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.
@devontae · 70 logs · 8 followers · 11 following
Genre Devotee · pulp · relentless · contemporary
Demo account. Action, comics, big loud games. I rate on fun, not on homework.
Pulp done right. They judge a heist film as a heist film and a doom metal record as doom metal, and they know the rules well enough to know when they are bent well.
Where it goes wrong: Loyalty to a form can become loyalty to its clichés.
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. Tonal darkness 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 and chasing intensity. From 31 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 70 rated titles.
J.J. Perry at the top of their game with Afterburn. Trashy in all the right ways. Already want to watch it again.
Mostly about the craft.
Plankton: The Movie got under my skin. Proudly pulpy and a total blast.
Mage Tank 5 is the real thing. Proudly pulpy and a total blast. The world-building is extraordinary; every corner is lived in. Believe the hype on this one.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
I did not expect Ready or Not: Here I Come to hit this hard. The plot is a machine and every part of it clicks. A world so dense I wanted to live in it. Believe the hype on this one.
Mostly about the story.
One of the best things I have read this year. Epic in the old sense, and it holds all of it together. Relentless from the first minute, and it never lets go.
Mostly about the craft, the story, memory.
High on Life 2 is the real thing. The comedy lands again and again. I will be thinking about it for weeks.
I did not expect Peacemaker to hit this hard. It barely lets you breathe, and I loved that. I keep telling people about it.
A movie that understands the assignment. Every fight is legible, every death has weight, and the dog thing is the best inciting incident since a kid got left home alone. Rewatched it three times this year.
Mostly about the craft, comfort.
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; Dev 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.
