Content Guidelines
- Aethor

- Mar 31, 2025
- 3 min read
If You Need to Step Away:
These books may feel exhausting in sections, that's a feature of consciousness under duress. You're invited to take breaks.
And if this book triggers memories, overwhelms your capacity, or asks more than you can give—putting it down is a form of self-care, not weakness.
The book will be here when you're ready to continue. Or maybe it’s not the book for you, and that's okay too.
Please read the content guidance if you have any concerns about emotional stability.
This is a grounding phrase you can carry with you:
Your body is the guide. If it doesn’t feel like the right moment, there is no rush. The story will be here when you’re ready to return.
Step forward when you’re ready.
Content Guidance
Within these books there are depictions experiences of survival within systems designed to extract, exploit, and erase. It does not romanticize these experiences. It does not resolve them. It shows them as they can be.
Your Consent Matters
Before you continue, I invite you to take a moment to check your inner consent:
Do you want to enter this world right now?
Does your body feel settled, and curious enough to explore?
If the answer is no, or at any point while reading you feel overwhelmed, activated, or ungrounded, you are invited to pause. Step back. Take a breath. Slow down. Your pace is valid.
To support readers who desire grounding or integration, a companion tool is available:
A gentle resource to help you:
Regulate if you feel activated
Reconnect with your breath and body
Process emotions or imagery
Reflect without overwhelm
Re-enter the story from a centred state
You may use it at any time, during or after reading.
By choosing to continue, you acknowledge that your engagement with this story is a voluntary, self-directed exploration. Nothing in these pages—or in the companion tools—are intended as therapeutic, medical, or psychological advice. You remain the sovereign interpreter of what resonates and what does not.
Some of the content release through this platform contains:
Substance Dependency & Addiction
Detailed depiction of substance use (juice) as survival mechanism
Progressive dependency and its impact on agency and perception
The normalization of substances within exploitative systems
Sexual Content & Commodification
Explicit sexual scenarios within transactional contexts
Sex work depicted in institutional settings (The Box, The Ring)
Blurred lines between consent and economic coercion
Fetishization and exoticization of marginalized bodies
Sexual Violation
A scene depicting sexual assault while the subject is incapacitated
Aftermath and dissociation following violation
The systemic conditions that enable abuse
Exploitation & Coercion
Economic systems that force bodies into service
Power imbalances in intimate and transactional relationships
Manipulation disguised as care or opportunity
Blackmail and entrapment
Structural Violence
Depictions of poverty, labor exploitation, and survival under empire
Disappearances of people within systems of extraction
Enforcement and surveillance apparatus
Class-based and racialized marginalization
Mental Health & Dissociation
Depiction of dissociative states and fragmented consciousness
Depression, numbness, and emotional flattening
Altered states of consciousness (drug-induced and traumatic)
Cognitive dissonance within survival systems
Emotional & Psychological Harm
Manipulation in intimate relationships
Gaslighting and reality distortion
Isolation and the erosion of support networks
The hollowing-out of self through systemic participation
Why These Depictions Exist:
This book does not include these elements for shock value or dramatic effect.
They exist because they are the architecture of how an empire extracts value from marginalized bodies.
The sexual content is not erotica—it's economic. The substance use is not a cautionary tale—it's systemic. The violence is not a spectacle—it's structural.
This book refuses to:
Make suffering beautiful so it's easier to consume
Turn survival into inspiration so privilege feels comfortable
Resolve trauma so the reader can experience catharsis
Imply that individual choice can overcome systemic design
This book commits to:
Showing how systems trap people in patterns they can't name
Depicting the slow grinding-down of selfhood under extraction
Making visible what empire teaches us not to see
Honoring the reality of those who survive without romanticizing survival
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