# Alex Whistlegraph Backlog

Incoming archive and taxonomy requests from Alex. Check current local and live
data before applying: another agent/thread may already have completed an item.
Reel suggestions live separately in [`REELS-BACKLOG.md`](REELS-BACKLOG.md).

Status: `received` → `verified` → `applied` → `live`

## Received July 15, 2026

| Status | Request |
|---|---|
| applied | “First Snowfall” — change author to Adelaide Dalio. |
| applied | Rename “The Snowball And The Snowflake” to “I Miss The Snowball Flying”; author Jeffrey Alan Scudder. |
| applied | “Balloon Of Sadness” → code `[bllos]`; assign its old `[ballo]` code to “Double Heart Balloon”. |
| applied | “Blown Up Blue Balloon” → code `[bubb]`. |
| verified | Split the two videos under “Do Do Do Do” into distinct archive entries. The two posts have identical sung transcripts; distinct names/codes still need Alex’s direction. |
| applied | Add `plot` as a cross-cutting taxonomy; keep [`znme`](https://whistlegraph.org/znme) distinct while also associating it with “World Of The Triangle People” and the “Us Kidnapping You” plot. |
| applied | Move the “hey! hey! here we go…” / optional-lyrics video out of “One Two Ready” and into “Cheerleader”. |
| applied | Keep “Highlights Magazines And TikTok” distinct and also associate its video with “Cheerleader”. |
| applied | “Creation Ship” — authors Alex Freundlich and Camille Klein. |
| applied | Fold the “doodle a little flower that got trampled 🥀” video into “I Broke My Head and Died”. |
| applied | Rename “Worm Worm Trucker” to “Worm Lent Trucker”; code `[lent]`. |
| applied | Rename “Juice Bone” to “Juice Bone Lonely”. |
| applied | Merge both “Dancing In Baggy Pants” entries under code `[bagy]`. |
| applied | Fold `[cala]` into `[cmal]`. |
| applied | Rename “Do-Uh Do-Uh” to “Chain Drawing”; code `[chnd]`. |
| applied | Fold “Vertex” into “Cheerleader”. |
| applied | Rename “Ghosted” to “All These Fingers”; code `[fing]`; author Jeffrey Alan Scudder. |

## Received July 17, 2026

| Status | Request |
|---|---|
| applied | “My Name Is Jeffrey” → code `[mnij]`. |
| applied | “Self-Portrait From My Name” → code `[jeff]`. |
| applied | Rename “A Mouse Named Right You” to “A Mouse Named Raichu”. |
| applied | “The Snowball And The Snowflake” / “I Miss The Snowball Flying” — author Jeffrey Alan Scudder. |
| applied | Move the optional-lyrics “hey! hey! here we go…” video from “One Two Ready” to “Cheerleader”. |
| applied | Keep “TikTok Is A Video Game” distinct and also associate its video with “Hey There, Apple”. |
| applied | Fold “Drawing Boxes” and “Rehearsing Making Boxes” into “Making Boxes”. |
| applied | “Buggy On The Wall” — author Jeffrey Alan Scudder. |
| applied | Archive model: **Works** are human-confirmed compositions and alone receive short `[codes]`; **Archive** contains stable individual post records; explicit post→work relationships control contribution and rollup stats. Legacy code URLs remain compatibility aliases. Approved by Alex, 2026-07-17. |