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The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Is Beautifully Trolling The Oregon Militia With Erotic Fanfiction

#BundyEroticFanFic is inspired by a bunch of rightwing gun-loving mates holing up in a wildlife refuge in Oregon right now. It's very, very good.

by Hannah Hawkins  8 January 2016

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Last Saturday, a seemingly unbelievable — but in a way, also extremely predictable — thing happened: a group of armed, rightwing, anti-government Americans stormed and illegally occupied a government-owned conservation building in Oregon to protest the recent imprisonment of two ranchers, who were convicted for setting fire to federal land (which they also allegedly did to cover up poaching). You get the predictability of it, yeah?

The group of extremists are lead by fellow angry rancher Ammon Bundy, whose Dad is infamous for a 2014 standoff with federal police, and include an official member of the Trump campaign. Since they seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge offices almost a week ago, they have reportedly been hiding under tarps with loaded rifles, and ordering pizza and making coffee.

The Oregon State Police told the media they are not monitoring the men, who are “allowed to come and go as they want”.

As super serious as all that sounds, some people have somehow managed to poke fun at the situation. One such person is Colin Meloy, the frontman for indie folk-rock outfit The Decemberists and a notable leftie, who has started Tweeting out homoerotic fan-fiction inspired by the militiamen.

Considering these guys are hostile, actively racist, quite literally sleeping with their guns in a wildlife refuge right now and, look, probably not very nice, the Tweets are beautifully fitting.

Naturally, with both the singer and the Oregon militia being quite high-profile, the perfectly executed trolling has taken off, with #bundyeroticfanfic now trending internationally.

People are really setting the scene.

Meloy has since responded to the concept’s popularity, but denies the existence of a lucrative and frankly very great book deal.

Responding to The Daily Beast for comment, Meloy simply said: “it belongs to the world now. Let it grow like a fresh field of alfalfa in spring.”