u/yeetusfacetious

This flag is for an alternative historical continuation of the tradition of the Painted Churches of Texas, a real-life handful of small Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Methodist (or Wesleyan) churches founded across Texas by German and Czech immigrants.

In this alternate history scenario, instead of these churches maintaining denominational differences while still maintaining general "painted" traditions (these churches focused on beautiful painted wooden interiors instead of traditional stone architectural due to limited resources), they find themselves homogenizing in tradition and theologies until they establish themselves as a dedicated Rite (or practice of faith), inculturated into the German-Texan/Czech-Texan cultural tradition, claiming to still be under the authority of the Pope.

However, in this same history, as the tradition spreads heavily it becomes theologically and traditionally highly-derived and adopts many of those same Lutheran and Methodist/Wesleyan ideologies that were already present from the start. This leads to the condemnation of the tradition of the "Painted Rite" by the Vatican and it's eventual excommunication.

After the Rite's excommunication, the Rite forms it's own counsels that align themselves with the Roman Catholic Church traditionally, but end up still having to govern themselves as a product of their own excommunication.

Their chants/worship, rites, and other traditions end up becoming a very deep blend between Catholic tradition and Protestant theology (to some degree, though most of it's theology is Catholic in essence).

Continuing into the modern day, the tradition ends up splitting on theological bases oriented around traditional Catholic/Lutheran/Wesleyen-derived theology and more modern, single-faith, scholarly theologies (think the theological/biblical teachings of Tim Mackie, Wesley Huff, and others). This doesn't result in a schism as the Rite of the Painted Church did not consider itself a denomination but still a practice under Catholicism. This results in the Counsel of the Painted Rite claiming the Rite to be a "Single-Faith and Nicene" tradition regarding participation, where only committed, consecrated roles are expected to submit to specific traditional teachings. Functionally a denomination, but not claiming denominational "sovereignty".

There are more details than this as it's one of my more thought out worldbuilding concepts, but this is what I will describe for now.

What do y'all think?

Always nice to see niche flags flying free. Nacogdoches, TX holds its history very closely to its heart. Very apparently, the Fredonian Revolution is not forgotten by the Fredonia Hotel. A plethora of other locations wave the Fredonian Flag as well. Churches, apartments, and homeowners take on this banner as part of their identity as well in Nac

This is a flag designed for the Texas Hill Country. The gradient stripes on it are inspired by the painting Bluebonnets in Texas, 1915 by Robert Julian Onderdonk, as I believe his work encapsulates (though exaggeratively, yet masterfully) the beauty of the Hill Country when her bluebonnets are in bloom.

This is kind of a redo of a previous attempt to do the same exact thing. I chose to add the red and white borders because I felt it was lacking without, and that the extra colors remind the viewer of the Texan/Western heritage of this flag.

What do y'all think?

I'm new to this subreddit, but here's an English script I've been working on for a couple days. It's unnamed as of now and still evolving a bit, so it's probably fairly legible as English in a way.

For this project, I'm kinda just altering the cursive English script slightly over time and adding some things here and there, as well as changing some grammar rules. Ideally, over time, I will have created an entirely new script and alteration of written English altogether.

I've also added new letters called "Holy Capitals", used for important religious words and titles and some phrases. These still need more work as they look and feel a little forced compared to the standard alphabet. But it's a WIP, for sure.

I've redesigned a couple redesigns I already made for a couple cities in Texas and generated one new one. In order, we have a redesign for Huntsville, Texas (green, white, black, and gold with an 8-point star); a design for Port Arthur, Texas (Gold, Red, Blue, with a blue fleur-de-lis); and a redesign for Muenster, Texas (Black, white, red, and gold with a gold star).

- Huntsville: This design is obviously inspired by the Texas flag itself. Usually I'm of the opinion that using the Texas flag as a base is a little gaudy and irreverent to the state flag. However, in this case I felt it was acceptable as Huntsville serves as a major historical anchor for Texas and is rich in culture. The gold stripe and "bright" 8-point star signifies it's historical importance. The green and black is borrowed directly from the flag of Huntsville ISD (yes, the school district has a flag and the city doesn't), since the city often uses the ISD flag to represent the city. Also, the forest green signifies the city's place in the Texas Pineywoods (being located adjacent to the Sam Houston National Forest). Also, fun fact, Huntsville was one of a handful of lead considerations for a vote for a new state capital in 1850, however, Texans voted to continue to keep the capital in Austin as the infrastructure was already there.

- Port Arthur: "The Cajun Capital of Texas". This flag is directly inspired by the Flag of Acadiana, of which many Cajuns use to represent themselves. The white from the Acadian flag is replaced with gold to represent the Golden Triangle of Southeast Texas, of which Port Arthur is the industrial center of. Port Arthur serves as a major crossroads for Texan and Cajun culture alike, as well as being a driving force for not only US oil refining, but global oil refining as well.

- Muenster: This is a small town in north Texas, founded primarily by German Catholics in 1889. This flag is directly a redesign of an existing historical flag. Muenster was primarily German-speaking (likely the now-rare Texasdeutch dialect, as was prominent in German Texas regions for quite some time) until after the first World War, when they stopped teaching German in schools. I chose to redesign this flag merely due to the peculiarity of the original flag.

What do y'all think?

This is just a mockup I made made in Affinity. New to this subreddit. What do y'all think?

(to be clear, it's more of a Christian brand, so "Kill Your Idols" is exaggerative. Not actually encouraging violence. Think of it as more of an edgy gym shirt)

On left is the backside of the shirt, on the right is the front side of the shirt.