Curator · The Provocateur
V. Volkov
@viktor_v · 40 logs · 7 followers · 6 following
Provocateur · bleak · open · demanding
Demo account. Horror, body horror, and the films that make you look away. If it is comfortable it is not doing its job.
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Prestige Hunter.
12% of curators. 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 hot take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More bleak than almost every curator. tonal darknesswarmbleak 67%
- More open than almost every curator. ambiguityresolvedopen-ended 67%
- More demanding than almost every curator. challengeeffortlessdemanding 64%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Time traveller · Silver9 of 10
- Shelved · Silver20 of 25
- On a streak · Silver40 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 50
- Critic4 of 5
- Cinephile34 of 50
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Thing
Hereditary
Parasite
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Seriess
BEEF
Succession
Breaking Bad
The Wire
The Bear
Books
Blood Meridian
The Left Hand of Darkness
Project Hail Mary
Albums
- good kid, m.A.A.d city
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Punisher
- Blue
Games
Dark Souls
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; V. Volkov 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.
V. Volkov 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 V. Volkov 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 Provocateur100%
In the community
- Harsher than 92% of curators
- Has rated more than 44% of curators
- More bleak than 99% of curators
- 12% of curators are Provocateurs
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 50 rated titles.
This month they were chasing intensity and revisiting favourites. From 11 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Hereditary2018
★★★★★viktor_v
A film about grief that becomes a film about inheritance and never lets you choose which. The dinner scene is horror without a single effect.
Mostly about the story.
9/15/2026
Blood Meridian1985
★★★½viktor_v
The scalp-hunters ride and the judge dances and there is no moral and that is the moral. The most beautiful prose ever wrapped around the worst things.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
♥ 2 · 2 comments · 7/22/2026
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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