frammikomast:

laurajanegay:

not to be uwu but seriously stay hydrated or else your kidneys will just start passive-aggressively making rocks inside your piss tubes

kidney stones are actually formed from excess calcium – which if you eat an orange or grapefruit or other citrus fruit a day will drastically decrease your risk of getting kidney stones. 
the amount of water you drink has next to nothing to do with the formation of kidney stones unless you’re chronically dehydrated, and as long as you drink when you’re thirsty- you will not become dehydrated. 
Drinking 8 glasses a day is pseudo-science; all of the studies that state that it is healthy to drink 8 glasses of water a day, are biased from corporations such as gatorade, and studies that have attempted to replicate their findings find negative results, such as water weight, hyponatremia, sequelae of hyponatremia. 
Some people lay claim to the misconception that by the time you’re thirsty you’re already dehydrated. However a 2% difference in your plasma osmolality (the electrolyte-water balance) triggers your brain to signal to your body that you’re thirsty, the threshold for dehydration is 5% or a loss of 3% of your body weight. 
Just eat an orange if you’re worried about kidney stones, and drink when you’re thirsty- your brain and body know how to take care of themselves, let them.

sagefic:

chaoslogsofficial:

bottseveryflavorbeans:

andy-the-anon:

kynipepper:

elopetothesea:

Everyone: we want more LGBT+ characters in our stories !

Rick Riordan: okay here have a gay Italian sad boy

Everyone: I mean, it’s all right but-…

Rick Riordan: I understand. Want a bisexual main character, who happens to be a god?

Everyone: oh that’s actually nice…but! How about girls-

Rick Riordan: you’re totally right. Here have a pair of lesbian hunters

Everyone: …um this is actually pretty nice…how about-

Rick Riordan: a pansexual main character?

Everyone: yea-

Rick Riordan: with a gender fluid love interest? Say no more! Anything else?

Everyone:

I don’t know… why not an aro/ace character maybe ?

The Hunters of Artemis

This is why Rick Riordan is so important

He is like little baby

reblog for riordan. love this guy! also, when he got the Stonewall Award for the Magnus Chase series? his response:

“…it’s a call to do better in my own writing. As one of my genderqueer readers told me recently, “Hey, thanks for Alex. You didn’t do a terrible job!” I thought: Yes! Not doing a terrible job was my goal!”

love it.