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Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@ada.archive · 77 logs · 6 followers · 9 following
Provocateur · contemplative · intimate · open
Demo account. Restorations, first pressings, the black and white one. The past keeps better than we do.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Sincerity vs. irony barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were in a generous mood. From 29 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
9 books, all of them intimate, none of them a chore.
8 films that are open-ended in the best way.
Where I send people who say they want something patient.
The patient ones I would hand you first.
The old ones that still feel new.
Profile built from 77 rated titles.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma got under my skin. Modest in scale, not in impact. Open-ended without being vague.
Mostly about the story, how it felt.
One of the best things I have read this year. Plot is beside the point; the inner life is everything. Serious in intent and in execution. Straight onto my favourites.
Mostly about the craft.
Pitico: Hermes Ayres Azevedo (1881-1959) - Local Historian got under my skin. Rough around the edges, and the roughness is part of the charm. Already want to watch it again.
I did not expect To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism to hit this hard. Prestige in the good sense: made with care by people who mean it. More about who these people are than what happens to them. Straight onto my favourites.
Mostly about the craft.
One of the best things I have watched this year. Serious in intent and in execution.
Matador Bolero is the real thing. Open-ended without being vague. Slow in the way that lets things sink in. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
Mostly about the story.
Waterland got under my skin. It never rushes, and it never needs to.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
I finished ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST and just sat there for a while. Relentless from the first minute, and it never lets go. Rough around the edges, and the roughness is part of the charm. Already want to listen to it again.
Virginia Woolf at the top of their game with Between the Acts. Polished and serious, the real thing. It earned every star.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Inferno is the real thing. Prestige in the good sense: made with care by people who mean it. Meticulously made; every detail is placed with care.
Mostly about the craft.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Ada Lindqvist is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
