Alright, so I was messing with partitions, and I nearly screwed things up big time. First off, let me give some necessary context.

I use Linux. Linux Mint to be exact. Really well built operating system, but you can screw things up if you don't know what you're doing, as per other computer systems. What does this have to do with the stuff I have on here (notably the Fortnite fanfiction and some other story I'm leaving on the backburner) is the question begging to be answered. Ubiquity, the installer used to install the operating system, doesn't have an OS upgrade/replace option. Anyways, getting that out of the way...

I fiddled around with the partition map, and I decided to move a partition and extend it. The problem occurred when I had moved it (which turned out to be unnecessary) and it screwed up with moving some files. Therefore, I nearly lost everything. Luckily, I had a plan.

I had booted to live USB, and copied all of my work into a tarball archive, which was compressed (because the USB only had like 3 gigs left of space.) I reinstalled Linux Mint, and as soon as I had moved it all, I opened the file manager on the USB, and moved all of the stuff to a folder. I booted into the desktop, lo and behold, I still had my fanfics, meme folder, and some old crypto wallet I never use.

Huzzah.