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Frontline FifthNtN Chapter 11 & 12 - “The Clock Starts”SAFE SECTION: So many memes! A long conversation about holobionts! John hopped up on caffeine and pacing! This episode has it all!
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk about everyone's secrets and Marie almost convinces Hannah that two thigh machetes isn't terrible (or is terrible, but is at least interesting).
Join us next week to stop in on an old friend in Chapters 13 and 14 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2026-02-231h 28Frontline FifthNtN Chapter 10 and John 5:18- “False Labour Pains”SAFE SECTION: Marie develops a Mithraeum perfume. (Fun fact - you can find out what space smells like for yourself! Here on Earth! And heck, while we are linking things, here is a good article.) We explain NFTs to John (not really, but it sounds funnier that way). Honestly, so many tangents.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie examine necro/cav relationships.
Join us next week to hear what is sexy in Chapters 11 and 12 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you kn...
2026-02-161h 02Frontline FifthNtN John 15:23 and Chapter 9 - “Regret and Self-Hatred and Sea Water”SAFE SECTION: Brooke is an enchilada, John sweeps around his house in a cloak, we learn that Nona is good at making SMART goals.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah has questions about eyes, and Marie rants about dogs.
Join us next week to keep Camilla home in Chapter 10 and John 5:18, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2026-02-091h 06Frontline FifthNtN Chapter 7 & 8 - “Domestic Life is Immensely Depressing”SAFE SECTION: The gang wants to know your opinions about oatmeal cookies, and then Brooke will explain her elaborate plan to steal restaurant dishes, John confesses to eating a stick of butter, and everyone except John is insufferable about PhDs.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie are obsessed with Pyrrha.
Join us next week to watch us move some hands in Chapters 9, 10, and John 15:23 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2026-02-021h 11Frontline FifthNtN Chapter 5, 6, & John 5:20 - “Being Unexpectedly Loved”SAFE SECTION: We all compare notes on our daily ablutions and tell each other bedtime stories, John convinces Brooke of Crown's identity, and Brooke and John decide they know who Nona is.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah spend a lot of time talking about Pyrrha and picking apart Cam's bedtime story.
Next week, wake up with a wet sponge to the face in Chapters 7 and 8 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2026-01-271h 22Frontline FifthNtN Chapter 2, 3, & 4 - “Good-looking and Dumb”SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John are still frustrated, and getting used to a different pacing.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah talk about names and puzzle through chapter icons.
Join us next week to hear a bedtime story in Chapters 5, 6, and John 5:20 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2026-01-191h 15Frontline FifthNtN John 20:8 and Chapter 1 - “Wannabe Heroes and Hairy Dogs”SAFE SECTION: We all spend way too long reminiscing about the birth of the internet until we fall into an abyss of cringe. John is exasperated, Brooke is flabbergasted, Marie is enjoying this all too much, and Hannah continues to be the mastermind.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie compare notes with the newbies nascent theories.
Join us next week to hear about gang initiation in Chapters 2, 3 & 4, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2026-01-121h 23Frontline FifthNtN Teaser - “Sleep, I’ll Wake You In the Morning”Surprise! We are benevolent bone witches, and so we interrupt your longing with a leetle teaser episode. We all talk about the Dramatis Personae and new poem in Nona the Ninth, and then you can listen to Brooke and John as they give their live reactions to the first chapter in Nona the Ninth.
Join us next year when we meet Nona for real, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-12-1543 minFrontline FifthSeason 2 Interstitial: Oops, All GamesSAFE SECTION: Kara, the Mastermind of Bone Island and other quality content, joins the cast to play a succession of exceedingly silly games.
Find Kara on TikTok, or listen to Lesbians are Brutal wherever you get your podcasts!
Join us in January when we start Nona the Ninth next season! You can tide yourself over with bonus content on our Patreon, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-11-031h 20Frontline FifthSPOILER Season 2 Interstitial: Do Fans Have Hinges?SPOILER SECTION: Lizzi joins the bone witches as they go into RAMPANT SPECULATION land and trade their most favorite and close-held theories.
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Join us next week to hear a special games episode with guest star Kara but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-10-2847 minFrontline FifthSAFE Season 2 Interstitial: Do Fans Have Hinges?SAFE SECTION: Lizzi joins the bone witches and newbies to rate fan theories by their level of unhinged on a scale of Brooke to John.
Follow Lizzi on TikTok or Tumblr!
Join us next week to hear a special games episode with guest star Kara but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-10-271h 00Frontline FifthSeason 2 Interstitial: Much Wanted GuestsSPOILER SECTION: This episode contains series spoilers through Nona the Ninth!
Recurring guest stars Sonia and Josh join Hannah and Marie for a performance in the theater of the absurd as we discuss the short story "The Unwanted Guest."
Join us next week for an episode of Fan Theories and Rampant Speculation! with special guest of niche-fandom TikTok fame, Lizzi! but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-10-161h 27Frontline FifthSeason 2 Interstitial: “As Yet Still Unsent”This episode is SAFE for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex, and As Yet Unsent.
In this episode, Brooke and John delve into the psyche of Judith F*cking Deuteros, try to understand the timeline, and make a few predictions for what this all might mean, all while Hannah and Marie assist them in picking out a new name.
Join us Wednesday for a super special SPOILERIFIC episode with returning guests John and Sonia where we read "The Unwanted Guest," but til then, stay safe m...
2025-10-131h 15Frontline FifthHtN Wrap Up - “Dying is for Suckers”SAFE SECTION: We contemplate past Brooke and John's preseason predictionsm return to FMKR, and let the newly budded Lyctors rampantly speculate on who Nona might be.
Join us next week when Brooke and John read "As Yet Unsent" and to enjoy the return of MUCH WANTED GUESTS, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-10-061h 19Frontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for HtN Episodes 12-19SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time with Brooke and John, and you've been dying to know what Marie and Hannah talk about behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! These spoilers are safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex, and As Yet Unsent.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-10-0648 minFrontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for HtN Episodes 11-15SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time with Brooke and John, and you've been dying to know what Marie and Hannah talk about behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! These spoilers are safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex, and As Yet Unsent.
Join us THURSDAY to hear more sanitized SPOILERS but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-09-291h 14Frontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for HtN Episodes 6-10SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time with Brooke and John, and you've been dying to know what Marie and Hannah talk about behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! These spoilers are safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex, and As Yet Unsent.
Join us next week to hear more sanitized SPOILERS but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-09-251h 09Frontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for HtN Episodes 1-5SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time with Brooke and John, and you've been dying to know what Marie and Hannah talk about behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance! These spoilers are safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, The Mysterious Study of Dr. Sex, and As Yet Unsent.
Join us THURSDAY to hear more sanitized SPOILERS but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-09-221h 12Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 52, 53, & Epilogue - “Not Yet”SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John end the books with a collective groan of dissatisfaction while the bone witches cackle with glee, and spend a good amount of time in truly reckless speculation, trying to predict what Nona the Ninth might have in store for them.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie continue to cackle with glee, make some soul maps, and contemplate just how frustrated the newbies will be with 2 chapters a week of Nona.
Join us next week for our first of two sanitized spoiler episodes for this season of Frontline Fifth, but til t...
2025-09-151h 25Frontline FifthSPOILERS: HtN Chapter 50 & 51SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend more than 2% of the time snickering at n00b speculation, but also a good amount of time in their own reckless speculation
Join us next week when John and Brooke pick sides in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 52, 53, and the Epilogue. That’s right! Next week we are finishing Harrow the Ninth! Til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-09-1026 minFrontline FifthHtN Chapter 50 & 51 - "Genuinely Sad, Bordering on Very Funny"We were veeery chatty this week so in this (only) SAFE SECTION: Brooke asks whose sunglasses were those to begin with, John asks if it counts as a god complex if you are actually god, and Hannah and Marie ask the infants how they are making these insane predictions.
Join us next week to hear John and Brooke pick sides in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 52, 53, and the Epilogue. That’s right! Next week we are finishing Harrow the Ninth! Til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors withou...
2025-09-091h 112025-09-0700 minFrontline FifthHtN Chapter 48 & 49 - “Love is a Revenant”SAFE SECTION: We all collapse into giggles multiple times over John's puns and Tamsyn's Ianthe/Gideon buddy cop routine, and we plan our next foray into the Bone Zone Media Universe.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie collapse into giggles over Brooke and John's rampant speculation.
Join us next week to confront God in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 50 and 51, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-09-011h 22Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 44-47 - “Sick of Roses and Horny for Revenge”SAFE SECTION: No one appreciates John's comedic genius, Brooke is very unhappy about pincers, we all make monsters worse than the worst bees.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah spill the beans on the Bone Zone Media cinematic universe.
Join us next week to call up some ghosts in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 48 and 49 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-08-251h 29Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 40-43 - “Absolutely Not”SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John get some answers, but not enough for their liking, and everyone collaborates on their own Locked Tomb Alternate Universe.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah keep it short and sweet, contemplating just how many ghosts one person could possibly be haunted by.
Join us next week to keep the lights on in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 44-47, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-08-181h 06Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 38,39,& Epiparados - “What It Is To Be Fractured”SAFE SECTION: John and Brooke have a lot of puzzle pieces but still don't know what puzzle they are working on, and we all examine each others heads in the game section.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah discuss awesome fan theories and new merch drops.
Join us on August 18 to explore some alternate explanations in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 40-43 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-07-281h 09Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 35-37 - “Into the River With Us, Boys!”SAFE SECTION: We ponder "none houses, left grief" for a very long time, Brooke admits to her competitive streak, John makes plans for the Bone Zone Media Group, Marie always cheats, and Hannah builds an acid jail so cruel she requested it be redacted, and everyone should watch the Mercymorn art critique animatic.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah talk about more topics that have to be redacted and also add to their own rampant speculation.
Join us next week to find out what happened to Harrow’s temporal lobes in Chapters 38, 39, and the Epiparados but til then...
2025-07-211h 36Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 32-34 - "Kill Us Twice, Shame on God"SAFE SECTION: We celebrate Brooke's prescience, John exponentially expands the murder board, Hannah quotes Keats or Yeats or something, and Marie unconsciously gives up a lot about her reading habits.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie pick apart John's murder board and get into the timey wimey stuff.
Join us next week to to start preparing for the Resurrection Beast in earnest in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 35-37 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-07-151h 312025-07-1400 minFrontline FifthHtN Chapter 30&31- “Dios Apate Minor”SAFE SECTION: The gang see an ancient distraction method play out, and make a...proclamation?
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie pick apart the babes rampant speculation, and get live updates from John
Join us next week to meet some old friends in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 32-34, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-07-071h 33Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 27-29 - "A Once in a Lifetime Genius, An Insane Imbecile, Or Both"SAFE SECTION: Hannah reveals her ovine work environment, Brooke and Marie disagree over who is the genius and who is the imbecile, but either way agree they are once-in-a-lifetime, and John explains Superman while everyone agrees that the concept of distracting God is... odd and mattress stores are fronts for money laundering.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie decrypt a cryptic note.
Join us next week to get toasted in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 30 and 31 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permi...
2025-06-291h 36Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 23-26 - “You Make Soup”SAFE SECTION: Brooke illustrates the utility of writing down your own thoughts, John praises the advantages of necromancy for cooking, and everyone discusses the merits of cannibalism.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie kicks John off the pod and Hannah remains totally pro-cannibalism.
Join us next week to wake up in Ianthe’s bed (meow) in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 27-29 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-06-231h 16Frontline FifthHtN Chapters 19-22 - “Oh, Then He Just Wants You Dead”SAFE SECTION: Brooke finally gets frustrated about Meanwhile Back at Canaan House, John is the Saint of Vexation, and no one is able pronounce anything.
SPOILER SECTION: After some truly beautiful on the fly theory crafting, Marie crashes out over still not being able to speak, while Hannah, as per usual, comes prepared with all of the notes to dissect the poem Annabel Lee.
Join us next week to hear how it went staying up for five days to read through Harrow the Ninth Chapters 23 through 26 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and rem...
2025-06-161h 18Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 16,17, &18 - “At Least We Suffer Together”SAFE SECTION: John drops video game lore, Brooke is in full gardening mode, Marie is easy to insult, and Hannah cheats.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah consider everyone's motives, and remain confused.
Join us next week to become intimately familiar with the Saint of Duty in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 19-22, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-06-091h 13Frontline FifthHtN Chapter 12-15 - “No Ghosts But Your Own”SAFE SECTION: John calculates the half-life of uranium while Brooke contemplates joie de vivre and everyone makes sad soup.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah think hard about the timeline and whether Jod was right all along (spoiler, maybe not...)
Join us next week to head back to the Mithreaeum in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 16, 17, and 18 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-06-031h 262025-06-0200 minFrontline FifthHtN Chapters 9,10,&11 - "Heroes are Passé"SAFE SECTION: Everyone gets a new vocal tick (phwoar!) and plans their funerals
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie get a phone call from John.
Join us next week to sleepwalk through the Mithraeum in Chapters 12-15 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-05-261h 16Frontline FifthHtN Chapters 6, 7, & 8 - “Monsters Were Never Beyond Her”SAFE SECTION: Brooke gains an unfortunate Google search history, John wants a hyperpotomous for Christmas, and the gang spend way too much time in esoteric baloney (anatomy, Plato's allegory of the cave, genetics).
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah pronounces her favorite Lyctor theory while Marie points out her favorite foreshadowing lines.
Join us next week to hear John and Brooke wake up aboard the Mithraeum in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 9, 10, and 11 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
2025-05-191h 21Frontline FifthHtN: Chapter 3,4,&5 - “Power Vomit and Murder”SAFE SECTION: Brooke cooks up conspiracies, John writes himself a note, and everyone finds out that they should have joined the military.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie predict John's note to himself and the ending of Alecto.
Join us next week when John and Brooke meet their big sister in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 6, 7, and 8 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-05-121h 21Frontline FifthHtN: HtN Chapter 1&2 "The Dubious Privileges of the First House"SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John consider Ortus Nigenad while Hannah imagines her career as an interior decorator of the Houses, Marie spends some time vomiting in solidarity with Harrow, and everyone considers their afterlife.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie consider Ortus Nigenad and are haunted by The Body.
Join us next week to hear Ianthe bring some class back in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-05-051h 28Frontline FifthHtN: Prologue and Parados - "Hell Spat You Back Out"SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John learn a lot from the Dramatis Personae, and then realize they know nothing by the end of the Parados. And of course, we all play that classic Third House game, FMKR.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie do a lot of gloating over how confused Brooke and John are.
Join us next week to to watch Harrow vomit a bunch in Harrow the Ninth Chapters 1 and 2 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-04-281h 24Frontline FifthInterstitial 2: As Yet UnsentThis episode contains full series spoilers through Nona the Ninth.
SPOILER SECTION: This week SPECIAL GUESTS Sonia and Josh join Hannah and Marie to get new names, get truly disturbing with a dead body, and ultimately, talk some rampant speculation as we discuss the short story "As Yet Unsent."
Join us after our break when we kick off our read of Harrow the Ninth with the Prologue and Parodos, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
2025-04-191h 33Frontline FifthInterstitial 1: The Mysterious Study of Doctor SexSAFE SECTION: John starts a cult and Brooke haunts her husband as the whole gang coos over teenage Cam and Pal.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah starts a cult because one of the last glass ceilings is female cult leaders.
Join us two weeks to read the Prologue and Parados of Harrow the Ninth (!) but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-04-141h 10Frontline FifthGideon the Ninth Wrap-upThis week we all spend some time with the extra materials, consider what it all might mean, add to our rampant conspiracies, and return to FMKR.
Join us next week for TWO special episodes! Next week, we will be reading “The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” (we choose not to), SAFE for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth, and we will also be reading “As Yet Unsent” in a SPOILERIFIC episode with new guest stars! ‘Til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know...
2025-04-071h 17Frontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for Episodes 9-16SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time, and you wanted to know what Marie and Hannah were saying behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance!
Join us next week for our recap of Gideon the Ninth but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-03-311h 33Frontline FifthSanitized SPOILERS for Episodes 1 thru 8SPOILER SECTION: Have you been reading along for the first time, and you wanted to know what Marie and Hannah were saying behind that spoiler warning? Now is your chance!
Join us next week to hear more sanitized SPOILERS gleaned from Hannah and Marie's discussions in Episodes 9-16 (safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth), but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-03-241h 33Frontline FifthChapter 37 and Epilogue- “What’s Done is Done is Done”SAFE SECTION: We all grapple with the implications of the Epilogue and sign up for lifetime subscriptions to each other's nerd facts.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah cackle over how little Brooke and John can know about what is in store for them in Harrow the Ninth.
Join us next week to hear sanitized SPOILERS from Marie and Hannah's spoiler sections from Episodes 1-8 (safe for anyone who has read Gideon the Ninth), but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you k...
2025-03-171h 37Frontline FifthChapter 35 & 36 - “One Flesh, One End”SAFE SECTION: Brooke makes a lot of "wah" sounds, John cusses a lot about being "so close!", Marie is a homewrecker, and Hannah keeps us all on track, as per usual.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend a lot of time making a calendar and thinking about what comes next.
Join us next week to hear the final conclusion of Gideon the Ninth in Chapter 27 and the Epilogue, but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-03-101h 32Frontline FifthSPOILER Episode 16: Chapter 32,33,&34 - “The Civilised Thing To Do”It's a long one this week so this is the SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend waaaay too long examine Ianthe's inner psyche and blech! ew!
Join us next week to hear the chaotic climax in Chapters 35 and 36 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-03-0327 minFrontline FifthSAFE Chapter 32,33,&34 - “The Civilised Thing To Do”It's a long one, so this is only the SAFE SECTION: Everyone walks into a bar (lyctor lab) to find Ianthe and learn more about her and Lyctors than they ever wanted.
Join us next week to hear the climactic final chaos in Chapters 35 and 36 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-03-031h 16Frontline FifthChapter 30 & 31 - “The Sacred Silence We Keep”Trigger warning: This week we tackle some heavy chapters, and that includes talking about suicide. If that is not a safe topic for you, we understand if you meet up with us later. Act I and the Interstitial game are safe from those topics.
SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John take their first sacramental salt water swim, and we all contemplate the bleak prospects on Sword Meets Bone in this week's (dating) game.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie spend a lot of time pining over some chilly weirdo in a tomb.
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2025-02-241h 26Frontline FifthChapter 28 & 29 - “A House of Broken Promises”SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John are bystanders to some awkward conversations and dig into the meanings of names.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah are bystanders to some awkward conversations and dig into the meanings of names.
Join us next week to hear a confrontation in Chapters 30 and 31 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-02-171h 24Frontline FifthChapter 26 & 27 - "Every Weirdo in Canaan House"SAFE SECTION: We all witness a really terrible fight, watch Brooke and John devolve into a puddle of rampant speculation, and alternatively trade insults and compliments. (Ok, it was only Hannah with the compliments, but she tricked us!)
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie rate the cooking accomplished in the rampant speculation, and cook up some conspiracies of their own...
Join us next week to hear if Harrow has any skeletons in her closet in Chapters 28 and 29 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors w...
2025-02-101h 35Frontline FifthChapter 23, 24, & 25 - “Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!"SAFE SECTION: John and Brooke go loud while Hannah counts to four and Marie takes a break.
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah make a list and check it twice. (The list is the rampant speculation.)
Join us next week to delve deeper into the mystery in Chapters 26 and 27 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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2025-02-031h 23Frontline FifthChapter 21 and 22 – “Someone’s Dead”SAFE SECTION: Someone’s dead! Again! And we don’t know who!
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah hit a time loop to talk about who is and isn’t who they seem.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
Join us next week to hear more! death! in Chapters 23, 24, and 25 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-01-2758 minFrontline FifthChapter 19&20: “It’s Very Easy to Die”SAFE SECTION: John and Brooke explore a Lyctor lab and then Marie and Hannah siphon their life juice (it was for a good cause!). SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah are now actively seeking dumber friends. Muzzy and Zuko guest star.
**apologies! Hannah's mic was on the fritz for the first part of the episode!**
Join us next week to dig through the cremains with us in Chapters 21 and 22 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, gh...
2025-01-201h 16Frontline FifthChapter 17&18: "Chalk and Ink and Blood"SAFE SECTION: We all work together to summon some ghosts, but boy do we suck at spirit magic. We flesh and bone witches here on Frontline Fifth. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah speculate about the ghosts in the basement. Special guest star this week: Diego (#GoodbyeKittyKatYeet).
Join us next week in Chapters 19 and 20 for our first foray into a Lyctor Study (!!!) and Marie and Hannah's first attempt at siphoning Brooke and John but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts....
2025-01-131h 13Frontline FifthChapter 15&16: "So Usefully Down in the Dark"SAFE SECTION: We measure Hannah's medium biceps and John's giant head at our dream dinner parties and then mourn the tragic loss of the Fifth House. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah go hard dissecting small talk, because we liked that dinner...it was...useful.
Join us next week to get some of our first glimpses into non-bone necromancy and theorize about ghost-murder in Chapters 17 and 18 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2025-01-061h 27Frontline FifthChapter 13&14: "It's Gideon Nav Talking Time"SAFE SECTION: Brooke is definitely the prude of the podcast; We all enter the bone zone. SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah do the math and the numbers don't add up.
Join us on January 6th, 2025 for a party and a funeral in Chapters 15 and 16 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
If you don't play WoW, here is the character John references: BONE STORM
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2024-12-161h 01Frontline FifthChapter 12: "Sweat and Blood and Old, Burnt Bone"SAFE SECTION: This week our newbies enter the Facility for the first time!!! Don't worry, dear listener, we got permission first. Brooke is disappointed in our lack of smut, John is cooking with conspiracy theories, and we are all the greatest necromancer of our generation... SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah need to get dumber friends...we talk about white people and argue over whether Camilla and Palamedes are the perfect partnership (hint, they are. Hannah is right, and it's not just because she writes the show notes and is pretty sure Marie won't notice).
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2024-12-091h 08Frontline FifthChapter 9,10,&11: "Alone Amid Very Strange Strangers"SAFE SECTION: This week Brooke and John meet…well, like all the characters. All the ones we care about except Cam and Pal, anyway. We also give you, our dear listener, a peek at our side hustle as sparring commentators! SPOILER SECTION: Hannah obsesses over the age of Canaan House (not the first time, nor the last) and Marie blows all our minds once again. You know we are living for those mythology deep cuts…
Join us next week for our newbies’ very first foray into the Facility (*Hannah clapping her hands unironically in the background*) in Chapte...
2024-12-021h 18Frontline FifthChapter 7&8: "Welcome To Canaan House"SAFE SECTION: This week, our newbies touch down in Canaan House, where both John and Gideon immediately fall for Dulcinea's tuberculosis-chic energy.
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk planets and Marie wonders if there is more water in Canaan House than just the oceans of the First House.
Join us next week when we finally meet more of the cast (enter 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th houses!!!) in Chapters 9, 10, and 11 but til then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to unlock any tombs or enter any doors without permission, because, you know, ghosts.
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2024-11-251h 16Frontline FifthChapter 5&6: "Ten Thousand Years of Tradition"SAFE SECTION: It's a training montage! Our newbies practice acting like *proper* Ninth Nunlets all day, but they're reading dirty magazines of their own invention all night!
SPOILER SECTION: Marie and Hannah talk about why John loves the Roman Empire so much and tell Harrowhark to stop jumping to conclusions
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
Join us next week when we touch down in Canaan House in Gideon the Ninth Chapters 7 and 8.
Until then, stay safe my Ninth necros, and remember not to u...
2024-11-1837 minFrontline FifthChapter 3&4: "A Bad Bone Saint"SAFE SECTION: Brooke and John, our sweet Ninth newbies, descend into Drearburgh and learn about the Emperor's open call for new saints. They sign up right away (the offhand for both is pocket sand, obvi).
SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk about relationships and speculate on why the Houses keep bringing swords to a gun fight.
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
Join us next week for the most epic of training montages as we become first class cavaliers in Gideon the Ninth Chapters 5 and 6.
2024-11-1151 minFrontline FifthChapter 1&2: "A Disgrace in a Vacuum"SAFE SECTION: Our little Ninth nunlets meet Gideon Nav for the very first time and then, almost immediately, watch her get totally crushed under a pile of skeletons courtesy of Hannah's perma-crush, Harrowhark Nonagesimus. SPOILER SECTION: Hannah and Marie talk about Gideon's love of 2020s culture and the location of Wake's soul (Ha! New readers! You won't even remotely get that one til like 80% of the way through Book 2!)
Join us next week to hear our takes on Drearburgh's religious services and the glories of being volun-told in Chapters 3 and 4 but til then, stay safe my Ninth...
2024-11-0455 minFrontline FifthFrontispiece, Dramatis Personae, and EpigraphThis week's episode is a teaser! We haven't cracked the spine of Gideon the Ninth just yet...In this week's episode, SAFE SECTION: Our necro-newbies talk about their reflections on the Cover Art, Cast of Characters, and opening poem of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Then we all play FMKR, because that's who we are as people. SPOILER SECTION: Marie drops a bombshell theory about the Dramatis Personae's implications for the founding of the Nine Houses
Content warning: This episode contains bones, blood, smut and swear words.
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