Pumpkin

CAN'T STOP DRAWING THEM (i should be writing my master's degree.......)

another scene from @oof-ouch-yikes 's amazing fic! who would've thought! this time chapter 20 which I've been rotating in my mind every since I've read it. I love those two little guys I wish gay people were real.

some alt versions below!👇

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.

ghost's more into the kilt than soap thought he'd be

Rocky's foolproof prank 🪨😈

but given time, carl and grace become friends. they do their venus box experiment together and grace credits carl in front of representatives from all around the world when asked about his discoveries. the movie even calls them parents, which is obviously played as a joke, but as someone who loves to take things too seriously, i do think it's significant when rocky having a mate and the reasons grace doesn't have one become a trigger for more memories later down the line. and that's the thing. grace wants to have an emotional connection with stratt, but she denies him of any friendship outside of a professional relationship. so he's friends with carl instead

and somewhere along the way, grace and the audience forget that carl is an extension of stratt, so we need to be reminded and feel kind of stupid for forgetting. we know that carl works for stratt, but he's grace's friend, so his loyalty lies with him right? nope. just like stratt, carl errs in the side of humanity. so when grace is chased and held down, carl doesn't try to help him get free, he doesn't even appear to consider it. he's back to being an imposing figure enacting a will higher than grace's

however, in grace's final moments amongst humanity, it is carl who acts as stratt's mouthpiece and delivers the lines that she cannot say herself, but we understand they come from her because she showed enough vulnerability to tell grace that she believes in him: