Oh gods, alright. Of course Livraria Lello would be the one to have it. I wonder if they were trying to get rid of it?
I actually would like to talk about Lello and their relationship with Harry Potter and also just ask you to visit the bookstore.
So, anyway, Lello opened in 1906 in Porto, North of Portugal.
JK. Rowling lived in Porto for a bit in the 90’s, where she first started writing the Harry Potter series. It was said she might have frequented it and some important stairs from the book were based on Lello’s stairs. In fact: The book release of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child happened in Lello.
What this meant is that this bookstore ended up having to fight to remain a bookstore. There are so many tourists, a lot of them that only wanted to look at it because it was Harry Potter related somehow and buy nothing. There were (and still are) insane queues to enter the bookstore.
Lello, who wasn’t particularly interested in becoming a Harry Potter museum, ended up having to make a system where people have to pay to enter. If you buy a book that goes above the price you paid for the ticket, the money you paid will be deducted from the book price.
I can tell from going there fairly frequently that they try to be less connected to Harry Potter as possible if they can manage. Yeah they have the books for sale but they also have a plethora of books and their own merchandise to choose from.
Despite JK. Rowling’s involvement with the bookstore, in the Portuguese Wikipedia page, even in the part about the famous writers that went there, there isn’t a single mention of her. Zero. Not in the history nor anywhere else. It’s beautiful.
Last time I went they had an exhibition about José Saramago’s work (portuguese author who won the Nobel Prize) and on the upper side of the stairs had an enormous collection of winners of the Nobel Prize and authors Lello concidered had the quality to also have won (it the Nobel Prize existed when they were alive) and authors that might win.
It’s quite interesting because all was very thought out and you had a whole reason as to why those books were there. Me and my mother ended up chatting for a long while with one of the bookshop employees (they have a lot of young employees btw) and we even ended up chatting with other foreigners that went there shopping.
Also, did I mentionthe bookshop is gorgeous?
As are their book editions (my English edition of Tom Sawyer I bought there)
Have also a photo of the bookstore from 1906 :)
So, if you go there, please don’t go because of Harry Potter. And please don’t shit on it because of Harry Potter too. It’s a very good bookstore and it deserves recognition, but not from there.
Not sure if you’re interested in writing ideas/requests in your inbox, but… a gentle terfbreaking short narrative with a scene where the terf sub uses the safe word, and is then surprised when the domme appropriately stops the scene and stuff? Like, “i thought you were lying about the safe word stuff” “why would I lie about that?”
ok first off, for the record, if any of y’all wanna submit story ideas through asks, feel free! can’t guarantee that i’ll publish them, but in principle, i’m more than happy to take ideas/requests :3
secondly, anon, that’s a fucking incredible idea, story below
She was an amazing toy.
Thirty minutes prior she’d been Mackenzie, the outspoken activist, political lesbian, and Beth’s TERF classmate from her Gender Studies classes; but right now, she was an amazing toy.
Beth had started getting to know Mackenzie near the start of the term, after getting assigned as partners for all future projects. She’d always been kinder to Beth than expected, considering Beth was transfem, but she assumed it was Mackenzie trying be to cordial for productivity’s sake. But after things in Kenzie’s personal life fell apart and she had a night of venting to Beth, it turned out that it was because she always thought Beth was hot, and god, had Mackenzie been on one hell of a dry streak.
Thirty minutes and a quick talk later, and Beth’s on top of her. They didn’t spend as long on boundaries as Beth had spent on similar conversations in the past, but she had made sure that they covered safe words and the like before she let Kenzie completely debase herself like she wanted to.
But now, Mackenzie, wanting to be a perfect little toy was begging, pleading, for Beth to do more, to fuck her harder, to treat her like an object that was made to be used, and Beth obliged. Beth practically split Kenzie open on her dick, feeling every bit of every thrust into the girl’s tight little pussy. She could feel how much her little toy enjoyed it, how wet she was getting. She could feel Kenzie get wetter when she sucked on the girl’s nipples, get tighter when she dug her claws in the girls thighs. Beth kept going harder, pulling Mackenzie in close, marking and biting up her neck, grabbing her hair tight-
“Yellow!” Mackenzie yelped. Beth pulled back immediately.
“Shit, you ok? Is something wrong?” Beth asked, her expression softening as she scanned Mackenzie up and down to see if she could find any major damage she might have done.
“I’m, uh, yeah, I’m okay, I just- wait, you stopped?” she asked Beth, a little confused.
“Yeah,” Beth answered, “you used a safe word, why wouldn’t I stop? It’s what the word is for.”
“I just didn’t actually expect you to stop when I said it. Figured you’d keep going.”
“What? Why would I do that?” Beth asked, it apparently being her turn to be confused, “Why would I set up safe words just to ignore them later?”
“I guess I just…” Mackenzie started, a blush starting to grow on her face a little as she curled in on herself slightly. She took a moment to think, saying “I guess I always thought that the safe word stuff was to make you all feel better about what you were doing to people, y’know? Trying to convince yourselves that you weren’t really violent. Or to make people think you had more control over yourselves than you really do.”
It dawned on Beth just how vulnerable this girl was being with her, how much harm Mackenzie had been willing to subject herself to.
“Babydoll,” Beth said in her sweetest of voices, “I’m only doing what you wanna do with me. Nothing more than that.” Beth ran a finger up and down Kenzie’s cheek and leaned in close.
Mackenzie was looking down now, having trouble meeting Beth’s gaze.
“Really? Y-you promise?” she eventually asked Beth.
“I promise. Anything you need me not to do, I won’t do it. No questions asked.” Mackenzie sat there silently for a while, and Beth wondered if she’d fucked up, or killed the mood, or if by taking them out of the scene, she’d let Mackenzie realize just how disgusted she was by this whole affair. Maybe she had bett-
“Don’t grab my hair. It brings up some… unpleasant memories,” Mackenzie said. Beth gave her a slight smile.
“Of course, doll. Anything else I should know about?”
“That’s the big one, I think.”
“Gotcha. If you need to tell me any other limits, don’t hesitate, ok?”
“Thank you, I, um. I appreciate that,” Mackenzie answered earnestly.
You’re not normally one for hookups, but you’re in a mood tonight, so you went out to find a pretty little thing, get your girldick wet.
She’s not normally one for hookups either, but she’s just off the tail end of a bad breakup, and so she wants to do all the things she couldn’t with her (now ex-)girlfriend; being a TERF, this includes being humiliated and fucked by a tranny, getting off on being beneath the people she hates so much.
You bring her back to yours (it’s hotter for her if she feels well and truly captured, being at yours adds to that), but before you bring her to your bed, you have her take her shoes off, get comfortable. You ask if she wants some water, which she doesn’t expect, but takes you up on. You tell her that it just seems like the thing to do.
Soon enough, though, you both get onto your bed, but before you two can get into things, you talk about your boundaries, your preferred safe wording system. It surprises her again, and she sarcastically asks if you take the same precautions with everyone you hatefuck. You respond by saying that if you’re inviting someone to your bed, you want everyone to have a good time (that one has her blushing a little).
Finally, though, with all the preamble out of the way, you get to the main event. You pull off her clothes, drink up the sight of her for a long while, before pinning her down, and oh, do you savor it. You take in her soft skin, her warmth enhanced by how excited she is, the way she begs for you not to rape her, not to get her pregnant. You can see how wet she’s getting though, drip- drip- dripping all over your sheets, and you tell her that it’s too late, she’s getting fucked whether she likes it or not.
She pleads for you to at least put a condom on your disgusting cock, she can’t afford to be a mom. You grin at that, before leaning over to grab a condom, handing it to her. You explain that if she really wants you to wear one, she’ll need to put it on you herself, touching your girldick with her own hands. She grimaces even more, her eyes threatening to break into a sob, but eventually she opens it and puts it on you, handling the bitchbreaker that’s going to split her in two, her face contorting in greater and greater disgust while her hole gets wetter and wetter.
Once it’s all the way on she takes her hand off, but you grab her wrist and force her to fondle you more, just for the fun of seeing her squirm. When you’ve had enough, you call her a good girl and get ready to use her. She struggles a little, but she knows you’ve already won. You push into her, and she yelps, and it makes you twitch inside her.
You take everything you need from her, and slap her around a bit for good measure, enjoying every clench on your dick whenever the pain stings her skin. You threaten more if she doesn’t start touching herself and keep at it until she cums. She begs for you not to make her do it, but another slap and she gets the idea that you’re not gonna back down on this one. A couple tears start rolling down her cheeks as she rubs at her clit. It’s not long before she’s cumming on your dick right as you do.
You rest on the bed for a while with her, before getting up. She looks confused, but you just say that you’ll be right back. You return with some water, a towel to clean up with, and some lotion. You hand her the glass as you move to clean her up, but she’s even more confused now. She asks what you’re doing, and you respond that you’re giving her aftercare, as is typical. She asks if you’re really not just gonna kick her out now that you’re done, and you scoff, of course not, who would do such a thing; you tore her down, now it’s your job to build her back up. Hell, it’s late, if she wants to spend the night at yours, she’s free to do so. She asks why you would offer, and you say it’s just the thing to do.
When you’re done cleaning her up, you take the lotion and go to soothe all the places you hit her. She’s still confused at the idea, but she lets you work. When you’re done, you go to cuddle her, and she lets you, mostly just lying there. You thank her for trusting you to do all that, trusting you and being vulnerable with you.
You don’t know if you’ve really changed her mind about you, about being a radfem. But you do know that she pulls you in tighter as you both fall asleep.
I was hoping to see a response from u beautiful and OMG yes pls use me and break me and make me an even more desperate mess for the superior cocks of transfems 🙈
Aww! Of course, doll! I always love making cute little puddles out of radfems~
Now if only you were here beside me so I could use you like you need, like you deserve. Judging by how much you want to be put in your place already, i shouldn’t even need to do very much work; you seem like the perfect candidate for a live-in toy, a piece of fuckmeat i can use whenever i need to empty my balls. I’d keep you nice and exposed for me, wearing nothing but a collar and the cum running down your thighs from all the times i bent you over the nearest piece of furniture to take those holes of yours. God, imagine if all your TERF friends saw you like that? You’d never be able to go back, even if you wanted; all the more reason to sink deeper into worshipping your betters~
helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!
Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.
It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:
Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males.
Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.
The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.
Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
Hello beautiful, your tumblr and many others (that I have masturbated to) have show me the error of my ways and as a "Terf" I'd like to humbly apologize for my behavior by offering up my body to any and all transfems. I think I was just scared of what i knew deep down that im just a horny bitch in need of breeding and that women w cocks look so sexy
Pls have mercy on this Terf and show me what a useless little whore I am 💋🙇🏼♀️
Aww! What a good girl! Look at you, submitting to your betters~
God, I’d love to use those holes of yours, show you what they’re made for, while getting to hear all the pretty little noises that come out of your mouth. Though I’m not sure how much mercy I can actually give you, at least at first. I’m gonna fucking take what I want out of your body until I’m satisfied, fill you up with my cum. I’d do all the terrible things I know you want me to do, making you hurt in all the right ways, getting you to beg me to slap you around. I’d breed you, make you mine forever, make sure everyone knows that you’re owned. It would be heaven for you wouldn’t it? Finally being put in your place, cumming to being used like the toy you are by your trans superiors, being the brain dead whore you always wanted to be for the people you always hated so much~
(And then of course, after I’m done fucking you and making you cum your brains out, I’d make sure to take care of my toy, get you water, hold you as you float through your post-orgasm bliss; maybe you’ll start to realize that we’re not so bad. If I take care of you well enough, during sex and after, you might just come back for more. And if you do that enough, you might find that the next time you talk to your TERF friends, rambling about how terrible us transfems are, expecting to get wet at the humiliation of what you’ve done, that you don’t get wet at all. Cos you’ve seen what we really are, the people behind the labels, and discovered that all the TERF rhetoric? You don’t believe it anymore. It’s not just that you can’t go back, it’s that you don’t even want to. That you’ve well and truly had the TERF fucked out of you, and honestly? You like this version of yourself better.)
imagine needing surgeries and drugs to be a woman. skill issue
imagine needing to passive-aggressively send me an anon because you’re too much of a coward to say what you want, to tell me what you’re really looking for.
you come onto this blog and send a transphobic ask? babydoll, it’s obvious that you’re just needy for the attention, that you want to be beneath me so fucking bad. that you want the big bad butch tranny to rape your holes
for what it’s worth, i haven’t got any surgeries. i’ve still got my dick, and i plan on keeping it around just for stupid terf whores like you ❤️
It’s time we all rethink our perceptions of various groups as inherently “dangerous” and “safe.”
“Oh, you’ve got a pretty smile,” the first woman said, returning uncomfortably close to my side. “Look at that, look at his smile. Give me a smile again. Come on, give me a smile.”
I looked away from them and kept moving. The women continued after me down the full length of my block, mocking my movements, pelting me with questions, screaming at me, and pressing up close to my body while continually demanding I smile.
When I arrived at my apartment the two women stood outside a while, the first woman hollering “HEY GIRL, HEY GIRL” at me, in a mockery of a gay voice while flipping her wrist, until I disappeared inside. I stood in the dark with my back against the door. My shoulders slumped. I began to cry.
This is the type of degrading, gendered street harassment that women routinely report experiencing from men. Moments like these contribute to many cis women’s perceptions of the outside world and strangers, particularly unfamiliar men, as menacing and unsafe. Yet cis women often refuse to believe that I’ve been preyed upon by people they share an identity category with, and that because of such moments, I don’t feel safe around them.
I don’t feel safe around cis women. And a lifetime of bad experiences has fed into that.
The article is really, long but very informative and I honestly suggest everyone to red it. This part stuck out to me the most
“I know several trans women who outright refuse to shop at certain feminist bookstores or attend certain women’s-only dance parties and kink events, because they know those spaces are not truly for them. Many cis women equate a person’s anatomy with their degree of safety, and thus never reflect on their own ability to commit sexual violence or abuse.
Small text reads “I know several trans women who outright refuse to shop at certain feminist bookstores or attend certain women’s-only dance parties and kink events, because they know those spaces are not truly for them. Many cis women equate a person’s anatomy with their degree of safety, and thus never reflect on their own ability to commit sexual violence or abuse.“ End text.
“Feelings of safety are not apolitical. And they’re not rational. They are socially erected, built to justify and maintain the very structures of power and inequality that actually render us vulnerable on a wide scale.”
best as i can tell 90+% of people weighing in on this on twitter not only don't understand how chromosomes work they also just don't know shit about boxing
@fluffyblue-multifandommess Wait, why Taiwan? Isn't the athlete this whole BS controversy is about Algerian?
ok so what happened is as follows:
in 2023 the IBA disqualified 2 boxers, Imane Khelif (Algerian) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwanese) on the grounds that they had failed 'gender eligibility testing'.
the Olympics Committee has (I think?) recently broken ties with the IBA citing various ethical concerns so both athletes were re-evaluated and allowed to compete
the current controversy is mostly focusing on Imane Khelif bcos she basically one-shotted another boxer but people, including JK Rowling, are also saying that Lin Yu-Ting shouldn't be allowed to compete
this has resulted in a lot of very angry Taiwanese people (rightly) calling JKR a racist who can't tell Asian men and women apart. tear her apart guys!!
Also terfs are tying themselves in desperate knots as they frantically argue that a person born with a vulva but with elevated levels of testosterone has to be classed as a man without even once tasting the hypocrisy. Like hey terfs do you see how your worldview is built on quicksand and patriarchy
the thing about her having elevated testosterone is actually hearsay. the IBA have confirmed that the gender eligibility test that she failed wasn't a testosterone check so there's no publicly available evidence as to her testosterone levels. it might be that she was found to have XY chromosomes but that's not been reliably confirmed either.
but yes people are now arguing that the only thing that matters for 'biological sex' is your chromosomes even tho literally no biologist in the world would agree with them.
& to avoid reblogging this over & over:
@phoenixcatch7 #Woman who punches people in the face for sport gets punched in the face during said sport#Apparently she's okay though which is good. Do we know anything about her opinion on this or?#My dad was telling me about this before and he showed me a pic like look how tall unfair genetic advantage#And I was like dad. The cis woman is also taller than the male referee in that picture. Cis woman with that height? No one cares#'oh the boxer transitioned because they kept losing in the men's team' I cannot begin to explain how stupid that is NO ONE DOES THAT
in the name of factual accuracy: both women are cisgender. Imane Khelif might be intersex which is not mutually exclusive with being cis. u can tell your dad Algeria has no legal recourse for gender transition lmao!
Not to mention that her boxing record for her entire life is very much open and public information and she never once competed in a mens tournament. She has always fought in the women's tournament. She has lost 9 times to women in the women's tournament. Even if she hadn't, it wouldn't matter.
She is a woman, has always been a woman, and until she decides to become a transman, she will always be a woman.
As a reminder, a convicted child rapist is competing in the games, and instead of even pretending to care about that, TERFs are pitching a fit over women boxers punching their opponents
#So much of this comes down to the fact that many people do not understand intersex varriations and how they intersect with racism #we don't know what is going on with Khelif and frankly we SHOULDN'T #the way that ANY vagueness is present for her at all and the fact shes african is why she's being targeted and it fucking sucks
^ yeah. the thing w the IBA shouldn't have happened and the IOC has done the right thing by not releasing any information about either athlete's medical situation. i sincerely hope neither of them gives into the pressure to 'prove' that they're really women.