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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - May 10, 2026, 09:12:06 PM

Kind of a follow up to the previous thing. Inspired by the convo Stew & I had about Whirlwind loving her kids a lot, but not understanding what children are into, or having a good sense of what's child appropriate or not, because she didn't have a childhood herself.

Exemplified by her habit of taking them to schlocky B-movies at the worst theater in town.

(RIP Scollay Square)

#2

OS-tan Talk / Re: Most underrated OS-tans?

Last post by stewartsage - May 09, 2026, 08:53:41 PM

3.1-sama and MS-DOS-tan definitely agree.

IBSYS-tan, UMES-tan, and BESYS-tan.  Any of the mechanical/hydraulic -tans. (For fan stuff)

#3

Forum Games and Role-Playing / Re: Forum Games: World City Co...

Last post by Bella - May 09, 2026, 08:52:42 PM

Acapulco, Mexico

#4

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: teku-a-fool's collection

Last post by Bella - May 09, 2026, 08:50:43 PM

I don't think I will draw full art of these ideas just yet as I want to focus on drawing other OS-tans (and need to slow down) but I wanted to scratch an itch and thought of some ideas for Linux Mint.
I've seen other artist's designs which I like a lot but I wanted to try for myself. What I usually see is that artist do a gijinka for the whole distro. Which makes sense I guess with the way distros releases work. There are often not many changes within versions to make them feel unique I suppose, too.

How fun! I'm not used to seeing designs for particular distro releases but I like how much flavor you were able to give each one. I think 20.1 is my favorite!

#5

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - May 09, 2026, 08:46:59 PM

IAS-sama for the occasion :3

[Big Sur:]

#6

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: teku-a-fool's collection

Last post by stewartsage - May 09, 2026, 08:42:29 PM

Almost done with my designs for the remaining macOS friendos, only Sequoia and Tahoe to go.
It is really fun playing with the color palette already provided with each release. I'm mainly using them to style the hair of each design.

In the meantime, these are the ones I've completed:

Big Sur: I just wanted to draw a girl with the old anime nerdy glasses, no other reason lol. Her hair kinda worked out since it looks like an apple, imo. I like to think she is very chill and likes to nerd out about the Apple Silicon (that powers her?)

The California location naming scheme's fun for the more recent Apple OSes.  I like your designs.  Part of the process is just kinda flying off how it feels things should look (and what elements you wanna include).  I like Tahoe's big ass boots and power stance.

According to the Linux Mint's about page, they seem to consider 13 Lisa a regression (messy UI and stuff) which made me think of a familiar green-haired clumsy maid.

Maid!  Good inspiration!

3.0 Cassandra, again, according to the site, is around the time when the distro started to have a stronger image of itself and while looking for inspiration I saw that image in the old image gallery.

Oh I remember this version.

Maybe a bad idea, considering the amount of distros that are out there (makes me shudder) but eh. whynot

If you stick with the ones that interest you, hopefully it won't be too many!  Or some that have a stronger image over the arc of the distro.

#7

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by stewartsage - May 09, 2026, 08:28:32 PM

Bendix G15-tan, as a small snack

The tube dawg, dawg with the tubes....

Speaking of computer yuri, some OS/360-tan x MTS-tan

Perfect.  The divinely ordained yuri between official IBM and the IBM OS we have at home (also many other locations across the world).  Cuddles are great, but the workout shot...

#8

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: My 20th -tanniversary Proj...

Last post by stewartsage - May 09, 2026, 08:25:42 PM

I believe in you!  152 is a hell of a lot of OS-tans...

#9

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by VonDaab - May 09, 2026, 02:51:57 PM

As youths nowadays would say. Larpers.

#10

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by Bella - May 09, 2026, 02:51:17 PM

Oh this is a fun thread!

I like that frutiger aero/y2k-core/etc. has introduced people to OS-tans and other aughts web properties, but I agree that it's unfortunate they've been subsumed by those aesthetics among some newer fans.

My hot take is that I think the idea of OS-tan "canon" is kind of overblown. I think the OG group of OS-tans (95-tan, 98-tan, XP-tan, etc.) are cohesive enough visually and personality-wise to count as distinct characters, but ultimately they are a group of characters designed and popularized by regular people on image boards, not a corporation, not an anime studio, not a published manga. I don't really see what the fundamental difference is between, say, ME-tan and Amiga-tan, besides one having the benefit of being developed on a large board and being popularized among more people, while the other was developed in a smaller community with less reach. But both are basically the result of a labor of love by regular netizens.