Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@sib.contrarian · 86 logs · 9 followers · 10 following
Provocateur · open · demanding · experimental
Demo account. If everyone loves it I get suspicious. Sometimes I am wrong, and I keep the review up.
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.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were chasing intensity. From 31 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 86 rated titles.
House of Leaves is the real thing. It leaves room for you, and I love that. It breaks the usual shape and finds something new in the pieces. It earned every star.
Mostly about the story.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Solid, and in places better than solid. Scrappy and alive. I am still arguing with myself about what it meant.
Carlos Conceição does a lot right here. Ambitious, and it earns the ambition. A good one.
I am split on The Holy Office. Serious in intent and in execution. Patient to the point of testing mine. Worth a look, with expectations in check.
Mostly about the pace.
Glad I finally watched Bitter Christmas. It aims high and mostly gets there.
Lars von Trier at the top of their game with The House That Jack Built. The dread settles in early and never lifts. Serious in intent and in execution.
Mostly about the craft.
I liked Hurry Up Tomorrow a lot more than I expected to. It stares at the worst of people and does not look away. It leaves room for you, and I love that.
A good film, close to a great one. It is overwhelming in the best sense; I was wrecked. I would happily watch it again.
Mostly about how it felt.
A dead man narrates his own vanity and the film still takes the side of the monster. That is courage.
Mostly about the performances, the story, comfort.
Kindness as a product. I wanted to like it more than the show wanted to be liked, which is saying something.
A satire that a generation mistook for a manual, which is on the generation, not the film.
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; Sibyl Okafor 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.
