A Perfectly Normal Conversation

Worth It

POOL SCENE POOL SCENE POOL SCENE Guests Hannah (katakaluptastrophy [https://www.tumblr.com/katakaluptastrophy] on Tumblr and @The_Pentiad on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@the_pentiad]), Caro (@ImaginaryCaro on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@imaginarycaro] and elsewhere), and Tom (dayneonychus [https://www.tumblr.com/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; infertility; eugenics; infanticide; sexual violence; suicide; romanticization of abuse Further Reading: NO! Against Adult Supremacy [https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1460] (2016) Paulo Freire (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed Frantz Fanon (1952) Black Skin, White Masks Rebekah Brown (2024) Why Childhood Trauma Survivors Blame Themselves [https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/07/03/987497922/] CPTSD Foundation Gillian Rose (1995) Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life gayabstractconcept (2024) Bought At a Price [https://archiveofourown.org/works/60827617] Archive of Our Own. Katakaluptastrophy (2026) [Hannah's account of Muir's appearance at Corpus in May 2026] [https://www.tumblr.com/katakaluptastrophy/816074921377726464/i-wentnot-overseas-but-by-public-transportto] Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com [http://NunPod.com] and get our attention with #NunPod.

Conjecture

Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson [https://www.txwatson.com] (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 Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical Continuity [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23753234.2024.2396411#d1e209] Minouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society Charles W. Mills (1997) The Racial Contract Avgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Brené Brown (2012) Listening to Shame [https://youtu.be/psN1DORYYV0] Rafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most Vulnerable [https://lithub.com/why-brene-browns-gospel-of-vulnerability-fails-the-worlds-most-vulnerable/] The Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty - Episode 34 [https://youtu.be/lco2N1FnHrg?list=PLCxdZGGtMp4l9juwW9WAgAHKBjRNYaw_W] (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke") [https://youtu.be/5jKguagcP48] Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Han Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference Notes [https://wustl.box.com/s/2v9dmt7w3uzq0rjhxkvju94lsgvjopdg] Paul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told" [https://youtu.be/yiBAfmxwdKc]) Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns [https://bgillette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KANTsupposedRightToLie.pdf] Jeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience" [https://megaphone.link/SBP9367773388] T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait) [https://youtu.be/nNbvhyVP8Sg] T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" [https://ia903204.us.archive.org/23/items/boston-hearth-projectby-tjwatson/BostonHearthProjectbyTJWatson.pdf] in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com [http://NunPod.com] and get our attention with #NunPod.

Episode 30 Coming So Soon!

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.

The Poor Child

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. [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/166/oa_edited_volume/chapter/3021322] a tumblr book: platform and cultures NASA et al. (2020). The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years [https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100-000-years-151568]. The Conversation. Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink (2021) Start With This, "But How Does It End?" [https://megaphone.link/SBP7657679850] Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com [http://NunPod.com] and get our attention with #NunPod.

I Am the Oath

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, Slavery, (Punitive?) Amputation, Torture, Abuse, Dios Apate (implied), Eugenics, Suicide, Further Reading: Richard Allen (2023) Toward a Philosophy of Melodrama [https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/17/3/proj170301.xml?ArticleBodyColorStyles=contentSummary-4283] Rebecca Lesses (2009) Lilith [https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lilith] Mass Effect 3 (2012) Mordin Death Scene [https://youtu.be/3-_X9Tsg0Fc] Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com [http://NunPod.com] and get our attention with #NunPod. If you’d like to support our show with your voice, share NunPod with a friend or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to use money to support us, we encourage you to think of the amount you’d like to send us on Patreon each month and then instead send it here [https://www.rescue.org/crisis-in-gaza?form=evergreen-crisis-web&ms=ws_article_fy25_gaza_mmus_jul&initialms=ws_article_fy25_gaza_mmus_jul]. Let us know that you did!