Before starting this comic, I’d recommend going over the following content warning.

This comic could be difficult for some readers, in terms of subject matter and imagery.

This website doesn’t have an age gate. But based on Finnish film classifications and PEGI ratings, the comic’s subject matter lands towards +18.

Multiple chapters and story arcs of “Hearts and Juniper Branches” explicitly include discussions around mental health, suicidality, high-risk behaviour, medical equipment (such as hypodermic needles), cannibalism, necrophilia, mortality, grief – and deathcare, dissociation, internalised homophobia, anatomically accurate depictions of bodies, body horror, gore, domestic and workplace violence, substance use, and threats of asphyxiation.

Every chapter starts with a content warning page, that – if needed – briefly goes over potentially sensitive material.

None of the descriptions around cannibalism are aimed as opinions on or hostile portrays of cultural customs, such as mortuary cannibalism or the symbolic consumption of Eucharists at Holy Communion.

Later chapters of this comic contain nudity – drawn and implied – in the context of intimacy. Depictions of sexual or sensual activity have been carefully considered beforehand. The inclusion of these actions has been done for the sake of storytelling and characterization; not the intentional sexual gratification of the reader. Whenever visual censorship is feasible, these chapters may have alternate versions to read.

Were these themes and subject matters too difficult for you, I would ask you to prioritize your own well being over reading this comic.

– StarSkare / Elias T.
(Updated 7/11/-25)