I am continuing to think about this https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113092395614511531 and I am finding myself overthinking this. Xenia stays in her room all day long, lit only by the banks of monitors, doing goodness knows what but she somehow makes rent. Tux is very tidy and organized and has a job at a big important company he goes out to every day which he takes very seriously. This is so that the artist gets an excuse to draw Tux wearing a little business suit
If rather than being alternative mascots Tux and Xenia both exist then they effectively become the animus and anima of Linux, and if they co-exist in one space then any narrative tension encountered between the two can mirror the reality of Linux's duelling selves
@mcc sure I'll give that a boost
@mcc tux and xenia's respective status as official and unofficial mascots of linux represents the relationship between the deity and demiurge. in this essay i will
@ireneista @emaytch @mcc speaking of information wants to be free, there's a book by cory doctorow called information doesn't want to be free, a very good read actually
@mcc no, yeah, good analysis
@mcc worksona and fursona
@mcc this works especially well when you remember the creator of tux is a project lead on dotnet wasm
@directhex This is extremely interesting to learn
I wonder what happened to the inventor of Xenia
*checks*
The only information I'm finding is that his fursona is a moose and he has drawn a very large amount of furry porn. It is unclear if this is actually his most significant accomplishment or it's just that the furry community has been more meticulous at documenting his activities than the community for whatever he does when he's not drawing erotic furry art
@mcc how did I not know about Xenia?
I've been unix and Linux at least as long as Xenia has been around
Always good to learn something each day I guess