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Nothing Can Hurt You Now by Simone Campos

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Rape, Death, Eating disorder, Racism, and Lesbophobia

A character is also coerced into taking drugs.

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Death, Cursing, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Incest, Confinement, and Rape

Contains instances of misgendering also challenged.

Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Sexual content

Minor: Chronic illness

So Distant From My Life by Monique Ilboudo

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Murder, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Racism, Deportation, Car accident, and Drug use

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Drug use, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

As the (unreliable) narrator's job is in Trust and Safety for a major tech platform there are also descriptions of a variety of content flagged for review or guidelines around. So further assume ALL CONTENT WARNINGS apply.

Sons, Daughters: A Novel by Ivana Bodrožić

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Ableism, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Car accident, and Animal death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Eating disorder, Drug use, Suicide, Child abuse, War, Cancer, Excrement, Genocide, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Abortion, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Asterix Omnibus #4: Collects Asterix the Legionary, Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, and Asterix and the Olympic Games by René Goscinny

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, and Sexism

Carries the disclaimer: "Asterix was born in 1959 in France. This omnibus respects the artwork originally created per the wishes of the authors and their publisher. " The afterword by Alex Simmons also notes "Some adjustments have been made to certain caricatures in order to be more sensitive to better representation." among other context.

dd's Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Police brutality

Minor: Bullying, Sexual assault, Child death, War, Car accident, Blood, and Suicide

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Violence, Slavery, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Colonisation, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Animal death, and Sexism

Discrimination is a large theme on the basis from supposed intelligence to species. A villain character also makes the remark “And no gender, so no sexual needs.”