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More pics from that same graffiti park in downtown Houston that no longer exists.
I demand 5b and 4c (because the Hats) for light cowboy and dark cowboy on the Texas city OCS of your choice Please
Austin is probably the closest thing Stella has to a “black hat” relationship with her cities. Most of their relationship is just Stella: Darlin’, you’re being weird again Austin: Aw shucks :3 Am I not following the rules of society :3 :3 What a tragedy Mostly she thinks he’s a big weirdo that she can’t understand. They get along best when going to country music concerts together tho <3
Reply-Reply to Purified-Zone: On the Nature of Friends :p :p
purified-zone replied to your post: some-triangles: The Triangles Theme this week is...
stop bejng so texan :p
Je Refuse!
Having said that, talking about Austin is, like, entry-level Texanality >:] Even non-Texans can do that! I’ll be Being Too Texan when I start talking about...
the decaying abandonment-despair and creeping, ever-present, soul-crushing stress of Beaumont and its (laughably, ironically named)“Golden Triangle” metroregion.
the Endless, Ever-Changing, Labyrinthine, Consuming Houston.
El Paso: the City of the Mount.
The BCS, the City Hidden in the Aggies.
Waco-Temple-Killeen the Terrible(honestly: it Sucks).
Lubbock, Which used to have a Luby’s.
San Antonio, the Great and Powerful(they have a kickass zoo).
In conclusion: Truly, Texas is a land of Beauty and Contrasts u_u u_u u_u
@louis--wifey This is how I view Texas’ kids. So far I have Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington.
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Dallas: [After the JFK assassination] The risk I took was calculated but, man, am I bad at math.
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Austin: Isn't it weird that we can't ride any other animal except horses? Like if horses weren't a thing, humans would be fucked cause we couldn't ride any other animals. Like riding animals wouldn't really be a thing. We should probably be more grateful towards horses.
El Paso: Elephants?
Austin: Blocked.
Dallas: Camels?
Austin: Extra blocked.
Houston: Donkeys?
Austin: Ultra blocked.
San Antonio: That dick? *smirks*
Austin: .... *flustered as fuck*
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Houston: [Got hit by a hurrican] Okay, help me, please!
Dallas: Got two words for ya.
Houston: I bet they won't be helpful.
Dallas: Your problem
Houston: I was right.
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Austin: [Looking through their clothes] Has anyone seen my top?
Corpus Christi: San Antonio's in the kitchen.
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Houston: The saying "it is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission" no longer applies to Dallas.
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Corpus Christi: I'm starting to think this is a bad idea...
Dallas: Don't start thinking on me now!
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Tennessee: [After he learns about Austin being his biological son] So how many kids do you have?
Texas: Biologically, legally, or emotionally? Because there is a difference.
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El Paso: What's the straightest thing you've ever done?
Dallas: *sighs*
Dallas: I've killed a man.
Here's a thing about Houston that gets lost in every "best cities" ranking and tourism brochure: it is genuinely, almost defiantly, hard to summarize. The skyline photograph that keeps circulating — shot on a Canon EOS 550D, freely licensed, pulled into what feels like every stock-photo roundup of Texas ever published — shows the J.P. Morgan Chase building punching up against the sky alongside the rest of downtown. It's a good photograph. Clean light, strong verticals. But what it can't quite capture is the sheer *scale* of the thing, the way Houston's metro area holds six million people and still somehow feels underloved in the national conversation about great American cities. Six million. In the metro. That's not a small city that got lucky with a football team. That's a genuine megalopolis, the largest city in Texas by a comfortable margin, sprawling outward in every direction with a confidence that doesn't really ask for your approval. And yet the dominant cultural image of Houston is often... the skyline photo. The generic one. Shot from a distance, buildings arranged neatly, everything looking orderly and photogenic and slightly anonymous. The J.P. Morgan Chase tower is there. Some other towers are there. Sky is doing sky things. There's something almost philosophical about the gap between a city of six million people — with parks, with attractions, with an entire gravitational pull on the culture of Southeast Texas — and the way it gets represented as a collection of glass rectangles photographed from a tasteful distance. Every city gets flattened into its skyline eventually. Houston just has a bigger skyline than most people remember to account for. The question worth sitting with: when a city gets big enough, does the skyline photo stop being a representation and start being a way of keeping it at arm's length?
