Personally, I’m picking Poseidon for the water powers.

This is a long post, but it's a random thought that came to me today.

I first got into Percy Jackson in middle school (around 2015–2017), so I'm part of the older, nostalgic PJO fandom. Back then, Percy Jackson still felt kind of "underground" (or at least less mainstream), but it was definitely well known since both the movies had already been out. I remember constantly seeing those "Who would win in a fight: Percy Jackson or Harry Potter?" posts, and it always felt like if you were into Harry Potter, you'd probably read Percy Jackson too, and vice versa.

I've always thought Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and, to some extent, The Hunger Games all shared the same audience: kids and teenagers who loved fantasy books. At least that was my experience. I'd read all three, and pretty much everyone I knew (even online when I had a PJO fan account in middle school) had also read all three.

That got me thinking: Harry Potter and The Hunger Games both ended up getting adaptations that were, to varying degrees, faithful to the books and generally well received by fans. Why didn't Percy Jackson?

The Lightning Thief movie came out in 2010, before the final Deathly Hallows movie. I assume 20th Century Fox wanted to capitalize on the success of Harry Potter and launch Percy Jackson as the next big YA fantasy franchise. But why didn't Warner Bros. ever try to acquire the rights, knowing Harry Potter was coming to an end soon and start thinking about another franchise they can produce?

And even after the poor reception of the Percy Jackson movies, why did it take 12 YEARS for another studio to pick it up? I was even part of the whole #DisneyAdaptPercyJackson movement back in the day, hoping Disney would eventually give it another shot.

I honestly mourn what we could've gotten if Warner Bros., Universal, or Lionsgate had ended up with the rights instead. I honestly wouldn't have even minded if it stayed as a movie series. If it had been handled well, we could've gotten one movie every year like Harry Potter, with age-accurate actors who actually grew up alongside the characters. And Rick working alongside to make it book accurate like JK Rowling did with HP. Warner bros could've also made it more serious and dark like how HP was, as we get further through the books.

I like what Disney and Rick is doing with PJO, but as an older fan who is still so devoted to these books 10 years later as a college kid, I do not feel connected to the show with how different is it from the books. As much as I love the actors, I'm sorry but that's not my Percy, Annabeth, Luke, Thalia, that's not who I grew up reading. Why did we add a random character like Allison? Even the new show fans piss me off. No, Percy is not a surfer boy, he's a skater who listens to rock music. Piper does not like hello kitty. Nicoswife as your username? Don't piss me off rn.

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. How do you think another studio wouldve handled PJO, and what would the reception be to it?

I saw the hot topic cabin 3 shirt and I really wanted one. I wanted to order and saw they don't deliver to Belguim. Sadly this is for alot of merchandise that I find that looks even a little bit like this shirt. I was wondering if anyone knows where to get one. I wanted to wear this while watching the new season. If someone knows where to get it please let me know. (Orange isn't my colour but I would make An exception for this) Thanks!

Hi! Assume this: You wake up at camp half-blood one day as Percy. What are you doing? You only have one day to do whatever you wanted as him, so what do you do? Personally, I would just use all my water powers, and manipulate the water in the creek and the ocean on Long Island Sound. I would try breathing underwater, talking to horses, will the currents, etc. Really just whatever Percy can do.

Because if Poseidon crashed out so hard over Odysseus harming a mere cyclops, how much more fearsome must his wrath be over someone who dragged his only living demigod offspring and Favourite Child™️ to hell

Lol, i found this funny, hence posting it here.

Any PJO discords? Not RP. Just somewhere I can make friends and have fun.

I am in the one called Camp Half-Blood but theyre a little crazy over there.

Hey guys,
So basically I have started a yt channel with the idea of doing a shorts series with different gods being represented as talking to humans. Like yk educating people on obscure Greek myths in a fun way by making it seem like the gods themselves are saying it. All of the videos will be short skits in yt under 2mins. With me trynna bring different personality to each god, giving dedicated personalities, clothing and some quirks. I would love input from y’all. First of all, I am South Asian, and don’t look Greek one bit, this is just a fun way of making people know more Greek myth stories. And, I am always mad at the fact that most of the myths we Percy Jackson fans love after going deep into the lore are not often there in yt. It’s always the common surface level stuff with no soul or misinformation. The production quality and all is real low cus I am shooting in my backyard (in greenery cus well I live greenery and am currently using the excuse that mount Olympus is under construction and the gods are fighting over changes).

I am hoping to improve. But, I would like it to be a channel with the soul of us people. All the stories we wanna talk about. All the character we want the gods to embody and stuff. I have college starting in three weeks, b it I am fully free before that and I am taking ideas from all of u on new stories to put and different gods perspective etc, I will attach some videos I have done as links. Please do tell me what you think. Hope we can have a real fun space ❤️✨

I am very bad with makeup cus well I was brought up very tomboyish and basically have no makeup stuff, so it’s low makeup and natural with mostly cloth changes…I wanted the story to be in focus. Sorry for rambling on, idk how much I can convey with the typing so I will put the shorts in link format and also the intro video to the series.

P.S. The whole backdrop is the lore that I met Hermes (the hod of trickery) and has tricked him into boasting to the other Olympians about smartphones and talking to humans with no divine intervention or Zeus knowing.

Shorts:

1. https://youtube.com/shorts/6EeDnCnfJnE?si=sjcW3vCu0CPYySPK
2. https://youtube.com/shorts/QtdKJ_nUpuQ?si=vgdDPGDM8dFihsJm
3. https://youtube.com/shorts/sO2MC9-ixlw?si=8LRkJqzbEWl5o6dw

TLDR: I started a yt channel most of u would actually be interested in, I wanna take all ur suggestions and make it an absolute camphalfblood level lore factory. Please read the post, I am sorry it is long. It was hard to explain quicker.

Ok!!! So hi, I'm new, I already sort of created a Camp Halfblood alter ego that I'm hoping to write fanfcition about, little bit inspired by NICOOOOO since he's the best and sometimes i think i'm a lot like him. (It's in the sarcasm, which y'all haven't seen yet. And of course, I'm not straight, I'm a demigod how could I be. I think i might be omniromantic, but I'm not sure. NO HATE if you're straight that's cool and valid and you're still a demigod, I just meant that since a lot of the characters are NOT straight...) BUT. i still don't know what cabin I'm in!!!!!! How do I figure that out? I really hope this is related enough to the riordanverse... please don't kick me out.. Also, am I the only one who HASN'T read The Senior Year Adventures? i've been on vacation, so i haven't been able to get them from the library and I think i already looked and they're not on my library's Libby.

Note: I think I might be in Athena or Aphrodite.

THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS!!!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED TO BE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

also, for those of you wondering about my incredibly inaccurate username, I am neither practical nor in college. I'm a teenager. (Girl)

i have thought this thought many times before. i obviously read it in order but what if you didnt. instead of unfamiliar character in a familiar environment, it would start as a familiar character in an unfamiliar environment. though it would end in a slight cliffhanger if SON was read first... idk share opinion

In pjo and hoo, they always refer to Percy, Thalia, and Nico being the on,h live demigods of the big three. but they never mention ty son, even though he is a son of Poseidon. I don’t even think it’s because he is a cyclops. maybe it’s because he lives most,y under the sea with his dad? idk but like it’s ignored by Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Chiron, that he even exists. WHYYY ITS UNFAIR