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Finally got this colored... the sketch has been with me since mid-late May (it was one of the first things I drew after a bad bout of artist's block), then it became a simple little coloring project, then it blossomed into an experiment in dappled-light shading.
I like how Multics-tan turned out.... but Emacs.... I think I messed up the anatomy real bad, that head looks too big. =__= I didn't catch it until I began coloring, and I didn't want to re-do the sketch and my coloring at that point.
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I refuse to reveal whether that's genderswap Emacs-kun, or if Multics-tan just stuffed him into some of her clothes. Let the speculation begin!
Finally got this colored... the sketch has been with me since mid-late May (it was one of the first things I drew after a bad bout of artist's block), then it became a simple little coloring project, then it blossomed into an experiment in dappled-light shading.
I like how Multics-tan turned out.... but Emacs.... I think I messed up the anatomy real bad, that head looks too big. =__= I didn't catch it until I began coloring, and I didn't want to re-do the sketch and my coloring at that point.
Pencils, Photoshop, photo background
I refuse to reveal whether that's genderswap Emacs-kun, or if Multics-tan just stuffed him into some of her clothes. Let the speculation begin!
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Beautiful!
Thank you very much! 
Wither genderflipped or crossdressing, I find Emacs-tan strangely hot >w>
Everyone is hot for Emacs-kun. : p
Great colors and I love the shading.
I messed around quite a bit with the shading in this one, but I'm pretty happy with it.
Program it with hormone pills,
Hormone pills, hormone pills,
Program it with hormone pills.
Break this habit.
Hormone pills, hormone pills,
Program it with hormone pills.
Break this habit.
...really, though? How do you end up making something written in Lisp masculine in the first place?
Although perhaps that's a stretch in this case. Still!
Although perhaps that's a stretch in this case. Still!
It's that embarrassing time of the day (well, night) when I'm browsing through my gallery and turn up months-old comments that I missed the first time around. <<
I must admit, the reason is rather shallow - back when Emacs-kun was created (sometime in 2008, if memory serves correct), the trend among my fellow OS-tan creators was to make essentially all of the personifications female. Male characters were in short supply, so when I created a few text editor characters my first thought was to have them be male - mostly to make them a sort of "token", both standing out from the female-dominated lineup and bringing some sort of visibility to dudes in the OS-tan universe. (Look! Guys actually exist here!)
That being said, with the benefit of hindsight I doubt I would have made my Emacs personification female ... although there's no real reason not to, so maybe I've just become attached to the character the way he is.
(I am curious why you'd suggest a personification of a Lisp-based program would be inherently feminine - or rather, inherently non-masculine.)
I must admit, the reason is rather shallow - back when Emacs-kun was created (sometime in 2008, if memory serves correct), the trend among my fellow OS-tan creators was to make essentially all of the personifications female. Male characters were in short supply, so when I created a few text editor characters my first thought was to have them be male - mostly to make them a sort of "token", both standing out from the female-dominated lineup and bringing some sort of visibility to dudes in the OS-tan universe. (Look! Guys actually exist here!)
That being said, with the benefit of hindsight I doubt I would have made my Emacs personification female ... although there's no real reason not to, so maybe I've just become attached to the character the way he is.
(I am curious why you'd suggest a personification of a Lisp-based program would be inherently feminine - or rather, inherently non-masculine.)
Well... the tl;dr explanation is that many men have written that they consider Lisp beautiful, and most men are straight. No other artefact of computing has been so consistently and rigorously fetishized as a mirror of natural beauty. Just like the a serif font set in italics recapitulates the female form and is yet a male invention, Lisp is a Galatea.
...also, there's a venerable precedent for treating programming languages as women, albeit a little dated and tacky.
...also, there's a venerable precedent for treating programming languages as women, albeit a little dated and tacky.
I assumed something similar (well, that Lisp is considered an elegant language and women are considered the more naturally-elegant / pretty sex) but wanted to hear your take on it. If it's any consolation, there's something of a running joke about Emacs-kun being a "pretty boy" AND having rabid following (male and female), so that's something. I hope.
Dear lord I nearly spewed coffee on my keyboard when I got to the entry on BASIC. That was a rather dangerous thing for me to read, especially given that I may... be... working on making an MIT or Symbolics Lisp Machine-tan and a GeneraOS-tan sometime soon. >>
Dear lord I nearly spewed coffee on my keyboard when I got to the entry on BASIC. That was a rather dangerous thing for me to read, especially given that I may... be... working on making an MIT or Symbolics Lisp Machine-tan and a GeneraOS-tan sometime soon. >>
I took a course in PLT a little over a year ago, and much of the textbook focused on ALGOL-60 examples. Every lecture brought to mind the image described on that page—although it's somewhat misleading. ALGOL-60 compulsively passes atomic datatypes by name, which makes many simple programs frustrating to write. This was changed in ALGOL-68, but apparently some people (my professor included) never got over it, branding '68 as not a "true" member of the language family.
But I do like the thought of BASIC's description influencing a LispM personality...
But I do like the thought of BASIC's description influencing a LispM personality...
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