# ghliveblog

I only know how to tell one story

And it’s “two people with large but undefined feelings for each other just barely fail to hold hands in a tense moment to symbolize how their not quite in sync yet”

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This is the only time Lucy calls him by his actual name

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God I wish I’d had more time to manufacture a better reason for the cooking competition, but I knew the season had to end on ep 129 and it was already ep 122!

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(REPOST BC I HAD TO REPHRASE THIS TWEET) I know people wanted Graham to punch Jacobi

But Graham is one of the characters least likely to punch another person, he’s soft and sad

(The characters least likely to punch someone are 1. the dogs 2. Olive and 3. Graham)

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I really like hugs where one person holds the back of the other person’s head

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In the Bartlett arc, Lucy says “I don’t think this is the sort of thing that can be fixed by another person”, and she means it like this—both she and Jacobi want Lynn, and no one else will do

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Lucy and Jacobi dislike each other because they’re so similar that they constantly remind each other of the worst parts of themselves!!!

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A few people picked up on it, and it’s not necessarily implying sexual assault, but this line/panel is definitely meant to suggest that Jacobi sees relationships and sex as tactics at this point—it’s the darkest interpretation of what Lynn told him

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Even though his grandfather is more or less right, I wanted to show that Jacobi’s healing couldn’t be derived from his family

For Jacobi, it’s not that a dream isn’t a burden—it’s that it’s WORTH the burden

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I gave up on being subtle about Jacobi and Lucy’s parallels

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I really enjoyed having a moment when Jacobi’s self-assured facade breaks

Jacobi in this moment is meant to be like Lucy at the brink of losing her grandmother’s cooking school

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I wish I’d had a better grip on Jacobi’s family situation—like I feel like I didn’t strongly convey that even though they are fond him, their absolute refusal to support his dreams when he’s doing poorly or accept his help when he’s doing well is bad??

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This isn’t meant to be v noticeable, but when Jacobi is using his photographic memory, the reflection in his eyes is usually the thing he’s remembering!

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I held a poll about what kind of facial hair to give Jacobi’s grandpa but I ignored the results and gave him a moustache lol

(Even though they look quite different, Jacobi and his grandpa have the same eyes!)

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I love Jacobi’s silly beekeeper family.... I wish I could’ve shown more of them!

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This is the first time Joanna and Walt get food icons! Previously, it was difficult because Lucy, Joanna, and Walt are all apples—so I kind of bent the rules a bit with the hot sauce and apple-with-glasses

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Despite the fact that it’s a one-off food and insignificant to the plot, this panini is one of my favorite foods I’ve drawn (it’s up there with the confit byaldi and Heath’s rose apple tarts) (but nothing overtakes the cheese plate)

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Because they are similar people, with intentionally similar arcs! They lose their family, are saved by Lynn, then lose Lynn—and are desperate to hold onto a place that represent their family, which brings out the worst aspects of their determination

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Ik readers interpreted the black word bubbles as “Lucy’s dark side” (which is valid), but they’re meant to indicate both Lucy and Jacobi defaulting to their unhealthy, traumatized mindset of “No one will help me, I have to do this on my own”

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I always knew someone was going to steal Lucy’s necklace at some point, so I was looking forward to this scene!

But I was also very nervous, because I wasn’t sure if I could convey “ruthless, manipulative, and desperate, but not evil” very well

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