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205                <h1 class="single-title">Cold comfort / Wave caught</h1>
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213                    Tal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim
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235Today: <a href="https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Tal Lavin</strong></a>, author of <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/" rel="noreferrer"><strong><em>Wild Faith</em></strong></a>, and <strong>Trevor Alixopulos</strong>, who draws <a href="http://www.alixopulos.com/about/" rel="noreferrer">comics and illustrations</a> and lives in California.</p><hr><h3 id="issue-no-654">Issue No. 654</h3><p><a href="#polar-impressions" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Polar Impressions</strong></a><br><strong>Tal Lavin</strong></p><p><a href="#season-strophe" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Season Strophe</strong></a><br><strong>Trevor Alixopulos</strong></p><hr><h2 id="polar-impressionss">Polar Impressionss</h2><h4 id="by-tal-lavin"><em>by</em> <a href="https://flaminghydra.com/contributor/tal-lavin/" rel="noreferrer">Tal Lavin</a></h4><h4 id=""></h4><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/a3/11a34ed2-0d03-4467-9051-6142cc358694/content/images/2026/09/image-67.png" class="kg-image" alt="A friendly looking whale swims above green, treelike foliage in very blue water" loading="lazy" width="1536" height="1152" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/a3/11a34ed2-0d03-4467-9051-6142cc358694/content/images/size/w600/2026/09/image-67.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/a3/11a34ed2-0d03-4467-9051-6142cc358694/content/images/size/w1000/2026/09/image-67.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/a3/11a34ed2-0d03-4467-9051-6142cc358694/content/images/2026/09/image-67.png 1536w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p><em>This whale is watching you and judging you for your incursion into his kingdom. His judgement is ruthless but resolves in your favor. You are cleansed.</em></p>
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403
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410
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415    siteName: "Flaming Hydra",
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vendor: 1 bytes, line 423
423
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428<!-- jacobford.com -->
429<!-- based on Dawn by Ghost Team -->
430<!-- but like, totally deconstructed -->
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