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[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] notptr@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also to add cirno is the defualt host name for 9front system. 9front is a plan 9 fork

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago

The rabbit hole goes deeper than I realized!

[-] notptr@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 10 months ago

Just need to follow the white rabbit

[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Or swallow the rabbit whole

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