# ghliveblog

I love this episode because the comments section was all people talking about king cakes/galette des rois and Rosca de Reyes/Mardi Gras and the creepy baby which was SO FUN

People talking about their food traditions around the world is just?? So cute and good???

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Instead I wanted it to be framed as “You can’t control your jealousy—you can only control how you act upon it. And even if you don’t react perfectly, there’s value in learning from your mistakes and doing better next time.”

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It was important to me that even the sweetest character has ugly feelings

I didn’t want the message to be “Don’t feel jealous of your friends’ success, if you do you’re a bad person”—bc that’s nearly impossible, your not “bad” solely for having bad feelings!

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Another gender-related thing was that I wanted to make sure Olive’s crying wasn’t misconstrued as “she’s emotional/weak and woman” — kitchens are high stress, EVERYONE cries

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FUN FACT I threw in the teacup metaphor very last minute, like after the rest of the episode was finished!

I needed to beef up the episode a bit, and I love visual metaphors in works like in March Comes In Like a Lion and Haikyuu, so I tried to dabble!

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Like Brie immediately deciding to help when she heard Lucy was on her own, I wanted GH to have women naturally supporting women without it feeling self-congratulatory

I’m sure I lapsed into misogynistic jokes every once in a while, but I tried my best not to!

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It was important for me to establish early that even though they’re all gourmet chefs, the aspect of food I wanted to focus on wasn’t price or skill, but “home”

I tapped my experience of missing Hawaii food while in undergrad in Nebraska to make it feel more genuine!

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I love using word bubbles to obscure faces then reveal them, I probably use this panel arrangement too often!

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“Ep. 23 - Confit Byaldi” is the first episode with a food fact at the end!

It was bc it’s an unfamiliar dish that I wanted to explain—then I thought adding on a fact about the title food was fun, so I decided to do it from then on :)

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This was back when I had a buffer and could afford to spend a ton of time drawing foods, I remember this episode taking FOREVER bc I was having too much fun ha ha

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This whole tie sequence was just to establish a sense of distance between them (Graham tying it on his own neck and throwing it back vs Graham tying it on her)

So when they actually DO become close, it’s easier to feel!

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I wanted to give the siblings alphabetical names (O)live ➡️ (P)epper ➡️ (Q)uincy ➡️ (R)aleigh (surname) bc I thought it was cute!

“Quincy” isn’t a food, it’s derived from “quince” (like a pear) bc I needed a “Q” name

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Oof that Photoshop preset rose brush...

(I do love Quincy though)

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SHE’S HERE

When arranging the arcs, I went from the most likeable chef (Olive, who just blames herself for inaction) to the least likeable (bc Jacobi does 100% kidnap Lucy)

I felt like if I started with someone contentious like Madeleine, ppl wouldn’t continue...

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“But the pretzel...”

And with that, that’s the end of the intro arc!!

I’ll do the Olive arc tomorrow—let me know if I should do it on IG, this thread ended up way longer than I anticipated!

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This barely counts as a joke, but whenever someone has to break the fourth wall, I try to make sure it’s Graham

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I wanted to hint very early that Lucy’s search was unhealthy (or at least, the lengths she’d go through were)—even though he’s opposing her, Graham’s stance has always been “Value yourself more”

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He has an earring in this flashback too I think, oops...

(Also ft. Carlisle, the chef whose arc I cut)

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OH I guess Jacobi was supposed to have earrings???

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