My musings and stark ravings as entries in the form of my obsessive-compulsive hobby of compiling top ten lists and special or honorable mentions for everything, alternating between longer or shorter form for deep dives or shallow dips into their subject respectively.
However, my top tens are often just my overarching framing device or platform for essays or features to a theme, looking at individual entries in more depth and potentially even subjects for further top tens of themselves – particularly in my favorite subjects of mythology, history, and fantasy. Often, they tend towards iceberg memes – with weirder or wilder entries for the subject or theme the deeper you go.
As for the subjects, they are of course themselves in the form of a top ten – my top ten of top tens, if you will (and special mentions).
(3) SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY (LIFE)
SPECIAL MENTION:
(1) APOSTLES & SAINTS (MUSES)
(2) HEROES & VILLAINS
(XX) NYMPHOMANCY
And of course I have my top ten rules for top tens:
(1) My top ten entries for the subject category ranked by interest or preference – obviously.
(2) Usually counting down from tenth to first place for longer top tens, typically with tier list rankings (and ratings up to five stars).
(3) Usually twenty special mentions per top ten (where the subject is prolific enough).
(4) Honorable mentions for subjects so prolific they go beyond their top ten and special mentions – typically for books or popular culture and divided into classic or cult and pulp entries.
(5) Longer or shorter form depending on subject – deep dives or shallow dips respectively, although deep dive top tens may switch to shallow dips for special or honorable mentions.
(6) Deep dives or longer form top tens look at individual entries in more depth of themselves, potentially even as subjects of further top tens .
(7) Shallow dips are shorter mentions or top tens on the spot, ranging from their bare numbered entries to a few explanatory lines or so for each entry (and indicated in their index by lower case rather than the upper case used for deep dive top tens).
(8) I tend to reserve tenth place in my top tens for my wildcard entry, where the subject permits, for the my favorite entry from the present or previous year.
(9) Deep dive top tens or special mentions tend towards iceberg memes – with weirder or wilder entries the deeper you go, particularly in special mentions.
(10) And a kinkier entry the deepest you go – you know what I mean, wink wink nudge nudge. I tend to throw in a kinky entry as the (final) twentieth special mention, where the subject permits – and you might be surprised what kink I can squeeze out of a given subject.