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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sadly I had a nightmare experience with a transphobe on the populated Irish server within 20 minutes of installing:( nobody else was even calling him out. i will probably revisit the game but that more or less ruined my day. gamers never change I guess, mind boggling in a game as woke as this like you say though. i gotta find some commie servers, been burned too many times venturing out of explicitly left wing online spaces.
That really sucks. Damn gamers, they ruined gaming!
It's really easy to make your own server though. Just name it something like Commie Turboqueer Toothbrush Kleptomanics and it will attract the right people. Plus if you create the server then you can boot people out of it if someone is being a shithead.
Also keep in mind that there's always room for one more in your blocklist. You don't have to put up with that bullshit. You don't deserve it.
i will probably give hosting one a go, that's one of the first things my mind went to. yeah it sucked, I'm sure I just got very unlucky considering the vibe of the game but I was hungry and in a bad mood and ended up getting in a scrap with them instead of just wisely muting. thanks for the kind words
Yelling at transphobes is always praxis. Don't let doing that steal your joy though. Reclaiming your peace is just as valid