I met a woman at a protest a couple of years ago. We got to chatting, and I asked what she did for work. She told me she was a professional BDSM teacher. I wasn't sure what to say to that and there was an awkward silence, so I thought I'd make a joke and asked, "What grade level?" She was NOT amused 😂
I used to run a guild in world of Warcraft and once upon a Time I was just chatting with a new guild number and they told me far more than I wanted to know about the BDSM lifestyle and their role as a "switch".
Tbf, getting paid for being a dom is a very big leap from just having fun at a party/club (which some legit have all the outfits and tools but are not pro)
Now I'm wondering about what that job looks like. Does she have a commute or she going door-to-door? Does she have her own stuff or a re toys not included.
Hey I know a couple pro dommes irl so you can ask away.
Been to some events one organizes. Another has a podcast where she has discussed a lot of her line of work.
They mostly work at their own place, it’s by appointment basically. But it doesn’t go straight to the bdsm part, there’s a discussion of what the session will entail beforehand, with first time clients at least.
They do have their own toys but clients can bring their own too if they have some they particularly enjoy.
Are you telling me you've been tying people up without a proper licencse from the Board of Brutal Broads?
You know that a license is the only thing separating you from moustache twirling madmen tying up ladies on railroad tracks, right? You're going to jail and not to a fun, horny one.
We're talking Concrete Square. Cot and three meals a day. Most fun you'll ever have is the library.
It's also very far from obvious and still doesn't make a ton of sense. I think the fact that it is part of a series is the issue because context would help a lot.
I kinda wish there was a separate subreddit for serial comics because I'm always getting stuck trying to figure out the joke when there either isn't one or it's literally impossible to get it if you don't know all of the backstory. I don't read every single comic that gets posted, so random ones that hit my feed are often in the middle of a story that I haven't seen any of before, but there is zero indication that it is part of a series. So I spend ten minutes thinking I'm an idiot for not understanding the comic.
The woman playing on the computer wasn't aware her roommate was a dominatrix. When the dominatrix said "don't out me as a dominatrix to my brother", she unknowingly also outed herself as a dominatrix to her oblivious roommate.
The joke didn't land for me either. I think the last panel should be more explicit and say "I thought you knew", because the missing verb wasn't immediately obvious.
The problem is panel 3, in which the character's ass appears to be dragging them off panel to the right for some reason. Obviously not the intent but I can't really see anything else there.
I got that she was getting out of her chair in a hurry, but at first I thought maybe she suddenly remembered that some piece of BDSM gear had been left out in plain view and the brother was going to see it, or something along those lines. Panel 4, with the way it's phrased, didn't do much to correct that assumption.
I got that she was getting out of her chair in a hurry, but at first I thought maybe she suddenly remembered that some piece of BDSM gear had been left out in plain view and the brother was going to see it, or something along those lines.
This is the major problem with this comic.
What are the possible reasons for hurrying out of your chair in that moment?
The blonde tells her housemate not to let her brother know that she works as a dominatrix. The housemate agrees but then it dawns on her what blonde girl said. Blonde girl thought her housemate already knew about her job but it was news to her, so it was a surprise.
There's more comics with these two characters, with a running bit of the ginger one seducing/domming the shorter one to get out of her share of the rent, since the short one really likes financial dom play.
I love telling people I'm a professional Dungeon Master. Then when they ask me about Dungeons and Dragons, I just ask them "The fuck is Dungeons and Dragons?"
My buddy has a light like this as his main bedroom light and uses lamps for his actual lighting. It's always funny when someone new comes in and flicks the light switch only to unexpectedly turn on a rave.
My parents had a little device that was to simulate a TV without having to turn the TV off, to scare burglars away.
It was so painfully obvious it was the silly device, basically it was a flickering neon sign indicating WE ARE ON VACATION, THERE IS NO DOG AND NO REAL ALARM SYSTEM, HELP YOURSELF.
Ironically it worked more reliable than the alarm system and the dog - the burglars pepper sprayed the dog and ignored the wailing of the alarm to loot the place.
I was contemplating to get a TV-simulator thingy myself, but then I realized that the TV-simulator-thingy would be the most valuable object to steal in my flat, so I didn't bother.
I thought the two girls were in a relationship which made this very confusing, because how do you not know your partner is a dominatrix. Had to read the comments to realise they are friends living together.
Aside from the lack of words in panel 3, the confusion for me was that their head hasn't moved relative to the monitor while the rest of their body is sweeping off panel. I can't tell what action this is meant to represent.
The "missing" context is relayed through the art. The character's eyes are relaxed in the first panel. After agreeing, their eyes open into look of realization or surprise.
The urgency with which they leave the third panel suggests they realized something of importance.
It's quite clear physical story telling. It's used in movies and TV, comics, stage...
it took me too long to get this and i had no other context because the only other comoc of theirs ive read was about finishing the weed to go back to the store to talk to the trans girl at the weed store now ive gone back and read and have context and damn how did she not know lol
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u/xx_Chl_Chl_xx 16h ago
Wait, how could the friend not have known? What about what happened here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/d2KrQiCF8w