Apparently I made the tumblr above in December, 2007, and immediately forgot it. In fact, I thought some other dude was squatting on it. Today I realized that other dude was me. So this is just to say, GO THERE. I’ll use it for personal stuff as well as the kind of goodness I’ve posted here on The Occultist.
I decided to use the old tumblr because I realized it was mine, it fits with other online IDs and because tumblr is like the fucking mob, just when you think you’re out, THEY PULL YOU BACK IN.
The Occultist will not be deleted or anything but this is probably one of my last posts here. I’m not leaving Tumblr, though. I am, as the serial killers in Thomas Harris thrillers often portentously announce, “BECOMING.“
Seriously, though—as exasperated as I get with this platform, I must admit I’m hooked, overall.
BUT: the way Tumblr is set up can be exasperating. My favorite blog that I run, for instance, is a secondary blog attached to my primary Daily Huff account—this one. Even as I’ve consciously ignored Daily Huff, I’ve regularly updated Occultist with stuff I like, find interesting, strange or fun. The last two usually go together for me.
I would like to make Occultist my primary account and follow everyone from there and post whatever there… but I’ve done a lot of poking around that’s one kind of operation Tumblr doesn’t make easy. You pretty much can’t do that sort of conversion here. (NOTE TO TUMBLR: You CAN do that sort of thing on Posterous and Blogger. Just saying.)
Recently, in a totally separate bit of brainstorming, I hit upon the name Mysterialist. It’s a real, rather archaic word that means something similar to The Occultist. But without the Nazi implications some more historically-attuned folks might see in the latter.
Hence the new blog. Which will be my blog blog. I don’t intend to do much personal blogging from now on, but if I do, it will be there. Occultist-type material will be there. Whatever the hell I want will be there.
CHECK IT OUT. I would use Tumblr more if there was a lot more weird/paranormal/strangeness like this going on.
These enigmas have been found lurking in a wide variety of habitats as diverse as cornfields, marine sludge, polluted landfills, sulfurous springs and freshwater ponds. The specimens that researchers have captured so far suggest they are as genetically diverse as the rest of the known fungi, but much remains unknown about their structure and behavior.
CCC believes this crop circle is part of a series of circles made in 2009 that collectively predict Doomsday:
In the analysis presented above, we related many astronomical symbols from a crop picture which appeared at Milk Hill in June of 2009, to an upcoming sky alignment of four bright planets and the Moon on June 1, 2011. Then we suggested that an “anomalous extra symbol” from the same crop picture might represent a “new astronomical object” in Earth’s sky, to be seen on the same date.
So there you go. Another Doomsday date. Joke’s on the aliens though. They clearly don’t know that we’ll have been raptured 10 days before that.
Tara the Android (brutal_metal_edit) (by webdelic)
1. The study of the supernatural.
2. A belief in occult powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control.
Think of us as Tumblr's very own X-Files. *
* Also occasionally a repository for horrible images involving clowns.
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