haha it's a somewhat niche area of interest so i think it's understandable that most people don't really consider how expensive they can get! i believe all the dreamies (except for jisung iirc) have been seen wearing 1-2 luxury watches on occasion, specifically in the 7dream debate youtube content, though chenle's the only one i would say that has a comparable collection to jaemin's , and jeno has a slightly more modest (lol) collection of 3 watches—the tag heuer link calibre 17 that was a birthday gift from his dad in 2019, the audemars piguet royal oak chronograph he got in aug 2021, and the cartier santos skeleton that showed up in march 2023. renjun has been seen with multiple cartier tanks in different straps and hardware and a single gold cartier santos, while mark has been seen with a breitling navitimer 01 on occasion. haechan has been seen wearing two different chanel j12s (a black one and a two toned paradox edition) which is a fashion watch, but it's lowkey on the higher end of that spectrum and certain models retain value quite well. i thiiink i've roughly covered all of them but since this is all based off of memory/i didn't comb through everything, it's also entirely possible that i may have missed a few details 😭

LOL yes cfic tends to be really 狗血/dramatic and extreme a majority of the time 😭 i think it’s a combination of how there doesn’t really exist a culture of comprehensive tagging in cfandom + general preference among cfans for these more 狗血/makjang/melodramatic cliche trope-y plot elements. like chinese writers will definitely tag for top bottom and perhaps au/genre/setting, but specificities beyond that are generally left untagged, sometimes even things that would count as trigger warnings/dead dove content… i’ve mentioned the random grab-bag roulette wheel nature of cfic (and kfic) briefly before here https://curiouscat.live/lachrymal/post/1297858157 but it really is like ummm Suprise Main Character Death! Suprise He Got Committed To The Psych Ward! Surprise He’s Pregnan- ok i haven’t come across the last one yet but i’m sure it exists. my one singular insane ao3 jmjn cfic rec definitely made me go through this process as well -> https://curiouscat.live/lachrymal/post/1231805849 but yeah the only thing chinese writers fear besides government censorship is probably incorrectly tagged t/b lol

YEAH gay ass gym buddies...the best part is i think it could go either way i could see hc being an absolute menace trying to "spot" jm from in his lap accidentally on purpose grinding down a little while jm calculates 39483904 different ways to get him back later in the locker room.. or it could be jm torturing hc by blithely ignoring his protests and convincing him that he's just helping him like a good friend/personal trainer would... he's just helping him with his gains bro... there's nothing weird about this haechan-ah don't worry about it... you can add another 5kg on both sides don't you think? sorry. i've read too much pt yaoi i think i've just been mentally greenscreening nahyuck into them. my bad.

oh interesting, i feel like there's an intersection of reasons as to why unique ship/chemi names have become more and more popular 1) companies leaning into ship marketing in an increasingly meta, self-aware way 2) eastern/western fandom cultural differences. i think nowadays new kpop idols are extremely aware of the effect their individual friendship dynamics have on their fans, and undoubtedly they're encouraged to come up with unique "___ line" or "___z" for chemi/pairing names. some of that is definitely due to oversaturation of names/syllables/you can only rearrange them in so many ways as we are all the way in 5th gen now. the 4th wall barely exists anymore at this point LOL. however i think you'll find that when it comes to actual k-rps circles (especially on ktwt and postype) kfans will still use ordered ship names to indicate positioning and dynamics as that's nonetheless a big part of how east asian shipping fandom works. western fans on the other hand don't tend to have the same culture of rigid separation with regards to order preferences, so i feel like they adopt the unique non-ordered names more avidly, or at least use it in an all encompassing sense (ship/friendship/fic/either dynamic) because order doesn't matter to them, and the ship is the ship no matter what. a lot of the time ifans will just go with "what sounds better" to them. sometimes kfans will still use a ship's unique (non-ordered) chemi name when referring to the pairing in general; it’s just that if it's fic or a specific agenda, i find that they still do prefer to use ship names that have order indicated already (especially in their bios or in fanart captions).

haha wrt jmjn specifically… i mean i have seen some fans call them both, i think it really just comes down to personal preference and the fan culture you've adopted. i don’t know if this is entirely accurate but i do get the feeling that in eng speaking fandom and among ifans jmjnists are more rigid in their preferences, and there’s more of a general switch ok vibe with nominists/the term nomin in general… if you’re really strict about it in the opposite way then you’d probably call them jenjaem. i myself do call them jmjn out of preference and habit but since nomin still refers to the ship in general among ifans, i have used it for seo when ficposting 😭 i hope this helped clarify the shift/divide a bit!