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.
@cartographer_cy · 72 logs · 6 followers · 11 following
Cartographer · dense world · epic · event-driven
Demo account. I want a map, a history, and a language. World-building is king.
A world with its own rules, history, and weather. They read the appendix. They want to know what is over the next hill.
Where it goes wrong: Lore is not story. You can spend a hundred hours somewhere and not notice nothing happened.
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. Craft attention 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 settling in for long things and in a generous mood. From 22 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 72 rated titles.
Everything I hoped Lord of Mysteries would be, and more. A world so dense I wanted to live in it.
Mostly about the story.
The only adaptation that understands the book is about walking. Every landscape is a character. Moria alone is more world than most trilogies manage.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
The Bloody Baron questline is better written than most films. The world has a weather, a politics, and a sense of humour. Gwent is a crime.
Mostly about the craft, the story, comfort.
Very funny and I admire it, but there is no world here, only a person. I want the person to have somewhere to stand.
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; Cy 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.
