the Frivolous Faun's Corner

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

Pots n Picks Week: Day 3 (modern au)

Not because I object to the queer reading (more! Give me more!) but because I object strenuously to giving artists and writers more credit than they deserve. Is something gay or was it created by people who think only male emotions and physicality should be taken seriously? Does the lead have the most chemistry with his rival because of sexual tension or because the female characters are badly written? Are they badly written or do they reflect societal assumptions you disagree with/don't experience? Etc, etc, from all angles, genders and directions.

It's far from the only example to irritate me, but in some ways I respect the average trans reading of Amuro and Char from Mobile Suit Gundam more than I do the average reading of them as gay for each other. At least the trans readings seem to be latching on to the ambiguity the writing carries towards how young men are raised to take their places as society's warriors and thus towards masculinity in general, rather than just the fact their emotional connection is deemed worthy of greater attention than any of the women in their lives.

The fact remains that both these facets have non-queer explanations rooted in the time, place and gender identity of the major creative figures. It's important to remember that, not because it invalidates any particular reading but because it's setting yourself up for disappointment to grasp for 'this is what they really meant'.

There's a high probability they didn't. And we have so many examples at this point of what happens when large numbers of people pin their hopes for queer representation on big, corporate stories that haven't a chance in hell of being allowed to go in that direction, or smaller-scale stories written by people who aren't inclined to provide that way. Not to mention that collapsing queer reading into queer expectation is so easily and obviously exploitable! How many 'first visibly queer' Disney characters are we up to now, exactly?

Which is without getting into the fine grain of what 'queer' looks like to different audiences and how all of this swings around in the other direction to complicate life for those genuinely trying to explore atypical gender and sexuality in fiction grumble grumble fume.

*deep breath*

Hello everyone! I have managed to find some clean cover art for delicious in dungeon, buried in some promotional italian pamphlet (JPOP Direct)! Some of the files were even separated in layers, i'll put it after the cut

>Among the characters there are one or two White characters with minor and/or distinctly antagonistic roles.

>White tumblr users focus entirely on said White characters.

>Tag of Black led piece of media is filled with posts about White character(s)

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

Trazyn looks couple millennia younger

Tzeentchie Orikan is still a birb