously not going to have issues with common monsters attacking him. we literally saw him fight off titans and giants a fucking hellhound isn’t gonna get his ass. WHY is he leaving. it does NOT make sense.

there’s this scene ok. where sally tells them she’s pregnant. and percy’s like oh my god…. i’m going to be in california…. and my sister is going to be here…. and i was just sitting there going. yeah bro. why are you going to california. i literally do not understand. you literally are from nyc. you live here. your family is here. your friends from chb are like a short pegasus ride away. there are like 50 universities in new york. just go here. why are you leaving. you are percy jackson. being a new yorker is literally one of your defining traits. stay here. WHY AR EYOU LEAVING I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PERSEUS

and listen. if your argument is that annabeth is going to be in nru. why the FUCK is ANNABETH going to nru!!!!! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT!!!! EXPLAIN IT!!!! percy LITERALLY says annabeth is such an overachiever she’s already run out of ap classes to take. he literally says that. why the fuck is this girl going to nru where let’s be real her admission is guaranteed. annabeth is 100% someone who would want to go to an ivy. and would you fucking believe it there’s an ivy right here in nyc. like let’s be fucking realistic here. annabeth started her architecture career at SIXTEEN designing the city the fucking GODS live in. so like. don’t you think she’d want to be a bit more challenged. don’t you think she’d want to go to a university that is actually recognizable to mortals. annabeth did NOT love new rome that much like did richard forget what he wrote. this girl was freaking out about new rome until percy said he only likes it because they could live together there. she literally does not care about new rome and she is WAY too ambitious and academically inclined to be happy with going to some small as uni 99% of employers have never heard of.

this isn’t even the worst character assassination in the book. that award goes to the way rick wrote percy. percy. my darling percy. my beloved percy. perseus jackson. light of my life. as i said before, he is MOSTLY on form. the him really wanting to cali thing is definitely ooc for him but it is NOTHING compared to the sheer amount of times rick portrays percy as stupid in this accursed novel. his internal monologue is constantly shit like i’m always so behind annabeth and omg i’m being so dumb right now and annabeth calls me seaweed brain because i’m an idiot and blah blah fucking blah.

dick riordan has forgotten that perseus jackson is, in fact, not stupid at all. he is INCREDIBLY clever. he is just not particularly academically inclined/not very book smart and it would also be perfectly understandable given the fucking books that riordan wrote to interpret that as percy being very discouraged from engaging with his studies. he genuinely enjoys chiron’s class at yancy because chiron is an engaging teacher and encourages him. he spends 90% of his time in pjo deducing what’s going on with extremely limited information because rick decided none of the characters can tell him anything because of plot and exposition reasons. in son of neptune he literally just coasts on having sherlockian (not bbc that’s a whole other angry review) powers of deduction. to the point where the characters around him are amazed at how he’s figuring stuff out. literally in house of hades annabeth’s pov’s are constantly her commenting on how she gives percy shit for being a dumbass but he’s actually really clever.

it genuinely feels like at some point during the writing of mark of athena rick decided to just slowly start making various fanon ideas canon. percy being stupid is very commonly accepted fanon because he doesn’t realize how smart he is (and fans don’t realize he’s an unreliable narrator) and the fans also love to infantilize characters with more in your face adhd (leo is another victim of this phenomenon). we’ve spent 5 books in percy’s head and he doesn’t think he’s particularly clever so it makes sense to ignore the mountains of evidence pointing towards his quick and creative thought process in favour of haha percy is dumb jokes.

the wild thing is, percy isn’t even that hard on himself in pjo. he obviously doesn’t see himself in the same way we later come to find out other people see him (mainly thinking about hazel and frank in son of neptune, which is the only time in hoo he genuinely feels like the same character as pjo percy) but he’s not really dealing with crazy self doubt and self esteem issues. he does have his down on himself moments but they’re all extremely understandable given the context because he literally faces impossible odds in every single pjo book. at one point he’s disappointed he couldn’t tell that ares and luke manipulated him… like yes bestie that’s a very valid thing to feel upset and betrayed about. it doesn’t mean that he’s actually stupid though and genuinely he comes across more as humble and not realizing just how awesome and cool and interesting he is than anything else. percy consistently shows that he is really clever. half of pjo is percy figuring out a new and interesting way of defeating his enemies and the other half is percy figuring out how to bait his enemies into a duel to improve his odds. it’s horrible what rick does to percy in his internal monologue.

it’s to an insane degree. yes i realize i have already written 500 words about percy not being stupid alone but i must stress how egregious this is. it’s literally characters who have previously acknowledged percy’s intelligence who start remarking about how he’s stupid. in house of hades percy and annabeth get out of fucking TARTARUS and reyna makes a jab about how percy wouldn’t be able to find his way out of a paper bag without annabeth. that is an INSANE thing to say for reyna and for rick. rick has not written a stupid character so it’s weird to make that something a character does without really trying to show them being wrong. from reyna’s perspective, this is a guy she was complimenting a few short weeks ago. this is a guy she immediately wanted to make a leader at the camp that she loves and is her home. this is guy she barely knows and she pretty much immediately proposes to him. WHY would she suddenly start making jokes about how dumb he is? it’s not like she actually knows him better now. he came to the battle with reinforcements and basically immediately dipped after the feast. how are we to accept reyna treating our beloved perseus in this horrific manner? we simply cannot. it is unnacceptable. this is inaccurate.

it’s so WRONG to do this to percy. yES I UNDERSTAND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR TOO LONG. I DON’T CARE. PERCY JACKSON IS MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND I NEED TO DEFEND HIM FROM THIS SLANDER. I AM ONLY PARTIALLY JOKING. listen. liSTEN. this is the guy whose signature move is manipulate your enemy into dueling with you when you’re outnumbered or outmatched. he very coolly manipulated bob into killing his own brother (btw this was very hot and sexy and clever and attractive perseus is king of gaslight gatekeep girlboss). he is NOT stupid. he is impulsive. he is extremely oblivious about some things. he is NOT stupid. i watched perseus jackson grow up for 5 books and he is not stupid. i always say this. i always say that percy is not stupid and richard riordan refuses to listen to me.

there are such horrendous lines as “i am a guy of limited talents. if i can’t kill it with water, a sword, or sarcasm, i’m basically defenseless.” richard how DARE you say this about my beloved perseus. he is NEVER like this. he literally would never say that. even at absolute worst percy’s internal monologue was “this plan is stupid and will get us killed. but it’s the plan i have.” he’s NOT a being defenseless guy. what hte fuck are you saying. richard did you read your own books. RICHARD. DID YOU. at one point he says that he is constantly several steps behind annabeth’s thought process. he has literally never thought this before and it is also untrue. richard. i hate you. read your own fucking books oh my god.

ok. i think i have sufficiently harped on the fact that percy is not stupid. now i will complain about another thing. and this was just in one part but it bothered me and this is my review so i get to talk about whatever i want. if you don’t like it read someone else’s review. don’t hate read my review. i didn't charge you money to read it

at one point, percy has to wrestle a god who hercules once wrestled. and annabeth says something about hercules brute forcing it. and look. i GET that hercules was freakishly strong. i get that. i understand it. but when annabeth says hercules just brute forced it they’re both like ah shit i can’t do that. perseus. beloved. you ripped the minotaurs horn off its head with your bare hands as a 12 year old with no training. you are literally insanely strong as is. that is an insane thing for a 12 year old to be able to do. hell, that would be an insane thing for a grown adult to do. i don’t think rick realizes how op percy is. he was so caught up in making percy cool (which is, you know, extremely understandable and right and correct percy jackson is the coolest man in fiction for a reason i get it) that he forgot that he made percy extremely unbelievably powerful too. with the curse of achilles he was potentially matching minor gods in power level. he fights while sustaining mini-hurricanes and explodes glaciers and shit.

some more things. the prose is… acceptable. the plot reads like a fever dream. there is a smoothie shop called himbo juice that annabeth percy and grover are evidently regulars at. and there are. himbos. that serve. juice. so you can imagine what this fever dream looks like. like the last couple rick riordan releases, this one reads like published fanfiction too, just with better quality of writing than the sun and the star.

there are some WEIRD continuity errors in here. one of them is fairly minor but i still noticed it - percy says his father compared his mother to a princess. this is not true. poseidon compared sally to a queen. specifically, he called her “a queen among women”. i know this because i am sally jackson’s number 1 fan.

more egregiously, however, is annabeth’s yankees cap heebie jeebies. percy puts on annabeths’s cap and gets the heebie jeebies while using it. and then he goes wow annabeth. you never told me that using the cap is like this. and annabeth is like yeah well. power is like that. richard. riordan. did you fucking FORGET that percy has, in fact, worn annabeth’s cap before. and it was literally completely. once again, richard, did you read your own books.

one more good thing - when percy fights geras/gary, who is the god/personification of old age, the way he does it is by imagining him and his friends getting older and embracing it. this was a genuinely good and sweet moment and it was very touching. the trio’s talks about this after the fact are also absolutely a return to form from riordan. for like, a few paragraphs. but still.

the biggest problem is just how obvious it is that this book is a cash grab. we had pjo. then we had a sequel series. then we had ANOTHER sequel series. and now we’re getting random standalone novels that are extremely unnecessary and don’t add anything. rick riordan has dollar signs in his eyes. these are not stories that make sense. these are not stories rick genuinely wanted to tell. these are stories that are being told because the purpose of publishing books now is to maximize profit. (sidebar - i told you the capitalism thing would be relevant. you should believe me more often. smh) the only reason rick is still writing these books is that they make money. they feel extremely empty and hollow.

percy is trapped as a teenager forever because rick refuses to let him age up. percy accepting old age would make FAR more sense for a percy who’s in his 20’s and just now realizing that he lived past all the shit he thought was going to kill him and he has a real life that he likes and he could actually grow old now. but percy must be a child for marketing purposes, so he stays a child. the world itself is trapped in a cycle of the gods promising they’ll be better and the gods literally not changing at all. and for the sake of the book series, it can’t change. if we had real change in the world, that would actually mean something, silly. we can’t have consequences. we have to reset every 5 years like a fucking comic book so that we can make infinite money. this is the infinite money glitch irl. just make trash that doesn’t need to be made. the end point of capitalism is making trash no one asked for that has no artistic merit just because you can make money off of it.

by the way, dr emily wilson’s iliad translation, which was also out on the same day, is LESS expensive than this book. this cashgrab nonsense novel is MORE expensive than a book a professor in classics who has a phd spent 4 years on. this is just wrong. the fun and stupid cashgrab book should NOT be more expensive than a book that someone spent 4 years meticulously translating from ancient greek. it’s just so clear and in your face. trials of apollo absolutely felt like a cashgrab but at least there was SOME semblance of effort there. this is literally just the most plain and simple cashgrab novel you can make.

hey. you know the infinite monkey theorem? the infinite monkey theorem is that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text including shakespeare. richard riordan is a monkey with a typewriter. you get it. you’ve read percy jackson.

rick riordan struck gold with pjo. it’s genuinely to this day one of my favourite things i’ve ever read, flaws and all. it’s FUN. it’s COOL. it’s THEMATICALLY COHESIVE. the characters grow and change. they feel like real people with personalities. it literally doesn’t even matter how op percy is because THAT’S how good of a character he is. he is so compelling that you want to read about him anyway even though you can tell right from the minotaur fight that this kid can decimate whatever opponent he has. the books are funny and moving because you can genuinely connect to these characters. the more i read rick riordan’s work, the more certain i am that pjo was a fluke. i don’t think he knows what he’s doing. i think he should retire from writing.

unfortunately for me, richard riordan seems to have no intention of retiring. he has announced another percy jackson book that will be released next year. i assume there will be at least 2 more books based on the setup in this one.

rick. listen. i know you’re listening because what else will you do with your time. rick, why are you doing this. hasn’t percy been through enough. when will it end. give it a rest. stop it. get some help. at the very least, read your own books before writing percy. i am right about him and you are wrong about him. you are the author and i’m killing you right now. i am strangling you and i am hitting you with weapons. all at once. i am very proficient at causing deaths. (this is a metaphor referring to roland barthes’ death of the author. i wish no bodily harm to richard riordan).

this book is… alright. percy is my smart king. sally jackson is queen of my heart. it’s a fun read but you do have to turn your brain off completely and read through some serious percy defamation.

[edit: i am downgrading this book to one star (was at 2). the more i think about it, the more angry i am. there is literally a paragraph tailor made to rub jason's death in our faces. it's about how he looks forward to getting old being married to piper and having grandchildren. it's a very low blow. jason is literally rick riordan's biggest missed opportunity and he's rubbing in how poorly he treated jason even after killing him off for apollo's character development.

annabeth still keeps putting percy down because rick doesn't realize how mean she is i guess. she's still scared of him. canonically. which is a really weird and fucked up thing to write imo. this relationship doesn't seem healthy in canon (they are healthy in my head, however, because i know what women are like) but rick refuses to address it or let them break up. i LOVE annabeth. i love her. but she is an extremely flawed character and rick never treats her as such. and it just makes it exhausting to read about her.

percy IS on form but it genuinely feels like he's tlt percy, not post hoo percy. his inner voice sounds way more immature than it has for most of pjo and in son. riordan also repurposes the "look, i didn't want to be a half-blood" line from tlt to make a dumb little joke about how high school is hard. it was a GOOD opening line. it immediately set the tone and told us so much about percy in literally just a handful of words. now it's a joke about how being a senior in high school sucks. it's this mcu-esque allergy to being sincere that pjo never had.

there is BARELY any grover in this book. i love grover so much that i was cheering any time he was there, but there is very little of him. he's in like 2 or 3 scenes and has his own side plot going on with juniper and being bad at understanding what his girlfriend wants or whatever. extremely unnecessary and not what i want for grover. this book kind of ends up feeling like it's about annabeth but from percy's perspective. she gets good moments at percy's expense. percy spends the book monologuing about how annabeth is way smarter than him and all he has is his sick ass water powers and the best swordfighting skill in 300 years, both of which are very downplayed. percy explodes a river and it's treated like this crazy freaky scary thing but two years ago in universe he made a volcano erupt and everyone was like yeah this makes sense percy is that powerful. in son he explodes a glacier and it's just a normal tuesday for him. he literally doesn't even react to it. and now we're supposed to believe his exploding and purifying a river feat is some unbelievable feat.]

in conclusion, i want a refund. no i did not purchase this book. however, i would like to be reimbursed about $5000 in emotional damages. i will also be suing richard riordan for defamation on percy’s behalf. good night new york city. and my beloved perseus jackson who lives in new york city.

#alexis.exe #pjo #cotg crit #rr crit #cotg spoilers #cotg #i hope yall who dont want negative stuff have the crit tag blacklisted lol dont come at me

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graaaaaayy · 16 days

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fine I’ll make a bloody intro post

hello, I’m Gray. I post random shit, mostly about books. I’m kind of a jack of all trades, master of none. But then I always say it’s better than being a master of none.

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The Basics :

He/Him. I’m 16. I’m half Italian, half English. I live in Canada, and I’ve lived in five other countries before. Im neurodivergent and the living embodiment of the term chaos bisexual. Yes I still have a British accent, idk why so many people want to know.

Askbox is always open, just think before you ask though. DNI -

. Terfs, Queerphobes, transphobes, racists, and generally shitty people. Controversial opinions not welcome this is a no politics zone.

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Interests :

books. Books. BOOOOKS (fandoms listed below)

the mcu

biochem, psychology, SCIENCEEE

skateboarding but I’m not good at it

basketball but I am good at it. Being 5’7 crushed my dreams of going pro. Oh well.

running, lifting, the works. I do it to stay sane so don’t give me that look.

electro-tech cause I have my dads engineer genes. historyyy————————————————————————

Fandoms (just the main ones)

SJM - acotar, tog

the folk of the air series

PJOverse, Rick Riordan’s books in general. Harry Potter (it was my entire childhood but I don’t post much about it cause JKR ruined it by being a TERF)

Any form of Sherlock Holmes

The MCU (basically all of it)

The Kingkiller chronicles

Fourth wing

The Shadowhunter novels

Grishaverse

Heartstopper

random romcoms here and there

edit : somehow forgot to add Nerdfighteria ?

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Music :

Hozier, Conan Gray, James Arthur, James Taylor Watts, Queen, Bastille, Aviici, The Lumineers

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Random Facts :

I speak 3 languages: English, French, Italian and I’m learning Spanish.

I’m in the IB program, I skipped a year and I’m graduating in June.

I just ran my first 5k :)

I’ve dislocated the same kneecap 3 times. Don’t ask how idk how.

I read fast, and I have a photographic memory.

That’s all I can think of for now. You guys better give this notes it took so long to make this

#intro post #txt

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unmellowyellowfellow · 10 months

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blog introduction! <3

hi all! my name is zoey (they/she), and im making my return to tumblr! i am wanting to interact and follow other writers and artists alike so please interact or share this if you're interested hehe.

my favorite book > the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making by catherynne m. valente

my favorite authors > catherynne m. valente(!!), rick riordan, douglas adams, amanda lovelace(!!)

themes of my writing + !warnings > fantasy, magic, au, strong platonic friendships/found family, lgbt, mythology, poetry, regional gothic, love, BUT ALSO MAY INCLUDE !drugs, !alcohol, !blood, !depression, !fire, !death, !emotional abuse (sometimes i write about my own experiences).

my favorite genres > fantasy, ya, mythology, historical fiction, sci-fi, regional gothic.

some fun facts about me > i am a cancer sun, libra moon, scorpio rising!! i have a cat (monk) and a dog (jessie)!! i love to read poetry although i'm terrible at writing it and i also like to game (xbox x, nintendo switch). i'm open to new friends and to checking out some WiP's when i have the time:)

blog faq > ok to tag in ask games or writing games!! ask box open to everyone for anything:)

works in progress? chalk mountain; under tag: #wip: chalk mountain

look forward to meeting and following you all; peace and love, unmellow yellow fellow. 🫶

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triptuckers · 2 years

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Someone familiar (part 1/2) - Percy Jackson

Request: nope Pairing: Percy Jackson x Apollo!reader Summary: On their way to defeat Gaea, Percy runs into someone they lost a long time ago Warnings: mentions of injuries, blood, death, angst, y'know the typical rick riordan stuff Word count: 1.3K A/N: first time writing for percy!! aside from the other WIPs in my drafts but shhhh im currently reading all of ricks books and I am in love, also very excited about the disney+ show !! :) enjoy!

Since the Argo ll sustained heavy damage in their last fight, Leo insisted they stop at the nearest island so he could work on fixing his beloved ship. He also claimed Festus needed a break. The rest of the crew decided it was better not to argue with him.

After finding a small island, they dropped anchor near it, and three of them went ashore to check it out.

Though the island was small, it's littered with old abandoned buildings. The buildings look like Ancient Greek homes, probably a village long forgotten by the world.

Percy, Jason and Leo were supposed to do a quick scout of the island to see if it was deserted, then head back to the Argo ll. Spoiler alert: it was not deserted.

Just as they round the corner and see the sea glistening in the distance, they hear a shout and a loud laugh that doesn't sound exactly human.

Percy instinctively moves closer to the sound, but Jason pulls him back.

As Percy raises his eyebrow in question, Jason shakes his head.

'We don't know who or what it is.' says Jason quietly. 'Let's just stay here until were figure out what's going on.'

'I vote for staying back as well.' says Leo, raising his hand.

Percy shrugs. 'Fine.' he says. 'But I am taking a closer look.'

The three of them slowly creep closer to the sounds in the distance. The same view greets them; a dozen old buildings that had crumbled during the years and that are overgrown with weeds.

Suddenly, a loud yelp is heard, and Percy catches some movement out of the corner of his eye.

Something - or someone? - smashes against one of the old buildings and slides down the wall to the ground.

They hear the laugh again. Definitely not human. Then the one who laughed walks in from behind a building. It's a cyclops.

Immediately, Percy feels a pang of guilt in his gut. The cyclops looks exactly like his brother Tyson. Percy hated fighting cyclopses. They reminded him too much of Tyson.

The cyclops chuckles, a low sound coming from the back of his throat.

'Haven't had enough yet, hero?' he says, spitting out the word hero as if it's something dirty.

Percy looks at the other end of the battlefield, where something had smashed against one of the buildings. It moves, but very slowly. Something is familiar about this all, but he can't quite place what.

Carefully, Percy gets Riptide out of his pocket and uncaps it, revealing his sword.

'Percy.' says Jason. 'What are you doing?'

'We need to help them.' says Percy, gesturing to whoever is laying on the ground. 'That cyclops called them hero. It's gotta be one of ours right?'

'We don't know who that is.' says Jason. 'Or if they need our help.'

'They are unconscious on the ground with no way to defend themselves.' says Percy.

'What if this hero is someone working for Gaea, huh?' says Jason.

'Uh, guys.' says Leo. 'You might want to see this.'

Percy and Jason turn to look at the scene in front of them.

The person who got thrown against the building is slowly getting to their feet. With shaky limbs and bloody wounds, they stand their ground.

As they pull out a bow and straighten their back, Percy, Jason and Leo get a good look at their face.

Percy feels like all the blood suddenly drains from his face.

'Can't be.' he mumbles.

He'd recognise that determined look on your face anywhere. As well as the bow. Or the fighting stance. Or the signature quiver of arrows.

'Still haven't had enough, daughter of Apollo?' says the cyclops. 'Oh, this is going to be fun.'

Before Jason or Leo can react, Percy jumps over the boulder they'd been hiding behind, and sprints towards you.

You knock an arrow and aim it at the cyclops' eye, but your hands shake. The arrow misses its target. You curse and knock another one as the cyclops slowly advances. The second arrow also misses its target, and the cyclops is now dangerously close.

You sigh and do something you normally would never do. You drop your bow and sink to your knees.

After all these years, all these battles, you were tired. Tired of running around the world doing anything the Gods asked of you. Tired of going on quests after quests and narrowly escaping death every time. This was it. You had enough.

You close your eyes and tilt your head to the sky.

'Apollo...' you murmur. 'I tried, dad, I really did. If it's not too late, some help would be great.'

You wait for the final blow. A hand gets a hold of your arm and roughly shoves your bow back in your hand. You frown. That hand is a lot smaller than any cyclops' hand. And why would he give you your weapon back? Was he still not done toying with you?

'You're not dying today.' says a familiar voice.

You open your eyes and see a familiar pair of green ones looking at you.

'Percy?' you say, frowning. 'Gods, blood loss must be making me hallucinate.'

'Stay back.' says Percy, pulling you behind him.

'Gladly.' you mumble, feeling tired of all the fighting.

Percy advances the cyclops. You decide it's a good idea for you to sit down. You slide back down to the floor.

Your vision is blurry, and you're pretty sure you see lightning. Great, a storm. Typical.

Something moves in front of your vision, and you attempt to swat it away, annoyed by it.

'Hey, stay awake, okay?' says an unfamiliar voice. 'I'm Leo. Jason and Percy are taking care of that cyclops. I'm gonna get you back to my ship.'

'You have a ship? That's so cool.' you say softly.

'I know.' says Leo, pulling one of your arms over his shoulder. Leo pulls you to your feet.

You groan as a sharp pain shoots through your leg.

'Lean some of your body weight on me.' says Leo. 'Not all of it!'

Too late. You can barely carry your own weight.

You're dimly aware of Leo yelling 'No, no, no!' before you fall to the ground.

You drift in and out of consciousness, listening to Leo's voice and the sounds of Percy and Jason fighting the cyclops. You can feel Leo shaking your shoulders, but your eyes are just too heavy to open. Your entire body hurts. Maybe it's best if you just let go. After all, most demigods don't live long anyway.

Leo is shaking you again. But it's someone else who's speaking. Percy?

Someone pulls you up. Your arm is thrown over someone's shoulder. Same with your other arm.

Whoever they are, they're trying to take your somewhere. But your feet won't work, they feel so heavy.

You're on the ground again, and then you're lifted again.

This time, it's just one person carrying you.

You faintly smell and hear the sea.

That's weird. If you're dying, shouldn't you feel sunshine? After all, your dad is Apollo, not Poseidon. That's Percy's dad.

Percy.

It was good to see him again, after all this time. He'd gotten a little older. Then again, so had you. There must have been new campers, because you hadn't met Leo and Jason before. How long had you been stuck in the Labyrinth before you managed to get out?

Maybe seeing Percy was all a fever dream. Hell, maybe you were still stuck in the Labyrinth.

Whatever the case, wether it was all real or not, you are glad you got to see Percy one last time. Even if you never did have the guts to tell him what he actually meant to you.

Maybe it was better this way. You allow yourself to slip away.

part two

A/N:If you want to request something, make sure to read my house rulesHere’s the list of characters I write for. Everything that I have written can be found on my masterlist. Please don’t repost my work, as I spend much time and effort on it!! Thank you for reading! Much love, Max/Marit

#in my pjo era 🫡#I literally do not think about anything else #percy jackson #percy jackson x reader #percy jackson fanfiction #percy jackson fanfic #percy jackson fanfics #percy jackson fic #percy jackson fics #percy jackson oneshot #percy jackson oneshots

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lumityfication · 8 months

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ranking my favorite percabeth scenes (in pjo only not hoo) because i need to get this off my chest

(disclaimers that this is def pretty percy centric but that’s bc pjo is from his pov, i haven’t reread hoo recently enough!! and ik the first scene im mentioning is also very popular but i feel like we can always be talking about it more. this is my ramble i can do what i want)

1. for me my favorite scene in any rick riordan book will be when annabeth takes the knife for percy in TLO and then when they’re on the rooftop afterwards. she’s literally his achilles heel. he didn’t tell her where his weak spot is but she took the knife anyway. Get back no one touches her. him letting her feel the spot on his back. You’re cute when you’re worried your eyebrows get all scrunched up. sorry i’m crazy

2. when they got paired up for war games in BOTL and percy said “nice” and annabeth just said “your armor’s crooked” and fixed his straps. I think about it so often

3. annabeth sitting with percy at the poseidon table in BOTL. She was sitting next to me. i mean Right next to me. him saying he liked the fact that she broke the rules to sit w him. the other campers looking….. they’re besties your honor

4. when they’re doing the cabin inspections in TLO and annabeth is cleaning up her stuff in the athena cabin and she’s like This whole thing with beckendorf and silena makes you think about what’s important. about losing people that are important and percy short circuiting and thinking abt how he could only focus on the earrings she was wearing. i hold them in my hands

5. percy’s panic when he thought annabeth was going to go with the hunters of artemis. he literally just got her back he was so scared that he’d lose her for real this time … the way he stutters makes me spin in a circle really fast like i just love the ttc angst pushing them into realizing what they truly mean to each other

6. underrated SOM moment is after scylla and charybdis when it’s just percy and annabeth in a little lifeboat before arriving at circe’s island, and when percy snaps at annabeth and she apologizes hes like i can’t resent her we’ve been through so much together there’s no point in holding a grudge…. my babies!!! (SOM percabeth is just too underrated like to me it’s when they really start to understand each other, what makes them tick, what the other has gone through, it puts them on the same page which sets up their dynamic in the rest of the series)

7. when annabeth is passed out in SOM and they have the fleece on her and percy whispers “you’re a genius” to her because he promised to tell her that if they made it out alive 😭😭

8. percabeth in the attic in TLO getting the great prophecy and reminiscing and then locking eyes and percy remembering another time they were alone together when annabeth kissed him in mt st helens. crazy scene it’s CRAZY

9. annabeth’s reaction when percy shows up back at camp after being at calypsos island. he was the bravest person i’d ever known… he’s…. HES RIGHT THERE!! is just SO ICONIC and her hugging him so fiercely :(((( he literally crashes his own funeral and annabeth being mad at him but also clearly incredibly relieved makes my heart ache even if it’s silly. such a tragedy that we don’t get annabeths pov in pjo because i would have loved to know how she was feeling in the like two weeks where she thought percy was gone

and then there’s obvious ones like the underwater kiss, “a kiss for good luck it’s kind of a tradition right”, mt st helens, aphrodite looking like annabeth, giving up immortality, and pretty much everything percabeth in TLT i feel like is discussed so much too bc of the show lmao

anyways girls when they reread pjo and notice even more little percabeth moments every time they read it 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🤯🤯🤯😭😭😭😭😭😭

#sorry if i clog up the tags w these rambles but if anyone else feels as insane as i do abt these moments i want to be discussing it #percy jackson #percabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #annabeth chase

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sadiewayne · 3 months

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i feel like the older and read the books at least 10 years ago percy jackson fans are less likely to be complaining about the show

from what im seeing from the latest episode (ep.6 - we take a zebra to vegas) i'm not seeing as many older fans complain as i am younger, newer fans

and it is not all of them, there are complaints coming from both sides and people loving it regardless from both sides, i personally just seem to see a difference

besides, all of these changes are being made by rick riordan, like y'know, the author

look, let me elaborate, spoilers for ep.6 if you haven't watched it

percy says he is going to santa monica to meet his dad. that isn't how it goes in the books, he is told to go to santa monica, but poseidon isn't meeting him there

‘If my father is so interested in me,’ I said, ‘why isn’t he here? Why doesn’t he speak to me?’ A cold current rose out of the depths. ‘Do not judge the Lord of the Sea too harshly,’ the Nereid told me. ‘He stands at the brink of an unwanted war. He has much to occupy his time. Besides, he is forbidden to help you directly. The gods may not show such favouritism.’ - the book

in the show, poseidon was going to meet percy but because the deadline passed, he had to leave

He waited as long as he could. The summer solstice passed earlier this evening. Zeus's deadline has elapsed. Your father has gone to marshal his forces and prepare for war. He asked that I relay a message. "This is not your fault. You were brave. You were strong. You made your father proud." - the show

like DUDE come on if you are mad he changed it to give us good dad poseidon you are out of whack

also to people saying 4 pearls and not 3, the prophecy is the same, he will fail to save what matters most in the end and that's sally. idk how rick is going to do it but let me tell you i am hyped to see it

(i would insert a comment about critical thinking skills and looking ahead but that feels too mean)

people will disagree with me and my opinion that the show is amazing regardless of the minor changes they made (i personally think the changes were good things that fill plot holes and make it better), and it's ok to disagree

and i want to make it very clear that younger, newer fans are just as valid as older, longer time fans. terms like "OG fan" are part of toxic fan culture that we need to drop bc it's not someone's fault if they didn't know about it or were too young to know about it (like so many newer pjo fans are younger than the book bc the book came out 19 years ago this year)

#percy pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo tv show #percy series #toxic fan culture

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moominvalley-state-of-mind · 5 months

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!spoilers for the last TOA book!

'Meg did a double take when she saw me. Her face split into a grin. She wore her pink Sally Jackson dress, topped with a gardening hat that looked like a mushroom cap. Despite the protection, her neck was turning red from the work outdoors. "You're back," she noted. I smiled. "You're sunburned" "Come here," she ordered. Her commands no longer held force, but I went to her anyways. She hugged me tight. She smelled like prickly pear and warm sand. I might have gotten teary-eyed.'

The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan, book five, The Tower of Nero (Chapter 39, 392 - 393)

im crying they're so awesome

(edited cause i forgot to put in Rick's name)

#toa spoilers #rick riordan #the trails of apollo #apollo #meg mccaffrey #lester papadopoulos #meg and lester are siblings #im so happy for them (platonic)

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