# ghliveblog

This wasn’t meant to be a Flowerpot reference, I’m just used to drawing greenhouses ha ha

Also, Saffron is the school nutritionist and does community gardening!

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Like Lucy, Colby is a person who has gone through loss and doesn’t want anyone else to feel the way he did (and sometimes he goes too far)

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I wanted a moment for Bartlett that felt more solid and immediate than just thinking “I miss her”—him realizing that he’ll have to change his emergency contact was one of them

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The thought that I’d live a life where I’d think “I just have to make it until the end of this week” over and over for the rest of my life is one of my biggest anxieties

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There have been times when I’ve felt sad, and the worst thing was that it felt unproductive—I didn’t learn anything from it, it didn’t make me a better person. I just dwelled in it. I had nothing to do with those feelings.

That’s sort of the sentiment here

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The character I’m most defensive of is Madeleine, but second is Colby!!

His good intentions and youth don’t outweigh the wrongness of his actions, but I was really startled by how vehemently readers reacted to him blocking Lucy’s number!!

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This joke is overwrought at this point

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Colby isn’t overprotective of Bartlett because he doesn’t want to lose another parental figure

Colby is protective of Bartlett because they both lost parents when they were young, and Colby doesn’t think Bartlett deserves any more suffering in his life

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Lucy and Graham have both experienced an interrelated loss, but at this moment, Lucy realizes it’s not the same loss

Graham wants to talk to the other chefs who also lost Bartlett; Lucy wants to talk to someone who also lost Lynn, or their family

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These random strangers too, we were close enough to the end that I knew I didn’t have to save up food names anymore!

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Don’t worry, the old ladies are named after foods too!

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Even though there’s no words, I hope it was clear that Lucy’s burning the candle at both ends between her job, friends, and search for Bartlett!

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These aren’t the only examples in this montage, but here’s one of the times I reuse clothing items Lucy previously wore to give the sense that she doesn’t have a huge wardrobe!

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This is kind of random, but one unspoken character trait of Lucy is “older ladies tend to like her” (i.e. Brie, Olive, Pepper, both Mrs. Smiths, the people in the shopping plaza, etc.)

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This part of the arc was difficult!

I wanted readers to understand that Lucy might be going too far, but I also didn’t want readers to resent her for it!

Some of her reasoning is valid, but it still might have crossed a line

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It’s important that Lucy processes her grief in the way she wants to, but if it gets in the way of future happiness, it’s not healthy!

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It was important that Clementine and Meyer, her two friends who have nothing to do with her grandmother or Dimanche, are the ones who tell this to her

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I’m glad a lot of people picked up on the fact that this isn’t a healthy way to talk about yourself!

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This is purposefully the same sequence as Ep. 17!

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