Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Alex Chastaine - Revision history

Angel: Angel moved page Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Locke to Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Alex Chastaine: Real name

2024-04-19T08:39:45Z

Angel moved page Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Locke to Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!/Alex Chastaine: Real name

Angel at 08:39, 19 April 2024

2024-04-19T08:39:18Z

Angel at 13:34, 23 October 2020

2020-10-23T13:34:05Z

Angel: Changed to not mention the nick of a real person (I didn't realise where I'd got it from)

2020-05-08T22:48:42Z

Changed to not mention the nick of a real person (I didn't realise where I'd got it from)

Angel: Created page with "A long-standing member of discussion and review forum Critical Mass. He and ../Adi/ were both members a couple of years before the events of ../. They were both i..."

2020-01-13T11:20:49Z

Created page with "A long-standing member of discussion and review forum Critical Mass. He and [[../Adi/]] were both members a couple of years before the events of [[../]]. They were both i..."

New page

A long-standing member of discussion and review forum [[Critical Mass]].

He and [[../Adi/]] were both members a couple of years before the events of [[../]]. They were both involved in reviewing the most popular threads on a popular image board, rating them as if they were literary works. However, they eventually grew bored of the repetitiveness of this, so Locke held a poll of his followers and instead moved on to reviewing sports matches. He treated them as if they were dramatised events, like the matches in a sports TV series, rather than actual competitions; rating an imagined "director" for pacing, style, tension, and similar. After a year of this, he gradually narrowed his focus to reviewing sports commentary rather than the match itself.

He continued to follow Adi's work (and vice versa), and was one of the members to notice when she stopped posting regularly.

Around the time Adi's school broke up for exams, he was involved in some scandal with an over-aggressive critique of an amateur commentator on a school basketball game which had been posted online. It turned out that the commentator was an established CritMasser, and took the review as a personal attack. Many of Locke's fans announced a "boycot" of his work as a result of this, while others started following him just to keep up with the drama. Others (especially those who were already following both people) decided to leave the site entirely because they didn't like the negativity. This wasn't helped by a tongue-in-cheek post by ''HegemonKhan'' providing a review of the war between two posters.
He was worried at the time that Adi might have been among the people leaving due to this drama, so sent her several messages during the period she was too babyish to respond. (events briefly summarised in chapters 284/285)

Locke believes Adi to be confused about her gender identity. When they were both reviewing flame wars, he took her for a slightly older closeted gay boy, as she occasionally lashed out at perceived effeminate behaviour on the forums. In reality this was because she was copying put downs and metaphors from other people to make herself look more witty; but Locke thought it might be the internalised self-loathing of a boy who couldn't accept his own tendency to slightly girly behaviour. When she moved to reviewing r63 fanfic, Locke saw this as a way of subconsciously testing if she would feel more comfortable identifying as trans girl than a feminine boy. As Adi had no stated gender on her profile, and no picture, there was no reason for him to guess her gender; and the apparent gender of her writing swung all over the map because of her tendency to save particularly emotive sentences or metaphors from other people's work and reuse them later.

[[Category: People]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:39, 19 April 2024
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	A long-standing member of discussion and review forum [[Critical Mass]].	+	A long-standing member of discussion and review forum [[Critical Mass]]; mostly known by the username '''Locke'''.

	He and [[../Adi/]] were both members a couple of years before the events of [[../]]. They were both involved in reviewing the most popular threads on a popular image board, rating them as if they were literary works. However, they eventually grew bored of the repetitiveness of this, so Locke held a poll of his followers and instead moved on to reviewing sports matches. He treated them as if they were dramatised events, like the matches in a sports TV series, rather than actual competitions; rating an imagined "director" for pacing, style, tension, and similar. After a year of this, he gradually narrowed his focus to reviewing sports commentary rather than the match itself.		He and [[../Adi/]] were both members a couple of years before the events of [[../]]. They were both involved in reviewing the most popular threads on a popular image board, rating them as if they were literary works. However, they eventually grew bored of the repetitiveness of this, so Locke held a poll of his followers and instead moved on to reviewing sports matches. He treated them as if they were dramatised events, like the matches in a sports TV series, rather than actual competitions; rating an imagined "director" for pacing, style, tension, and similar. After a year of this, he gradually narrowed his focus to reviewing sports commentary rather than the match itself.

← Older revision	Revision as of 08:39, 19 April 2024
(No difference)

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 He continued to follow Adi's work (and vice versa), and was one of the members to notice when she stopped posting regularly.
-Around the time Adi's school broke up for exams, he was involved in some scandal with an over-aggressive critique of an amateur commentator on a school basketball game which had been posted online. It turned out that the commentator was an established CritMasser, and took the review as a personal attack. Many of Locke's fans announced a "boycot" of his work as a result of this, while others started following him just to keep up with the drama. Others (especially those who were already following both people) decided to leave the site entirely because they didn't like the negativity. This wasn't helped by a tongue-in-cheek post by ''PeterKhan'' providing a review of the war between two posters.
+Around the time Adi's school broke up for exams, he was involved in some scandal with an over-aggressive critique of an amateur commentator on a school basketball game which had been posted online. It turned out that the commentator was an established CritMasser (8VinylScratch69), and took the review as a personal attack. Many of Locke's fans announced a "boycot" of his work as a result of this, while others started following him just to keep up with the drama. Others (especially those who were already following both people) decided to leave the site entirely because they didn't like the negativity. This wasn't helped by a tongue-in-cheek post by ''PeterKhan'' providing a review of the war between two posters.
 He was worried at the time that Adi might have been among the people leaving due to this drama, so sent her several messages during the period she was too babyish to respond. (events briefly summarised in chapters 284/285)
-Locke believes Adi to be confused about her gender identity. When they were both reviewing flame wars, he took her for a slightly older closeted gay boy, as she occasionally lashed out at perceived effeminate behaviour on the forums. In reality this was because she was copying put downs and metaphors from other people to make herself look more witty; but Locke thought it might be the internalised self-loathing of a boy who couldn't accept his own tendency to slightly girly behaviour. When she moved to reviewing r63 fanfic, Locke saw this as a way of subconsciously testing if she would feel more comfortable identifying as trans girl than a feminine boy. As Adi had no stated gender on her profile, and no picture, there was no reason for him to guess her gender; and the apparent gender of her writing swung all over the map because of her tendency to save particularly emotive sentences or metaphors from other people's work and reuse them later.
+Locke believed Adi to be confused about her gender identity. When they were both reviewing flame wars, he took her for a slightly older closeted gay boy, as she occasionally lashed out at perceived effeminate behaviour on the forums. In reality this was because she was copying put downs and metaphors from other people to make herself look more witty; but Locke thought it might be the internalised self-loathing of a boy who couldn't accept his own tendency to slightly girly behaviour. When she moved to reviewing r63 fanfic, Locke saw this as a way of subconsciously testing if she would feel more comfortable identifying as trans girl than a feminine boy. As Adi had no stated gender on her profile, and no picture, there was no reason for him to guess her gender; and the apparent gender of her writing swung all over the map because of her tendency to save particularly emotive sentences or metaphors from other people's work and reuse them later.
 [[Category: People]]