Curator · The Cartographer
Kofi Mensah
@kofi_k · 40 logs · 9 followers · 7 following
Cartographer · dense world · epic · event-driven
Demo account. Science fiction in every medium. Ideas first, then everything else.
Archetype
The Cartographer
World-building is king. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
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:
Cy Lindqvist
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More dense world than almost every curator. world-buildingsparerichly built 65%
- More epic than almost every curator. scaleintimateepic 71%
- More event-driven than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 61%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver21 of 25
- Time traveller · Silver8 of 10
- On a streak · Silver38 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver51 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Conversationalist9 of 10
- Serialist7 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Interstellar
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars
WALL·E
The Martian
Seriess
Twin Peaks
The Wire
Mad Men
Ted Lasso
The Bear
Books
Never Let Me Go
Dune
The Left Hand of Darkness
Circe
Pachinko
Albums
- Blue
Games
Outer Wilds
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Hollow Knight
Dark Souls
Elden Ring
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; Kofi Mensah 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.
Kofi Mensah 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 Kofi Mensah 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 68% of curators
- Has rated more than 47% of curators
- More dense world than 99% of curators
- 6% of curators are Cartographers
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 55 rated titles.
This month they were settling in for long things. From 10 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
★★★★kofi_k
Popcorn science fiction with a heart. Rocky is the best alien in decades because the book lets him be a friend, not a puzzle.
Mostly about the performances, the story, comfort.
♥ 1 · 9/15/2026
Dune1965
★★★★★kofi_k
The book is a machine for thinking about ecology and religion at once. Villeneuve's film understood the scale; the book understood the cost.
♥ 1 · 1 comment · 9/7/2026
Dune2021
★★★★★kofi_k
The book is a machine for thinking about ecology and religion at once. Villeneuve's film understood the scale; the book understood the cost.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
♥ 1 · 8/15/2026
Outer Wilds2019
★★★★★kofi_k
A game about the scientific method that never says the phrase. You learn; that is the only upgrade. The ending made me sit in silence.
Mostly about the craft, the story, how it felt.
7/16/2026
Interstellar2014
★★★★★kofi_k
The science is half right and the feeling is entirely right. The docking scene is the best set piece of the decade. Yes, the bookshelf. I know. I cried anyway.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt, comfort.
6/30/2026Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
watchlist
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