Post by @mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

2026-08-24 20:16 UTC

You'd practically have to rewrite all of #MadokaMagica from the ground up in order to make your new material feel as though it belonged there in Mitakihara City with Madoka and her friends. There are, I am sure, #fanfic writers equal to that task, but they're likely to have better creative priorities than expostulating upon the "methods of rationality". (cont'd)

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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:19

The Harry Potter books, however, are very dilute and copious while telling an extremely slight story about characters who get very little genuine development or depth of backstory. Fanfic writers salivate over such fiction because there's so much room to add more. It's almost like the very characters themselves are crying out to anyone with better #writing ability than Jo Rowling: "Please, please give me something more to do!" (still more)

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-08-24 20:17

@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol you raise a compelling point.

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@bstacey@icosahedron.website 2026-08-24 22:23

@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol I once wrote (as a series of vignettes) "Shinji Ikari and the Methods of Rationality", the joke being that Shinji embraces Yudkowsky-style "Rationality" and is even more miserable and alone than in canon, rejecting every chance at love until Third Impact comes and everyone dissolves into TANG. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11521647/chapters/40893185 I bet "Kanome Madoka and the Methods of Rationality" could be done as a parody in a similar vein.

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