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.
@yuki.reads · 69 logs · 13 followers · 8 following
Provocateur · contemplative · interior · open
Demo account. Books mostly, a few series, the occasional film that reads like a novel.
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. 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 30 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 69 rated titles.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
I finished 2001 Events and just sat there for a while. Prestige in the good sense: made with care by people who mean it. It keeps the frame tight, and every detail counts. This one is going to stay with me.
Mostly about the craft.
Ballad of an Immigrant with Memory is the real thing. Polished and serious, the real thing. Modest in scale, not in impact. I keep telling people about it.
One of the best things I have watched this year. It takes its time, and the patience pays off. Every choice feels considered. Already want to watch it again.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Everything I hoped The True Story of Richard III. The Film would be, and more. Every choice feels considered. It leaves room for you, and I love that. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the craft.
Blue Heron is the real thing. Serious in intent and in execution. Slow in the way that lets things sink in. It earned every star.
Ghost Elephants is the real thing. Serious in intent and in execution. It lets moments breathe longer than most would dare. This one is going to stay with me.
Mostly about the craft.
One of the best things I have played this year. Unhurried, and the unhurriedness is the point. It earned every star.
Tartt tells you who died on page one and you spend five hundred pages hoping you are wrong about why. Overlong in the middle and I did not care.
Mostly about the story, the pace.
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; Yuki Sato 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.
