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[lucybellwood]

Another piece I did for The Nib back in 2015! Gonna keep posting these until they shut down at the end of the summer. It was such a treat to hear that Matt and the whole editorial team just won an Eisner for their work on the magazine and website. Much-deserved.

Anyway: this is a parody and isn't representative of every screenwriter's experience, but it certainly feels relevant with all the strikes rolling out right now. Did you know what kind of credit you get on a film directly impacts how much you're paid? For writers you'll see "created by," "written by," "story by," and all sorts of other things, all of which translate to different levels of compensation! (Highlander, for example, has Story by Gregory Widen and Screenplay by my dad and his writing partner, Larry Ferguson.) The Writer's Guild is often responsible for arbitrating those decisions. They have a whole MANUAL to help writers understand the process. It rules.

Thanks, WGA. Thanks, The Nib. (And you can always make more of these comics possible on Patreon.)

[helioscopepdx]

Lucy Bellwood walks you through how to think like an artist when writing for comics. A must-watch if you're struggling with fitting action and emotion into a tight script or looking to work with an artist for the first time

[natattitude]

Online contact still foreign to me I’m learning

[obliviouswit]

Oh hello there! Your hair looks great!

I'm making an Impulsive Decision™ and gonna 🔥blaze🔥 this post, so please bear with me. 🐻

If you like nature🏞️ and hearts💚 and thinking💭 and poetry📜 and art🖼️ and water💧 and watercolors 🎨and words📖 and feelings🥰, perhaps I could interest you in Serpentine: a book of poems by Tara K. Shepersky with illustrations by Lucy Bellwood.

They're both amazing creators and I'm betting that you're also an amazing person because you're on this amazing website😘. Go get a book or nine, tell your friends, make this kickstarter happen, be a force for beauty in this world (you already are, I hope, but keep going💜)

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[dirtyriver]

Said cryptid:

Ann Arbor: take advantage of this opportunity to meet comics cryptid and delightful human Lucy Bellwood! @lucybellwood She’s a guest at Ann Arbor Comics Art Fest June 15-16. https://lucybellwood.com/find-me-at-a2caf/

[msnihilist]

Ben 10 Fic Recs for Rare/Unusual Pairings

Note: some of these fics are E-rated. Read the tags. No crossovers. No BenRook, Gwevin, Bevin, Bwen, Benkai, or Benlie (unless in a polycule). All of the links are AO3 fics. Enjoy!

Ben Pairings

Ben/Albedo → Just Galvan Things & So Much More & Vile Urges & Nightmares Can Only Lead to Comfort & Rekindled Hatred & Trapped Together and Becoming Human & in nomine patri et fili spiritus sancti & Christmas And 3am Conversations

Ben/Argit → Argit Asks a Favor

Ben/Attea → good guy gone bad

Ben/Charmcaster → The Bad and The Worst & Magical Hands & Thanatophobia (Is what I feel for you) & Lovesick...but also genuinely sick & Shut Up and Kiss Me, Hero & Couple's Discount & We'll Meet Again & The Island Misadventures of Ben and Charmcaster

Ben/Eddie → Once Summer Ends

Ben/Elena → Lysis & The Redeem of The Swarm & Wanting vs Waiting & Time Lost

Ben/Ester → Faces

Ben/Eunice → A Very Eunisexual Christmas

Ben/Jennifer → Crossroads

Ben/Ken → Dropping In

Ben/Kenny → A Gift, From Thirty Years in the Future & New Day, Same Person & His Universe

Ben/Khyber → Distractions & Hunter and Prey & Not Yet

Ben/Looma → Conquered

Ben/Lord Transyl → La Petite Mort & Drifting off to a tempting sleep

Ben/Lucy → Future Sight

Ben/Malware → Hunger

Ben/Michael → Sorry, I wasn't born with a filter

Ben/Reiny → The Wedding & The Art of the Deal

Ben/Rojo → A Little Fun

Ben/Tetrax → Motivation

Ben/Vilgax → Sospes Sui & I'm Taking What's Mine and Your Time Has Come

Ben/Zs'Skayr → Ghost at the Bellwood Motel & One

Alternate Ben Pairings

Ben 23/Ben Prime → For You

Ben 23/Gwen 10 → Different Times

Ben 23/Rook Prime → All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For a Thing I Cannot Name

Mad Ben/Bad Ben → Hot Mess

Mad Ben/Ben Prime → An Unlikely 'Friend' In An Awkward Situation

Mad Ben/Mad Rook → Like That

Nega Ben/Nyancy Chan → Catnip and Smoothies

No Watch Ben/Ben Prime → Never Get Out of Your Head & Insanity & Unorthodox & Don't Tell Paradox & Nothing Lasts

No Watch Ben/Bad Ben → You Saved Me Even Though We're Enemies

For Other Characters, Click Here

[fraternoviril]

The art of the sailor.

Photo: https://www.demilked.com/sailor-tattoo-meaning-lucy-bellwood/

[derryderrydown]

I saw you photo of the ship you sail in response to Lucy Bellwood’s sail anatomy and would love to hear more about it! I’ve never seen a square rigger with … is that a tiny crane for loading? So cool!

What's this? An excuse to talk about The Best Barque In The World, SV Tenacious? Well, I don't mind if I do!

First, yes, that is a tiny crane. She actually has two of them, for launching the two RHIBs.

She also has a more traditional derrick, essentially a human-powered crane, which is used for loading heavy stuff and setting up the gangways.

Tenacious is far from being a traditional ship. She was launched in 2000, and is the only tall ship currently operating* that was designed specifically to be sailed by a disabled crew.

This means:

wheelchair lifts throughout the ship

decks wide enough for wheelchairs**

a talking compass, so people with visual impairments can't avoid taking their turn on the wheel!

power assisted steering and a joystick for people with limited dexterity

wheelchair clamps by the wheel, and seating for those who can't stand for long periods. (And for those who just don't want to, when there's a perfectly comfortable chair right there!)

rigging for a harness to allow people with limited mobility to get into the RHIBs

ascender systems that allow wheelchair users to take themselves up the masts. (Here's a photo of someone doing just that last week.)

On the more mundane side, there are showers with seats, handrails and adjustable showerheads. There are two or three clos-o-mat toilets, and the majority of the toilets are wheelchair-accessible. There are bunks which have anchor points for wheelchairs, and lifts to get in and out of the bunk.

More than that, however, is the ethos of the ship. There are no passengers on Tenacious. Everybody is part of the crew. Everybody stands their watch (and if I could get out of the morning watch, 4am-8am, I absolutely would). Everybody does their mess duty. Everybody takes part in happy hour (cleaning the ship - both the romantic stuff of the scrubbing the deck and the less so of scrubbing the toilets).

Everybody is assigned a buddy when they join the ship. If you're disabled, this is the person you turn to when you need a bit of extra help. (I have CFS. On my first voyage, I pushed myself so hard, because I wanted to get the absolute most out of the experience, that I ended up curled up on my bunk and sobbing because I was too tired to go and eat dinner. My buddy went and spoke to the cook and brought me a meal in my bunk.)

However, if your buddy isn't around, you can ask absolutely anybody, and they'll do it without making a big deal of it.

The Tenacious ethos is that everybody has something to offer, and everybody sometimes needs help. It doesn't matter whether you're disabled, currently able-bodied, or just completely unable to remember which bit of string to pull. You'll never be shouted at, and you'll never be made to feel a burden.

If my hard sell has worked and you want to sail on Tenacious - guess what? YOU CAN!

She's owned and operated by the Jubilee Sailing Trust and you can book a voyage on their website. There are bursaries available to help with cost.

*JST used to operate two tall ships. Unfortunately, COVID and financial issues meant the STS Lord Nelson was taken out of service, and is currently sitting semi-derelict in a Welsh dock, hoping for a buyer.

**Unfortunately, she can only take manual wheelchairs. Powered chairs are largely too heavy and too bulky, and also class as a fire risk. (Batteries and a lot of water aren't generally a good combination.)

[verostewart]

Field Guide to Wonder 5 is here!! Hot off the presses and ready for YOU. Contains writings about underwater painter, otters, I Spy nostalgia, paleoart, and so much more - even a full page comic collaboration with Lucy Bellwood! This issue is also fully endorsed by all three of my cats. What more could you need?

[lucybellwood]

Watercolor in progress for an upcoming collaboration with poet Tara Shepersky.

[lucybellwood]

I condensed everything I learned from a year of agonizing writer/artist script negotiation into four minutes so YOU can have a better time making comics

Lucy Bellwood walks you through how to think like an artist when writing for comics. A must-watch if you're struggling with fitting action and emotion into a tight script or looking to work with an artist for the first time

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The story

Created by Isabella bellwood

One day a young girl called Marie was camping at a forest near by with her girlfriend and best friend.

My friend Lucie is always supporting us but I noticed that she was acting differently when we saw this girl but she said it was straight so I am really confused . I have been wondering if I like someone else or my girlfriend Layla or anyone or if I'm trans or I don't know . I don't feel like a girl but would they support me I don't know .

I'm horrified she is going to leave me but I'm hoping she doesn't. I have always liked my hair short but i always feel like it should be shorter I don't know.

Sorry I need to sleep night

[n1ghttiger]

Do you have any plushies? :3

OH BOY DO I

may i present to you the PLUSHIE SHELF

Roughly from left to right: Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, a Nyan Cat my mom's friend made with her sewing machine, a Shy Little Kitten from my mom, an alebrije I think my dad got me, a vampire in a swimsuit (it's pretty hidden, you can only see its head), a demon plushie from a project my dad backed on Kickstarter (Lucy Bellwood’s 100 Demon Dialogues), a little orange tabby cat beanie babie, Marie from Aristocats, the thing wrapped in plastic is a little Nightmare Before Christmas themed mini top hat that was a gift, a Smilodon I got from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, a pink alpaca that was a gift from a friend, Ash Williams Evil Dead, a blue dragon orb that my friend bought me bc it reminded her of Underling Bad End Theater, a bushbaby (hidden behind the blue dragon), two Webkins cat plushies (the tuxedo cat is named Andy and the orange tabby is named Allie), a black cat orb that I bought at the mall when I was out with friends, a sock monkey superhero from my dad and stepmom for my birthday, a leopard print scalemate that my friend @/hiddency handmade for me years ago, two different cheetah plushies under the scalemate (the more squished one on the left is named Piston, my dad came up with it when i was really little, and the one on the right more in the front is named Cheese and he's my emotional support boy), a leopard print Baphomet plush whom I lovingly call Baphy (Dark Lord plush in the color Rockabilly from Killstar, limited line), a black cat that you can BARELY see (I've had her for so long that I KNOW she has a name but I cannot remember it for the life of me), a calico cat orb, another black cat you can barely see (I stole that one from work), SkippyJon Jones, he's wearing a Disney Cheshire Cat mouse ear hat and one of those ears has a pin of the exact same hat pierced in the ear, ANOTHER cheetah plushie that was a gift from a friend, Spyro the Dragon, a sea lion plushie that you can barely see behind Spyro's horns, and a shiba inu.

Stuff that doesn't fit on the shelf includes: a life sized cheetah (who my mom named Mr. Cheetah), with a giant python on his back (I wanted to adjust it so you could see the entire thing but I saw a spider in that corner the other day so I didn't wanna touch it too much), and on my bed is a cat plushie that was a gift from a friend, it sleeps on my bed every night :)

and that's just the stuff in my bedroom.

These little guys are on my desk

Left to right: a yellow cat plushie that's made to be decapitated (its head is velcroed onto its body), a tiny chocolate milk carton stuffy, a little porg that my mom found on top of a trash can at Disneyland and took it home and washed it and gave it to me, and a purple borb (bird orb) that someone I don't talk to anymore made for me.

Hope that was comprehensive enough ;3

[meanwhileinstasiville]

Around a "rough neighborhood"

After heading down from the park department, a guy whose supposed to look like me, alone. A guy down farther with "everything" so far as family is concerned *and yellow shoes*, who looks like phil.

There are bald guys *akin to skinheads* absolutely everywhere passing through the plaza today. The "island" downtown has some kind of team meeting going on out there representing, I think, "strength in numbers" (see rough neighborhood, above).

There's a guy who's purpose seems to be resembling eric and "his chair" going everywhere in latino messaging, at the "raj" building and implying that's *yet another snk back office project about town* in worse taste than ever. We've got the -hex red Honda fit that *used to literally follow me around* parked outside love revolution "lite" not the sex shop of the heyday drug trade.

(And you know, as an aside, porque no aunque? *All those socialist blogs about revolutionary stuff* and *no uncertainty?* Blaming America then on America now *although* we imported all the cartels, drug wars and violence, and borderline *committed* to inviting them, as *a group* to run Oregon)

*There's sooo much* there's eric and phil selling houses on signs. There are PALs in whole and part turning up absolutely everywhere.

They're even *fire dept cooper drives by* we'll she's a stalker...an back to where I was taking about, turning up in the tube source material for erotica on Tumblr.

Your expy women who look like male latinos around the face, yeah, they're getting screwed by men. And that's manly? And white?

All the lee expies are "twinks for trump" poster boy. They're eating semen, they're simulating sex acts around sucking cock. That's Lucy Bellwood "opening the door of an airplane" level heterosexuality. Reddit even has this shit leaching in.

Wish I were making this up, but like all the dead runs of trees in the mountains and a lone car on a deserted road; none of this was there before. Wasn't something to notice after attention was called to it, because *it was never like this*

And I'm not depressed or discouraged by any of this because it's a plane crash waiting to happen. So there.

[kariachi]

Okay, first up, yes to this shit. So much yes, full agreement. Because Ben- There's doing shit yourself, having shit done to you, and the sheer betrayal that comes from having someone you love and trust kill someone you love and trust, someone they supposedly love and trust, and in such a mindless, offhanded manner. Like he's used to death and the like but this would just be a whole other level of it.

And Gwen, like you said she seems very, above shit? I did a post on this once- it didn't get tagged but one sec I'll link it here- Gwen seems very much like she's on a bit of a pedestal? In-universe? Like she's got Expectations from her mom, and shit to live up to from Ben and Max, and her own high expectations and like- Gwen can't be Wrong because she is Good and Wonderful and from the top of her ivory tower well damn near everything she does is justified, and if it's not then it was a small lapse we can move on from, and I think if nothing else this shit would make her wobble. Because whatever she does with this scar on her soul, it takes a lot to justify the thoughtless killing of your own partner. But then also agree that, probably she wouldn't see consequences? The Plumbers don't exactly have a good track record managing their own, and with Max and Ben being the Golden Boys, and at least three other Tennysons are themselves prior or current Plumbers (and apparently Lucy was originally meant to be a Tennyson so more like at least four).

I can see her getting arrested, because Rook at this point hasn't had the chance to grow close with Kevin (they've met once and all those things you reference happen after Frogs of War) but he's also the most likely person I think to go 'no, that was illegal, the law says-'. Ben I can't see gunning for it because the Tennysons seem to me to be a very 'but they're family', 'we don't mention things' sorta lot and I don't know that this would break him completely out of what honestly seems like generations of 'they're the only relatives you've got so you have to put up with them and be gentle with their wrongs'. Which alongside the fact that, it's the Plumbers likely she's not seeing shit for consequences, I don't know that there'd be much of any from family either. I mean Sunny tried to nuke Bellwood and the response was 'oh but don't be too harsh on her'.

On Max's end, I don't think he actually liked Kevin? Like, the way shit is phrased in the Ultimate Kevin arc is very... 'Well we all knew this was what he really was'? And then you add in that when the Rooters were taking Kevin away he didn't do shit until he realized Servantis had fucked with his brain to make him accept the kids in the first place... It feels, not just like you said that he doesn't actually care about Kevin, but that he doesn't care for Kevin. Like Kevin's worth comes from 'Ben and Gwen like him' and otherwise he's just waiting for the leopard to show it's spots. Especially when you consider how quickly he turned on Elena's dad in Alien Swarm, and how ready he was to write off the entire family on the basis that Victor stole from the Plumbers once. Seems like he's not exactly a 'people can grow and change' type. Which then seems contradicted by the whole mess with Phil until you remember that they were partners for decades and like hell Phil became an asshole all sudden-like after retirement, so probably Max was cool with the his bullshit until he tried to drag the kids into a kidnapping scheme/protection racket.

And gods, Ben having to tell Kev's mom because nobody else will. Goddamn that would be, that's fucking painful right there. I can see him showing up at the door of the house Kevin supposedly bought her, trying to figure out how to say the words as she just visibly becomes more and more certain of what this visit is about, it's not her first one afterall... Damn.

And yeah, I agree with you on Harvey. I personally put their divorce as more recent due to Headcanons (namely 'Kevin is his mother's child and that man poofed as soon as he realized Kevin was gone gone until the kid showed back up and he could go 'see I very clearly did not kill him and bury his body somewhere'') but otherwise 100% on the Harvey stuff. Personally read and write him as a guy who was abusive towards his stepson out of fear of how powerful he was and the issues he had being a hybrid whose alien parent had just died and then proceeded to use the resulting mental health issues and lashing out as vindication that clearly he was right to do what he did otherwise he'd be worse. Sort've a 'the man who beats his dog will never admit that's why it bites/will make every excuse why the bite isn't his fault' sorta deal.

And on the last paragraph- Hi! Welcome to the 'They Ruined The Potential Gwevin Had By Refusing To Let The Characters Grow Out of Their Flaws And Also Making Gwen Abusive' blog! This isn't all we do here but it's a recurring theme. And it's mostly a problem on Gwen's end. Kevin is par from perfect, but he comes with sides of 'severe trauma and mental health shit', 'with a girl like that-', and 'my girl is a Good Person while I'm a Bad Person so...' Like, even as far back as All That Glitters, the start of their relationship drama is her getting pushy about why he's respecting a boundary she set two episodes ago and when he tries to set his own boundary laughing at and then proceeding to not only immediately ignore but repeatedly steamroller over it. A lot of shit with Kevin makes sense when you take into account that while he liked her he was conflicted about a relationship, which given he's got a history of addiction issues with the shit she's made out of makes sense even without the rest of his issues coming into play, (plus WoG that his initial interest was the same as Mike's, 'big mass of energy right he fuck there'), and then got pushed and pressed and shamed until he finally started going out with her. And then you get cases like In Charm's Way, where the entire conflict could have been resolved by Gwen going 'here is why I have suddenly cut back the amount of time I spend with you after The Incident' but instead she tells Ben but not him and in the end he gets to be the bad guy responsible for the shit that happens to him because he 'should have known' that this girl can't have been dating more than four months before he got chimeraed again and with whom he has a nasty history involving such mutations cut back her time with him because she was trying to help. This shit on top of the issues he already had, add in some communication problems, Kevin's a mess that needs to grow and heal but Gwen's shit can't have helped.

Meanwhile on Gwen's end, for one thing she doesn't seem to respect Kevin. Like, she loves him, but as a person it doesn't feel like she respects him. Even before you get into the abuse. And using physical pain and violence against your partner for shit that isn't defending yourself against their own use of the same (outside consenting contexts) is abuse, no matter what too damn many Gwevn fans I've seen want to claim. Like, the fact the very first episode after they get together has Gwen use physical pain, very purposefully and happily, to punish Kevin for teasing her? That in a later episode they have a moral disagreement and she responds by dropping him from a height? That in Showdown her response to him and Ben laughing at what's barely a joke at her expense is to shove them into freefall with not a care in the world?

My followers have seen it before and will see it again but, someone who does that last one? In front of a witness, readily and happily? They're not only hurting their partner in these situations. That's not the behavior of somebody who 99.99% of the time treats their partner fine. Especially when you take into account that Gwen seems to get more bold with this shit over time. The first time she at least claims that she's not being overly rough (boy gets shot and he's fine, the blows Gwen's sending at him and he's suffering, she was not holding back at all), though badly. The second time she claims he dropped him on accident, but puts no effort into the lie. The third time she doesn't even pretend, she does it openly and in front of a third party. Gwen, as presented in canon, is 100% physically abusive towards Kevin offscreen, and seemingly is getting worse and bolder with her abuse given what we see onscreen.

It's just- I used to ship it. It had potential. It still has potential, as long as you cast aside 99.8% of canon and shit in fic and start essentially from scratch. And then I realized they didn't intend to have the two grow, didn't see Gwen's shit as a problem, and that any attempts to discuss the matter were getting be labelled as a misogynist Bevin fan who just didn't like that Gwen was in the way of their ship.

I may have a thought or two on the matter. I may have had thoughts or two on the matter for the last 15 years and counting.

So yeah, full agree there, the two of them need to be seeing somebody the fuck else. Or at least Kevin needs to be seeing somebody the fuck else Gwen may want to get some fucking therapy before she finds someone new.

I don't have the emotional fortitude to write it, but the brain does sometimes mosey over to the potential aftermath of simple shit like 'the Omnitrix is programmed to prevent its wielder from dying', 'Ben is known to occasionally get the wrong alien', and 'falling from great heights is very bad for your health' coming together after Gwen shoves the boys out of the ship during Showdown to result in one dead Kevin.

Like damn but that could be one dramatic and painful storyline.

[guy60660]

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