Mood Tracking Through File Names: A Cautionary Timeline
Added 2025-05-29 00:35:29 +0000 UTCRight. So. If you ever want a real-time chart of my mood during the editing process, just look at the filenames. They start as mild, rational, full-sentence things. Words. Thoughts. Hope.
Then.
Then you’ll notice a shift.
No more titles. Just untitled-009.wav.
That’s when I’ve entered mild frustration. Not full despair. Just enough to sigh every time I press “render”.
But then, oh, then, come the real signs.
You’ll see things like UTYYTI.wav, kughjyhg.wav, ihuh.wav.
This is no longer organisation.
This is a cry for help encoded in QWERTY.
It is the sound of me staring at my timeline with hollow eyes, slamming save as if it might also save me.
It is rage.
Deep, glitched-out, binary-coated rage.
The kind that can only be soothed by tea, gentle sobbing, and maybe deleting half the project out of spite.
Anyway. That’s where I’m at. The words are fine. The filenames are not.
——— { pause for tea } ———
🐸 MUPPET SPEAK TRANSLATION
Stage 1: Happy Muppet
File name: voice of god.wav
Me feeling okay. Me naming files. Me have system.
Stage 2: Hmm.
File name: untitled-013.wav
Me little annoyed. Me forget what file is. Me give up naming. Me sigh.
Stage 3: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
File name: kughjyhg.wav
Me rage.
Me smash keyboard.
Me scream into waveform.
Me click save through tears.
Me become file.
Comments
Wayward sat on her specially designed chair, which came with a step ladder and raising mechanism, in her left hand she clicked on and off her trusty zippo, in the other her handy chefs knife.
Darren Crittall
2025-05-29 00:54:06 +0000 UTC
