Rick Riordan

lol

Hey guys, if you really like the Magnus Chase books, let me remind you that in one of the books, Rick wrote,’To JRR Tolkien, the man who brought me into Norse Mythology. ‘ Or something like that anyway. So, next time you read the Magnus Chase books, thank Tolkien.

I believe that Rick has two possible favourite characters.

Percy Jackson:

• Rick gave Percy ultimate powers

Percy defeated a whole bunch of titans with a water hurricane, and exploded the toilets on the Argo // without even trying.

• Percy has his own series

The Percy Jackson series started me off on the Rick Riordan books, and he was a very powerful demigod, defeating all monsters in his way.

Apollo (God of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and poetry):

• Apollo has a whole series to himself

Apollo is turned onto a mortal by Zeus, and then betrayed many times, but I think Rick did this so there would be drama, and also because he feels Apollo isn’t really in any of his other books.

• Rick gave him lots of funny scenes

There are many funny scenes in ToA, and in the chapters when Apollo is involved in other books, he’s seen as a humorous character. I think Rick favours Apollo, which is why the god is humorous.

Do you think that Rick has another favourite?

We are one of the luckiest fandoms. We have an author who gives us diverse characters, an unique storyline, interesting plot pieces. Yes, he can be a bit troll-ish at times, but when he threw Percabeth in Tartarus, did we refuse to read the book? NO, we picked it up and read it because we wanted to know what happened. And when Jason and Bob and Damasen died, we had grown attached to their characters, so we cried. (At least I did) Only good authors can make you grow attached to a character. Only good authors can make you cry for a character. I think we all need to thank Uncle Rick.

Guys umm so , I wished Uncle Rick a Happy Birthday on Twitter and.... I got noticed by Becky ,,, she liked my tweet , I'm not able to breathe , Literally like , OUT OF THE WORLD FEELING

They know I exist.

WHY!?!? WHY!?!? JUST WHY!?!?! Last night I was reading The Lost Hero, I'm pretty sure it was chapter 31...WHY DID YOU KILL FESTUS!?!? That's the first death I've ever cried about in a book/movie! WHY!?!? I am very sad...

This was I convo I had on Wattpad about one of my Miraculous fanfics

So I am rereading HOO and I am currently reading the blood of Olympus.Either Rick is very dirty-minded or I am

Please read the following:

 Leo sighed,"Talk to the pants piper cause the hands are busy"
  "I am NOT talking to the pants!Meeting in the mess hall.We're almost to Olympia"
  "Yeah fine I'll be there in a sec"
  "What are you doing anyway you've been poking around the inside of the hull for days"
 Leo swept his flashlight across the celestial bronze plates and pistons he'd been installing slowly but surely"Routine maitnance
  Silence.Piper was a little too good at knowing when he was lying"Leo-"
   "Hey while your down there do me a favor.I got this itch right below my-"
 "FINE!I'm leaving

Leo, Leo, Leo.

I see you!

Look I am not a simp for Leo before I noticed this quote (username was a friends dare when I set up my account) but now I know he is dirty-minded like me.You just might be looking at Mrs.Leo Valdez

Put your comments on the quote in the comments

(yeesh, the title might sound like I'm forcing my opinion... I should assure you that I'm not. if you can find flaws in my reasoning, or my sources, you have every right to state them in reply.)

So! The stuff about 'Books don't match with 'original' Greek myth,' blah, blah, blah.

First, let's see Rick's official answer at his site in FAQ section

When I mentioned this to posts complaining about the 'inaccuracy', many said something like 'but Iliad! Odyssey! They were written by the ancient Greeks! The mythology in them are right!' and I just rolled along with it...

...until I read this phrase Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (highly recommended! though, in my opinion, it should've been named 'Fertile Crescent is OP'. it hardly even mentions guns and steel. germs, a little. fertile crescent? at least a dozen times every chapter.).

The Iliad and Odyssey were composed and transmitted by nonliterate bards for nonliterate listeners, and not committed to writing until the development of the Greek alphabet hundreds of years later.

(dam I had to download it online cuz my book is translated version... AND IT HAD MISTYPO SO I COULDN'T FIND THE PHRASE WHEN I CTRL+F-ED FOR ILIAD AAAAAAAAAAA)

Just to check if the information was correct, I searched wikipedia and some other sites in google... seems like the author went along with the theory that Homer was born in 1200 BC, assuming he was born when the Trojan War occurred. However, in the sources I searched in internet claim the theory that Homer was born late eighth or early seventh century BC is more likely.

I believe my claiming that I made in the title is valid either way.

If Jared Diamond's belief that Homer was born in 1200 BC is true, Iliad had to wonder without being written down for centuries. It had to be told from mouth to mouth for centuries, which is enough for any story to be altered quite a lot.

If Jared Diamond was wrong, and Homer was born in late eighth century BC, it means Homer wrote the event that happened centuries ago - that he wrote down a story that was told from mouth to mouth for centuries, which is, again, enough for a story to change a lot.

Either way, the story of Greek Myth contained in Iliad or Odyssey that we read now was told from mouth to mouth for centuries, which is pretty unstable way for a story to exist, allowing it to be exaggerated, misunderstood, and altered. Therefore I believe it is quite valid to claim that story in Iliad that we read now isn't exactly 'original'.

I think we were a little blind to just say 'ILIAD IS A BOOK SO IT'S ORIGINAL AND RICK'S BOOK DON'T MATCH WITH IT SO RICK'S BOOK DON'T MATCH WITH ORIGINAL GREEK MYTH WAAAAA' and ignore Rick's explanation completely. After all, he was the history teacher.

I'm gender-fluid and very annoyed like Alex Fierro has been portrayed. I will use she/her pronouns for Alex here, as she / he uses them most of the time.

Okay, Alex´s the only one trans/ not cis character out of 200+ characters (not including gods and goddess). I am happy that he wanted to show representation, but he did it "kinda" crappy.

Alex is completly this "sarcastic, sassy gender-fluid"- stereotype. She only consisted of a quirky fashion sense, sarcastical comebacks and her gender identity. She has no complexity or showed barely any emotions, I know she had a hard past, she´s strong etc, but she had no real depth or called-out flaws or even a little bit of complexity. Seriously if you think about it, we don´t have a lot of Lgbtq+ characters who has actual depth and are more than their sexuality or gender identity. (also the most lgbtq+ characters are minor characters)

Not just is Alex a stereotype, it´s also kinda wrong. I hated it so much how Magnus is able to know when Alex changed her gender. I know that Rick said when she is male her hair "grew longer". (it´s also wrong to make her look change just because she changed her gender. gender-fluidity is inside) But Magnus just now it magical? Rick should have normalize it to ask for prounouns.

Her mother Loki is also gender-fluid. Alex allegedly got her gender identity from her Mom. But I hope we all know that gender-fluidity isn´t heritage or something like that. Also like a sexuality you don´t gain it from parents. Nobody has a influence about it.

But I really loved the little text Rick wrote about homophobic and transphobic parents who are kicking their parents out.

“The gender thing wasn’t what surprised me. A huge percentage of the homeless teens I’d met had been assigned one gender at birth but identified as another, or they felt like the whole boy/girl binary didn’t apply to them. They ended up on the streets because - shocker - their families didn’t accept them. Nothing says “tough love” like kicking your non-heternormative kid to the curb so they can experience abuse, drugs, high suicide rates, and constant physical danger. Thanks, Mom and Dad!” (pg. 55).

I agree with all those things like that the writing’s a bit ackward and a bit lackluster or that he put all that information in a very all-at-once but rather that awkward slab of text than the fact that it is not there. He summarize some of the major issues facing transgender youth. And he researched what doesn't really happen that often in Riordans books.

Now, I know that Nero's tower just came out like last year but I just mean in the future. Will we get more spinoffs ? Or is this the time where the books go on pause and we get a lot of serieses in live action/movie ? WhAt ArE yOuR THouGhts

It is canon that rick is a senior scribe at camp half-blood. That basically means he’s the librarian lol 😂

So you have to have a coin to pay Charon the ferryman. Remember when Percy, Annabeth and Grover went to the underworld for the first time, the priest they saw, whose “ Lamborghini for the Lord” crashed and he died. In Greek tradition, you have to be buried or burnt with a coin on or in your mouth to cross The River Styx, or remain a lost spirit forever. Percy said the priest died a few days before they say him in Hades’ kingdom. Did he die with a coin in his mouth?

Rick's favourite ship is...

The Argo II. Or Titanic if you ask something not in his books.