finished · 2d
Klara and the Sun 2019
★★★½3.5
Archetype
The Cartographer
World-building is king. With a streak of The Empath.
6% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
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.
More about the Cartographer
- Avoids
- Thin settings and stories that could happen anywhere. If the place is a backdrop, you drift.
- How they rate
- You reward density and scale. A middling story in a rich world gets a pass; a sharp story in a cardboard one does not.
- Good company
- Genre Devotees and Thrill Chasers share your appetite for the big; Formalists share your patience for detail.
- Against the crowd
- You are generous with sprawling, uneven epics the crowd found long, and impatient with tidy chamber pieces the crowd loved.
Curators like them:
Kofi
In three lines
- More dense world than almost every curator. world-buildingsparerichly built 67%
- More epic than almost every curator. scaleintimateepic 68%
- More event-driven than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 62%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver23 of 25
- Time traveler · Silver9 of 10
- On a streak · Silver41 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Opinionated · Bronze44 of 50
- Serialist9 of 10
- Reader8 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars
Dune
The Godfather
Mad Max: Fury Road
Seriess
Severance
The Wire
Twin Peaks
Fleabag
Breaking Bad
Books
Piranesi
Dune
The Hobbit
The Secret History- Klara and the Sun
Albums
Make a playlist- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Blonde
- Kid A
Games
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Outer Wilds
Baldur's Gate III
Elden Ring
Disco Elysium
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How Cy rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
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 map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Cy is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, 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.
Against the crowd
Where Cy parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
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.
Drift
How what Cy loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
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.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Cartographer100%
In the community
- Kinder than 62% of curators
- Has rated more than 46% of curators
- More dense world than 99% of curators
- 6% of curators are Cartographers
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Prestige vs. pulp barely moves their ratings.
Genres
- Open world4.5★ · 3
- Mystery4.5★ · 5
- Fantasy4.4★ · 11
- Role-playing (RPG)4.4★ · 8
- Comedy3.1★ · 9
- Thriller3.6★ · 5
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 53 rated titles.
This month they were settling in for long things. From 8 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
watched · 6d
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.
finished · Sep 11
Beloved 1987
★★★3.0
watched · Aug 30
Breaking Bad 2008
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 30
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★★½4.5
watched · Aug 29
Dune 2021
★★★★★5.0
The film's Arrakis is the first one that felt like a planet and not a set. Villeneuve shoots scale the way Herbert wrote it: slowly, and then all at once.
Mostly about the craft.
played · Aug 25
Portal 2 2011
★★★3.0
listened · Aug 22
Blonde 2016
★★★½3.5
finished · Aug 19
Project Hail Mary 2021
★★★½3.5
played · Aug 18
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2015
★★★★★5.0
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.
watched · Aug 16
Succession 2018
★★★3.0
played · Aug 15
Stardew Valley 2016
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 15
Fleabag 2016
★★★½3.5
Very funny and I admire it, but there is no world here, only a person. I want the person to have somewhere to stand.
played · Aug 11
Baldur's Gate III 2023
★★★★★5.0
watched · Aug 11
Ted Lasso 2020
★★★3.0
played · Aug 10
Celeste 2018
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 7
Fight Club 1999
★★★3.0
watched · Aug 3
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 2
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★★½4.5
A town, not a plot. Lynch built a place you can smell and then let the mystery rot in it. The Return is the bravest thing ever put on television.
Mostly about the craft.
watched · Aug 2
Star Wars 1977
★★★★★5.0
watched · Jul 30
John Wick 2014
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 30
The Godfather 1972
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 28
The Dark Knight 2008
★★★½3.5
played · Jul 24
Dark Souls 2011
★★★★½4.5
played · Jul 17
Elden Ring 2022
★★★★★5.0
A world that does not care whether you understand it, which is the highest form of respect. I read the item descriptions like scripture. Caelid is the best bad place in games.
Mostly about the craft.
played · Jul 15
Slay the Spire 2019
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 12
The Matrix 1999
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 11
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★★4.0
finished · Jul 2
The Hobbit 1937
★★★★★5.0
A children's book with a map at the front, which is all a children's book needs. Read it aloud.
played · Jun 26
Hades 2020
★★★½3.5
watched · Jun 25
Aftersun 2022
★★★½3.5
played · Jun 24
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★★½4.5
played · Jun 21
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★4.0
watched · Jun 21
The Wire 2002
★★★★½4.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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