So, remember about a month ago when stuff about the Linux Fox Girl went around? Someone reportedly tracked down Alan Mackey, and got his blessing on giving her a name (Xenia), and accidentally confirmed the character to be trans.
Source: https://twitter.com/cathodegaytube/status/1269405917700710400
@Balina yoOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
@Balina holy shit i'm dying at him being like "yeah like half my linux friends turned into girls, might as well"
@minty_da *same*, oh lordy.
@Balina OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS
@Balina oh I'm -extremely- here for this
@Thaminga This sincerely made my dang night.
@Balina holy shiiiit!!!
i stan xenia so hard
@Balina They were always one of the good ones.
@Balina I'm thinking if they went with a transgender mascot it would have backfired. Even today I'm thinking it would.
People suck.
At least Tux is cute.
@gudenau I kinda skimmed past it when I was linking it, but the character was supposed to be a dude when drawn way back when, but the internet presumed them to be a fox girl when rediscovered lately. So the trans thing was actually an accident!
@Balina I guess that is a more modern thing, but if they switched to that now I bet a lot of people would drop Linux....
At least we didn't get a funny looking arc or something.
@Balina The next logical step is to make a Linux distro based off of her.
@KitsuneAlicia There used to be a distro that used her as the mascot, though it vanished sometime in the early 2000s, if my half-remembered research from last month is still any good.
@Balina YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@Balina omgggg
@Balina I love her even more now
Xenia is such a nice name too gosh
Old trans narrative/joke about tech: "The internet made me trans"
New trans narrative/joke about tech: "Linux made me trans"
@Balina I love this.
@Balina
Still wearing the same nerdy t-shirt from the early 90s.
I feel called out. :3
I high key love this particular line of development.
@Balina Originally drawn on an Amiga (likely in Dpaint) and is Trans? Hmm. There needs to be a distro that uses this as the mascot. Period.
(Of course I would want it to not use systemd but why am I not working on this yet)
@Balina oh my God, reeling at "well, all the other good Linux users I know are trans"
@BestGirlGrace what distro do you think vishen runs
@ben ironically, puppy
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@Balina you know I already liked this character but I'm pretty sure I just love her now
@Balina what did i tell you people
also it's pretty dope to see more art
@Balina that's a very nice illustration. Do you know if it's OK to use for personal use (wallpaper)?
Would be cool to replace my aging tux T-shirt too!
@M0YNG All I've done myself was find the tweet and (apparently) break the story here, so I definitely have no actual authority. I'd recommend following the source link and asking the person who did the real work.
That being said, I have never met someone who minds their work being used as a person's desktop wallpaper.
@Balina wow this really fucking rocks
@Balina at this point I'm wondering if there's estrogen somewhere in the linux build tree
@Balina This SLAPS
@Balina Fuck yeah! Never liked Tux anyway
Upon actually looking up the older post, the same user is the one who led to everyone realizing that Xenia was ever a contender for the Linux mascot, so I feel considerably more confident that this isn't someone just making stuff up out of nowhere.
https://twitter.com/cathodegaytube/status/1197227512075411456