MaxDrawsFatsMostly

• First of all, if you aren't aware of how Article 13 is going to fuck us over, then check this out.
• I've been on several holidays from December 2017, and in Amsterdam, Bill Clinton just so happened to pass straight by us. No, really.
  

• I livetweeted as many direct-to-video Disney sequels as I could stomach!
  
• After having to deal with so many dull, by-the-numbers Infinity Wars, and despite of the long-lasting anxiety attack it gave me, Speed Racer is now one of my favourite movies of all time. Herp dee derp.
• As I can no longer post, well, anything on Tumblr anymore, I've started a secondary Twitter account for fatty crap.
• Discovered a copy of the original cut of A Charlie Brown Christmas on the Lost Media Wiki and compared it with the version that's been circulating since! An incomplete version is available on YouTube.

• If you care about how many times I take trips to the cinema, it was 200 last year plus two repeats and three events. Why not follow along with my 2019 diary, where I hope to calm down a little?
  
• I've seen 164 2018 movies as of tonight and obviously the new Spider-Man movie is the best of them all.
• Found out who hacked my M&M's Commercials channel on YouTube. He won't give it back unless I pay him $6,000. Pure, unbridled criminal activity.
• I finally played Undertale and I guess I was wrong about that, too. BUT I'LL ALWAYS BE RIGHT ABOUT STEVEN UNIVERSE 
• There's just too many pathetic men on this planet to make me feel comfortable in my own body.
• This world is such a garbage fire that sometimes, I feel ashamed of being what I am.
• I sometimes feel like it would be so much easier if just maybe, I transitioned...
• ...maybe...
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• ...but I'm scared...
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• The Oscar-nominated Bohemian Rape-sody is terrible and you should feel terrible. I know I did when I livetweeted it.
  
• Checked the scale this week. 176lb. I seem to be making some decent progress.
• As of today, it's possible that I could be volunteering for a very important cinema!
• I've made it my New Years resolution to draw more and move forward with my projects! Unfortunately, I can't make any promises.
• I just might be drawing nudes soon. I mean, nipples and everything.

19.05.2018: It’s okay, guys, he’s been banned. All is finally well again.

It all began with this.



As he was venturing on this non-stop kinkshaming spree, I published a journal about the above conversation and dankfox12 took his discussion with me to notes, and I set the record straight on why going around and threatening to report people for having a fetish is outdated and immoral. He eventually promised to stop, on account that I stop following him. "Hopefully never again." I guess I should've told him that I'll be keeping watch by elaborating on "hopefully" and not post it as a status update, me being a clueless autist, because when he discovered a journal back from 2009 about why a woman poses naked, mentioning that it helps her finally feel comfortable in her own body after living a life of sexual abuse and eating disorders...



In retrospect, maybe I should've just kept my cool during this discussion, or better yet not just turned this into another thread for all to see, but let's all just block this bully, as I have done rather than starting another war. It doesn't look like he'll learn anytime soon.

11.05.2018: ...WOW.






Just blocking him doesn't feel like enough in this case.

Too cowardly for Carol and Moonlight, BAFTAs? We’ll see about that…

Best Director:

• Park Chan-wook - The Handmaiden
  
• Damien Chazelle - La La Land
  
• Anna Biller - The Love Witch
  
• Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
  
• Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan - Swiss Army Man
  

Best Original Screenplay:

• The Greasy Strangler - Toby Harvard & Jim Hosking*
  
• La La Land - Damien Chazelle
• Paterson - Jim Jarmusch
  
• Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
  
• Swiss Army Man - Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan
  

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• 10 Cloverfield Lane - Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken & Damien Chazelle (spiritual sequel to Cloverfield)
  
• The Handmaiden - Park Chan-wook & Chung Seo-kyung (Fingersmith by Sarah Waters)
  
• Indignation - James Schamus (Indignation by Philip Roth)
  
• Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney)
  
• Silence - Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese (Silence by Shūsaku Endō)
  

Best Actor:

• Adam Driver (Paterson) - Paterson
  
• All three Chirons - Moonlight
  
• Andrew Garfield (Sebastião Rodrigues) - Silence
  
• Casey Affleck (Lee Chandler) - Manchester by the Sea
  
• Paul Dano (Hank Thompson) - Swiss Army Man
  

Best Actress:

• Annette Benning (Dorothea Fields) - 20th Century Women
  
• Hailee Steinfeld (Nadine Franklin) - The Edge of Seventeen
  
• Isabelle Huppert - Elle/Things to Come
  
• Kim Tae-ri (Sook-hee) - The Handmaiden
  
• Rooney Mara (Una Spencer) - Una
  

Best Supporting Actor:

• Daniel Radcliffe (Manny) - Swiss Army Man
  
• John Goodman (Howard Stambler) - 10 Cloverfield Lane
  
• Mahershala Ali (Juan) - Moonlight
  
• Shia LaBeouf (Jake) - American Honey
  
• Woody Harrelson (Mr. Bruner) - The Edge of Seveteen
  

Best Supporting Actress:

• Greta Gerwig (Abbie Porter) - 20th Century Women
  
• Kim Min-hee (Lady Hideko) - The Handmaiden
  
• Mackenzie Davis (Anna) - Always Shine
  
• Michelle Williams (Randi) - Manchester by the Sea
  
• Naomie Harris (Paula) - Moonlight
  

Best Breakthrough Performance:

• Garance Marillier (Justine) - Raw
  
• Lucas Jade Zumann (Jamie Fields) - 20th Century Women
  
• Michael Barbieri (Tony Calvelli) - Little Men
  
• Oakes Fegley (Pete) - Pete’s Dragon
  
• Sasha Lane (Star) - American Honey
  

Best Non-human Performance:

• Both Isabelle Huppert’s cats - Elle/Things to Come
  
• Keanu - Keanu
  
• Nellie - Paterson
  
• Steven Seagull - The Shallows
  
• Every wiener-dog - Wiener-Dog
  

Best Cinematography:

• The Handmaiden - Chung Chung-hoon
  
• La La Land - Linus Sandgren
  
• The Love Witch - M. David Mullen
  
• Moonlight - James Laxton
  
• Raw - Ruben Impens
  

Best On-screen Pairing:

• Mark Duplass & Sarah Paulson - Blue Jay
  
• All three Chrions x Kevins - Moonlight
  
• Kim Tae-ri x Kim Min-hee - The Handmaiden
  
• Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone - La La Land
  
• Paul Dano & Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man
  

Best Production Design:

• The Handmaiden - Seong-hie Ryu
  
• La La Land - David Wasco
  
• The Love Witch - Anna Biller
  
• Paterson - Mark Friedberg
  
• Swiss Army Man - Jason Kisvarday
  

Best Costume Design:

• The Handmaiden - Sang-gyeong Jo
  
• La La Land - Mary Zophres
  
• The Love Witch - Anna Biller
  
• Paterson - Catherine George
  
• Swiss Army Man - Stephani Lewis
  

Best Makeup:

• The Greasy Strangler
  
• The Handmaiden
  
• The Love Witch
  
• Raw
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Best Film Editing:

• The Handmaiden - Kim Jae-bum & Kim Sang-bum
  
• La La Land - Tom Cross
  
• The Love Witch - Anna Biller
  
• Moonlight - Nat Sanders & Joi McMillon
  
• Swiss Army Man - Matthew Hannam
  

Best Visual Effects:

• Arrival
  
• Captain America: Civil War
  
• Doctor Strange
  
• The Jungle Book
  
• Pete’s Dragon
  

Best Sound Editing:

• Arrival
  
• Free Fire
  
• The Handmaiden
  
• La La Land
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Best Original Score:

• The Greasy Strangler - Andrew Hung
  
• The Handmaiden - Cho Young-wuk
  
• La La Land - Justin Hurwitz
  
• Manchester by the Sea - Lesley Barber
  
• Moonlight - Nicholas Britell
  

Best Original Song:

• Every song in La La Land
  
• Shiny - Moana
  
• The Riddle of the Model - Sing Street
  
• Almost the whole soundtrack of Swiss Army Man
  
• The Ballad of Wiener-Dog - Wiener-Dog
  

Best Documentary:

• Cameraperson
  
• Life, Animated
  
• Notes on Blindness
  
• One More Time with Feeling
  
• Weiner
  

Best Debut Feature:

• 10 Cloverfield Lane - Dan Trachtenberg
  
• The Edge of Seventeen - Kelly Fremon Craig
  
• The Eyes of My Mother - Nicolas Pesce
  
• Raw - Julia Ducournau
  
• Swiss Army Man - Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan
  

Best Foreign Langauge Film:

• The Handmaiden
  
• Raw
  
• Things to Come
  
• Toni Erdmann
  
• The Wailing
  

Best Animated Feature:

• Kubo and the Two Strings
  
• My Life as a Courgette
  
• The Red Turtle
  
• Sausage Party
  
• Your Name
  

Best Picture:

• American Honey
  
• The Edge of Seventeen
  
• The Handmaiden
  
• La La Land
  
• The Love Witch
  
• Manchester by the Sea
  
• Moonlight
  
• Paterson
  
• Sing Street
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Most Attractive Concept:

• The Greasy Strangler
  
• Prevenge
  
• Raw
  
• Sausage Party
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Most Impact:

• The Greasy Strangler
  
• The Handmaiden
  
• Sausage Party
  
• Storks
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Most Nominated:

• The Handmaiden
  
• La La Land
  
• The Love Witch
  
• Moonlight
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

Max the Movie Guy’s Biggest Try-Hard Award:

A good film can be a great film if it doesn’t know how good it actually is. This special award recognises films that most award ceremonies and/or critics would go nuts over, when really in at least a couple of aspects they look like they were made just to make that happen while ending up problematic otherwise.

• The Birth of a Nation
  
• Captain Fantastic
  
• The Founder
  
• Hacksaw Ridge
  
• A United Kingdom
  

*in all seriousness, it’s Manchester by the Sea

Get ready to be triggered.

The PPG reboot opened up my frustration over the current state of Cartoon Network Studios, and overtime my enjoyment of We Bare Bears and Steven Universe has sunk not just because of spoilers, but because they represent the state of their production studio in this age - diverse in every aspect but style. Ever since hipster 20-somethings with a passion for memes and existentialism took control, I felt like the only one who could feel his childhood slowly starting to melt, and not realise it until one of these shows got spoiled more than possibly any show that’s ever buzzed in front of me.

Steven would be a perfectly good watch if it was placed alongside livelier, more timeless shows that didn’t have any subject matter that would fly over childrens’ heads but could entertain adults in equal measures, but it represents the best and worst of present-day Cartoon Network; characters with defined personalities, strong she-leads, smart writing and complex, human storytelling, but also humour that sees its web popularity as no coincidence, melodrama prominent to the point of becoming forced, more reliance on internet culture than any other network and diversity so broad that it becomes a tad overbearing. I’m friggin’ all for diverse representation, but the problem is that these so-called cartoons are designed, written and created by the average Tumblr/Twitter user, these being the (un)safe havens for Japan-inspired nerds and crazy social justice warriors. This is exactly why I had doubts about the Powerpuffs being rebooted from the moment they announced that they’d do it.

Yes, I’m the kind of person who looks for mature stories surrounding real situations and characters with depth, and animation has provided and should provide more mature stories than so many American movie studios think it can. Animation should be treated like the kind of art it is. But animation can’t just have one single personality. As proven with all its original programming from Steven to PPG 2016, no matter how good, Cartoon Network is just too real now to even be considered Cartoon Network.

Opinions on this show are respectable, but this fandom has grown to be a clusterfuck that in many cases fills in for bronies; almost everyone I know has Peridot or a gem’s meme-y face as their icon and will spoil an episode for what feels like an eternity after its premiere. Some fans will even look past the show’s morals about acceptance no matter what size, gender, sexuality, mental issue or whatnot and trash each other to the brink of suicide. I’m losing enjoyment of this show even during its best episodes not just because it isn’t as effective as, say, Wander Over Yonder or BoJack Horseman, but the thoughts of this fandom and the slow death of comedy at the CN Studios invade my brain constantly and make me feel like a bitter old man trapped in the body of guy in his early 20′s. And during this experience, Lauren Zuke Joss Whedon’d her Twitter because of fans crying like the characters in this show over their ships.

This show isn’t bad, yet, but it’s starting to channel my inner John Kricfalusi.

But what do I know? I prefer Uncle Grandpa.

19.10.2016: I've come to a conclusion - yes, this show is pretty damn bad now.

Am I the only one here who knows what "pandering" means?