#djdndkndjdk ty for giving me this opportunity

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now i really want you to go off about percy jackson i’m intrigued

I've forgotten a lot but I dug up this post I remembered making 3 years ago lol but I didn't even say everything there

basically the first series was mostly fine although it did kill off like the only character explicitly stated to be black and I think it was kind of ableist at times (like it gave off the impression that percy and other demigods are fine bc they have dyslexia and adhd for a reason while other students at his special needs school were too much)

where things really went wrong were the different series that branched off of pjo, like riordan actively set out to make his writing more diverse which sounds great except he oversteps where he shouldn't as a cishet white man but also doesn't really utilize the new characters of color that he added as much as characters from the original series (although this can partially be attributed to him trying to juggle too many characters at once in hoo)

ok I feel like I've already said a lot so like cringe comp:

having a character be forcibly outed as gay to move the plot forward

having a lesbian couple get kicked out of the hunters of artemis bc the vow of chastity includes women too #equality

making amazon the company run by the amazonians #girlboss

literally not listening to genuine feedback abt how he wrote an indigenous character from actual indigenous fans

making the one fat character magicaly get skinny

having a character voluntarily disappear and not contact anyone to the point where they hold a funeral for him which made. NO sense for his character (this is like more petty but idc)

SAYING A CHARACTER COULDN'T BE A LESBIAN BC SHE'D BEEN WITH MEN BEFORE BC "IT'S A STEREOTYPE"????

edit: jokes at the expense of white/straight/etc. people. like we get it, you think you're self aware or whatever