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

Further Reading:

Tamora Pierce (1983-1988) The Song of the Lioness Quartet

Guy Gavriel Kay (1984-1986) Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy

Carl Lungman (1991) Dictionary of Symbols

Ghost in the Shell

An Sionnach Fionn (2018) The M1921 Thompson Submachine Gun, the IRA and the War of Independence

Emmeline May and Blue Seat Studios (2015) Tea and Consent

MSPA Wiki (n.d.) Quadrants

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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

Mikko Joronen (2016) Minor(s) Matter: Stone Throwing, Securitization, and the Government of Palestinian Childhood Under Israeli Military Rule [Note: we normally make sure scholarly work that we share is open-access. Don't pay to read this! Ask your library for access if you don't have a relationship with a university.]

R. F. Kuang (2018-2020) The Poppy War Trilogy

Kathleen Stokker (1995) Folklore Fights the Nazis

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) The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Posh Painter (2024) European Noble Titles Explained [note: this is straightforward and contains interesting etymological facts, but it's also hardcore uncritical of empire and monarchy]

Naomi Novik (2020-2022) Scholomance Trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves)