am back in the timesink of fighting with my db fixtures library. the stuff i want it to do is apparently just complicated enough that it doesn't work all the time.

i'd used a workaround for a bunch of stuff originally, and just discovered i didn't technically need to. so now i'm scaling back what i'm using the workaround for, and trying to decide if it's worth fighting the errors popping up along the way.

i'd be gaining test readability, so i feel like it's worth _some_ time.