Return to Camp Half-Blood: A Percy Jackson Podcast

It's the Medea episode! Everybody gather around to hear Ava, Niamh, and Brayden talk for a half hour about Medea and almost nothing else! This week we discuss Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero Chapters 27 - 30 though the theme of Manipulation! The Lost Playlist: https://bit.ly/LostHeroPlaylist Offerings: https://bit.ly/RTCHBOfferings Find out more at returntocamp.com Buy us a Coffee! https://ko-fi....

As Lizzo said, Truth Hurts. This week Niamh, Brayden, and Ava recap the battle with the Cyclopes and dive into the hard reality of when is it important to be telling the truth. In this episode we analyze Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero Chapters 23-26 through the theme of truth. The Lost Playlist: https://bit.ly/LostHeroPlaylist Offerings: https://bit.ly/RTCHBOfferings Find out more at returntocam...

Ice, ice baby. This week we dive into the politics of the Percy Jackson greek world and try to find where the allegiances lay going into the Giant war and have some fun in Canada, however this week Brayden, Ava, and Niamh may have gotten very lost along the way. In this episode our team discusses The Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, Chapters 19 - 22 through the theme of Allegiance. The Lost Playl...

This week the team is joined by Book-Tuber Deja Harden (Literary Princess), to discuss how Rick handles the personality of Aphrodite and her cabin, as well as how physical looks and perception code different characters to be read in different ways! This week Brayden, Niamh, and Ava discuss Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero chapters 15 - 18 through the theme of Beauty. The Lost Playlist: https://bit...

This week Ava, Brayden, and Niamh discuss how traumatic being a demigod is and how well does Rick truly handle these topics and the diversity he tries to bring to the table in this series. Together they discuss Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, Chapters 11-14 through the theme of Connection. The Lost Playlist: https://bit.ly/LostHeroPlaylist Offerings: https://bit.ly/RTCHBOfferings Find out more a...

No new episode for you this week! Sorry folks! We will be transitioning to an every other week schedule for the time being, and we explain more in this little clip for you! In the meantime feel free to catch up on old episodes! Find out more at returntocamp.com Buy us a Coffee! https://ko-fi.com/returntocamp Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @ReturnToCamp For more of your Hosts: @brydnstllmn @...

This week our team looks at the responsibilities that advocates have to the people they represent, when clarity is important and when it can be ignored, and debated whether we can spoil Drag Race on this podcast. Ava, Brayden, and Niamh tackle Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero Chapters 7-10 through the theme of Transparency. The Lost Playlist: https://bit.ly/LostHeroPlaylist Offerings: https://bit....

This week the team truly meets Piper and Leo, and deal with the culture shock of entering a new space in a new way. This week Niamh, Ava, and Brayden are joined by Fran McMahon to discuss coping mechanisms, how a white man tackles introducing diversity in his books, and the Red (Taylor's Version) track list. This episode looks at Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, Chapters 3-6 through the theme of...

This week we get oriented to new characters, a new book, a new series, and new writing techniques. Together out fearless hosts Niamh, Ava, and Brayden tackle the opening chapters of Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero through the theme of Orientation, and discuss how well this book sets up a new series, the writing challenges that Rick Riordan had to overcome, and the complexities of middle grade ver...

Welcome to the Super Special Fun Episode About Fan Fiction Extravaganza! This week Ava, Brayden, and Niamh dive into some of the amazing, and more often not-so amazing works of Percy Jackson and the Olympians Fan Fictions, across all of your favorite fan-fictioning platforms! Fan Fiction Links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y4Tz6l9wnwpZNce0IIwknEbDU39S3E2ZOTiQAlG4uWI/edit?usp=sharing Find ou...

This week we take a break from reading and watch a truly terrible movie about Greek Mythology: Clash of the Titans (2010). Join Ava, Brayden, and Niamh as like spend 40 minutes trying to each decide one thing that they liked about this movie!  Find out more at returntocamp.com Buy us a Coffee! https://ko-fi.com/returntocamp Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @ReturnToCamp For more of your...

And with that it's over... sort of. Join Ava, Brayden, and Niamh to finish up the final chapter of The Last Olympian, "We Say Goodbye, Sort Of", and recap the entire Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Learn who won this book, who won (and lost) the series, and how we feel about these sort of endings. The Last Playlist: http://bit.ly/LastPlay Offerings: http://bit.ly/Off-TLO Find out more at r...

It is time for the moment that made us all fall in love with both Annabeth and Percy: The Under-Water Kiss. In order to properly tackle these chapters Ava and Brayden called in the foremost experts in Percabeth: Erica and Carter of the Seaweed-Brain Podcast. Together they analyze the Last Olympian Chapters 21 and 22, "Blackjack Gets Jacked" and "I Am Dumped" through the theme of Reward! More Erica...

The moment you (Niamh) have all (Niamh) been waiting for, the climax of the book, the series, and our childhoods. It's time for Brayden, Ava, and Niamh (mostly Niamh) to confront Kronos and decide once and for all is Luke is truly a hero in the end or not. Our team dives deep into Atonement and if each of our main characters atone for their actions during The Last Olympian Chapters 19 and 20, "We...

Parenthood is a complex set of responsibilities and opportunities that become even more complicated when one of those Parents is a god! Who better to dive into this complexity than a bunch of people who don't have kids, our team Brayden, Niamh, and Ava joined by Sam of the Half-Blood Report podcast! Together they analyze The Last Olympian Chapters 17 and 18, "I Sit on the Hot Seat" and "My Parents...

It's here! This week the team dives into the whole Clarisse and Silena queer coding of it all. This week Molly and Maddy are join our crew to dive into the Achilles parallels, discuss talking dogs, and how Mr. D might not be the worst. Together we dive into Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Chapters 15 & 16 "Chiron Throws a Party" and "We Get Help from a Thief" through the theme of Compassio...

This week Brayden, Ava, Niamh, and guest host icon Divya Bahtia to discuss why pigs are flying when no one ever asked them to, who to cast as Ethan Nakamura, and whether Chiron prepared so much for the fate of Percy that her grew apathetic. Together they analyze Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Chapters  13 & 14, "A Titan Brings Me a Present" and "Pigs Fly". More Divya: @divi_b The Las...

This week Ava, Brayden, and Niamh are joined by the amazing spectacular Fran McMahon ( Best Dam Camp Podcast, A Healthy Does of Fran ) to discuss how the hell the curse of Achilles works, how amazing Rachel Elizabeth Dare is, and why candies are named differently in America and the UK. All while discussing the theme of Safety in Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian Chapters 11 & 12, "We Break a...

What is the true nature of evil? Is corruption always a bad thing? Do water picks at the dentist hurt more? Where is Ava? These very serious questions and more are answered in this weeks episode as Robert (Into the Riordan-Verse and The Best Dam Meme Page)joins Brayden and Niamh to discuss corruption and Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Chapters 9 and 10 "Two Snakes Save My Life" and "I Buy Som...

Thank you to listening to us for a year! Here's to many more and here's whats going on in our lives, how they've changed in the past year, and our favorite parts of the fact that we've accidentally started a podcast. Find out more at returntocamp.com Support Us, Buy a Demigod a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/returntocamp Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @ReturnToCamp For more of your Hosts: @brydn...

Vulnerability is hard, but the work that Brayden, Niamh, and Ava do is harder. This week the team has invited YouTuber and Creator Emma Berglund of FanCity Central to tackle Demeter and her cereal, fangirl over Percabeth a bit, and discuss how hard it is for Nico and Percy to be vulnerable and how it hurts them. Together they discuss The Last Olympian Chapters 7 and 8, "My Math Teacher Gives Me a...

They say home is where the heart is, but what does home mean? What happens when what you're supposed to be able to call home can't be home for you? Who is Mrs. O'Leary married to? This week Ava, Brayden, and Niamh are joined by Manasa Acharya and Erin Moynihan to answer these questions by reading Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Chapters 5 & 6, "I Drive My Dog Into a Tree" and "My Cookies G...

What does anger mean? What is is productive? When is it not? How is anger gendered and how does that effect how characters interact? How does the myth of Achilles play directly into this entire book? This week Ava, Niamh, and Brayden have enlisted the help of Dr. Elizabeth Bartlett (Classics, Classical Archeology, Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics) to answer these questions and to...

Its here, The Last Olympian, and we start with a bang as Niamh, Ava, and Brayden discuss explosions, whether Rachel and Percy work as a couple, and how hard it is to cope with death and the futility of war at 16. Through the theme of belief, our team analyzes Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian, Chapters 1 & 2 "I Go Cruising with Explosives" and "I Meet Some Fishy Relatives". The Last Playlist...

In the spirit of Battle of the Labyrinth we have chosen a movie that has very tangential relation to Greek Mythology! The DCU's Wonder Woman (2017) written by Alan Heinberg and Directed by Patty Jenkins! Erica Ito (Seaweed Brain) and Fran McMahon (Best Dam Camp) join Ava, Brayden, and Niamh to discuss how beautiful Chris Pine is, feminism, and why Zeus is way worse than Ares. More Erica: @seaweedb...