From The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
Bud · The Provocateur

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Provocateur · contemplative · open · demanding

Demo account. Slow television and the occasional very long novel. Episode one is a promise; I hold shows to it.

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How compatible are we?
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Sincere.
12% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.

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.

More about the Provocateur
Avoids
Comfort, closure, and being told how to feel. Warmth on its own reads as a sales pitch.
How they rate
Your five stars go to the difficult. Your one star goes to the smooth. The middle is where you are bored.
Good company
The Formalist respects you, the Ironist enjoys you, and the Comfort Seeker is your most productive opposite.
Against the crowd
You are the reliable spicy take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Buds like them:Ruthless RuthSibyl OkaforMara Kessler
Open to the unusual
In three lines
  • They are happy with a slow, patient pace. More than almost anyone here.
    contemplativerelentless 76%
  • They like endings left open to interpretation. More than almost anyone here.
    resolvedopen-ended 67%
  • They like work that takes some effort. More than almost anyone here.
    effortlessdemanding 66%

The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.

Favorites

The five this Bud would hand you first.

Films
  1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  2. Aftersun
    Aftersun
  3. In the Mood for Love
    In the Mood for Love
  4. Spirited Away
    Spirited Away
  5. The Thing
    The Thing
Television
  1. The Wire
    The Wire
  2. Severance
    Severance
  3. Mad Men
    Mad Men
  4. Succession
    Succession
  5. The Bear
    The Bear
Books
  1. The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day
  2. Piranesi
    Piranesi
  3. Circe
    Circe
  4. Dune
    Dune
  5. Beloved
    Beloved
Music
Make a playlist
  1. In Rainbows
    In Rainbows
  2. Punisher
    Punisher
Games
  1. Return of the Obra Dinn
    Return of the Obra Dinn
  2. Slay the Spire
    Slay the Spire