Frontline Fifth

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...

SAFE SECTION: This week Brooke and John meet…well, like all the characters. All the ones we care about except Cam and Pal, anyway. We also give you, our dear listener, a peek at our side hustle as sparring commentators! SPOILER SECTION: Hannah obsesses over the age of Canaan House (not the first time, nor the last) and Marie blows all our minds once again. You know we are living for those mytholog...

​​SAFE SECTION: This week, our newbies touch down in Canaan House, where both John and Gideon immediately fall for Dulcinea's tuberculosis-chic energy.  SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk planets and Marie wonders if there is more water in Canaan House than just the oceans of the First House.  Join us next week when we finally meet more of the cast (enter 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th houses!!!) in C...

SAFE SECTION: It's a training montage! Our newbies practice acting like *proper* Ninth Nunlets all day, but they're reading dirty magazines of their own invention all night! SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah talk about why John loves the Roman Empire so much and tell Harrowhark to stop jumping to conclusions Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.   Join us next...

SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John, our sweet Ninth newbies, descend into Drearburgh and learn about the Emperor's open call for new saints. They sign up right away (the offhand for both is pocket sand, obvi). SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk about relationships and speculate on why the Houses keep bringing swords to a gun fight. Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear...

SAFE SECTION: Our little Ninth nunlets meet Gideon Nav for the very first time and then, almost immediately, watch her get totally crushed under a pile of skeletons courtesy of Hannah's perma-crush, Harrowhark Nonagesimus. SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk about Gideon's love of 2020s culture and the location of Wake's soul (Ha! New readers! You won't even remotely get that one til like 80% o...

This week's episode is a teaser! We haven't cracked the spine of Gideon the Ninth just yet...In this week's episode, SAFE SECTION: Our necro-newbies talk about their reflections on the Cover Art, Cast of Characters, and opening poem of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Then we all play FMKR, because that's who we are as people. SPOILER SECTION: Marie drops a bombshell theory about the Dramatis Pers...