Curator · The Empath
Inés Valdés
@ines.v · 40 logs · 3 followers · 8 following
Empath · contemplative · interior · intimate
Demo account. If it made me cry, it gets a star for that. Character over plot, always.
Archetype
The Empath
Feeling and character predict everything. With a streak of The Sincere.
7% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
They want to feel it. Character, interiority, a face holding something back: if the work makes they care about a person, they are all in.
Where it goes wrong: A work can move you without being good, and you will defend it anyway.
More about the Empath
- Avoids
- Detachment. Clever, cool, mechanical work reads to you as a closed door, however admired it is.
- How they rate
- Your stars are a record of how much you felt. Reviews describe what it did to you, not what it is.
- Good company
- You pair well with the Sincere and the Comfort Seeker; the Ironist finds you earnest, and you find them evasive.
- Against the crowd
- You are kinder than the crowd to small, tender work and harsher on spectacle that forgot to have a heart.
In three lines
- More contemplative than almost every curator. pacingcontemplativerelentless 67%
- More interior than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 62%
- More intimate than most curators. scaleintimateepic 58%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · GoldMaxed
- Time traveller · Silver8 of 10
- On a streak · Silver43 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver50 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Generous18 of 25
- Serialist7 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Interstellar
Up
WALL·E
Paddington 2
Aftersun
Seriess
Ted Lasso
Chernobyl
Fleabag
Mad Men
Twin Peaks
Books
Never Let Me Go
Beloved
A Little Life
The Remains of the Day
Circe
Albums
- Blue
- Rumours
- Punisher
- Hounds of Love
- To Pimp a Butterfly
Games
The Last of Us
Outer Wilds
Hades
Hollow Knight
Dark Souls
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; Inés Valdés 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.
Inés Valdés 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 Inés Valdés 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 Empath87%
- The Sincere12%
In the community
- Kinder than 74% of curators
- Has rated more than 49% of curators
- More contemplative than 99% of curators
- 7% of curators are Empaths
Among 631 curators with a profile.
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 58 rated titles.
This month they were wandering outside your usual taste and chasing intensity. From 13 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Punisher2020
★★★★½ines.v
Whisper-sung grief, and then the last track screams. I listened to it walking home and had to sit on a bench.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
♥ 4 · 1 comment · 9/4/2026
Aftersun2022
★★★★★ines.v
The final minutes did something to me I am still not over. A film about how memory edits the people we lose until only the tender parts are left. Paul Mescal's back, in that doorway, is a whole performance.
Mostly about the performances, the story, how it felt.
♥ 3 · 1 comment · 8/28/2026
Never Let Me Go2005
★★★★★ines.v
I read the last forty pages standing up because I could not sit with them. Ishiguro writes acceptance as the saddest thing a person can do. I gave it five and I will never read it again.
Mostly about the craft, the story, how it felt.
♥ 2 · 2 comments · 8/15/2026
Up2009
★★★★★ines.v
Ten minutes in and I was gone. The rest of the film is lovely and I would defend every talking dog, but the opening is the one that lives in me.
♥ 7 · 3 comments · 7/27/2026
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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