Frontline Fifth

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​​SAFE SECTION: Everyone gets a new vocal tick (phwoar!) and plans their funerals SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie get a phone call from John. Join us next week to sleepwalk through the Mithraeum  in Chapters 12-15 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts. Content warning: This episode contains b...

SAFE SECTION: Brooke gains an unfortunate Google search history, John wants a hyperpotomous for Christmas, and the gang spend way too much time in esoteric baloney (anatomy, Plato's allegory of the cave, genetics). SPOILER SECTION: Hannah pronounces her favorite Lyctor theory while Marie points out her favorite foreshadowing lines. Join us next week to hear John and Brooke wake up aboard the Mithr...

​​SAFE SECTION: Brooke cooks up conspiracies, John writes himself a note, and everyone finds out that they should have joined the military. SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie predict John's note to himself and the ending of Alecto.  Join us next week when John and Brooke meet their big sister in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 6, 7, and 8 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unloc...

SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John consider Ortus Nigenad while Hannah imagines her career as an interior decorator of the Houses, Marie spends some time vomiting in solidarity with Harrow, and everyone considers their afterlife.  SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie consider Ortus Nigenad and are haunted by The Body. Join us next week to hear Ianthe bring some class back  in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 but til...

​​SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John learn a lot from the Dramatis Personae, and then realize they know nothing by the end of the Parados. And of course, we all play that classic Third House game, FMKR. SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie do a lot of gloating over how confused Brooke and John are.  Join us next week to to watch Harrow vomit a bunch in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 1 and 2 but til then, stay...

This episode contains full series spoilers through Nona the Ninth. SPOILER SECTION: This week SPECIAL GUESTS Sonia and Josh join Hannah and Marie to get new names, get truly disturbing with a dead body, and ultimately, talk some rampant speculation as we discuss the short story "As Yet Unsent." Join us after our break when we kick off our read of Harrow the Ninth with the Prologue and Parodos, but...

​​SAFE SECTION: John starts a cult and Brooke haunts her husband as the whole gang coos over teenage Cam and Pal.  SPOILER SECTION: Hannah starts a cult because one of the last glass ceilings is female cult leaders. Join us two weeks to read the Prologue and Parados of Harrow the Ninth (!) but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without perm...

This week we all spend some time with the extra materials, consider what it all might mean, add to our rampant conspiracies, and return to FMKR. Join us next week for TWO special episodes! Next week, we will be reading “The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” (we choose not to), SAFE for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, and we will also be reading “As Yet Unsent” in a SPOILERIFIC episode with new...

SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time, and you wanted to know what Marie and Hannah were saying behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! Join us next week for our recap of Gideon the Ninth but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts. Content warning: This episode con...

SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time, and you wanted to know what Marie and Hannah were saying behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! Join us next week to hear more sanitized SPOILERS gleaned from Hannah and Marie's discussions in Episodes 9-16 (safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth),  but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock...

​​SAFE SECTION: We all grapple with the implications of the Epilogue and sign up for lifetime subscriptions to each other's nerd facts. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah cackle over how little Brooke and John can know about what is in store for them in Harrow the Ninth. Join us next week to hear sanitized SPOILERS from Marie and Hannah's spoiler sections from Episodes 1-8 (safe for anyone who has...

​​SAFE SECTION: Brooke makes a lot of "wah" sounds, John cusses a lot about being "so close!", Marie is a homewrecker, and Hannah keeps us all on track, as per usual. SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend a lot of time making a calendar and thinking about what comes next. Join us next week to hear the final conclusion of Gideon the Ninth  in Chapter 27 and the Epilogue, but til then, stay safe m...

It's a long one this week so this is the SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend waaaay too long examine Ianthe's inner psyche and blech! ew! Join us next week to hear the chaotic climax  in Chapters 35 and 36 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts. Content warning: This episode contains bones,...

It's a long one, so this is only the SAFE SECTION: Everyone walks into a bar (lyctor lab) to find Ianthe and learn more about her and Lyctors than they ever wanted. Join us next week to hear the climactic final chaos in Chapters 35 and 36 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts. Content warning:...

Trigger warning: This week we tackle some heavy chapters, and that includes talking about suicide. If that is not a safe topic for you, we understand if you meet up with us later. Act I and the Interstitial game are safe from those topics. SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John take their first sacramental salt water swim, and we all contemplate the bleak prospects on Sword Meets Bone in this week's (datin...

SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John are bystanders to some awkward conversations and dig into the meanings of names. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah are bystanders to some awkward conversations and dig into the meanings of names. Join us next week to hear a confrontation  in Chapters 30 and 31 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without perm...

SAFE SECTION: We all witness a really terrible fight, watch Brooke and John devolve into a puddle of rampant speculation, and alternatively trade insults and compliments. (Ok, it was only Hannah with the compliments, but she tricked us!) SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie rate the cooking accomplished in the rampant speculation, and cook up some conspiracies of their own... Join us next week to hea...

​​SAFE SECTION: John and Brooke go loud while Hannah counts to four and Marie takes a break. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah make a list and check it twice. (The list is the rampant speculation.) Join us next week to delve deeper into the mystery in Chapters 26 and 27 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you...

SAFE SECTION: Someone’s dead! Again! And we don’t know who!   SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah hit a time loop to talk about who is and isn’t who they seem. Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words. Join us next week to hear more! death!  in Chapters 23, 24, and 25 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors wit...

​​SAFE SECTION: John and Brooke explore a Lyctor lab and then Marie and Hannah siphon their life juice (it was for a good cause!). SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah are now actively seeking dumber friends. Muzzy and Zuko guest star.   **apologies! Hannah's mic was on the fritz for the first part of the episode!**   Join us next week to dig through the cremains with us in Chapters 21 and 22 but til...

SAFE SECTION: We all work together to summon some ghosts, but boy do we suck at spirit magic. We flesh and bone witches here on Frontline Fifth.  SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah speculate about the ghosts in the basement. Special guest star this week: Diego (#GoodbyeKittyKatYeet). Join us next week in Chapters 19 and 20 for our first foray into a Lyctor Study (!!!)  and Marie and Hannah's first...

​​SAFE SECTION: We measure Hannah's medium biceps and John's giant head at our dream dinner parties and then mourn the tragic loss of the Fifth House. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah go hard dissecting small talk, because we liked that dinner...it was...useful. Join us next week to get some of our first glimpses into non-bone necromancy and theorize about ghost-murder in Chapters 17 and 18 but t...

​​SAFE SECTION: Brooke is definitely the prude of the podcast; We all enter the bone zone. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah do the math and the numbers don't add up. Join us on January 6th, 2025 for a party and a funeral in Chapters 15 and 16 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts. Content warn...

​​SAFE SECTION: This week our newbies enter the Facility for the first time!!! Don't worry, dear listener, we got permission first. Brooke is disappointed in our lack of smut, John is cooking with conspiracy theories, and we are all the greatest necromancer of our generation... SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah need to get dumber friends...we talk about white people and argue over whether Camilla...