Inam heads back to the dungeon for a thoughtful look and autobiographical dive into the roles she’s there to play.
Top or Bottom, Rigger or Bunny, Inam learns to be present in the moment, inhabit the role and most importantly: enjoy herself.
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Inam draws in an organic, scribbly cartoony style with off-set blocky coloring. She draws herself as a bug-eyed girl in a bat-eared hood. The color palette of the comic are warm oranges and blues.
Page 1
Narration: When I first started looking for ways to wade into the kink scene as a beginner...
Inam swims through a body of water wearing a snorkeling mask and inflatable water wings made for children. Captions orbit her, explaining, "no skills. no connections. want to keep my clothes on."
Narration: ...I thought I better start with educational and social events.
In ecstatic relief, Inam flops onto the middle of the floor of a fancy studio with artfully designed scaffolding suspending various ropes and rigs meant to support people. Elegant leafy plants decorate the space.
Narration: That is how I fell head-first into learning shibari at a studio near me.
The studio space fills with shibari practitioners in various states of dress and rope-engagement.
Narration: I met other newbies, other queer folk, and better yet, so many other people of colour into kink!!!
Bound up in a cocoon of rope on the floor, Inam eagerly looks up at the comfortably-clothed person who is tying her, declaring, "We should hang out more!"
Narration: Shibari quickly became a new friend to me too.
"Also," She asks, giving a quick roll to somehow pull her phone out of a secret place. "can you take my picture?"
Page 2
Narration: Learning as a switch, I find understanding one side of the practice feeds into the other.
An elaborate knot dangles from the ceiling in front of a long-leafed exotic plant.
Narration: As a rigger, I love the intricacy and fickle nature of the rope.
A person kneels, showing how their arms are bound behind their back in detailed knot work.
Narration: It's dynamic, demanding, and has a determination of its own.
Inam yelps as the rope she was tightening on her partner suddenly flies loose, smacking her in the cheek.
Narration: As a bottom (or bunny) it's a totally different experience relishing in the attention from the rigger and the abundance of sensation while also coming up against that unyielding force that is rope.
A person is suspended upside down from the ceiling, their legs crossed and switched in so many different rope formations.
Page 3
Narration: The best part about tying with different people is getting to see and feel the intricacies and idiosyncrasies each person brings to it.
With growing delight, Inam watches as her partner meticulously ties her up. She peers at her bound wrists, gazes at the ropes binding her upper arms close to her chest, and stares as the partner pulls them tight- oblivious to the benign frustration that her rigger to starting to feel at her intense attentiveness to their work.
Narration: Sometimes it's easy to do more seeing than feeling though.
With a playful kick, the rigger boots Inam in the butt then picks her up by her chest ropes, gently chastising her with a firm, "You're leading."
"ohh... sorry..." Inam smiles innocently, clearly not learning her lesson.
Page 4
Falling into her thoughts, Inam wonders, "Right... what makes a good bunny again??? Relax... Feel the rope... Name the sensations..."
Inam's awareness springs awake! She is focused. Over a montage of illustrations showing various body parts expertly tied, she thinks to herself, "How do I feel? I feel pretty and cared for. I feel like a caught mermaid. It's new but it reminds me of... It's frightening at first, but I'm going to observe it for a second. What does that feel like? It's moving closer. It's moving away now. If I lean this way... Does that hurt? It changes if I breathe deep."
Page 5
Alone and clothed in a comfy loose t-shirt and leggings, Inam sits on the floor with her ropes casually discarded around her. She drinks a glass of water.
Narration: Since that session, I've been in more and more challenging ties and scenes that had bumps and miscommunications.
Across a new montage of ropes tied around various body parts, the narration reads, "But I always think back to this time and the sense of trust, release, and calm as my touchstone -"
Back into the body of water from the first page, Inam and a bunny-eared companion swim arm-in-arm among the swaying seaweed.
Narration: ...both for how I want to feel as a bottom and for what I want to create as a rigger.
Transcribed by Erika Moen on July 6, 2026 for ohjoysextoy.com
