Oh okay this is a fun story. Imagine if you will a forum with a built in irc chat. It was about tamagotchi. One day during a particularly important update folks in the irc who were early EARLY readers were talking about it in the chat. They recommended it to me but when I looked at it it reminded me of some other webcomic I tried to read and bounced off it hard (at this point I'm fairly certain it was some other MSPA series and I was just like too Young at that time I got easily upsetti spaghetti) they were like "aw thats a shame but okay." and that was that. For quite some time. Okay well like a year.

It is now 2011. Two of my irl friends get deeply into Homestuck and insist I need to read it and dont take "nah I already looked at it I'm pretty sure I won't like it" as an answer due to how to them I was like Literally Jade and it would be a crime if I did not experience this. This led to. Shenanigans. Which included reading homestuck Out Loud to me while hanging out at my place, and a bragging rights bet on how long I could hold out before curiosity sinks its claws into me and I read it myself. I won btw. And over summer break marathoned all that was out in a couple of days.

If you dig through my tumblr archives you can find a July 24th 2011 post of me complaining about eyestrain after reading for a consecutive 8 hours. The next thing about homestuck I specifically post myself, not reblog, is a collection of fantroll concepts on August 7th. Soon after came Hexani Selach and really the rest is history.