Credit card psychology

...4000. As a result, I'm told when I sign in to the online banking that I have over $4000 available on my card. My reaction is that I can now spend HEAPS with it (about $1900; I seem to have internalised $2100 as being zero), and it takes a non-trivial amount of time (a couple of seconds or so) to remember that I would actually have to pay for it. I can understand compulsive credit card users now.

FIC: A tale of three campsites; Alistair/FemCousland, NSFW

...people. Their emotional closeness wasn't the problem. Their physical one was. For somebody who'd hated life in the Chantry with every bit of his being, Alistair reflected glumly, he certainly had internalised far too many of their values. Here was a beautiful, smart, witty girl who was incredibly dear to him and whose interest was unmistakably clear, and he was agonising whether to allow himself...

Feeling?!

... his massive grace on me, saving me. I am chosen, and that should be enough. It struck me, that despite reading some bible all the time, like the fruits of the spirit, I haven't internalised some of it. It needs to be set in the deepest part of my brain, before rationalising begins. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self...

All aboard the failboat

..., the theme is: genderfuck . This term can mean lots of different things - a genderswitch within the story, a story in which a character has always had another gender, crossdressing, the concept of internalised gender... I love fics which play with the idea of gender and its role in the psyche well. Of course, I also love ones where Merlin gets unexpected ladyparts. But I digress! The spot you...

HELP I CAN'T FIND THE FOURTH WALL.

... do so is because their real lives suck, except to say that it is possible for fiction to be a diversion , as opposed to an escape ), she wants to write about them. (Or maybe I've just internalised that geek hierarchy chart a little too well. *g*) Of course, it is noteworthy that Kripke Chuck gets SPN's canonical fangirl in the end. Noteworthy. Yes. *pats him on his widdle PTB head* --...

...here lets a 16 year-old kidnapper/child rapist piss off and do community service for his first (known) crime. Mere days later, having been cleared to roam the streets and having fully internalised the message that rape is clearly of no more social import than repeatedly dropping litter or not paying your council tax (sorry, they actuallyu DOP give custodial sentence for that, after all, that...

[Naruto: sleight of hand]

...wanted back, wanted now , wanted beside him and wanted for ever. Naruto misses that boy sometimes, but considers himself lucky to have learned new ways of stirring the air, and lucky to have finally internalised the lesson that all shinobi learn through loss: how and when to sit still. The noise, when it comes, could almost be the casual scrabbling of leaves against the window, but when the rain...

Joy Through Work

... cowardice that feels as frustrating and adrenaline-fuelled as a stubbed toe. Played live, the bassist transforms into the beast, wearing a sheep's skull and some furs, speaking with the voice of internalised socialisation. The first time they played Blood on the Kitchen Floor , I thought that I had found religion. The four-note guitar riff seemed to pick me apart and rebuild me every time, and...

Alien like...

..., and rather has more to do with the patient's sense of having fulfilled his/her purpose in going back? Like, the therapist enables the travel back, but it's only once the patient has internalised the necessary lesson that the timeline automatically snaps him/her back to their native time? ...I'm totally overthinking this, aren't I? *g*) --Sebastian Pigott had fun playing Bitchy Rock Star Kai....

Antidepressants 'work instantly'

... light, rather than dwelling on their bad points, the researchers said. They were also more likely to see the positive in others. For example, if they saw a grumpy person they no longer internalised this to think that they must have done something wrong to upset the person. New drugs This was despite feeling no improvement in mood or anxiety. Dr Harmer said: "We found the antidepressants ...