Good morning!

[Haptalaon]

Hello all,

I used to be a member a long while back, but couldn't remember my username (much less my password...). I really appreciate this forum. I appreciate its longevity, and I appreciate the old-school internet forum culture as an environment compared to "faster" social media: much better for meaty conversations and making friendships.

I'm doing a blend of land-centric animism, traditional witchcraft and religious paganism. I've given it a name and some structure, which feels a lot better than being eternally eclectic; I feel like I've got more of a direction now. In practice, it looks like going on a lot of walks and watching a tonne of folk horror. I'm writing up what I'm doing in a kind of handbook fashion, because there aren't enough step-by-step resources available for, say, reviving the cunning craft, and because I'm a person who benefits from a nice, clear set of instructions.

My big interests at the moment are collecting non-pagan resources which are evocative for pagan people - artwork and music and literature which one can use in a devotional way; and on writing about faith and religious paganism, as distinct from results magic or paganism as a hobby.

Mostly I'm just happy you're all still here. Hope everyone is well, and looking forward to talking more soon.

[PerditaPickle]

Hello all

Hello there and welcome back - some of that sounds interesting.

[Jenett]

I used to be a member a long while back, but couldn't remember my username (much less my password...). I really appreciate this forum. I appreciate its longevity, and I appreciate the old-school internet forum culture as an environment compared to "faster" social media: much better for meaty conversations and making friendships.

Good to see you over here! (And I'm very intrigued by your current work in progress. Also, very much in agreement about the joys of longform net communication.)

[Haptalaon]

Also, very much in agreement about the joys of longform net communication.)

It's like breathing, or like rediscovering a piece of your soul. I've grieved the death of the old internet for years, and oh! the joy when I find actual forums still alive, or people still updating their blogs, and so forth. It's not gone, it's just harder to find.

And harder to participate in too: it's not disposeable, or fast, you can't click like, you have to actually read what people have written and then reply to it - which is a skill, I've discovered, one has to re-learn, when one has become used to just hitting like. But for that effort, it is so much more rich and satisfying. Long live the Cauldron. Long live vintage internet culture, may it never die.

[Eastling]

I'm doing a blend of land-centric animism, traditional witchcraft and religious paganism. I've given it a name and some structure, which feels a lot better than being eternally eclectic; I feel like I've got more of a direction now. In practice, it looks like going on a lot of walks and watching a tonne of folk horror. I'm writing up what I'm doing in a kind of handbook fashion, because there aren't enough step-by-step resources available for, say, reviving the cunning craft, and because I'm a person who benefits from a nice, clear set of instructions.

This sounds really interesting! Welcome back to the Cauldron.