# ghliveblog

The only shoe brand details I kept account of are 1) Graham wears black Converse 2) Jacobi wears Adidas (or loafers) and 3) Clementine wears Crocs

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B+B’s offices being in the same building as Joanna’s publisher is how Joanna would’ve met Carlisle, and how Lucy would’ve met Jacobi—but without Carlisle, now it just feels like a happy accident that they met ha ha

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Originally, right after the Holiday arc, there was supposed to be 1-2 flashback eps about how the Apple trio met as setup for the Carlisle arc (which would’ve been Joanna and Walt-focused)

That’s why the introduction of Jacobi feels abrupt, there were no buffer eps!

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🎞 Jacobi arc liveblog!! This one’s going to be long, I apologize in advance...

Again, I’ll be using if you’d like to mute it!

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The purpose of this sequence was to show that Lucy now feels like having midnight convenience store pie with Graham (“at home with just one other person”) is as meaningful to her as a meal at Dimanche (“at the most expensive restaurant in the world”)!

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2020-03-19

There’s no good reason why Lucy took down so many plates, even if she thought Clem and Meyer might join them (she’d only need four)—it’s just easier to draw a person holding lots of plates rather than two

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I ate single slice pies from Walmart with friends during college, so they make me sentimental ha ha!

This is def an “it’s the thought that counts” food moment—the difficult crepe cake was important, but I wanted to express the value of gestures like this too!!

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The egg mug! It was originally yellow like Lemon’s scarf, but too much yellow made it hard to see the eggs (and I didn’t want blue, since that’s Graham’s color) so it ended up pink

Only later did I realize it looks like Dami Lee’s shirt, but it was unintentional 😥

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I also didn’t want to completely disregard family, though! Getting to show Graham as the youngest brother was fun!

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[Ben Wyatt voice] It’s about the HANDS

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Here are the other ones! Everyone’s hurting!!

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2020-03-19

The holidays being a time when we reflect on our accomplishments can be painful, especially in our 20s/30s when everyone around us seems to be succeeding

I try to have one or two lines in every arc that’s the “gut punch” line, and Meyer gets it this arc!

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2020-03-19

I know I said that GH isn’t the kind of story where I want the narrative to encourage readers to cheer for a character’s suffering

But we can wish for Meyer’s ex to suffer a little, as a treat

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They’re like 85% of the way to flirting, I’m proud of them

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I remember having a hard time writing this ep because I needed it to flow from funny drunk shenanigans to Meyer talking about his past in 30 panels, and things just wouldn’t link up logically!!!

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These 3 are people without family during the holidays (by circumstances, death, and distance)—so I wanted them to find comfort in what they build with each other, even if it’s difficult and awkward at first

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On the inverse, I also wanted to express that the value we put on “family recipes” and holiday meals can make the season painful for people don’t have that relationship with food bc of their upbringing

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2020-03-19

There’s a lot that’s already been written about how food is a way that people short on money can reconnect with distant family and/or culture—I wanted to express that with Lucy and Clem, since I really missed Hawaii and Japanese food in college!!

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I thought it was important that when I explore the connections between food, holidays, and home/family, I make sure to emphasize that those 3 things aren’t always connected

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Tfw you forget to foreshadow that your character’s birthday is Christmas Day so you have to clumsily shove hints in at the last minute

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