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  • Arc Fatigue: Yeld. The creator has grown to care about the fantasy world he created (pitching card games and such based on it) and so it gets a TON of attention in the more recent strips, to the point that Modest has disappeared from her own comic for over 6 months purely to focus on Yeld.
  • Fan Nickname: One of Medusa's hair snakes has been dubbed Sneaky Snake because it tends to eat things Medusa's holding before she has time to react.
  • Moe: Take one look at the Medusa, and say she's not just adorable.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The "Ghost". Something about those fingerlike tentacles...
    • The beginning of Season 3 is a shocker.
    • Marah and Jake's Foreshadowing nightmares are pretty creepy too.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The comic gets a lot more violent and brutal than its art style or humor to date indicates, starting with the gore-fest of the Chainsaw Unicorn and continuing on when the Medusa is kidnapped by the mermaids. Not to mention the earlier Toilet Humor (toilet Chocodile, anyone?) and Jake's "X-Box". Author!Jake maintains that it is literally appropriate for all ages, not just a younger audience.
    • It gets darker still in Season 3, when Medusa's mother is finally introduced by wholeheartedly devouring Medusa's sisters as they scream in terror.
      • Again gets even darker later on when one of the main characters dies. And it seems to be for good. It's sometimes played for laughs with Jake suffering the fallout of it, but most of the time it's Medusa trying to deal with the fact that her best friend is gone.

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