“Julia only reads fantasy” yes. Just, yes. 😂 I literally just found out about the Percy Jackson series a couple of weeks ago and binged read them. Also 💜 there 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 no 👏🏻 such 👏🏻 thing 👏🏻 as 👏🏻 being 👏🏻 perfect 👏🏻 I thoroughly enjoyed this bookish story time 💜💜💜
I'm not crying, you're crying. Ok, we're both crying. I didn't read PJ until I was in my LATE 20's but you're absolutely right about everything. Percy is one of the best characters in Mid-Grade.
loved this!! I absolutely adore Percy Jackson and basically everything Rick Riordan has written ❤ I'm actually about to start reading The Mark of Athena. now happily subbed!!
I’m so glad I clicked on this video!! I haven’t read the Percy Jackson series but have been meaning to for ages! This has definitely put it higher on my list but more than that I’m so happy you found a series that means that much to you 💕 Also as a huuugggeee Harry Potter fan, I 100% agree with everything you said about Harry, he’s actually pretty basic as a character 😂
Caroline Jewson Percy Jackson is unique enough. I am just saying that they attract similar people. Depending on what in particular you did not like in Harry Potter, it might not be for you, but there are enough differences that your opinions about each could be unique. I happen to like both, but hey, I’m a sucker for all fantasy.
Haha I also discovered Percy Jackson because of the movie and it’s how I got into booktube too (after son of Neptune came out and I had no one to talk to about it and then I found cassjaytuck and polandbananasbooks 😂) Thanks for sharing your story, it’s truly amazing how this series has connected with so many people in so many ways. For me, I think it was the fact that Percy truly felt like a true person more than a fictionally character, and he constantly showed that he would do what’s right and do whatever it took to help his friends, and as a kid I think i needed someone like that that could be a constant in my life. And I definitely agree, the series just proves again and again that no matter your struggles and what life has dealt you, ultimately you can choose to be the hero and you can achieve what you set out to do (Ahh this makes me so emotional I just love this series so much 😭😭)
I read both the Percy Jackson and Harry Potter series simultaneously in high school and I spoiled myself for the end of deathly Hallows by watching Half of the last movie. Whoops. Anyways both series are PHENOMENAL and really blew me away. BUT the series that not only got me into reading officially as a grade schooler and one I have an emotional attachment to is R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series. Why? Because it was one of the gateways of horror for me and Horror is my favorite genre to this day.
in the middle of fifth grade i read pjo, hoo, and three months before school ended i started toa. my friends were concerned for me because i wouldn't stop reading Update: I’m now reading the third Magnus Chase book Update 2: sooooo I just finished ToN
(It’s a long time since I saw the interview in which I heard about this so please don’t hate me if I get something wrong) Rick Riordans son actually has dyslexia and ADHD and Percy Jackson started out as a bedtime story for him to show him that he could still be the hero of his own story as long as he took his problems and made them into stengths. He later realised that the story might be able to help someone else and he asked his class (if you didn’t know he used to be a teacher) if that character would mean something for them and after he heard about some of their problems he wrote the books. So happy to see that his goal was accomplished when I hear your story, it is literally the reason for Percy Jackson to exist!
Oh my goodness--you starting to cry made me nearly cry and yeah... I love Rick Riordan's books because it has relateable and sarcastic characters that are my type of funny. I love your video!
I do that and I do it to make my friends laugh so they don’t have to feel the same way I do. I had a rough childhood and I am just a teenager. I know that people out there have it worse but you know.
I read the Magic Tree House books in 2nd grade, too. I seriously got into it when a friend said it took her all year to read The Lost Hero(I'm young), and I read it in three days, and I can never convey how full of myself I was that day(we were in fifth grade) I kept trying out for GT, and never got into it, even though I was one of the best readers in my grade.
I know I'm a bit late to this video, but I just discovered your channel and I love your personality. I'm also 17 and started reading the books in fifth grade and faced the same challenges of having no one to talk to. I always loved reading, but Percy was the first character that I felt truly represented by. I love that we were fortunate enough to find our way to these books and have our lives changed for the better. I've always said that fandom is family, and it really is a beautiful community that we have here; extremely diverse yet in the end, we have more similarities than differences.
I agree, Percy Jackson means so much to me. In school I'm told that I'm to relate to a book but I have never related to being perfect or brave or being skilled. And growing up in toxic environment where I'm always told I'm not good enough or always being compared to other kids who are smarter, more talented, and more "perfect". Reading Percy Jackson I've learned to not be held back by others, and that I am good enough. To follow your own belief was almost terrifying but now I can believe what I believe. Percy also delt with being distant from his family and I have parents who worked all day and I never really got to know them and they would only talk when I did something bad or I didn't get the grade they wanted, having family issues is real and it made me fell like I'm not alone on this. It changed me and helped me so much.
That and he taught compassion and how to be clever to survive. Every villain has their own motives, some more understandable than others. Being able to survive meant knowing how to stall, bluff, and be creative in approaching a problem. Thanks for the video. I was watching a review of Netflix's Ragnarok and someone in the comments replied saying that PJO is children's books so it means they are bland and boring (it was written to a fan who commended for the youtuber read the books) which stressed me beyond belief, so thanks for the video. Weird enough I think I started with his 39 clues book because the librarian read part of it to us and I liked the concept. But the PJO and HoO books are the reason I really read a lot; before that I sometimes skipped books in a series and read shorter books. Generally, I didn't like reading because our parents tried to get us to read by giving us Ukrainian folk tales (talking animals are so not my thing) or we couldn't have dessert or whatever, and I just can't seem to read Cyrillic fast so reading in my head was more punishment because I felt like I would never get beyond it. It might just be in my head but I have no idea how to move beyond the mental block. I also wasn't in the gifted program, but I didn't care because it was unrealistic for a kid relatively new to Canada (that was my 2nd year, since the selection as in grade 3) to somehow finish the test in time and do well. To me it was like wishing on a star; cute but unrealistic. I read the books because I wanted more on Greek mythology after watching Class of the Titans on Teletoon. I read it because the grade7-8 (we had split grades) teacher gave us class time to read so either you read or did homework (and who wants to do that?). I picked up the 3rd book (because of CotT, and because a friend picked up the Lightning Thief). I loved it and with having to wait for Mark of Athena to come out I read as much as I could to pass the time because around that time I finally think I finally got diagnosed with FSHD and it was frustrating how I couldn't be like other kids and tried to avoid anything that would give away that my muscles were on the level of a granny. Plus, I didn't realize until grade 11 that I had visual snow because being the idiot that I am, I had no idea was normal or not, though some side effects like light sensitivity and derealization weren't exactly subtle. So basically the books were my reason for living. I totally understood Nico with the cupid scene because I kind of did the same thing; I didn't want to give people the chance to notice how hard it was for me to talk sometimes (especially when it's cold) or how I walk faster than I run or how one of my legs is weaker than the other...Percy's problems seemed worse than my own and could just focus on his problems. He knew when to fight and when to give in when some things were unavoidable and I guess it was just relatable since I was still figuring out my limits on what I could physically do and how to cope with my muscles getting slowly weaker and knowing that if I tried too hard, I would only make myself more tired and weaker. It was about finding the middle ground, not being passive but not overdoing things. I just admired how Percy handled change.
Dana Before I read this my thoughts were “Thanks the GODS I’m not the only one who writes essay length comments”. Now that I’ve read the whole way through, I get the idea of how you were and are feeling (of course I could never actually *get* it, I have different problems from you). I’m glad you found security and reliance on books and have found a way to push through your problems.
*Long comment ahead, you have been warned* This video got me thinking, why did I fall in love with Percy Jackson (the series). And I remembered the first thing that got me hooked was that he had ADHD. Now for a tiny bit of backstory, I didn’t know I had ADHD until 5th grade because my mom didn’t want to tell me. This meant that from preschool through fourth grade I thought something was wrong with means that all I could so was cause problems and make mistakes. Even learning that I had a disorder didn’t help because a lot of kids could fix it without medicine. Skip to sixth grade when my teacher suggested a book to me to read for a book report. At this point I was into reading more than I was before so I was like “Sure I’ll try it out”. When I started reading the first thing I noticed in the book was that it reminded me of my self (I also asked my mom and she said Percy was a lot like me). It got me so hooked that I would read in all of my free time because I felt like I understood them and they understood me. When I finished reading all the books my teacher had I did one of my “What If” stories. Basically, I think something like “What if I was on the Argo II ship?” and it continues on from there. But because I felt like I belonged in this book world more than mine I kept my “What If” for months, continuing to make new scenarios, new characters, and new ideas that fit in with everything the books had. It was the most I ever freely like I belonged in my life. Unfortunately, I ended up forgetting about the series for a bit, until I found a post on Tumblr. I don’t remember what the post was but I do know that it was a Solangelo (Nico X Will) post because I just discovered my sexuality and was looking at lots of posts about it. I had flashbacks and started doing research on UA-cam about it. I started finding people talking about feeling a connection to Percy and belonging in the books, I remembered how I felt and decided I would reread the book. Now I’m on The Son of Neptune watching all of your videos because they are the most interesting ones to me. That is all. (Gods I suck at conclusions) Also regarding that reading system, at my old school we had one of those and I was in the highest level, trust me it was no better than the others. I could have read fucking Moby Dick but I was stuck with Geronimo Stilton (PS, I hated it). The only good books I read were suggested to me by other teachers at my other and current school.
I know I'm nearly a year late, but after discovering something about myself, I had to write a comment here. I've known I had ADHD for a long time, along with my two siblings, but I was also diagnosed with a disorder called misophonia recently. If you didn't know, misophonia is a disorder that causes you to act irrationally when you hear certain trigger sounds. (noises like chewing, snoring, tapping, ect. make you furious, panic, or feel physically in pain for an inexplicable reason.) I've also developed anticipatory anxiety, meaning I tend to avoid places where I run accross trigger noises. (This includes eating out, spending time with my family, and going pretty much anywhere in my house that isn't my bedroom.) It's also not very well known, and while it is proven that the disorder is existent, and affects people to the point where they can't function properly in extreme cases (such as my own) it still isn't recognized fully by doctors, and there is no sure way to help it. The only method with a high success rate is therapy, and it can take years to fully solve it. The worst part though, is that people don't recognize misophonia as a real problem, and dismiss it as simply a way for me to get out of going places, or doing my work. Some people even like to make *more* noise if I tell them about my problem. When someone at my elementary school found out that certain noises bothered me to no end, kids started chewing loudly at lunch, tapping their pencils during class, and all around being total jerks. *Then* to top it all off, my so-called best friend started spreading rumours about me behind my back. I came home from school crying all the time, and spent a lot more time alone, reading. That's when I found the Percy Jackson books. I had just finished Harry Potter and was looking for something else to read. I connected to him almost instantly, as someone else who had very few friends, and was having a difficult time in school. I guess he made me feel better, because his astronomical problems made mine look so miniscule. I still reread the books every once and a while, kind of as an inspiration for myself. Percy helped me through one of the roughest times in my life. The way he could still laugh, joke, and act like a kid while in such life-threatening, serious situations was so inspirational to me. He was the thing that kept me going, and made me want to stand up for myself. Now, years later, while I haven't found someone who's as much of a Percy Jackson nerd as me, I have found myself with real friends, in a good school, and I don't get made fun of constantly. So, yeah. (I don't really know how to end that.)
I said to myself "You're not reading Percy Jackson in middle school." Half way into sixth grade already finished it and moved on to Heros of Olympus. So it does have that effect.
I'm sorry but, this is so beautiful and true. I feel or felt like you did. Percy Jackson Changed my life in SO many ways. It really did, im not trying to sound like im just trying to be...you know..ike get attention. I'll just leave...
I’m pretty sure no one is gonna see this comment but I just wanted a platform to express my feelings Percy Jackson and heroes of Olympus has literally changed my life so much! I was going through allot when I started PJO and the book actually gave me a reason to look forward for the next day. Just like Julia said I realised people didn’t need to be perfect to be heroes. The demigods lives are sooooo much harder than mines and if they made it through I’m sure I can too. This video made me cry, it just feels so good to realise someone understands. If I got a chance to meet uncle rick I would probably hug him and start crying. His books changed my life!, and no matter how much he makes me suffer with the deaths and the cliffhangers, he’s defiantly one of the best people in the world for giving us this series 😢
I relate to you do much I also have ADHD and slight dyslexia and my confidence would drop because reading was so hard for me Reading Percy Jackson made me feel better and gave me a boost of confidence You made me cry of happiness and I love it
This actually hits me in so many levels. I can actually relate to this books and to this video, this series, the story, this whole world also makes me hella emotional so I can totally understand your POV. This video made me happy and emotional and idk everything and also gave me way many chills. I wouldn’t have made a better work on this video. Way to go :))
I love Rick's writing cuz its light-hearted, and easy to understand for kids. But for older kids reading the series (like me) can kind of see through it and sense the darker themes, that really made the series interesting. It's amazing that Rick can write so incredibly.
*I just felt that Percy was more of a flushed out character* I’m pretty sure that translates to Percy Jackson is the better series. I dare you to tell me otherwise. Edit: Everybody’s being so wholesome, and I’m over here trying to fight the people in the comment section. I’m not a very good person.
When 6th grade fall break began, I got one of the first books, then binge read ALL OF THEM. Now I'm reading the Hidden Oracle Gods, dam, Jason dies? 😭 What the Hades is wrong with us... (Not a question)
Huh, I turned 17 a while back. Better give my respects too. :). Also I was introduced to Percy & the others by the movies too. Glad to know I am not alone XD
Okay bruh I cried too and I've been thinking about making similar sorts of videos about why characters and stories and even songs are important to me...and hey, if anyone wants to hear a bit of my Percy Jackson sob story... So, my parents divorced when I was about 2. In middle school I started getting angry, falling into depression and all that...and I always showed signs of anxiety since before I can remember so it's been a whole thing. I can't remember exactly how I found Percy Jackson? But I did use the Lightning Thief for my first novel study when I started public school again in grade 6 I believe. My deviantart username ended up being TheHalfblood, and it's stuck around even now that I've started a UA-cam channel. Anyway so the divorce thing...around that time I started having all these dark feelings, starting puberty and acting out as middle schoolers do, my mom decided she needed to "explain" to me where that came from. My other side of my family, apparently is who she chose to blame. I remember coming home from school one day feeling miserable, lonely, just wanting to go home. But in the car while we waited for my siblings she started telling me all these awful things I guess I probably shouldn't go into too much detail, but...it was pretty bad. A lot more than a struggling preteen needed to hear, but no matter how much I begged her to stop and leave me alone it didn't stop and my stepdad came into my room and confirmed it all. All kinds of abuse, addictions, antisocial behaviours, and my namesake whom my bio dad never met committing suicide because of mental health and abuse(and more I found out later in highschool, but it's a lot and I don't wanna make anyone uncomfy if someone happens to read this)... That became such a huge part of my identity, that all that ran in my blood, I felt I had to be perfect all the time to not "turn into my father" and all that. The term Halfblood just made so much sense to me, I started creating this world with my friends where we were all Halfbloods, we designed t-shirts, made our own camp, and all chose gods who would be our parents. I loved Nico, and even though it wouldn't make too much sense in canon all my friends agreed I could be a daughter of Hades, and I even made it my email address until my mom found out and I guess she didn't like it since we're Christian so I had to make a new one...but it helped me cope with all that by giving me this beautiful and fun world where kids could find a place to belong and be themselves. Pretty neat and really got me into writing. I won't forget that it was there when I needed it. I really gotta go back and finish some of those newer series, man(I think I stopped around Heroes of Olympus? I don't know why! Also RIP Jason, dang...). Maybe I could even get a video out of it that'd be sweet. Thanks, Rick.
Honestly, I wished I would have read Percy Jackson sooner. It would have done so much good for me as a kid. I've always had a hard time in school, I even had to attend special classes. Percy is such an amazing character and Rick Riordan is such an amazing person and author.
when people ask me what are some of my faveorate books I always say a couple of book series including how to train your dragon and every time with out fail I get asked "Wait there is a book?" It drives me nuts! YES THERE ARE 12 BOOKS AND THEY ARE AMAZING AND BETTER THAN THE MOVIES! Astrid is just camacazi just not as funny or cool and astrid is just there as a female charictar for Hicup to get with!
Yeah same here. I read every single how to train your dragon book and got every new one when they came out. I just love the books more because there is a lot more exploration of the archipelago and character development than the movies. But the movies and tv series was excellent but not an excellent portrayal of the books but still.
Omg I love you SO. MUCH. I wanna reread percy jackson and be happy and good again but I don't have them here so I gotta find them in my library or somethinggggg
Awesome video💙wish someone told me about Percy Jackson earlier I only realized it existed last year and I LOVED it I’m currently waiting until I can go and buy tyrants tomb!!!seriously though I love Percy Jackson! I’m a HUGE FAN💙
This video is exactly me. I first read the Percy Jackson series when I was 11 and now I can read all of them without getting bored (except for the blood of Olympus).😂
Hi Julia. I loved your video. You are speaking TRUTHS! I also think this book series changed my life. I consider you a friend that shares this part of my life with me, and I hope now we can wait together for the tv series :)
Percy Jackson changed me too, I was in 3rd grade when my mom read me the lighting thief. I couldn't read it myself because my dyslexia was really beating my up back than. I loved it, it changed me for the better. It made me stronger and as I grew up, I forgot about it. Then in the middle of sixth grade all the way through the 5th of July 2017, I watched someone I loved very much go insane and die. It destroyed me. I developed horrible depression as well as an anxiety disorder. That's when I was cleaning out my bookshelf and I found my old copy of the lighting thief. I just remember thinking hell why not, and I started reading. Things got better after that. Percy gave me a way to cope. These books saved my life, I have no doubt about it. I probably would have committed the not-alive-anymore if I hadn't found Percy Jackson. A few months ago I really got into singing and started taking lessons, I performed Good Kid on stage in front of about 80 people. About halfway through the song, I started screaming the lyrics and sobbing on stage. I've never felt good enough, all my life I've struggled I've never gotten the grades I wanted, I was constantly bullied, and because of Percy, I never gave up. And that was really hard for me. This series made my life better, it made me feel like my struggle was valid. I too, give my thanks to Rick, I owe him my life.💙💙💙
I never comment, but I just wanted to share this: Percy Jackson helped me through a lot of things in my life. I grew up in a privileged, white community and never really saw anything other than that when I was little. When I first discovered the Percy Jackson books in 3rd grade, it was like nothing I had ever read before. Like you said, every character in the books I read was perfect. I had never seen a character that didn't see themselves as good enough. That was eye-opening for me. As weird as it sounds, when I was around 8 years old, I got really depressed. I had no friends and was constantly questioning what I said and did. I avoided all social interactions in fear of saying or doing something wrong. But I tried to hide it all under sarcasm and humor. As I read farther into Heroes of Olympus, I discovered that I deeply related to Leo. But House of Hades was my 'mind blown' moment. That was the first time I had ever seen a gay character. Before I read that book, I'm not sure I even knew what being gay was. In 3rd grade, I don't remember thinking much of it. But when I was rereading in 5th grade, I felt something stir inside me. Something just felt I dived deeper into Riordanverse. I read Trials of Apollo. I read Magnus Chase. I read about Alex and Magnus, Nico and Will, Apollo and Hyacinth. I started researching the LGBTQIA+ community. I discovered who I was. And in the first week of 6th grade, I came out as bisexual to my parents. These books were a gateway to discovering who I am. I just finished rereading them again, five years later, and they continue to be one of my favorite series of all time. And Nico di Angelo continues to be my favorite character.
I read PJO for the first time in Year 5 (grade 4 I think) and I was being bullied pretty badly back then and it was a bad place in my life, but the PJO series really helped me to partly overcome my issues with self esteem and trust. I still struggle with that a little but it also introduced to me to a world of fanfiction and stories, and for the first time I really felt like I wasn’t alone anymore, and that’s really amazing to me. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today without the PJO series 🙂
I am honored to be the 420th like- [edit] Okay so I just watched most of the video and lemme say,, this hit home. Like the way you were able to describe how this changed and shaped you just hit me and like,, this entire video perfectly worded how Percy Jackson is truly an anthem for the underdogs because he isn't perfect and he is able to make mistakes. He isn't a device to stroke an ego but instead a pillar for the kids who were told or made to believe that they weren't worth anything because of their flaws. This video was so personal and raw and it takes a lot to be so transparent on youtube, especially with topics such as this. Thank you for making this,, it means so much to see someone with such passion for a series to be open about their experience with it
I can relate to this. The only difference for me is my name is actually Percy. I do have black hair but emerald eyes. I do drool in my sleep. Please don’t make fun of me.
Omg it’s crazy our stories are almost word to word identical. Down to such small details like the ages we were when we read it the first time, doing it for a class project, not being much of a reader before even the rani tinkerbell book was like one of the only books I had read before pjo... and I also just read the entire series in time for the release of house of hades... that’s spooky
I found Christine's channel in middle school and to this day every time I read a book I check to see if she's talked about it because I love her and her videos so much 😭
I had my first contact in 5th grade with Lightning Thief via school-reading night (conducted by 10th grade school mentors), but I stumbled upon them later on again and binge read the whole series, and awaited every new book
When I was going through a really tough time, I had awful friends, sobbing was a daily occurrence, and I just generally wanted to die, books especially Percy Jackson were my escape, I could go read someone else life and be absorbed in there story instead of deal with my own. I would read ALL DAY sometimes I would forget to eat cause I was so absorbed in rereading the book for the 5000th time. I’m very thankful that Percy Jackson books were there for me as my escape, and coping mechanism otherwise I may have done something I really would have regretted.
I connected with this video. This is kinda stupid to say, but my friends are all in advanced math. They got in it in 1st grade. My school doesn’t really let us change. The school system is shit.
I really relate to this. I am in the 7th grade right now and man, school sucks. Everyone is smarter than me, I haven’t passed a math test in months, my I spend so much time worrying that I’m the stupid one, and my teachers hate me. Honestly if it weren’t for my best friend, I probably would have gone to live alone in the woods by now.😂 But in all seriousness, I’ve had a hard couple of years. My parents are making me take all accelerates/pre-AP classes, and I’m not doing well in any of them. While most of my friends are complaining that they only have a 95% in math, I’m worried about my teachers thinking that I’m dumb because I have mostly c’s. I know I’m lucky that my parents are still married, and that we can afford food and stuff, and I realize that I am fortunate, (which honestly makes me feel like it is wrong of me to be upset about this) but that doesn’t help much. I just wish that I didn’t feel so stupid, or that my friends weren’t so much better than me at everything. I just want to feel like I’m good enough.
yesssss! Percy Jackson is seriously so important to me, it was one of the first actual book series’ that i ever read and i’m pretty sure it’s the first series i read completely on my own and i fell in love with reading and all the characters
Wow your story is so emotional... and then there's me I just love the books because they're amazing and you just have to love all the characters (except maybe a few bad ones ,but still)
My grandmother got me TLT when i was 8 and it has changed my life as well. I cried when i heard that PJO was coming to Disney+ and would do literally anything to be part of their world. I swear words cannot express how much i love ricks work. I cry more about his books more than i cry about actual real things. Like im not just a fangirl, i Have a very deep emotional bond with all the characters and storys that effected my life in a deep way. Ok rant over.
I was twelve when I first was introduced to the pjo series, and I was hooked, like I didn't want to put the books down. and I was so hyped to hear that there were movies and I was so looking forward to seeing these characters that I so dearly loved come to life, but when I saw these movies I was so disappointed that I literally cried about it. this isn't really similar to your story, but I just wanted to put it out there
I agree about the Chosen One thing. It could be done really cliche, but the fact that he is hated for being the Chosen One gives him power but not perfection.
What you shared is so touching I wish I had someone to talk to or rant about how Percy Jackson effected my life ever since fourth grade when I started reading like what I discovered in myself and how I used it for me to cope I really miss the first time I read each book it means soo much to me now I’m about to cry Oml 😭
Aww your making me cry!! I remember being able to relate to Percy. Feeling as if no one could relate made me depressed but now everyone in camp and you relate!
Julia, don't feel bad about hearing about the Percy Jackson books from the movies... cause I also watched the movies first too, and I only found out that Percy Jackson was a book series..... from Magnus Chase...
As a kid when I read Percy Jackson the first time, I also hated reading because I am dyslexic. I also felt I wasn’t good enough. when I read it when I got a little older ca. 15 years old, I really related to Nico because I was starting to find out I was Bi, and I had a lot of internalized Biphobia.
Funny story: My school has this program that starts in 1st grade, and ends in 5th it’s called ace and once a week you go ( depending on your grade it’s a different day) and on fridays it’s ace math. But at the beginning it was called....get this....THE SPECAIL PROGRAM! Wow! Wow school! Starting those depression and insencuritys early! I got introduced to while I was finishing HP, by my pathfinder counselor. (I could go on a rant bout HP now) She was 18 and in collage, I was 9 and after I finished HP I then finished, PJO BoO MC KC and ToA before her. (And btw, my story is similar.) I relate to Nico to much. And I’m INVESTED in his story. HP has NOTHING on pjo.
Percy Jackson is a statement It is not just the same old as I like to say, Photo-copied books. The perfect main character, the funny, stupid best friend, the mean, rich bully... No. Rick characters are are *real* and every character has a problem... We are all only human... well, this fandom is half human… But we are all imperfect, characters, and we all are not those perfect, average, boring photo-copied characters, We all have our fatal flaws We all are imperfect, because nothing is perfect. And nothing will ever be… But our “imperfections” and our “flaws” make us who we are… We all are imperfect… But we are all us.
“Julia only reads fantasy” yes. Just, yes. 😂 I literally just found out about the Percy Jackson series a couple of weeks ago and binged read them. Also 💜 there 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 no 👏🏻 such 👏🏻 thing 👏🏻 as 👏🏻 being 👏🏻 perfect 👏🏻
I thoroughly enjoyed this bookish story time 💜💜💜
I'm not crying, you're crying. Ok, we're both crying. I didn't read PJ until I was in my LATE 20's but you're absolutely right about everything. Percy is one of the best characters in Mid-Grade.
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Percy Jackson Changed my life too
This is beautiful I started crying too😭😭
loved this!! I absolutely adore Percy Jackson and basically everything Rick Riordan has written ❤ I'm actually about to start reading The Mark of Athena. now happily subbed!!
I’m so glad I clicked on this video!! I haven’t read the Percy Jackson series but have been meaning to for ages! This has definitely put it higher on my list but more than that I’m so happy you found a series that means that much to you 💕
Also as a huuugggeee Harry Potter fan, I 100% agree with everything you said about Harry, he’s actually pretty basic as a character 😂
Books for Sarah YOU.NEED.TO.READ pjo
If you like Harry Potter, you’ll probably like Percy Jackson.
@@kellyg2635 ive read harry potter before and i did not like it.
Caroline Jewson Percy Jackson is unique enough. I am just saying that they attract similar people. Depending on what in particular you did not like in Harry Potter, it might not be for you, but there are enough differences that your opinions about each could be unique. I happen to like both, but hey, I’m a sucker for all fantasy.
@@kellyg2635 i know i just dont like it
Haha I also discovered Percy Jackson because of the movie and it’s how I got into booktube too (after son of Neptune came out and I had no one to talk to about it and then I found cassjaytuck and polandbananasbooks 😂) Thanks for sharing your story, it’s truly amazing how this series has connected with so many people in so many ways. For me, I think it was the fact that Percy truly felt like a true person more than a fictionally character, and he constantly showed that he would do what’s right and do whatever it took to help his friends, and as a kid I think i needed someone like that that could be a constant in my life. And I definitely agree, the series just proves again and again that no matter your struggles and what life has dealt you, ultimately you can choose to be the hero and you can achieve what you set out to do (Ahh this makes me so emotional I just love this series so much 😭😭)
Percy jackson is the tony stark of the reading world. Don’t at me
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Actually it is Annabeth and Percy combined
Dancing Sloth ps4 gaming annebath???? Great spelling. Your a real fan.
ItsMeSam Ha why thank you
I read both the Percy Jackson and Harry Potter series simultaneously in high school and I spoiled myself for the end of deathly Hallows by watching Half of the last movie. Whoops. Anyways both series are PHENOMENAL and really blew me away. BUT the series that not only got me into reading officially as a grade schooler and one I have an emotional attachment to is R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series. Why? Because it was one of the gateways of horror for me and Horror is my favorite genre to this day.
in the middle of fifth grade i read pjo, hoo, and three months before school ended i started toa.
my friends were concerned for me because i wouldn't stop reading Update: I’m now reading the third Magnus Chase book
Update 2: sooooo I just finished ToN
Same
Yup me too
Relatable I just started the burning maze
@@angelambrosia6397 prepare yourself
@@charlotterose8420 Prepare myself for what?
(It’s a long time since I saw the interview in which I heard about this so please don’t hate me if I get something wrong) Rick Riordans son actually has dyslexia and ADHD and Percy Jackson started out as a bedtime story for him to show him that he could still be the hero of his own story as long as he took his problems and made them into stengths. He later realised that the story might be able to help someone else and he asked his class (if you didn’t know he used to be a teacher) if that character would mean something for them and after he heard about some of their problems he wrote the books. So happy to see that his goal was accomplished when I hear your story, it is literally the reason for Percy Jackson to exist!
Oh my goodness--you starting to cry made me nearly cry and yeah... I love Rick Riordan's books because it has relateable and sarcastic characters that are my type of funny. I love your video!
I am extremely proud to be a person who covers up their feelings with humour and sarcasm.
*sobs*
*Sniffles*
I’m fine.
I do that and I do it to make my friends laugh so they don’t have to feel the same way I do. I had a rough childhood and I am just a teenager. I know that people out there have it worse but you know.
I read the Magic Tree House books in 2nd grade, too.
I seriously got into it when a friend said it took her all year to read The Lost Hero(I'm young), and I read it in three days, and I can never convey how full of myself I was that day(we were in fifth grade)
I kept trying out for GT, and never got into it, even though I was one of the best readers in my grade.
Shit I didn’t know Jason died cause I haven’t read trials RIP
MBR hahaha same here but I’m kind of glad I got spoiled because now I don’t hate jason as much. Man, I really need to get caught up with Rick’s books
Me LMFAOO I keep spoiling things for myself
oof me too
gods Jason's death changed EVERYTHING about me
I know I'm a bit late to this video, but I just discovered your channel and I love your personality. I'm also 17 and started reading the books in fifth grade and faced the same challenges of having no one to talk to. I always loved reading, but Percy was the first character that I felt truly represented by. I love that we were fortunate enough to find our way to these books and have our lives changed for the better. I've always said that fandom is family, and it really is a beautiful community that we have here; extremely diverse yet in the end, we have more similarities than differences.
I agree, Percy Jackson means so much to me. In school I'm told that I'm to relate to a book but I have never related to being perfect or brave or being skilled. And growing up in toxic environment where I'm always told I'm not good enough or always being compared to other kids who are smarter, more talented, and more "perfect". Reading Percy Jackson I've learned to not be held back by others, and that I am good enough. To follow your own belief was almost terrifying but now I can believe what I believe. Percy also delt with being distant from his family and I have parents who worked all day and I never really got to know them and they would only talk when I did something bad or I didn't get the grade they wanted, having family issues is real and it made me fell like I'm not alone on this. It changed me and helped me so much.
That and he taught compassion and how to be clever to survive. Every villain has their own motives, some more understandable than others. Being able to survive meant knowing how to stall, bluff, and be creative in approaching a problem.
Thanks for the video. I was watching a review of Netflix's Ragnarok and someone in the comments replied saying that PJO is children's books so it means they are bland and boring (it was written to a fan who commended for the youtuber read the books) which stressed me beyond belief, so thanks for the video.
Weird enough I think I started with his 39 clues book because the librarian read part of it to us and I liked the concept. But the PJO and HoO books are the reason I really read a lot; before that I sometimes skipped books in a series and read shorter books. Generally, I didn't like reading because our parents tried to get us to read by giving us Ukrainian folk tales (talking animals are so not my thing) or we couldn't have dessert or whatever, and I just can't seem to read Cyrillic fast so reading in my head was more punishment because I felt like I would never get beyond it. It might just be in my head but I have no idea how to move beyond the mental block.
I also wasn't in the gifted program, but I didn't care because it was unrealistic for a kid relatively new to Canada (that was my 2nd year, since the selection as in grade 3) to somehow finish the test in time and do well. To me it was like wishing on a star; cute but unrealistic.
I read the books because I wanted more on Greek mythology after watching Class of the Titans on Teletoon. I read it because the grade7-8 (we had split grades) teacher gave us class time to read so either you read or did homework (and who wants to do that?). I picked up the 3rd book (because of CotT, and because a friend picked up the Lightning Thief). I loved it and with having to wait for Mark of Athena to come out I read as much as I could to pass the time because around that time I finally think I finally got diagnosed with FSHD and it was frustrating how I couldn't be like other kids and tried to avoid anything that would give away that my muscles were on the level of a granny. Plus, I didn't realize until grade 11 that I had visual snow because being the idiot that I am, I had no idea was normal or not, though some side effects like light sensitivity and derealization weren't exactly subtle. So basically the books were my reason for living. I totally understood Nico with the cupid scene because I kind of did the same thing; I didn't want to give people the chance to notice how hard it was for me to talk sometimes (especially when it's cold) or how I walk faster than I run or how one of my legs is weaker than the other...Percy's problems seemed worse than my own and could just focus on his problems. He knew when to fight and when to give in when some things were unavoidable and I guess it was just relatable since I was still figuring out my limits on what I could physically do and how to cope with my muscles getting slowly weaker and knowing that if I tried too hard, I would only make myself more tired and weaker. It was about finding the middle ground, not being passive but not overdoing things. I just admired how Percy handled change.
Dana Before I read this my thoughts were “Thanks the GODS I’m not the only one who writes essay length comments”. Now that I’ve read the whole way through, I get the idea of how you were and are feeling (of course I could never actually *get* it, I have different problems from you). I’m glad you found security and reliance on books and have found a way to push through your problems.
*Long comment ahead, you have been warned*
This video got me thinking, why did I fall in love with Percy Jackson (the series). And I remembered the first thing that got me hooked was that he had ADHD. Now for a tiny bit of backstory, I didn’t know I had ADHD until 5th grade because my mom didn’t want to tell me. This meant that from preschool through fourth grade I thought something was wrong with means that all I could so was cause problems and make mistakes. Even learning that I had a disorder didn’t help because a lot of kids could fix it without medicine. Skip to sixth grade when my teacher suggested a book to me to read for a book report. At this point I was into reading more than I was before so I was like “Sure I’ll try it out”. When I started reading the first thing I noticed in the book was that it reminded me of my self (I also asked my mom and she said Percy was a lot like me). It got me so hooked that I would read in all of my free time because I felt like I understood them and they understood me. When I finished reading all the books my teacher had I did one of my “What If” stories. Basically, I think something like “What if I was on the Argo II ship?” and it continues on from there. But because I felt like I belonged in this book world more than mine I kept my “What If” for months, continuing to make new scenarios, new characters, and new ideas that fit in with everything the books had. It was the most I ever freely like I belonged in my life. Unfortunately, I ended up forgetting about the series for a bit, until I found a post on Tumblr. I don’t remember what the post was but I do know that it was a Solangelo (Nico X Will) post because I just discovered my sexuality and was looking at lots of posts about it. I had flashbacks and started doing research on UA-cam about it. I started finding people talking about feeling a connection to Percy and belonging in the books, I remembered how I felt and decided I would reread the book. Now I’m on The Son of Neptune watching all of your videos because they are the most interesting ones to me. That is all. (Gods I suck at conclusions)
Also regarding that reading system, at my old school we had one of those and I was in the highest level, trust me it was no better than the others. I could have read fucking Moby Dick but I was stuck with Geronimo Stilton (PS, I hated it). The only good books I read were suggested to me by other teachers at my other and current school.
You and me have a lot in common. How much ever we tell them, our friends still argue that Geronimo Stilton is "fabumouse"
Those were the things i wanted the percy jackson movies to give.
but well.....
I know I'm nearly a year late, but after discovering something about myself, I had to write a comment here.
I've known I had ADHD for a long time, along with my two siblings, but I was also diagnosed with a disorder called misophonia recently. If you didn't know, misophonia is a disorder that causes you to act irrationally when you hear certain trigger sounds. (noises like chewing, snoring, tapping, ect. make you furious, panic, or feel physically in pain for an inexplicable reason.) I've also developed anticipatory anxiety, meaning I tend to avoid places where I run accross trigger noises. (This includes eating out, spending time with my family, and going pretty much anywhere in my house that isn't my bedroom.) It's also not very well known, and while it is proven that the disorder is existent, and affects people to the point where they can't function properly in extreme cases (such as my own) it still isn't recognized fully by doctors, and there is no sure way to help it. The only method with a high success rate is therapy, and it can take years to fully solve it. The worst part though, is that people don't recognize misophonia as a real problem, and dismiss it as simply a way for me to get out of going places, or doing my work. Some people even like to make *more* noise if I tell them about my problem. When someone at my elementary school found out that certain noises bothered me to no end, kids started chewing loudly at lunch, tapping their pencils during class, and all around being total jerks. *Then* to top it all off, my so-called best friend started spreading rumours about me behind my back. I came home from school crying all the time, and spent a lot more time alone, reading.
That's when I found the Percy Jackson books. I had just finished Harry Potter and was looking for something else to read. I connected to him almost instantly, as someone else who had very few friends, and was having a difficult time in school. I guess he made me feel better, because his astronomical problems made mine look so miniscule. I still reread the books every once and a while, kind of as an inspiration for myself. Percy helped me through one of the roughest times in my life. The way he could still laugh, joke, and act like a kid while in such life-threatening, serious situations was so inspirational to me. He was the thing that kept me going, and made me want to stand up for myself. Now, years later, while I haven't found someone who's as much of a Percy Jackson nerd as me, I have found myself with real friends, in a good school, and I don't get made fun of constantly. So, yeah. (I don't really know how to end that.)
So Percy Jackson really helped a lot of kids 😊 And i would like to slap the kid who started making noise when he learned about your problem.
@@asterism_698 agreed
I said to myself "You're not reading Percy Jackson in middle school." Half way into sixth grade already finished it and moved on to Heros of Olympus. So it does have that effect.
I'm sorry but, this is so beautiful and true. I feel or felt like you did. Percy Jackson Changed my life in SO many ways. It really did, im not trying to sound like im just trying to be...you know..ike get attention. I'll just leave...
This is why Percy Jackson is better than Harry Potter, and why JK Rowling can't do what Rick Riordan can.
Girl, I feel like I want to cry with you.
I got into Percy Jackson because my teacher read lightning theif as a read aloud
{she only let us read lightning theif so everyone was left hanging}
I’m pretty sure no one is gonna see this comment but I just wanted a platform to express my feelings
Percy Jackson and heroes of Olympus has literally changed my life so much! I was going through allot when I started PJO and the book actually gave me a reason to look forward for the next day. Just like Julia said I realised people didn’t need to be perfect to be heroes. The demigods lives are sooooo much harder than mines and if they made it through I’m sure I can too. This video made me cry, it just feels so good to realise someone understands. If I got a chance to meet uncle rick I would probably hug him and start crying. His books changed my life!, and no matter how much he makes me suffer with the deaths and the cliffhangers, he’s defiantly one of the best people in the world for giving us this series 😢
JESUS CHRIST. Put a spoiler warning next time!
I'm on the blood of Olympus... I wish I didn't hear that spolier...
Alright but you clicked on a video about a series that has been out for yeaarrs, it’s your own fault
@@ninasfelicillow3228 I'm assuming the commenter is talking about Jason dying, which was in a book that hasn't even been published for a year
Irrelevant Aldc oh yea, that makes sense. I was spoiled for that too,,, by a piece of fanart I think, :(((
This series helped me find out about myself and realized that I'm pansexual
I absoloutly love Percy Jackson but none of my friends have read it.
until I shoved it under their noses and yelled at them to read it
:)
I only read the books like a couple months ago and I'm OBSESSED.
I relate to you do much
I also have ADHD and slight dyslexia and my confidence would drop because reading was so hard for me
Reading Percy Jackson made me feel better and gave me a boost of confidence
You made me cry of happiness and I love it
I love how even Logan Lerman said he's glad pjo is getting the adaptation it deserves lollll
LOL
How I got into percy Jackson was the movies too. Then I read the books.
This actually hits me in so many levels. I can actually relate to this books and to this video, this series, the story, this whole world also makes me hella emotional so I can totally understand your POV. This video made me happy and emotional and idk everything and also gave me way many chills. I wouldn’t have made a better work on this video. Way to go :))
I love Rick's writing cuz its light-hearted, and easy to understand for kids. But for older kids reading the series (like me) can kind of see through it and sense the darker themes, that really made the series interesting. It's amazing that Rick can write so incredibly.
for me, it was that moment when my sister plopped "the lightning thief" onto my lap that i realized that i would love it.
I think you just expressed exactly how I felt when I was a kid.
No one I know reads pjo. That's why I'm here.
*I just felt that Percy was more of a flushed out character* I’m pretty sure that translates to Percy Jackson is the better series. I dare you to tell me otherwise.
Edit: Everybody’s being so wholesome, and I’m over here trying to fight the people in the comment section. I’m not a very good person.
I was exposed to percy jackson first via the movie. I know. It's sad
So was I because my brother was obsessed with them
When 6th grade fall break began, I got one of the first books, then binge read ALL OF THEM.
Now I'm reading the Hidden Oracle
Gods, dam, Jason dies?
😭
What the Hades is wrong with us...
(Not a question)
Huh, I turned 17 a while back. Better give my respects too. :). Also I was introduced to Percy & the others by the movies too. Glad to know I am not alone XD
Okay bruh I cried too and I've been thinking about making similar sorts of videos about why characters and stories and even songs are important to me...and hey, if anyone wants to hear a bit of my Percy Jackson sob story...
So, my parents divorced when I was about 2. In middle school I started getting angry, falling into depression and all that...and I always showed signs of anxiety since before I can remember so it's been a whole thing. I can't remember exactly how I found Percy Jackson? But I did use the Lightning Thief for my first novel study when I started public school again in grade 6 I believe. My deviantart username ended up being TheHalfblood, and it's stuck around even now that I've started a UA-cam channel. Anyway so the divorce thing...around that time I started having all these dark feelings, starting puberty and acting out as middle schoolers do, my mom decided she needed to "explain" to me where that came from. My other side of my family, apparently is who she chose to blame. I remember coming home from school one day feeling miserable, lonely, just wanting to go home. But in the car while we waited for my siblings she started telling me all these awful things I guess I probably shouldn't go into too much detail, but...it was pretty bad. A lot more than a struggling preteen needed to hear, but no matter how much I begged her to stop and leave me alone it didn't stop and my stepdad came into my room and confirmed it all. All kinds of abuse, addictions, antisocial behaviours, and my namesake whom my bio dad never met committing suicide because of mental health and abuse(and more I found out later in highschool, but it's a lot and I don't wanna make anyone uncomfy if someone happens to read this)...
That became such a huge part of my identity, that all that ran in my blood, I felt I had to be perfect all the time to not "turn into my father" and all that. The term Halfblood just made so much sense to me, I started creating this world with my friends where we were all Halfbloods, we designed t-shirts, made our own camp, and all chose gods who would be our parents. I loved Nico, and even though it wouldn't make too much sense in canon all my friends agreed I could be a daughter of Hades, and I even made it my email address until my mom found out and I guess she didn't like it since we're Christian so I had to make a new one...but it helped me cope with all that by giving me this beautiful and fun world where kids could find a place to belong and be themselves. Pretty neat and really got me into writing. I won't forget that it was there when I needed it. I really gotta go back and finish some of those newer series, man(I think I stopped around Heroes of Olympus? I don't know why! Also RIP Jason, dang...). Maybe I could even get a video out of it that'd be sweet. Thanks, Rick.
Honestly, I wished I would have read Percy Jackson sooner. It would have done so much good for me as a kid. I've always had a hard time in school, I even had to attend special classes. Percy is such an amazing character and Rick Riordan is such an amazing person and author.
when people ask me what are some of my faveorate books I always say a couple of book series including how to train your dragon and every time with out fail I get asked "Wait there is a book?" It drives me nuts! YES THERE ARE 12 BOOKS AND THEY ARE AMAZING AND BETTER THAN THE MOVIES! Astrid is just camacazi just not as funny or cool and astrid is just there as a female charictar for Hicup to get with!
Yeah same here. I read every single how to train your dragon book and got every new one when they came out. I just love the books more because there is a lot more exploration of the archipelago and character development than the movies. But the movies and tv series was excellent but not an excellent portrayal of the books but still.
Omg I love you SO. MUCH. I wanna reread percy jackson and be happy and good again but I don't have them here so I gotta find them in my library or somethinggggg
last few minutes------- they really helped! thank you Julie!
BRO. Percy Jackson and chaos walking?! Can you be anymore perfect? 🥺
Awesome video💙wish someone told me about Percy Jackson earlier I only realized it existed last year and I LOVED it I’m currently waiting until I can go and buy tyrants tomb!!!seriously though I love Percy Jackson! I’m a HUGE FAN💙
The 4 people who dislike this video are:
Octavian, Gaea, Cupid, and Kronos.
This video is exactly me. I first read the Percy Jackson series when I was 11 and now I can read all of them without getting bored (except for the blood of Olympus).😂
Hi Julia.
I loved your video. You are speaking TRUTHS!
I also think this book series changed my life. I consider you a friend that shares this part of my life with me, and I hope now we can wait together for the tv series :)
Percy Jackson changed me too, I was in 3rd grade when my mom read me the lighting thief. I couldn't read it myself because my dyslexia was really beating my up back than. I loved it, it changed me for the better. It made me stronger and as I grew up, I forgot about it. Then in the middle of sixth grade all the way through the 5th of July 2017, I watched someone I loved very much go insane and die. It destroyed me. I developed horrible depression as well as an anxiety disorder. That's when I was cleaning out my bookshelf and I found my old copy of the lighting thief. I just remember thinking hell why not, and I started reading. Things got better after that. Percy gave me a way to cope. These books saved my life, I have no doubt about it. I probably would have committed the not-alive-anymore if I hadn't found Percy Jackson. A few months ago I really got into singing and started taking lessons, I performed Good Kid on stage in front of about 80 people. About halfway through the song, I started screaming the lyrics and sobbing on stage. I've never felt good enough, all my life I've struggled I've never gotten the grades I wanted, I was constantly bullied, and because of Percy, I never gave up. And that was really hard for me. This series made my life better, it made me feel like my struggle was valid. I too, give my thanks to Rick, I owe him my life.💙💙💙
I never comment, but I just wanted to share this:
Percy Jackson helped me through a lot of things in my life. I grew up in a privileged, white community and never really saw anything other than that when I was little. When I first discovered the Percy Jackson books in 3rd grade, it was like nothing I had ever read before. Like you said, every character in the books I read was perfect. I had never seen a character that didn't see themselves as good enough. That was eye-opening for me. As weird as it sounds, when I was around 8 years old, I got really depressed. I had no friends and was constantly questioning what I said and did. I avoided all social interactions in fear of saying or doing something wrong. But I tried to hide it all under sarcasm and humor. As I read farther into Heroes of Olympus, I discovered that I deeply related to Leo. But House of Hades was my 'mind blown' moment. That was the first time I had ever seen a gay character. Before I read that book, I'm not sure I even knew what being gay was. In 3rd grade, I don't remember thinking much of it. But when I was rereading in 5th grade, I felt something stir inside me. Something just felt I dived deeper into Riordanverse. I read Trials of Apollo. I read Magnus Chase. I read about Alex and Magnus, Nico and Will, Apollo and Hyacinth. I started researching the LGBTQIA+ community. I discovered who I was. And in the first week of 6th grade, I came out as bisexual to my parents. These books were a gateway to discovering who I am. I just finished rereading them again, five years later, and they continue to be one of my favorite series of all time. And Nico di Angelo continues to be my favorite character.
Julia? Not liking reading? Wow. People can change.
I totally understand!
I read PJO for the first time in Year 5 (grade 4 I think) and I was being bullied pretty badly back then and it was a bad place in my life, but the PJO series really helped me to partly overcome my issues with self esteem and trust. I still struggle with that a little but it also introduced to me to a world of fanfiction and stories, and for the first time I really felt like I wasn’t alone anymore, and that’s really amazing to me. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today without the PJO series 🙂
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Okay so I just watched most of the video and lemme say,, this hit home. Like the way you were able to describe how this changed and shaped you just hit me and like,, this entire video perfectly worded how Percy Jackson is truly an anthem for the underdogs because he isn't perfect and he is able to make mistakes. He isn't a device to stroke an ego but instead a pillar for the kids who were told or made to believe that they weren't worth anything because of their flaws. This video was so personal and raw and it takes a lot to be so transparent on youtube, especially with topics such as this. Thank you for making this,, it means so much to see someone with such passion for a series to be open about their experience with it
I can relate to this. The only difference for me is my name is actually Percy. I do have black hair but emerald eyes. I do drool in my sleep. Please don’t make fun of me.
Omg it’s crazy our stories are almost word to word identical. Down to such small details like the ages we were when we read it the first time, doing it for a class project, not being much of a reader before even the rani tinkerbell book was like one of the only books I had read before pjo... and I also just read the entire series in time for the release of house of hades... that’s spooky
I found Christine's channel in middle school and to this day every time I read a book I check to see if she's talked about it because I love her and her videos so much 😭
The magic tree house and the pixie hollow series were my favorite series as a kid too ahh. and i loved junie b jones series as well. ahh the memories
Now that I think about it my personality is a Lot like percy's
I did an IRP for seventh grade on The Dark Prophecy.
😂 😂
I had my first contact in 5th grade with Lightning Thief via school-reading night (conducted by 10th grade school mentors), but I stumbled upon them later on again and binge read the whole series, and awaited every new book
2:10-2:20 Exactly the same! (But I only read the fairy books because my sister did)
Your video changed my life too❤️
At 8:05
I KNEW that tears were going to be shedded.
Yup
When I was going through a really tough time, I had awful friends, sobbing was a daily occurrence, and I just generally wanted to die, books especially Percy Jackson were my escape, I could go read someone else life and be absorbed in there story instead of deal with my own. I would read ALL DAY sometimes I would forget to eat cause I was so absorbed in rereading the book for the 5000th time. I’m very thankful that Percy Jackson books were there for me as my escape, and coping mechanism otherwise I may have done something I really would have regretted.
I wanna give you a hug lol
I connected with this video. This is kinda stupid to say, but my friends are all in advanced math. They got in it in 1st grade. My school doesn’t really let us change. The school system is shit.
I really relate to this. I am in the 7th grade right now and man, school sucks. Everyone is smarter than me, I haven’t passed a math test in months, my I spend so much time worrying that I’m the stupid one, and my teachers hate me. Honestly if it weren’t for my best friend, I probably would have gone to live alone in the woods by now.😂 But in all seriousness, I’ve had a hard couple of years. My parents are making me take all accelerates/pre-AP classes, and I’m not doing well in any of them. While most of my friends are complaining that they only have a 95% in math, I’m worried about my teachers thinking that I’m dumb because I have mostly c’s. I know I’m lucky that my parents are still married, and that we can afford food and stuff, and I realize that I am fortunate, (which honestly makes me feel like it is wrong of me to be upset about this) but that doesn’t help much. I just wish that I didn’t feel so stupid, or that my friends weren’t so much better than me at everything. I just want to feel like I’m good enough.
I just found your videos a few days ago and honestly I love you and your videos so much. Lots of respect to our Greek queen. 💜👑
yesssss! Percy Jackson is seriously so important to me, it was one of the first actual book series’ that i ever read and i’m pretty sure it’s the first series i read completely on my own and i fell in love with reading and all the characters
This is so inspiring. Just listening honestly
Wow your story is so emotional... and then there's me I just love the books because they're amazing and you just have to love all the characters (except maybe a few bad ones ,but still)
Lol! I Just connect to everything you said! you just convinced me to subscribe!
You put it into words. Thank you so much.
Percy is just sassy 😂😂
My grandmother got me TLT when i was 8 and it has changed my life as well. I cried when i heard that PJO was coming to Disney+ and would do literally anything to be part of their world. I swear words cannot express how much i love ricks work. I cry more about his books more than i cry about actual real things. Like im not just a fangirl, i Have a very deep emotional bond with all the characters and storys that effected my life in a deep way.
Ok rant over.
Pjo changed my life as well
5:00 and foward is what happened to me exactly
The musical is so good
What are your book recommendations for PJO fans, apart from Harry Potter and other RR books?
I was twelve when I first was introduced to the pjo series, and I was hooked, like I didn't want to put the books down. and I was so hyped to hear that there were movies and I was so looking forward to seeing these characters that I so dearly loved come to life, but when I saw these movies I was so disappointed that I literally cried about it. this isn't really similar to your story, but I just wanted to put it out there
"perzy jackson"
Oh my gods!!!!!! I can relate to you so freaking much.... And I was crying from the middle of the video until the end...
I agree about the Chosen One thing. It could be done really cliche, but the fact that he is hated for being the Chosen One gives him power but not perfection.
What you shared is so touching I wish I had someone to talk to or rant about how Percy Jackson effected my life ever since fourth grade when I started reading like what I discovered in myself and how I used it for me to cope I really miss the first time I read each book it means soo much to me now I’m about to cry Oml 😭
11:23 timestamp for when i started crying cuz SAME omg
I drool on my sleep too💯💯💯💯💯
I relate so much to this vid
Aww your making me cry!! I remember being able to relate to Percy. Feeling as if no one could relate made me depressed but now everyone in camp and you relate!
Julia, don't feel bad about hearing about the Percy Jackson books from the movies... cause I also watched the movies first too, and I only found out that Percy Jackson was a book series..... from Magnus Chase...
Oh my gosh, I feel the same way!
SPOILER
Percy is such a good guy that in the crown of ptolomy the bad guy can’t find a trait to relate himself with Percy
As a kid when I read Percy Jackson the first time, I also hated reading because I am dyslexic. I also felt I wasn’t good enough. when I read it when I got a little older ca. 15 years old, I really related to Nico because I was starting to find out I was Bi, and I had a lot of internalized Biphobia.
I'm crying now. Amazing message.
hi, um lets be best friends lmao this was amazing, haven't related to anything this much jfdvbdsnm
Funny story: My school has this program that starts in 1st grade, and ends in 5th it’s called ace and once a week you go ( depending on your grade it’s a different day) and on fridays it’s ace math. But at the beginning it was called....get this....THE SPECAIL PROGRAM! Wow! Wow school! Starting those depression and insencuritys early!
I got introduced to while I was finishing HP, by my pathfinder counselor. (I could go on a rant bout HP now) She was 18 and in collage, I was 9 and after I finished HP I then finished, PJO BoO MC KC and ToA before her.
(And btw, my story is similar.) I relate to Nico to much. And I’m INVESTED in his story. HP has NOTHING on pjo.
Percy Jackson is a statement
It is not just the same old as I like to say, Photo-copied books. The perfect main character, the funny, stupid best friend, the mean, rich bully...
No.
Rick characters are are *real* and every character has a problem...
We are all only human... well, this fandom is half human…
But we are all imperfect, characters, and we all are not those perfect, average, boring photo-copied characters,
We all have our fatal flaws
We all are imperfect, because nothing is perfect.
And nothing will ever be…
But our “imperfections” and our “flaws” make us who we are…
We all are imperfect…
But we are all us.