Rating Framework

Books & Media

Narrative content — books, films, streaming, games, podcasts — rated using the SHOW Standard. Four independent axes. No collapsed averages.

Red — PoorYellow — AverageGreen — GoodViolet — Exceptional
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SHOW Standard v1.1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Modern Media MasteryOpen 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.

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.

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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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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