The reports of my going to Bronycon are not only exaggerated but non existent · 4:41pm Aug 6th, 2015
I ain't goin'. Maryland is a traitor to Dixie anyway nyeh bleh
In other news. I've been at a law school thing at SMU (DALLAS I AM IN YOU) and Dallas is awful. Sorry, Texans (not sorry tho but a lil bit) I dislike large cities on principal, but this place feels awful unnatural to a Mississippi boy. Too few trees, too much flat space, everything so spaced apart. So many people. Too many. For scale, Dallas is over a million ith Fort Worth and environs. Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi and the most populous city, is 200,000 on a good day including the mutants in the sewers I made up just now. The traffic is lovecraftian in its madness inducing power and scope, the heat is dry (which is actually an improvement. We have wet heat and the same temperatures. Let me assure you that a wet heat is much, much worse. Here you feel thirsty and displeased. In Mississippi you can actually feel the air sapping your strength/life force as you swim through it)
Also everything is hard to find and parking is difficult and also I was NOT given an AR-15 upon crossing the border and I am rather put out about that. I haven't seen a single texas ranger and I am the only one here with a cowboy hat (I have like three but I only have one with me right now)
How do Texans live in a land where there are no trees to hide from the naked stare of the deepest heavens? How odd.
The Night is Passing continues to pass. In fact, it is passing rather swiftly these days. The new chapter will be done, writing wise, today. The next chapter... will be long.
Children, we're going to Jannah next.
The first time I wrote of Jannah was in 2012. December. Most of you have no idea, but it was in a little story called Great Heart Will Not Be Denied (which I still believe, my belief tattered but existing) and was about Rarity trying to find Rainbow. It is a story I keep close to the heart, unfinished or not.
I have dreamed of that city several times. It is always the same. But not. Reptition being, of course, impossible for mortal man, out of his ken and out of his ability to secure. "Up From the Wilderness" and "The Concept of Anxiety" are also about Jannah. As is "Like a Mighty Flame". But only Great Heart is concerned directly with that dreadful place at the edge of the world.
Originally, the story was called Outremer--an old term for the Holy Land and the foreign places the Crusaders came to and were amazed at. It means, more or less, over there. Far away. The places we know so little of--thought it fit.
IT's going to be very long.
Wish me luck. I'll wish you luck to. Let us go in together. I will keep you safe from dreaming if you will watch me as well.
Stay out of the streets in the night time. Stay out of the houses. Do not sleep in the tunnels or in the drains, touch not the water, admire not the gardens.
Stay the hell away, they said, but we're going in regardless.
Because there are dreams.
Oh man SMU... brings back memories
3300449 My gripes about Texas's unnaturalness aside, SMU is a beautiful campus. Particularly, the law school is wonderful and picturesque. I love the layout, from the little grecian gazebo to the walkways. Beautiful, all things in decency and order.
You went to SMU? I didn't know that!
3300513 a long time ago, not for college though, went for TAG summer camp. But yeah it's a beautiful campus.
No some parts of Texas are actually like that your just not there but I do agree with you Dallas is not the best place
3300581 hehe. I know some parts are closer to what I described--I have family in the Woodlands.
The texas forests still feel different to me. Partially, it's the lack (comparatively!!!) of hills. In Mississippi, the towns feel like they were always enshrouded in trees, like trees just go with buildings they always have and always will. We have little molehills here (MLK Jr's terms not mine) and most of central and north mississippi resists flatness in all forms.
if you thought dallas was bad, avoid houston in august. last visit was post Ike. heat and humidity struck like a hammer blow. a hundred refineries and chemical plants puking particulates to choke you. sweating through heavy flame resistant clothing.
have to be careful walking back into the air conditioning. easily go into shock and start vomming. throw up in front of contractors who work it every day, they'll laugh and they'll never. forget. ever.
Dallas native here (You're actually just a few blocks from my house!) and I completely agree about the traffic and how everything is spread out. Everything else is up to interpretation..but hey, its home.
3301741 and every man should have a patria to love
the way that suburbs are formed here is so different. Back home, they just sort of happen when they do in fact happen, neighborhoods close together just as they're needed. Here, I've noticed that the neighborhoods outside of Dallas proper are like little islands.
3301722 my late grandmother lived in Houston. I know of Houston's summer :3
From what I hear of Southern Summers, it sounds like hell, I am very glad to be in the land of cold wet rainy-ness and excessive cloud cover.
3303341 you can feel the strength and life force leaving your body it is a strange experience. It is part of why we are all crazy as hell
3305553 Mmm, well the reverse creates just as much madness, look at most of the northern European states, they've got a history of violent insanity and bonkers logic. The only one's who seem to be in any way chilled about their situation seem to be those sitting in the mild temperature regions, like the Italians and French.