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Beneath The Surface

🕑 Added 2021-03-15 01:08:44 +0000 UTC

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Kate Cole

he wants to try kneading elliots buns.

😳 is it getting warm in here?

RadiusUlna

I immediately thought of *that* scene in Ghost except instead of clay it’s dough

Brian

*cough*

David Durant

Time for everyone to put on old-timey costumes!

Nicolas Demers

LOLFOREVER

Photon

She kinda does, actually: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-cat-48560049 Though she seems unaware of the subtext-flirtstorm right under her nose. Obliviousness runs in that family!

Kuragari

The innuendo and double entendres flying. I can just imagine Clinton's mom "Check out those buns, nice and soft." LOL

she's probably right though

Yelling Bird

THAT'S MY SHTICK!

Mad Marie

By the way, Jeph: thanks for mentioning baking on the pi day comic!

Mad Marie

Next week, on QC: Aurelia falls asleep during a Great British Baking Show marathon and has a vivid fantasy about a threesome with Mel Giedroic and Sue Perkins. The whole affair is judged in three rounds by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

Mad Marie

What is “The Holy Trinity?” Alex, I’ll take “Bread Metaphors” for 400.

Dave Van Domelen

Yeah, mom has NO idea how deep into trashy romance/porn she's stepping here....

David Pipes

Episode 1, "Raising Dough", coming soon on OVENhub.

Allison Hastings

DVW

Pretty sure I've seen this porn.

David Durant

Practically choked to death on my lunchtime sandwich :-D

Valraven

"Are you trying to leaven me, Ms Ausgustus?"

ngl i just spit out the noodles i was eating xD

Mark

or possibly sexuellererregung (sorry if that doesn't make sense...)

Mark

Roko would be very interested by the bread-based possibilities! TBH, I'm not sure how that would work in practice, but I'm not one to kink-shame.

Bagge

BAKA

Karl Åström

W-what are you doing step-baker?

Carin Maja Brooks

Also, Clinton needs to make it clear that he has dibs

Bruce Steinberg

Oblivious mom, trying to flirt with the object of her son’s desire!

Bruce Steinberg

MAXIMUM Awkwardness, Here We Come! 🚀

Ben Russell-Gough

Guys, just *tell her*, okay? The longer you put this off, the more embarrassing and potentially damaging this will get.

Nulgar

I HEARD YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT BREAD

Covox

AND THEN THEY ALL BAKED!!

Andrew

Aurelia does her best baking at 3am.

Bagge

CLINTON! That was surprisingly suave.

Mark Johnson

MiaKitty

Plenty of practice, putting buns in ovens of different shapes and sizes...

Absentia

ah yes, the oblivious mom, unaware of her children's attempts at flirting. a classic. also, somewhere in a library, Claire's shipping senses are going haywire.

SpookyPenguin

Somewhere Roko feels a wave of fremdschäme over her and doesn't know why.

Erin Moriarty

I wanna see em smooch

3 weeks on the lucky opportunities of the most obnoxious and unlikable character here (with a slight intermission on his sister). Interesting girl grabs onto him and he makes a new friend while talking about the love life from an incredibly nice, tall, strong, good looking guy who is a bouncer and a baker who has a serious crush on him. Meanwhile, Brun and Millie!? Clint is selfish and self-absorbed while being both whiny and occasionally petulant. Brun and Millie both represent effort for others, growth, and a lot of booty (collectively).

Sleepy John

Flour power!

Richard Muir

Aurelia should join Deathmole :-P

Jaron Mortimer

Look, I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we wanna see someone make an Aurelia Sandwich, just not THOSE TWO.

Hugh Eckert

*COUGH*

Alan Wiggs

If that was subtext I think this is domtext

Evgeniy Semyonov

This text is as sub as a german U-boat in a duck pond. On the other hand, it would be really nice for Aurelia to get more social activity by really going to some sort of baking seminar / jam session. Putting current shenanigans aside, I would have loved to see this storyline.

Hugh Eckert

She's winking at Cosmo.

Lucas Werkmeister

and I thought https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4366 was sub text

Autographedcat

[insert 'soggy bottom' joke here] [insert joke about inserting things here]

Chris Sims

*cough*

Captain Button

"Well, you know what they say, love goes out the door when money comes innuendo." - Marx

Alex Borders

"Sorry, but no thank you, Aurelia. I think we'd rather figure those tricks out for ourselves."

C-Cubed

When your parent unknowingly joins in on the inneundo

Mad Marie

If this were an opera, the coughing would mean they both die of The Consumption by act V. But as this is usually a comedy not a tragedy, it clearly means they got into some hijinks at the bakery earlier and inhaled too much bread flour.

Onyx

AAAHAHAHAHAH

FuryoftheStars

I think him and Clinton are just looking away from each other.

I am the captian now

I love Clinton's face in the 4th panel.

I am the captian now

Aurelia: HI, I'm things!

Todd Ellner

Hush, Yelling Bird. You don't even have external genitalia

Not Elliot's eyes drifting toward's Aurelia's ass! Shsjsjfjj lol

Ol' Firebones

Is she winking to *us*?

SingingTurtles

Squeeeeeeee!

Leak

D'ough!

Tamara Macadam

YES YES YES

Doug DeJulio

OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO OVERDOSE ON ADORABLY AWKWARD

Anthony Gaglianese

Aurelia.....please stop. Wait....this is so uncomfortable and awkward...forgive me. Please, continue.

Jeremy C

cough

Gordon Johnson

DED

Unlike Aurelia, Elliot can read subtext.

Simon Green

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more awkward, there is a knock at the door. Aurelia opens it and ushers Roko in.

Also we now need someone for Aurelia pls

Here comes the ship, it's pulling into the station!!!

Carrie

Aweeeeeee! Moar please! 😘💖🏳️‍🌈

I may have let out a "squeee!"

Shawn K. Younkin

I'm gonna steal that...

please stop making me find aurelia hot, i have THINGS to DO

LOL at Elliot's eyebrow elevation in panel 4.

Richard Muir

OMG! This cuteness is giving me life.

doorbender

Dead

Mina (WildishWolf)

I don't normally comment but omg the pure innocent sweetness of this is killing me :D I love the possibilities for these two!

Daniel S

"Oh, god, I turned this into a porno!"

Eric Sieck

What? No. Bad.

orangejuicenut

ITS TURNING INTO A PORNO

Photon

And Elliot dropping hints without batting an eye? How unlike him. Oh... wait... those were unintentional innuendos. The best kind!

They really knead to work this out.

Yelling Bird

BALLS!

Wynn Donivan

Aurelia, no Also, yes But, mostly, no

Dean Reilly

Another dinner guest might start wondering why there's so much blushing associated with this straightforward discussion of kitchen skills.

Michael Boettger

Oh, and we got a picture of Clinton as well as Claire.

First in 'Main cast', I think

Chris Reed (aka Animeraider)

spoons!

Photon

Clinton NEVER thinks things through. He's more the "Ready, Fire, Aim!" type.

runrin

really excited to see her reaction when she realizes what's going on

Jaron Mortimer

Also, this is the first male/male homosexual relationship we've really seen in comic, isn't it? I mean, there's Marten's two dads, but they mostly only get talked about (although there was the wedding).

Chong Go

I think we need a "spicy" version of the possibilities for our patreon-only comics!

Ariamaki

Just sayin' O T 3

Photon

I love how Aurelia just slid her chair in right next to Elliot.

Scott Vogel

This is exactly how I expected this arc to go.

Jaron Mortimer

I mean, that applies to the family, their friends, most of this fan base...

Chris Weigert

So, is anyone else gonna point out that “subtext” anagrams to “butt sex” or is that gonna fall to this lapsed theatre major, as usual? 😇 (I also totally ship this, mostly because I relate far too much)