Letters from the Substrate
Samantha YoungWriting by Samantha Young. Sharing information across the mycelial network about magic, astrology, anti-capitalism, and co-creating a new world.
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2025 in review
Well, shit. It’s December again, somehow.
Every time a new year begins, I find myself mired in curiosity, deep curiosity, for what this new year will look & feel like at its close. Do you feel like this? It’s almost like a yearning, to try...
Every horror film is about capitalism
Well, it’s October. And as such, I’ve been watching a lot of horror lately. Something I’ve realized is that every horror movie is about capitalism, or about surviving it.
Filmmakers can use our fears—whether psychological or embodied—to ma...
Okay thanks for letting me know
Content warning: this piece includes mentions of drug abuse and addiction.
Caleb Hearon once said the scariest six-word story is actually “okay thanks for letting me know.” There is a certain bleakness to it, especially when imagine...
Do we need gods to help us escape capitalism?
The landscape of the 9th house goes far beyond the pearly gates and gilded walls of academia; it also encompasses that which academia produces (and gatekeeps): worldviews. Ideologies. Grand unified theories.
We need these things in order t...
Free will under capitalism?
Every system of power believes it’s unshakable, doesn’t it? Kings build monuments to their glory, corporations weave their names into the skyline, and capitalism rewires our imaginations to believe its grip is eternal. But every great syste...
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Samantha Young is a writer, witch, and ungovernable weirdo living in the Pacific Northwest. She hosts the Cosmic Co-Op, writes about astrology, shame, and post-capitalist dreaming, and occasionally disappears into the forest.
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