Can I read Almost Nowhere if I haven't read Homestuck, and indeed would run screaming from any attempt to make me do so?

(I checked in on Gunnerkrig Court the other week btw, as I do once or twice a year. It continues excellent but my sense, when last read, that it was homing in on its grand final destination was... correct if seen from a vantage of 2030, maybe. It has definitely rounded some sort of last or penultimate bend. But the finish line isn't very close).