#*comprehend

Probably five years before I watched FMA I encountered the name 'Greedling' and, operating under the reasonable assumption that this was some sort of suffix, went 'like... a duckling?? yeah that sounds right' and promptly forgot all about it to the extent that the introduction of two characters with separate halves of said name failed to register. I read the MSPA wiki page for Cascade before reading Homestuck (I initially didn't realize Cascade was part of a larger work) and out of all that textual chaos only managed to retain the revelation that Dave and Rose both died, leading me to read the first five acts assuming they were going to get permakilled off. And my absolute favorite was that while I was still hemming and hawing over whether to listen to TAZ, my dash exploded with “sturdy, denim, and blue” (which wins the award for being the most dramatic yet innocuous sounding spoiler listed in this post) and left me, the external observer, with a mental version of one of those conspiracy theory boards with all the cards and string like, 'jeans? umbrellas?? Mexican food???... what does it all mean'.

(Also I knew about Taakitz but no power on Earth could have prepared me for Griffin going 'you want me to use a viewer's name for this guy you're about to tentacle? Ok, it's Kravitz' and me mentally going, 

Dash: SUDDENLY BUGS, BUGS EVERYWHERE!!! AHAAHAHAHAHA