# ghliveblog

This is a subtle characterization thing, but Heath really likes flowers!

That’s why a lot of his pastries + the name and design of his bakery are flower-themed 🌸

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The Smiths, I wish I could have done more with them!

(I always feel kinda weird when people talk about diversity in GH, because it took 44 eps for undeniably non-cishet characters to appear? I wish I could have been more inclusive from the start!)

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And I wanted to make sure that for the first time he cooks for/with Lucy, it’s gentle and fun and un-self-conscious

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It was important to me to establish that Graham is still a very good and capable chef—his disability affects him, but it doesn’t ruin him! It’s his trauma from Dimanche that hinders him most

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This is the first time Lucy tastes Graham’s cooking, so I went all out with the shoujo sparkles lol

I even made my own custom sparkle brush!!

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The omurice mini-arc is about the distance between them shrinking by Lucy talking about her family, and Graham disclosing his loss of smell

But also, cooking together is cute!!

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The necklace!! I was careful about balancing the traits that got passed on (sense of smell, freckles, hair color, single eyelid, etc.) in the Fuji family

Then for every other family, I forgot and made the child look 100% like one parent and 0% like the other lol

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In my head, this is the first time Graham thought Lucy was cute (before she was just like a weird goblin)

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Poor Jamie, he just kind of got yeeted out of the story when the Carlisle arc was cut...... RIP

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I really enjoy sequences where characters are cooking while having a conversation—it has a cozy “home cooking” feel to it!

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A major tenet I tried to follow in writing GH is that Lucy is more than her sense of smell, and Graham is more than his ability or inability to cook

Let’s 👏 complicate 👏 things!!

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I love this episode because the comments section was all people talking about king cakes/galette des rois and Rosca de Reyes/Mardi Gras and the creepy baby which was SO FUN

People talking about their food traditions around the world is just?? So cute and good???

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Instead I wanted it to be framed as “You can’t control your jealousy—you can only control how you act upon it. And even if you don’t react perfectly, there’s value in learning from your mistakes and doing better next time.”

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It was important to me that even the sweetest character has ugly feelings

I didn’t want the message to be “Don’t feel jealous of your friends’ success, if you do you’re a bad person”—bc that’s nearly impossible, your not “bad” solely for having bad feelings!

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FUN FACT I threw in the teacup metaphor very last minute, like after the rest of the episode was finished!

I needed to beef up the episode a bit, and I love visual metaphors in works like in March Comes In Like a Lion and Haikyuu, so I tried to dabble!

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Like Brie immediately deciding to help when she heard Lucy was on her own, I wanted GH to have women naturally supporting women without it feeling self-congratulatory

I’m sure I lapsed into misogynistic jokes every once in a while, but I tried my best not to!

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It was important for me to establish early that even though they’re all gourmet chefs, the aspect of food I wanted to focus on wasn’t price or skill, but “home”

I tapped my experience of missing Hawaii food while in undergrad in Nebraska to make it feel more genuine!

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I love using word bubbles to obscure faces then reveal them, I probably use this panel arrangement too often!

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“Ep. 23 - Confit Byaldi” is the first episode with a food fact at the end!

It was bc it’s an unfamiliar dish that I wanted to explain—then I thought adding on a fact about the title food was fun, so I decided to do it from then on :)

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