1. Seungkwan/Seungcheol - I love them both so much, neither is technically above the other, but I love them in very different ways. Specifically, Seungkwan is my baby, my darling, and my little avatar to remind myself that I should be less hard on myself. Seungcheol, however, is the Leo man created by God to torment and humble me.

2. Jeonghan - If Seungkwan is my little avatar to remind myself that I should be less hard on myself, Jeonghan is my little avatar to remind myself not to fear vulnerabilities and be more direct and my walking/talking impulse to care for everyone around me.

3. Vernon - My neurodivergent bisexual disaster baby that I enjoy so much and that I have chosen to adore Seungkwan.

4 - 8. Wonu, Mingyu, Deekay, Hao, and Hoshi - ROUGHLY in that order but subject to change. In each of their cases, I deeply adore some parts of their personality (Wonu's princess babygirlisms, Gyu being rich, famous, handsome and a loser who loves being teased and begs to hold hands all the time, Deekay being furious with how attracted he is to Gyu and also almost too sensitive to live, Hao for being the sole convincing Dom in ALL OF SVT and very thoughtful, and Hoshi for being such a paragon of self-love and openness that I'm forced to remind myself that his methods yields amazing results) and they are the main key points in some ships I enjoy. But ulimately they do not get the bulk of my limited attention.

8 - 12. Shua, Jun, Woozi, Dino - presented in age order. I love all of these boys, and would fight anyone who argued they weren't extraordinary, they are just, for one reason or another, including limited attention, a little difficult for me to get a hold of who they are, how they tick, but I delight in them and Woozi and Jun in particular were so magnetic when I saw them live (Dino was sick so tbd on him).

I had to hunt it down but I got the link and I'll throw up the video. I even went and checked the time and it is for early 2021, not 2019. Either way though you can see is that there are a couple of times when yjh try to check in with cheol and cheol is just not that responsive which feels so opposite to them by 2022 and beyond when they never miss a chance to smile, tease, check-in. I think this sort of vibe is what was described to me as happening in 2019, that there was just not a lot of the same level of connection they have now and had previously when on stage.

But the fact that this example is 2021 I think kinda shows that their so-called "divorce eras" are generally pretty push/pull. To me says it's less about THEM and more about what might generally be going on/what we end up seeing in the content/performances. But it's impossible to say! If you ask me, they've been practicing being married since they got their rings with various layers of it being real on top and like all marriages, sometimes they've hit a rough patch, but never a full on divorce.

• https://www.tiktok.com/@archivejeongcheol/video/7068447102581460251?lang=en

This is such a sweet thing to hear about something I wrote, thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoy the fic so much, it's really one I think of fondly because I wrote it to be a cozy place to put my brain while I struggling to write. So it seems like some of that warmth and tenderness absolutely got conveyed. That's just lovely to know.

As for an anecdote, hmm. So the initial nugget of the idea was from joking with Mishi about Cheol being fussy and overprotective of Seungkwan (the group's precious baby omega) and Hansol because he thinks they're too young to get up to what they're getting up to, but meanwhile yjh is behind him, rolling his eyes because he knows that Cheol doesn't have a LEG to stand on Mr. Accidentally Knotted Me in the Bathroom lol. The more I thought about I just liked the idea so much that I wanted to write it in full detail.

The concept is so great but in general it suffers from "soulmate mark" fic syndrome where the minute you click you're just kind of waiting for "catch." Like how do I see this, you see "solboo mating run" and you're like, "Okay! I know exactly what is inside this can." And you don't exactly, there's different details, and reasons why they're nervous, anxious, excited, but you know it's just different seasonings to the real substance of the fic: half feral boning on the forest floor. Which is fine! I just don't always get what I'M looking out of it, which is usually more of a will they or won't they figure out they're in love thing.

I'm not sure I'm ever likely to write it myself. Or if I did it would be as a diversion in a larger omegaverse thing. Or something that puts the trope on his head (for example, I once had an idea where wonu was lethargically participating in a mating run only to discover he was NOT in fact an alpha on the hunt. He was an omega being hunted.)

Oh this is fun, thank you for this free airport entertainment! So for 95z, obvi yjh and Cheol for each other, lol, with a nod towards Cheol impressive self love. But Shua I genuinely think it was both, a first, more intense crush on yjh and then later on a surprise, much subdued crush on Cheol.

96 line, with Jun... I think it's more likely he had a little crush on Cheol. There's still a lot of softness between them, and I see Cheol still babying Jun a bit even now.

Hoshi, well there's literally a video of him club grinding with Cheol and I feel like Cheol is the right fit for Hoshi's desire to be babygirl.

Jihoon, oh it's Cheol. But it's well settled, and now there's more fondness and protectiveness of yjh.

Wonu, Cheol as we have established.

97z, this is the Jeonghan crush line. Gyu, Hao, and Deekay are all obsessed and/or delightes with yjh to this day. Hao especially got the sweetest treatment from yjh early on, how could he not get a lil crush? But nowadays Hao enjoys flirting with Cheol more. Sort of like he put it his crush to bed now that he's "all grown up."

98s, Seungkwan had a baby crush on Cheol in early days but the thing about solboo is they've been frustratingly wrapped in each other since the beginning. I think Cheol used to tease them so much because of their immunity to everyone but each other. VN in particular is utterly immune to jeongcheol, it's hilarious to see old clips of everyone fawning over yjh and VN just not paying attention.

That leaves Chan. And I thiiiiink it's yjh. It was a bit frustrated by the effect of being babied so hard, but I think deep down Dino liked it.