re: Rant Doppelgängers

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Name posters whose styles are very similar

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I'm going to go the opposite direction and name two comedic geniuses on here who's styles are different most of the time but similar at times.


MercerBears has a completely unique style, purposely jumbling this thoughts onto paper as they jumble in his head. His comedy is instant. He doesn't spend too many words on one topic, mimicking a southern boy who would have ADHD and prone to talking out his sentences until he thinks he's said enough, not too much, and running those thoughts together.


pondwater jack on the other hand liked to slow burn things, draw a few fish in and use conversation with them throughout a thread to further the story along. He came across as an old curmudgeon, often coming across angry at the modern world, and with a library of old sayings that would remind you of your grandparents verbiage. I know him in real life, he's a young guy, in a profession that requires a graduate degree, very smart, and when he's typing his stuff, he's laughing his arse off the entire time. He's the life of the party in real life. He loved to get his character "pondwater" frothing at the mouth and, like Mercer, typing whatever multiple thoughts came into his head and merging them into whatever appeared on the screen. He rarely if ever deleted anything. If he wrote it, he hit submit with it, and lived with it.


William Faulkner really did write that way also. Screw first drafts. His books WERE the first draft. If you didn't like it, well, bye.


Faulkner would write how he viewed the mind of the person doing the narrating, like pea for brains Anse Bundren, repeating himself over and over and never listening to anyone trying to reason with him, as opposed to his grandson Vardaman Bundren, written precisely how a 7 year old boy would be imagining a world of make believe, and so Faulkner thus didn't give a rat's arse if you understood it. He didn't write his books for you. He wrote his books for the art gods floating around in the air.


Somewhat true with both MercerBears and pondwater jack




ETA: so yeah, I just "compared" Mercer and pondwater to William Faulkner not really obviously, but if William Faulkner was the offensive coordinator, Mercer and pondwater could be a slot and an H-back in his offense