Content Notes: The Ballad of the Bardbarian

Multiple instances:

  • Depiction of a controlling friendship, with emotional abuse and verbal altercations
  • Creepy demon scenes (shadow tentacles)
  • Antagonist POV chapters
  • Some swearing
  • References to m/m attraction, overall mild (blushing and butterflies, long looks, a little hand-holding)

Brief but present:

  • Threatening magic (first chapter)
  • References to homophobic bullying (verbal; general threatening behavior), not quoted on-page
  • References to amatonormativity / arophobia (discrediting / regarding as “lesser” anyone who doesn’t feel romantic love), which the character conflates with acephobia (discrediting / regarding as “lesser” anyone who doesn’t feel sexual attraction)
  • References to religious trauma and familial abuse/control, including destruction of property and a homophobic conversion camp
  • References to body dysmorphia and eating disorders
  • References to past character death (in the context of a reincarnation story), without detail
  • Depressive behavior and negative internal monologue in a couple of chapters
  • References to grief over a past relationship

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