A Convincing Win

Claire (she/they) and Han (any pronouns) dig into Gideon the Ninth chapter 11, contrasting the duals between Gideon and the cavaliers of the Fifth and Third and exploring the relationship between Magnus and Jeannemary. Claire has a spectacular cosplay idea. There's quite a lot of sword fighting discussion in this one. Content Warning: fatphobia, violence, child soldiers Further Reading: Roy Ward Baker (1981) The Monster Club Susanna Ives (2023) How to Victorian Maid Servant Joseph Brassey (2017) Skyfarer Olivier Girard et al (2023) "Living High - Training Low" for Olympic Medal Performance Annotated List of Historical [Swordfighting] Manuals United Nations (n.d.) Child Recruitment and Use 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!