#schled

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I need people to tell me if I'm more delusional than normal but is this guy the love child of ted and schlatt to anyone else

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schled reblogged your photo and added:

THIS SHIRT WAS AT SYDNOVA?! HOW DID I NOT SEE IT?!

I bought it at the very end of the convention when they were closing stores so don’t worry I hadn’t seen it all day. the only reason I got it was because the lady running the stall noticed my cosplay (I went as Jemma) and she shouted that she had something for me. although unfortunately not in my size :/ but I got one anyway :)

[fruitloopinthebowlofcheerios]

I must know where schled got her awesome “Science Biatch” AOS shirt! 

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Wow, you guys definitely want to talk a lot about POVs! I've never been totally satisfied with the rotating narrators/POV situation in Heroes of Olympus, particularly because I think it creates some inconsistencies in characterization, especially when you have a cast as big as the one in HoO.

Anyway, let's chat about this.

schled said: Me again. So personally, I loved the book and wouldn't change anything EXCEPT having POVs from the other 4 (I know you said you thought having all 7 POVs in HoH was a bit much, but personally I loved it cos it really felt like all 7 were involved and had their moments to shine, which is exactly what I expected from the finale). Anyway, back to my point, do you think most of the negativity swirling around the book would not exist purely if we'd had Percy and/or Annabeth's POVs, in particular? Nah. I mean, I might've been slightly more satisfied with it, but in general, the seven's storyline was pretty boring this time around, especially compared to Nico and Reyna. Like I said before, the seven's plot was basically the same thing we'd seen over and over again in the series: complete minor quests with no real sense of danger until the fight with the Big Bad at the end. It's pretty dull when you compare it to Nico and Reyna's storyline, which was a lot fresher, had more variety, and actually carried through on some of the danger it promised. There was no way Riordan could get away with telling a decent story with nine POVs, so again, if Percy, Annabeth, Hazel and Frank's POVs had to be sacrificed to give us Reyna and Nico, I'm 100 percent okay with that. I just wish the seven's plot had been spruced up a little.  Anonymous said: I totally agree with all your BoO sentiments. Maybe it's because we were expecting so much after such a great build up. There's so much potential that didn't follow through. And the thing is, we know that Rick is capable of writing brilliant finale books if The Last Olympian was any indication. And I agree about you on the whole Leo thing. I guess I wanted his arc to be about accepting his place within the seven and stop moping around because he's the 7th wheel. Nico and Reyna's POVs saved this. It just seemed like Leo's personality had a soft reset to pre-HoH in some scenes. And I would have never pegged him as the type to pull such a scheme on his friends like he did at the end. Blood of Olympus's big theme was finding the home and family you deserve/want, and while Leo's home might be with Calypso, he sort of just (even temporarily!) threw aside the friendships he'd made to be with her. His ending didn't jive all that well with the rest of the story. I think we still could've gotten a Leo/Calypso ending, but I think I would've liked it better if Leo had been found at Camp Half Blood, nursed back to health without the deus ex machina of the physician's cure, and then gone to find Calypso, maybe with Jason and Piper in tow.  Anonymous said: Ok, so I read the book and I have to agree with you in almost everything you said about it. I mean, really? He drops Percy and Annabeth in TARTARUS and they don't even get a POV on the next book? And one thing that got me irked was that he used too much "person A has told/talked about/confessed to person B about bla bla" but it didn't show the actual dialogue. Seriously, when did they have time to talk that much? And why not SHOW the actual interaction instead of just mentioning it after? So my final opinion is that he should have written another book with just the seven's part and left this one to Reyna and Nico, whose chapters were magnificent and very well written (not to mention well connected). It's the only way I see where he could have done justice to all the adventures of the seven with enough detail and without the (too many) shortcuts. Riordan relies on a lot of shortcuts in his style of writing. You can always count on prophetic dreams to foreshadow important events and give demigods the right information at just the right time. And so much telling rather than showing! I don't think I'll be able to overlook it again if Magnus Chase ends up having super informative dreams (he will: trust me.) I love that the man can churn out books and short stories like clockwork, but I think the strength of his writing has been sacrificed in some places to keep producing as much as possible. (I thought Blood of Olympus would be really good because he wouldn't have a Kane Chronicles or anything else to work on and take his attention away from it, buuut apparently Magnus Chase did...) I think the seven's sections just need to be more tightly edited. A lot of it ended up being filler. (Probably could've cut the whole physician's cure subplot out, and re-written Leo's sacrifice a couple of different ways to make things exciting!) I wasn't totally unhappy with their sections, but they were not the most appealing part of the book by far. 

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More asks regarding BoO's ending and a few other things!

anon said: I can't stop crying over the ending and I don't know if its because the series has ended or how the series ended...what are your thoughts on the ending?

I was not that impressed with the ending, particularly Leo's last chapter. I think a lot of it tended to be info dumpy with the other members of the prophecy and I think Leo going back to Calypso would've had a lot more meaning to it if their relationship had gotten more development. (And I say this as someone who loved the two of them in House of Hades.) Also, thought it was kind of weird that Leo was casually like, "Welp, some day I'll let my grieving friends know I'm still alive! Let's go explore!" I think he's going to get a punch in the face when he does turn up at Camp Half Blood again. It really was not Riordan's best effort.

schled said: So, did I miss it, or where was Percy's big "sacrifice he couldn't make that Frank would have to help him with"? Surely it wasn't the super brief "I'll come help defeat Gaia!/Nah man, they've gotta do it on their own/Okay" convo? :/

I think the big sacrifice Frank had to help with was keeping Leo's plan secret? But yeah, pretty sure that whole thing at the end was Percy's sacrifice, which, talk about a build up into nothing. It's basically a repeat of what Percy had to do in The Last Olympian by handing Luke the knife instead of killing Kronos himself. Percy is never the actual hero at the end, haha. But Riordan spent a lot of time building the "sacrifice" into something huuuuuge and didn't follow through in the end. A lot of the stuff with the seven was really him just checking off shit he'd foreshadowed in earlier books and not necessarily adding or expanding on new stuff. 

Anonymous said: Honestly, although I loved, loved, LOVED Reyna and Nico's POV, I'm disgruntled with how Percy and Annabeth were handled. After nine books of beautiful character arcs and development, we got very little involvement at all. And Percy's characterization was just plain off. Of all the books, this ending seemed the least resolved of all! Rick doesn't do epilogues, but he could have done so much more.

Yeah, I agree with you on this. I probably sound like a super disgruntled shipper, but I think RR dropped the ball with the two of them in this book.