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Stolen from maiaide
1. Visit the master list, select your favorite 100
2. Post your favorite 100 behind a cut in your LJ (or if you can’t pick 100, as many as you can without going over) - (my list is only 90)
3. Your f-list's job is to write you "comment pr0n" for your favorites. And yes, bold for extra favorites.
1. Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word)
2. Aliens make them have sex (fuck or die; fertility rituals; intoxication; taking one for the team)
3. Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features)
4. Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, submissive (feral characters or behavior; domesticated pet behavior such as sitting at owner's foot and cheeking their thigh; purring; licking; characters objectified as animals, e.g., ponyboys)
5. Aristocracy (aristocratic behaviors, characteristics, and/or identity; chivalry and noblesse oblige; royal blood; elegance or effeteness; dignity; royal courts or castles; imperial cultures; Greco-Roman classicism; dynastic families; gentlemen; aristocrat pairings with houseboys, stable-boys, or secretaries)
6. Attention (singling someone out; treating someone specially in front of others; making a point of showing respect to or interest in someone who doesn't usually receive it; observing, studying, or analyzing someone to understand them)
7. AUs (alternate characterizations and situations; sex between alternates of one character or between different characters; alternates as catalysts for realization of desire; role reversal; darker mirror universe characters; mistaken identity)
8. Bar and club scenes (dancing, cruising, etc)
9. Baths and water (tubs or jacuzzis; hot springs; bath houses or steam rooms; the ocean; swimming pools; see also Washing; Shower sex)
10. Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness)
11. Biting (marking, nipping, chewing)
12. Bodyguard scenarios (See also Protectiveness)
13. Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs)
14. Claiming or establishing ownership (private or public; by gesture, word, or ritual; with sex; with a collar and leash; with scent-marking or by biting)
15. Conflicts and challenges (war and combat in general; sieges; Die Hard scenarios; jousting; gladiatorial games; wrestling and sparring; duels of honor; bets and sports competitions; romantic rivalries; seduction viewed as a challenge; misunderstandings and fights; break-ups; traded insults; stormy relationships; family strife; personality clashes; cultural differences; philosophical disagreements)
16. Courtesans or geishas
17. Courting and dating (courtship rituals; dating; blind dates; personal ads; traditional gestures such as flowers and chocolates; unusual gestures designed to win someone's attention; showing off or displaying prowess; rivals seeking a character's favor; see also Seduction)
18. Crossovers (characters thrust into other universes; canon universes merged; sex between characters played by same actor)
19. Domesticity (moving in together; nesting; shopping; building a family or meeting the family; getting a cat or dog; kidfic)
20. Dominance and submission (See also Submission; Servitude; Master and slave, etc)
21. Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
22. Ensembles (elite teams of explorers, spies, law enforcement figures, etc; sentai; military squadrons; skilled teams operating like clockwork, such as when pulling off a heist; bands of rebels; families; surrogate families; outcasts, e.g., freaks and geeks; carnival troupes; motley characters thrown together by fate; alternatives to society e.g., Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys; see also Witnesses)
23. Exoticism (fetishization of Far Eastern culture and aesthetics, which may be adapted and generalized for fictional worlds; e.g., harems and harem culture; veils; silk clothes; Turkish baths; pleasure pavilions; royal courts; lush gardens; island paradises; opium dens; casbahs and bazaars; tents; imperial royal figures such as sheikhs or sultans; köçek troupes; court figures such as dancers and storytellers; floor pillows; furs or skins as rugs or bedding; feasts; tapestries; Persian rugs; oil lamps; wild animals as pets; opulence, decadence, and sensuality in general)
24. First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act; first time with a particular gender)
25. Flirting (conscious or unconscious; with glances or touches; banter)
26. Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden)
27. Foreplay
28. Friendship and affection (gestures of friendship; epic friendships a la Gilgamesh/Enkidu or Alexander/Hephaistion; friendship as pre-slash)
29. Friendship sex or buddy-sex (fuck buddies)
30. Gender themes (gender confusion; sex changes; genderfucks; hermaphrodites; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; forced feminization; butch/femme; tomboys)
31. Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments)
32. Happiness (startled joy; passionate gratitude; ecstasy; comfort; happy endings)
33. Historical and period settings
34. Hot spots (a special spot that make someone crazy when stimulated, such as the vampire spot on the neck, the backs of the knees, the inner arms, navel, or earlobes)
35. Humor (funny banter, screwball comedy, etc)
36. Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor)
37. Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
38. Immobilization and/or helplessness
39. Imprisonment, erotic (cages, cells, closets, coffins, etc)
40. Intelligence (quick wit; street smarts; Machiavellian cleverness; Sherlock Holmesian deductive powers; geniuses; experts; criminal masterminds; see also Special powers and skills; Geeks and nebbishes)
41. Intimacy
42. Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc)
43. Make-up sex or reunions
44. Masquerade (a character pretends to be someone else, or something he's not, e.g., a nebbishy nerd must convince goons he's a ruthless arms dealer or assassin; a cop goes undercover in prison; a spy infiltrates an agency; a good guy pretends to be his AU evil twin; Cyrano scenarios)
45. Massage
46. Messiness and markers of arousal (mussed hair; flushed cheeks; swollen mouth; displaying bite marks or hickeys; clothes in disarray; sprawling; come-spattered skin)
47. Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess)
48. Nautical themes and fetishization (ships and the sea; rum, sodomy, and the lash; cabin boys; navy/pirate conflicts; colonialism; desert islands and buried treasure)
49. Neck fetishization (nape of the neck, throat, hickeys, etc)
50. Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs)
51. Oral fixation or fetishization (lips, tongue, or whole mouth; french-kissing; licking; oral displays using food or beer bottles; smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes; biting or chewing one's lip(s))
52. Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism)
53. Pampering (spoiling someone rotten with gifts or money; physical pampering such as massage and grooming; giving someone a novel or unexpected degree of emotional or sexual care; catering to someone's every whim, e.g., someone who is in the hospital; harems as settings for pampering)
54. Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing)
55. Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; sheikhs, sultans, princes, and other royal figures; teacher/student pairings; magical powers; abuse of power; blackmail; romantic slavery; liege/lord pairings; issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone)
56. Power issues, sociopolitical (colonialism; alien invasion or rule; institutionalized slavery; totalitarian states and rebellion; powerful secret societies, e.g., the Illuminati or Watcher-style organizations)
57. Primitivism (dropping technologically advanced characters into exotic/primitive settings; medieval societies either magical or non-magical; nomadic and desert cultures; warrior cultures; jungle tribes; the noble savage; Androcles/lion pairings; the social intimacies of tribes/camps; bacchanals; culture clash/shock; unusual practices/rituals, e.g., feats of skill and strength or marriage as treaty; schizo-tech cultures, as when a seemingly feudal pre-industrial society has high-tech elements; see also Roughnecks; Animal themes and fetishization; Animalistic behaviors or characteristics; Exoticism)
58. Prizes (characters who are eroticized as prizes or spoils of war)
59. Prostitutes (call-girls and hookers; rent boys and hustlers; escorts; paying one's way through school with sideline hooking; juvenile past on the streets)
60. Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; big guy/little guy pairings; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)
61. Rescue (danger and rescue in general, e.g., abductions)
62. Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement)
63. Ropework (intricate/artistic erotic bondage)
64. Sandwich sexual position or chain fuck (threesome)
65. Secret admirers
66. Secrets, other (dark or criminal past; double lives; previous marriage and/or children; unspoken feelings)
67. Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting)
68. Sex in public or semi-public places
69. Sex standing up (including against a wall)
70. Sex with clothes still on or partly on
71. Sexual movements (back arching; hips lifting; thrusting back; writhing, jerking, bucking; clenching; grinding or rocking; trembling or shivering; hooking legs around shoulders; pressing someone's legs back toward the bed; riding someone's fingers)
72. Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams)
73. Situational engineering (the conscious or unconscious manufacture of events that give an emotional or sexual pay-off which can't be otherwise achieved; in particular, perilous situations; for example, character A puts himself in danger in order to receive fussy attention from character B; pay-off can be simply seeing someone, or hurt/comfort touching, intimacy, adrenaline sex, etc)
74. Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets)
75. Special powers and skills (superhero powers; magical powers; telekinesis; shapeshifting; hyperdeveloped senses; combat expertise; sharpshooting; eidetic memory; computer hacking skills; thief skills; temporary gifts of power from drugs, alien devices, etc, repercussions of which could include delusions of godhood, dangerous physical or mental overload, and so on)
76. Talking and communication issues (dirty talk or verbal seduction; sweet talking; reciting poetry; talking someone to orgasm; talking during sex; pillow talk; phone sex; speech becoming broken as one is aroused or upset; being inarticulate or articulate; aphasia; talking fast; miscommunication and misunderstandings in general; lack of a shared language; see also Silence; Clams; Voice fetishization)
77. Tattoos (decorative, symbolic, or slave; barcodes)
78. Topping from the bottom
79. Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand)
80. Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities)
81. Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases)
82. Vampires
83. Voice fetishization (cracking or broken; husky, low, throaty; purring; accents; whispering close to someone's ear)
84. Voyeurism and vision themes (character A secretly watches B and C have sex; character A is forced to watch B and C have sex; character A watches character B perform/masturbate; viewing one's beloved in general; taking pictures or video; eye contact, especially as flirting; establishing authority with a look; closing eyes as a trust gesture; character A feeling that character B truly sees him, when no one else does; the quality of light, e.g., characters lit by moonlight or candlelight, or gilded by the setting sun; being in the dark; temporary or permanent blindness; gazes as objectification)
85. Washing (washing one's partner, body or hair; bubble baths; shower scenes; slave service in bath; cleaning/cleansing someone who's been raped, degraded, or who is injured)
86. Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)
87. Western scenarios and fetishization (cowboy gear; campfire and trail scenes; horses; gunslingers, lawmen, card sharps, etc; train robberies and bank hold-ups; posses; saloon brawls)
88. Witnesses (families, friends, or others watch the development of a relationship; play matchmaker or serve as confidants; think the characters are involved when they're really not; constitute the public eye; disapprove, gossip, give advice; are the audience for a coming out drama; are witnesses to such things as flirting, public arousal, public sex)
89. Worry (one character worrying anxiously about another; going crazy with worry)
90. Writing (love letters or notes; secret admirers; e-mail and chat; wills; poetry; storytelling; tracing words or figures on skin, or writing, as with an inkbrush)
And since I've already got one stupidly long meme type thing on here, have another.
1. Which Johnny band is your favourite: Arashi
2. Why: Basically, they're charming, have the best chemistry of the Kanto groups, and keep making me want more of them.
3. Who is your favourite Johnny: Ninomiya Kazunari, although Taichi is a close second, that cute bastard.
4. Why: I really like the quick witted tsukkomi types, and he's got more talent in his little finger than I could hope for. He doesn't let what he's gone through get in the way of what he's doing, and he constantly impresses. And Taichi is Taichi, and Taichi is amazing.
5. When is your very first contact with a Johnny: 2007 (probably)
6. Who was it: Sakurai Sho and Ninomiya Kazunari. (I had heard of Kimura Takuya from my Japanese teacher, but we never actually listened to SMAP, so I figure it doesn't count.)
7. How did you know him: Yamada Tarou Monogatari.
8. When actually did you really start listening/liking the JE: 2007
9. What incident brought you into JE: I saw Yamada Tarou Monogatari while in Japan, and had been told that they were part of a band. When I got back from Japan, I looked them up online and found the Sakura Sake PV. The end.
10. Do you have a favourite JE song: Favorite, not really. I like too many.
11. Do you listen to them the most: Yes, I don't even have to check.
12. Outside JE, who is your favourite band/artist: Gackt, Judy and Mary, and musical soundtracks
13. Which band/singer did you listen/like the most before JE: Gackt, and Dir en grey.
-Kat-tun-
1. Who is your favourite in Kat-tun: Uh. None.
2. Why: Don't like 'em.
3. Do you have a favourite song of Kat-tun: No.
4. Do you have a favourite live of Kat-tun: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of Kat-tun: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of Kat-tun: Couldn't say, never listen to 'em.
7. Who do you think can dance the most of Kat-tun: Good question.
8. Who is the girliest of Kat-tun: I'll go with Ueda, on basis of photo shoots.
9. Who is the manliest of Kat-tun: I'll go with Koki, on basis of photo shoots.
10. Who is the cutest member of Kat-tun: Uh...
11. Who is the funniest member of Kat-tun: Uh...
12. Who is the most prettiest in Kat-tun: Uh...
13. Who has the best appearance in Kat-tun: Uh....
14. Do you have a favourite PV of Kat-tun: No.
-NewS-
1. Who is your favourite in NewS: Ryo?
2. Why: Because I know Ryo from Kanjani.
3. Do you have a favourite song of NewS: Weeeeeek, 'cause it's the only one I listen to. 8D
4. Do you have a favourite live of NewS: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of NewS: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of NewS: Uh...
7. Who do you think can dance the most of NewS: Uh...
8. Who is the girliest of NewS: Couldn't say. Pi with his shiny mane of hair?
9. Who is the manliest of NewS: Couldn't say.
10. Who is the cutest member of NewS: Couldn't say.
11. Who is the funniest member of NewS: Couldn't say.
12. Who is the most prettiest in NewS: Pi with his shiny mane of hair?
13. Who has the best appearance in NewS: Couldn't say.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of NewS: No.
-KanJani∞-
1. Who is your favourite in KanJani8: Ryo.
2. Why: Because I watched him in Ryuusei no Kizuna. 8D
3. Do you have a favourite song of KanJani8: Musekinin Hero.
4. Do you have a favourite live of KanJani8: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of KanJani8: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of KanJani8: Mmmmmm... I'll go with Hina.
7. Who do you think can dance the most of KanJani8: This I don't know.
8. Who is the girliest of KanJani8: Depends.
9. Who is the manliest of KanJani8: Depends.
10. Who is the cutest member of KanJani8: Depends.
11. Who is the funniest member of KanJani8: Yoko.
12. Who is the most prettiest in KanJani8: Toss up between Hina and Ohkura.
13. Who has the best appearance in KanJani8: Depends.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of KanJani8: Zukkoke Otokomichi.
-Arashi-
1. Who is your favourite in Arashi: Ninomiya Kazunari
2. Why: Tsukkomi boy with guitar who bullies his sempai but makes them love him anyway.
3. Do you have a favourite song of Arashi: There are so many good ones ;o;
4. Do you have a favourite live of Arashi: The Kokuritsu concert was awesome, does that count?
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of Arashi: D no Arashi
6. Who do you think can sing the best of Arashi: Ohno
7. Who do you think can dance the most of Arashi: Ohno
8. Who is the girliest of Arashi: It's a toss up between Nino and Aiba; Jun may be feminine, but they have all the girly mannerisms.
9. Who is the manliest of Arashi: Sho
10. Who is the cutest member of Arashi: Nino
11. Who is the funniest member of Arashi: Nino has the quick wit, and I love that.
12. Who is the most prettiest in Arashi: When made up right, Aiba. Just on his own, Sho.
13. Who has the best appearance in Arashi: Nino has some seriously amazing skin and looks good in just about everything.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of Arashi: Happiness.
-other units-
1. Who is your favourite younger unit: None. I listen to none of them and I want to listen to none of them.
2. Who is your favourite older unit: Tokio.
3. Do you have a favourite member of any younger or older unit: Taichi and Nagase.
4. Do you have a favourite song of any younger or older unit: Tokio's Sorafune tied with Ashita wo Mezashite.
5. Do you have a favourite show with any younger or older unit: 5LDK, I'd like Dash more if they didn't spend so much time in the village.
6. Do you have a favourite live of any younger or older unit: No.
-Dramas-
1. Do you have a favourite actor in JE: Nino
2. Do you have a favourite drama starring with one of JE: Kisarazu, Stand Up!
3. What was your very first drama staring with one of JE: Yamada Tarou Monogatari.
4. Which drama of JE have you watched recently: The Quiz Show, Smile, Ryuusei no Kizuna
5. Which drama of JE do you want to watch: Majo no Saiban
6. Who do you wish would should start acting, who hasn't yet: Uh...
7. Who do you wish should stop acting, because he sucks at acting or he should do something else instead: Yamapi. He was fine in Stand Up! but he does the same thing with every roll.
-Questions for fun-
1. Do you think that you are JE addicted: For Arashi, yes.
2. Why do you think so: I spend so much time sifting through communities on LJ when I could be doing other time wasting things that aren't so unhealthy, like reading a book.
3. What will you do seeing your favourite Johnny standing in front of your door: Realistically? Probably stare in incredulity and try to get in my apartment from the back window.
4. What advantages does starting liking JE give you: Er... this is a strangely worded question.
5. What disadvantages does it give you: An unrealistic expectation of men's beauty.
6. How many times a day do you think about JE: Depends on if I'm writing a 'fic or not - then it's really just about the people who are in the 'fic. Otherwise I wonder what shows are on.
7. How many times do you have the face of your favourite Johnny around you: This is embarrassing, but 14 group posters' worth.
8. If your favourite Johnny or your favourite JE has to grant you a wish what would it be: Make an album that they wrote and produced all by themselves.
9. If you have a wish about JE, what would it be: Do more fun episodes about foreigners in Japan or Japanese overseas.
10. If you were reborn, you'd wish to be: The king (or queen), Kimura Takuya
11. If you are were in Johnny's right now, you would be: Uh. No.
12. If you could ask your favourite Johnny or your favourite JE band a question, it would be: If Johnny's dissolved, would you still want to be an entertainer? What would you do otherwise?
13. Have you you ever had a dream with a Johnny: Yes
14. If yes, when was it and what was it? Can't remember.
15. Do you have any realizable goal in your life that has to do with JE: See Nino's play and another concert and get the tingles (though that isn't really in my control.... grr lottery system!)
16. Do you like JE BL fanfic: Yes.
17. If yes, who are the best couple of JE: Depends on who's writing.
18. If you were Johnny-san, what would you change about JE: The stupid embargo on their faces.
19. Did you like this survey: Not so much. A lot of the questions were kind of redundant, but I'm stuck in my apartment so I don't spread a flu I don't have to other people.
1. Visit the master list, select your favorite 100
2. Post your favorite 100 behind a cut in your LJ (or if you can’t pick 100, as many as you can without going over) - (my list is only 90)
3. Your f-list's job is to write you "comment pr0n" for your favorites. And yes, bold for extra favorites.
1. Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word)
2. Aliens make them have sex (fuck or die; fertility rituals; intoxication; taking one for the team)
3. Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features)
4. Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, submissive (feral characters or behavior; domesticated pet behavior such as sitting at owner's foot and cheeking their thigh; purring; licking; characters objectified as animals, e.g., ponyboys)
5. Aristocracy (aristocratic behaviors, characteristics, and/or identity; chivalry and noblesse oblige; royal blood; elegance or effeteness; dignity; royal courts or castles; imperial cultures; Greco-Roman classicism; dynastic families; gentlemen; aristocrat pairings with houseboys, stable-boys, or secretaries)
6. Attention (singling someone out; treating someone specially in front of others; making a point of showing respect to or interest in someone who doesn't usually receive it; observing, studying, or analyzing someone to understand them)
7. AUs (alternate characterizations and situations; sex between alternates of one character or between different characters; alternates as catalysts for realization of desire; role reversal; darker mirror universe characters; mistaken identity)
8. Bar and club scenes (dancing, cruising, etc)
9. Baths and water (tubs or jacuzzis; hot springs; bath houses or steam rooms; the ocean; swimming pools; see also Washing; Shower sex)
10. Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness)
11. Biting (marking, nipping, chewing)
12. Bodyguard scenarios (See also Protectiveness)
13. Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs)
14. Claiming or establishing ownership (private or public; by gesture, word, or ritual; with sex; with a collar and leash; with scent-marking or by biting)
15. Conflicts and challenges (war and combat in general; sieges; Die Hard scenarios; jousting; gladiatorial games; wrestling and sparring; duels of honor; bets and sports competitions; romantic rivalries; seduction viewed as a challenge; misunderstandings and fights; break-ups; traded insults; stormy relationships; family strife; personality clashes; cultural differences; philosophical disagreements)
16. Courtesans or geishas
17. Courting and dating (courtship rituals; dating; blind dates; personal ads; traditional gestures such as flowers and chocolates; unusual gestures designed to win someone's attention; showing off or displaying prowess; rivals seeking a character's favor; see also Seduction)
18. Crossovers (characters thrust into other universes; canon universes merged; sex between characters played by same actor)
19. Domesticity (moving in together; nesting; shopping; building a family or meeting the family; getting a cat or dog; kidfic)
20. Dominance and submission (See also Submission; Servitude; Master and slave, etc)
21. Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
22. Ensembles (elite teams of explorers, spies, law enforcement figures, etc; sentai; military squadrons; skilled teams operating like clockwork, such as when pulling off a heist; bands of rebels; families; surrogate families; outcasts, e.g., freaks and geeks; carnival troupes; motley characters thrown together by fate; alternatives to society e.g., Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys; see also Witnesses)
23. Exoticism (fetishization of Far Eastern culture and aesthetics, which may be adapted and generalized for fictional worlds; e.g., harems and harem culture; veils; silk clothes; Turkish baths; pleasure pavilions; royal courts; lush gardens; island paradises; opium dens; casbahs and bazaars; tents; imperial royal figures such as sheikhs or sultans; köçek troupes; court figures such as dancers and storytellers; floor pillows; furs or skins as rugs or bedding; feasts; tapestries; Persian rugs; oil lamps; wild animals as pets; opulence, decadence, and sensuality in general)
24. First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act; first time with a particular gender)
25. Flirting (conscious or unconscious; with glances or touches; banter)
26. Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden)
27. Foreplay
28. Friendship and affection (gestures of friendship; epic friendships a la Gilgamesh/Enkidu or Alexander/Hephaistion; friendship as pre-slash)
29. Friendship sex or buddy-sex (fuck buddies)
30. Gender themes (gender confusion; sex changes; genderfucks; hermaphrodites; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; forced feminization; butch/femme; tomboys)
31. Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments)
32. Happiness (startled joy; passionate gratitude; ecstasy; comfort; happy endings)
33. Historical and period settings
34. Hot spots (a special spot that make someone crazy when stimulated, such as the vampire spot on the neck, the backs of the knees, the inner arms, navel, or earlobes)
35. Humor (funny banter, screwball comedy, etc)
36. Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor)
37. Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
38. Immobilization and/or helplessness
39. Imprisonment, erotic (cages, cells, closets, coffins, etc)
40. Intelligence (quick wit; street smarts; Machiavellian cleverness; Sherlock Holmesian deductive powers; geniuses; experts; criminal masterminds; see also Special powers and skills; Geeks and nebbishes)
41. Intimacy
42. Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc)
43. Make-up sex or reunions
44. Masquerade (a character pretends to be someone else, or something he's not, e.g., a nebbishy nerd must convince goons he's a ruthless arms dealer or assassin; a cop goes undercover in prison; a spy infiltrates an agency; a good guy pretends to be his AU evil twin; Cyrano scenarios)
45. Massage
46. Messiness and markers of arousal (mussed hair; flushed cheeks; swollen mouth; displaying bite marks or hickeys; clothes in disarray; sprawling; come-spattered skin)
47. Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess)
48. Nautical themes and fetishization (ships and the sea; rum, sodomy, and the lash; cabin boys; navy/pirate conflicts; colonialism; desert islands and buried treasure)
49. Neck fetishization (nape of the neck, throat, hickeys, etc)
50. Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs)
51. Oral fixation or fetishization (lips, tongue, or whole mouth; french-kissing; licking; oral displays using food or beer bottles; smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes; biting or chewing one's lip(s))
52. Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism)
53. Pampering (spoiling someone rotten with gifts or money; physical pampering such as massage and grooming; giving someone a novel or unexpected degree of emotional or sexual care; catering to someone's every whim, e.g., someone who is in the hospital; harems as settings for pampering)
54. Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing)
55. Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; sheikhs, sultans, princes, and other royal figures; teacher/student pairings; magical powers; abuse of power; blackmail; romantic slavery; liege/lord pairings; issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone)
56. Power issues, sociopolitical (colonialism; alien invasion or rule; institutionalized slavery; totalitarian states and rebellion; powerful secret societies, e.g., the Illuminati or Watcher-style organizations)
57. Primitivism (dropping technologically advanced characters into exotic/primitive settings; medieval societies either magical or non-magical; nomadic and desert cultures; warrior cultures; jungle tribes; the noble savage; Androcles/lion pairings; the social intimacies of tribes/camps; bacchanals; culture clash/shock; unusual practices/rituals, e.g., feats of skill and strength or marriage as treaty; schizo-tech cultures, as when a seemingly feudal pre-industrial society has high-tech elements; see also Roughnecks; Animal themes and fetishization; Animalistic behaviors or characteristics; Exoticism)
58. Prizes (characters who are eroticized as prizes or spoils of war)
59. Prostitutes (call-girls and hookers; rent boys and hustlers; escorts; paying one's way through school with sideline hooking; juvenile past on the streets)
60. Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; big guy/little guy pairings; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)
61. Rescue (danger and rescue in general, e.g., abductions)
62. Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement)
63. Ropework (intricate/artistic erotic bondage)
64. Sandwich sexual position or chain fuck (threesome)
65. Secret admirers
66. Secrets, other (dark or criminal past; double lives; previous marriage and/or children; unspoken feelings)
67. Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting)
68. Sex in public or semi-public places
69. Sex standing up (including against a wall)
70. Sex with clothes still on or partly on
71. Sexual movements (back arching; hips lifting; thrusting back; writhing, jerking, bucking; clenching; grinding or rocking; trembling or shivering; hooking legs around shoulders; pressing someone's legs back toward the bed; riding someone's fingers)
72. Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams)
73. Situational engineering (the conscious or unconscious manufacture of events that give an emotional or sexual pay-off which can't be otherwise achieved; in particular, perilous situations; for example, character A puts himself in danger in order to receive fussy attention from character B; pay-off can be simply seeing someone, or hurt/comfort touching, intimacy, adrenaline sex, etc)
74. Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets)
75. Special powers and skills (superhero powers; magical powers; telekinesis; shapeshifting; hyperdeveloped senses; combat expertise; sharpshooting; eidetic memory; computer hacking skills; thief skills; temporary gifts of power from drugs, alien devices, etc, repercussions of which could include delusions of godhood, dangerous physical or mental overload, and so on)
76. Talking and communication issues (dirty talk or verbal seduction; sweet talking; reciting poetry; talking someone to orgasm; talking during sex; pillow talk; phone sex; speech becoming broken as one is aroused or upset; being inarticulate or articulate; aphasia; talking fast; miscommunication and misunderstandings in general; lack of a shared language; see also Silence; Clams; Voice fetishization)
77. Tattoos (decorative, symbolic, or slave; barcodes)
78. Topping from the bottom
79. Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand)
80. Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities)
81. Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases)
82. Vampires
83. Voice fetishization (cracking or broken; husky, low, throaty; purring; accents; whispering close to someone's ear)
84. Voyeurism and vision themes (character A secretly watches B and C have sex; character A is forced to watch B and C have sex; character A watches character B perform/masturbate; viewing one's beloved in general; taking pictures or video; eye contact, especially as flirting; establishing authority with a look; closing eyes as a trust gesture; character A feeling that character B truly sees him, when no one else does; the quality of light, e.g., characters lit by moonlight or candlelight, or gilded by the setting sun; being in the dark; temporary or permanent blindness; gazes as objectification)
85. Washing (washing one's partner, body or hair; bubble baths; shower scenes; slave service in bath; cleaning/cleansing someone who's been raped, degraded, or who is injured)
86. Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)
87. Western scenarios and fetishization (cowboy gear; campfire and trail scenes; horses; gunslingers, lawmen, card sharps, etc; train robberies and bank hold-ups; posses; saloon brawls)
88. Witnesses (families, friends, or others watch the development of a relationship; play matchmaker or serve as confidants; think the characters are involved when they're really not; constitute the public eye; disapprove, gossip, give advice; are the audience for a coming out drama; are witnesses to such things as flirting, public arousal, public sex)
89. Worry (one character worrying anxiously about another; going crazy with worry)
90. Writing (love letters or notes; secret admirers; e-mail and chat; wills; poetry; storytelling; tracing words or figures on skin, or writing, as with an inkbrush)
And since I've already got one stupidly long meme type thing on here, have another.
1. Which Johnny band is your favourite: Arashi
2. Why: Basically, they're charming, have the best chemistry of the Kanto groups, and keep making me want more of them.
3. Who is your favourite Johnny: Ninomiya Kazunari, although Taichi is a close second, that cute bastard.
4. Why: I really like the quick witted tsukkomi types, and he's got more talent in his little finger than I could hope for. He doesn't let what he's gone through get in the way of what he's doing, and he constantly impresses. And Taichi is Taichi, and Taichi is amazing.
5. When is your very first contact with a Johnny: 2007 (probably)
6. Who was it: Sakurai Sho and Ninomiya Kazunari. (I had heard of Kimura Takuya from my Japanese teacher, but we never actually listened to SMAP, so I figure it doesn't count.)
7. How did you know him: Yamada Tarou Monogatari.
8. When actually did you really start listening/liking the JE: 2007
9. What incident brought you into JE: I saw Yamada Tarou Monogatari while in Japan, and had been told that they were part of a band. When I got back from Japan, I looked them up online and found the Sakura Sake PV. The end.
10. Do you have a favourite JE song: Favorite, not really. I like too many.
11. Do you listen to them the most: Yes, I don't even have to check.
12. Outside JE, who is your favourite band/artist: Gackt, Judy and Mary, and musical soundtracks
13. Which band/singer did you listen/like the most before JE: Gackt, and Dir en grey.
-Kat-tun-
1. Who is your favourite in Kat-tun: Uh. None.
2. Why: Don't like 'em.
3. Do you have a favourite song of Kat-tun: No.
4. Do you have a favourite live of Kat-tun: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of Kat-tun: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of Kat-tun: Couldn't say, never listen to 'em.
7. Who do you think can dance the most of Kat-tun: Good question.
8. Who is the girliest of Kat-tun: I'll go with Ueda, on basis of photo shoots.
9. Who is the manliest of Kat-tun: I'll go with Koki, on basis of photo shoots.
10. Who is the cutest member of Kat-tun: Uh...
11. Who is the funniest member of Kat-tun: Uh...
12. Who is the most prettiest in Kat-tun: Uh...
13. Who has the best appearance in Kat-tun: Uh....
14. Do you have a favourite PV of Kat-tun: No.
-NewS-
1. Who is your favourite in NewS: Ryo?
2. Why: Because I know Ryo from Kanjani.
3. Do you have a favourite song of NewS: Weeeeeek, 'cause it's the only one I listen to. 8D
4. Do you have a favourite live of NewS: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of NewS: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of NewS: Uh...
7. Who do you think can dance the most of NewS: Uh...
8. Who is the girliest of NewS: Couldn't say. Pi with his shiny mane of hair?
9. Who is the manliest of NewS: Couldn't say.
10. Who is the cutest member of NewS: Couldn't say.
11. Who is the funniest member of NewS: Couldn't say.
12. Who is the most prettiest in NewS: Pi with his shiny mane of hair?
13. Who has the best appearance in NewS: Couldn't say.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of NewS: No.
-KanJani∞-
1. Who is your favourite in KanJani8: Ryo.
2. Why: Because I watched him in Ryuusei no Kizuna. 8D
3. Do you have a favourite song of KanJani8: Musekinin Hero.
4. Do you have a favourite live of KanJani8: No.
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of KanJani8: No.
6. Who do you think can sing the best of KanJani8: Mmmmmm... I'll go with Hina.
7. Who do you think can dance the most of KanJani8: This I don't know.
8. Who is the girliest of KanJani8: Depends.
9. Who is the manliest of KanJani8: Depends.
10. Who is the cutest member of KanJani8: Depends.
11. Who is the funniest member of KanJani8: Yoko.
12. Who is the most prettiest in KanJani8: Toss up between Hina and Ohkura.
13. Who has the best appearance in KanJani8: Depends.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of KanJani8: Zukkoke Otokomichi.
-Arashi-
1. Who is your favourite in Arashi: Ninomiya Kazunari
2. Why: Tsukkomi boy with guitar who bullies his sempai but makes them love him anyway.
3. Do you have a favourite song of Arashi: There are so many good ones ;o;
4. Do you have a favourite live of Arashi: The Kokuritsu concert was awesome, does that count?
5. Do you have a favourite show appearance of Arashi: D no Arashi
6. Who do you think can sing the best of Arashi: Ohno
7. Who do you think can dance the most of Arashi: Ohno
8. Who is the girliest of Arashi: It's a toss up between Nino and Aiba; Jun may be feminine, but they have all the girly mannerisms.
9. Who is the manliest of Arashi: Sho
10. Who is the cutest member of Arashi: Nino
11. Who is the funniest member of Arashi: Nino has the quick wit, and I love that.
12. Who is the most prettiest in Arashi: When made up right, Aiba. Just on his own, Sho.
13. Who has the best appearance in Arashi: Nino has some seriously amazing skin and looks good in just about everything.
14. Do you have a favourite PV of Arashi: Happiness.
-other units-
1. Who is your favourite younger unit: None. I listen to none of them and I want to listen to none of them.
2. Who is your favourite older unit: Tokio.
3. Do you have a favourite member of any younger or older unit: Taichi and Nagase.
4. Do you have a favourite song of any younger or older unit: Tokio's Sorafune tied with Ashita wo Mezashite.
5. Do you have a favourite show with any younger or older unit: 5LDK, I'd like Dash more if they didn't spend so much time in the village.
6. Do you have a favourite live of any younger or older unit: No.
-Dramas-
1. Do you have a favourite actor in JE: Nino
2. Do you have a favourite drama starring with one of JE: Kisarazu, Stand Up!
3. What was your very first drama staring with one of JE: Yamada Tarou Monogatari.
4. Which drama of JE have you watched recently: The Quiz Show, Smile, Ryuusei no Kizuna
5. Which drama of JE do you want to watch: Majo no Saiban
6. Who do you wish would should start acting, who hasn't yet: Uh...
7. Who do you wish should stop acting, because he sucks at acting or he should do something else instead: Yamapi. He was fine in Stand Up! but he does the same thing with every roll.
-Questions for fun-
1. Do you think that you are JE addicted: For Arashi, yes.
2. Why do you think so: I spend so much time sifting through communities on LJ when I could be doing other time wasting things that aren't so unhealthy, like reading a book.
3. What will you do seeing your favourite Johnny standing in front of your door: Realistically? Probably stare in incredulity and try to get in my apartment from the back window.
4. What advantages does starting liking JE give you: Er... this is a strangely worded question.
5. What disadvantages does it give you: An unrealistic expectation of men's beauty.
6. How many times a day do you think about JE: Depends on if I'm writing a 'fic or not - then it's really just about the people who are in the 'fic. Otherwise I wonder what shows are on.
7. How many times do you have the face of your favourite Johnny around you: This is embarrassing, but 14 group posters' worth.
8. If your favourite Johnny or your favourite JE has to grant you a wish what would it be: Make an album that they wrote and produced all by themselves.
9. If you have a wish about JE, what would it be: Do more fun episodes about foreigners in Japan or Japanese overseas.
10. If you were reborn, you'd wish to be: The king (or queen), Kimura Takuya
11. If you are were in Johnny's right now, you would be: Uh. No.
12. If you could ask your favourite Johnny or your favourite JE band a question, it would be: If Johnny's dissolved, would you still want to be an entertainer? What would you do otherwise?
13. Have you you ever had a dream with a Johnny: Yes
14. If yes, when was it and what was it? Can't remember.
15. Do you have any realizable goal in your life that has to do with JE: See Nino's play and another concert and get the tingles (though that isn't really in my control.... grr lottery system!)
16. Do you like JE BL fanfic: Yes.
17. If yes, who are the best couple of JE: Depends on who's writing.
18. If you were Johnny-san, what would you change about JE: The stupid embargo on their faces.
19. Did you like this survey: Not so much. A lot of the questions were kind of redundant, but I'm stuck in my apartment so I don't spread a flu I don't have to other people.