Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.

She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying "It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know" and "And sure, you made her trans!".

So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that's neat.


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  • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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    unchecked transphobia! at the Irish web fishing server:( just got the game and now I never wanna play it again. im prejudiced against the country folk on this island ngl. fuck me for wandering out of overtly communist online spaces for like, 20 minutes i guess lol. it's bad out there.

      • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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        web fishing is a new game that's getting popular, it's like an animal crossing type fishing thing that's also a social chatroom. it's very cutesy and extremely gay. i picked it up on steam for a fiver and joined a populated server called "Irish webfishing". it's not an official server or anything someone is just hosting it.