please allow me to shamelessly promote my alpha haneum agenda:

he has a naturally large frame, like gunwook, hes tall and broad and has some muscle so he fills out his frame really nicely. the only problem is hes been doing fun cute concepts the whole show and they stick him in baggy clothes when hes one of the biggest guys on the show and has such a good figure (thighs…). like guys look at his slutty preshow photos!

other than being huge and therefore strong, he has no problems manhandling his friends. ill attach a compilation i made because i got too into this ask but he sits sanghyeon (and i think liyu another time) on his lap, picks up both liyu and junil and swings them around like nothing, and even roughhouses with sanghyeon a bit. he gets physical, he doesnt seem super aware of the fact hes maybe the strongest person on this show just by nature of being huge, and watching him hold junil like a kitten is just… argh i love haneum hes like a huge dog who doesnt know hes huge now…

im not sure if you mean individually or as a ship but ill answer both ways. im a haneum glazer, i think hes so gorgeous (easily top 5 visuals of the show) but he can sing so well too and the group needs a main vocal fr. i also see the yaoi potential in haneum, like his hanlim boys history with junil but also the way familyz all hang around him, and his tall strong alpha build is very delicious... im ngl liyu has kinda fallen through the cracks for me lol he hasnt gotten much screentime recently so i havent seen much of him. my only impression of him is that he seems quite introverted and hangs around the same few people.

as a ship i can see where the appeal comes from. theyre same aged friends and have been on the same team literally three rounds in a row, but i wish we got to see more of them interacting in the packages. oh i loved when haneum grabbed liyu and picked him up in their elimination ceremony intro, i love when haneum swings his boys around like nothing. ive never looked into this ship so i dont really know what their relationship is like. neither of them seem like the cuddly or forward type so to me it feels like a more lowkey friendship where they've grown comfortable with each other. what do you think anon

thank you so much!! im glad you enjoyed my anxin portrayal because i was fretting over it for a while and had to call in my friend pungmul to consult them about my anxin. it was interesting trying to develop an angle for kangxin's relationship because their screentime together is usually in brief moments but anxin sharing his worries about going against jiahao for chains KP sparked the idea. i like anxin and hes friendly with a lot of guys but i dont think any of his ships have caught my attention other than with kangmin. i didnt realize how popular top anxin is until i was searching stuff up LOL. for me, i want to see anxin, someone whos hyperaware of himself and a perfectionist, to just relax and let someone else take care of him.

maybe if something else happens, ill feel inclined to write another fic about him! thanks for reading and leaving kind words in my inbox!!

amazing question!! so ive already written hanwen/minjae which i really loved. hanwen craves praise and attention but he needs discipline, and minjae isnt afraid to use discipline on him when it comes to work. i love how minjae pushes hanwen to his full potential!
another pairing ive been interested in recently is neumnil! i think hanlim boy best friends are something so special (see also: donggyu and dohoon) so that photo of junil kissing haneum in their uniforms is so crazy. their size difference is also so delicious like there's a short moment in one of the extra videos where haneum stops junil from running away by picking him up and swinging him like a doll... even in the rose blossom package their storyline was junil struggling and haneum being encouraging because he knows junil can do it. the scene i scrapped for my neumnil is supposed to be the first time they do it... hehe
three other pairings who really caught my eye recently are kangxin, dongjune and nianjack. seeing that class battle behind where anxin goes up to kangmin to do his mission and get so many compliments from him... that changed me. and then in the last episode when anxin curls up in kangmins lap in his bed... anxin seems friendly with everyone but hes so clingy and comfortable with kangmin... this definitely appeals more to me than wonxin haha come on the kangxin train...
dongjune is so fucked up because mnet never showed any dongjune throughout the last few episodes (i assume bc they were up against each other) and suddenly as they are being eliminated we get the in memoriam reel for them??? and the hug??? the sobbing??? it was so emotional and heartbreaking and it's literally doomed yaoi. only one of them couldve survived, there was no way to save both of them... but i loved that scene where they dragged little jaehyun and squished him around. thats my family... AND nianjack! i thought it was a fun little bromance throughout jack's tenure on the show but when nian referenced jack in hot i was like omggg... wonderful friendship. then after nian got eliminated, jack starts posting like a girl softlaunching her boyfriend and posting tiktoks of the two of them on the same bed. guys lets lock in here. whos house is this. is there only one bed in this room? im even gonna say... somno?
i have a friend who watched makemate1 which haoxin were on who gave me a bit more context about the two of them. ok i have a lot to say about jiahao but this is getting really long lol. chen kaiwen seems like such a fun silly guy and jiahao seems so caring as a hyung, you can definitely tell they're really comfortable with each other too. its cute but as an angst lover and a freak... i prefer other dynamics myself haha
ok this turned into a really long rant about b2p yaoi but i hope some of these suggestions suit your taste! i feel the same way as you because i also havent found a ship that really moves me like phaerae. nothing is like phaerae. but im still having fun playing with these guys and im so down to talk in lengthy unnecessary detail about these ships!

everyone can feel how they want to feel about leo because he did write those lyrics. i was loosely following trainee A back in the day and i saw the leo scandal happen in real time years ago. he did write those lyrics, but he owned up to them, apologized and left the trainee A lineup which i thought was an appropriate consequence of his actions. considering it's been years since that happened and he hasn't done it again, i feel like he's been trying to make a genuine change and personally, i can move on in respect to this.

but i understand for people watching b2p, having their first exposure to leo being his scandal its not a good look for him. i respect it if you dont like leo for that reason. personally, im not a leo voter, i mainly just enjoy him as a ship with sangwon and i think hes talented as an idol. im not going to try to change your opinion because that's leo's job but this is my opinion on leo as someone who saw his scandal back then

prefacing with the usual disclaimer this is my opinion and subject to change week to week

ok after today's episode, i think my realistic top 8 (in no particular order) is sangwon, anxin, junseo, he xinlong, leo, kangmin, haneum and sanghyeon. i like leowon and i think theyre individually talented plus they have crazy lore and yaoi together... sangwon doing his lee seokhoon impression really cemented him as likeable in my head. anxin is cute, he xinlong is goated, kangmin and junseo are both guys i liked before b2p even aired. im a haneum glazer now! it was only a matter of time because well hes a cube boy and a hanlim guy... i think hes so talented though and really shone during rose blossom (yes reheating taerae nachos but he carried the entire performance imo) and his face card is genuinely untouchable. plus he has yaoi going on with junil... ill be writing neumnil very soon...

i think sanghyeon occupies that last spot because i think at least one of chuchuwooz needs to make the lineup or people will be very upset and sanghyeon has the most solid fanbase out of the three. woojin would clash with haneum as main vocal and liyu has been slipping in ranks... i dont love chuchuwooz in particular but i recognize their popularity. if not one of chuchuwooz, i would love if hengyu or jiahao makes it (but i dont think mnet wants more than 2 chinese ppl (excluding liyu) in the lineup)