User talk:Matt Hadick

1. Tell me a bit about yourself and your involvement with the Percy Jackson wiki.
 * Hi, my name is Darkcloud1111 and I have been an Admin the the Camp Half-Blood wiki for about two years. I originally discovered the site after seeing a trailer for the film adaptation and began listening to the series on Audiobook, as unfortunately I find reading to be somewhat boring. I finished the entire five-book series in about a week and started doing little things on the site like updating pages and reverting vandalism. Eventually I gained a large amount of respect from users and admins alike, eventually being nominated to become and admin myself and later a B-crat.

2. How did you get into children's fantasy? Into Percy Jackson?
 * I originally got into this series because of my love of Greek mythology. Even at a young age, I would read about the gods and ancient myths from various cultures and when I read the premise of the series, about Greek gods in modern times, it sounded like it was right up my alley. As I read the series, in the back of my mind I would draw connections between the book and the myths I knew, even learning new ones along the way. Despite not being in the age demographic, I don't feel that labeling something as children's fantasy means that adults can't enjoy it as well.

3. How would you recommend a beginner get into Children's Fantasy? Any particular books/movies/comics/TV shows/games/etc. that would serve as a good starting point?
 * I feel that the category of Children's Fantasy is a good starting point to get children into readying. Children see the world with a type of imagination that we tend to loose once we get older. Fantasy in general allows us a type of escape as we look in on a world where anyone can be a hero and save the day. If they don't like reading, then do what I do and listen to books. I feel that the Percy Jackson and the Olympians would be a good starting point as it is an easy to follow series with some educational value if you are interested in mythology, but other series like Harry Potter is good as well, even if I didn't enjoy the series myself. I also find Avatar the Last Airbender to be a show for everyone with an interesting world in itself. And I'll admit that I still love the Pokemon games...does that count as Children's Fantasy?

4. Anything you wouldn’t recommend?
 * Children's Fantasy is interesting as there is so much out there that it is hard to find anything. Reading anything is good for children, even if the story is bad as long as a lesson can be learned it is worth it. I guess I wouldn't suggest anything with shallow characters or predictable plots, as if you know how something will end it takes all the fun out of it.

5. Any additional advice you’d give to someone new to Children's Fantasy?
 * If you don't like one book, try something else. Find the genre you like and maybe that will lead you to other things. Never stop looking for new worlds and maybe some of their world will bleed into ours.

6. What resources on your wiki might be useful to an aspiring Children's Fantasy fan?
 * This is an encyclopedia wikia, so you can learn about grammar, typing, and information gathering, as well as the characters and events in this series. Every piece of code or text on here had to come from many users over the course of multiple years. I hope that if people can see how hard we have worked to make our site as good as we can and make everything sound interesting, then they will want to read this series and expand into others. I will always have a soft spot for this series, but that doesn't mean there aren't other books out there that I like.

Darkcloud1111  Fastest Hero Alive  23:08, September 19, 2013 (UTC)