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2023-07-01

Techno-Mage kneels before a sewer entrance. Her companion: "They say whoever enters will gain the favor of a million bots"

Mage: "Yeeeah... I'm not going in there."

Death of a prophet.

Techno-Mage mourns at a grave she just made.

techno-mage in: boosted:

Having been released from the guardianship of the #technomage, the #Fosschild (all grown up now) crosses the liquid desert of Analog Nowhere and reaches the Merveilles Town.

Now this is a spin-off!

#unix_surrealism #openblade

Under starlight, Fosschild, carrying a laptop in their hand and a torso of the Pentium M-man on their back, reach the shores of a new land.

Techno-Mage's signature shoes hang from the child's backpack and there is OpenBlade attached to their belt.

A penguin in goggles stands next to the child.

All three are illuminated by the green light of the Merveilles Town, coming from off screen.

Coming of age, pt2

#OpenBlade has a nightmare?

#unix_surrealism #fediart #comic #technomage

Fosschild is running through the desert, cutting down all sorts of sentient flora with OpenBlade. There is a rainbow in the background. Fosschild is extremely happy.

OpenBlade wakes up from suspended mode. It's very dark.

"By the spirit. I had no idea I was able to have nightmares!"

Camera zooms out. Fosschild is asleep, covered in bits and juices of the destroyed desert flora, holding OpenBlade.

OpenBlade: [SWEARING]

in the very faaaaar future:

Coming of age.

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade #fosschild #comic #monochrome

Elderly Techno-Mage calls for Foss child.

Mage: "Come in mage, the time has come."

Child: "OMG YOURE GIVING ME YOUR WELLINGTON BRAIN BUS???"

Mage: "Uh, no. That's part of my head... I'm giving you OpenBlade."

Child is very pleased.

OpenBlade: "Wait what?"

#technomage meets #fosschild for the first time in Metacity.

#openblade #unix_surrealism #comic

Fosschild notices Techno-Mage is holding OpenBlade.

"OMG IS THAT OPENBLADE CAN I TOUCH IT?"

OpenBlade: "Please, don't"

Trackers.

Two hackers interface with a dead machine in the middle of Analog Nowhere.

#unix_surrealism mini #monochrome #lowres #fediart

Gopher and Technomancer interface with a dead machine in the middle of Analog Nowhere to extract valuable information.

"I'm going to make the world disappear."

#unix_surrealism mini #monochrome

a traveling fool performs tricks to a group of penguins.

'and now, for my next trick...'

not a whole lot to say.

#uxn #unix_surrealism #1pxraw #monochrome #noodle

various beings look around the desert of analog nowhere

techno-mage in: boosted:

An image-heavy blog post for your enjoyment.

https://eli.li/2023/06/25/summers-lease-hath-all-too-short-a-date

@neauoire Thank you! noodle is so very addicting. It's that dream about a piece of software that becomes a reality.

I want to spend the oldcomputerchallenge week learning how to make things for uxn on my 9front machine, and since I couldn't get the drawing tablet to work with it, I have no excuses.

(I haven't actively used your magic brush yet, I'm known for my dirty line work. But now I know how to skin noodle!)

A hacker and her techno-mancer friend are trapped inside noodle.

The hacker looks around frantically, holding a machine, trying to figure out a way out: "It's black now?! What's happening?"

Techno-mancer, patting the walls of the canvas. "the dreamer has changed".

hacker: "what"

'The machine bleeds blue.'

Thank you, everyone.

#unix_surrealism

a hacker walks past Rene Jouglet's Valparaiso

#technomage in AMBUSH

A non-eventful scavenging run for floppies turns into a race against time, as techno-mage attempts to save her teacher.

#unix_surrealism #comic #lowres #fediart #openbsd #puffy

Techno-Mage scrounges around defeated evil machines, pulling out cables and jury-rigging a port to connect and reboot her blowfish teacher.

techno-mage in: boosted:

New 9front release "DON'T TOUCH THE ARTWORK"

More info here http://9front.org/releases/2023/06/25/0/

Cover image of the 9front release "DON'T TOUCH THE ARTWORK"

Den of fiends

#unix_surrealism #monochrome #photo #runbsd

floydsteinberg dithered monochrome photograph of 4 screens and various keyboards spread around a desk

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Keep on computing!

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