In celebration of me actually working on a fic, I made y’all an ask game instead of continuing to work on that fic. Pls enjoy.

💖 What do you like most about your own writing?

😐 What embarrasses you most about your own writing?

👻 What is one WIP you think you may never pick back up?

👀 Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about?

📥 What is your fave fic to receive comments/messages on?

✏️ Do you write every day?

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

😈 Is there anything you enjoy doing that you think your readers hate?

🌙  What time of day do you prefer to write? Why?

👖 Are you a planner, plantser, or pantser? Is it consistent?

📊 Current number of WIPs

👨‍👧‍👧 Do you tell people in real life that you write fic? 

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

📝 What is one growth area you have for your writing?

📚 Do you read your own fic?

🌈 What inspired you to write [insert fic here]?

🤔 What is the hardest part of writing fic?

🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.

💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

👩‍🏭 If one of your fics was going to get you arrested, which one and why?

⏰ Do you spend more time reading fic, writing fic, or do you do both equally?

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- I drink a lot of gatorade in addition to water because I strongly suspect I also have POTS (which is likely related to the migraines) and the sodium & electrolytes help with those symptoms. But it doesn’t really seem to do much for my migraines.

- Partner noticed I tend to get migraines, and particularly ones with visual aura, an hour or two after getting back from one of my really hard weekend morning workouts. (I get migraines other times, too—recently, just about every day in the late afternoon—but getting really sweaty was a strangely consistent trigger, especially for auras.) I was making sure to rehydrate with plenty of gatorade and water after, so it probably wasn’t just dehydration.

- Hot & sour soup is a large quantity of sodium-rich fluids that is easy for me to get down even when I’m in pain, so it makes sense that that would be good from a POTS standpoint, but crucially, it also supplies magnesium. Not a ton of it, but guess what gatorade doesn’t have any of? That led him to an article on the American Migraine Association’s website about the suspected link between magnesium and migraines, especially ones with aura.

- So our hypothesis is that on the workout days, I was losing more magnesium than usual, drinking a ton of fluids and electrolytes to recover, but not doing anything to replenish the magnesium. And I can see a pattern on weekdays too, where I forget to eat breakfast, maybe don’t do so great at eating a balanced lunch because my ADHD meds nerf my appetite, and then by 3 or 4 o’clock, after a day of drinking only water and gatorade, the headache starts (and sometimes abates after dinner, depending on what I eat.)

- So far, taking a daily 500mg magnesium tablet with lunch + switching from gatorade to gatorlyte (which does supply magnesium) seems to have helped massively with the headaches, but also with my energy levels and mood? (That could also just be the effect of consistently not having a headache for the first time in weeks, though.)

I’m not a doctor, don’t do anything I say without talking to a medical professional first, etc. However, I did just get back from my first appointment with a new doctor, and she told me magnesium (and vitamin B2) is normally her first recommendation anyway since it has fewer side effects and risks than migraine preventive medications. So since the supplement route seems to be working for me so far, she wants me to start with that and reevaluate in a month or so.

In other words, per doctor’s orders,

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.