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bella creel
@bellacreel.bsky.social
blog editor at asymptote journal 💻
writer and critic 💬
himeji, japan 🏯

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my notion library is the only thing keeping me going
May 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
we keep on keepin on 🍏
May 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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!
April 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
all in a day
February 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Making plans making moves !!!!!

Also switching my posting day to Thursday because Mondays are proving lethal 🫡
February 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
hazy hike up mt shosha
February 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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!!! 🐉🌳
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
⭐︎ 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...
January 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
me rn
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
January 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🦛
January 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
a little odd! a little reflective! a little bit a lot of me!

substack.com/@bellacreel/...

#writing #poetry #photography
January 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
⭐︎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 💙📚
January 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
getting oddly romantic in the rough draft tonight lads

#writing #translation #wip
January 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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...
January 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
retreated to atami to write
January 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I saw it today too 🥹
January 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Happy new year from the first sunrise in Japan 🌅
あけましておめでとうございます〜
December 31, 2024 at 10:39 PM
it was a red and orange christmas this year✨
December 26, 2024 at 9:08 AM
the workout: the payoff:
December 26, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 AM
ホルモンうどん
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
still hanging on 🍁
December 18, 2024 at 5:47 AM
lunchtime walk
December 17, 2024 at 4:52 AM
eggs bennnyyyy
December 15, 2024 at 5:40 AM