Nun Pod With Left Grief
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No episode this week due to unscheduled Mind-Altering Pain. Back 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 so real I cannot be bothered to look up the stuff that usually goes here. There's a license. It's a nice one. Make art out of our art about other people's art. It's art all the way down. Genuinely Sad, Bordering on Very Funny
We will be back as soon as we can, maybe even next week.Stagione 1
Nun Pod With Left Grief Teaser
Tamsyn Miur's Locked Tomb series (so far, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth) offers a rich, humorous look at power, agency, and relationship under empire. Join Claire Beans (she/they), Han Koehle (any pronouns), and guests as we reread the Locked Tomb series chapter by chapter, analyzing Miur's universe and characters and connecting them to the real world through theory and fandom. Spoilers will be spoilt.Episode 8 is going to be temporarily delayed as the computer that edits the podcast is unexpectedly in the shop. We hope to get episode 8 out later this week but if that's not possible we'll pick up with our regular schedule next Tuesday. 
BONUS: Outtakes & Deleted Scenes
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 Night (he/him). Our cover art for this episode features Han and its wife as Gideon and Harrow. Content Warning: unintentional weight loss, death, sex, abuse Further Reading: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990) Good Omens Note: We encourage you to source one in a way that doesn't give Neil Gaiman money, like borrowing a copy or picking a used copy at bookshop.org You can also make a donation to Our Voice in honor of his victims using the name "Calliope." Read more about that here. Thomas Wharton (2004) The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books Kaitlyn Vogt (2015) Being Nice is Lethal: Disciplining and Subverting Southern Femininity in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture Alexander M. Maley and Jack L. Arbiser (2015) Gentian Violet: A 19th Century Drug Re-Emerges in the 21st Century Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss (2009) Why Women Have Sex Han Koehle (ongoing) The Locked Tomb: Unauthorized Annotated Edition T. X. Watson and Astrid Lundberg (2025) Academic and Ergodic Literature Resting Glitch Face 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. 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. Let us know that you did!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.Gideon the Ninth, Act I, Chapter 1 In the early morning darkness on the barren and remote planet of the Ninth House, Gideon awaits the shuttle that will help her finally escape from her life as an indentured servant. Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) 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) The Poppy War Achille Mbembe (2011) Necropolitics Angela Davis (2003) Are Prisons Obsolete? W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) The Souls of Black Folk Michel Foucault (1975) Discipline and Punish Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. 
Gideon the Ninth, Act I, Chapter 2 Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus offers Gideon a tempting deal. Gideon thinks it's a trick. It's a trick. Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) talk about lies, Gideon and Harrow's relationship, developmentally appropriate goblinry, the relationship between the imperial military and economy, and what it's like to fight Too May Guys. Claire wants to know how blood sweat works. Han has a Theory about Gideon's immortality. Both are perpetually confused about the thanergy/thalergy system. The audio quality in this episode is not where we'd like it to be. There was a thunderstorm through most of the recording session and Han's microphone got real weird about it. Sorry about that, and we promise it's better in episode 3. Content Warning: death, decomposition, blood, fictional and real-world injury, slavery, war, emetophobia, value-neutral mention of specific weight. Further Reading: William Shakespeare (1623) Hamlet (especially Act 5, Scene 1) Charles Dickens (1861) Great Expectations Peter Kropotkin and N.O. Bonzo (2021) Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution Zach Norris (2020) We Keep Us Safe Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and share your art with us using #NunPod. 
Gideon the Ninth, Act I, Chapter 3 Gideon is having just the worst day. Harrow gets a surprising message. Ortus and Glaurica change plans. Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) explore why skeletons go to church, fatphobia in the myriadic year, and social norms around death on the Ninth. Claire waxes poetical about cosplay. Han wants to know the provenance of the Ninth prayer. Tamsyn Muir is a troll (complimentary). Content Warning: death, suicide, physical abuse, fatphobia, body size, suggestive themes Further Reading: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World (2013) edited by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro and translated by Fábio Fernandes "Dehumanization is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug" (2022) Eric Anicich Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (1992) Jack Snyder Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and share your art with us using #NunPod. If you'd like to support our show, leave a review, share Nun Pod with a friend, or visit rescue.org and donate whatever you would have been willing to spend on Patreon to help Palestinians get life-saving healthcare, hygiene supplies, and cash aid. We'd like that a lot.