Found a possible solution:
Pros: Flow is fixed
Cons: all my stuff is gone (though this may have to do more with the emergency reset I did? I'm not sure whether that would have impacted my stuff since I couldn't access Flow with my phone either until I connected to my laptop browser)
- right click on a link/image/anything
- click 'send to my flow'
- Flow started up instead of giving me the issues tab; I manually typed in the connection code (scanning QR code gave me an error message and couldn't connect)
Flow is now working, but starting from a blank slate.