Sarah Lyons
@citymystic.bsky.social
Filmmaker • Writer • Witch
🎞️ The Woods
📚 Revolutionary Witchcraft
📚 How to Study Magic
https://citymystic.straw.page/
🎞️ The Woods
📚 Revolutionary Witchcraft
📚 How to Study Magic
https://citymystic.straw.page/
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Sarah Lyons
@citymystic.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Announcement! My film The Woods is now available on YouTube via WatchMoviesNow, Kings of Horror, and Film Is Now, as well as Amazon Prime! All affiliate links to watch it can be found here: thewoodsfilm.straw.page
This is fun but what's more fun is he reads out "I, as [state your name]"
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is fun but what's more fun is he reads out "I, as [state your name]"
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This piece moved me. I promise it's not only about Zohran Mamdani, there's so much in there that made me feel seen. It's about being scared of being yourself and not doing the things you need to do to let it happen, and that rippling through communities.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
It's ok to be Hopeless
On elections, fear, swapping out hope with faith
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This piece moved me. I promise it's not only about Zohran Mamdani, there's so much in there that made me feel seen. It's about being scared of being yourself and not doing the things you need to do to let it happen, and that rippling through communities.
I've found that hope tends to disempower me, but I think I found something better.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I've found that hope tends to disempower me, but I think I found something better.
Source: my asshole.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Source: my asshole.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
It's ok to be Hopeless
On elections, fear, swapping out hope with faith
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
Wrote about Zohran, being burned too many times to feel hopeful, and how moving through that can lead to something more sustainable: faith.
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
do not learn about the phone and its inhabitants. do not keep track of all the different characters, the politicians, the chit chatters who talk about the politicians. learn about metals instead. their properties, their strengths, their stats. control metals and you control fate
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
do not learn about the phone and its inhabitants. do not keep track of all the different characters, the politicians, the chit chatters who talk about the politicians. learn about metals instead. their properties, their strengths, their stats. control metals and you control fate
Teen Vogue gave me my start, was the first publication to profile me, and was one of the first places to publish my writing. I know so many witches and weirdos who got similar support from TV, and it's really sad to see it get gutted.
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Teen Vogue gave me my start, was the first publication to profile me, and was one of the first places to publish my writing. I know so many witches and weirdos who got similar support from TV, and it's really sad to see it get gutted.
There are really people on god's green earth who think JD Vance will be better than Trump
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There are really people on god's green earth who think JD Vance will be better than Trump
Grokipedia, NFTs, Cryptocurrency...so many ugly names and concepts confront me against my will daily
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Grokipedia, NFTs, Cryptocurrency...so many ugly names and concepts confront me against my will daily
I'll be working out of here for the next week if anyone needs to get ahold of me:
Jack-o-Lanterns protect from evil spirits as the Spirit Nights grow close.
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Look, here in Oklahoma, we don't take chances. Bigger is better.
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Look, here in Oklahoma, we don't take chances. Bigger is better.
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'll be working out of here for the next week if anyone needs to get ahold of me:
Most Leo thing about me is if you hate me I feel bad for you because you miss out on being my friend, but if you hate someone I love I will raise armies of the dead against you.
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Most Leo thing about me is if you hate me I feel bad for you because you miss out on being my friend, but if you hate someone I love I will raise armies of the dead against you.
That's because it's an aesthetic movement, their aesthetics are just trashy
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
That's because it's an aesthetic movement, their aesthetics are just trashy
I know this is really besides the point but as someone who used to be really into Norse mythology and history, it's really sad how little you can really engage with that stuff now
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I know this is really besides the point but as someone who used to be really into Norse mythology and history, it's really sad how little you can really engage with that stuff now
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
Later this month, I'll be teaching a class on folk horror and occultism. I opened up some of my research notes and turned it into this piece:
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Occult Influences in Folk Horror
How 16th century magic informs both The Witch and The Blair Witch Project
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Later this month, I'll be teaching a class on folk horror and occultism. I opened up some of my research notes and turned it into this piece:
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
@citymystic.bsky.social is teaching this cool class series & you should consider taking it because, my god, do a lot of people try & talk about folk horror & the witch in media without actually being long-term serious practitioners in addition to scholars. sarah lyons is both! you can trust her!
Occult Influences in Folk Horror with Sarah Lyons, beginning October 28 — + Laetitia Cartomancy +
Date: Tuesday, October 28 & November 4, 11, 18 Time: 7:00–8:00pm EST Admission: $115 ( ( $95 for Members — not a member yet? Join here to unlock al l sorts of perks! ) Thi...
www.laetitiacartomancy.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
@citymystic.bsky.social is teaching this cool class series & you should consider taking it because, my god, do a lot of people try & talk about folk horror & the witch in media without actually being long-term serious practitioners in addition to scholars. sarah lyons is both! you can trust her!
Something to know about me is I love blocking people and will do it at a moment's notice
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Something to know about me is I love blocking people and will do it at a moment's notice
Later this month, I'll be teaching a class on folk horror and occultism. I opened up some of my research notes and turned it into this piece:
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Occult Influences in Folk Horror
How 16th century magic informs both The Witch and The Blair Witch Project
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Later this month, I'll be teaching a class on folk horror and occultism. I opened up some of my research notes and turned it into this piece:
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Riding your bike or scooter on the sidewalk is degenerate, anti-social behavior.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Riding your bike or scooter on the sidewalk is degenerate, anti-social behavior.
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
I see no path to profitability for Anthropic, which means agreeing to fund it further is committing to an eternal money pit. Raising prices on its enterprise customers is a horrible but inevitable consequences of the inherent unprofitably of Large Language Models.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I see no path to profitability for Anthropic, which means agreeing to fund it further is committing to an eternal money pit. Raising prices on its enterprise customers is a horrible but inevitable consequences of the inherent unprofitably of Large Language Models.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
Love people credulously interacting with this. I know it was a stupid obvious fake! I want to know why the Mexican government did it!
There are far more pressing issues in the world right now but someday when the dust settles I would like to know what this was about:
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Love people credulously interacting with this. I know it was a stupid obvious fake! I want to know why the Mexican government did it!
There are far more pressing issues in the world right now but someday when the dust settles I would like to know what this was about:
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
There are far more pressing issues in the world right now but someday when the dust settles I would like to know what this was about:
I feel entitled to compensation after hearing the lyric "He ah-matized me and opened my eyes, Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see, His love was the key that opened my thighs"
October 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I feel entitled to compensation after hearing the lyric "He ah-matized me and opened my eyes, Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see, His love was the key that opened my thighs"
Reposted by Sarah Lyons
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
I think we owe Andrea Dworkin a bit of an apology tbh
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I think we owe Andrea Dworkin a bit of an apology tbh