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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.
@mara_k · 81 logs · 12 followers · 12 following
Provocateur · contemplative · intimate · open
Demo account. Canon first, then everything else. Reviews are long on purpose.
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 and revisiting favorites. From 32 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
8 films, all of them patient, none of them a chore.
7 records that are patient in the best way.
7 films, all of them patient, none of them a chore.
The patient ones I would hand you first.
Films and books that trust you to sit still. Slow on purpose, never slack.
Profile built from 81 rated titles.
Digital Tribe Games at the top of their game with Concierge. Open-ended without being vague. It keeps the frame tight, and every detail counts. Straight onto my favourites.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
David Markson at the top of their game with Wittgenstein's Mistress. It lives inside its characters' heads, and that is where it shines. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
Everything I hoped La plante dansante de désastres would be, and more. The kind of work that makes the rest of the year look lazy. I will be thinking about it for weeks.
The Adding Machine got under my skin. It aims high and mostly gets there. It stays close to a few people and that is where its power is. Already want to watch it again.
Mostly about the performances.
Samuel Beckett at the top of their game with Murphy. Every choice feels considered. Already want to read it again.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Competent, loud, and forgettable within the hour. It is a product demo for a business model. That it works as one is not a point in its favour.
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; Mara Kessler 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.
