#max is legit my fave defendant besides. yknow

[musashi]

i love turnabout big top for so many reasons but even without all the allegorical shit about franziska and miles and phoenix woven in i think i would always be predisposed to love it because the general plot of it is "sympathetic uwu tumblr softboy frames co worker for murder and no one questions it because said co worker is egocentric and arrogant and abrasive"

like its just SO emblematic of how that shit works in real life because yeah court of public opinion has nothing to do with your actions, it entirely hinges on if you present yourself in a pleasant way. if state v. johns was a real life court case that people were following or even if it was just online influencer drama and max and acro were being pit against each other, everyone would rush to acro's defense because he's softspoken and warm and appears level-headed. max would have 87 callout posts that hyper-analyzed his tone of voice and when you asked people why they think he did it they'd say 'idk bad vibes' with no actual evidence to back up the claim.

if we ignore the love triangle stuff--which we are, because it completely fucking poisons any valuable discourse to be had about big top--max galactica's only crime is that he is self-obsessed, overly passionate, and hard on his fellow performers for not being the same. he is abrasive and unpleasant but as maya says in the case itself, that doesn't make him a murderer.

(it's very very personal to me for obvious reasons. so much of my own callout post was just strangers claiming i was an abuser because they had one interaction with me where they deemed me unpleasant. the whole thing was wrought with people who were mad at me for stating an asserting a boundary, or because i didn't respond to their uncomfortable advances with patience they thought they deserved. and so many of the people who have done wrong unto me are people who resembled acro in personality as well, who fell back on their soft sweetboy persona to avoid scrutiny, because how could someone so pleasant and warm be bad?)

the fact that i look exactly like max galactica is really just the icing on the cake lmao.