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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Jun 12

why does my job have to involve acronyms

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you Avery for your insightful responses! 💕

Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you to @bellacreel.bsky.social for this interview at the Asymptote Journal blog. 🙏 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/05...

Translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist: An Interview with Avery Fischer Udagawa - Asymptote Blog

Beyond the editorial trappings and packaging, however, the best stories ignore borders. . .

www.asymptotejournal.com

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · May 20

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...

Opinion | The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness

www.nytimes.com

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · May 19

my notion library is the only thing keeping me going

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · May 19

we keep on keepin on 🍏

bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 3

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?

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Apr 2

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

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 3

wouldn’t mind if it was just the system language but it seems like foreign indie games will largely be locked since you can only access the Japanese shop 🫠
just have me show proof of residence😭

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 2

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

Honford Star @honfordstar.bsky.social · Apr 2

"In a way, the novel is about examining, and shattering, widely-held assumptions, from father-daughter relationships to gender roles."—Tony, Tony's Reading List.

tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/f...

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 2

why are all of your ~intellectual faves~ hot?

bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Apr 2

how are you guys posting every day

bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Feb 17

all in a day

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Feb 10

Making plans making moves !!!!!

Also switching my posting day to Thursday because Mondays are proving lethal 🫡

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Feb 3

January reading roundup! 💙📚

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#bookreview #reading #translation #booksky

Reading Roundup: January 2025

Le Guin, Kafka & Mitchell, Chung & Hur, and more.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Feb 1

hazy hike up mt shosha

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

Bella Creel's Carrd

Resume of a photographer, literary critic, and editor.

bellacreel.carrd.co

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Jan 27

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!!! 🐉🌳

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · Jan 27

⭐︎ 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

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