Brainwyrms
Book • 2023 • Horror
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Your Triggers
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Parasitic worms die
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Is there a dead animal?
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There's also a dead fox in part 2.
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Murder suicide in part 2, chapter 20
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Mention in part 2-chapter 15. Murder suicide in part 2, chapter 20
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Not by the author. Various characters repeat TERF talking points, presented in a way that clearly shows they are wrong and harmful. Still, the hate speech is very intense and hurtful
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Does a head get squashed?
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A character kills her husband by hitting him in the head with a rolling pin
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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tardigrade
There are descriptions of childhood incest, emotional abuse and grooming throughout.
Spoilers:
A child is also murdered by their mother.
Spoilers:
A child is also murdered by their mother.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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By characters but not by the narrative
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Someone murders their child and husband
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Addiction
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Heavy drug use, including alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, and some other unspecified/unknown drugs.
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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There's mention of a cat being run over in the chapter called "Screw the roses"
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Does a pet die?
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There's mention of a cat being run over in the chapter called "Screw the roses"
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Are there bugs?
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Worth mentioning that it's not just worms; parasites of many kinds feature heavily throughout
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Is someone restrained?
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A character is kidnapped and her hands are tied behind her back. There is also restraint in a BDSM context.
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Is someone held under water?
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There's a brief description of drowning someone in a puddle near the beginning
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone drugged?
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A cult leader drugs multiple victims including main characters
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Characters are physically assaulted, but not in a school bullying context.
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Is there pedophilia?
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tardigrade
There are descriptions of childhood incest and pedophilic grooming throughout.
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Bodily Harm
Is there body horror?
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Throughout
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Is there cannibalism?
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A character is expected to commit cannibalism in a dream sequence, but refuses.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Mention of a character struggling to walk due to barbed wire tied around their ankles, no mention of the Achilles tendon specifically.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Frankie faints in part 2, after a traumatic experience
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Kind of - no actual injury but a character does put something very unsanitary in their vagina to deliberately give themselves a parasite.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Several instances where worms are coming out of people’s eyes
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Is someone stabbed?
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Spoiler: Xavier’s mother stabs him to death in part 2, chapter 20
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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By pedophile characters, but not by the narrative
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Does a kid die?
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A teenager is murdered by their mother.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Part 2 chapter 14: the protagonist calls Vanya this
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Xavier mother commits a murder suicide against her husband and Xavier
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Does a family member die?
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Xavier mother commits a murder suicide against her husband and Xavier
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Yes, in part 3 someone is kidnapped and violently assaulted
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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tardigrade
Multiple people being infected by brainworms is the premise of the book
However, it is left ambiguous whether/how much the worms have control over their hosts. There isn't much explicit detail about the experience of being taken over or losing control of one's body.
However, it is left ambiguous whether/how much the worms have control over their hosts. There isn't much explicit detail about the experience of being taken over or losing control of one's body.
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Are there ghosts?
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Mention of a ghost, although it is (presumably) metaphorical.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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A few scenes take place near the sea.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Particularly disgusting scene at the end of part 2-chapter 14
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Is there defecation?
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Part 2-Chapter 14: pooping parasitic worms
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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There is a sex scene where the protagonist is sitting on a toilet in a public restroom stall, receiving oral sex. She urinates in her partner’s mouth as part of kinky sex
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Multiple trans characters are misgendered and/or deadnamed
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there menstruation?
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Several mentions of menstruation without detail.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Frankie is in the hospital after surviving the bombing of the gender clinic
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Mental Health
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Part 3 chapter 2, a character starts cutting
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Vanya is described as far too thin. We find out later that she intentionally got infected with a tapeworm. This isn’t for dieting/weight loss reasons, but it still might be triggering
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In the chapter titled 'Screw the Roses' a character experiences vivid delusions and hallucinations that heavily distorted their perception of reality
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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No explicit diagnoses, but several characters are severely traumatised/depressed, and some seem poorly grounded in reality.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Starting in the second part of the book, certain chapters are written in the second person, though this second person is clearly Vanya. However, in these chapters the narrator occasionally stops to address the reader directly.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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tardigrade
There's a dream sequence in which a character gives birth to a stillborn baby and it's quite graphic
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Yes, during childbirth
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Is there childbirth?
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Pregnancy horror is a major theme
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Some characters are fatphobic but there are no fat jokes
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Multiple trans characters are misgendered and/or deadnamed
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Several trans characters are killed.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The protagonist and another character have sex in a handicapped public restroom stall at a crowded event, even though they could have gone elsewhere. The protagonist contemplates a statement from the event organizers decrying the ableism, but she doesn’t seem too concerned about it. Later, Frankie calls Vanya the r-slur
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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The main relationship is between an 18-19 year old and a 28 year old.
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Religious
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Brief mention of Hell.
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Sex
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Vanya’s brother grooms and sexually abuses them
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Is there sexual content?
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Throughout
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Is there BDSM?
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Throughout
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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There is a scene that talks about Vanya being "deflowered", but this is via masturbation and their actual first time having sex is not depicted
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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tardigrade
A character lives with multiple chronic parasite infections (including parasites that exist in real life, like tapeworms)
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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tardigrade
Someone runs away from home as a teenager and has sex with an older man in exchange for shelter
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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I'd say bleak rather than sad, but it's definitely not a happy ending
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
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A cat and a fox are both struck by cars and killed.
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Violence
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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tardigrade
Not a nuclear explosion, but a gender clinic is bombed
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Is there blood/gore?
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Very graphic blood and gore, including description of a character's skull being smashed in.
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