surprisingly i don't!!! it takes away from the experience bc i know all these guys are married with kids kjdfdfsskjdfm BUT!!! the appeal is definitely there, you should look up fedal best moments (federer and nadal) and you'll see shit they said to each other and be like? hello? there are definitely little pairings here and there that are like hm hm hm, i can almost taste the yaoi, but then you remember certain things about tennis specifically and it's like, a turn off skdfljdkfjlsdçf

i can definitely see the appeal tho!!! it just never hit the spot for me, at least not with the players that i like a lot!! but i would say that there is definitely something to do with having the experience of being a closeted tennis player KJSJSJKDFSDHF it can be rough my dude hahah

ohh!!! There are so many that i find fascinating to explore... i'll try not to yap too much, and i'll likely fail. so. you know, my bad jkfsldjg

• seungsung: for the love of god give me one unit. i don't want covers, i don't want a skz-record that may or may not be included in a replay (respirator better be in it otherwise i'll lose my mind). I would love a soft, rock leaning track with lots of shining vocals!! I adore how much they respect each other as artists and how much they value the other. if you look back at the 2 kid show, it's soooo clear to see how they cherish working together!!! give me me seungsungggggggg
• jeongchan: this has nothing to do with my behavior toward the dimple dorm. it has everything to do with black hole. we don't talk about it nearly enough and god, they sound soooo good together. i think that they bring out the best out of each other, so their working chemistry has to be crazy good. Also, doesn't jeongin want to do something sexy? talk to mr. railway, red lights, escape, connected. would looove that!! we already saw that jeongin can pull it off incredibly with hallucination, so the two of them together? mr. naked all the time, and mr. wanted to be priest? perfect. especially if there is religious imagery/references for the cherry on top. no, i'm not religious. yes, i think the themes can FUCK!!!!!!
• changlix: ok, first of all, we need to get the changlix chaos back on track!!! everyone, get more into changlix NOW!!!! anyway. i would LOVE an intense track with lots of yearning. I'm thinking something kind of like silent cry? but like, more intense, and with a yearning for life itself; instead of wanting someone, wanting themselves, wanting happiness, something in this approach. I just think they would rock it.
• arirang: i'd kill for this, fyi. something about celebrating life, with a bright and welcoming vibe. Soft vocals, fun choreo and just aaaaaaaa!!! please, at this point i'd even accept a youth performance by the two of them. seriously.
• seungjin: there is a bit to this that comes with seungmin being hyunjin's fav singer (he said it, not me), but also because i think if we put them together in a song it could work, bc hyunjin's tone is so so specific, that i think it would contrast well with seungmin's!! and they are both diligent to the point that neither would leave before the other was ready. Also, I would LOVE to see hyunjin try and push some harder choreos on seungmin bc he can dance and i don't think we talk enough about it.

there are others that i'll just list bc my brain is fried after finishing work and i need a break before i can come back to my pc to write hehe angst is waiting for meeeee!! anyway:
- minbin
- hyunchansung
- seunglix
- jeongbin again GIVE ME MORE BURNING TIRES!!!!
- hyunchan again WHORES ASSEMBLE!!
- Jeongsung - and they kiss at the end
- seungchan
- minsung (oh pls give some yearning, pls, a rock ballad. PLEASE)

there are so many other ways to arrange them that i think would sound amazing, but these would be the ones i would like to see the most

Please know that this is everything i could have ever wanted. I love this so much. so so so so much.

Ok. So. My dad is a tennis teacher hahaha

It's not just that, tho, i started learning it when i was seven? I think it was. He never wanted us to play bc he didn't want us (me and my sister) to spend so much time and effort into something that wasn't for us, so he would have preferred us to compete at any other sport. My sister chose first bc she is the oldest, I chose second bc if my sister did it, then it was the right choice.

When i was a kid/teen I liked it well enough! Got to travel a LOT, and meet a bunch of new people, and experience the competitive world which I think it's very valuable, especially when we are younger. Ofc i don't think everyone has to be an athlete and compete and all that haha but i did. Even though i honestly hated tennis for a while there.

It's a very... strange sport haha most of the tennis players you'll meet will tell you that, at least once, they hated it with all their passion. it's very lonely, and mentally taxing and frustrating. And honestly? I only got to play as much as i did bc of scholarships and sponsors at the place i played while growing up: it gets very expensive very quickly bc of equipment maintenance (racket stringing, grips, stuff like that).

love all is loosely based on the athletic structure of US based universities - that's bc i did just that haha i moved abroad to go to school and played for my school for four years. It was there that i realized just how much i loved it - very complicated stuff, very specific stuff that could dox me in a second so no haha. But I was nineteen when i realized that i had spent my entire life as a tennis player, and it would hurt me badly if i couldn't be one anymore.

Sometimes i still struggle with it haha to be a retired athlete and all that. I haven't competed in like... seven years haha but i still play every once in a while. Not nearly as much as i would want to!! but i try to whenever the opportunity arises.

There is a lot about tennis that i love!!! the smell of new balls!!!! the feeling of clay (yes, even when it gets stuck on your ankles)!! The weight of the racket and how you are never fully rested when you're playing a match. Just the game itself, it's fun, it's exciting, it's a life in miniature!!

I wish I would have known sooner just how much I cherished it. But i don't hold my teen-self too harshly on this; she was definitely doing the best she could (most of the times)

hehehe ultra is an excellent choice!!! underrated bop!!!!

for the duos it’s harder for me gldjfjsjdh idk if i could actually pick a favorite!! like, truman makes me feel like a badass!! hell yeah, i’m THAT BITCH!!!! but cinema is literally tailor made for me; sweet vocals, powerful, emotional and exactly what i needed out of a 2min collab (pls do it again).

the thing is… it’s probably between burning tires and escape.

LISTEN!!!!! my whoreracha really put their entire slutish souls in that track and i respect it!!! i love that with hyunchan, we either get horny af or sad af. one day they’ll do both and i’ll reach heaven (not religious pls). the MV is so… chan PLEASE tell me what’s your fav skz fic. pls i’m begging, i won’t even ask for the full ao3 history.

but burning tires… it’s just so fun glsjdksjd and i listen to it the most, if i had to say anything between them! i looove a good guitar riff and jeongin’s vocals are insane. and seo changbin the man that you are (the only man on earth, actually).

i know i’m 2/2 with changbin, but… i’m not sorry. that’s my pink bunny, my pupu, my lil guy

heheheheheh

ok, so the reason why i don't want to talk too much about it, is bc i'm pretty sure that it will be easy to tell that it's me? i mean, i think??? But also, i'm afraid that i'm too excited about it, and it won't come out as nicely as i think it's shaping up to. idk if that makes sense? Like, it's different than what i usually do, and it'll be my first non-minsung work kjsdfhsd so it's just very never wrecking, and since i can get a bit of an idea as it will come out anonymously first, i can just like, orphan it if it sucks and people throw stones at me HAHAHA

there are a few things that i can say:
- it's a fic HA
- the one person who has read a couple of parts has given me very good vibe checks, meaning, unlike the little joke above, i can be pretty funny
- it's for rarepair fest!! very very very excited hehe

ULTRA!!!

i love all of them for different reasons. Like, hallucination is my fav choreography by farrrr!!! every time i listen to youth or so good, it feels like everything is beautiful in the universe; there is nothing that could ever make me feel sad again. i could listen to felix's AMAZING vocals all day fr fr (also, best MV). hold my hand is such a gorgeous song all around... i'm a hanpop stan first and foremost, sorry chat... as we are - do you know how sad i was when i realized that the solos were removed from the setlist during the tour and i would not get this bitch live? railway is a fucking masterpiece dude; bang chan's omegaverse, vampiric fanfiction, it's still sooooo good!!!! one of his best solos.

but ultra?
ultra is everything. ultra is motivational, it's hyper, it's cool as fuck, and it has that RIDICULOUS (pos) choreo that idk that i'll ever get over. Still very bitter about the mv. but that is a different topic. In this household we stan ultra. and the way changbin decided to pronounce it. UL-TU-RA POWER

you are cute!!! thank you for breaking my brain :]

hmmmmm i'd say that, just like my minbin answer, it has layers, categories.

For concert/music related stuff:
- the very end of the awkward silence mv when minho just... picks up jisung? out of nowhere? sdkjfdjfs they just look so small and cute
- oh!!! the boxer mv street version when they are on the... swing? thing?
- talking about street verison: mixtape #4 and the sydney opera house scene skdjfskdf oh poor jeonginnie, he's always at the scene of the crime!!
- b me behind the scenes....... do i hav to say more? couple picture? you did well? it hurts? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- the ex behind the scenes video when they are playing with a bug!!!!!!!!!! that was for me actually. please read records of you and me, there is lots of bugs and minsunging
- i just adore the view's behind the scenes so much... they all look so youthful and happy, and bright, and jisung covering minho's face :(
- noeasy still: changbin pointing at minho's face when he is watching jisung react to red lights for the first time. chef's kiss. also. domino. DOMINO DANCES AT THE DOMINATE TOUR!!! DOMINO MUSIC SCHO PERFORMANCE I FORGOT WHICH WHERE JISUNG MAKES A MISTAKE AND MINHO CATCHES IT, AND SMILES MID PERFORMANCE. DOMINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- winter falls mv behind (YES. I FOUND A WAY) - when minho says he will pretend that jisung broke up with him - to act broken hearted.
- maniac reaction to mv video, misnugn making fun of minho when he was strapped on the wire thingy skdfhsdjfs
- your eyes mv reaction video, how jisung stopped moving when he saw minho's pretty face (couldn't hide his adoration imho)
- case 143 and the blinking and silly faces (still not as good as minbin almost making out in the abck tho... sorry, i have to bring this up everytime case is mentioned)
- super board behind and jisung telling minho not to touch his chest
- chill: jisung talking about how well minho did with the takes and in the behind the scenes for the mv, how he quietly took care of hi hyung :(
- fam and the whole leonardo da vinci bullshit. i know what you are han jisung.
- want so bad. that's it.
- 2minsung boxing ring at DLC's mv!!!! i loooove that so much (yes. it counts.)
- social path: MINHO PUSHING JISUNG OUT OF THE SOCIAL PATH SICRCLE AND GIVING US THOSE JOYFUL SMILE PICS AT THE CONCERT!! I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH!!!
- i just think minsung looked so hot during the lalalala promotions... like what couple just looks like that :/ evil.
- bounce back's first chorus... we need more bounce back performances. we need it all the time actually.
- cheer up time.
- hollow mv. seriously, not only do they look GORGEOUS, but minho stealing jisung's spark (his heart hehe) i love good angst
- bleep lazy rapping back to back, pls do this all the time. bleep people should love you more.

now for non-offical skz content... sorry:
- jisung's rap to get into minho's team. he did that. he really did that.
- sexy dance, with minho's simp gaze and the almost kiss on national tv
- omg i forgot where it's from but there was a toaster game? and they had to catch the bread when it was coming up? and felix (?) did/said something to jisung and minho just pulled jisung closer!!! he would protect his little baby!!!
- anytime minho has every held on to jisung's legs or knees to help him stop bouncing his legs.
- omg there are so many. it's eight years of adoration... what do it do...
- oh, there is also, well. it's not technically official skz content, but that fan meet? i think? when jisung talks about minho's nose and how he wants to climb it and minho immediately drops to his knees.
- the puppy and the kitty interviews :( can i just have them around animals all day every day?
- OH OH OH!! I FORGOT WHERE IT'S FROM BUT WHEN MINHO SAYS THE MANIC LYRICS IN A SILLY WAY? AND EVERYONE CACKLES?? THAT ONE!!!!
- oh the finding skz god edition pillow fight!!! when minho touches jisung and realizes that it's him and moves away instead of attacking!!
- also in that "show", when minho feeds jisung!! so cute, his little whines
- finding skz cupid bs and... the neck kiss. han jisung really kissed lee minho. like that. on camera, with a smile, for all of us to see.
- that one behind the scenes from kingdom when minho makes a ksisy face and jisung leans in, hm hm hm delicious
- i'm starting to blank, chat... my brain is getting the timeline confused... what year are we in? aaaaaaaaaa
- i'm all over the place, but there is also one thing that i think about often, which is that livestream they did with shopee and minsung had to say the word minsung sjdfksdfjsd
- idk oh!!! recently, the news program that they went to, and when minho malfunctioned when he had to talk about jisung sdkjfdslsd
- that japanese show that they went to a horror house for!!! minho taken by the zoomies :( my baby :(

ok i need to stop, so:
- 2kr: the suspicious cut when jisung was teaching him aegyo, the "uwu" i love you fiasco, "you like me and those feelings...", "I like weird", "i like normal", soulmates, "bring your but over here", naked twerking? going into the bathroom while the other showers just to sing a duet?
- 2 kids show: jisung thinks minho is like the air to him (but it sounds too grand, so he gets shy). minho thinks jisung is his vacation home. jisung thought about minho while writing want so bad. want so bad cover
- skz code: pls don't kill me there is too much, i KNOW!! but one of my favorite ones is skz days in jeju when jisung is talking about fishing and the boat moving, and minho is fully worried while peeling tangerines to share with him. also the entire pool side day and clingy minsung (jisung pls never swim in socks again). ALSO THE EXCHANGE EPISODES AND HYUING SAYING "IS IT HAN JSUNG AND LEE MINHO AGAIN?" AAAAAAAAA they found their place, fond gazing, all of that.

ok im going to be obligated to tap out bc i have to go to therapy (wow.), but thank you for indulging me hehehe i will, one day, make my thoughts clear and organized and not rambles <3 MWAH