i LOVE verhao so much!!! fun fact, they were my first seventeen ship EVER back in... i want to say pretty u era? very long time ago... ye olde days of caratdom...

anyway i love verhao for how comfortable they both are with each other ;__; i always think about how they're both some of the quieter members so they KNOW they don't need to be high energy/tension around each other. and i think they understand each other's need for space. every time they room together or post about getting dinner or visiting places i get so happy because like yeah of course it would be these two. i feel like they have similar interests/appreciation for things so they could probably talk into the night if they wanted to, you know?

ALSOOO minghao's palpable fondness and concern for vernon. like he's technically a 'hyung' but they're so close in age that it doesn't really matter lmfao... (but at the same time minghao definitely wants to take care of vernon, which is sweet). the time where vernon was like "i liked minghao from the moment i saw him because he was cool". they're also... so silly together. the running gag of vernon correcting minghao's spelling and minghao literally biding his time to strike back. i think minghao would let vernon get away with a lot but vernon would also know which boundaries not to push.

i love them a whole lot man. wow. vernon thinks minghao is really cool and minghao thinks vernon is adorable.

so i answered a question similar to this a while back. please click for my seokhao rec list!! i stand by all the fics i listed there; they are great and some of my all time faves. i don't think there have been a ton of seokhao fics since then, sadly, but below are a few newer fics i enjoyed!!

1. melting everything about me by ambercats.
   SAPPHIC MARRIED SEOKHAOOO they are everything to me.

2. cinderella's first kiss by healingtoyou
   this was amazing. i love bin's writing in general but like. wow. seokmin is so cutie.

3. rebuilt by popliar (littlerhymes)
   pacific rim au!! a very lovely post war fic that stayed with me for a while.

okay so this is an excellent question and gave me the opportunity to revisit some of my faves, which was awesome, but then i realized that my faves are super basic and well known classics, which is like... well. they're classic for a reason, right? anyway i'll give a top three for both ships below:

GYUHAO:
1. give me a tempest by Klavier
2. me and my husband by knightspur
3. growing on you by haophelia

SOONWOO
1. loverboy by preciouslittletime
2. a mix of sun and clouds by geguri
3. sucker for you by dollyeo

i loooooove seemingly unrequited or one-sided pining with gyuhao for some reason... it's my favorite flavor of causing them stress but i also (CLEARLY) love the post break up vibe of "the love is probably still there but pride/ego/circumstances/etc is getting in the way of us being together". generally gyuhao having to navigate a previous emotionally charged relationship after it's ended/crashed and burned is a vibe i adore.

i love that gyuhao are so different on the face of it but they're actually more similar than you'd expect, and they're also best friends who don't always get along (but still love each other), and generally the cat x puppy vibes are always fun to play around with. i don't know i could write an essay about why i love them but we'd be here all night...

guuuuuuuuh okay confession: i haven't read anything in like a good month. for various reasons (work) (mental illness because work) (so basically just work) so the answer to this is, whoa i don't even know! but on the other hand i HAVE been stockpiling tabs of fics to read when i do have the time. so i will list those because they all look so good.

1. take a second for the city lights (i could be your lifeline) by jjokkiri because i love iri and her writing and also the worldbuilding in this seems really cool so i want to read it when my brain is actually working. iri has written so many things since then which y'all should also read. i want to read everything but i can't keep up and we love iri for that.

2. everything's about you to me by uragoodanimal i have a disease called 'i love jeongcheol' and even sad fic cannot stop me from clicking on a jeongcheol okay? okay. can't wait to cry.

3. smoke & broken mirrors by strawberryvmins i'd read the terms and conditions if ise wrote them, so obviously i will bite into this soon. exactly the kind of messy i love!!

4. this is love, spread all over my body by noknockback i think everyone's interpretation of maestro mv lore is super cool and i love wonhoon so naturally i'm quite excited to dive into this.

5. The Sun Prince by fruitsoda okay so i don't actually read zb1 fic with any regularity but i saw a promo for this fic's sequel cross my timeline the other day and the premise looked very intriguing. i'm a sucker for any kind of royalty au so i have high hopes!!

6. The Only Exception by waitingforwonhui slowburn wonhui... why wouldn't i. that's all...

7. Character Development by orphan_account okay cheating because 1) this isn't even kpop and 2) it's a reread but i'm on a haikyuu kick and i wanted to reread one of my fave bokuaka fics but i haven't had the time so this has just been sitting there... waiting for me... i'll be there soon...

OH A BONUS 8TH: the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle by kittebasu THE iwaoi fic to me and also i've been reading this on/off for the past THREE WEEKS simply because i get too overwhelmed and need to take walks and then forget i'm reading it.