(Alt text and typed out text of what’s in the notebook below)
Art for the @bunnies-in-the-archives event!
Art for @nyctolovian ‘s piece which you can read here
The rest of the collection can be found here
Image #1: Basira is in focus standing behind Jon's desk reading his "scrapbook". The visible page is information on slime mold with images of them drawn by Jon. (written below is what is in the notebook) The desk is blurred in the background has a statement in an open folder on it with a tape recorder sitting near by. Between the two is a notepad with a pen near by, what is on the notepad is blurred by it being in the background (but it’s a doodle of a cat). One drawer is open with a scarf falling out, there are boxes inside presumably full of art projects/supplies and a jar of paper cranes in many colours. Basira is a dark skinned woman wearing a mustard yellow hijab. She has dark brown eyes and wears a long sleeved dark muted purple jacket over a slightly lighter coloured shirt; she also wears black gloves.
Image #2: In the archives, Jon and Basira sit in front of a TV screen illuminated by it’s light. Jon is rambling about something happening on screen gesturing while Basira watches him with a smile. Behind them in the background are shelves of boxes and cobwebs. Jon is a dark skinned man with many scars including a very burnt hand and glasses. His eyes are dark brown and his hair is long, brown, and streaked with grey. His nails are painted black but badly chipped and he wears bracelets he made himself of the bisexual and asexual flags. His clothes are easy to confuse with the green blanket wrapped around his shoulders but it is a green top and green long skirt. Basira is now wearing a muted purple hijab. Her top and jacket are now dark muted greens and she has a light purple blanket over her legs.
Also I wanted to include here what is written in the notebook as the font can be hard to read:
Slime mold has been around for an estimated forty billion years though remained undiscovered until 1869. When first discovered they were classified as fungi and it took many years to be made part of the Kingdom Protista and class Myxomycetes. When in a properly moist environment slime mold is capable of “creeping” at a surprisingly quick pace of 1.35mm per second, meaning they can move several feet in twenty-four hours.
Physarum polycephalum was discovered in 2000, by Toshiyuki Nakagaki to be capable of solving simple mazes in search for food. Since then P. polycephalum has shown intelligent behavior raising the challenging question of if it can be considered “intelligent”. In testing this P. polycephalum was tested with a replica of the layout of Tokyo and the surrounding towns. Placing an oat* in the location of each of these towns and placing the slime mold in the place of “Tokyo” the replica was complete. P. polycephalum began exploring slowly and began making its way around creating an efficient system for reaching the food in the best way possible. Interestingly, the pattern the slime mold created was remarkably similar to the Tokyo subway system.
@jonmartinweek day 2: outsider pov! i didn’t completely know how to interpret that prompt but i got to draw a funny haha season 5 moment so it worked out in the end