• Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (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, deceptionFurther Reading:Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical ContinuityMinouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyCharles W. Mills (1997) The Racial ContractAvgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaBrené Brown (2012) Listening to ShameRafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most VulnerableThe Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty – Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black StudyHan Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference NotesPaul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic ConcernsJeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-SpeculationNun 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.
    1. Conjecture
    2. Episode 30 Coming So Soon!
    3. The Poor Child
    4. I Am the Oath
    5. Let's Negotiate
  • Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (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, deceptionFurther Reading:Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical ContinuityMinouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyCharles W. Mills (1997) The Racial ContractAvgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaBrené Brown (2012) Listening to ShameRafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most VulnerableThe Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty – Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black StudyHan Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference NotesPaul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic ConcernsJeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-SpeculationNun 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.
    1. Conjecture
    2. Episode 30 Coming So Soon!
    3. The Poor Child
    4. I Am the Oath
    5. Let's Negotiate
  • Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (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, deceptionFurther Reading:Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical ContinuityMinouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyCharles W. Mills (1997) The Racial ContractAvgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaBrené Brown (2012) Listening to ShameRafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most VulnerableThe Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty – Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black StudyHan Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference NotesPaul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic ConcernsJeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-SpeculationNun 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.
    1. Conjecture
    2. Episode 30 Coming So Soon!
    3. The Poor Child
    4. I Am the Oath
    5. Let's Negotiate
  • Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (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, deceptionFurther Reading:Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical ContinuityMinouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyCharles W. Mills (1997) The Racial ContractAvgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaBrené Brown (2012) Listening to ShameRafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most VulnerableThe Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty – Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black StudyHan Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference NotesPaul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic ConcernsJeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-SpeculationNun 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.
    1. Conjecture
    2. Episode 30 Coming So Soon!
    3. The Poor Child
    4. I Am the Oath
    5. Let's Negotiate
  • Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (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, deceptionFurther Reading:Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical ContinuityMinouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better SocietyCharles W. Mills (1997) The Racial ContractAvgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaBrené Brown (2012) Listening to ShameRafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most VulnerableThe Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty – Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black StudyHan Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference NotesPaul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic ConcernsJeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-SpeculationNun 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.
    1. Conjecture
    2. Episode 30 Coming So Soon!
    3. The Poor Child
    4. I Am the Oath
    5. Let's Negotiate

Dramatis Personae

Episode 10’s guest Caro has cosplayed SO many Locked Tomb characters. In honor of this week’s episode I’ve curated a collection that shows off every Locked Tomb character I could find from all of this week’s guest and from us as well. Gideon the Ninth Gideon Nav I have Normal feelings about Caro’s barefaced Gideon…

Episode 10 WILL Release Today!

Hey pals, normally episodes are cued up in advance and drop in the wee hours of the morning (relative to Central US time). Given the recent technical difficulties (which HAVE been solved!) I wanted to clarify that while today’s episode is not out YET, it will still come out today (your timezone may vary), but…