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6:48pm
August 2, 2015
things about Hufflepuffs #468
Hufflepuffs with animal allergies are quite likely to have a “pet” plant.
This Hufflepuff with a severe cat allergy (as determined any time in my life I’ve ever been tested, as well as by the amount of Benadryl I go through)… still has a cat. And I suspect that may actually be a weirdly Hufflepuff thing as well.
Although I found out that actually unless your allergy is so severe as to be life-threatening, it can be more beneficial to keep the cat around and treat the aI still couldn’t breathe through my nose for the first several months of living around dogs. And I lived around cats all my life, but not indoor cats until I grew up. We found out I was allergic because when we brought the cats indoors, I’d fall asleep, so my mom had me tested. I was furious at the doctor because I loved cats so much and because I was a kid and didn’t know that the doctor not telling me wouldn’t have made it go away.
I had actual reason to be furious at an allergist as an adult who pretty much refused to treat me unless I “got rid of” my pets – and it turned out that the symptoms I had gone to see him for, weren’t even the result of allergies to begin with, but of a really bad lung infection that was mistaken for an asthma exacerbation that was being blamed on my allergies because what else was there to blame? But at any rate, I did some research and the allergist’s recommendation to “get rid of” the cat apparently is not even considered best practice for people with allergies, even severe allergies, as long as they’re not life-threateningly severe allergies.
Which mine aren’t and never have been – both skin and blood tests have consistently shown an allergic response to cat saliva that’s technically well into the severe range, but my actual physiological response to that isn’t to keel over and die or stop breathing, so I’m not in the category of people where “getting rid of” a cat would even make sense. My allergies have actually been improved somewhat by living with a cat, which is one reason it’s not considered good to just avoid the animal you’re allergic to (unless it’s some kind of obscure animal you’re never going to see) – it just means your response will be more severe when you do come into contact with that animal.
So that (and the fact that I love Fey and would probably not mind living with her even if it somehow did shorten my lifespan somewhat, which there’s no evidence that it does at all even a little, mind you) is why I’m a Hufflepuff with a severe cat allergy who lives with a cat. And even sits here typing this with this 16-year-old cat sitting on my chest with her fur right in my face, blocking the fan, on a hot day. She’s lived with me ever since I moved out on my own for the first time, and she’s going to go on living with me until one or both of us dies. She’s one of the closest friends I have in the entire world, and she knows things about me that nobody else knows. I sometimes have a sneaking suspicion, however, that she thinks of me as sort of like a big, none-too-bright kitten who’s never had the decency to move out in her old age, and doesn’t know enough to come in out of the rain and therefore has to be looked after all the time. People always act like the cat is the “baby” in the relationship but I’m pretty sure the reverse is how Fey actually sees it (and I’m not arguing too hard, I call her Grandma Fey a lot of the time).
But I love the idea of pet plants. Although I have plant allergies too, so that’s not necessarily going to work out any better. I guess it depends on the plant – or the animal – and the person.
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9:29pm
June 21, 2015
“Live in a small house but live life with a big heart.”
— Apparently it’s an old saying. It reminds me of my great-grandmother. She had a house smaller than my apartment and a heart that filled the entire house and then some. You knew she had to be tough as nails with the things she’d been through, but when you interacted with her she had this sweet, quintessentially Hufflepuff personality where hospitality was everything and she loved making other people feel loved.
6:29am
October 28, 2014
“I am thankful for those who’s automatic response to the world they live in is kindness. I am speaking of the everyday kindness, the goodness not thought of as goodness but as decency. I am speaking of those who don’t actively do ‘random acts of kindness’ but instead live with kindness in their heart and their heart at the centre of their mind. For those who live kindly, in a world that rushes by, I am grateful.”
— Dave Hingsburger
9:12pm
September 21, 2014
things about Hufflepuffs #414
Hufflepuffs love people-watching. They’re great at finding that perfect spot in a coffee shop or train station to just blend in and watch the faces go by. Their well-known empathy extends even to strangers; they tend to make up/guess the destination and/or life story of certain passersby who strike their fancy.
6:48pm
September 8, 2014
things about Hufflepuffs #412
Hufflepuffs, while not always organized themselves, tend to constantly tidy up the area around them if it’s not theirs. Their desk or room might be another story, but their place at the meal table or study spot in the library will be neat as a pin when they leave.
3:27am
September 1, 2014
autistic-mom asked: My cat is such a Hufflepuff. She overflows with expressive love, purring about my existence and jumping on her hind legs to shower me with kisses repeatedly. She loves to snuggle and always wants me around. She was always a very sweet, affectionate cat who loved giving kisses. I'm not her primary food provider, but it's me she adores, running to greet me with affection, which destroys the notion cats only love for food.:D Anne has a Hufflepuff cat named Brodie. He’s got amazing cat social skills and basically holds the entire cat family together by being sweet and considerate to everyone. When they got a new cat (a 100% Siamese, 100% Slytherin, if it matters, named Nikki), he was the first one who could approach her without getting attacked, because he was so unrelentingly polite and respectful and kept his distance.
6:28pm
August 28, 2014
things about Hufflepuffs #409
Hufflepuffs are very crafty with their own hands. The common room is covered in pillows, plushies, blankets, etc they have made in their spare time
9:17pm
August 26, 2014
things about Hufflepuffs #407
During final exams Hufflepuffs will often have a supply of small sweets and cookies in their pockets to give to any other exam takers who appear pale or overwhelmed from studying for too long.
The librarians get a bit frustrated, though, when crumbs end up in library books.
7:28pm
August 23, 2014
things about Hufflepuffs #404
Hufflepuffs have left school supplies they no longer need in their common room. You’ll find spare quills, extra potion ingredients, books, etc. Everyone is welcome to help themselves.
2:00am
August 23, 2014
beaconofbrightdecisions asked: As a hufflepuff, I noticed when I'm under the weather emotionally or physically I just really love, and long for being near my close friends as in just curling up and watching movies, and listening to them chat and laugh with each other even if I'm not as involved as usual in the conversation. I just find their presence and noise immensely comforting. And I was wondering if that seems like a common hufflepuff thing ?I definitely think it’d be very common to our house. I know it’s certainly true for me. Anyone else?
1:59am
August 23, 2014
Anonymous asked: As a hufflepuff, our house ideals are very dear to me and I have great love for all the good traits that makes us hufflepuffs. I am also aware that each hufflepuff has their own flaws, but when ever I watch "The goblet of fire" and see the hufflepuffs giving Harry such a hard time I can't help but feel disappointed. Am I the only one?Ooo I had a “thing” about that too! I have no idea what number it is, though… but it was about the fact that an exciting instigator can talk Hufflepuffs into rash acts of house pride, such as the “Potter Stinks” campaign.
1:57am
August 23, 2014
Anonymous asked: For the anon who asked puff/ravens relationships: One of my best friends is a Ravenclaw. We’ve known each other for years and we usually go along very well! She showed me a lot of books I didn’t know about and we can talk about so many subjects, but sometimes she acts a bit selfish, too competitive and overly dramatic, especially if it has to do with school stuff… It kinda annoys me sometimes, but I know she’s a good person, so it’s not so hard to see past that. Oh, and I love your blog!Thanks!
Okay so… I’m a Hufflepuff and my closest friend is a Ravenclaw.
Although honestly, she’s a Ravenpuff. A Ravenclaw with strong Hufflepuff tendencies. And I’m a Hufflepuff with strong Gryffindor tendencies. So we’re not a “pure” Hufflepuff or a “pure” Ravenclaw.
The interesting thing about all this, is that the two of us are almost identical in most respects. Our minds work the same way, to the point where we are able to almost communicate telepathically, if such a thing were possible. We have had the same interests in life at the same ages since long before we ever met each other. Our friends joke that we are alternate-universe versions of each other.
But somehow, she has a bit more Ravenclaw in her. I have a little Ravenclaw, but not a lot. And I have a bit more Hufflepuff in me. She says she’s Ravenclaw in the same way that Luna Lovegood is Ravenclaw, and expects she would be treated the way Luna is, if she were really in Ravenclaw. :-/ My mother has told me I was a lot like Luna as a teenager, too. I was very eccentric and wore strange clothing and said things that made no sense a lot, and people often thought I was doing drugs. I tried to believe in things that were impossible, too. In my case I was trying to escape some bad things that were happening to me in the real world, and when those things stopped happening, I stopped trying to escape reality so hard.
Anyway… I don’t know quite what to say about my relationship with my Ravenclaw friend, because in aspects besides House we are so close to identical. I think she has more of the capacity to sustain her intellect than I do, and she ended up with a job as an engineer, and she made it through college – all things I didn’t manage. But she only made it by the skin of her teeth, so there’s that, too. She has a lot of trouble maintaining employment because it’s so hard to do that much intellectual work all at a time.
She also has the ability to make almost anything – whether it’s wood carving, painting, or more technical pursuits, she can make all kinds of amazing things, often on her first try. Like the kind of things where people don’t believe something is the first dress she ever sewed because it’s that good.
I have some tendencies like that, but not as many or as extreme.
For me, what always comes first, what makes me a Puff, is caring about other human beings. I may not have the best social skills, I’m introverted, I don’t fit the stereotype of a Puff in many ways any more than my friend fits the stereotype of a Claw. But I care deeply about people, about ethics, about doing the right thing, I’m a hard worker whether I’m good at something or not I put in my fair share of effort, I care a lot about fairness and justice. I’m very loyal, even though I don’t always consider that a good quality. I am sometimes too loyal to my friends, wanting to protect them even when they’ve done something wrong. But that’s a Puff trait even when it’s bad.
I think my friend is slightly more cerebral than I am. We both have a strong gut instinct (or “Sensing” as it’s called in the autism world), but she has more ability to maintain intellect than I do. We don’t know why this difference between us exists, but it seems to. I’m getting better with my intellect (I’ve been developing it on purpose because of some recent brain damage), but it hasn’t been my strongest suit in awhile.
Anyway, I don’t know if this sheds any light on anything. But we are great friends, very close friends, and our friends see us almost like identical twins separated at birth. So we’re that similar, and yet we’re in different Houses due to the slight differences that exist between us.
1:00am
August 23, 2014
Anonymous asked: I'm a Hufflepuff and my girlfriend is a Ravenclaw! We're different, but we're very much yin and yang. She's very in tune with her emotions and I'm pretty emotional, so it's nice to know that she understands how I'm feeling. She helps me verbalize how I feel, and she's very supportive and intelligent. We get along wonderfully and I feel very in tune with her!Cute!
That’s really cool.
I’m a Hufflepuff with some Gryffindor tendencies. I’d say Gryfflepuff, except for the fact that I’m clearly Hufflepuff deep down, the Gryffindor comes in second even if I have strong tendencies there. And I have a few Ravenclaw tendencies, just not as much. And I have a really good friend who is a Ravenpuff, a Ravenclaw with strong Hufflepuff tendencies and weaker Gryffindor tendencies.
She’s my closest friend in the whole world, and we’re actually as alike as anyone I’ve met who is ‘like me’, but that difference in Houses keeps it interesting. We both have a strong Hufflepuff component, but otherwise it’s almost like we’re two pieces that fit together by complementing each other. Like 1.Hufflepuff2.Gryffindor3.Ravenclaw + 1.Ravenclaw2.Hufflepuff.3.Gryffindor.
I don’t know why we’re both so lacking in Slytherin. It’s not that we have a problem with Slytherins, we both have Slytherin friends and Slytherins we really admire. (One of my favorite singers, Dolly Parton, I have pegged as a Slytherpuff. That’s why people have such trouble understanding her, because the two sides are about equal in her, and most people have trouble imagining them going together so well.) We just don’t have much in the way of Slytherin traits ourselves beyond an admiration for the aesthetic sometimes. (I still think that after the Hufflepuff common room, Slytherin’s got the coolest.)
Anyway, I’m really glad you and your girlfriend have found each other. And I think inter-House friendships in general are cool. And it’s also cool when the Houses you have with someone balance out like they do with me and my friend, where we both have traits of the same three houses but in proportions that balance each other out. (Both of us have a big two and then one that’s more in the background, and even within the big two we each have one that’s definitely us.)
5:30am
August 21, 2014
Anonymous asked: To My fellow Hufflepuff; You see my dear, I have never understood why people would send anon hate to other tumblerins while they could spread the love and positivity instead. For example, i think you are amazing and pretty person who runs an interesting tumblr blog that looks like you - as beatyfull as its owner is too. so please, keep that head up high as the time passes by. Meanwhile, since world is so cold - please, spread the love with me all around.Thank you. <3
I agree, I don’t understand why people send anon hate, especially over such silly things as body weight and hairy chins and stuff. I felt like I had to make it into a joke, because it really was almost funny that this person could be so offended by something that’s just natural. But I hope that person doesn’t go harass someone less equipped to take it than I was.
But thanks for the anon love, it’s so much better than anon hate, and Hufflepuff is great. :-)