#ling ma

[sunriserollercoaster]

severance, ling ma

[junekilmer]

WHO ARE YOU?

Severance, Ling Ma // Severance S1E01

[quotespile]

It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.

Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

[librarycards]

I was like everyone else. We all hoped the storm would knock things over, fuck things up enough but not too much. We hoped the damage was bad enough to cancel work the next morning but not so bad that we couldn’t go to brunch instead.

[...]

A day off meant we could do things we’d always meant to do. Like go to the Botanical Garden, the Frick Collection, or something. Read some fiction. Leisure, the problem with the modern condition was the dearth of leisure. And finally, it took a force of nature to interrupt our routines. We just wanted to hit the reset button. We just wanted to feel flush with time to do things of no quantifiable value, our hopeful side pursuits like writing or drawing or something, something other than what we did for money. Like learn to be a better photographer. And even if we didn’t get around to it on that day, our free day, maybe it was enough just to feel the possibility that we could if we wanted to, which is another way of saying that we wanted to feel young, though many of us were that if nothing else.

Ling Ma, Severance

[nadisalementriche]

Books I want to read! (From our last trip to the book store)

[litsnaps]

[rubypomegranates]

“The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in. You have to keep moving."

Ling Ma "Severance”

[keytothevillage]

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