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I read a post about Alex a few months ago that basically said Riordan's portrayal of genderfluid people was problematic because of the way Alex explained being genderfluid to Magnus. I beleive they said it was unnatural and that no one would explain it that way.
I think they may be forgetting that Magnus Chase is for young kids who probably have never heard of the term before. Alex explains genderfluidity in a similar way other characters explain mythology. The characters aren't just explaining the subjects to each other, but also the audience. Who are meant to be children.
Of course you may think that its a rather patronizing way of explaining it to kids, which is fair.
That being said, Riordan definitely made many mistakes in portraying his minority characters accurately/respectfully, and he didn't respond to criticism well, but I don't think this particular criticism is fair. If anything it should be a criticism of his writing style.
Of course this is just my opinion, and I couldn't find the original post so I may have misinterpreted it (apologies if I did, feel free to set me straight💙)
Uncle Rick posted something about this on Instagram so here it is
Y’all I haven’t seen anyone mention this but one of Chirons legs is amputated, it’s metal.
Fans when we get a pjo show: 🥰🥰🥰🥰😘
Fans when we get a Harry Potter show:
No, but another thing about this show that is so off from the books but we love it is how much Percy actually knows about the Greek stories. Like, yes, our Goddes Sally Jackson taught him, she prepared in the only ways she could. Like, ik in the books he was all like "Huh?" Or "What?" about what had happened (and if he wasn't then the Fandom has rendered my mind usless and I no longer have the ability to differentiate fanfics and canon) but yes.
Ok, but you know what I absolutely loved? The whole I'm a big fan thing that Grover did, like, such a classic manipulation move. I just love how much Grover truly understands the human(+god) nature. And I love how subtly he made Ares let out about how he actually knew who the real thief was and I just loved how Grover knew the exact words about it. I mean I'm pretty sure he has negative idea who the actual thief is but we can't really blame him for that. That's a shittona trust they're gonna have broken. They wouldn't have had intrusive thoughts about. Never. But yeah. This, this is a, sort of, mini Grover appreciation post. I wanna appreciate him more but I just thought of something else, but yes.
As much as I loved the Thrill Ride O' Love scene, it feels.......unusual, lacking. 1st off, I kinda wanted to see Annabeth freak out about the mini automaton spiders and how they actually rode them out. But that's not the point. What I mean is, it's strange. To think that a god, any immortal being, would so easily accept the words of a 12 year old girl, unless Hephaestus had been thinking them himself for a while now. And isn't that a bit out of character for how he's been portrayed so far? Like, wasn't he about millenia of escapism? Of not thinking about people and being bothered by it? Or have I completely missed the point? It HAS been quite a while since I read PJO but idk, guys, idk
Who is Dr. Dolittle? Does he live in Valhalla?
MCGA, The Ship Of Dead, Rick Riordan
Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.
PJO, The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse
Thalia: Wow
Thalia: Apollo is hot
Percy: ...he's the sun god
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
PJO, The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
Annabeth had a bronze knife reserved just for monsters and people who messed with her stuff.
PJO, The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters
Percy: Ummm, about Luke...
Hermes: So you weren't able to talk sense into him?
Percy: Well... we kinda tried to kill each other in a duel to death...
Hermes: I see, you tried the diplomatic approach.
And you've got to flaunt the weird, my friends.
MCGA, The Ship of Dead, Rick Riordan
The Ship of the Dead
Loki: Samirah, turn into a lizard and scuttle away.
Samirah: No father, why don't you?
Loki's Army: oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoHhHhHhHhHhHh
Samirah al-Abbas, daughter of Loki, but better than Loki!
MCGA, The Ship of the Dead, Rick Riordan
The Ship of the Dead
Magnus: I will use the mead of Kevin!
Aegir: Do you mean, the mead of Kvasir?
Samirah and Alex: *bury faces in their hands*
The Ship of the Dead
Magnus: You want to come with me to a creepy mansion and look through a dead guy's stuff?
Alex: I thought you'd never ask.
With great power... comes the great need to take a nap.
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian, Rick Riordan
If he was the lord of Muspellheim, high king roasty-toasty, shouldn't he pick on more interesting heroes, like the children of Thor? At least their dad had a movie franchise. Frey didn't even have his own cats, he had to borrow his sister's.
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Rick Riordan
You drool when you sleep.
PJO, The Lightening Thief
is anybody else still wondering how they’re gonna pull off Percy’s jump from the St. Louis Arch in the tv show or is it just me
To be honest the only reason I started reading Percy Jackson was because of solangelo and now I'm like addicted to Percy Jackson and I can't stop thinking about all the books
I joined for the Gays but now I can't leave I feel like I joined a really cool Cult
Idk but the idea that Percy was scared of learning to swim itches something in my brain.
Like there's so much emphasis on who a camper's godly parent is, what their demigod talents are, pleasing their godly parents, like their godliness is always emphasized, their closeness to divinity is a very big literary theme. And it's beautiful, amazing writing but we tend to forget that being a demigod means that theyre part human too. They are mortal, they have fears, flaws, etc. and here we see a very human Percy terrified of the water when he is meant to be the water. He's the son of the god of the sea but he is also a little boy, the son of a human woman.
And then, the rest of the series is Percy learning how to cope with his divinity or his proximity to. Which is a beautiful parallel to how Annabeth is learning to be human, to let go of her perfectionism and just be human, just be a young girl. (Which is a whole other thing I could write about)
I think we forget that as much as Percy is the son of a god and is a strong, sassy, amazing character, he is also a human and a human child at that.
I am a big Percy Jackson fan but one thing always annoyed me about the big prophesy
A half-blood of the eldest gods,
Shall reach sixteen against all odds.
And see the world in endless sleep,
A hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap.
A single choice shall end his days,
Olympus to preserve or raze.
do you notice how they say "eldest gods". Everyone assumes it is about one of the children of the "big three" (Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon). They are not the only "eldest gods" around. If you think about it, this could also be about Demeter! (Hera and Hestia are both unable to get half-blood children, Hera can't cheat and Hestia is a maiden goddess who made a vow of chastity.) And there is more, Aphrodite is the oldest god! She was a child of Uranus (something explained in Heroes of Olympus). So why wasn't Silena Beauregard not the one in the prophesy??? She was 16 17ish when she died!!!!!
So they could've said big three, oldest brothers, etc.