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  Mark gives us some stats on their signing of The Sun and the Star.
• Is Rick a doodler? We’re not so sure he is…
• It’s Nico di Angelo’s birthday! This article made us realize we forgot an important detail about his sister, Bianca.
• Read Riordan answers the question—What exactly ARE the whimsies?
• Don’t forget that Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies by Stacey Lee comes out on February 7!
• Rick teases a possible blooper reel, and we are HERE for it.
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  Midgard Times (of all places) lets us know about the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians filming end date.
• And yes, it’s now finally time to talk about Rick’s January 26 blog post, aka the place where we finally get to meet Zeus and Poseidon.
• We wonder why they don’t announce actors until after they’re done filming?
• We definitely know Lance Reddick from a few places, and he’s gonna make an awesome Zeus.
• And Toby Stephens? We just learned a VERY interesting fact about him this morning.
• We might be a little less familiar with him, but you can’t deny he looks like he’s gonna be an awesome Poseidon.
• We wonder which demigods won’t show up in season 1.
• Will Argus be completely CGI in the show?

• First, we’ve got to talk about the Babylonians.
• Did you know there were originally about 17 or 18 constellations in the zodiac?
• Aries was first associated with a shepherd, and then later with the ram.
• Even the Egyptians kept this meaning, which they associated with Amon-Ra (no relation to the football player).
• Everything comes back to Percy Jackson, which is excellent news for us, a Percy Jackson podcast.
• Taurus is tied to the spring equinox, which leads down some interesting paths that we are choosing not to explore too deeply.
• We’re already noticing a pattern with Herakles…
• Moving into Gemini, we meet Castor and Pollux, which are a pair of names you’ve probably heard before, even if you aren’t familiar with the mythological origins.
• Cancer seems to be a bit of a newer constellation.
• Surprise, surprise, Herakles is once again involved in this one.
• Have you read Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons?
• The constellation of Leo has been associated with the lion for a long time and amongst many different cultures.
• We never knew Hera was the Oprah of constellations.
• Unfortunately for Kristen specifically, the stories behind Virgo and Libra are very confusing.
• Demeter, Astraea, Dike, and Persephone are all possible players in this game.
• We try to puzzle out how all of these figures are associated with the zodiac and it breaks our brains a little bit.
• Kristen keeps making How I Met Your Mother references and they go right over Karen’s head.
• In case you were wondering, this is NOT a Brooklyn Nine-Nine podcast.
• Scorpio’s myth is pretty straight forward.
• Babylonia probably saw more scorpions than jellyfish.
• The god Nergal from Babylonian mythology is somehow even stranger than Chiron and his human legs.
• There were simply no constellations before Herakles.
• It seems Capricorn has always been a goat-fish.
• Okay, it feels a little TOO convenient that Pan could just grow a fishtail to escape.
• No matter how you spin it, Aquarius is associated with flooding.
• This sign is also associated with Ganymede, who we’ll meet in Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods.
• There are so many things we’re just gonna skip over.
• Shapeshifting was a PLAGUE back in the day, apparently.
• We go on a WHOLE journey about ichthyocentaurs and Camp Fish-Blood.

• Let’s talk about The Last Olympian chapter 22.
• Rainbow came to visit, and we’re so happy!!
• How did Rachel get into Camp Half-Blood unscathed?
• And why wasn’t Chiron more concerned about Rachel’s fate!?
• Do you think they’ll push Rachel’s story to earlier in the TV series in case we don’t get a Heroes of Olympus series?
• The Great Prophecy is officially Prophecy Count #32!
• The memorials were super sad and beautiful at the same time.
• We’re so happy Nico got the credit and acceptance he deserves!!
• Annabeth and Tyson have come such a long way as friends!!
• We kind of wish we had a bit more Percabeth at the end here.
• Rick is CRUEL for naming this chapter “I Am Dumped.”
• How did neither one of us pick “And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time”!?
• The end of this chapter is just so ICONIC.