Rimona Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) reexamine Chapter 35 of Gideon the Ninth. An awkward new coalition emerges in the face of crisis, and it's weird for everybody. Chekhov's... monkey's paw? Or something? This is not the villain monologue we expected. Coronabeth is weirder than Gideon realized, and not even in a hot way.

Content Notice: mock-retching [00:02:43], murder, corpse-tampering, genocide, child death, Weird Jesus Stuff, eugenics, ableism, Nazis, reproductive abuse,

Further Reading:

Katie White (Feb 14, 2026) The Surprisingly Sexual Side of Medieval Christian Art

Planet Bee Foundation (Aug 8, 2024) The Essential Jobs of the Worker Honey Bee

Molly Crabapple (2026) Here Where We Live Is Our Country

British Columbia: An Untold History (n.d.) Stanley Park Established

Perpetual Bone Tarot Deck

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Rimona Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome Lizzi (they/them) to dig into Gideon the Ninth, Chapter 32. The squad investigates a Lyctor lab and uncovers unsettling truths about Teacher. You can find Lizzi on Tumblr and TikTok.

We really appreciate your patience with our second brief hiatus as Han focused on teaching its first college class this summer! We missed you and we should be back to our regular every-other-week schedule for the rest of the season.

content warning: death, body horror [teeth], murder, genocide [canon], experimental abuse, incarceration, child soldiers, incest, necrophilia

further reading

Holocaust Encyclopedia (n.d.) The Nuremberg Code

Harriet A. Washington (2007) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Angela Davis (2003) Are Prisons Obsolete?

Traci Burch (2022) Adding Insult to Injury: The Justification Frame in Official Narratives of Officer-Involved Killings

IMDB (2025) Pluribus

Han has mentioned a few times not saying "Samael" out loud for religious reasons. If you're curious about that, you can learn about it on Throwing Sheyd, but we could not find the correct episode so enjoy the entire sixteen hours of Jewish demonology content.

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POOL SCENE POOL SCENE POOL SCENE

Guests Hannah (katakaluptastrophy on Tumblr and @The_Pentiad on TikTok), Caro (@ImaginaryCaro on TikTok and elsewhere), and Tom (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 (2016)

Paulo Freire (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Frantz Fanon (1952) Black Skin, White Masks

Rebekah Brown (2024) Why Childhood Trauma Survivors Blame Themselves CPTSD Foundation

Gillian Rose (1995) Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life

gayabstractconcept (2024) Bought At a Price Archive of Our Own.

Katakaluptastrophy (2026) [Hannah's account of Muir's appearance at Corpus in May 2026]

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