Nun Pod With Left Grief

POOL SCENE POOL SCENE POOL SCENE Guests Hannah ( katakaluptastrophy on Tumblr and @The_Pentiad on TikTok ), Caro (@ImaginaryCaro on TikTok and elsewhere), and Tom ( dayneonychus on Tumblr) join us for a very special episode about Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 31 (the Pool Scene!!!) Content Warning: drowning, torture, death, murder, sacrifice, John Elizabeth Gaius, child soldiers, genocide; child abuse...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (any) for Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 30. Gideon talks through some ideas with Palamedes. Dulcinea tells an unbelievable story. Judith makes a decision. You make some art at the end. Content Warning : murder, manipulation, suicide, child neglect/abuse, dismemberment, incest, cannibalism, deception Further Reading: Jaume Aur...

Episode 30 is taking a little longer than expected to edit due to a combination of software nonsense and scheduling nonsense, but it's going to be SO good and it'll be in your ears as soon as possible.

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) re-read Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 29. Gideon tries to ground herself but everything at Canaan House is fucking weird. Content Warning : death, murder, mild cannibalism Further Reading: J. S. A. Lowe. (2021). Kitten Thinks of Nothing but Murder All Day: Tumblr Text Post Memes as Fandom Detournement. a tumblr book: platform and cultures NASA et al. (20...

John (he/him) comes over to chat with Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) about Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 27. Gideon goes to tea with the eighth. Everyone wants to punch Silas (and Babs, but he's not in this one). Claire has unexpected sympathy for Silas (who remains punchable). Han has unexpected sympathy for Glaurica. Content Warning : John Gaius (implied), Death, Murder, Sla...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) dig into Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 27. Harrow and Pal negotiate. Gideon and Cam negotiate. Gideon and Harrow open a door. Gideon and Harrow negotiate. Content Warning : Pretty chill week all things considered. Oblique references to oppression and exploitation, scientific racism, death and human remains, Further Reading: Robert N. Proctor and...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) revisit Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 26. Harrow falls back on her old patterns. Gideon seeks comfort. Silas makes an offer. Content Warning : child death, murder, verbal abuse, cannibalism, lyctor sex, experimental abuse, genocide, torture, eugenics Further Reading: Vrinda Dalmiya. 2000. Loving Paradoxes: A Feminist Reclamation of the Goddess Ka...

We will be back as soon as we can, maybe even next week.

Claire (she/they) and Han (it/any) have had a HELL of a month, culminating in the episode 26 recording session getting rescheduled... to when Han was sick with COVID. Please enjoy offcuts from previous episodes featuring guests Kit, Caro, Cyd. Content Warning: pain, injury, self-sacrifice, childbirth, extremely silly body horror Additional Reading: idk have you heard about Homestuck? I'm gonna be...

Claire (she/they) and Han (it/any) reluctantly tackle chapter 25 of Gideon the Ninth. In our production notes this chapter summary read ":(((((((" Content Warning : dead dove do not eat. I cannot emphasize enough how much we're going to talk about child death this week. Also general colonial violence, torture, psychiatric abuse, war, other killing, child soldiers, sexual violence against children...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) dissect Gideon the Ninth Chapter 24. The Tridentarii have a Moment. Babs does Not have a moment. A coalition forms. Claire and Han have questions about the Ninth soil biome. Also like, what is Silas's whole deal? Content Warning: emotional abuse, incest, genocide, death Further Reading: Aja Romano (2019) The Archive of Our Own Just Won a Hugo. That's...

No episode this week due to unscheduled Mind-Altering Pain. Back next week!

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome guest Cyd (she/her) from Resting Glitch Face to talk about Gideon the Ninth chapter 23. Our big bad arranges a convincing tableau as our dubious heroes split their time between investigating mysterious remains and absolutely back stabbing one another all to heck. And front stabbing. Han doesn't like gooshy magic. Everybody has questions about...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/all) discuss Chapter 22 of Gideon the Ninth. We're coming to the end of Act III and the stakes are higher than ever. The teens call in assistance, but the adults are a disaster. It turns out we're wrong about cremains in this episode! They're not ashes actually , they're more like sand, and they're mostly calcium phosphate. Content Warning : death, human...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (all pronouns) dissect chapter 21 of Gideon the Ninth. The scions make an unsettling realization. The Third and the Second attempt to bargain with the Sixth. Content Warning : death, cannibalism, Further Reading: Peter Jackson (2001) That Scene from Fellowship of the Ring Guy Gavriel Kay (1984-1986) The Fionavar Tapestry Pierre Bourdieu (1984) Distinction [No...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) welcome back Caro (she/they) to dig into chapter 20 of Gideon the Ninth. The Ninth and Seventh team up for a tricky challenge deep in the Facility. It's rough. Today's cover art features guest Caro as Cytherea. Check out Caro's cosplay on TikTok and Instagram . Content Warning: injury, degloving, death, torture, pain, childbirth, intimate partn...

Claire (she/they) and Han (any pronouns) welcome Kit (she/they) to dig into chapter 19 of Gideon the Ninth. Harrow experiences a positive emotion. Gideon finds a weird note. All of us remain confused about the symbols outside X-203. Today’s cover art is our lovely guest Kit as Harrowhark. You can find Kit on TikTok , Instagram , Tumblr , and Twitter . Content Warning: COVID-19, child abuse, death...

Claire (she/they) and Han (any pronouns) examine Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 17 with hard-hitting questions like what's happening with inter-House rankings? Why can't dead people do murder? Can we commission fan works in the middle of our podcast? Content Warning : murder, child soldiers, torture, criminalization of children under occupation, slavery Further Reading Kinka Usher (1999) Mystery Men Mi...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) dig into Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 17. (Almost) everybody tries to call back the ghosts of absent friends. The Eighth get weird. The third also gets weird. Actually Necromancers generally are weird. This week's cover art is Content Warning: murder, grief, blood, self-harm, cannibalism, abuse, child soldiers, Further Reading: bell hooks (2004) T...

Need a break after Act II? Us too. While Han embarks on a research trip, enjoy this peek behind the curtain, featuring outtakes, tangents, personal lore, extended cuts, canon confusion, and other deleted scenes from our season so far. Next week we'll be back with Gideon the Ninth, Act III. This episode features Claire (she/they), Han (any pronouns), and guests Caro (she/they), Geddy (she/her), and...

Claire (she/they) and Han (any pronouns) reread Gideon the Ninth Act II, Chapter 16. Gideon and Harrow enjoy their first major victory on the path to lyctorhood. Then, everything changes. Content Warnings : death, child abuse, emetophobia, humiliation, mild cannibalism Further Reading : Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer (2022) Kinship James Ashworth (2022). Neanderthal Ext...

Claire (she/they) and Han (any pronouns) welcome Hannah (she/her) to re-read Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 15. The Ninth receive an invitation. All the Houses get together. Gideon gets to eat a dessert. Our cover is guest Hannah. You can find her wonderful cosplay and commentary on TikTok and and Tumblr . Content Warning: eating your cav, murder, infertility, slavery Further Reading: Catechism regardi...

Note from Han: Sorry this is late! I have three major grad school deadlines coming up and I totally forgot, like, what day it was and that this podcast exists. My bad. Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) re-read Chapter 14 of Gideon the Ninth. Gideon and Harrow face an interesting challenge and take their relationship to an awkward new level. Harrow takes a nap. Gideon lays down...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) dive into Gideon the Ninth Act II Chapter 13. Gideon and Harrow negotiate. Han questions Harrow's understanding of the rules. Claire highlights other necro/cav models. Conversation gets unusually dark there in the middle. Today’s cover art was provided by Claire. Content Warning : Blood, genitals, sex, emetophobia, kink, slavery, use of human r...

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) welcome guest Geddy (she/her) to dig into Gideon the Ninth Chapter 12. Harrow does some crafting. Gideon is full of shit. Some people are not where Gideon expects them to be, and Gideon is in some unexpected places herself. Today’s cover art features our lovely guest Geddy (and friend of the show Kristen), photographed by Han. Content Warning :...