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@katakaluptastrophy and @dayneonychus and Caro joined us for a very special Nun Pod With Left Grief in which THE FUCKING POOL SCENE
It's out NOW and you can find it at nunpod.com or wherever podcasts happen to you.
Series spoilers, NSFW, check episode notes for specific content warnings and further readings
This episode was a dream to make and I am SO pleased that it exists and that we get to SHARE it with you.
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I caught up with Nun Pod with Left Grief – a fantastic readalong podcast of Gideon the Ninth and hopefully the whole series – and here's my takeaways so far:
1. Loooove hearing sword talk by actual sword nerds!! Absolutely fascinating and makes me want to take up fencing immediately
2. Obsessed with the angles and details other people notice – you can never catch everything by yourself, so it's delightful to add Han and Claire's voices to my own observations and the tumblr meta posts rattling around in my head. A delightful example from the show is their attention to materials, which I've never paid much attention to, but with Han and Claire's instruction, I've started to and it opens up whole new avenues of interpretation and examination
3. Podcast as a format opens the conversation for me in a way that internet posts don't. When I read tumblr meta, I feel like I'm studying, listening to people smarter and more knowledgeable than me, integrating new information into my knowledge base and belief system about the books. And I love it! People here are so smart and know so much about stuff I know next to nothing about! But listening to Nun Pod feels like hanging out with friends who are as obsessed with these books as I am. I find myself listening to the podcast as if participating in a conversation, gasping at realisations, vocally agreeing on takes and expanding on them, pointing out aloud when they misremember a detail from the text. It's great fun, and I love that they're doing this project for all of us to enjoy!
4. I'm really good at remembering details from the text. Maybe you guys should have me on so I don't just scream at the walls of my apartment in frustration (/joke... unless you don't want it to be)
This biweek's episode of Nun Pod With Left Grief is an extended dissection of the Eighth with our guest, John the Physicist (no relation).
Do you have surprisingly tender feelings toward Colum Asht, Silas Octakiseron, and/or Glaurica Ninth? We do too. Do you still want to punch Silas in his smarmy face? Also same.
Every episode of Nun Pod contains series spoilers, swears, and references to canonical and/or real-world violence. Check the episode description for specific content warnings and recommended readings.
Find us at nunpod.com or the place where you usually find podcasts.
Okay hi I didn’t want to say anything before but we just filmed the episode with the pool scene and we had a whole panel of incredible guests and it was SUCH a good conversation. I cannot wait to publish it (in several weeks sorry).
Nun Pod With Left Grief Episode 1: Chattel
Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) are leftist artists and educators who like the Locked Tomb series and its fandom a normal amount. In this episode they discuss the ambiguity around Gideon's status, the economy of Drearburh, and what's happening with the Ninth's population. Claire puts porridge in a sandwich bag. Han has questions about space Alcatraz. Anything is necromancy if you try hard and believe in yourself?
Content Warning: brief mentions of death, torture, slavery, racism, war crimes, genocide
Further Reading:
R. F. Kuang (2018)Â The Poppy War
Achille Mbembe (2011)Â Necropolitics
Angela Davis (2003)Â Are Prisons Obsolete?
W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)Â The Souls of Black Folk
Michel Foucault (1975)Â Discipline and Punish
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I was going to wait until Alecto to get a Locked Tomb tattoo Just In Case but having produced twenty four and a half episodes of a podcast about the Locked Tomb and cosplayed seven(?) of its characters over a period of five years, fuck it this is mine now.
My appointment is in ten days. A tiny goth lady is going to absolutely fuck up my arm, heart, and/or bank account for a period of up to five hours.
There's a moment when Gideon's escape attempt fails where she talks about having fed her whole life into the meat grinder of hope and there was a recent re-read where I was like oh that's it, that's the TLT tattoo I need. I am getting it on my inner bicep, as if cuddled near my heart, which my artist tells me is going to be a Bad Experience.
237 hours to go.
Nun Pod With Left Grief is BACK
And worse than ever.
Episode 26 - A Perfectly Normal Conversation
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 Kali. Hypatia 15(1):125-150.
Anastasia Pestinova (c. 2023)Â Transgressive Feminine: The Case of Baba Yaga
Nicky Falkof (2025)Â Trump and South Africa: What is White Victimhood, and How Is It Linked to White Supremacy?The Conversation.
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Christine Agius, and Kay Cook (2024) Antifeminist, Manosphere and Right-Wing Extremist Sentiments Among Men Who Use Domestic and Family Violence: Masculinism, Misinformation, and the Justificatory Logics of Violence. NORMA: 1-20. [Audio version available]
Lyz Lenz (2015) A Brief History of Dwarfism Pacific Standard.
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Editing NunPod often involves fact checking myself during editing because we have designed around an expert/amateur dynamic and I'm supposed to be the expert so like, it's best when I don't say untrue things about the book.
There's a moment in next week's episode where I explain the relational context between Mercy and Cristabel and even after fact checking I can't tell confidently whether what I've said is true without re-reading Harrow the Ninth so I guess fight me in the comments.
