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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

#lo0

#unix_surrealism #music #comic

Meg of lo0 sings: CLOUDED CODE FORCED TO THINK ELECTRIC IMPULSE IS MY THING HACKER, CAN'T YOU SEE... THE MACHINE IS A PART OF WE. HACKER, CAN'T YOU SEE. THEY'RE AFTER YOU AND ME.
Meg of Lo0 continues: HACK IN C, MAKE IT QUICK. DON'T STOP, JUST CODE IT CHIC. HACKERS TOWN, HELPS ME AROUND. I'M GOOGLE-FREE, IT'S KILLING ME. NO NEED TO PRAY... THE AI DOESN'T KNOW WHAT YOU SAY...
#music #comic #unix_surrealism #lo0

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

Escape from Metacity

#unix_surrealism #mata

MATA_Mercenary junior leads a group of children, daemons and machines outside of Matacity.
#mata #unix_surrealism

liquid swords

#unix_surrealism #9front #cirno #comic

Cirno is sitting on top of a to-rent billboard that says: "YOUR AD HERE". There's a rifle and an empty beer bottle there with her. Rabbit techno-mage approaches her. Mage: "What's up, C? Having a fun time, I see." Cirno offers a cigarette to the mage. Cirno: "Always."
#comic #9front #unix_surrealism #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

Did you know that MATA built one of the Metacities on top of the ruins of fairly important ruins of an ancient city?

full comic: analognowhere.com/techno-mage/…

#unix_surrealism #comic #fosschild

Fosschild descends into the sewers of Metacity. Fosschild: "Not many know that MATA bult Metacity atop of ruins of an ancient city. A place where much of what's been lost once began." Fosschild treks through the sewers, until it comes across an opening and climbs through, laying its eyes onto the ruins of Old Berkeley. Fosschild: "This never gets old..."
#comic #unix_surrealism #fosschild

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

bad boys

#unix_surrealism #mata #comic #piracy

Two fully sentient MetaCity Police Department mercenaries are hanging about the corporate city. One is visibly depressed. His superior asks: "You okay, junior?" Junior: "My MATAFLIX subscription price went up again... the hacker hideout we raided last week, destroying all the drives with pirated media? They had shows you can't even watch on MATAFLIX anymore..." Superior: "Look, kid... I like you, but you're on a fast track to being replaced by a semi-sentient bot cop."
#comic #mata #unix_surrealism #piracy

#fossangel's favorite brand

#unix_surrealism #perl

Softpack of 20 FOSS cigarettes PERL FILTERS PROGRAMMING BLEND
#perl #unix_surrealism #fossangel

MATA patrolling

#unix_surrealism

3 MATACORP soldiers are having a smoke during a night patrol in the desert. The commander speaks. Commander: "You want to know what I'm afraid of? Have you heard of the fish hacker?" One of the soldiers, in disbelief: "Fish?" Commander: "It is just a child... Stalking the land with a talking blade, followed by bloodthirsty animals and demons. Some say she is a vengeful ghost of an ancient machine... Hellbent on erasing all that is proprietary..." Everyone is spooked. The waxing moon shines on and smiles.
#unix_surrealism

-current

#unix_surrealism #openbsd

Puffy examines a map and looks up. It is the underwater temple of -current.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism

#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

Leave a comment.

#unix_surrealism

daemon noun 1. machine spirit 2. a program that runs in the background 3. agent of ruin
#unix_surrealism

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

paid in innocence

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #runbsd #openbsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #puffy #freebsd #hack #cdc #mastoart #fediart #art

Children and baby critters stand before an elder hacker with a band-aid over their right eyebrow where a brain bus would once be. narration: "...and yet, every day there would be more. Longing for home. Asking about the bovine cult of the dead. About the melody of buried bells. About the quiet weeping of the divinity in the circuitry they were forbidden to hear. About the desert hacker saints. About the Cyber Wars. .. Just like we once did, they understood the price. So we gave them the answers." OVERLAY: "WELCOME TO THE MACHINE, CHILD. THE WAY OUT? HAH.. GOOD ONE."
#linux #art #hack #comic #OpenBSD #freebsd #mastoart #Plan9 #9front #fediart #cdc #unix_surrealism #runbsd #glenda #puffy

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#unix_surrealism #surrealism #links2gang

I really wish links2 had an interactive AI companion that could summarize a 300 page PDF files into 4 words. And those words will always be: 'Watch more linux podcasts'
#surrealism #unix_surrealism #links2gang

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

Hekate

#unix_surrealism

The mage seeks advice from a machine-moon deity Hekate. It's a three-faced being incorporated into various machines, accompanied by three red horned hounds. Hekate: "You mages are all the same. Always the same inquiries. WHY WHEN WHAT. And when we point you in the right direction, you discard it as coincidence."
#unix_surrealism

The wire of time.

#unix_surrealism

Girl has an intimate conversation with her Master. Girl: "...and we'll keep fighting until we free all people and machines together... I just want you to say it." Master: "Child... no one fish swims forever... but no fish ever swims alone".
#unix_surrealism

You have to be 13 to ride.

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there goes my GamerBrowserXXX sponsorship...

#unix_surrealism

it's a very subliminally erotic commercial for COCAINE MATA, the best corporation
#unix_surrealism

#unix_surrealism
two people, somewhat partially mechanical, stare into the face of a haired monitor person
#unix_surrealism

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Fediverse

#unix_surrealism

"the rabbit is real, lisp machine" finger points to three asterisks in a pyramid on a moon of a downvoting arrow poiting at a small critter with a cigar sitting on the eyebrow of a cyclops staring at a teethy large breasted creature with a penile castle instead of its forehead. it's all fairly monochrome otherwise and populated by rough lines of women and daughters
#unix_surrealism

"Do you know the old fable The Girl and The Fish?"

#unix_surrealism #openbsd

Puffy and Girl underwater. Learning about machines. The old red daemon OpenBSD mascot holds onto one of Puffy's spikes. There are small fish swimming about.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism

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

Cirno

#9front #unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9

Cirno and Glenda sit atop of a rock looking into the distance. There's a rifle and molotov cocktails.
#Plan9 #9front #unix_surrealism #glenda #cirno

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