#pjo crit

[bubbles-burster]

I wish Annabeth had been a daughter of Aphrodite instead.

Not only would you avoid having a virgin goddess being utterly disrespected for no good reason, but it would justify way better why people constantly underestimate Annabeth. Because, oh dear, do Aphrodite's sons and daughters get dragged through the mud in these series!

Annabeth being a child of Aphrodite would be a ruthless situation to be in at first; she would more often than not be judged on her looks rather than her wits.

In Rick's very nature-deterministic world where the Dionysus kids will hand you energy juice bottles while all the Ares kids are on the frontline and all the Apollo kids are archers and/or medics, Annabeth Chase would be expected to sit nice and look pretty and break some hearts and maybe fix other campers' armors.

And she'd understandably hate the idea.

Annabeth would attempt to deny and escape her parentage, such as by avoiding her siblings or trying way too hard to make an impression on Athena. She'd despise pink and femininity, just like Uncle Rick did with all of his other main female characters, because there's only one way to be a likeable girl and it's by not wearing any makeup and not trying 'too hard'.

Annabeth's pride, which she would take after Aphrodite's, would have her deliberately avoid learning about the numerous myths relating to her mother, and that could prove dangerous in missions.

Then she would learn to embrace her divine parentage. She'd stop running away from the parts of herself that society had conditioned her to hate, she'd learn about the actual Aphrodite, about her mother's cunning and bravery which has her not think twice before thrusting herself into a decade-long war, about how feared she was even on Olympus.

Annabeth would learn to let her heart lead her on, as she'd realise how remarkably good of a compass it can be when the entire world seems dark and hopeless.

It would also be far more powerful message than what we're currently working with.

Remember two things, kid: pink nails will never, ever, soften a punch, and wisdom is something forged in mistakes, not in the womb.

[aroaceleovaldez]

its 2026 can we stop having official art of Piper with the feathers in her hair please

[aarbeaz]

The moment we started recontextualizing percabeth as "Annabeth keeping Percy under control" was the moment I knew HOO is fucked

[egrisian-medea]

So I don't have the words to explain this, but I will try to make my point somehow here.

Can we talk about how Rick Riordan read about demigods and inmediately chose to call them half-bloods?

First of all, it's not a word that ancient Greeks used: those who were considered "superior to mankind, but inferior to the gods", to say it somehow, were called demigods or heroes. Pretty sure it started being used during the Middle Ages, as... literally, as a term, to call those who were of "mixed race" during the colonization of America. It originated from that, and it many negative connotations: pretty sure it could be considered a slur. And he KNOWS this. At least, I want to think he does. I mean, explain this:

Yeah, Rick, it's good that you wanna point out the discrimination Indigenous and African people suffer, but I think Piper' and Carter's discomfort with that name could be erased by simply not calling them that. It is really unnecessry. Sure, you could add a scene in which someone calls demigods that, be it with ill intentions or just as a misconception, but both ways could serve to show the characters' upsetness before such name.

Don't you think, Rick, I don't know, it comes to my mind... that there are better ways to call the children of gods? I believe that throwing this word around like it's nothing in a children's book is... questionable, to say the least. It minimizes what the word half-blood meant. What it was used and is still used for.

"Oh, but he does call them heroes and demigods!" Oh, so he IS able to not use a racial slur for his literal childrens book, huh? Not to mention, he STILL called it "Half-Blood Camp" and the term that is used the most is still that one.

I've counted just The Lightning Thief, but the word half-blood is said like 60 times, the word hero is said like 50 and the word demigod is said only 6 times.

I really wanna just become an editor in that fuckass book and change all the half-bloods for demigods.

[sleepyjim2]

rick riordan be like yeah heres the god of the dead Hes just like adolf hitler. btw his demigod children r a gay italian boy from the 30s and a Black grandchild of a former slave

[kazperthegh0st]

I'm gonna dumb this down as much as possible:

Adapting a book to film (live action or animation) is like translating a novel from one language to another.

The author, more likely than not, is NOT fluent in film; this is similar to a translation in that an English author is not fluent in, say, Spanish.

The author can and should be consulted: "what should the visible background of this scene be like in order to reflect the tone?" for film/animation; and "which translated verb most closely resembles the diction?" for written translation.

But, because the author is not fluent in film or foreign language, THEY SHOULD NOT BE THE ONE ADAPTING/TRANSLATING.

Rick Riordan had no experience working in film--- therefore, he has no business being the "EXECUTIVE PRODUCER". He should only have been hired on the project as a consultant, the writing, casting, directing, editing, and producing should all have been left up to the experts.

[n1percyexpert]

the jokes about rick forgetting things about his own books and characters, along with the lack of research hes done with the mythologies he writes about, and the most well-known one being the gateway arch feels like the fandom is giving rick a perfect introduction to weaponized incompetence, where he sees that his fans dont care much if he stays true to the mythologies or what hes actually written, and uses that as a chance to not actually worry about any consistancy or mythological accuracy and write whatever he wants no matter what he wrote before or how much actual greek mythology disagrees with him,

and id dare say this could also make fans themselves have much lower standards when finding new books and series to read. so many people in this fandom excuse rick of every single thing he does, which not only lets him get away with more, but also make those fans not actually care about well-written stories that care about whats being written this also could go hand-in-hand with how many books nowadays are promoted by only using tropes and eye-catching things that are usually only talked about in the fandom and fanfiction, instead of giving us anything about the actual plot, again, letting creators get away with more because a lot of fans only focus on the ‘fandom worthy’ parts of the books and what they can make fanfiction out of, instead of focusing on what any of the book is talking about- if theres anything in the book even to talk about looking at the way a lot of these authors write.

im not saying rr fans are the sole reason for this, but it does feel like theres a bit of a connection with how fans treat authors and the books they read that makes it feel like they only care about what the fandom can do and what fanfiction can get them

[hellenicnymph]

becky riordan confirms that the upcoming third season will have less fantasy via threads; questions why fans want to see more action scenes

mind you, the show is categorized in the action, adventure, and fantasy genres

the book series it was based on is also known for having, you know, a a demigod teenager fighting gods, monsters, and other demigod teenagers with a sword? where other demigod teenagers have knives, spears, bows...? where the last book is known for an all out war???

the main character even has a freaking sword in his hands in most covers!!! how can anyone not expect to see action???

like??? how is it unreasonable to expect an action adventure fantasy show to have action, adventure, and fantasy???