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Sarah Lyons

@citymystic.bsky.social
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Filmmaker • Writer • Witch 🎞️ The Woods 📚 Revolutionary Witchcraft 📚 How to Study Magic citymystic.straw.page

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Picked out some hidden gems and timeless classics new and old to talk about at your next Halloween party substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Horror Movies to Make you Seem Cool at Parties
There are a lot of horror movies that are classics for a reason.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You know what? I think this crazy kid is gonna be ok
While not a majority of the House or Senate by any means, many of the most influential politicians of the last few decades have all been born in the 1940s
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I muse about generational cycles, and what to expect as those born in the 1940s begin to depart. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Long 1940s are About to End
Generational cycles in a time of crisis
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lots of people asking me to extrapolate on this. I'm not about to post my friend's names online you psychos! Go crack open a grimoire and try it for yourself!
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Literally every major hedge fund and evil company has astrologers and magical practitioners on their payroll and no one knows or talks about it.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is how every day in america feels right now
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New website up! Pretty proud of it. Hire me to write stuff and make movies: sarahlyons.carrd.co
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
When the Roman empire fell it became a church When the British empire fell it became a bank When the American empire falls it will become a casino
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Lost my mind a little with this one: houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/its-a-very...
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It’s a Very Very Shit World
I was wondering the other day why people are so obsessed with the number of cases of diarrhea across the country.
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Charles Pieper @inherentcharlie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I very much agree with this
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
YES! To borrow one of their sloppiest metaphors, slop-takes are an Ouroboros, feasting on their own logic and cultural despair. Let's go find some art somewhere else!
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We need to talk about slop slop houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/slop-slop
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Slop Slop
There’s so much talk about slop, that the slop talk has become slop.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m teaching three courses this summer on Catholic mysticism, female saints and mystics, and sigil magic. Sign up now! houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/come-learn...
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Come Learn With me This Summer
I’ll keep this short: I’m teaching three online classes this summer I think you all might like.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I can't wait for the world cup to be over
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 30/06/2026
Very nice from @citymystic.bsky.social AI koolaid compared to Salem witch-trial hysteria. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
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The Spectral Evidence for AI
AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What makes this so funny is you know that if any other president were in office right now they could have just booked Beyonce to perform this song live
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
One wonders if Brett Kavanaugh was protecting Debbie Ramirez’ right to access education free from sex discrimination when he allegedly took his dick out and shoved it in her face at a party at Yale.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Polymarket? You mean the Park Slope Co-op? 🥁
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I found Hannah Murray’s story really heartbreaking and familiar. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-magic...
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This Magic Stuff Could Kill You
On spiritual psychosis, gatekeeping, and taking "this stuff" seriously
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ok but all the spooky happenings in Widow's Bay would be a huge selling point for me, personally
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
No one's straight anymore? Tell that to the Strait of Hormuz, honey!
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He will 100% be the Republican candidate in 28
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
No one's straight anymore? Tell that to those clowns in the White House when they go straight to prison! (trying out a thing called jokes)
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hi! I've never read your work and don't plan on doing so, but I made up some assumptions about you in my head and you need to respond to them now in a way I find acceptable or I will hate you forever and assume you are evil.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm teaching a class next month on pain and transcendence in mystical Catholicism and it got me thinking about a lot of stuff in our culture right now: houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/on-unholy-...
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On Unholy Anorexia
Who or what are we starving ourselves for?
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York City is the only city!!!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is going to be the fate of every stupid woman who supported and worked for this admin and movement. You're all going to be replaced with men who slap each other around with fake cocks and brag about fucking "the young" before having your rights obliterated. Hope it was worth it, ladies!
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Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien @bunnysaurusrex.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As someone whose town has been going through its own TikTokification the past few years, I feel this in my bones. I don't live in NYC anymore, but when I go back to visit, the ever-increasing number of places that seem to exist solely for Instagram photo-ops is depressing.
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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 30/05/2026
perfect post that seemingly applies to any major metropolitan area these days; the sort of shit I see people queue for in London is nothing short of baffling
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is an excellent, if rage-inducing, read
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Emily (normal NY version) @emkultra64.com · 30/05/2026
this was a cathartic read
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Republican project is just a psychosexual fantasy of violence it really is that simple
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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
💯🎯 "Line-waiters are the social base of fascism.... They have proven, through their actions, that a good chunk of the population will simply do whatever people in power tell them to do, consume what they are told to consume, care about what an ad campaign on TikTok told them to care about."
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Norakrava🐒🇸🇰 @norakrava.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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OK Glass @ok.glass · 29/05/2026
i had no idea what this meant until i clicked through (long queues for "viral" restaurants, etc.) but it is a great piece about the people who need to be served "things to do" from a funnel in the most diverse, interesting city in the nation
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The lines around NYC fill me with an ancient, primordial rage houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/stop-the-m...
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Stop the Madness
I hate the fucking lines all over New York City
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The pope declared a holy war on AI we need to lock the fuck in
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Like fucking clockwork
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wrote a short, practical guide to discovering and cultivating your personal style houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/how-to-hav...
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How to Have Style
A short guide
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Me to the group chat when it’s nice out and there‘s a rooftop bar nearby
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I watched Independence Day and had a lot of feelings about America, and the art empires leave behind houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/the-hollyw...
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The Hollywood Blockbuster as Imperial Art
I’ve never been good at nationalism.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Got really stoned and rewatched the Kony: 2012 video
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npwordsmith.bsky.social @npwordsmith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is the truth, and one of the country's biggest problems, actually.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dogpiling Contrapoints is useless because at the end of the day she will never hate anyone or anything as much as she hates herself
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Movies are more real than reality to most Americans. I wrote about it here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Movies are America's National Religion
Pete Hegseth thinking Pulp Fiction is The Bible makes perfect sense, actually
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Nana @rigg3nbachi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"men need more positive male role models" actually they already have them and they're gay and they're trans
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Trying to think of other great Movie Moments from this admin and past ones. Moments where people in power quoted movies like they were real historical events with real people.
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Everything is a psyop when you don't know what pr is
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