# ghliveblog

I’m not sure if ppl picked it up, but a lot of the time Graham expresses his care as “I want her life to be easier”

I’m not sure why I stuck with that phrase for him, but it feels right!

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Also it’s wild to me that people thought Graham would punch Jacobi when this is a canonical Graham story, he’s SOFT

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I also wanted to distance the story from the message “Bad things happen so we can learn from it”—sometimes bad things happen and it just sucks!!

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A lot of this arc is to complicate what happened at Dimanche—of course Graham was a victim, but Graham himself does not hold Madeleine solely accountable

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I wanted to give Yuzu at least one moment of insight and dignity—I try to do that for most of my comic relief characters (even Quincy got one)!

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Also I was reminded that I drew this in August 2018, which was riiight at the start of Bon Appetit breaking big

So I thought I was being subtle, but NOW IT’S VERY OBVIOUS

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Sherry is the most perceptive character, and has the distance to foresee the breakdown Lucy will have in the Bartlett arc

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The point of the episode is that we finally get an outsider’s view of Lucy—and Sherry immediately senses Lucy’s desperation, and how Lucy’s search isn’t just a foodie’s quirky quest

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I saw people in the comments trying to decipher if “Detective Mystic” was foreshadowing

Unfortunately no, they’re just Joanna and Walt’s ships for a fictional TV show lmao

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Also, the pants that Madeleine is wearing in this scene is part of a set with the jacket Sherry is wearing when she first shows up!

Sherry stole the jacket before leaving lmao

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I wanted to give the sense that Madeleine is still very resentful that no one else at Dimanche tried to fix anything — and that these two are close enough that Madeleine knows it weighs on Sherry’s mind, even though Sherry wasn’t really involved

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Anyway here are the Slytherins of Gourmet Hound (+ Valencia and Charlotte) 🐍

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And here we begin the [Ben Wyatt meme] “It’s about the hands” theme

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In this scene, I wanted to begin showing Lucy and Graham’s “support each other, but save themselves” relationship

A lot of GH is people helping Lucy—I wanted to materially show Lucy helping Graham by physically putting herself between him and Madeleine

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Something I try to keep in mind is what kinds of characters I put in leadership positions! It mattered a lot to me that these WOC are depicted as successful, aspirational business owners

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I really do enjoy the Cosmos trio, I wish I could have shown more of them being pals—I didn’t want to make it seem like the Lucy-Clem-Meyer trio diminished the importance of the Cosmos trio or Apple Trio!

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This is probably the closest I’ve ever gotten to drawing Madeleine how she looks in my head (which is basically just Heath with makeup and a different scar)...

Man, most of this liveblog is me thinking, “I wish I’d had one more day to fix up this episode”!!

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(Yuzuru’s flowers are of course inspired by the inimitable Honey-senpai)

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Hmm I think is around the time I moved from doing lineart in Photoshop to CSP—I only ever did lineart with a customized PS chalk brush, so I can tell I was trying to figure out CSP brushes because the art is kind of wonky and unstable even into the Jacobi arc lol

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TBH the thing I thought would make it click that they were relatives was this

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