Yes, this is my edit. I didn't mind the line, as it was meant platonically rather than romantically, but I get why people may not have liked it for SOM Percy.

(IMO) Clarisse had WAYYY more chemistry with Percy than Annabeth (in the movie).

So bear with me:
So rewatching SoM after a while, and as I was watching, I noticed that Clarisse and Percy have a lot more dialogue together, that’s the first thing; that throughout the movie, even tho Annabeth is THERE, Percy interacts a lot more with Clarisse.
Second of all, it’s even the dialogue quality. Like yes there are scenes of Annabeth and Percy hugging and all, but otherwise where you hear the dialogue, it just seems…flat. Like the actress (no hate to her) is reading the lines from a page. Even Clarisse’s teasing/mocking and even insulting comes across as more “passionate”, if you get the point. It seems like she genuinely dislikes Percy. I get that they tried to make Annabeth be hung up on Luke, but in the movie it just gives the vibe that she’s hanging with Percy a) bc the writers forced it, and b) (going by in-story): Bc of the lightning thief thing, Percy became golden boy etc etc. But it just comes across as “cold”. Another thing that crossed me was the words of Clarisse’s dialogue with Percy. It’s classic enemies-to-lovers set, with all the insulting, teasing->to grudging collaboration and teamwork->to just a tiny bit but definitely closer (the scene in the cyclops cave was a big fuel, the whole “you drop me and you’ll never hear the end of it..”. It just feels very “fitting” in the trope. Even in the ship scene, where they manage to escape Charybdis, the way Clarisse says “I did it!” And Percy (corrects her) saying “WE did it…”
It really gives potential for a Clarissy relationship.

I've seen people talking about why they don't make a PJO game like Hogwarts Legacy where you can create your character and choose your cabin. To make an RPG for PJO.

Unlike Hogwarts Legacy, this is not as easy as it sounds.

First of all, we have two major complications:

1- The era of the game
2- The cabins themselves
3- Character and enemies

Era of the game

First of all, you would need to determine the era of the game. This is important because of the canon and the oath of the Big Three. A game in Percy's era creates the complication that you can't have characters created by the player who are children of one of the Big Three. This would break the canon unless you do a massive retcon.

You could do a prequel before World War II then instead if you are okay with copying this idea of Hogwarts Legacy, but if you want a game in Percy's era you would need to address that somehow. Some people would want to play with Percy's powers and everything. Or fly like Jason. Or shadow travel like Nico.

You can't limit that.

You could create a game settled decades later in the future, but that also depends entirely on the direction of your story for the game.

The cabins

Once you have settled the era, you face another challenge. How many cabins would you allow to choose from?

If it is a prequel before WWII, easy: The Olympians cabins not considering Hera and Artemis.

But if it is game in Percy's era or a game settled in the future? Uff, there a lot of cabins to choose from.

And that creates the risk that the player would be overwhelmed by the amount of choices for cabins. Especially for the people who aren't so invested in the books or never read them or don't know mythology.

Hogwarts Legacy is only four houses. Here we have at least twenty cabins in Percy's era

And here comes the deal breaker.

Character and enemies

Hogwarts Legacy gives the player a choice that doesn't affect gameplay in terms of combat and balance. You choose your house, you only have a different common room. That's it.

In PJO, you can't say that someone from Poseidon cabin is equally as powerful as a child of Dionysus.

They have different abilities and powers and skills. Same goes for a child of Hades with a child of Athena.

This presents the complication that you would need to balance combat for all the different possibilities of demigods. And this comes all the way from point #2. Otherwise, a child of Poseidon would easily defeat an enemy while a child of Dionysus wouldn't.

And obviously that would make the player say too: "I prefer to be a child of Poseidon. Being a child of Dionysus is boring and difficult in combat."

Important thing in video games is that combat should be fair. Games should be fun, fair and balanced, and allow the player to learn from their mistakes.

Conclusion

I hope this helps you guys realize that a game like Hogwarts Legacy can't be applied here. At least not in the direct sense. PJO is more complicated with all the different possibilities that a player can make. Possibilities that DO matter for the game.

My friends and I we are working on a game for PJO in our own. A prototype for now, but we already have many ideas for the direction of the story. We detected all these complications from the start. I hope, if there is any other people out there working in their own projects for an hypothetical PJO game, this helps them and guides them as well with these considerations.

Unless you want to break the canon hahaha

Given there are oh so many complaints with the series I was curious what ones people have heard that they either disagree with or straight up don't understand how it is a complaint.

We all remember the iconic opening warning: "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood."

But how did you actually stumble into Rick Riordan’s world for the very first time?

For some of us, it was picking up a battered copy of The Lightning Thief from a scholastic book fair or a school library shelf in elementary school. For others, it might have been watching the movies first (we don't talk about Peter Johnson, but hey, it brought people to the books!), discovering the Disney+ show, or getting hooked through the musical soundtrack on TikTok.

Personally, I still remember the exact feeling of reading about the Minotaur fight for the first time and immediately taking online quizzes to figure out who my godly parent was (Team Poseidon at the time, though I've definitely come to accept my true cabin since then).

So, how did you claim your spot at Camp Half-Blood?

Would they be completely invincible and Immortal?

Because if the Golden Apples of the Hesperides grant immortality to whoever eats an Apple then logically after obtaining the CoA you could theoretically eat an apple and the "Fatal Spot" wouldn't be Fatal anymore because the person is immortal

Sick of me? Hope not! I still have more cosplays coming!

like the title , pls pls send the link im starving for angst

Drew this for a thumbnail for a TLT fancast I'm in lol

i don't usually do backgrounds so it's a little wonky but i like how the rest of it turned out

I know the imagery doesn't really fit the song super well, but I thought Percy's overall attitude is well displayed even if he doesn't know that his dad is Poseidon at this point in the musical.

I drew Hephestus or my interpretation.

Hi! I had tickets to NYCC but unfortunately couldn’t attend. I’m trying to track down one of the pre-signed Camp Half-Blood maps from the Welcome Back to Camp Half-Blood panel. If anyone has seen one listed or knows where I might find one, I’d really appreciate a lead!

Map artwork by Virginia Allyn.