Rewatching Madoka Magical and thinking about writing a Magical Girl story about burnout. She became a magical girl very young but now she's 30 and still "fighting evil by moonlight" and the monsters just won't stop coming.
I want it to be a metaphor for pink collar labor, where the monsters she's fighting are representative of the endless symptoms of a broken system that pink collar workers band aid and band aid never seeing anything permanently improve.
Trying to decide if it should be something she does in her spare time and the only thing stopping her from quitting is her conscience knowing without her the monsters will hurt people because nobody else can see them (in classical magical girl fashion)
Or if I should really lean into the pink collar metaphor and make being a magical girl a PSLF-eligible career. It's her entire life. It'll pay off her student debt. And she's a public servant so she can't go rogue and be a vigilante against the sources of systemic problems or she'll go to jail and lose PSLF eligibility.
What story do you think is more compelling?
