We plot the corresponding angles in Figure (f,g). Intuitively, the contractile drop increases the contact angle (as it pops out of the soft surface) and extensile drop decreases the angle (as it goes deeper) [see Fig. ]. Finally, we plot the behavior of active drop for various stiffness of the substrate in Figs. ). We see that the system asymptotically attains fixed values for parameters such as 𝑅 € and 𝜃 among others in the limit of extremely stiff and extremely soft substrate, which in a loose sense represents an error-function. Which is what one must expect as extremely stiff substrate is equivalent to a rigid solid, while a drop on an extremely soft substrate is equivalent to a drop on an immiscible fluid. Overall, we see that for drops bounded with ST, the AS does not stretch or squish the underlying solid directly, rather decreases (increases) the pressure required to attain a specific curvature for a contractile (extensile) drop. This understanding extends even to non-uniform polarization field, where we can expect AS to locally compensate (or counterpose)