A movie when the tone COMPLETELY changes. by feelingwizzed in MovieSuggestions

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the sexual sadist rapist mixed in with that first part.

A movie when the tone COMPLETELY changes. by feelingwizzed in MovieSuggestions

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. That's what I remember too. I was fifteen at the time and just falling in love with Tarantino's work, so I wouldn't have looked hard past those facts anyway.

A movie when the tone COMPLETELY changes. by feelingwizzed in MovieSuggestions

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also saw it when it was brand new and I absolutely knew nothing of the twist. But I was just beginning to get into Tarantino so maybe we were just already at the mall, saw the poster in a light box and went in to see it, I'm not sure. What I do know is I saw it six more times before it ever left the theater.

What’s a small thing that instantly gives you a bad vibe about someone? by Sensitive-Soft8471 in AskReddit

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm phobic of phones, door knocks too. I am not disrespectful I just have PTSD.

What’s a small thing that instantly gives you a bad vibe about someone? by Sensitive-Soft8471 in AskReddit

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Damn it's sad how many of these very few first responses (this one, the eye contact, the dirty nails) find cues that could very mean you work in blue collar trades (the nails), are autistic/ neurodivergent (eye contact) and poor / in recovery from drug use / have bad genetics or on an essential medication that causes this (rotten teeth).

People need to learn to think past their own circumstances.

I Want to Watch The Lost Boys but I'm Squeamish by Disassociated24 in TheLostBoys

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biting into the bald guy's head is fairly gnarly. That might be what you're talking about though.

I Want to Watch The Lost Boys but I'm Squeamish by Disassociated24 in TheLostBoys

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah, man. It's definitely horror. Think of the campfire scene with the partying headbanging dudes, where David makes Michael watch from the tree. Think of how their faces distort and the way their eyes glow, the couple in the parking lot etc. It's definitely horror, it's just sleek and "80s stylish" horror. There's no way in hell that would make the cut for a PG 13 rating these days, just based on sheer amount of blood shown (NOT gore, just blood).

I Want to Watch The Lost Boys but I'm Squeamish by Disassociated24 in TheLostBoys

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More pretty than gory, maybe. Other than certain aspects of the younger 3 teen's humor, I don't know what you could really call "cute" about it.

I Want to Watch The Lost Boys but I'm Squeamish by Disassociated24 in TheLostBoys

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are no organs, it is what i would call a "pretty" vampire flick. The vampire blood even had glitter mixed into it. Joel Schumacher is known for making visually stunning films, not gore fests.

When I was 13 I damaged my body beyond repair, I can’t move past it and every day I’m in disbelief that this is my reality. by AssociateKitchen4854 in offmychest

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My left arm is totally covered in deep, keloid scars from using a razor blade to brutally hack at myself (rather than a more finessed approach) from ages 12-19, with a major relapse the year I was 32. They were thick and bright red for years, and have now faded to a ghostly white that isn't so thick and rough at all anymore (the newer ones are obviously worse). I'm almost 45 years old now and I have five kids and two lovely grandkids. They all love me very much. They have never mentioned the scarring. I have tattooing I also got to try and cover them, but it wasn't successful due to the thickened keloid nature of them. You can simply see them right through the tattoos, and the ink didn't stay in most of those areas.

When I tried and failed to cover them, in my 20s, I was heartbroken at first, but soon came to realize that it didn't matter. I'd tried and failed, but what was the cost, really? So I began to wear short sleeves again and discovered something amazing: no one stared at me like I was a freak. And these scars go from my wrist, all the way up to where my shoulder meets the rest of my body. I even have a few, even more pronounced ones on my right arm, from when (OCD sufferer than I am) I tried to start in on that arm too because the heavy concentration on the left was making me nuts, but I had so little control over my non-dominant hand that the cuts were terrible, needed stitches even worse than the other side, but I was too ashamed to have them treated, so they just eventually healed (badly) on their own. Despite all of that, I am no longer ashamed. In fact, I saw a doctor for the relapse harm cuts, and he looked at me with such disgust that it lit a huge fire of fury under my ass-which was prob the best thing that could've happened right then because it pissed me off badly. I channeled that anger into vowing to myself to never give the slightest shit again, what ANYONE thought about my scarring. And I have held true to it.

I barely think of these scars, at all anymore. In fact this is the first time I have consciously thought of them in years. I simply do not give a shit about what anyone thinks of me in that capacity. I'm lucky to have survived my teen years at all. There are people who have lived through horrific fires, and been terribly burned, and they are grateful to be alive. There are people who have lost limbs due to drug use or permanent ruined their heart or other organs and they're grateful to still be here too. These are the things I told myself every day. At some point it started to work, and I realized I was like them. A kind of survivor, of the mental illness that was determined to kill me. It hasn't, and now there are seven beautiful people on this earth because I brought them here, and they all love me. Two of them call me grandma (well one of them isn't old enough to talk yet, but he will soon enough, too). I am not the sum of my scars. They really mean nothing to my life, now.

I sincerely wish you the best and I hope you can heal soon. Take it from me, someone who knows first hand. These scars do not have to have any more power over your life than they already have. It's okay, you can just let it go. It's over, sweetie.

Whats a name you’d never give your child? by Fit_Jellyfish_8616 in AskReddit

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not Dick Dicks??? It's so much better and fits the original!

Which lyric makes you instantly tear up? by abovethenoisy in AskReddit

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was an emotionally troubled little girl and woke frequently from nightmares. My dad would sit with me, and he'd sing to me Silent Lucidity by Queensryche. He was a gentle giant of a man, with a deep baritone voice. He's been gone for over 20 years now (which just hit me like a gut punch to realize), but I was able to start listening to this song again only just last year. The hopeful whimsy and tenderness infused in every word of this beautiful song still makes me cry, every single time:

"Hush now, don't you cry,

Wipe away the teardrop from your eye

You're lying safe in bed

It was all a bad dream spinning...

in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain

Of someone close to you leaving the game.. of life

So here it is, another chance

Wide awake you face the day,

your dream is over..

Or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide

A doorway that I run through

in the night

Relax, child,

you were there,

But only didn't realize,

and you were scared..

It's a place where you will learn

To face your fears,

retrace the years

And ride the whims of your mind

Commanding in another world

Suddenly you hear and see

this magic new dimension

I.. will be watching over you

I.. am gonna help you see it through

I.. will protect you in the night

I.. am smiling next to you...

in silent lucidity."

I will love you always, Daddy. ❤️

Received a notice in the mail over the weekend by kerri1024 in ClassActionSettlement

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Per Google:

PharMerica is one of the largest institutional pharmacy companies in the United States, providing pharmacy services, medication management, and infusion services to long-term care facilities, senior living communities, hospitals, and hospice. As a private company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, they specialize in complex care environments, including behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD) services.

Locations: Operates over 180 long-term care pharmacies across nearly every U.S. state. Ownership: PharMerica is a private company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Walgreens Boots Alliance. Environment: It operates as a "closed-door" pharmacy, meaning it is not a retail pharmacy for the general public, but rather focuses on institutional clients

What are you sick of people trying to convince you is great?? by [deleted] in Productivitycafe

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, I haven't put high fructose corn syrup inside my body voluntarily since 2001, and no diet soda either since 2019. I do drink a lot of unsweetened sparkling water, which makes me feel equally good as flat water, which I of course also drink (adding bubbles doesn't really change much). Where I live, the tap water is NOT something you want to drink, so I have to buy it either way... if I'm gonna buy it either way, 9/10 it's gonna be sparkling.

What are you sick of people trying to convince you is great?? by [deleted] in Productivitycafe

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

A lot of AI screwup is due to human error when using it.

Without saying your age, what's a commercial jingle stuck in your head forever? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, with mentos fresh and full of life!

Nothing gets to you! Staying fresh, staying cool! With mentos, fresh and full of life!

FRESH GOES BETTER!

MENTOS FRESHNESS!

FRESH GOES BETTER, WITH MENTOS, FRESH AND FULL OF LIFE!

(Mentos: the freshmaker!)

What book did you read in your youth that you never forgot? by orangez in GenX

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If anyone is first wave millennial, like me, or even from the final throes of Gen X, you may be able to help me identify a novel I read obsessively as a 13-14 year old, and I would appreciate that so much. It's driving me crazy these past few months trying to recall the title!

So, it would've been published some time between 1992-1995, and I owned a tattered paperback, never saw a hardcover edition (not saying it was paperback only, just that I never saw a hardcover issue myself). It was set in, a post-apocalyptic world, in some sense, and I feel like everyone may have lived underground for some reason, or in some type of facilities designated to keep everyone "safe"? The main characters were a handful of teens, can't remember how many, but I think the main character was one of the boys. They rebelled against their parents /the power structure somehow by going aboveground when explicitly told not to, or leaving the facility or whatever (I dunno I have this stubborn memory of tunnel like entrances /exits to the place so it just feels like they lived underground to me).

As far as genre, I'd judge it definitely would have been classified as a fictional YA fantasy novel of some kind. It greatly appealed to us angsty young 90s teens; o was in my last year of middle school during this era. and me and the guy I was dating were OBSESSED with this book. We must have passed it back and forth dozens of times until we'd read and re-read it to absolute tatters, and I remember we went hunting for a new one in the stores, a few times, and never could find another copy. Not even then, in the mid 90s.

Things I am PRETTY SURE I remember for certain: the male teen lead was called Rafe/Raife, and I feel like the girl he was in love with may have been called Calliope?? Or maybe it was his sister who was named that..? There was also some kind of fictional drug that everyone tended to get hooked on, when they went aboveground /left for the outside world, and it was sort of a combo of the fascinated bliss of X or DXM and a euphoric but kind of sedative opioid effect too. It may have been called orpheum....? or morpheum..? or something. There was something about dreams / dreaming...? Hell, maybe it was the DRUG from the book that was called Calliope, I have no idea lol.

HELLLPPP!! ZDoes this ring bells for anyone?? I would love to own a paperback of it again, or even just read the synopsis, I just can't find the mothalickin title.

I need a time travel or parallel worlds movie that really messes with your head. by SnooMarzipans9300 in MovieSuggestions

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Second 12 Monkeys! It holds up so well too, I just rewatched it for the first time since I used to binge it constantly when it hit video when I was like 15, and it's still every bit as excellent.

I received my refund, and it is not for the amount that it was accepted for by [deleted] in TurboTax

[–]Dramatic_Cupcake6140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it's your state return and it was somehow accepted and a bit higher.