#classification

The world rules

Classifications:

Littles - Can regress under stress or by choice, can be dangerous if regressed alone.

Caretakers - Brain circuited to help be a grounding, regulating advocacy.

Littles are more drane towards caretakers

Littles/Caretakers do not own a gender and can date whoever they want if its Little x Little or Caretaker x Caretaker its all normal. However most Little x Little have a close relationship with a caretaker for help.

Social Norms:

Not shameful, but personal

Consent matters: you dont “out” someone’s classification

Hockey world/teams: Littles in hockey is not a very open thing, and alot of them end up being targeted and attacked online.

Mack vs. Will

Will (open little):

Team already knows

Regresses safely around others depending on situations

Uses humor/deflection to stay in control during game/important times

Trust the caretakers

Grew up with a good support system and supportful family

Mack (HIdden Little):

Taught by Ricck/His dad to hide it = stay safe

Only regresses if it was an acident and always regresses alone

Has zero support system

BIggest fear: being caught a Little 

Regression styles:

Mack’s triggers: Exhaustion + travel, bad performance, conflict / harsh tones, sensory overload (Masks any regression or finds a place to be alone / just represses it)

Will’s triggers: Exhaustion + travel, long Bus / plane rides, someone being mad at him, Cameras / paparazzi.

Mack’s regression style: 

-Younger than Will (2-5)

-Mostly nonverbal

-Hides (Bathroom, hotel room, closets, under blankets)

-Cries alot

-Clingy but doesn't have any caretakers or support so clings to stuffed animals 

Will’s Regression style:

-Older then Mack (5-8)

-very verbal (babler)

-Finds others and clings to caretakers

-tries to go outside / In public but held back by caretakers cause media / public doesn't know his              classification

Mack regresses = Will regresses (Basically they trigger themselves if one of em are regressed)

Macks bedwetting:

Happens even when not regressed (Ussually ends up regressed after)

Fears to sleep in new places (Hotels guest room other places)

Coping methods he does on trips

-Barely sleeps

-Sets alarms to wake up

-Over controlled on his fluid intake

-Puts towel under him (Makes sure nobody notices)

-Keeps pull ups in his bag hidden just incase its a really bad trip

Caretaker system

Tyler Toffoli:

Handles logistics

Calm and steady

Knows everyones issues

Good in crisis moments

Main caretaker for Mack and Will

(Keeps pull ups for Mack)

WIlliam Eklund:

Emergency caretaker (isnt the best caretaker but incase works)

If one of them regresses he usually calls Toff

Cat Toffoli:

Basically a mother 

Keeps stuffys and pull ups for Mack stocked in guest room

Where:

Usually in the Toffoli’s guest room

PS in American literature in English. (The Library of Congress is... very American.) (PS8001-PS8649 is the Canadian numbers for Canadian literature -- the LOC has agreed not to put anything else there.)

PS700-PS3626 is for works by a single American author who writes in English, literary critiques covering one such author or their works, and biographies covering one such author (this includes things like speeches, because the LOC defines "biography" expansively).

PS3600-PS3626 is for American authors who write in English and were first published in or after 2001, as well as all the other stuff about individual authors like that. 

PS3607 is for American authors who write in English, were first published in or after 2001, and have surnames that begin with G. (Remember, McGuire is under Mira Grant.) (And all the other stuff about individual authors like that.)

PS3607.R indicates that the second letter of the author's surname is R.

PS3607.R36395 means precisely "The person who published in this language, place, and time under the name Mira Grant". The string of digits after the R was chosen to make that name file alphabetically in the Library of Congress' catalog with all the other authors. This contains books by and about Seanan McGuire.

Within that number, most of the individual books will have numbers that look like PS3607.R36395 E94 2016. This is a book by McGuire -- it's meant to be a first-edition copy of Every Heart a Doorway -- so the second "cutter" -- that is, the second set of numbers after the decimal point that begins with a letter, in this case E94, represents the title of the book. The date is the date of publication. 

This means that the books will be filed alphabetically by title, and very much not in series order. (Sorry). 

If someone else has written a book about Every Heart a Doorway, that will be filed right after Every Heart a Doorway, with a number that looks something like PS3607.R36395 E94333 2017. 

You can see that this call number contains all of the Every Heart a Doorway's call number except the date. Right after E94, which represents the title, is a 3. This indicated that the book with this call number is about the book that PS3607.R36395 E94 indicated. The next two 3s represent the beginning of the name of the author of the book about Every Heart a Doorway. (We're pretending this is a book by Nina Baym, who was a scholar of American literature and women's writings, but died in 2018.) Then 2017 would be the date of publication of the book about Every Heart a Doorway.

Remember that all the works by and about Seanan McGuire have to fit in PS3607.R36395. That means that some second cutters can't be used to represent the title of an individual work. If the number is PS3607.R36395 DATE, it's a collection of all of McGuire's works (or all the ones in a specific genre). You probably won't see this until she's dead, which will hopefully not be soon. Collections of some of McGuire's works will be in PS3607.R36395 A6 DATE. If it's in PS3607.R36395 ANUMBER DATE, and the number starts with a digit smaller than 6, it's a translation. If it's in PS3607.R36395 Z458 DATE or later, it's a criticism of McGuire's work as a whole or a biography of McGuire. (Note about Z458 or later -- cutters behave as decimal numbers, so Z46 is "later"  than Z458.)