The Trials of Apollo

This will contain spoilers so if you haven't read The Trials of Apollo consider this a warning.

So, I'm currently reading The Lost Hero and I already read several spoilers about Jason, Piper, and what happens in TTA. I don't mind spoilers so it didn't bother me, but I wanted to share my opinion on it, even though I haven't read nor do I plan to. I feel like the boldest decision Rick made was breaking Jason and Piper, and not the decision of killing Jason. I think killing the main characters most of the time is just for the shock effect, and does not have the effect writers think it does. Now breaking up one of the main couples, that is bold in my opinion. So I wanted to ask two questions:

1. Were Piper and Jason well-liked as a couple?

2. For those who have read The Trials of Apollo, did his death felt like it made sense, or it was just random and unnecessary, done just for the shock value?

Hi guysss

So basically I am starting a Riordanverse trivia competition if yall are interested in it.

Comment something if you would enjoy a competition like that and if enough people express interest I will post a google form for people to officially sign up xx

Hey everyone!

I just had a question that I figured y’all could answer. I just finished The Blood of Olympus and I’m wondering if I should read Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles? Or should I just read Trials of Apollo? Is it worth it to read Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles or should I skip it? Please let me know in the comments!! Thank you so much!!

The next playlist I have is for Annabeth Chase:

• Lovely - Billie Eilish & Khalid

• Demons - Haley Kiyoko

• Backyard Boy - Claire Rosinkranz

• Pompeii - Bastille

• Eight Days A Week - The Beatles

• If I Fell - The Beatles

• She Is Love - Oasis

• Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s

• I Want To Break Free - Queen

• The Man - Taylor Swift

• Greek Tragedy - The Wombats

• It’s My Party - Lesley Gore

• Smells Like Teen Spirit - cover by Malia J

The next playlist for a PJO character that I have is Will Solace:

• Golden - Harry Styles

• Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny

• Help! - The Beatles

• High Hopes - Panic! At The Disco

• Best Friend - Rex Orange County

• I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

• I’m Yours - Jason Mraz

• Finale - John Williams

• Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

• Candy - Robbie Williams

• Tear In My Heart - Twenty One Pilots

• I Hear A Symphony - Cody Fry

• Someone To You - Banners

I have Apple Music playlists for a bunch of Percy Jackson characters and I’m gonna share them on here, first up is my playlist for Nico di Angelo:

• I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco

• Baby, I Love You - Ramones

• Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

• Back in Black - AC/DC

• Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys

• Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones

• Highway To Hell - AC/DC

• Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths

• Pet Sematery - Ramones

• Sugar, We’re Goin Down - Fall Out Boy

• Burning Pile - Mother Mother

• I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Ramones

• American Idiot - Green Day

• Ghost - Confetti

• Heathens - Twenty One Pilots

• Take Me To Church - Hozier

• Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

• The Judge - Twenty One Pilots

There’s a lot of Ramones cause it’s canon that he listens to them (they’re also one of my favourite bands)

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there's... a lot to address. so ima shorten this and try not to die as grammarly yells at me to capitalise my sentences. nice try, grammarly.

dw, i still like the series, but there's some stuff i need to talk about. hold on tightttt~

east asian representation:

this one goes without saying. i recently saw a post discerning the east asian representation, and it only had about 2 or three people: drew, than, frank. so yeahhhhh-

i guess you could think about it this way. there's a lot of east-asian-american fans who wanna join the Disney acting thing for the pjo movie, but if they're female, they have to wait until hoo, and if their male... well, it's only 1 person in the pjo series, and one main asian character in the hoo series. so, um- yeah.

it's.. not always pg friendly:

there are some, uh, mentions of a little bit weird stuff. sure, it's not really that obvious, but i remember being very confused as a young 2nd grader as i read the pjo series.

and no, i don't just mean kissing and all that stuff. I'm not gonna dig deeper in this section so- sure, we're all 'old' now in fandom, but there are tons of younger readers. but i don't mean a lot when saying that so next-

its inaccurate:

shocker? don't be... for the people who read the original myths, you know what I'm talking about. since pjo is in the 21st century, rick portrayed our lovely gods and goddesses to have different personalities and stuff- yes, it keeps the base of their original 'personalities', but we see are holding machine guns and that hermes can turn his staff into a 'vibrator mode'? (if you get that reference about his staff turning into a vibrator mode, don't... mention it.)

i remember reading the comments of lore olympus (webtoon), and some guy was like 'wait here doesn't act like that- in pjo she's like this, not like that etc etc'

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going on...

lack of diversity:

this goes with my east asian representation. yes, rick did add some lgbtq vibes, which I'm happy about that, but i still feel like it was bland and flat in diversity-wise. and yes, he did add demigods from hong kong, different ethnicities, but it all seemed too... american. the 'golden trio', percy, annabeth, and grover- annabeth and percy are all white Americans (idk?)- and i felt like there should've been more pop into it. thankfully, the 7 had more diversity, including hazel with dark skin, frank as an east asian amrican, piper as a cheerokee descendant, and so forth.

it's unreasonable:

do i need to explain? 7 demigods destroy an all-powerful goddess. by fricking charmspeak. like- whaaa-? unless demigods are actually much more powerful than we thought or gaea is really just super weak, i don't believe that.

during the first war, the gods had to slice kronos up to defeat the titans. but for the demigods? nope. just need some pretty words to let the goddess to be dormat again. great job, me.

you get what i mean.

slang:

'the bell bottomed kid was in the casino, of course. “I said something was ‘sick,’ and he looked at me kind of startled, as if he’d never heard the word used that way before.”'

according to reddit, the haven and archive of random stuff, most readers were fine with all the slang in the book. I'm fine with it too, but i still felt like it was something to point out.

according to this article, it was talking about some flaws in the book. yes, i still do love the series, but ill still say it anyways:

s l a n g.

like i said, this takes place in the 21st century. big deal! the trio speaks in a more modern language, so it shouldn't be a problem. at least, not for me.

but somehow, it still is a lingering drawback. but again, i don't really care.

pride/lgbtqia:

yes yes YES finally, we have a small enough of lgbtq in it.... but it's not a lot. thinking at the top of my head, i can probably pull out 5 or so couples that are in the community in the pjo/.hoo/toa series.

no, I'm not expecting a whole camp full of gay couples, but i guess i expected more. maybe not in quantity, but in quality. sure, it was fun watching all those solangelo fanfics, but d i v e r s i t y.

therapy:

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this goes without saying, lovelies.

conclusion/tl;dr:

thanks for coming to my ted talk. i still love the series and will probably continue to reread it for the billionth time, but fr, sometimes i wish rick could just add the spark that makes it one of my favourite oat.

yes, there's evident drawbacks that need to be fixed sometime in the future, but, for now, this is all we get. but fr, rick, some diversity would be great. for all of us.

but therapy is, too.

yeet.

1. Percy is overrated

2. Caleo sucks

3. Frazel came out of nowhere, don't ship

4. Magnus Chase is awesome

5. Found the Kane Chronicles were a waste of my time- didn't enjoy them

6. My favourite goeth thus follows; Heroes of Olympus, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Trials of Apollo, Kane Chronicles

7. Want more LGBTQ+

8. Some LGBTQ was misrepresented

9. Disliked how Magnus could feel the change in Alex's gender

10. Dislike Apollo

11. Hated the Burning Maze

12. Found the Tower of Nero incomplete and unsatisfactory.

13. The Lost Hero made Jason hard to sympathize with because I was trying to learn about him and he didn't know anything about himself

14. Loved Jason (Took me till the Mark of Athena but still!)

15. I need more taking weapons

16. More of Jack x Riptide

17. Want more on Loki

18. Would like to see a book dedicated to Ragnarök

19. Hate the Æsir

20. Hate all the Olympians

21. Sorta agree with Hera

22. Hated the Battle of the Labyrinth

23. Don't like how Samirah, a beautiful Arabic name, was shorted to Sam, something 100% American for a very culture devoted character

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Cast:

Lester:

Meg:

Chiron: Josh Groban

Mr. D: Danny DeVito

Python: Benedict Cumberbatch

Nero:

Commodus: Johnny Depp

Caligula: Tom Hiddlestone

Muses/Narrators: The five muses from Hercules

If it says or vote in the chat

Sorry, this is late I had a long weekend and then on top of that got locked out of my account... So I made a new one

Anyway, the winner of Sadie vs. Carter vs. Zia vs. Jasmine vs. Walt is... *drumrolls* Sadie Kane

There will now be a new poll with the two other series in it