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Would You Rather #43

In dramaland, leading ladies often find themselves torn between the love of two equally attractive men — a choice none of us would want to make! But what if you did have to pick between the frustrating lawyer and the adorkable police officer? In this weekly feature, we ask you to make the difficult decisions — and we aren’t limiting our options to dreamy oppas.

Vote via the poll and feel free to use the comments to explain exactly how you were able to choose! So, Beanies:
 


 
WOULD YOU RATHER #42 RESULTS

Main take from the last poll’s results: I need to make these prompts harder. A whopping 98% of you picked the option to have your most hated drama remade into a hit reboot, while only four — less than a handful! — of you opted to have your favorite drama wiped from existence. For the majority, having your least favorite K-drama get a reboot would have little to no affect on your perception of the current dramaland landscape; whereas, you’d deeply feel the loss of your favorite K-drama.

According to @elinor, though, a K-drama “no matter how beloved…could be replaced by another favorite on another day,” and, as one of the few who chose sacrifice their favorite K-drama, she decided that losing her current favorite was preferable to having her least favorite drama get a hit reboot. Even if she doesn’t watch it, she won’t be able to avoid it on social media and Dramabeans, and the unavoidable discussion would be enough to drive her to drink. So for the sake of Elinor’s liver, let’s all hope her least favorite K-drama never gets a reboot.

 
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I voted to raise kids with superpowers, mostly because no one on earth has enough superpowers to make me into aa social media influencer for kids ( and how would kids react to my style of humor anyway?)
But it kinda depends on what kinds of superpowers. The ones in Atypical & Moving might be ok-ish -- and the healing powers we saw in Moving might make having little kids less stressful. But if I had twins like in Strong Woman who pack a punch while still in the cradle I guess I'd have to just beat up some gangsters and order them to work as nannies.

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I would rather raise a child to be a social media influencer for kids like that rich Ryan reviews toys kid.

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Are you really sure?

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Why, did something happen to that Ryan kid?

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I would rather raise kids with superpowers. I think it will be more fulfilling and I only have to deal with my kids and their friends when the occasion calls for it.
Also I do not have the energy to be a social media influencer of any kind.

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Raise children with superpowers? What happens when they have a tantrum or rebel at your parenting rules? I don't like the prospect of my fictional kids being orphans or locked up in Area 51.

Be a social media influencer for kids? Even though I am good with children, social media "influencer" is a creepy, narcissist and demeaning legacy.

I would vote neither.

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social media "influencer" is a creepy, narcissist and demeaning legacy.

Yup, my response is “literally ANY other non-fatal child-raising scenario.” And superpowers could be useful. Maybe they could magick dinner onto the table one night a week. And all children have hidden powers that come out ant the most unexpected moments, anyway.

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In reality, I'd vote neither. An influencer for kids has puppeteering written all over it. I feel like my taste is what I'd be showcasing instead of them finding out what their tastes are. What happens when kid A doesn't have the toy Jerrykuvira reviewed and B has it? What if it becomes the root of class distinction at the playground? I don't want to be responsible for that.

Raising superhuman kids...well, let it be exactly the powers in Atypical Family, and even if there'll be permutations in what power will be, Grandma's stock market prediction powers had better be an independent variable. If Grandma's power ain't manifesting in one of these kids, I'm doing neither.

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I'd rather have the superpowers myself and never need social media

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Amen!

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With any luck I'll get a child with superspeed who can clean the house for me in a snap. Or a child to take me flying. Or one with precognitive powers for those winning lottery tickets. All I need to do is love them and guide them and protect them...hmm, this could be harder than I thought.

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I don’t trust our world to be a safe place for kids with superpowers — even if I did my best to raise them. So I’ll opt to be a (not very successful) social media influencer who doesn’t influence kids to subscribe to my channel, let alone buy anything. Maybe I’ll just post videos of myself reading my fave children’s books aloud.

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Having ME of all people anywhere near kids-only content is a VERY bad idea))) But I'm also not sure if I'm cut out to parent a human child (kittens don't count, they're FAR easier to manage) either. Superpowers certainly won't be a main issue here though - if I ever dare to have a kid, I'm gonna do my best at it regardless of anything or just won't do it at all. This is one of the things you MUSTN'T half-ass. Guess that makes it Option1, but with a great caution?

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I'm in no way qualified or tempted to become influencer for kids but even if Oppa is a stay-at-home-dad I'm not fit to have kids, so here's the choice.

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I'd rather raise a kid with superpowers even though I have zero experience raising non-superpowered kids.

I've peaked over the shoulders of kids watching influencer videos. I find them really irritating and exploitative and would rather not end up perpetuating what I dislike. It's cool to do a few videos that go viral, but influencer means you're just entering this non-stop spiral of trying to get kids to like your videos and to buy more stuff and to nag their parents to buy more stuff.

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I love that the first option could either mean: the kids you're raising have got superpowers or you have superpowers which you are using to raise the kids.

So, for the sake of my own laziness and utter lack of parenting skills, I've decided to go for the second interpretation and hope that my superpowers will help raise little ones into happy, confident, and caring adults that can be a force for good (and for fun too because what's the point of being good if you're boring?).

I think having superpowers that can guide me, and more importantly that can make sure I don't accidentally f*ck up a child with my poor approach to parenting, will definitely ensure I don't end up like any of the nightmare K-drama moms (say like the Good Bad Mother who believes drowning her child is part of physiotherapy, or like Children of Nobody step-mom/mom who kills a child and replaces them with her own daughter for funsies, or even like Atypical Family dreaming-of-gold matriarch who judges the human value of her children by their ability to produce a heir)

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I have a hard time imagining myself as an influencer on youtube, I am already amazed at the times I have found out that I have influenced kids IRL.
My kids already have superpowers. I love that, but also, as you will see from any respectable superpower history, it has its backsides. Sometimes it seems to me that my kids having superpowers make me feel closer to them, but they would be better off without. Being normal is a privilege that will bring less frustration and sorrow to your life.
Anyways, influencing, if we imagine I could really do it, is a wonderful thing. I am happy to have influenced my own kids with a total campaign for the classics, introducing the Magic Flute in hightlights with my own drawings and simplified text to the hooklines (a la: "You, you, you - will rescue my daughter now!" etc.) and after that introducing them to every version of the Opera we came across, so as to now that if there is one version you don't like, that's not on "opera" it might just be a bad staging.
I did that not with the purpose of making them afficionados, but just to avoid the idiotic but common assumption that "Opera is just ridiculous people screaming". They ended growing up with The magic FLute as part of their roleplay universe, and my youngest and me could at any time start saying "Pa ... pa pa!" and be answered in something not too far from the notes of the original answer from the cutest song in that opera.
But that was like, hour an hours with me and two kids and some years in the making - Not sure it would work with little ole me being overgeared in a small youtube window. I am far too nerdy, is maybe what I'm trying to say.

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The best example I can come up with for a Real Life superpowered person with a life in ruins is Nina Simone. So much talent, so much anger and pain.
That whole story would have been very different had she been white, I give you that. But still - I'm talking about not fitting into the room society has for you.

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