“Hello, I Am Walaa Ayoub, The Aunt Of The Child Saba Ayoub. Saba Is A Young Blind Girl Who Is Currently

Namor already enamored I must say 🤭

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(The way his eyes shifted from looking at Queen mother then to Shuri then he couldn't help but smile lmao simping on the very first day. Checking her measurements from head to toe for a royal dress full of jade that he would make for her later lmao)

The Water-Purifying Storm Drain

Some trees in the municipality have come down, which means free wood chip mulch! I am glad to finally start covering up the newspaper mulch layer around the swale.

I have been picking up urban concrete waste, rocks, shells, and ceramic waste, in order to make a drainage layer in the water reservior. It’s all coming together in bits and pieces of recycled materials. As with the clay extraction project: a little bit of collection and recycling each day adds up to a lot of raw materials.

This water-collecting and filtering project has been a few months in the making: building a wood hügel, digging a swale, planting an edible tree and shrub border, planting pollinator-feeding erosion control seed mix on the berm, and planting semi-aquatic irises that filter water and hyperaccumulate pollutants like heavy metals. 

Once finished, this crescent-shaped drain should relieve flooded conditions on the grass plane and patio, while providing a space for the disposal of local concrete waste and broken ceramics.

In a few years, it can be mulched over and turned into a rain garden.

I based the idea on things I read while learning about landscape stormwater management, phytoremediation and phytomining: I wanted to use largely botanical, recycled, or self-harvested components to build a drain that also functions as a place to process waste, and as a habitat and source of sustenance to local wildlife. It’s modelled on a bioretention water processing/groundwater recharge cell.

VIRGINIA DEQ STORMWATER DESIGNSPECIFICATION No. 9     BIORETENTION

A number of the drainage elements – especially shells and concrete – are also meant to catch small amounts of water, in order to provide drinking water for the beehive I am currently installing.

Seeds are germinating on the berm, so soon the whole thing will be covered in flowers, and yet again virtually unrecognisable!

The whole project has been free of cost, and made with recycled, collected, or traded materials.

Ben Solo my babey!! Just like his dad and proud of it. I love drawing him like this :’))

this fucking killed me

Pretty dope. Check out that episode below!

The difference here has me cackling.

So the ATLA-Spop AUs have been going around a lot and I'm loving it! But I can't really contribute much - cause I can't draw for shit haha. BUT I did take a few martial arts classes in uni so I'm doing the next best thing: giving everyone else who can draw reference posts for the bending styles.

OK ok, so the only styles I remembered were for firebending and waterbending, (tai chi and Northern Shaolin) so I had to skim over the ATLA wiki page to find our what styles were used for earth and air.

First of Waterbending (Tai Chi, aka the martial arts style that I was the most horrible at)

Tai chi requires A LOT of concentration and strength cause your movement is calm and precise, slow and steady. My coach took one look at me and booted my impatient ass off to a different style.

Earthbending (Hung Gar, with the exception of Toph who uses a different style)

I just realized that this photo is not as clear as I thought it would be. Anyway, Toph's style is the Southern Praying Mantis bc of course our girl stood out from everyone else.

Firebending (Northern Shaolin, I used Chang Quan as a reference for this)

Fun fact, I was a good fit for this style of martial arts, but because it required long arm and leg movements and I was too short, I got booted to Nan Quan. Here's another Northern Shaolin style image

Last but not least, Airbending (Ba Gua Zhang style)

I couldn't do this one either cause apparently it required grace, which I had none of.

Anyways, I hope you artist's out there find this useful! I want all of you to know that I love your works and pls keep them coming my soul needs them to thrive

I FORGOT

Hands

Unrelated meeting sketches :D

#mood

Barson Season 16 Episode 16 December Solstice