#rrcrit

[ninainthetardis]

If I were you I genuinely would not read toa and the senior year trilogy + tsats. The last coherent entry to the series is genuinely Percy Jackson’s Greek gods / heroes. The second book of toa is just the lost hero but bad.

Okay, I'm getting confused here (and scared).

I thought the problem was anything written after ToA?

I guess ToA has a new set of inconsistencies, then. It's the third book the one I'm scared of, btw. I'm not ready to say goodbye to a certain character who deserved way better 😭

I'll approach the series knowing there could be problems, I think. Those books have been sitting on my shelf for years, heavily judging me. And, unfortunately, I'm not the type of reader who can pretend a series ended earlier than it did (unless I hated most of it, and it's not CHC's case, as it's something I really cared about given that I grew up with it). Otherwise, I'd just skip the new trilogy, which I call "the PJO (Disney's version) series" (but I guess I'll just have to consider it a spin off of the TV Show, and not the sequel to the books; that, at least, is something I can do). But thank you for letting me know, I'll brace byself and hope it won't totally ruin the memory of the whole series for me.

[mahoushojoe]

being egyptian and reading the kane chronicles is so wild because it says that the egyptian gods migrate to wherever the center of western civilization is, implying that ancient egypt was a western civilization or that egypt's a was, and not an is. like why is this non-white civilization which manifests today in a real life country supposedly a western civilization but the actual people whose heritage is tied to that civilization are excluded from it? why is a white british woman (a WHITE BRITISH WOMAN!) the living incarnation of isis - the mother of egypt? there's no cultural nuance. there's no consideration. the image of the egyptian mother, through isis or otherwise, is something so fucking important in egyptian culture, and to have it represented by a british woman - a descendant of those who bastardized and stole our heritage- is just insane to me. perhaps an interesting analysis of post colonial egypt in a meta sense, but that's for egyptian artists to dissect, not riordan. and that's only one thing. egypt - the actual egypt from which everything in the series originates) in that series is so mocked. i remember at some point sadie and walt are walking through egypt and mock the fact that since the arabic language has no "p", they pronounce pepsi as bebsi. no respect. the very foundation of this series is based in racism, in colonial thinking, and, ultimately, white supremacy. why is zia, the only actual egyptian in the main cast, so irrelevant? so quiet and without agency? in a meta way, she's like egypt itself. i just wanted to bring this to light since a lot of rr crit focuses on the racism and homophobia present in pjo and hoo and mcga and toa- perfectly valid criticisms that are well deserved - but barely anyone talks about the inherent colonialist and racist foundations of the entirety of the kane chronicles, which is why i wanted to bring it to light. enjoy the series if you want, i'm not saying you're not allowed, but as long as we're criticizing riordan, let's criticize everything.

[tsigililimclean]

just an fyi depicting piper in like turquoise jewelry and other pan-ndn aesthetics isn't any better than rick having her wear random feathers in her hair, it's still using stereotypical bullshit that has zero correlation with her actual culture

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

I'm pretty sure it's been said before but having Hearth be emotionally unexpressive is pretty silly, considering how much of sign language depends on facial expression. Like, one of the first things that ASL users will tell you is that your facial expression is crucial to emphasizing tone and emotion. Some signs REQUIRE certain facial expressions in order to make sense.

I get what RR was trying to do with Hearth in making a victim of abuse so accustomed to punishment for emotion that he no longer expresses himself, but it kind of falls flat and seems like RR just didn't properly understand how sign language functions. It would have been cool if Hearth had a mini-arc of becoming more visually expressive, but we just... didn't get that.

[inmydrcams]

I just personally think rick r.iordan shouldn’t get to write even one more word on aphrodite until he acknowledges that she has her origins as a war goddess 

[mallorykeen]

okay but did we really forget the fact that rr literally gave magnus an oedipus complex

[pussyd0n]

No one:

Rick: Piper is a POC y'all

Also Rick : AND Pipers eyes look like THIS . Isn't that WONDERFUL ?

[lunarrumor]

hm i am so sorry aphrodite, everyone here knows that you would never force your child into a comphet relationship or encourage her in any way to date a guy so clearly in love with his boy best friend