Curator · The Empath
Yuki Sato
@yuki.reads · 40 logs · 5 followers · 6 following
Empath · contemplative · interior · intimate
Demo account. Books mostly, a few series, the occasional film that reads like a novel.
Archetype
The Empath
Feeling and character predict everything. With a streak of The Prestige Hunter.
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.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More contemplative than almost every curator. pacingcontemplativerelentless 75%
- More interior than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 67%
- More intimate than almost every curator. scaleintimateepic 66%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 24- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver22 of 25
- On a streak · Silver39 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver54 of 200
- Time traveller · Silver7 of 10
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Generous23 of 25
- Serialist7 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first.
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; Yuki Sato 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.
Yuki Sato 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 Yuki Sato 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 Empath73%
- The Prestige Hunter11%
- The Sincere8%
In the community
- Harsher than 51% of curators
- Has rated more than 39% of curators
- More contemplative than 99% of curators
- 7% of curators are Empaths
Among 631 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Craft attention barely moves their ratings.
Genres
- Fiction4.7★ · 6
- New York Times bestseller4.3★ · 3
- Fantasy4.0★ · 4
- Drama3.9★ · 13
- Action2.2★ · 9
- Science Fiction2.5★ · 6
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 45 rated titles.
This month they were harder to please than usual and wandering outside your usual taste. From 15 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
★★★★½yuki.reads
Tartt tells you who died on page one and you spend five hundred pages hoping you are wrong about why. Overlong in the middle and I did not care.
Mostly about the story, the pace.
♥ 3 · 2 comments · 9/17/2026
Pachinko2017
★★★★★yuki.reads
Four generations and not one wasted chapter. The book is generous the way a grandmother is generous: without asking if you deserve it.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
♥ 1 · 7/16/2026
Piranesi2020
★★★★★yuki.reads
A house that is the world, a narrator who is happier than he should be, and a plot that arrives like weather. I read it in a day and then read the first fifty pages again to see how she did it.
Mostly about the craft, the story, comfort.
♥ 1 · 7/13/2026
Dune1965
★★★★yuki.reads
The book, not the film: the film is a very expensive trailer for it. Herbert's politics are a mess and the mess is the point. Read the appendices.
♥ 3 · 7/9/2026
Severance2022
★★★½yuki.reads
A workplace show that is actually about the self, told with a control freak's precision. The finale is the tightest hour of television I have seen.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
♥ 2 · 2 comments · 6/17/2026
★★★½yuki.reads
The book, not the film: the film is a very expensive trailer for it. Herbert's politics are a mess and the mess is the point. Read the appendices.
♥ 2 · 6/16/2026
★★★★★yuki.reads
Le Guin builds a planet to ask one question about gender and then lets the question melt into a friendship. The trek across the ice is the best fifty pages in science fiction.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
♥ 1 · 6/11/2026
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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