Hello!! I’m Rainbow Tomato - you can also call me Wolfy but I’m not picky :]
I honestly have too many interests/fandoms to list out on an intro post so I figured I’d keep it simple!
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p.s. I know my blog has gotten sort of clogged by reblogs so if you’re looking for my fanart, I’m sorry! I suggest either searching my blog with the tags fanart or tomato draws to find what you’re looking for!! Thank you
important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are
Polyamory is safe for work. Polyamory is safe for kids. Polyamory is safe for day time tv. Polyamory isn’t more sexual than any other relationship and it can be just as romantic, sweet, and healthy.
My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."
He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."
He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"
I did.
"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."
It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.
So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:
While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.
Hellooooooo! I know that I am mostly known for my fanart here but I’m participating in Art Fight!! (Which now that I think about it is fitting as it’s technically more fan art!)
This will be my fourth year participating and I’m so excited to see how having three teams will turn out?! I don’t know how much time I’ll have to really commit to this but if you attack me I’ll do my best to revenge!
Do we canonically have Carmilla’s sexuality? Idk all I know is that she has children and that her partner is no longer in the picture (supposedly) so 🤷♀️
So I made an executive decision for the purpose of this post 😌💅
Anyway, I know I already posted something for pride but figured “eh, why not?” And made this art too!
Hello Gelphie Nation! I know this isn’t a super shippy post but it is the gay as fuck witches so?
I hope you like it! If you’re interested in a blurb on my own pride that will be below the cut!
First, thank for clicking “more”!
My identity has been a rollercoaster.
In middle school I came out as a lesbian! My parents were very accepting and I am so fortunate in this. My heart goes out to all the people who don’t have supportive families - you are always welcome here!
From there it was a long journey and struggle inside my own mind on how I identified. I went back and forth between bisexual and lesbian so many times due to personal mental health issues. I have also debated my own gender enough on top of that. To be honest, there are still days where I fight myself.
But now, at the age of 22, I’ve landed on something that should be contradictory but to me it just makes sense!
As far as gender goes?
I identify as demigirl! It feels the most fitting for me. I am AFAB so this identity often feels like I’m just trying to be “special” or “different” but I’m really not! She/they are my pronouns! I am mostly comfortable in my body (which was a long journey in itself) and have no desire for surgery. But some days I wake up and wish I wasn’t seen as a woman and just a person? Words are hard and I’m describing this the best I can 🫠
Next!
I consider myself aroace! But also still a lesbian? I have been attracted to people in the past but it’s very touch and go. I think this may in part be because of my issues and personal traumas surrounding intimacy and love. All I know for sure is that I do still desire to have a relationship - a life partner - and that person would preferably be a woman :D
Sapphics bring me a lot of joy and comfort in a way that I couldn’t imagine my life and choice of partner being anything else.
So, bottom line is…
Identity, sexuality, gender is all very complex and nuanced. And if there’s anything I learned in my almost 10 years of identifying as queer in someway - I know myself best! What feels right to me shouldn’t be ignored and fought against to identify as something that “makes more logical sense”!
Just be you - even if who that is doesn’t always make sense to others and what they think of you.
It’s not pride themed really but it is the regularly scheduled sapphics so 💅
As a side note though, Velvette is canonically a lesbian but what do we think Carmilla is? Bisexual? Pan? Omni? Hetero-Flux, even? There are many possibilities indeed.
I’m sorry Carmine herself is not very visible in this one but I wanted to try something different? I will likely also post something specifically for pride when I get the chance so 🫡
Anyways, thank for reading! Below is without the red overlay.
just a reminder that this blog is run by someone who:
— is anti ICE & fascism
— is pro-choice & feminist
— supports trans & queer people
— hates generative AI & capitalism
— supports immigrants & people of color
— is pro-environmentalism & social justice
— supports palestine & all other territories unjustly suffering