My name is none of anyone’s concern

My age, i am a male in my thirties

Language spoken: French, English

I enjoy reading Percy and the Olympian fanfics.

I am mainly an Annabeth/Percy shipper but I am also open and willing to read other pairings, especially if they are well written.

Some of my favourite author for PJO are Theseuslives, Anaklusmos14 and Pluto's daughter 11, to name a few. Each has excellent writing style and their own ideas for stories which make them unique in my eyes

I was also very satisfied with the whole Percy series, the pairings, the characters development. So I don’t read fanfic because I want to change thing in the stories but because I like to wonder, the what if. Like if Annabeth did this instead of that?? What would happen etc

One of the thing i like with both Percy and hero of Olympus books is that the character travel a lots, and since i travel a lot both for work and my own leisure. I saw many place where the action in the books happen

When I read Son of Neptune, it was three week after I came back from a trip in Seattle, Alaska and the Bc. It made me nostalgic of that trip. The way Rick Riordan described the ice calving with Thunder like sounds. It mirrored my own experience at the glacier. Either he went to those place or he is one hell of a researcher.

Then in mark of Athena, when they were in Rome, Leo described the church with a big dome and a triangular shaped entrance roof, I knew where it was before they even said it.

And at the coliseum when Bachus said to Percy. (You can find Annabeth at the parking lot next to the Emmanuelle building.) And they wonder what that building is. I knew exactly what it was. It's hard to miss it, it’s almost as big as the Us capitol or the House of Parliaments in London and a major tourist attraction. Annabeth, being the architect that she is would instantly know what to look for if she was there. I wouldn’t be surprised if she drew inspiration from it while redesigning Olympus.

I think reading a book where stories happen in a place you actually went completely change the dynamic of the reading. It also make the story feel more real and easier to imagine the place. by the way, in the movie version of seas of monsters. the Scene in washington dc, i recognised the Grandville clocktower as well as the trolleybus lines and the art gallery museum in Vancouver.

I also enjoy reading Harry potter fanfiction. But my reason for reading them are quite different than PJO, unlike in Percy, I was unsatisfied by the latest book, I felt the pairing between Ginny and harry was completely rushed up. There was no development or interaction between them prior to Half blood prince. They went from basically, saying 2 or 3 word in 6 year to directly kissing each other. To me, that’s not love, its feel more like lust. I think Harry would have worked better with either Hermione or Luna, Hermione being Harry best friend and there for him from the start, and Luna because they had already established the foundation of a good friendship in book 5, especially when they talked about how they felt about loosing their loved one (in Harry’s case, his godfather, and Luna, her mother)

And finally, there is Dumbledore whom i don't have good opinion since book 5. He basically manipulated Harry all his life, abandoned him at his abusive relative, he admitted in book five that he condemned harry in a life of pain and yet he say that he wanted harry to have a childhood which is a very big contradiction.

Having to live in a cupboard under the stairs, being fed scrap of food, being constantly screamed at by those he is supposed to call family and being chased and beaten by his own cousin, that’s no childhood, that's child abuse and i would not wish that on anyone

Not only this, he gave harry absolutely no training at all knowing that Voldemort would eventually return to get his revenge on Harry and did next to nothing to help harry in book 4 and 5

I don’t care what his motives were. In my opinion, he is as responsible for harry's living hell as voldemort and is a prime example of the saying. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Which is why i enjoy a good reading fic where harry emancipate himself from Dumbledore and goes his own way

Now what i would have done in Dumbledore's place, probably have harry trained with every survival skill i could think of, hire unspeakable and ex sas who are aware of magic (if they can be found) to train Harry, althought it would also mean sacrificing his childhood, at least he would have the tool to hopefully survive and would be given the respect he deserve and not be starved. A good fic that nearly mirror that is What we're fighting for by James spookie, where Dumbledore actually made harry into a one man army but the people responsible for him realised that in doing so, they neglected to teach him how to live and have fun and decided to send him to hogwart in order to learn how to be a teenager. The result what quite hilarious as Harry was socially inept, a scene that i found epic was when he bluntly asked Hermione about (What is dating and what is the procedure) talking about dating as if it was another military procedure and a knowledge normal people take for granted.

My favorites pairing for hp fic are non cannon pairing, especially when harry go and date a Slytherins lady such as Daphne Greengrass, as dating a slytherin for a Gryffindor is basically the ultimate sin. I like the idea of Harry breaking social and house boundaries to date who he actually want to go with.

Some of my favourite Author for this type of fanfic are Jeconais, Kb0, Bobmin356 (who unfortunately passed away) shygui and Xavras, to name juste a few.

That’s the anti conformist part in me talking.

I also enjoy reading other Fanfic such as Buffy, Starwars, Avengers. Assassin creed.

To borrow a quote from Author, Robst. I don’t like stories of will they? Won’t they? Where the story is over before the main pairings gets together. I don’t mind some angst if it’s moderate, balanced and has a happy ending, not necessarily realistic but, it’s the world of fanfic and fairytales. If i wanted some realism, I just have to turn on the news. As far as I am concern, I saw enough bad ending in reel life.

However I do like scenes where a girl comfort her broken men (like Annabeth comforting Percy, I don’t know why but I thing there is something beautiful seeing a girl fixing her man back up so he can fight on.