More detailed content warnings for The Homestuck Epilogues
The Homestuck Epilogues
(2019) are a work for mature readers, including sensitive subjects.
They are a work of great empathy and surprisingly essential commentary
on these tough subjects, while maintaining the sudden flippancy and
tension-resolving absurd humor familiar to readers of Homestuck.
The
content warnings presented as follows should not be taken as a reason
not to read the work or negative commentary on the work, but are instead
intended as a guide for minors and those with traumatic triggers. These
individuals should discuss the content of The Homestuck Epilogues with a trusted adult before reading.
The
entire work contains canon-typical language (including gendered slurs
such as ‘bitch’ and ‘pussy’), violence, comic mischief, and joking
innuendo.
Chapter-by-chapter warnings follow. Meat’s warnings were compiled by Kate Mitchell. Candy’s warnings were compiled by Pip D.
- Drug and alcohol abuse is discussed.
- Severe headaches and illness are discussed.
Meat 2
- A major character death in the past is discussed.
- Eugenics and fascism are discussed.
Meat 6
- An underage character winks at an adult.
Meat 10
Meat 11
Meat 12
- Genitalia are discussed.
- A character makes a relationship proposition.
- A character is scolded for slut-shaming.
- Polyamory is discussed.
Meat 13
- A character suffers serious injury.
- Blood.
Meat 14
- A character attempts seduction.
- Alcohol is consumed.
- Characters “make out.”
- A character is described as “horny.”
Meat 15
- Death.
- Characters suffer serious injury.
- Blood.
- Vore is discussed.
Meat 16
- Headaches and serious illness are discussed.
Meat 18
- Vomit.
- Blood.
- Serious injury.
Meat 19
- A character is accidentally misgendered.
- Characters discuss gender identity and presentation.
- A character faints.
Meat 21
- Characters discuss racism.
- An animal is described giving birth in detail.
- Characters discuss fascism.
- Characters discuss eugenics.
- Characters discuss pregnancy.
Meat 22
Meat 24
Meat 25
- A character potentially engages in mind control.
- A characters says another character is their possession.
- Migraines and serious illness are discussed.
Meat 28
- Serious injury.
- Blood.
- Pica.
Meat 30
- Mind control is discussed.
- Eugenics are discussed.
Meat 31
- Serious injury.
- Blood and gore.
- A character performs surgery.
- Characters “make out.”
Meat 32
- A character misgenders another.
- A character discusses their evolving relationship with gender and presentation.
- Characters discuss coming out and sexuality.
- Characters discuss stomach pumping.
- A syringe is used.
Meat 33
- Rough sex mention.
- Blood.
Meat 34
- Sex and promiscuity are discussed.
- Mention of possible mind control or mental influence.
- Vomit mention.
- Mention of arousal.
Meat 35
- Blood.
- Serious injury.
- Death.
- Mention of sex.
Meat 36
- A character is comatose.
- A character is misgendered.
- A character’s gender presentation is judged.
- Depression mention.
Meat 37
- A character suffers from severe illness.
- Mention of possible mind control or mental influence.
- A syringe is used.
Meat 38
- Alcohol use.
- Discussion of addiction and substance abuse.
- Sex mention.
- Depression mention.
- A character attempts and fails to coerce two other characters into kissing.
- Kissing.
Meat 39
- A first-person colloquial description of arousal.
- Parenthood is discussed.
- Death of a child is discussed.
- Kissing.
Meat 40
- A character is comatose.
- A syringe is used.
Meat 41
- Discussion of suicide.
- Colloquial mention of genitalia.
Meat 42
- Discussion of kidnapping.
Meat 43
- A character is comatose.
- A character’s weight is referred to derogatorily.
- Characters discuss incest speculatively and negatively.
- Characters speculate about the sexuality of other characters.
- Childbirth is discussed.
- A character’s gender presentation is discussed by another in a derogatory way.
- Characters discuss kidnapping speculatively.
Meat Postscript
Candy 6
- Attempted sexual coercion.
- Alcoholism.
Candy 7
- Strongly misogynistic and sexually objectifying language.
Candy 12
- Extremely dubious/nonexistent consent.
Candy 14
- A character dies by suicide.
- Gore.
Candy 18
- Casual discussion of population control and genocidal policy.
- Dubiously consensual groping.
Candy 19
- Allusion to child neglect.
- Discussion of rape, abuse and coercion by concerned parties.
Candy 23
- Discussion of kidnapping, proposed by a concerned party.
- Implied child neglect.
- Conjecture of child sexual abuse by a concerned party.
Candy 32
- Graphic descriptions of violence.
- Significant age difference.
Candy 35
- Attempted sexual coercion of a minor by an adult.
- Attempted blackmail of a minor by an adult.
- Murder.