Oh wow I gotta reach way back like a decade for that…

This isn’t meta but rather a headcanon which is that when I used to write exo fic, I found myself using the taohun dynamic in some fashion a lot? Especially right around the great EXOdus it was such a useful kind of bitter breakup dynamic, also that leaked picture of them smoking together lol.

As for META… I think the most interesting meta is the Lay meta analyzing the business choices he’d made and how he turned out to be the most strategic out of China-line in terms of his career longevity? Keeping hold of SM even in name only was a gamble at the time that he leveraged really well and I do find that fascinating.

Finally… I had a streak of Chen/Zhang Liyin fics back in the day when they released a duet because the boy was flirting like his life depended on it and she was like “wtf is happening right now” in every interview. So yeah I think his interest in her was real lolllll iirc it lined up neatly between his rumored gfs. If someone has a different timeline don’t tell me, I think it’s funny when idols flirt genuinely on camera.