Instead of using a star rating system I use experience bars. Each color is associated with a set of emotions/feelings and instead of rating a piece of media I mark what emotions I experienced. Rating with stars has never felt truly reflective of my experience since I recall the emotions I felt while watching/reading/listening before I remember any other details, so that's what inspired this system! The color-feeling associations aren't concrete and will change many many times.
-anger, frustration, bitter, jealousy
-embarrassed, loving, heart-felt, playful
-inspirational, curious, hopeful
-sadness, grief, depressed, hurt
-happy, uplifting, cozy, humorous,
energetic
-confused, bored, disappointed
-disgust
-anxious, stressed, frightened
mangas
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backlogMangas - 23 read
a village girl, as a fish, becomes the knight's lover
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two souls
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the one within the villainess
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the yakuza i rescued has his eyes on me?!
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suzume's favorite
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love plan
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kill the villainess
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fujimi no meinichi
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the devil's tango
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dawn of dragon
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country like lion
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i thought it was a common isekai story
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the savior's book cafe story in another world
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beware of the villainess!
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for my abandoned love
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high society
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i want to spoil ikuro
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the black mirror
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when the killer falls in love
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barbarities
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i've gotten used to being on my own so i'm ignoring my fiance
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on the way to meet mom
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koi ga ochitara
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Books - 7 read
patriarchy blues: reflections on manhood
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the will to change
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the privatization of everything
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the shallows: what the internet is doing to our breans
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part of your world
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legendborn
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a psalm for the wild built
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Shows - 27 watched
abbott elementary
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the amazing digital circus
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Pretty pretty please i dont want to be a magical girl
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knights of guinevere
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gelboys
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the summer hikaru died
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secret relationships
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top form
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perfect 10 liners
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knock out
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dead friend forever
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burnout syndrome
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clairebell
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spare me your mercy
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see your love
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jack & joker the series
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shine the series
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kinnporsche the series
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reset the series
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love in the air
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revenged love
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next prince
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pitbabe s1 & s2
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cloudward, ho!
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world of street woman fighter 3
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severance
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Interview with the vampire
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Movies - 6 watched
i saw the tv glow
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hedda (2025)
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knives out: wake up dead man
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paradise of thorns
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kpop demon hunters
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parasite
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sinners
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Documentaries - 1 watched
exterminate all the brutes
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Music - 15 discovered
YT Vids - 2 watched
Backlog - f
- project super crush
- black feminist thought - patricia hill collins
- goat (2026)
- between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates
- the 1619 project - nikole hannah-jones
- zeal- morgan jerkins
- post traumatic slave syndrome - dr. joy degruy
- take my hand - dolen perkins-valdez
- stamped from the beginning - the definitive history of racist ideas in america - ibram x. kendi
- under the skin: the hidden toll of racism on american lives and on the health of our nation - linda villarosa
- takatora and the omegas
- as you stood by
- grey shelter
- zola
- outdrawn - deanna grey
- dakar 1997
- humans in the loop
- lan yu
- we bury the dead
- sister midnight
- the watermelon woman
- monster
- da 5 bloods
- no other choice
- it was just an accident
- humans in the loop
- african booty-scratcha - lester mayers
- swallow from both ends - lester mayers
- a spring of gay black feminine joy - lester mayers
- for the boys
- BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions
- if i go will they miss me
- selah and the spades
- two black boys in paradise
- a girl like grace
- roller coaster - gl
- boys in love
- love casting
- RAFIKI
- noah's arc
- brother to brother
- the inspection - 2022
- kill to love
- patrichor - gl
- leap day
- love letters virginia woolf and vita sackville west
- written on the body by jannet winterson
- the queens of sarmiento park by camila sosa vallada
- mouths of rain an anthology of black lesbian thought
- de profundis by oscar wilde
- annie john by jamaica kincaid
- james baldwin la chambre de giovanni
- black queer studies: a critical anthology edited by e patrick johnson and mae g henderson
- frankie & josie documentary 1994
- odds and ends 1993
- i saw the tv glow
- taxi driver - thai movie
- lets talk about chu
- my perfect weatherman
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gelboys
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my beautiful man
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your name engraved herein
- love in the big city
- secrets happened on litchi island
- let free the curse of taekwondo
- rental boyfriend
- our dining table
- pure love bring it on!
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spaceless
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marry my dead body - taiwanese movie
- we best love
- vip only
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i hear the sunspot
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baby assassins
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sing sing 2023 movie
- a tale of a thousand stars
- black panther 1
- black panther 2
- pumzi
- the brother from another planet
- Touki Bouki
- Yeelen
- Kwaku Ananse
- Sankofa
- Ganja & Hess
- To Catch a dream
- Oya: Rise of the Orisha
- They cloned tyrone
- the last angel of history
- black orpheus
- an oversimplification of her beauty
- hair wolf
- daughters of the dust
- The Asiri V1
- The Wiz
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better days chinese movie
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bad buddy
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big dragon
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love is better a 2nd time around
- you are mine - thai series
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sei no gekiyaku
- queer movie: butterfly
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stay by my side after the rain
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the ex morning series
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180 degree longituide passes through us
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memoir of rati
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dew the movie
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century of love
- love is poison bl series
- my dear gangster oppa the series
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last twilight the series
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not me
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paradise of thorns
- we are the series
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moonlight chicken
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i told sunset about you
- washington black
- seven day wonder
- gyabkyou giglo
- beauty & the west chamber
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numb little bug
- sugar water, tae wine by myka obi
- ashal haider khan
- mistakenly saving the villain
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let free the curse of taekwondo
- khemjira the series
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portraits on YT indust-film
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delivery guy - nigerian BL
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Never let me go series
- bloodchild by Octavia Butler
- abott elementary
- our flag means death
- old fashioned cupcake
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Takara's Treasure
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Be My Player Two
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Yesterday BL
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Love of Silom
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Clairebell
- Daybreak
- a case for open borders by john washington
- ace by angela chen
- against technoabelism by ashley shrew
- Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- canada in africe by yves engler
- cobalt red by siddmarth
- cook like your ancestors by mariah-rose marie
- my grandmothers hands by resmaa menakem
- Prisoners in Disaster
- revolutionary suicide by huey p. newton
- the rape of nanking by iris chaning
- sula by toni morrison
- invisible man by ralph ellison
- yellow wife by sadeqa johnson
- black fatigue by mary-frances winters
- an indigenous people's history of the united states by roxanna dunbar-ortiz
- how infrastructure works by deb chachra
- caste by isabel wilkerson
- the mermaid, the witch, and the sea by maggie tokuda-hall
- homegoing by yaa gyasi
- all the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave
- why i'm no longer talking to white people about race by reni eddo-lodge
- africa is not a country by diop faloyin
- how europe underdeveloped africa by walter rodney
- women in african colonial histories by jean alman, susan geiger, nakanyike musisi
- massive by anne ishii, graham kolbeins
- the girl i met online by triplebee
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Beloved 1998 movie
- the red envelope
- not friends
- be my angel
- flat girls
- tangerine 2015
- in our mothers gardens
- born in flames
- be my angel - thai gl
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the story of funk: one nation under a groove
- exterminate all the brutes documentary
- putney swope
- the spook who sat by the door
- all about love: new visions by bell hooks
- are prisons absolute - angela davis
- all the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave - black women's studies
- being ace - an anthology of queer, trans, femme, and disabled stories of asexual love and connection
- how to do nothing - resisting the attention economy
- the mermaid, the witch, and the sea - tokuda-hall & maggie
- homegoing - yaa gyasi
- narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave - frederick douglass
- native american testimony - a chronicle of indian-white relations from prophecy to present
- the vaster wilds - lauren groff
- a raisin in the sun - lorraine hansberry
- the autobiography of an ex-colored man - james weldon johnson
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the bluest eye - toni morrison
- not without laughter - langston hughes
- adult children of emotionally immature parents - lindsay gibson
- black fatigue - mary-frances winters
- against the loveless world - susan abulhawa
- world of wonders - aimee nezhukumatathil
- how infrastructure works - deb chachra
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all the sinners bleed - S.A. cosby
- split tooth - tagaq
- mistborn - brandon sanderson
- soul by soul - walter johnson
- the women of brewster place - gloria naylor
- the big sea - langston hughes
- jazz - toni morrison
- betty - tiffany mcDaniel
- sula - toni morrison
- the street - ann petry
- early works - richard wright
- kindred - octavia butler
- invisible man - ralph ellison
- amiable with big teeth - claude mckay
- cane - jean toomer
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if beale street could talk - james baldwin
- passing - nella larsen
- stars of chaos
- take a hint, dani brown - talia hibbert
- clock striker - issaka galadima & frederick l. jones
- wingbearer - marjorie liu & teny issakhanian
- there are things i can't tell you - edako mofumofu
- no.6 vol 1-3 - atsuko asano & hinoki kino
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heavens offical blessing v1 - tian guan ci fu
- jambalaya - luisah teish
- the wild robot - peter brown
- incidents in the life of a slave girl - harriet jacobs
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parable of the sower - octavia e. butler
- parable of the talents - octavia e. butler
- animal crossing deserted island diary - kokonasu rumba
- oblivion rogue vol 1 - pap souleye fall
- snow white with the red hair - sorata akiduki
- cinder - marissa meyer
- scarlet - marissa meyer
- cress - marissa meyer
- winter - marissa meyer
- stars above - marissa meyer
- fairest - marissa meyer
- a tale of renown vol 1 - uzo chijioke & lelo alves
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south of midnight
- ori and the will of the wisps
- bear and breakfast
- monster prom
- enter the gungeon
- moonlighter
- a mortician's tale
- Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito
- when the villainess loves
- the problematic prince
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the panther's pet - tobi washio
- like a butterfly - jimin hun
- boy meets maria - peyo
- doku wo kurawaba sara made - togawa
- sleeping dead - asada nemui
- go out with me, too! - chada
- the arrogant princess won't stay silent - hiiragi to akari
- sss-class suicide hunter - shin noah, neida, bill k
- love in orbit - lattepanda
- legend of the northern blade
- worlds beyond number