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In general cats should not be picked up unless 1) they are super rare and actually like it but again this is super super rare or 2) you need to pick them up for a legit reason like putting them in a crate.

I stand by my opinion and always will. I’ve know many of people with cats (like most of us do) a lot of them pick up their cats and touch them and bother them constantly and I’ve noticed their relationship with their cat is always strained. Yes cats are known to avoid people a good chunk of the time but people who pick up and bother cats usually rarely see their cats, yeah their cats still will spend some time with them but it’s not nearly as often as somone who respects a cats space.

And you are dead wrong.

I can’t tell if you’re just a sweet summer child with your ideas and good intentions in the wrong place, or a troll.

I baby carry my cat and they still love to be around me and cuddle and play. I have one cat we do not baby carry because it is way beneath his dignity and we respect that. I have another cat who will let herself be baby carried but it is very uncomfortable to her, she likes her feet pointing down. She was not socialized quite enough as a kitten, so it has taken time getting her less awkward about being held, but she got there. My third cat. You can do anything to him. He is very chill. He is social, friendly, trusts strangers, never scratches, hisses, or bites, and seeks human companionship because he enjoys it. And he doesn’t mind being held like a baby. I pick him up a lot.

Please. Realize cats are individuals. Your experience with your cats not liking being held upside down IS VALID. But it is not the LAW of how cats are.

My point is that I’ve been around A LOT of cats my entire life and while some genuinely don’t care a good majority do care in some way shape or form on how they are touched

And guess what?? You do that wrong and they scratch the fuck out of you and then people claim “cats are assholes” “cats are so mean!” “Dogs are better!” Because people don’t realize that with cats you have to respect their space often more than you have to with dogs. Again YES I realize that it depends on the dog/cat and their personality but majority of cats I’ve met are not just gonna let you pick them up without consequences.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

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The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

AAVE is often looked down on, and people who speak it are seen as less intelligent, despite the fact that it has it's own clear grammatical rules that it follows, and makes perfect sense, even if you are unused to hearing it spoken.