Bookmarking, and the Moral Alignment of Readers

I have wanted to make my own moral-alignment (**) chart for readers since at least March 2021, when I downloaded a text-only chart that was circulated by Writers' HQ (here). Apparently, the chart was released, and peak of enthusiasm for producing alternate versions of these bookmark charts occured, even earlier. The original (?) Writers' HQ chart was posted to Facebook (here) in August 2019—when Covid was still a twinkle in Fauci's eye.

Despite being very late to the party, I wanted to produce my own version, and I thought NanoBannana might help me produce one with suitable images. The end result is pretty lame (possibly as lame as the dozen or so you will find if you search Google images for "Moral Alignment by bookmark use"). It looks absolutely like it was produced by low-end AI … which is exactly how it was produced, so please treat it as no more than as visual bait for the text that follows.

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The prompt for the above was the text below, which is my own effort to improve on the text-based chart created by Writers' HQ. However, I did have NanoBanana re-generated one image to include an Easter egg under "Neutral good" (note the bookshop named on the bookmark—a call-back to my last post).

Lawful good: uses a purpose-made bookmark, with an attractive design.
Neutral good: uses a bookmark supplied by the bookseller.
Chaotic good: uses the book receipt, scrap of paper, or a train ticket as bookmark.

Lawful neutral: uses a ribbon, or dust-jacket flap.
True neutral: memorises the page number, before closing the book.
Chaotic neutral: uses a random flat-ish object: a leaf, another book or magazine.

Lawful evil: uses a pen, pair of glasses, or similar object, or leaves book open, face up or down, at the last page read.
Neutral evil: dog-ears corners, uses "Post-It" notes, underlines in ink and highlights passages.
Chaotic evil: rips out each page once it's been read.

(**) A moral-alignment chart is a method categorising the ethical and moral behaviour of characters or people, into nine types. There is an overly-long and not terribly good page on Wikipedia about these charts (here), which references—but does not offer a link to (!)—a Reddit page dedicated to them (here), which has been active since 11 November 2009.