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Coleen, really lovely and inspiring. Merci !

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Merci à toi de lire. C’est vraiment un plaisir d’avoir ces échanges ❤️

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Great issue. Watching Chamoe come together in such a gradual and granular way is really special. The way you break down the tiniest, tiniest tweaks (like the girl's hairline) is something the public rarely gets to see in animation.

The insights about the state of the world strike home, too. There's an Afghan animator named Sara Barackzay who we've written about and interacted with before -- she hasn't left our thoughts since all of this started. We just hope she's safe, somewhere.

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Thank you so much.

What feels special to me in turn is being able to share Chamoe's progress with folks, both people outside of the discipline and those like you who are animation nerds, people who know what goes into putting "just" 2 minutes together. It's also been energizing to deep dive into process in a way I can't do elsewhere, to a supportive audience.

Thanks for sharing the name of the Afghan animator too, I'm going to look her up. I hope she's safe and that we’ll be able to see more of her work. My heart is very heavy for the people of Afghanistan—I hope that things can only go up from this very low place.

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I love the Chamoe animation - the story dovetails with the drawings so perfectly. And Mom's voice... And this deeply resonates with me: "What I’m ultimately getting at is that everything is awful, but not everything." It reminds me that I haven't been doing the "little" things that bring me joy, which after all, are not so little. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts there.

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Thank you dear one. I felt a little heart-twinge at "the 'little' things that bring me joy, which after all, are not so little." 😭 ❤️ You also of course share a connection to the narrator as I do, so your feedback on "Chamoe" has an additional layer of meaning for me. Means a lot to me that you feel a connection with the animation. I can't wait to share it with you once it's done.

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Reading this made my day(s) 1000 times better. And you had me at Sebald quote. Because I was just thinking about his other: "Melancholy, the rethinking of disaster we are in...."

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Thank you so much as always dear Julia. You made my evening, in kind. Your comment also reminds me that I need to read more Sebald. He was a good one.

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