#rainbow black

[opalanimetides]

Rainbow black

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2025:

"rainbow black"

maggie thrash

"all i can say is that freedom’s a feeling i'll never know: to be so beautiful you terrify the world, daring it to annihilate you. unlike me, whose only hope is to survive."

[cordycepsfem]

Rainbow Black

My girlfriend and I were at the bookstore a couple weeks ago and I randomly picked this book up. The back cover blurb promises a story about the Satanic Panic, one of my latent interests, and mentioned a “queer love” story that I mistakenly assumed would be a lesbian one, given that the main character was female and her partner referred to as a “girlfriend.”

Throughout the first part of the book, the main character is referred to several times as a lesbian, refers to herself as a lesbian, and faces homophobic abuse from others who use the d-slur to refer to her. Her being homosexual is brought up numerous times.

The book is bizarre, fast-paced; the main character is someone completely radical who I liked a lot. I liked her standing up for herself and her right to be a lesbian.

And then who does the “girlfriend” turn out to be? If you guessed a male, you’re right! It’s a minor character from the beginning of the book who then turns into a major character. A boy who claims he’s somehow a girl… and our main character totally goes along with it.

I guess I should stop waiting to be pleasantly surprised and just shoot myself in the foot next time I think I’m going to be able to read about actual female homosexuality.

If the male character was actually a girl this would have been an 9/10 for me. But because I got duped into a false sense of lesbians, 6/10.

[fullmetalfisting]

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

[the-final-sentence]

It’s for whoever can love me now, nothing to my name but the rugged will to live, which is beautiful and horrible—a lone, gnarled tree jutting from the cliffside, exposed, hanging on.

Maggie Thrash, from Rainbow Black

[the73rdpostscript]

"I don't care if you think it's real. I think it's real. I want you to do a spell on us, so that we'll stay together no matter what."

"What if I can only do curses?"

"Then curse us."

- Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

[bizzybee429]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rainbow Black (Novel) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lacey (Jo) / Dylan (Gwen) (Rainbow Black) Characters: Lacey (Rainbow Black), Dylan (Rainbow Black) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Getting Back Together, First Meetings, Coffee Shops, this one goes out to the three other people who have read this book (blows a kiss), Spoilers Summary:

“You look nice,” Gwen says.

Jo doesn't, but it's far from the worst lie they've told each other.

Years later, Gwen and Jo reunite.

[sunder-the-gold]