Nun Pod With Left Grief

Rimona (she/they) and Han (it/any) discuss the very last chapter of Gideon the Ninth. The final battle ends. Gideon and Harrow deliver some of the best one-liners in the book. At least two of us have some Big Feelings about the book of Ruth.Content Note: Suicide, death, hallucination, unreality,Further Reading:The Pottery Scene from Ghost (1990)Toon Ruins (2019) Explaining Fusion in Stephen UniverseDouwe Draaisma (2026) Grief HallucinationsEvelyn Elsaesser, Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper, and David Lorimer (2021). The Phenomenology and Impact of Hallucinations Concerning the Deceased. BJPsch Open 7(5):e148.Duncan Trussell Family HourCaitlin Doughty (2017) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good DeathRuth 1:16-1:17Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod.

Rimona (she/they) and Han (it/any) dig into the very last chapter of act four of Gideon the Ninth. Alliances shift once again as the final battle rages, and everyone takes turn trying to be the one who gets to self-sacrifice.The editing is once again a bit rough. No one seemed to mind too much last time, and grad school is grad schooling. <333Content Warning: death, arachnophobia(?), trauma, flashbacks, stabbing [sexual?], incest(?), gore, suicideFurther Reading:Kaja Sadowski (2019) Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and ResilienceHistorical Fighting Guide (n.d.) Multiple Opponents and Group CombatBirgit Kleim, Belinda Graham, Richard A. Bryant, and Anke Ehlers (2013) Capturing Intrusive Re-experiencing in Trauma Survivors' Daily Lives Using Ecological Momentary Assessment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 122(4):998-1009.History Hustle (2022). Nestor Makhano: Ukrainian Anarchism and the Free Territory of Ukraineunexpectedbaggageinitemarea (2026) Tamsyn Muir Oxford Speaker Event.Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) "The Survivors" [clip]Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod.

Rimona Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome friend of the show Kristen (any) to re-read chapter 35 of Gideon the Ninth. Gideon overhears a weird conversation. The final battle begins.Sorry for the rough audio quality this week! Han has an academic article deadline that is looming horribly and we opted for Rough Episode rather than No Episode. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes edition with all of our sorting-out and extra excerpts and ums.Content Warning: death, death threats, indentured servitude, incest mention, general necromancy badness, cancer, body horror, wounds, blood, genocide [canon]No readings this week as Han has become temporarily illiterate. Thank you for understanding.Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod.

NOTE: Episode re-published due to Haunted. Thank you to those who let us know our file was fucked. You are our true friends.Rimona Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome Dr. Joanna Irina "aoei" Zaitseva-Kinneberg (she/her) for chapter 34 of Gideon the Ninth. The squad journeys into the lab of Cyrus and Valancy. Chekhov's... monkey's paw? Or something? This is not the villain monologue we expected. Coronabeth is weirder than Gideon realized, and not even in a hot way.Content Warning: murder, punching [sexual], fire play, biting, incest mention, Ianthe Tridentarius [canon], assorted body horror, viscera, demon possession, mayonnaise uncles, cannibalismFurther Reading:Britannica (n.d.) Fresco PaintingRijen Shrestha; Tanuj Kanchan; Kewal Krishan (2023) Methods of Estimation of Time Since DeathMariame Kaba (2021) We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming JusticeMariame Kaba and Shira Hassan (2019) Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability FacilitatorsNun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod.

Rimona Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) reexamine Chapter 35 of Gideon the Ninth. An awkward new coalition emerges in the face of crisis, and it's weird for everybody.Content Notice: mock-retching [00:02:43], murder, corpse-tampering, genocide, child death, Weird Jesus Stuff, eugenics, ableism, Nazis, reproductive abuse,Further Reading:Katie White (Feb 14, 2026) The Surprisingly Sexual Side of Medieval Christian ArtPlanet Bee Foundation (Aug 8, 2024) The Essential Jobs of the Worker Honey BeeMolly Crabapple (2026) Here Where We Live Is Our CountryBritish Columbia: An Untold History (n.d.) Stanley Park EstablishedPerpetual Bone Tarot DeckNun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod.