Category	Item	# of times mentioned
1	action	A kiss on the neck from behind, hands sliding over the stomach.
2	action	A wordless look between two people that communicates meaning.
3	action	any kind of non-fatal injury where there's blood without incapacitation
4	action	awkward sex,
5	action	Back alley, up against the wall sex.
6	action	Biting your own hand to muffle moans.
7	action	Blowjobs when the person giving it has all the power and what they choose to do with it
8	action	Breaking taboos.
9	action	Brushing out someone's long hair for them to calm them.
10	action	characters breaking down and screaming at the top of their lungs,
11	action	characters standing on a really high ledge looking down,
12	action	cigarette lighting
13	action	Crafts, spinning, weaving, knitting, playing with fiber, creating
14	action	Dancing and fighting and fucking and believing that they're all the same, in some ways.
15	action	Dancing: watching someone move with confidence, ease, and grace through a series of complicated steps (same goes for fighting).
16	action	daring motorcycle rides
17	action	Explosions,
18	action	fighting to save the man beside you and not for the cause,
19	action	fighting up stairwells
20	action	Flying.
21	action	grand romantic gestures that are a little foolish (throwing a glass into the fire after a toast, charging headlong into a fight when outnumbered)
22	action	Gunfights.
23	action	handholding,
24	action	hands carding through hair,
25	action	hands, someone's fingers sliding under clothing, the edge of a t-shirt,
26	action	hand-to-hand fight scenes.
27	action	Helplessness by choice, a momentary surrender of power.
28	action	heroic charges into insurmountable odds.
29	action	High kicks.
30	action	Holding hands.
31	action	Holding someone still with one hand tangled in their hair, head pulled back, throat exposed.
32	action	intense stares
33	action	Jumping off a cliff with your wings still folded, then casting them wide to soar.
34	action	jumping off of really tall things without looking first,
35	action	kidnappings,
36	action	kisses on the nape of the neck,
37	action	kissing the throat
38	action	Kneeling in solitary prayer, being watched without knowing.
39	action	Knowing something is doomed and doing it anyway
40	action	kung-fu fights,
41	action	Laughing in the face of society (Rhett Butler & Scarlett O'Hara).
42	action	one person lighting another's cigarette,
43	action	Perching.
44	action	pool sharking
45	action	Power exchange, be it overt or subtle, the strong character becoming weak and the supposed weaker one having to care for them.
46	action	Power walks!	2
47	action	Repressing desire for so long that when the dam finally bursts, clothes get ripped off in the process, bruises are left, territory is marked.
48	action	Resolve setting a course and following it through.
49	action	riding off into the sunset,
50	action	rubbing a thumb against the lip of wine glass
51	action	Running after someone in the rain and making a hopeless, last-ditch declaration of truth.
52	action	Running just for the joy of it, of having a body that works and moves well, along the rooftops. Leaping the gaps in between without even a pause.
53	action	Running through the enemy base to get to your target before the bombs go off in exactly 3:14, and your timing is perfect because you're playing a favorite piece of music in your head and you know just how long it is.
54	action	Sex against a wall because it was just too much to wait for
55	action	sex in a library (!)
56	action	sex in desperate and inappropriate situations,
57	action	Sex somewhere that might be overheard, and trying desperately to stay quiet.
58	action	standing close enough to kiss without ever touching
59	action	staying out in the pouring rain,
60	action	stupid heroics,
61	action	survival in the wilderness,
62	action	swashbuckling in all forms,
63	action	Swordplay and fencing and duelling	4
64	sensation	The fine line between pain and pleasure
65	action	The unexpected twist and flip, the cool move in battle.
66	action	Those quiet, calm conversations between two characters where there is nothing else going on, just them concentrating on each other and talking and enjoying the calm before the storm because they know that everything is going to hit the fan and that at least one of them will be dead soon.
67	action	Wrists held together over the head.
68	atmosphere	A deep sense of history.
69	atmosphere	Connections to mythic cycles, or reasonably developed made-up mythic cycles.
70	atmosphere	Dark and stormy nights.
71	atmosphere	Deep time.
72	atmosphere	Made-up religions.
73	atmosphere	Old West gunfights,
74	atmosphere	Storms, and shelter from storms.
75	atmosphere	The changing of the seasons.
76	atmosphere	The non-human as genuinely wild and strange and not entirely comprehensible.
77	atmosphere	The weight of history.
78	atmosphere	thunder and lightning
79	character	Incredible loyalty, beyond any reason or explanation. Stupid descions made in full awareness... That knowledge that what you're about to do will change nothing and will make no difference, but doing it anyway simply because that's who you are....Two allies in a fight who know each others moves without needing to look, winning out against a crowd.	2
80	character	a bloody slash on a cheekbone
81	character	a few tears shed by the character who just doesn't cry.
82	character	A sense of the ability of ordinary people to make and do and change things.
83	character	Alternative sexualities.
84	character	Alternative sexualities.
85	character	amnesia,
86	character	Amnesia.
87	character	and when big lunks turn out to be surprisingly perceptive.
88	character	Androgynous boys, androgynous girls.
89	character	anthropomorphic personifications
90	character	Anything that fucks with gender roles or confronts the resistance that characters who fuck with gender roles will encounter.
91	character	Assassins.
92	character	Being able to let go and not fear everything falling apart because someone is there to catch you
93	character	Being transformed to human then learning how to be human.
94	character	boys crying,
95	character	boys in love but afraid,
96	character	Boys with long lashes and delicate limbs who could kill you a dozen different ways before you had time to react.
97	character	Boys with wings,
98	character	boys with wings,
99	character	Brittle, polycompetent, glossy heroes who possess a tinge of self-loathing.
100	character	Broken halves making a whole.
101	character	broken people supporting each other,
102	character	cat lovers,
103	character	catboys,
104	character	Changelings and orphans and people without a home, and instead of finding it they get a friend or lover to make a new home with.
105	character	Changelings and stolen children.
106	character	Changes over time--physical bodies, clothing, attitudes. Goes back to that personal history thing.
107	character	Characters who are trying to make a positive and lasting impact on the world.
108	character	Characters who have senses of humor and senses of wonder; wordplay, joking, recognition that the situation they are in is odd or improbable.
109	character	Characters who live in caves.
110	character	Characters who live in trees.
111	character	characters who smile for the first time and it's absolutely charming and kind of awkward,
112	character	characters with obsessions,
113	character	Cold and/or deadly courtesans (in fiction only)
114	character	Cold female assassins and the loyal and nice men who love them and stick by them
115	character	cold female assassins,
116	character	Cold female assassins, WHOO!!!
117	character	collarbones,
118	character	Command presence.
119	character	commanding officers,
120	character	Competence,
121	character	Competence.
122	character	Competence. OMG competence, esp. quiet competence, gets me every time.
123	character	Competent girls. Especially kick-ass girls.
124	character	Computer genius sidekicks.
125	character	computer hackers that aren't nerds,
126	character	Confident women.
127	character	cowboys,
128	character	cute mexican sht boys,
129	character	Cynical idealists, who really want just one good reason to get back into love/the fight/hope.
130	character	Dark Byronic antiheros.
131	character	delicate girls who look down on the whole world,
132	character	Demons!
133	character	Devotion. Absolute, mutual devotion.
134	character	Diversity - characters who have a background.
135	character	drug addicts,
136	character	estranged family members,
137	character	evil twins	2
138	character	Extraordinary people, people on the fringe and above the norm: Mutants, gods, Slayers, psychics, whatever.
139	character	extreme competence as a compensation for loneliness and social awkwardness
140	character	Extremely competent and cool guys who turn out to be complete dorks on the inside
141	character	faith,
142	character	fallen angels,
143	character	female characters who everyone is scared of,
144	character	Female pirates.
145	character	fighter pilots,
146	character	fighters with impractical clothing who fight easily anyway.
147	character	fitting in just right.
148	character	Flawless loyalty.
149	character	Friendship. Romance bores me - I like friendship, the-family-you-choose, the kind of friendship that is so natural and runs so deep that of coure you would take a bullet for the other person; any other course of action wouldn't even cross your mind.
150	character	Girls disguised as boys (preferably crossed with cold female assassins)
151	character	Girls disguised as boys,	3
152	character	Good guys who become bad guys and vice versa, but only when done well, like in Xena, and not like the new Star Wars trilogy which sucked.
153	character	Grey hair--it's a signifier to me of toughness, and survival instincts.
154	character	Guys in love with women who don't know it, guys being in love and not showing it except in the small gestures that she doesn't notice
155	character	heroes.
156	character	hidden pasts,
157	character	Honest enthusiasm, stripped of cynicism.
158	character	I have a thing for resentful attraction.
159	character	I like the normal animals horses, big cats, wolves falcons, etc. but I absolutely love fantasy creatures like unicorns and gryphons. - as characters
160	character	I like when a slightly evil or misunderstood, or dark/misanthropic/does not play well with others male character finds the woman (or man) who finally throws him off his game
161	character	I love UST that builds slowly as people learn one another. Not instant, but over time. Sneakily, and they don't recognize that's what it is. Yum.
162	character	I tend to enjoy girl leads and
163	character	In general, cold and/or icy and/or deadly women and the men who love them
164	character	Incredible loyalaty, beyond any reason or explanation.	2
165	character	Intelligence.
166	character	Kick-ass women.
167	character	Ladies Who Are Not What They Seem,
168	character	Learning something unexpected about someone, that totally shifts your perception.
169	character	librarians
170	character	Lucifer
171	character	madames with a heart of gold
172	character	Male prostitutes (in fiction only)
173	character	Men and women who are just friends with genuinely no sexual tension.
174	character	Men being domestic and loving with each other.
175	character	men following orders,
176	character	men who are good with guns and kids,
177	character	men with charm,
178	character	Misanthropic, misunderstood loners, and the people who love them.
179	character	Nice guys who don't finish last.
180	character	not fitting in,
181	character	odd-couple friendships,
182	character	Old friends knowing each other very, very well, or any kind of deep mutual character knowledge between two people.
183	character	Ordinary people and ordinary lives, finding extraordinary joy in the ordinary
184	character	Ordinary women who make mistakes, but come through it OK not some infallible sex goddess who always wins.
185	character	Pacifism - characters who believe in nonviolence, and go against everything they believe in so they can fight, not because they think it's the right thing to do but because it's the only thing to do.
186	character	partnerships of equals, mentors and students,
187	character	People finding a family (blood-related or not) and forming a bond to each other that isn't romantic but is bone-deep
188	character	people genuinely caught between two cultures,
189	character	People in love with life's small things and who live in the moment
190	character	people passionate about their work or craft,	2
191	character	People so reserved that just the touch of a hand speaks volumes (Saiyuki! Morgaine!)
192	character	people suffering stoicly, not expecting others to notice,
193	character	People teaching other people to live and to love
194	character	people unwillingly drawn to another's charisma,
195	character	people who can kick straight up,
196	character	People who flat out like each other's company (Doctor and Rose!),
197	character	People who get through things, together.
198	character	People who have each other's backs.
199	character	People who have lost hope and how they slowly grow to find it again
200	character	people who love each other but don't ignore everything else that's important to them because of that love,
201	character	people who throw themselves into the line of fire to save people who don't deserve it,
202	character	people with ordinary/low backgrounds discovering they have some special gift that vaults them to importance.
203	character	people with wings,
204	character	polite, nice, good-mannered men brought to their breaking points (either sexually or not), and what happens then
205	character	political firebrands,
206	character	Premature gray,
207	character	priests
208	character	prominent collarbones,
209	character	psychic kids
210	character	Quiet, angsty boys.
211	character	Quiet, angsty, shapeshifting boys.
212	character	Quietly lost people who have abandoned hope and their sadness and how they still try to help others despite feeling forsaken
213	character	Scars on the abdomen, the shoulders, the chest.
214	character	scholars.
215	character	school boys doing generally immoral things (prefferably to each other),
216	character	school boys smoking,
217	character	scientists in over their heads,
218	character	Secret identities -and coming out -and secrets within the secrets -and shifting identities.
219	character	sentient weapons,
220	character	sexual tension between snarky bickering partners.
221	character	sexy librarians,
222	character	Sexy wounds.
223	character	shaved heads.
224	character	Someone who does the wrong thing, the evil thing, in order to achieve a greater good--who takes on the sin willingly, knowingly. They don't want to do it, but they'll do it if they have to and they won't let anyone else do it for them. They own their sins
225	character	Someone who gets into something by accident, not for the adventure, and is utterly out of their depth and yet figures it out, makes it work.
226	character	spies,
227	character	Storytellers and tricksters, people who can make worlds with their words, tell lies so pretty you believe them even when you know better.
228	character	strategists,
229	character	strong women protecting weak men,
230	character	Strong, competant characters backed into a corner.
231	character	Strong, competent, kickass women who go through the entire work including ending without having any hint of a romantic relationship.
232	character	Strong, three-dimensional women.
233	character	Sympathetic villains.
234	character	That knowledge that what you're about to do will change nothing and will make no difference, but doing it anyway simply because that's who you are.
235	character	The curve of a woman's neck.
236	character	The edge of insanity.
237	character	The inner beast barely held in check.
238	character	The joy of knowledge and knowing and learning, loving an activity for the activity itself and not for the outcome
239	character	The line of a man's jaw.
240	character	the man in black,
241	character	The moment when a strong person can't take it any longer and a shoulder magically appears for them to lean on
242	character	The moment when a strong person snaps.
243	character	the one girl on the team of giant robots who always knows what's up because she actually read the Giant Robot Instruction Book,
244	character	the one who stays behind to make sure everyone else gets out safe,
245	character	The power of one person's emotions to affect the world.
246	character	The rhythms of different dialects working against each other, a set of characters born from very diverse origins.
247	character	The social outcast and the diva hooking up, a la beauty & the beast, something about cutting through a profound sense of alienation and difference, and the feeling of being loved despite it, or because of it.
248	character	The weight of personal history.
249	character	Thieves and pickpockets and gypsies, people living on the edges of society who take advantage of the people who are more secure, who get back some small measure of power by outwitting and fooling the powerful.
250	character	Tragic past lives and reincarnation, examining what makes people who they are, bonds that go beyond time and body and sex
251	character	Transformations are fun, but more so if the character could find a way to enjoy it.
252	character	Travelers.
253	character	Two allies in a fight who know each others moves without needing to look, winning out against a crowd.
254	character	uncomfortable but real faith,
255	character	villains in love,
256	character	werewolves,
257	character	wings
258	character	wise-cracking yet surprisingly competent side-kicks,
259	character	wit,
260	character	women who know their own worth,
261	character	women with guns.
262	character	women with knives or guns.
263	character - clothing and personal style	1940s American fashion
264	character - clothing and personal style	A smoking hot leather jacket over jeans.
265	character - clothing and personal style	Also women in men's clothes, either just as an ordinary thing or trying to pass.
266	character - clothing and personal style	bare feet
267	character - clothing and personal style	Bare feet.
268	character - clothing and personal style	black leather gloves
269	character - clothing and personal style	Black leather trenchcoats.
270	character - clothing and personal style	boys in uniform,
271	character - clothing and personal style	boys out of uniform,
272	character - clothing and personal style	cloaks,
273	character - clothing and personal style	Cloaks, yes. I'm a sucker for people in cloaks. Especially angsty shapeshifting boys. But anyone, really.
274	character - clothing and personal style	Collars,
275	character - clothing and personal style	Eyepatches,
276	character - clothing and personal style	guys with glasses
277	character - clothing and personal style	Hair in cornrows, with beads at the ends.
278	character - clothing and personal style	hipbones peeking out from low slung pants
279	character - clothing and personal style	knee high boots,
280	character - clothing and personal style	knives in garter belts
281	character - clothing and personal style	long coats that are a little too long in the sleeve
282	character - clothing and personal style	Long hair.
283	character - clothing and personal style	Long robes tattered by wind.
284	character - clothing and personal style	Long, loose hair and eyes looking up from under it.
285	character - clothing and personal style	men in glasses
286	character - clothing and personal style	Men with long dark hair, especially if they are closed off and of few words.
287	character - clothing and personal style	Really outlandish women's hats.
288	character - clothing and personal style	rolled up sleeves
289	character - clothing and personal style	school uniforms,
290	character - clothing and personal style	Shoes cast thoughtlessly aside.
291	character - clothing and personal style	silk scarves
292	character - clothing and personal style	sticky wet clothes
293	character - clothing and personal style	Straight boys in skirts. Not drag queens or trannies, just boys who aren't very good at it, but can still pass.
294	character - clothing and personal style	style.
295	character - clothing and personal style	Tall men in dark Armani suits.
296	character - clothing and personal style	tattoos the kind that are hidden and surprising
297	character - clothing and personal style	the stray strands of hair that float out when a women's hair is worn up
298	character - clothing and personal style	thigh holsters
299	character - clothing and personal style	three-piece suits,
300	character - clothing and personal style	trenchcoats
301	character - clothing and personal style	veils
302	character - clothing and personal style	vintage dress (form various eras)
303	character - clothing and personal style	waistcoats,
304	character - clothing and personal style	Women dressed sensibly for battle. No skirts or slinky tops, and armed like the men.
305	character - clothing and personal style	women in men's dress shirts (and nothing else)
306	character - clothing and personal style	women with long nails,
307	character trait	androgyny,
308	character trait	clairvoyance,
309	character trait	Gay that's not camp, or sleazy, or fake.
310	character trait	good manners (it's a thing)
311	character trait	pyrokinesis,
312	character trait	Telekinesis,
313	character trait	telepathy,
314	character trait	tossing a coin and catching it repeatedly
315	character trait	Unexpected possessiveness.
316	dramatic imagery	A drop of honey, a willing tongue.
317	dramatic imagery	And of course, gratuitous nudity.
318	dramatic imagery	black helicopters
319	dramatic imagery	flower imagery
320	dramatic imagery	Horses
321	dramatic imagery	Loyalty. Sidekicks who will hang over a pit of hot oil and not give up their partner for anything; lovers who will withstand torture for each other; it shows you that the hero is smart enough not to surround him/herself with idiots and I love the big, swooping rescue when it comes. If it comes.
322	dramatic imagery	Notes in the margins of books.
323	dramatic imagery	raindrops dripping into a pool
324	dramatic imagery	seeing someone as a reflection in another's eye
325	dramatic imagery	sense memory (smell mostly)
326	dramatic imagery	The same things being found and relearned by successive generations.
327	dramatic imagery	The sudden stray grace of a fire escape red with rust against a blue sky, or a shattered glass bottle on the ground reflecting a sunset.
328	dramatic imagery	wrought iron gates with dangerous fleurs de lis
329	element	anything gracefully predatory: wolves, foxes, falcons.
330	element	Arts and (in particular) crafts, especially with a keen appreciation of hard work and craftsmanship.
331	element	barbecue
332	element	books,
333	element	Borders.
334	element	ciphers,
335	element	Codes and ciphers
336	element	Dogs.
337	element	Elaborate clothing that means things, fan language, hair language, kimono language
338	element	Exotic perfumes.
339	element	fans; obscuring faces, or used as weapons,
340	element	fast cars,
341	element	giant robots,
342	element	Gracefully curved blades.
343	element	Intelligent familiars that don't for chrissakes talk.
344	element	Knives.
345	element	Lost knowledge.
346	element	Magic.
347	element	Mirrors their intrinsic magic, their silver fluidity, truth and lies reflected.
348	element	Musical crescendoes.
349	element	Oh, and penguins. Yeah, penguins.
350	element	south Indian martial arts weapons,
351	element	spy gear like cell phones that really turn into laser guns,
352	element	team spirit,
353	element	Things made of glass.
354	element	Wolves, lions.
355	genre	cyberpunk,	2
356	genre	Picaresque novels.
357	plot	A long, slow build of sexual tension between two people who are intellectually matched and equally stubborn (bonus points if the tension is resolved with a passionate kiss during a particularly heated argument).
358	plot	Also interracial relationships--that sense of confronting and crossing borders.
359	plot	Apocalypse, the end of the world, and people who will follow each other through it.
360	plot	Belief/desire/will that transforms reality by its own strength.
361	plot	Bittersweet endings, reminiscing about what and who was lost but tinged with optimism that the world goes on.
362	plot	body switching (I LOVE BODY SWITCHING)
363	plot	characters going down fighting for something or someone they believe in.
364	plot	characters selfishly leaving everything behind, other characters hating them for it (but still loving them),
365	plot	Court politics, whispers in hallways or ballrooms that make and break alliances, the power of one person's personality being enough to change the course of a kingdom.
366	plot	doing anything in the name of innovation,
367	plot	double identities
368	plot	Epic battles conducted in the political sphere, especially in fantasy settings.
369	plot	Epic, sweeping stories with sublime endings.
370	plot	failure.
371	plot	Family pulling through (the dell north of Hexham!).
372	plot	fighting the inevitable,
373	plot	forbidden angel/demon love, especially if there's a war waging between heaven and hell
374	plot	Forced to be in close quarters with another, especially an enemy.
375	plot	Gaming the system.
376	plot	giving up everything to save the world,
377	plot	Happy endings.
378	plot	Hero/villain interaction, especially when layered with a love/hate relationship or a kind of complex friendship intertwined with the rivalry.
379	plot	heroics,
380	plot	Hidden heirs that don't know they're heirs,
381	plot	history that threatens to repeat itself,
382	plot	hopeless crusades,
383	plot	I like it better if romance stays in romance, as a heroine doesn't need a love interest.
384	plot	I mentioned body switching, right? *g*
385	plot	I would love to see a female vampire story not revolving around sex.
386	plot	Imprisonment and negotiation, trying to wear the captive down into surrender rather than force them ... mind games and seduction.
387	plot	Inheritance.
388	plot	lessons learned young and taught to a new generation,
389	plot	Love that transcends limits.
390	plot	Love triangles which resolve with all three of them walking off into the sunset together.
391	plot	Magic that costs.
392	plot	Major age differences in a romantic/sexual relationship, and the overcoming thereof.
393	plot	Marriages of convenience,
394	plot	mind games,
395	plot	Moral ambiguities, when both parties might be right or might be wrong, and it's all just in how you look at it.
396	plot	Mortals meeting gods.
397	plot	Opposites attracting, yin/yang, dark twin/light twin lex luthor and superman locked together forever.
398	plot	Or a character that decides to stay in the fantasy world instead of returning home.
399	plot	Poisons and the study thereof
400	plot	prophecy.
401	plot	pyrrhic victories,
402	plot	Really complicated political intrigue, particularly in courts in which the slightest gesture means volumes and no one is safe
403	plot	Really complicated, Rube Goldberg-esque assassination/caper/con plots
404	plot	Saving the person you love, at the cost of never being able to see them again.
405	plot	screaming matches turning into ravishing kisses
406	plot	six degrees of seperation,
407	plot	small humiliations that blossom into revenge
408	plot	solitary journeys to unknown destinations,
409	plot	stay until the bitter end,
410	plot	Stockholm syndrome, as a purely fictional trope.
411	plot	stories about what happens after the revolution.
412	plot	Stupid descions made in full awareness, like a man who knows the woman will never love him back, but choosing to follow her anyway, or the girl who knows there is no way she will win the fight and that trying will only make things worse, but who fights regardless.	2
413	plot	suicide missions,
414	plot	the bitter end,
415	plot	the end of the world.
416	plot	The journey is more important than the destination.
417	plot	Time travel.	2
418	plot	true love not making it any better,
419	plot	two people locked in conversation and basically having sex only through the double meaning of their words
420	plot	unexpected physical attacks from those you trust
421	plot	What happens after the world is saved, what happens after the fairy tale is over
422	sensation	A swan dive from a height, and the sound of hitting the water, the feel of bubbles rushing past your body.
423	sensation	breath on the back of a neck
424	sensation	Bright colors.
425	sensation	Food porn.
426	sensation	Food! I adore descriptions of food; there are books I rememebr for years because they talk about food in memorable, appetite-whetting detail.	3
427	sensation	Language for its own sake, and people who love it. Odd tidbits of antiquarian knowledge thrown in for no reason.
428	sensation	Linguistics, and people having power or useful knowledge because they speak/read/understand more than one language.
429	sensation	Melting ice cream.
430	sensation	Polyphonic choral bits, and words entwining with each other.
431	sensation	Portuguese, sung or spoken.
432	sensation	Sensuousness, by which I mean characters enjoying the sensory world around them. Orange paper cranes against a blue sky, a cherry tomato eaten off the vine and squirting in the mouth, running your hands along silk or leather or stone just to feel the texture.
433	sensation	Silks and satins.
434	sensation	The extremes of weather: freezing temperatures, or ones so hot everything is sweaty and languid, storms.
435	setting	A circus - not going to one, but the people in it, the regular lives of clowns and fortune tellers and freak show stars.
436	setting	A city street at night, bustling with people and light and languages.
437	setting	Anything Japan.
438	setting	Architecture that curves like the human body, buildings that are sensual within themselves.
439	setting	Attics, especially attic bedrooms.
440	setting	autumn leaves,
441	setting	Ballrooms ful of swishing skirts and duplicity.
442	setting	Beaches, and oceans, the salt taste of the air and the white foam of the waves against the sand.
443	setting	Big old houses with magic in the very halls and doors,
444	setting	carriages.
445	setting	Church steeples.
446	setting	cities with long histories,
447	setting	Deep forest.
448	setting	Definitely izakayas.
449	setting	Deserts, the starkness and emptiness of them: enourmous expanses of nothing but sand and the wind reshaping the dunes, the few people around hidden in layers from a harsh sun and the footprints they make wiped away in minutes, and the joy of an oasis in all that wasteland, trees and water like miracles.
450	setting	DRAGONS.
451	setting	Dying civilizations.
452	setting	Elaborate mysterious architecture.
453	setting	empty building lobbies with high twisting stairwells so that you can see all the way down from the top floor
454	setting	empty public places at night,
455	setting	Fields of roses.	2
456	setting	fountains,
457	setting	Funeral scenes - oh G-d, funeral scenes kill me.
458	setting	Giant country mansions with huge, dark, glossy lawns and trees that crowd the windows.
459	setting	Graveyards,
460	setting	Heian Japan
461	setting	houses that contain or represent the world.
462	setting	Houses.
463	setting	izakayas,
464	setting	large cities,
465	setting	Leaves blowing in the wind.
466	setting	Libraries,	2
467	setting	Long, long drives in cars with the windows down and radio streaming out to the warm air, miles of road disappearing under the tires, and watching the land pass by without anything to say.
468	setting	Looking out across a city, a forest, a valley, a plain, the sky and seeing the points of light that mean groups of people or beings and realizing that each of them has their own story happening.
469	setting	Lost civilizations.
470	setting	Lots and lots of windows.
471	setting	Low tides and the hidden things they reveal.
472	setting	Meiji Japan and the mix of modern and traditional, bowler hats and canes with hakama and gi	2
473	setting	Mountains.
474	setting	Moving water.
475	setting	museums that are dusty and empty and quiet
476	setting	Pretty much anything involving angels, demons, Heaven and Hell
477	setting	Red, red, red pillows.
478	setting	Religion. Rituals, and faith, and metaphysics; any or all of those.
479	setting	respect for tradition *and* innovation,
480	setting	Rivers.
481	setting	road trips,
482	setting	roaring fireplaces
483	setting	roller discos,
484	setting	ships,
485	setting	sleeper cars in trains
486	setting	Subcultures, both hidden and open.
487	setting	The backstage of a play.
488	setting	The edge between civilization and the unknown.
489	setting	The figures that hide in a piece of woodgrain, or the plaster on a wall.
490	setting	the Gilded Age, bustles, the beginning of technology in every day life
491	setting	The Jazz Age.
492	setting	the moments before an era fades away,
493	setting	the moon
494	setting	the mountains
495	setting	the ocean
496	setting	The previous landscapes, lost in mist.
497	setting	The ruined parts of cities, the parts that are the oldest and were once loved, but are now falling into a ghetto, broken windows, grafitti, trash in the streets, fires in dumpsters and trash cans. The people who live in them now and know them like the back of a hand; children racing through paths of chain-link fences and boarded up warehouses that no one who hadn't grown up there could follow.
498	setting	Trading routes.
499	setting	Travel novels where the culture/area/country/whatever works almost as a character.
500	setting	War-zones,
501	theme	Hope that continues without reason, the last tiny spark that can't be extinguished.
502	writing	A beautiful sentence that says things in a way you never would have thought of.
503	writing	Challenging the boundaries of the stories
504	writing	Cleverly woven stories that repeat the same themes in different ways that link together neatly
505	writing	double entendres
506	writing	Good dialogue, people who talk like people - especially in fantasy, I can't go for all the "thee" and "thou" and "thus" crap. I want characters who say "fuck" and mean it.
507	writing	Metafiction and tricks of style; stories that twist in on themselves, twist time, twist causality. My appetite for novelty is almost infinite.
508	writing	selkie legends,
509	writing	stories split between two time periods,
510	writing	Stories told on several levels, including the mythic and the prosaic, at the same time.
511	writing	Words that have layers and mean more than they seem to, wordplay