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.
So please go follow: THE MYSTERIALIST.
