A list of content warnings for The Forthenby Inheritance, updated as posted.

The following list is descriptive and out-of-context. It is not intended as an exhaustive guide, however if you feel anything has been missed, please comment and I’ll update it. This series deals with heavy themes, as well as joyful-but-complex situations which are not intended as exemplary. The series has a historical context, and this must be borne in mind.

Warnings for The Forthenby Ladies can be found here.

Chapter One, part one: alcohol, violence, guns, unsafe conduct with guns, blood, reference to past corporal punishment, reference to poorly negotiated sexual encounters, reference to poorly negotiated BDSM practices, period typical attitudes to class, sexuality, and gender.

Chapter One, part two: minor injury, blood, violence mention, sex work mention, masturbation, fingering, oral sex, consensual whipping mention, consensual spanking, past corporal punishment mention.

Chapter Two, part one: period typical attitudes to class, gender, marriage, and parenting.

Chapter Two, part two: Period typical attitudes to gender, class, and education, D/s fantasy (mild), social awkwardness.

Chapter Two, part three: Period typical attitudes to gender, marriage, and education, D/s fantasy (mild), mansplaining.

Chapter Three, part one: Minor injury, period typical attitudes to class and sexuality, internalised homophobia, recalled dub-con violence, D/s fantasy (dub-con), mentions of corporal punishment, gun violence mention.

Chapter Three, part two: Period typical attitudes to sexuality, recalled dub con S&M and D/s.

Chapter Three, part three: period typical attitudes to gender and sex work, mutual cruelty/manipulation, reference to past non-con/dub-con, internalised homophobia.

Chapter Four, part one: blood, violence with intent to cause ABH, debt collection, murder mention, recollection of past dub-con violence.

Chapter Four, part two: violence with intent to cause ABH, knife violence (threatened and actual), threat of sexual extortion, threat of sexual violence, threat of mutilation, attempted mutilation, blood.

Chapter Four, part three: murder mention, attempted mutilation, mutilation mention, blood, knife iolence, death mention, hanging mention, gun violence, GBH.

Chapter Five, part one: debt collection, sex work mention, gun violence mention, blood, mutilation mention, death mention, injury, heartache and miscommunication, face slapping (non-sexual), period typical attitudes to class, gender, female sexuality, and sex work.

Chapter Five, part two: nudity, gender bending, unsafe breast binding, haircutting, execution mention, undiscussed BDSM practices (playful and consensual), oral sex mention.

Chapter Six, part one: period typical attitudes to animals, social embarrasment (minor, friendly).

Chapter Six, part two: social awkwardness, social embarrasment (minor, friendly), period typical attitudes to animals, gender, class, and education, hunting mention.

Chapter Six, part three: period typical attitudes to gender, education, class, and religion, allusion to corporal punishment and abusive school environments, social awkwardness.

Chapter Seven, part one: sexual nudity, drunkenness mention, minor and affectionate interpersonal violence, spanking mention, reference to past oral sex, unsafe binding practices, period typical attitude to sex work.

Chapter Seven, part two: period typical attitudes to accent and class, mention of corporal punishment, blood mention, reference to very violent, unsafe sex, debt collection mention.

Chapter Seven, part three: debt mention, period typical attitudes to class, service, and sex work, implied homophobia, duelling mention, pulling rank.

Chapter Eight, part one: unsafe binding practices, dysphoria mention, sex mention, threesome mention, sex work mention, STD reference, abortion reference, blood mention, sexual scratching.

Chapter Eight, part two: hand job, biting, description of past beating (consensual), light bondage description, injury mention (consensual), recollection of sex, spanking (consensual but poorly discussed), playful CNC, period typical attitude to service (insincere).

Chapter Eight, part three: sex work mention, sex mention, hanging mention, knife mention, period typical attitudes to travellers, sex work, sexuality, and gender non-conformity/transmasculinity, violence and threat of violence, gun mention, whipping reference.

Chapter Eight, part four: Scar mention, nakedness, reference to fictional kidnap and rape, violent sexual fantasy, fingering, sex work mention, sex discussion, heartache.

Chapter Nine, part one: Recollection of past beatings (dub con), recollection of past toxic relationship, gender ambiguity, D/s (consensual), beating (consensual, poorly negotiated), sex mention.

Chapter Nine, part two: D/s (consensual), recollection of D/s (dub con), beating (consensual, poorly negotiated), anal sex (consensual, poorly discussed, not best practice), gender essentialism, sexual teasing/orgasm denial.

Chapter Nine, part three: poverty mention (past), period typical attitudes to class and region, gun violence mention, mild ridicule of a religious group, reference to interpersonal violence and assault, sexual contact (brief, mild, non-explicit.)

Chapter Ten, part one: Period typical attitudes to gender and class, social awkwardness, masturbation/autoerotic behaviour reference, S/M and D/s fantasies (dub con).

Chapter Ten, part two: Romantic jealousy, social awkwardness, D/s fantasies (dub con), period typical attitudes to gender, kissing (dub con), violence mention, sex allusion.

Chapter Ten, part three: Non-consensual touching (not sexual), mansplaining/patronising, period typical attitudes to gender, verbal conflict.

Chapter Ten, part four: Period typical attitudes to class and gender, sexual harrassment (mild), misogyny, sexual imagery, sexual fantasy (non con), unwilling arousal.

Chapter Ten, part five: Period typical attitudes to class, social teasing (friendly), violent imagery, social embarrasment, masturbation reference, allusion to D/s and S/M sexual fantasies (dub/non-con), misogyny, bullying (verbal).

Chapter Eleven, part one: Period typical attitudes to class, sex work, and homosexuality, sex (PIV), fingering, discussion of unethical sexual practices (seduction), sex work mention, S/M (consensual but not discussed), recollection of intimate partner violence, jealousy, gun violence mention, whipping mention (non con), arguments.

Chapter Eleven, part two: Period typical attitudes to class and gender, fingering, eroticising of past abuse/non con experiences, examination of the nature of desire and consent in dub con/ coerced situations, description of institutional violence (school) and coerced/dub con sexual and D/s experiences, corporal punishment mention, sex mention, injury mention, beating mention (dub con), sex work mention, gun violence mention, negotiation of consenual S/M.

Chapter Eleven, part three: Past violence mention, social cruelty, injury mention, beating mention (both dub con and consensual), period typical attitudes ot class and gender, reference to past abuse, gun violence mention.

Chapter Twelve, part one: period typical attitudes to class, reference to D/s and S/M sexual fantasies, discussion of financial hardship.

Chapter Twelve, part two: Period typical attitudes to class and gender, social cruelty, misogyny, sexual fantasy.

Chapter Thirteen, part one: Period typical attitudes to class and service, gun mention, betrayal.

Chapter Thirteen, part two: Poorly discussed consensual D/s scene with no safeword, consensual scene goes wrong. Sex mention, discussion of genital and nipple piercing, D/s scenario (consensual), use of ‘fag’ in the context of British public schools, reference to past sexual abuse in public school settings, reference to past injury, stress positions (consensual), belt whipping (consensual, not best practice), whipping (consensual), blood, reference to past abuse, unsafe Dom practice, unsafe sub practice, bruise mention, jealousy, sex work mention, period typical attitudes to sex work, reference to past poverty.

Chapter Thirteen, part three: Aftermath of a scene gone wrong. Top drop, sub drop, shock, PTSD response, blood, injury mention (bruising), sex and desire as healing, D/s feelings and angst, attempt at responsible Dommming in absence of both structure and experience, self-loathing, internalised homophobia, period typical attitudes to homosexuality and sex work, submission (consensual but extreeme and trauma adjacent), boot kissing, temptation to misuse authority as a Dom, reflection on past abuse.

Chapter Fourteen, part one: period typical attitudes to class and marriage, internalised homophobia, shame, angry/controlling thoughts.

Chapter Fourteen, part two: period typical attitudes to colonialism, reference to workplace bullying, reference to past violence/abuse, jealousy, reference to period typical child labour and homelessness.

Chapter Fourteen, part three: reference to period typical child labour, homelessness and alcohol use, gun mention, threats of violence, murder mention, reference to corporal punishment in a school setting, threat of sexual violence.

Chapter Fourteen, part five: period typical attitudes to class and service, gun mention, reference to corporal punishment in a school setting, sex mention, threats of corporal punishment, interpersonal violence.

Chapter Fifteen, part one: Guns and gun violence, reference to past violence in a school setting, reference to personal injury, mild and playful violence between freinds (non-sexual), sex reference, sexualising of gun violence, murder mention, period typical attitudes to class, reference to corporal punishment in a school setting, blood.

Chapter Fifteen, part two: Guns and gun violence, death. Unsafe conduct with guns, law enforcement, blood, period typical attitudes to class and service, threats of gun violence, manipulation.

Chapter Fifteen, part three: Guns, unsafe conduct with guns. Discussion of murder/death, dead body (non graphic), betrayal, period typical attitudes to sex work, class, and service, manipulation, mention of interpersonal violence, mention of death sentence (hanging), gun violence mention, mention of violence in a dub-con sexual setting.

Chapter Sixteen, part one: abusive home situation, abusive father figure, period typical attitudes to class, coercion, fainting.

Chapter Sixteen, part two: Domestic violence. Abusive/coercive home situation, abusive father figure, period typical attitudes to class and gender, suicide mention, invasion of privacy and destruction of property in the context of domestic abuse, violence and threats of violence, blood, imprisonment in the home.

Chapter Sixteen, part three: imprisonment in the home, death mention, despair, bruise mention, abuse and invasion of privacy in a domestic setting, period typical attitudes to gender, reference to abusive/controlling father figure, period specific dangers attendent on loss of reputation (honour culture.)

Chapter Seventeen, part one: gun mention, gun violence mention, death/murder mention, heartbreak, past abuse mention (physical and verbal).

Chapter Seventeen, part two: Reference to past abuse in a school setting, description of animal cruelty, description of knife violence and extreme bullying in a school setting, abusive/coercive father figure, death mention, blood, tense social situation, reference to attempted murder.

Chapter Seventeen, part three: Domestic abuse mention, social cruelty, sexual harassment and gendered denial of bodily autonomy, misogyny, description of violence, throat grabbing and threatened strangling, reference to slavery, period typical British complacency about slavery.