Curator · The Cartographer
Cy Lindqvist
@cartographer_cy · 40 logs · 6 followers · 5 following
Cartographer · dense world · epic · event-driven
Demo account. I want a map, a history, and a language. World-building is king.
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 Mensah
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 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver23 of 25
- Time traveller · 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
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Blonde
- Kid A
Games
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Outer Wilds
Baldur's Gate III
Elden Ring
Disco Elysium
Taste fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, read against every other curator.
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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.
Ratings by medium
The dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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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 taste map
Every curator with a profile, placed on the two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Cy Lindqvist is ringed.
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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. Neighbours are worth a look.
Cy Lindqvist against the crowd
Every rated title with an audience score.
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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 the character of what Cy Lindqvist loved has moved, year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
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One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favourites 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 631 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 and revisiting favourites. From 9 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
★★★★★cartographer_cy
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.
♥ 1 · 9/15/2026
Dune2021
★★★★★cartographer_cy
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.
♥ 1 · 8/29/2026
★★★★★cartographer_cy
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.
♥ 1 · 8/18/2026
Fleabag2016
★★★½cartographer_cy
Very funny and I admire it, but there is no world here, only a person. I want the person to have somewhere to stand.
Mostly about the performances.
♥ 2 · 1 comment · 8/15/2026
Twin Peaks1990
★★★★½cartographer_cy
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.
♥ 3 · 2 comments · 8/2/2026
Elden Ring2022
★★★★★cartographer_cy
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.
♥ 2 · 1 comment · 7/17/2026
Dune1965
★★★★★cartographer_cy
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.
7/15/2026
The Hobbit1937
★★★★★cartographer_cy
A children's book with a map at the front, which is all a children's book needs. Read it aloud.
♥ 1 · 1 comment · 7/2/2026
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
watchlist
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