#Variation

[clearjello]

A commission of a client's Dark/Fairy-type Absol variant named Kuda ^^ Always a pleasure to draw Absol <3

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Taylor Stanley in Balanchine's Square Dance.

Photo: Paul Kolnik

[imoga-pride]

Do you know what the category for terms like intersex and perisex is called?

Like how cis, trans, iso, etc. has gender modality / sex modality. It's like gender/sex modality in that it describes a specific relation to gender/sex, but unlike gender/sex modality, it's not about correspondence/transitioning and is just what a person is born with. And, typically anyways, those modalities aren't genders/sexes in it of themselves, like man/woman/nonbinary/etc. would be the actual gender, and cis/trans/iso/etc. is the relationship to said gender, but intersex/perisex kinda(?) are sexes.

Terms that fit, I guess, from what I know:

Sex characteristics (link): some jurisdictions use this term over just "sex" to encompass the legal protections intersex people have geolocally. For example, the term sex-based discrimination typically refer to sexism or misogyny, whereas sentences using this term, such as 'discrimination due to sex characteristics', could emphasize the inclusion of intersexism;

Sex traits ([w]; [x]; [y]; [z]): this is an alternative to sex characteristics

The term variations also appear, however, the term variations in sex characteristics (VSC) implies it refers to variance, so dyadic wouldn't be included. However, the terms "endosex variations" and "perisex variations" are in use by some.

Sexness/sexedness or sexuation/sexuatedness (from intersexness and intersexuation, meaning intersexedness) could be a thing, however they are mostly about the (cap)ability to reproduce sexually (sexedly)/sexedliness.

I'm not sure if people used the term "sex alignment" but this could also refer to multiple things contextually.

Sex identity is also used, however many would not see intersexness as solely identitary.

Edit: @queercripintersex reblogged with: Pretty sure I've seen "intersex status" used for this and depending on context may be a good option

Comment: I also saw @intersex-questions referring to altersex terms as sex labels, so that's an option, sounds more for hyponyms.

[dancerdiaries]

Cupid variation progress: Week 2

This is from last week, actually 🙃

(Sorry for the weird angle and for wandering out of frame)

Notes:

Straighten that standing leg on those opening attitudes, omg 😆

We'll get those turns eventually. A larger space would be helpful.

Decide on what arms I'm doing for each step so it's consistent

I'm proud of my balance at the end

[wiirocku]

James 1:17 (NKJV) - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

[kollectorsrus]

[soulmaking]

from “The Plot,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Elaine Kerrigan

[scifimagpie]

I'm excited to say that @intervex has put together a wonderful intersex writing Discord! https://discord.gg/Pr3as2s7 Join us to learn, create, and make a little change in the world!

[skyfallscotland]

Variation, by Rebecca Yarros 🩰

"Messy is good, love. Messy is where the best parts of life happen. You don’t have to be in control at all times. It’s okay if you fall apart. I promise I will be right here to put you back together if you just let me."

This was an interesting one for me. I picked it because it was available on KU as dual e-book and audio, so I could listen while I went about my day. I didn't mean to finish it in one day alone, but it sucked me right in.

I'm in two minds about it. If you'd asked me in the first 75% what I thought of it, I would have said it was great and recommended it, but the train quickly derailed for me. I still enjoyed it and I liked the story, but we all know I'm not capable of reading for just 'vibes' and there were a couple of plot twists that I felt came out of nowhere, for no reason, and weren't executed very well at all (their mother, Juniper's father, what really happened ten years ago). None of this really added to the story, in my opinion and the execution fell flat.

Still, there were a lot of gems in there for me. Having experienced a very similar injury in real life, one super common in ballerinas (three surgeries, constant pain, having to learn to walk on it again), I could relate a lot to everything Allie went through, and obviously the depression too.

Each time the pressure drove me to the surface for oxygen, it not only reminded me that my lung capacity was shit after going months without training, but also drove home the inescapable truth that I still wanted to live. Thirty-seven. For a couple of terrifying months, I hadn’t been entirely sure.

Fatigue won. Seems like it always does.

Sleep had become my greatest friend, and maybe, if I was being honest, a coping mechanism that was quickly turning into addiction. In unconsciousness, there were no ankle injuries, no rehabs, no decisions to be made about how hard to push myself and when. There were endless possibilities and zero consequences.

Speaking of Allie—and Hudson—I really liked them, their relationship was sweet and Hudson was obviously an (almost) perfect man (he went back for the dog!!).

"I told you I want you. I’m done hiding from it. Public. Private. Don’t care. This is real for me. It’s about to get messy."

“It’s already real. What do you need to feel safe?”

And Allie herself was a lovely, well-rounded character in general, I really liked her.

“You deserve someone who thinks you’re the world.”

However...

(There's always a however with me)

They very much felt to me like Xaden Riorson and Violet Sorrengail in a different font. Maybe it's just because I'm so entrenched in this fandom, maybe not, it's hard to tell being that it's my first contemporary of hers, but it felt like Rebecca has a type and that's cookie cutter versions of the same person, and also the same problems, same arguments, same conversations, even down to some lines.

I had a good chuckle at some of this:

“I want all of you. No masks. No walls. No more pretending what’s between us is fake when we both know it’s excruciating, and terrifying, and amazingly real. I want more than five minutes.” Panic shot into my blood like ice, but it quickly melted in the overwhelming heat coursing through me. “That’s not going to happen.” I’d never be foolish enough to let him in all the way again, not when he had a track record of leaving. “It is.” The certainty in his gaze didn’t stop me from lifting my hand to my other shoulder. “And I wish I was above using sex as a way to get you, to keep you. But I’m not.”

Oh God. If he stopped, I’d die. I’d simply combust right here and cease to exist.

“There’s no one else.” His lips ghosted across my stomach and his hands slipped under my shins. “Never was. Not for either of us.”

Hudson never lies to Allie...except by omission, in a big way. I had a little laugh at that. I also didn't really like Allie's sisters at all, or Hudson's, they're kind of terrible to them. I liked her best friend though: Rhiannon Kenna, and his brother Garrick Gavin, LOL.

All in all, I would recommend it, it was a good book, I'm just put off by the twists in the final 25% because I thought it was all going to tie together in a neat little bow, and it was anything but neat. A very strange ending and I'm left wondering why any of the book even happened. I don't know, those are my thoughts fresh off the final page 🤷‍♀️

If you've read it or any of her other contemporaries, feel free to let me know your thoughts.

[renthesilliestbeing]

Meaty Chan as Nyan cat :333

Drew this for an Utau cover I made!!

[cellsshapedlikestars]

You absolute WRETCH leaving us with that cliffhanger today!!!! I'm joking, but I really did gasp out loud! This has been such an interesting premise and so different and I'm really enjoying it!!! Poor Sansa, although I love that she can't help finding Jon attractive, even in these trying times. I can't believe there's only one chapter left, and I'm eager to see how you resolve it!

:)

And yes, the minute Sansa feels an ounce of hope and the chance of freedom (whatever form that takes), she turns back into her romantic lil self and starts noticing cute boys

[clearjello]

These were from Halloween! I just totally spaced and forgot to upload them 'til now :'D More Halloween hybrids because honestly, who can resist?

[relincreates]

Variation Showcase #5 (Flowers #1)

If you like what you see, pleasecfeel free to check out my pinned post.

[tutufreak]

Evgenia Obraztsova - Cupid Variation (2006)

[starclast]

Save you (Mini comic)

(Context: Minako is your final opponent before the battle against Nyx... 😢)