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Sage, Quantitative Methodologist
@staffofsage.bsky.social
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They/he | AuDHD | queer demiboy | TTRPG & Magic streamer | Creative Director of @VentureMaidens | [email protected]
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You can't make bread without flour, yeast, salt, and water (it's fine, i see you unleavened breads), and still, with those basic 3-4 ingredients, we have hundreds of different breads.

What do we think of these basic philosophical stances to encapsulate genres? Agree, disagree?
Each genre's recipe for how to live well is based on its fun- damental concern. For example: • HORROR: Confront death and face your ghosts from the past. • ACTION: 90 percent of success is taking action. • MYTH: Seek immortality by finding your destiny in this life. • MEMOIR AND COMING-OF-AGE: Examine your life to create your true self. • SCIENCE FICTION: Make the right choices now to ensure a better future for all. • CRIME: Protect the weak and bring the guilty to justice. • COMEDY: Success comes when you strip away all facades and show others who you really are. • WESTERN: When you help others make a home, you create a civilization where everyone is free to live their best life. • GANGSTER: Don't be enslaved by absolute power and money or you will pay the ultimate price. THE WORLO AS STORY • FANTASY: Discover the magic in yourself that makes life itself an art form. • DETECTIVE AND THRILLER, Look for the truth and assign guilt in spite of the danger. • LOVE: Learning how to love is the key to happiness. One of the advantages of using genres is you can express powerful and complex themes through the form's deep structure. Transcending the Genre 3: Explore the Story Forms of Life Unique to the Genre Looking at the world through the prism of story gives us X-ray vision into life itself. KEY POINT: The idea that the mind works through story leads to another revolutionary idea abaut transcending genres: each major human activity is its own story form. Morality, culture, business, sports, war, religion, politics, justice, society, and the mind are some of the grand activities that make up human life. They are also complex works of art expressed through the emotional and dramatic form of story. At its best, each genre explores one or more of these story forms of life.
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I'm reading John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres, and something I hadn't considered, which he talks about in the first dozen or so pages, is that genres are like the writer's recipe for good living, and the beats that are common to the genre are like the ingredients.
The cover of John Truby's The Anatomy of the Genres
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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New glasses!
Sage wearing light brown acrylic aviator frames with rosey mirrored lenses Sage in dark brown tortoise shell square aviator style frames
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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When i was 16, i was really into classic rock, so i only listened to new stuff on the radio.

I didn't know of Explosions in the Sky until about 2011ish, but All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone came out in 2007, when I was 16. This is absolutely a perfect album to me, and EItS is of my all-time faves
The album art for All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone by Explosions in the Sky. The art features an impressionist lake scene with a man on a red row boat in the foreground. The man stands at the boat's front and holds a lantern while looking ahead.
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Hi, it's me. I'm alive, and I hope you're having a good day.
Bust up portrait of Sage in a dusty rose pink v neck tee
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Update to our Halloween horror movie fest
* Cobweb: creepy parents have a spider child they lock away; their normal son finds out. 3/10 (both Sage and JB) * The Taking of Deborah Logan: elderly woman struggles with Alzheimers, and her daughter is mentally and physically exhausted by caring for her. Her mother's illness is more than it initially appears (Sage: 6/10, JB: 2/10, average 4/10) * Bring Her Back: brother and sister lose their dad and get put into foster care with a mother driven to insanity by her grief (Sage and JB 6/10) * Hush: men are worse than bears (Sage and JB 4/10) * Split Second: Rutgur Hauer is anxious cop in nearly apocalyptic London (Sage and JB 6/10) * Trick or Treat: collection of four Halloween short stories (Sage and JB 6/10) * It's What's Inside: a handful of shitty people who are friends swap bodies (Sage and JB 5/10) * Coherence: people have a dinner party and a comet disrupts their reality (Sage and JB 8/10) * Frogman: While on a trip during his childhood, Dallas Kyle sees Frogman and captures him on tape. Twenty years later, he searches for Frogman to prove his existence (Sage and JB 6/10) * Skinamarink: kids in house with creature? (Sage and JB 1/10) * Weapons: kids went missing because of a witch (Sage and JB 6/10) * Nosferatu: An enchantress reaches out for comfort and Death replies (Sage 9/10, JB 8/10, 8.5/10)
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Oh man, and Dire Undercurrents in Locust God
Whenever a blue creature you control enters, you may have target player draw a card. Whenever a black creature you control enters, you may have target player discard a card.
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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If they change the hybrid mana rules, I'll be stoked to play Manamorphose in Vivi
Manamorphose {1}{R/G} Instant Add two mana in any combination of colors. Draw a card.
October 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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With 2026 MC Vegas being in early May, Las Vegas is still relatively cool. I know people will be there for the convention and to play Magic, but if you come a bit early or stay a bit late and want to see Vegas outside the strip, lemme know! I'm happy to take ya on a hike :3
October 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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We saw so many lizards friends on the trail today as well!
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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It's been really fun getting back into photography again, and I'm excited to pick up a new 70 - 300 mm lens for more landscape fun
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Went out to Red Rock today with @dropthedie.bsky.social and got some good shots!

Discovering hiking in and around Vegas has been the best. People certainly don't give Vegas enough credit for how beautiful it is, myself included
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Enjoyed a very lovely nature walk this morning before setting off to the airport. It's been fun Norman, Oklahoma!
Up close a kind of fluffy seed plant, in the distance a pond surrounded by grasses and cat tails A panorama of a gravel path, pond, and wild grasses and trees An empty park bench looks onto the pond through sheltering trees A paved path winds through green trees
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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@dropthedie.bsky.social snagged some good pics for me!
Sage speaking in front of an audience and gesturing to their slideshow, which displays a statistical model Sage poses next to a podium in a blue suit
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Got those pre-presentation jitters, but at least i look fly
Sage wears a medium blue three piece suit with a paisley tie and white shirt
October 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Our spoopy hallway decorations!

I'm made we only were given a C!
Front entrance with a distressed paper tree arching around the door A long, dark hallway lined with orange string lights and candles. Black paper trees and cobwebs line the walls A ledge decorated with candles, spiders, cobwebs, gummy eyeballs and body parts, and green vials of lemonade
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This week is homecoming at @unlv.edu , and today is the office decorating contest! Our office went with the theme "gothic literature," so I dressed up as Edgar Allan Poe!
A medium shot of Sage in a black vest, pants, white dress shirt, cravat, black curly wig, mustache, and derby. In the background is orange light and a spooky paper tree A full body shot of Sage in a black vest, pants, white dress shirt, cravat, jacket, black curly wig, mustache, and derby. In the background is orange light and a spooky paper tree A portrait shot of Sage in a black vest, pants, white dress shirt, cravat, black curly wig, mustache, and derby. In the background is orange light and a spooky paper tree
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Anyone interested in this raised etched foil Ms. Bumbleflower?

Very slightly curled, a TCG Player Near Mint or Card Kingdom Lightly Played. Looking for $700ish but willing to hear serious offers
Ms. Bumbleflower {1}{G}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Rabbit Citizen Vigilance Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent draws a card. Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains flying until end of turn. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, you draw two cards. 1/5 Back side of Ms. Bumbleflower card
October 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I had fun brushing off the photography rust today when we went hiking around Mt Charleston!
Close up image of fluffy yellow wildflowers Wide image of a sloping mountainside and a road in the far distance Medium shot of a gray rocky formation surrounded by towering green trees A narrow path winds between two large grey rocks, and greenery fills the scene
October 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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We're off to a good start with our yearly Halloween horror marathon
* Quiet Ones: Jared Harris, professor creating poltergeist 8/10 (both Sage and JB) * The Ninth Gate: Johnny Depp rare art dealer follows occult book 9/10 (both JB and Sage) * The Void: doctor loses his daughter and in his grief turns to eldritch horrors to bring her back 7/10 (both JB and Sage) * Exorcist III: The Legion: Detective Kinderman investigates murders related to hospital and clergy (both JB and Sage 9/10) * Oculus: (Sage DNF) * Cobweb: creepy parents have a spider child they lock away; their normal son finds out. 3/10 (both Sage and JB)
October 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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I'm in a different era every few years!
Sage in plate armor with shoulder length platinum blonde hair Sage with pin curls in a navy blue and red A line dress with pinup style makeup Sage is lacy black lingerie and posing on a bed with white sheets Sage in a car with short cropped hair, heavy maroon sweater, and aviator sunglasses
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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HIKING SEASON IS UPON US
Sage wears an olive green wool felt wide brim hat
September 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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my boss just submitted our paper to the Journal of Educational Psychology!
Motivational Coherence and Curricular Context: Concordance, Dis-concordance, and Decoupling in Network Dynamics Sarah M. Wolff*, Jonathan C. Hilpert, Sage Stafford, Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn1, Lin Lu & Chelsie Hawkinson
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Second day of school!
Sage wears a black felt fedora, thick rimmed glasses, and a teal short-sleeved button-up shirt
August 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM