Nasty and claustrophobic, this body autonomy nightmare has little regard for social mores as Crane grapples for what little control he has left. It's going to hurt, and it does not care if you like it. - Ladz, author of The Fealty of Monsters
YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN is about reproductive abuse, pregnancy as violence, self-destruction, loss of agency, and every nasty feeling I as the author have ever carried with me as an autistic trans man, especially since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Content warnings include:
- Infanticide involving cannibalism
- Graphic depictions of pregnancy and childbirth as violence and body horror; on-page early stillbirth with subsequent desecration of corpse; on-page botched DIY abortion
- Narrative focus on suicidality and planning suicide, with no attempt made; similar focus on self-harm, shown on-page (disfigurement via scalding)
- Consistently unclear sexual boundaries and consent, up to and including rape, often involving confusion on behalf of the survivor
- Sexual fantasies/intrusive thoughts involving abuse and bestiality
- Domestic abuse
- Graphic violence
- Emetophobia warning
- Weird parasitic bug shit, needles, general transphobia and ableism, etc.
A more general list also exists in the author’s note at the front of the book.