Camila Hamel ~
@ha-ok
Storyteller~Color Spiller 🎏 🪅 🎈🌟 Blue is the dark inside of sentences.
The vss year comes to a close. Here's a thematic selection from 2025 -26. First of three. ✨ open.substack.com/pub/camilaha...
Short Fiction - What happened when two incompatible philosophies of preservation emerged inside the very system that governed the world. ⚡🔥 Tomorrow.
Two weeks from now, a fascinating look at the film "La Chimera."🎥 🌟 Drops July 15. 🔥
What if Hallmark made a tourism poster for an emotion? AI art robs you of: specificity, ambiguity, taste, subtext and depth in general, and it resolves rather than raise questions: it's summer. Two perfectly generic people are in love. And...? Nevermind that this is some hokey merchandise.
Strong currents. A penetration dive. An ignored signal. Deep inside the Marie-Caroline, a routine survey becomes a reminder that underwater, small mistakes have a way of growing larger. Wednesday 🔥
Truth arrives precisely when it becomes unusable. Chapter Twelve is live. 🔥
Coming soon.🔥 When a man disappears, his reputation will defend or damn him.
John Cassavetes is one of my favorite directors, and in rewatching this film last night, I idiscovered interesting parallels with Anora. Drops tomorrow 4pm CET/10 am EST🔥
You face your fear at 20 meters. Then you come back for more. Chapter 8 is live. 🔥
The #wolves near our camp. We check them with fire, with nets and with spears. They fear nothing. We keep vigil through the night, yet blood will spill. We are tired, and the threat is unrelenting. It has always been so, but there is never a time when we feel innured to them. #vss365
"She was not afraid to give you bad news, to support unpopular ideas, to tell you exactly how she was feeling, but none of this had anything to do with the submerged part of her, the underwater secrets—the conduct and the transactions no one but her elusive contacts knew about." Chapter four, 25/3 🔥
Chapter Three drops tomorrow! 🔥 Eighty-five meters. Three hours to come back up. No room for error. 🌊 #serialfiction
Chapter Two is live! This is a noir maritime drama that shows how stories survive catastrophe, and how the truth of what happened emerges from fragments. 🔥 camilahamel.substack.com/p/the-wreck-...