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• December 19 is your last day to enter our art giveaway! See instructions.
• And don’t forget about the livestream fundraiser. Details here.
• Read Riordan gave us a last-minute holiday gift guide from the gods and demigods.
• We got the cover reveal for Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem by Roseanne A. Brown.
• We even got the cover reveal for the upcoming Mark of Athena graphic novel.
• Hazel’s birthday was on December 17!
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  Cool. Awkward. Black., edited by Karen Strong, features short stories from Roseanne A. Brown and Kwame Mbalia.
• Someone on Twitter also asked Becky about merchandise, and she talked a bit about how it all depends on the success of the show.
• As Percy Jackson and the Olympians goes into their winter break, we probably won’t be getting the Zeus and Posiedon casting.
• In a now-deleted Tweet, Becky also talks about seeing a network cut of an episode, and how it’s interesting to see what ends up being cut.
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  Charlie Bushnell has officially wrapped on the first season.
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  Jessica Parker Kennedy talks about playing Medusa.
• Becky and Stephanie Lurie also helped us figure out approximately how many books Rick might’ve signed in his lifetime.
• Ashlee will no longer be in charge of Rick’s socials, but here’s an update on what they’ll be doing (and their dream jobs for the future).
• We also go through some new Goodreads answers from Rick Riordan.
• There are no current plans for a Daughter of the Deep sequel.
• That also goes for any additional Percy Jackson illustrated editions.
• Will we ever see Leo Valdez again?
• It turns out we’ll learn how Will identifies in The Sun and the Star.
• Is there a Magnus Chase adaptation in our future?
• Could Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities ever get an adaptation?

• There weren’t many references to Chiron in Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes and Greek Gods.
• The Party Ponies are much closer to what actual centaurs are like.
• Chiron is pretty different because he doesn’t share the same ancestry as the other centaurs.
• There are several different origin stories for centaurs, and all of them are…weird.
• Did you know some centaurs are horned!?
• Why does it always come back to Zeus and Hera?
• Poor Chiron didn’t have a very nice childhood.
• How do you teach a horse gymnastics!?
• We find out what Chiron is REALLY supposed to look like.
• We get into the age-old debate of how centaurs would wear pants.
• Who are some of the heroes Chiron trained?
• Karen discovers a fun fact about Disney’s Hercules!
• How did Chiron die?
• What was Chiron like in the Percy Jackson books?
• More importantly, what did he look like?
• Why wasn’t he a white stallion in any of the visual adaptations of the books?
• Chiron has a couple of pretty interesting abilities.
• What are some Chiron-related fun facts from the series?

• This week, we’re reading The Last Olympian chapter 16.
• Did this chapter make us emotional? Did we find it exciting?
• Is it believable that Annabeth was able to fly the helicopter?
• This part is going to be SO exciting in the show.
• If this is Rachel without any training and focus, imagine what’s coming next!
• Do we sympathize with Percy about being mad that Rachel told him he’s not the hero?
• Is it weird that Chiron really wasn’t worried when Rachel showed up with some possible prophetic thoughts and dreams?
• We’re up to Prophecy Count #31! And Demeter and Persephone definitely stole the show.
• How do we feel about Nico’s arguments to get Hades to help the Olympians?
• Seriously, Hades needs some family therapy.
• Is Ethan purposefully trying to stall Kronos? Is he having regrets?
• Does Prometheus think he’s smarter than Kronos?
• That drakon is very large. And very close.
• Percy’s anger throughout The Last Olympian is totally valid.
• We’re constantly impressed with how good of a leader and strategist Percy is.
• Why was Silena the one to lead the charge with the Ares Cabin?
• We really have to wait until next week to talk about what sort of impact this will have on the book and all these characters.

• Jessica writes in to tell us she totally agrees with us on the concept of Western Civilization.
• Phoebe thinks Dionysus is afraid of the Party Ponies, and we find that visual totally hilarious.