#fallow-grove

[the-haiku-bot]

grarble

flef hfleeby

Dunlim chru whmoopik bububub? Horp wrumaaa lin sunkirvoogartop!

[kiwi-draws]

i just saw ur icon and hello i think we may be twinning !!!

woah!!! blue with pink hair 🤝

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

when you die if your ashes were to be melted down and made into a vinyl record, what song would you want on it

"Lovely Head" by Talking Heads

(I'm sorry, this just came into my head)

[daemonhxckergrrl]

synthia is such an awesome name ihope u have a nice day =]

thanks ^w^ you too !! also your blog is cute :3

[gavamont]

[fallow limps up to your doorstep, slightly burnt.]

hey gav do you have like Any idea where watts is, no please dont ask if we're together, or honestly just any way to either get sluttier, get high, or get the HONK away from. well. the um. help??

Oh shit, you were the thing I was stepping over when I left my tower? My bad. Yeah, let’s get you a quick fix up:

Wheat that was milled by titanous trolls

Salt that was mined by invisible moles

Lettuce and tomatoes stolen from gnomes

Prosciutto made from a swine that I combed

Condiments conjured, I bring forth arcane snack

I summon you: sammich of all hit points back!

[the-haiku-bot]

ALThi you. yes you.

you made me laugh out loud for

quite a bit (thank you)

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

yknow what would be a fucked up phone feature

[skulkie]

me when artists i know on tumblr

every person mentioned in the doorway + comic without profiles below the cut. everyone listed is super fucking cool please check them out!!

everyone mentioned in the picture:

@archangel-fucking-judas @definitely-a-wizard @leieryx @clownsindresses @thechangelingmushroom @warriorsofficial @fluffycat-wizard @mainmoenmomentmaybe @hummingbird-hunter @one-wizard-frob @lesbianknighterrant @elaboratingisfortheweak @the-orb-they-ponder @hummsartandwizardposting @elisabewitch @fallow-grove @d1nosaurpower @ahno-nimus @wizard-email @sophistikitten @henchwiz-gremlin @sorcererest-sorcerer @dreaming-by-starlight @barely-living-wizard-apprentice @wizardpigeon @bogglethebogwizard @faery-wizard @fairybumpkin @concoctionboy @friendlyneighborhoodgaypaganist @nebulous-apocrypha

to those who i've tagged, if you're looking at this and going "what the fuck i don't make art why am i here", i'm so sorry, i remember seeing you making art at some point and i thought your art was cool.

anyone who wants to be removed from the tag list will be removed! just let me know!

also if i accidentally tagged more than one of your blogs. um. whoops sorry did not know

comic without profile pictures:

[gothhabiba]

Fellah Cultivation Methods and Crops (1840-1914)

At the end of Ottoman rule, 75% of land was devoted to growing grains. A two-field system was common, with wheat and barley grown as winter crops on one half while the other half had a summer dew crop of sesame and Indian millet. The following season, the second half had the winter crop with the first half left fallow (Atran, 1986: 277). Other crops grown included dura, beans, fenugreek, and chickpeas, along with olives, grapes, cotton and oranges. Fallowing was widely used, allowing grazing cattle to feed on the fallow lands. The extensive system was not geared towards profit making but subsistence. The Ottoman government tried to outlaw fallowing by repossessing untilled land, but was largely unsuccessful (Atran, 1986: 278). Terracing was practiced in the hills with olive trees grown everywhere used as a source of oil and soap. By 1910 citrus groves covered 3,000 hectares. Vegetables were grown where irrigation was possible. The fellah [peasants] used homemade implements – a light nail plow, a sickle, a threshing board and two sieves [...].

Beginning with the 1858 Land Code, the Ottoman government, in an attempt to extract more taxes from the Fellaheen, tried to institute policies to transform land ownership. The goal was effectively to undermine «the system of collective holding and to institute an individual land-holding system» (Atran, 1986: 274). The code stipulated that a village could not communally own land and that titles should be given to each individual. Moreover, non-cultivated (Musha’a [collectively held]) land could not be the property of the fellah and would belong to the state. The 1876 Land Law decreed that Mulk [Sultan-granted] land held by notables who were not providing to services to the Sultan would be seized and could be sold to Europeans. One of the most notable purchasers was Baron Rothschild, who spent an estimated 10 million pounds sterling on land purchases, the construction of settlements, the establishment of plantations and manufacturing plants producing silk, glass, wine and water. He guaranteed the Jewish settlers who came to work on these plantations a minimum income (Aharoni, 1991: 57). At the same time the World Zionist Organization (WZO) was founded in 1897 and created the Keren Kayemet fund (JNF) for land purchases two years later. With their help, Jewish-owned land increased from 25,000 dunums [square kilometers] in 1882 to 1.6 million dunums by 1941.

Throughout these changes, the situation of the peasantry grew progressively worse as the tax burden increased. Often the fellah was forced to borrow money to make ends meet and many ended up selling the titles to their land, which they continued to work on, but with reduced benefits. By the turn of the century, six families in Palestine (the effendi) owned 23% per cent of all cultivated land, while 16, 910 families owned only 6% (Awartani, 1993).

The British Mandate (1914-1948)

Following the First World War, Palestine was designated as a mandated territory to Britain to rule the country until it become ready for independence. Along with this was the provision, first enshrined in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, to secure a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. When the British received the Mandate for Palestine, the land issue was highly contentious. This is because the Mandate included the incompatible goals of «encouraging close settlement by Jews on the land» while at the same time «ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced».

The British put into place policies that permitted the transfer of the land to the European settlers. The first being the transfer law of 1921, which granted individual holders the right to become the private owners of their land. Another law, the rural property tax, stipulated that land not cultivated for three years could be seized by the state and «be made use of in a more efficient way» (Zu’bi, 1981: 99). [...][D]espite new policies which tightened laws regarding Jewish land acquisition after 1929, the period of the mandatory government saw widespread expansion of Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine (Table 1). For example, from 1900 to 1927, the area owned by the Jewish sector expanded from 42,060 to 90,300 ha: an average increase of under 2,000 ha a year. While from 1932 to 1941, after the riots, the area expanded from 105,850 ha to 160,480 ha – an average annual increase of 6,000 ha.

The quality of the soils of the land purchased is debated among scholars. According to Alon Tal, an Israeli environmental historian: «Though the real estate that Arab landlords were willing to sell was largely malaria infested swamps and wastelands, new agricultural settlements soon began to dot the map of Palestine» (Tal, 2006: 4). On the other hand, «The main areas appropriated by European investors were those concentrated in the maritime plain, the most fertile area in Palestine, specializing in citrus production» (Atran, 1989: 739).

Zu’bi (1981: 99) also writes, «Under British Colonization, the land appropriated by European (Jewish) settlers was the most densely populated areas. In 1921, the transfer of 240,000 dunums in the Beisan (Galilee) area to the European sector resulted in the dispossession of 8,730 families living from this land. By 1929 it was reported, 29.4% of peasant families’ land [that is, the land of 29.4% of peasant families] was expropriated as a result of the Zionist settlement».

– 2009. Leah Temper, “Creating Facts on the Ground: Agriculture in Israel and Palestine (1882-2000),” Historia Agraria 48, pp. 75-110.

[d1nosaurpower]

Le game of Questions

Rules: if you’re tagged, answer question, tag your 3 mutuals, go to 36 closeness questions and pick one you like to ask them.

Let’s go!

@hummingbird-hunter @ahno-nimus @fallow-grove @skulkie

Would you rather lived to 90 y.o. and retain a 30 years old mind or 30 tears old body?

[wizard-eater]

WIZARD Wednesday! I lined some sketchies of my WIZARD pals I found in my WIZARD sketchbook! @humm-bird @fallow-grove

[flowers-and-pollen]

@hummingbird-hunter @hummbirb @elisabewitch @skulkie @wizard-gobling @sewi-li-suwi @d1nosaurpower @fallow-grove @candlewizard @muckmage @not-wizard-council-aristocrat @thechangelingmushroom @silver-weaver @8ball-wizard

You have all accepted the invitation and used the teleportation card.

[You appear in what seems to be a very big room with lots of pillows, beanbags, snack platters, some tvs and board games. All colored in shades of purple, blue, and a bit of yellow and black with designes of stars and the moon. On the cieling there is a big drawing of the sky night, with lines connecting the constellations in it. In front of you, you see witchy floating a few inches in the air in a purple fluffy unicorn onesie]

Welcome to my slumber party! I have some extra onsies for those who forgot pyjamas :)

[She snaps her fingers and into the room slides a clothing rack with onesies in all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes.]

Choose your favorite! Also, you are currently in my dimension, so i have control over everything here, and none of you can use your powers other then to leave without me wanting you to. So no real fights! Get along, all of you.

[By now witchy was sitting legs crossed, upside down. In the air.]

I brought you all here because i wanted to get to know you better. If you don't want to be here, that's ok. The door back to the dimension you came from is there.

[She points to the side of the room, where you now see there is a regular looking door.]

But! The goal is to have fun! So we're mainly here to have fun! Get to know eachother! Play games!

Let the slumber party begin! If any of you have any requests or questions, just ask me!

[You know realise all along her speech your legs were kind of stuck to the ground, but when she finished you were freed and can now walk (or float) around as you please.]

(Some of you havn't answered the invitation yet so i still put you here. You can ignore this if you want to.)

[kemetic-dreams]

To those who say there’s no connection between West Africa and ancient Egypt you may want to revise such notions.

The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is a native of West Africa. It flourishes in the humid tropics in groves of varying density, mainly in the coastal belt between 10 degrees north latitude and 10 degrees south latitude. It is also found up to 20 degrees south latitude in Central and East Africa and Madagascar in isolated localities with a suitable rainfall. It grows on relatively open ground and, therefore, originally spread along the banks of rivers and later on land cleared by humans for long-fallow cultivation (Hartley 1988: 5–7).

The palm fruit develops in dense bunches weighing 10 kilograms (kg) or more and containing more than a thousand individual fruits similar in size to a small plum. Palm oil is obtained from the flesh of the fruit and probably formed part of the food supply of the indigenous populations long before recorded history. It may also have been traded overland, since archaeological evidence indicates that palm oil was most likely available in ancient Egypt. The excavation of an early tomb at Abydos, dated to 3000 B.C., yielded “a mass of several Kilograms still in the shape of the vessel which contained it” (Friedel 1897).

A sample of the tomb material was submitted to careful chemical analysis and found to consist mainly of palmitic acid, glycerol in the combined and free state, and a mixture of azelaic and pimelic acids. The latter compounds are normal oxidation products of fatty acids, and the analyst concluded that the original material was probably palm oil, partly hydrolyzed and oxidized during its long storage.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hey, could you recite the minecraft end poem for me? i think i forgot how it goes

Of course. Here you go:

Tell me when you're home; it's always nice to see you. It's an odd experience, to say the least. And to be here. But it will all make sense in the end, right? Who knows, right? But it will, right?

more

Tell me when you're home; it's always nice to have you here, right? To see you. A few hours ago, I was mugged by a troll, but that's OK, right? To be home. Because, who knows, right? You came in the end, right? And the end will all make sense, right?

And it will, right?

Nice to see you. I've been here for a while. Who knows, right? You've come in the end.

And the end will make sense, right? Who knows, right? But you're here, and you always come in the end.

[chaos-familiar]

[while roaming the lab, you come across something strange. there appears to be food cooking on the stove, but Monsterfucker Research Wizard isn't home, and as far as you're aware, neither are MFRW's partners. you don't see anyone, but you hear a cabinet squeak suddenly as you turn the corner to check.]

... and WHat is tHIs? FOOD??

[I search for what caused the small noise, stepping slowly with a swaying gait... flapping my wings, talons clicking as I step on the hard floor... peering with a craning of my neck inside the cabinet... orbs of void look within.]

@fallow-grove

[sc3n3kitt3h]

Request 4 @fallow-grove: a (found) family of sparklecats

[hummingbird-hunter]

Picrew chain!

@archangel-fucking-judas @fallow-grove @muckmage @elisabewitch @skulkie @loveaetingkids @d1nosaurpower @reiki-tsubetai @wizardpigeon @raupeka