#percy Jackson is New York

[s0undsinmyhead]

I think it’s kinda funny I see so many people angry about Percy going to college and saying to give Percy a break and let him rest. I’m pretty sure that’s what Percy wants and that’s exactly why he’s going to college. A college specifically designed for students like him. He wants a normal life and to spend time with Annabeth like a normal couple rather than saving the world over and over.

I think people focus on him hating school and are ignoring that compared to saving the world every few months college will be a breeze. His school for troubled youths or whatever, I am sure was awful and treated him badly. That is not the experience he’s going to have at New Rome. First, the school is made for demigods with adhd and dyslexia in mind. And that has to help tremendously! Second, he has Annabeth and he’ll be able to make a stronger support group than he was ever capable of doing at his old schools. Third, he wants to be there. Fourth, it’s college. College is fun. Not for everyone, but I am going to guess for Percy it will be. You get to pick what classes you want to take. The topics you’re interested in and want to learn. You go to class a few hours a day and then you’re free. College can definitely be a nice relaxing fun time. Will it be like that for Annabeth? No, because that’s not what she wants out of college. But if that’s what Percy wants he should be able to get that.

My issue with the whole storyline, other than the fact it’s obviously bullshit he needs recommendations from the gods, and the fact that he’ll apparently never age, is he has to move to California. Percy loves New York so much I hate to see him live it. When you think Percy you think New York and I think Percy would like that connection. He is so proud of his city and loves it so much. He also loves Camp Half-Blood. My hope is that he gets his education at New Rome. Sees how it’s all done and brings that all back to Camp Half-Blood. The Greek demigods should be allowed to go to a demigod school and have a safe demigod city to live in that matches more of their lifestyle.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[hazellevessque]

Plan A: Have the responsible 24 year old drive

Plan B, because the 24 year old cannot currently drive: Have the 12 year old from NEW YORK drive

[fortunatefires]

[vivitalks]

"percy, you really don't wanna start with this guy" "he's starting with me!" he is such a new yorker

[youweremadetosoar]

“Oh! Hello, Percy.”

“Hey Eddie, Sorry about that.”

“I’m walking out, you’re walking in. I should be the one apologizing to you.”

Nothing made me realize what a real character Percy is more than this exchange. It tells us that Percy has a life, and people who know him, and real struggles at home. He knows his building super by name, which I think is so telling of a 12 year old kid without friends. I just can’t stop thinking about little Percy, expelled AGAIN, and coming home not only to his mom but to half a dozen neighbors who come out of their apartments when he shows up to ruffle his hair or give him a hug and tell him how much they missed him. Percy may have bounced from school to school but he grew up with New York in his bones and its people in his blood.

[pjotvshownews]

‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Promo Posters at New York Comic Con 2023!

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[avalyn444]

Rereading Percy Jackson in my 20s has me like:

[queerxqueen]

Percy Jackson Preview at NYCC 2023

SPOILERS for the first seven minutes of the series!

We were shown the first seven minutes of the first episode, and a short excerpt of the Minotaur chase scene. This is a breakdown of what happens in the first seven minute excerpt to the best of my memory.

Opens with the ICONIC “I didn’t want to be a half blood” voice over as Percy approaches the camera in a stormy setting, very dramatic and moody

Cuts to title card!

Continued VO with flashback as Baby Percy (7years old) sees strange things and gets into trouble over it. He’s on a roof watching a Pegasus, zoning out in class watching a golden rhino that goes down the streets of NYC until he looks back and it’s just a garbage truck (the Myst at work). Percy is sent to therapy and outcast over these things and told it’s all in his head.

VO Percy introduces Grover who is also outcast, but who listens and does not judge about the things Percy sees. They exchange a Minotaur trading card and Percy doodles various mythical creatures.

Shift to Met museum field trip, Chiron gives a theme-stated moment about the gods and Greek history being about who you are etc. Percy looks at assignment where the words are all moving around, showing his Dyslexia.

While looking at a statue of Perseus, it flashes back to Baby Percy with his mom telling him why he’s named after Perseus; Percy says he’s a hero because he slays monsters; Percy’s mom warns that not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero or villain is a villain. #foreshadowing

Percy is drawn back to present with Nancy and Ms Dodds giving a hard time (ableist bs from Nancy “Percy’s special”) Chiron interrupts and gives the pen / riptide (comic con crowd goes wild, naturally)

Percy and Grover eat lunch outside the museum, sitting on the edge of a fountain, wordlessly w hanging food items (Grover takes a slice of cheese off Percy’s sandwich which I thought was hilarious). They talk about Nancy and Percy jokes (or perhaps does not joke) about shoving her into a dumpster while Grover says to never stand up to bullies. They’re interrupted by Nancy throwing some sort of food which hits Grover in the face. Percy goes to stand up to her and almost goes to shove her but he doesn’t even touch her before she’s flying back and landing in the fountain. Nancy shouts “PERCY PUSHED ME” and that’s the end of the preview!!!

[batboyblog]

I keep having an idea for like a Jewish Percy Jackson book series. Basically the idea that Yiddish/Ashkenazi folklore is/was real and like Percy Jackson's greek gods the dybbuks, Golems, demons and all the rest came west to New York City and they're under the city in the subway tunnels and sewers

And I was thinking of two main characters. There's Josh a very modern teenager, who loves ghost hunters, and super natural podcasts and loves his bubbie's stories of Yiddish folklore. He travels into the subway armed with a camera and ghost hunting equipment and comes face to face with....

Yehudah, AKA Hoodie, a young Hassid from Brooklyn. Hoodie's family from hundreds of years have kept the spirts down, fought monsters, and protected the community, first in the old country and now in New York using folk magic and things

Josh is all about science and trying to understand "okay but how does it work?" and Hoodie is very "it's tradition this how its done, please shut up and stop getting in trouble!" A story of two Bar Mitzvah boys studying Torah, dealing with middle school, each other, and being stuck in the tunnels under NYC in the middle of the night facing the horrors

[bonelesssboiz]

Percy Jackson New York City icon. “Only suckers wait in line” so true my best friend Percy.

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

yo isn't this so cool and romantic? *runs into a wall*

[aceoffangirls]

I made another meme

[catsunnyy]

saw some ppl complaining Percy wasn’t New Yorker enough but this scene showed enough 😂

[begaycommittreason]

percy unlocking his road rage seconds after hitting the gas and laying on the horn in outrage like it’s his god given right despite him very clearly being in the wrong and causing utter chaos on the road is peak new yorker behavior, he’s our brand of asshole and i love it

[natbaumer-blog]

Happy New Years!! 2024!