These aren’t the only examples in this montage, but here’s one of the times I reuse clothing items Lucy previously wore to give the sense that she doesn’t have a huge wardrobe!

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This is kind of random, but one unspoken character trait of Lucy is “older ladies tend to like her” (i.e. Brie, Olive, Pepper, both Mrs. Smiths, the people in the shopping plaza, etc.)

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This part of the arc was difficult!

I wanted readers to understand that Lucy might be going too far, but I also didn’t want readers to resent her for it!

Some of her reasoning is valid, but it still might have crossed a line

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It’s important that Lucy processes her grief in the way she wants to, but if it gets in the way of future happiness, it’s not healthy!

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It was important that Clementine and Meyer, her two friends who have nothing to do with her grandmother or Dimanche, are the ones who tell this to her

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I’m glad a lot of people picked up on the fact that this isn’t a healthy way to talk about yourself!

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This is purposefully the same sequence as Ep. 17!

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[Ben Wyatt voice] It’s about two people with large but undefined feelings for each other just barely failing to hold hands in a tense moment to symbolize how they’re not quite in sync yet!!!

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Oh! I remember I started using a thicker brush setting beginning this episode

(Also, I was listening to “The Heirs” by Susan Rieger) (sense memory is wild)

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I still feel weird that I didn’t actually show that much of Bartlett mentoring Graham??

Their relationship is supposed to be a profound mentor-student relationship, but... I kind of only show peeks of it, and the effect of Bartlett’s disappearance

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Btw the fact that GH updates on Sundays is totally a coincidence!

I just knew that family dinners are often on Sundays, and I always liked the word “Dimanche”!

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I wanted all kinds of loves in Gourmet Hound, not just romantic love

It was important to me that even though Charlotte has a husband and children and a long-standing successful career—the great loves of her life are her friends

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I don’t think this totally makes sense, but the sentiment that Charlotte’s cooking reminds Lucy of the Dimanche patissiers below her, and even the patissiers trained by Heath was a fun concept!

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This is sort of the precursor to Bartlett’s “The last, most important thing Lynn left behind was you”

You don’t need huge gestures to honor the loved ones you lost—living your life well is enough!

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The transition to 90s fashion was easier, I just referenced Friends!

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I didn’t have a lot of plans about Lucy’s parents beyond “dad’s sense of smell is stronger than Lucy’s” and “mom is strong”

Hopefully I distributed Lucy’s traits well enough that readers felt they were related!

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I saw a lot of (fair) comments saying that Bartlett, Palmier, and Charlotte should have helped Lucy after Lynn’s death

But tbh, I’m not at all close to my parents’ friends either? And the Dimanche founders didn’t even see Lynn that often near the end

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I think Haddock is kind of a superfluous character now, but at this point, I wasn’t sure who was going to give Lucy the “new relationships aren’t for replacing anything” speech

Haddock, Palmier, Charlotte, Olive, and Colby were all options at this point!

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I didn’t keep track of the waitstaff, but I referenced a couple who had appeared previously in the comic for this panel!

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