# ghliveblog

I struggled a lot with this monologue because I didn’t want Lucy to sound preachy?? Especially because she JUST did something kind of awful

But I needed a character to articulate the message!!

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This is in a comedic moment, but yeah, Lucy talks about loss A LOT

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I love this joke!!!

Lucy being an aggressive goblin is fun for me, but I know a lot of people saw this (+ her chastising Heath over the PA system too) and found her off-putting?

I think that’s fair, but it still surprised me! She was always flawed to me

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I hope readers understood that Lucy crossed the line here!!

Her hang-ups about loss made her say too much over the PA system to Heath, it’s another moment of her desperation showing

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This is my favorite Yuzuru, he looks soft and he has his one flower and really thick eyebrows, I love him

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[Me, with a metaphorical hammer]: THE 🔨 THEMES 🔨 OF 🔨 THE 🔨 COMIC 🔨 ARE🔨 FOOD 🔨 AND 🔨 HOME 🔨

(Realtalk, I hoped a lot of readers could relate to the experience of being a kid thrown in the kitchen—I certainly can!)

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Oh no, I feel bad that his crush never got resolved..... I’m sorry your storyline got cut, Jamie!! Maybe you helped Graham realize his feelings a little, though!

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Joanna’s brother being Graham’s dog walker is actually hinted during the Olive arc :D !

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I also was excited to begin to hint about Lucy’s fear of loss—she isn’t impartial about the issue, she’ll always side with the person trying to hold on to things (for better or for worse)

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It was important for me to have a female character whose flaws involved ambition—and for the narrative not to punish her too severely

Brie isn’t a tragic character, her ambition isn’t her downfall. She just has to be more careful

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Oof, this is when I moved from Photoshop to CSP, I can feel the lineart and coloring suddenly get really unstable

There’s even a blank line, YIKES

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I’m also really happy to have a moment about Brie’s friendship with Graham!

Brie and Graham’s friendship is as central to the story as Lucy’s grandmother and Bartlett’s friendship, imo

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Ok I’m done, here’s Heath in the rain saying a line I’m actually pretty proud of

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I’m just.... wholly uninterested in characters meant to be mysterious and hot and serious, idk why but that archetype has never appealed to me

My immediate urge is to demystify them!!

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I also remember being REALLY EMBARRASSED drawing this romance-novel-see-through-shirt-wet-hair-chase-in-the-rain stuff lmao

(But reading it is fun!)

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I also liked drawing little peeks through Heath’s facade like this

As indifferent as he seems, and as much as he doesn’t want her to chase him, it’s not like he actually wants Brie to hurt herself

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I remember being really excited to draw Heath with his hair down lmao

I wanted to give the impression that he just booked it from Cosmos the second he heard Brie called Charlotte! That’s why he doesn’t have a coat or umbrella

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I also really enjoyed a “good” character like Brie undeniably crossing a line by calling Heath’s mother

I often frame characters’ flaws a “good points pushed too far”, and for Brie, her ambition pushed too far becomes rashness and disregard

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Even though commenters said it felt like the Cosmos staff was ganging up on Lucy, I really like this sequence!

I wanted right and wrong to be grayer than in Olive’s arc, and to show how the Dimanche fallout even affected people who weren’t there to experience it

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I checked earlier, and this is the ONLY TIME Heath ever smiles in the entirety of Gourmet Hound lol

(It’s Heath saying “I’m fond of stubborn people” to Anise, Yuzu, and Meyer)

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