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Bonus Story: The Good Wife's Guidebook

Added 2020-06-03 13:32:34 +0000 UTC

Surprise! Normally, today would be part of an off-week, with the next update coming next Wednesday (which it will, rest assured! Academia will be right on schedule!). However, I wanted to give a big thank you to everyone who is supporting my Patreon right now. Times are tough, and it means a lot, truly, that you're still reading my stories.

I let $5 and $10 patrons vote on which of four already written stories they'd like to see early, and this is the one that won! It was a close race, but all the stories that were listed will see their way onto here eventually, so don't worry.

We've been a bit scarce on behind the scenes info lately, but for this story, I have lots!

I don't know what exactly possessed me to make this one centered around a podcast, but it reuses a concept from an early series of captions I did, in which a book about the stepford lifestyle influenced a woman at a library. It also features the return of a certain hobby shop that first appeared in The Stepford Game!

The dress that Mindy wears during part 2 of the story was one I found on pinterest and, despite it not being very Stepfordy, I was instantly smitten, and knew I had to include it here.

Mindy's hairstyle by the end was also inspired by some pinterest scrolling!

I mean, who says short hair can't be girly? On the more retro side of things, we have Cece's hairstyle in part 3, which actually exists, and looks just incredible!