why does my job have to involve acronyms

Thank you Avery for your insightful responses! 💕

Christine Emba's undaunted critique of the porn industry (and our reluctance to condemn it) is definitely worth the read. The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

my notion library is the only thing keeping me going

we keep on keepin on 🍏

I didn’t realize how common power outages were in my life until I moved to Japan and they ceased to occur. What’s the difference? Sheer number of lines?

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

not including four in progress those four being: Europe and the People Without History The Return of the King The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea L'Etranger goal for april - to hit 20 books! why not!

so much Japanese literature seems to thrive on the acknowledgment (and thus deconstruction) of these 'widely-held assumptions' - love to see it expressed so elegantly here

why are all of your ~intellectual faves~ hot?

how are you guys posting every day

all in a day

Making plans making moves !!!!! Also switching my posting day to Thursday because Mondays are proving lethal 🫡

January reading roundup! 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/theredra... #bookreview #reading #translation #booksky

hazy hike up mt shosha

I've updated my Carrd, so here it is for all—a little digital collection of my latest writings, my socials, and myself! bellacreel.carrd.co

This post also features one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken - look at this little wood dragon, taken in the year of the wood dragon!!! 🐉🌳

⭐︎ new post!! ⭐︎ Did you walk in the woods as a child? A post on luck, intent, and twinkling memories. And a small goodbye to the year of the dragon 🐉♡ #photography #writing open.substack.com/pub/theredra...

me rn

self-published writers with AI book covers 🤮🤮 pls be so fr

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a little odd! a little reflective! a little bit a lot of me! substack.com/@bellacreel/... #writing #poetry #photography

⭐︎2025 reading progress⭐︎ ② five stars: YOUR UTOPIA by Bora Chung in Anton Hur’s translation, and THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K Le Guin I’ll have mini reviews/reflections up on Substack at the end of the month~ Aiming to finish two or three more before then 💙📚

do any other women feel really weird about how our ova were there at birth or is that just me.

getting oddly romantic in the rough draft tonight lads #writing #translation #wip

join me on a trip to Ikoma in Nara Prefecture, home to a 1,360 year old temple, Japan’s oldest cable car, and thirsty temple cats 💙📚 #writing #japan #photography #travel theredraft.substack.com/p/a-quiet-te...

医者に「耳が炎症している」じゃなくて「炎上している」って告げてしまった

retreated to atami to write

I'm online for the next while & am updating my Book Reviewers Starter Pack! To make it useful, I'm only adding mutuals who are active so if we’re friends here & you review on a website/blog, podcast, IG, TikTok, (tell me where!) etc, & want to be included, let me know! go.bsky.app/EnNqXQp

a quick post on beginnings, anxiety, and doing it anyways ☆ open.substack.com/pub/theredra... #substack #writing #photography

This week on the Asymptote blog: my dispatch on @readjapaneselit.bsky.social's 31 days of Japanese short stories in translation, alongside dispatches from Palestine and liminal airports in France and Ireland💙📚 Excited to keep up with the challenge! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01...

Happy new year from the first sunrise in Japan 🌅 あけましておめでとうございます〜

why does it feel like every other driver in Japan is trying to crash into me all the time

it was a red and orange christmas this year✨

the workout: the payoff:

Announcing our most-read pieces of 2024! These ten essays, reviews, and interviews roam widely across the cultural and political landscape, shedding new light on crucial subjects that will continue to preoccupy us in 2025 and beyond. https://buff.ly/41E6N9c

I recently interviewed translator Helen O’Horan about Izumi Suzuki’s Set My Heart on Fire, authenticity and performance in art, and Suzuki’s interest in the carnal, in sex and in violence. Read the whole interview below 💬 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12... #booksky #translation #japaneselit

No but genuinely Woolf knew what she was Doing with these semi colons and all caps and apostrophes and shit

ホルモンうどん

still hanging on 🍁

lunchtime walk

eggs bennnyyyy

January 2025 of my Substack "Glimpses" is drafted! So excited, but December is just as much about patience as it is preparation ☆ bellacreel.substack.com All original photography ✌︎ #writesky #booksky #litsky #photography

revisiting NAMES AND RIVERS by Shuri Kido, translated by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander as I write for my substack today

third sky post of the day and it’s not even 7:30

good morning himeji

post simmer pre noodle

curry night

getting things ready for the new year ☆ #booksky #litsky #bookreview #photography bellacreel.carrd.co