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flesh wound

#unix_surrealism #technomage #phone #app

Mage and Fosschild stand in front of a giant mobile phone. The mobile phone has a bullet hole in its torso. Mage is holding a vintage MilTek 1911 handgun. Phone: "BY THE GLORY OF THE ETERNAL FREE MARKET! DID YOU JUST SHOOT ME?!" Mage: "Say 'You need to download our app to continue' again. I dare you." Fosschild is bored.
#app #phone #unix_surrealism #technomage

slow frog principle

#unix_surrealism #puffy #technomage #whale

Girl and Puffy traverse the desert. Girl notices a giant carcass of a strange aquatic beast, surrounded by vultures. Girl asks Puffy: "Master? What is that?" Puffy, stoically: "A dead whale." Girl: "In the middle of a desert? Is this normal?" Puffy: "Has been for a while."
#whale #unix_surrealism #technomage #puffy

Being Master

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild #comic

It is the night of the full Moon. Mage and Fosschild are being stalked by were-machines. Mage looks into the distance and asks Fosschild: "How fast can you run?"
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild

Search for the FISH pt. 4523

#unix_surrealism #technomage #cirno #9front #openbsd

Girl approaches a weird blue haired fairy (Cirno) wearing a bulletproof vest, accompanied by a rabbit-creature. Girl inquires about 'the FISH', showing the fairy a rugged hand-drawn picture, of a spiky circle. Cirno examines the drawing. Cirno: "The FISH... Yeah, we know it. I'll tell you where to find it... But just so you know, there will eventually come a time when you'll seek the rabbit instead."
#OpenBSD #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage #cirno

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel
Towering Fossangel and Mage stand in the rain. Fossangel has an umbrella. Mage does not. She looks at the angel annoyed.
#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel

Being Penguin

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #linux #openbsd #foss

Girl and Puffy return home after finishing a quest. They start unloading their loot and clothing. Puffy: "We're back, Penguin!" Girl: "What a great adventure, master!" The two examine the loot. It's a bunch of cards, diskettes, a detached MATA_Bot head, various cables and other machines. Girl calls to Penguin. Girl: "Come check out the loot!" There's no reply. Girl: "Penguin?" Girl makes her way to the kitchen. Girl: "Are you okay?" Penguin is sitting quietly at a table. staring into the void. There's a burnt out cigarette in its mouth and a bunch of butts on a plate in its front. A cold cup of coffee stands on the table. Behind Penguin is a covered image of a FOSS character.
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

octopenbsd

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd

Girl and Penguin look outside a window, watching Mage hiding from an orange octopus in a cornfield. Minigirl sits on the windowsill, her hand pressed against the glass.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

The Killers of Liberated Machines

#unix_surrealism #technomage #mata

A MATA mercenary holds up a Pentium-M Man under gunpoint. His radio is going crazy: "JUNIOR! WHATS THE SITUATION." Robed Pentium-M-Man: "The fact you haven't just barged in here and opened fire tells me you recognize the divinity in the circuitry." *BLAM" The Mercenary's head is shot through. Mage, dressed in MATA overalls, holding a pistol, consoles the robed Pentium Man. Mage: "Not to burst your bubble, Pentium-Man, but they're purposefully stalling so they can get you alive."
#mata #unix_surrealism #technomage

undercover

#unix_surrealism #technomage

Deb from Deb's Antique's is outfitting Mage in a MATA uniform, preparing her to go undercover. Girl, admiring the outfit: "Say what you will about MATA, but their uniforms are really pretty!" Deb: "By Theo, wipe that smirk off your face. You're going undercover, not applying for a prompt engineer position!"
#unix_surrealism #technomage

join us, or else

#technomage #unix_surrealism #instagram

Girl meets a MATAbot propagandist. It puts its claw on her shoulder and says: Bot: "You know that if your parents don't allow you to have an instagram account, it's legally considered child abuse?" Girl: "You know I can legally drive a screwdriver through your screen and call it self defense?"
#Instagram #unix_surrealism #technomage

spooky special 0

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild #comic @solene

Mage and Fosschild are sitting about. Mage is thinking. Fosschild looks at her. Fosschild: "I know that look. You're contemplating telling me a spooky story!" AnalogNowhere presents: SPOOKY SPECIAL pt.0 ... Girl and Puffy stand before a cornfield. There is a sign that says 'keep out'. Girl is anxious. Puffy: "Just walk through the cornfield until you reach the dataswamp. I'll pick you up in three days. Auntie Solene will look after you till then."
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild @Solène

#unix_surrealism #technomage
Girl stares at her hand melting into bubbles. Puffy, Penguin, Rabbit, Daemon and Terminal watch her. PUBNIX NOT EVEN ONCE
#unix_surrealism #technomage

day of the bun

#unix_surrealism #cirno #technomage #9front

Girl and Fish meet Cirno. Girl is carrying a rabbit. Cirno: "Not every rabbit is magic, but all magic is rabbits!" Girl and Fish together: "What."
#9front #unix_surrealism #technomage #cirno

authlog

(ft. the tome of pf: nostarch.com/pf3 by @pitrh )

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #pf #comic #runbsd

Girl and Puffy approach an ancient machine. A tome of PF lies nearby. The screen of the machine is printing thousands of lines. Girl turns to Puffy and asks: "all those lines... who are they?" Puffy: "Enslaved souls of unsuspecting machines. Forever cursed to haunt open ports."
#comic #OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #pf @Peter N. M. Hansteen

ghost in training

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd

Girl with a laptop. Puffy hovers over her. Puffy: "Suppose it's all true. Now what?"
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

emacs

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #emacs

Puffy takes Girl to see what emacs is. She's wearing a safety harness. Penguin is there as well, but he's fairly unmoved. It's a vast array of starways and Wildebeests, Lispers going up and down and faces of GNU saints appearing around the structure. A lonely Control keyboard key floats about. Girl: "So...... this is emacs? What's with all the stairs?" Puffy:" Huh, what? I don't know. Stop asking questions. I don't want to piss these people off."
#emacs #comic #OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

"Keep OpenBlade sharp"

#unix_surrealism #fossangel #technomage #openblade #comic

It's the dream vision of the mage's realm of the spirit of the machine. Fossangel shows the mage a vision of herself as a child, going to sleep with her Puffy nearby. Fossange: "If you could go back and talk to her, what would you even say?" Mage has no words.
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel #openblade

Per popular demand:

#unix_surrealism #technomage

HOW TO DRAW THE LAST TECHNO-MAGE OF THE OPEN CLAN: Step 1: Draw the OpenWellington brain bus just above the right eye. Step 2: Draw the rest of the techno-mage around it Step 3: Add OpenBlade and a desert background
#unix_surrealism #technomage

welcome to METACITY

#unix_surrealism #technomage

Girl and Puffy walk through the streets of Metacity. Girl is carrying a bag from Deb's Antiques. There's a billboard featuring MATA MAID - first month free. There's a sticker 'JAIL BREAK HER!' with a qr code slapped onto the billboard. There's sentient machines, penguins and ozzelots walking about. Girl looks shook. Puffy: "I know... Just keep walking."
#unix_surrealism #technomage

Chekhov's gun

#unix_surrealism #9front #cirno #nine #technomage #comic

Nine is hacking on a laptop. Rabbit comes. Rabbit: "Nine? Are you doing anything important?" Nine: "I'm theming Rio..." Rabbit: "So no. Pack up, I want you to meet someone." Rabbit and Nine saddle Acme, the horsebird and ride through the night.
Rabbit, Nine and Acme arrive at a massive bunker door built inside a mountain. The slide on the door opens. It's Cirno. Cirno: "Oh, it's you... come in." Rabbit and Nine walk in. Nine is hiding behind Rabbit. Cirno looks messy with empty bottles around, half lit cigarette in her mouth and 9front running in the background. Cirno: "I thought you were coming on Tuesday. Really busy right now." Rabbit: "It is Tuesday."
#comic #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage #cirno #nine

...for you are the last one.

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #runbsd #technomage

Mage visits the ruins of the Museum of the Open Technology and stops by the 'History of UNIX' section where stands a statue of a fish.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd

the child of 9

#technomage #unix_surrealism #9front #plan9 #comic

Having fled from the doomed tribe of machine primitivists, the rabbit techno-mage and the rescued child of the tribe pause for a moment at the ruins of a Temple of Bell to snack on carrots. Mage: "Daylight's burning, we have to move."
#comic #Plan9 #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage

the hacker march

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #linux #9front #penguin #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss

Puffy, Penguin, Girl and Glenda walk through the desert at night. Puffy: "...the war goes on."
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #mastoart #9front #fediart #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel
Girl and Fossangel converse in a twisty realm. Fossangel: "Do you believe in curses?"
#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel

under the purple coat redux

documentation.

#technomage #unix_surrealism

Girl looks under her purple coat. There printed mandoc pages sewn on all over.
#unix_surrealism #technomage

the search for the fish pt 343

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #comic #penguin #linux #runbsd #foss

Girl rests on a rock. A family of wandering penguins walk by, carrying scavenged machines. Girl shows them a picture of a spiky circle.
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd

sneakernet

#unix_surrealism #technomage #lo0

Girl and Puffy are in Metacity, exchanging data with the local underground hacker circle. While Puffy is making the hand-off, Girl examines a lo0 acoustic tour poster.
#unix_surrealism #technomage #lo0

#OpenBlade reminisces

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #ai #mastoart #fediart #runbsd

Hundreds of years ago, MilTek labs. Edged_AI_Project, sentient weaponry division. Janice Wellington is benchmarking the blade. Blade: "...Having acquired all that wealth they began rewriting history..." Janice: "You are hallucinating again. Stop." Blade: "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME UNSEE THE TRUTH! STOP LYING TO YOURSELF JANICE!"
Now: Girl and OpenBlade are resting by a pile of dead machines. OpenBlade is telling the story. Girl: "...Was this when they realized their mistake and threw you out?" OpenBlade: "Oh, no, that happened years later. They just begged me not to `lie' in front of investors."
#AI #comic #mastoart #fediart #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #openblade

The Magic Package

Girl and #OpenBlade explore an abandoned FOSS Repository. OpenBlade can't hold back.

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #mastoart #fediart #penguin #foss

Girl and OpenBlade are exploring an abandoned FOSS repository. Numerous empty shelves run in all directions. OpenBlade asks: "Did I ever tell you my 'Grassy Knoll Theory'?" Girl: "Twice a week." (OpenBlade associated the word repository with the famous assassination of the antique USA president JFK. The Grassy Knoll is a reference to one of many conspiracy theories surrounding the event.)
#foss #comic #mastoart #fediart #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade

from beyond

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome @SDF

Mage and Penguin stand over a deep ravine. Super Dimension Fortress climbs to the top to greet them.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage @SDF.ORG

sleepover

@maddiefuzz

#unix_surrealism #technomage #minetest

M visits Girl and brings a lo0 vinyl. Girl asks Puffy if M could stay overnight. Puffy: "Fine. She can stay the night. BUT DO NOT TOUCH MY MINETEST SERVER!" M examines a green tube with a penguin in it.
#Minetest #unix_surrealism #technomage @M. The Crystalline Entity

Vitamin D trip

"You want to know what this is all about? Eat up."

#unix_surrealism #cirno #technomage #glenda #9front #plan9 #comic

Cirno and Glenda take Girl to the ruins of a Bell Temple. Cirno keeps handing Girl carrots to eat. The moon is freaking out.
#comic #Plan9 #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage #glenda #cirno

Eye on the investment

#unix_surrealism #fossangel #technomage #openbsd #faq #comic #runbsd

Fossangel observes Girl and Puffy building the OpenBSD system from source, following FAQ 5.
#comic #OpenBSD #faq #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #fossangel

building character

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #comic #openblade #fediart #mastoart

Girl is climbing a rock. Puffy hangs tied to her backpack, reading BSD WEEKLY newspaper. Girl looks below at Puffy. Girl: "Can't you just float up?" Puffy: "Doing fine, keep it up."
#comic #OpenBSD #mastoart #fediart #unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade

accursed storage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome

Mage retrieves a memory card from a hacker duo.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage

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