Rating Framework

Books & Media

Narrative content — books, audiobooks, film and streaming, games, comics and graphic narrative, podcasts and audio drama — rated using the SHOW Standard. Four independent axes. No collapsed averages.

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard v2.1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Modern Media Mastery & LMDC · held in trust by r8rly.orgOpen four-axis content rating for books, films, streaming, games, audiobooks, podcasts. Free under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The R8rly Compass mark and "R8rly-verified" remain protected. Read the full standard →

A Christian fiction reader and a dark-romantasy reader rate the same book on completely different mental scales. SHOW separates those scales so both get the precision they need before they commit hours to something that won't deliver what they came for.

The SHOW Standard

Four independent axes. Click any to see full level definitions. Open standard, CC BY-SA 4.0 — view the specification, show.json and AI rater on GitHub →

Content Warnings, Trigger Warnings & Themes ▼

Content Warning (CW) — the overarching label. Signals "heads up, this book contains material some readers may find difficult."

Trigger Warning (TW) — a sub-type of CW. Content that may cause a genuine psychological or trauma response in sensitised readers (e.g. rape, suicide, child abuse, self-harm). Higher specificity, higher stakes.

Theme — structural or tonal content that shapes the reading experience but isn't trauma-adjacent (e.g. why-choose, mafia, dom/sub dynamic, age gap, insta-love).

Book Database

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Featuring books from BookTok creators like Bored Trophy Husband and the Lauren Biel catalogue. Every score here comes from real R8rly raters — none are seeded.

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard · AudiobooksAudiobooks are classified on the same four axes as any finished work. The narrator’s performance is experience, rated on the SCRIPTS Performance track.

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Audiobook Database

Directory Data Under Construction. Submit a rating to be among the first listed.

How audiobooks are experience-rated with SCRIPTS →

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard applies to all narrative mediaFilms, streaming series, games, podcasts, audiobooks, webcomics. The same four axes — Spice, Heat, OMG, WTF — apply because they describe what narrative does to audiences, not the format it arrives in.

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Film & Streaming Database

Directory Data Under Construction. Submit a rating to be among the first listed.

How film & streaming are experience-rated with SCRIPTS →

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard · GamesNarrative games — RPGs, story-driven adventures, visual novels, interactive fiction — are classified on the same four axes.

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Games Database

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How games are experience-rated with SCRIPTS →

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard · Comics & Graphic NarrativeWebcomics, graphic novels and manga are classified on the same four axes.

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Comics & Graphic Narrative Database

Directory Data Under Construction. Submit a rating to be among the first listed.

How comics and graphic narrative are experience-rated with SCRIPTS →

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard · Podcasts & Audio DramaFiction podcasts and audio dramas are narrative works delivered in audio, and carry a SHOW rating like any other finished work.

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Podcast & Audio Drama Database

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How podcasts are experience-rated with SCRIPTS →

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