OK, I am willing to break the ice here: What is this community actually about? I’ve been seeing these comics in my feed for the last 3 months and trying to connect the dots between the posts to get the idea behind the lore, but so far I’m drawing a blank apart from a hint that it could be related to Linux. Maybe I need to be a computer nerd to get the jokes or…I am not taking the community title seriously enough.
I have no clue, I just draw it.
Iconic answer
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Wait, are you the original artist of these comics?
Does the original artist of these comics owe you money?
If no, then yes. It is I.
It’s incredibly awesome seeing a talent like yourself posting regularly on a platform like Lemmy. I fully respect and commend you and your efforts to actively engage with the community here, regardless of how I make sense of the comics personally.
There is an overarching story… in my head anyway. But as it all stands now, in the spirit of surrealism, I leave it up to the audience to connect the dots however they please.
But in the end, it really is just FOSS propaganda.
And thank you, I appreciate it.
Do you oneironaut?
Sounds dangerous.
In the spirit of surrealism I was about to answer: what dots? 😂
How to summon a surrealist:
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Most of the posts here are webcomics made by pmjv, the poster of this thread – though other people can and sometimes do post their own art. pmjv makes a surrealist webcomic (see Analogue Nowhere) that incorporates various themes and imagery related to Unix-derived and Unix-adjacent operating systems.
Note that the imagery drawn from is not just things associated with Linux (which famously has a penguin mascot), but also OpenBSD (started by Theo de Raadt and which has a pufferfish mascot), Plan 9 (which has a bunny mascot called Glenda), etc.
There are elements from other fandoms (e.g. Cirno, who appears in some comics, is from Touhou and is associated with ⑨ because of an old joke – which seems to have become entangled with Plan 9 in pmjv’s mind), influences from tech politics, and whatever other crazy things are bouncing around in pmjv’s head.
It’s good surrealist fun, generally.
