☙ Why We Chose to Chronicle Ourselves Like It’s 1925 ❧
“We believe a thing must be worth recording. Not because it will last forever—but because most things won’t.”
In an age of algorithms, scrollbars, and ephemeral hashtags, one might rightly ask:
Why a newspaper?
Why columns and mastheads?
Why adopt a format last fashionable in the era of penny dreadfuls and steam omnibuses?
Because it anchors us. Because it dignifies the strange.
Because it places our dreams and deeds in type, where they can be read, quoted, or clipped and pinned to a board.
This is why we founded The Esoteric Times.
✠ The Romance of Record
This is not a nostalgia project.
This is a statement of method.
We believe:
- That reports should be structured.
- That reviews should have weight.
- That wit should have scaffolding.
- That celebration should be typed, not tossed into the void.
The newspaper, as a format, is slow magic. It insists on layout, on curation, on tone. It slows the scream down to a sentence. It makes us listen.
And more than that—it makes us remember.
✠ A Chronicle for a Fellowship
The Esoteric Times is not just a bulletin board. It is the official voice of the Order of Vulgarian Knights. It records:
- Reviews of films, books, and games
- Personal reflections and Knightly deeds
- Updates to the Codex and the Marches
- Artistic contributions and campaign logs
- Announcements, challenges, and remembrances
We do not seek trend.
We seek timeless eccentricity.
Let others chase virality. We’ll take Victorian margins, garish sidebars, and Latin mottos any day of the week.
✠ One Day It Will Be Found
Let it be said plainly: no one outside the Order needs to read this paper.
It is not for influence. It is not for validation. It is not for search engines.
It is for us.
For the curious.
For the odd.
For the faithful, the fleeting, and the forgotten.
It is for the one who finds a yellowed clipping in a future attic and wonders:
“Who were these people?”
And may the answer be:
“The kind who kept strange company—and stranger records.”
