Mom is an assassin for hire. She does bother picking up the phone for less than half a million dollars.
Hormone replacement therapy is actually not expensive at all. Ballpark range is $2/day, paying out of pocket, and it's very likely to have been covered by whatever Claire's student health insurance was in college.
If she needed any hair removal, that would definitely be an expensive challenge (laser doesn't work on redheads, and electrolysis is ~$100/hour). But we have no idea how much she needed (possibly only a few tens of hours) or if she ever even bothered with it.
Dale is the only character who struggles to make ends meet that I can think of, and he seems miraculously free of resentment about it.
Also, it never rains.
And he lives alone, drank 3 dollar a cup coffee before he started working at CoD, and could afford to play games on multiple platforms. He may have just been supporting his lifestyle.
interesting info
Pretty sure she's an assassin, how else would she be able to give Claire such an unacceptably good life? :o
Health insurance is more readily available and covers more in the QC universe than in ours. For example, The Pugnacious Peach has insurance coverage for her glasses while working at a skilled but low-end job. (Wait, am I right about that?)IIRC, she used Marten's insurance.
Claire's transition: don't all the gatekeepers need to get paid before treatment can start?
Baystate Health has developed services based on the Informed Consent model of care, meaning that we work with our patients to ensure that the risks and benefits of gender-related services are fully understood at all times. Gender-related therapy is an encouraged--but not required--part of treatment for most patients.
Also, it never rains.
It can't rain all the time
In all seriousness, until I'm told otherwise, it pleases me to think that Clairemom is an attorney who does pro bono work for good causes and absofuckinglutely ownZ0r3d Clairedad when he cheated.
She's a marine drill sergeant that's why Claire reacted the way she did to Veronica.
Try looking into that place where only the procrastinators can look; you will see me staring out at you!
Yeah. I should probably get to the stuff I said, yesterday, I would do today.Try looking into that place where only the procrastinators can look; you will see me staring out at you!
Yeah, I'll get to that tomorrow.
Try looking into that place where only the procrastinators can look; you will see me staring out at you!
Yeah, I'll get to that tomorrow.
meh. Why bother thinking about it?
In all seriousness, until I'm told otherwise, it pleases me to think that Clairemom is an attorney who does pro bono work for good causes and absofuckinglutely ownZ0r3d Clairedad when he cheated.
She's a marine drill sergeant that's why Claire reacted the way she did to Veronica.
In all seriousness, until I'm told otherwise, it pleases me to think that Clairemom is an attorney who does pro bono work for good causes and absofuckinglutely ownZ0r3d Clairedad when he cheated.
She's a marine drill sergeant that's why Claire reacted the way she did to Veronica.
If you're around a Marine, be careful to say "drill instructor" instead.
Noted: Apologies to any marines.
Noted: Apologies to any marines.
No offense taken. The drone strikes have been canceled. :)
Clinton's hand could easily have been covered by accident insurance.
You understand there are metric fucktons of money to be made telling stories like that of your own, right?
You understand there are metric fucktons of money to be made telling stories like that of your own, right?Evidently I'm in the wrong line of work.
One customer who always tipped handsomely and asked for a private dance was one Beatrice Chatham.
One customer who always tipped handsomely and asked for a private dance was one Beatrice Chatham.
That one's been jossed, although I can't find the strip. (It was one where Veronica was asked about Beatrice's kinks, and not having heard anything specific, IIRC.)
Noted: Apologies to any marines.
No offense taken. The drone strikes have been canceled. :)
Noted: Apologies to any marines.
No offense taken. The drone strikes have been canceled. :)
The snipers however.... it's also worth noting that "Marine" when referring to members of the United States Marine Corps is a proper noun.
You did nazi this grammar correction coming did you? :clairedoge:
Speaking of snipers I think Clairemom is an international assassin. That's why she's so relaxed about her daughter's first boyfriend. If Marten messes up...(click to show/hide)
I mentioned Rarity is best pony in either this week or last week's WCDT. I just can't find this level of sarcastic glare in any other avatar.
Offered without evidence or any reason except the potential for story-telling and lulz:
Former exotic dancer and collaborator to Veronica Vance; now 'gone straight' as a professional home-maker but writes romantic fiction professionally and is one of Tai's artistic idols. As a college student, she and Veronica did a double-act at an adult club in San Francisco. One customer who always tipped handsomely and asked for a private dance was one Beatrice Chatham.
Only one small problem: Veronica has never met her (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1831).
"I have clients who move in the same circles as her, but I've never heard anything about her kinks." That indicates to me that she has never met Beatrice.
Some would add, "Thank God."
I thought you were a musket-Claire.
She's a marine drill sergeant that's why Claire reacted the way she did to Veronica.
I definitely like this, but I think her being an assassin or a Bene Gesserit is more likely... :D
She's a marine drill sergeant that's why Claire reacted the way she did to Veronica.
I definitely like this, but I think her being an assassin or a Bene Gesserit is more likely... :D
Maybe she works as a Bene Gesserit and does marine drill sergeantry as a hobby.
These are among the many reasons I do my best to avoid marines.
These are among the many reasons I do my best to avoid marines.
Awww... :'( So mean. We're really cuddly!! OK... OK... I'm really cuddly.
#notallmarines
I will reserve judgment on a cuddly Marine. Never met one.
Offered without evidence or any reason except the potential for story-telling and lulz:
Former exotic dancer and collaborator to Veronica Vance; now 'gone straight' as a professional home-maker but writes romantic fiction professionally and is one of Tai's artistic idols. As a college student, she and Veronica did a double-act at an adult club in San Francisco. One customer who always tipped handsomely and asked for a private dance was one Beatrice Chatham.
I came up with this probabilty-defying idea because the thought of Marten, Claire and Hannelore finding out that their mothers were once cronies... possibly friends... or, dare we say it, possibly even lovers makes me snigger. I just would love to see the younger characters' reactions combined with Mrs A's outraged response of: "What? Just because I'm your mother now means I wasn't allowed to have a wild time when I was a student?"
It's all in the past now in terms of emotions, but they have fond memories of each other and are happy to meet again.
Re Laser hair removal: I didn't know that about redheads... is it possible to dye the hair to raise the effectiveness?
Re Laser hair removal: I didn't know that about redheads... is it possible to dye the hair to raise the effectiveness?
I don't believe so. The dye would need to penetrate into the part of the hair inside the follicle for that to work.
I would have thought that the hormone transition thing would diminish hair growth below the scalp. Also, based on panel three (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2299), the Augustus line does not appear to be terribly hirsute, so it may not have been a problem to begin with.
:'(
Don't cry. At least not until after you've met me, and it's justifiable.
Wait, we went from talking about money to talking about body hair. We got weird. Though not as weird as the new smiley. Seriously, what the hell is this? :clairedoge:
Don't cry. At least not until after you've met me, and it's justifiable.
Generalizations are never justifiable. :-\
Don't cry. At least not until after you've met me, and it's justifiable.
Generalizations are never justifiable. :-\
True, but I'm not generalizing. You haven't met me. I'm a terrible person. (:
Don't cry. At least not until after you've met me, and it's justifiable.
Generalizations are never justifiable. :-\
True, but I'm not generalizing. You haven't met me. I'm a terrible person. (:
Terrible to a musket-Claire isn't advisable.
All for one...
Liquour??? I don't even know her!! :clairedoge:
OK, 2 things.When I saw the icon, I thought it was a Clairewolf, for Halloween.
1) Clairedoge showed up in the puns thread (I think), and got added immediately. If you haven't seen the original post, you need to.
When I saw the icon, I thought it was a Clairewolf, for Halloween.
^
(http://i.imgur.com/R576wDD.jpg)
^
(http://i.imgur.com/R576wDD.jpg)
WIN.
@orkboy - we were talking about facial hair, not body hair. Going Delilah-style isn't a tractable option. And the connection is simple: hair removal is often necessary for trans women and can be expensive.
But I agree that it's unlikely to have been a huge problem for her - even my most masculine natural redhead friends can't really grow a proper beard.
When I saw the icon, I thought it was a Clairewolf, for Halloween.
(click to show/hide)
@orkboy - we were talking about facial hair, not body hair. Going Delilah-style isn't a tractable option. And the connection is simple: hair removal is often necessary for trans women and can be expensive.
But I agree that it's unlikely to have been a huge problem for her - even my most masculine natural redhead friends can't really grow a proper beard.
I happen to be a particularly hirsute ginger so :-P
@orkboy - we were talking about facial hair, not body hair. Going Delilah-style isn't a tractable option. And the connection is simple: hair removal is often necessary for trans women and can be expensive.
But I agree that it's unlikely to have been a huge problem for her - even my most masculine natural redhead friends can't really grow a proper beard.
I happen to be a particularly hirsute ginger so :-P
My beard used to be mostly red. The red hairs are the white ones now, the black ones still are...
Well, my beard was thick and copper-red too (I had to get hundreds of hours of electrolysis, it completely sucked), but my hair is brown. Claire and Clinton are drawn to suggest something closer to Rupert Grint's coloration than mine.
@orkboy - we were talking about facial hair, not body hair. Going Delilah-style isn't a tractable option. And the connection is simple: hair removal is often necessary for trans women and can be expensive.
But I agree that it's unlikely to have been a huge problem for her - even my most masculine natural redhead friends can't really grow a proper beard.
I happen to be a particularly hirsute ginger so :-P
My beard used to be mostly red. The red hairs are the white ones now, the black ones still are...