The Decemberists' frontman Colin Meloy has created a (one-eyed) Twitter monster with his #bundyeroticfanfic. What started on Tuesday with a flurry of tweets by Meloy and some of his followers has gotten (third) legs in the days since.

Meloy's call for submissions about a group of fools—led by Ammon Bundy, that's commandeered a federal building in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns—has got #bundyeroticfanfic trending on Twitter. Some of the tweets poke fun at the maybe-not-so-well-regulated militia's call for snacks, some are a critique of their gun-obsessed bombast, and all of them call to mind Brokeback Mountain-esque adventuring.

Enjoy:




Read more #bundyeroticfanfic tweets after the jump.

I really hope this keeps on trending. I reached out to Meloy via Twitter to see if he'd like to talk to me about the hashtag's popularity. I'll update the post if he answers. Until then, please enjoy these bits of literary genius.




For additional laughs, please take a minute to read the comments section of my original post from yesterday about this wonderful internet phenomenon. I asked commenters to submit their own #bundyeroticfanfic and got some good replies. I'm proud of you, Mercury readers, for your creativity.

Commenter "Bundy" offered, "As their two beards became one, Eustice glanced by his alligator shoulder holster on the way to his wallet where another Magnum was waiting to protect Roscoe's lengthy Constitution."

And "Deanna Long" gave us, "Ammon couldn't wait for the FBI to cut the power. Not only would he be unable to charge his phone, he would be forced to cuddle with that adorable otter, Eustace. The younger man nearly drove Ammon to his knees every time Eustace field stripped his rifle. Ammon imagined challenging him to assemble the gun blindfolded and slipping something nearly as hard as that barrel, into Eustace['s] oily hand."

Well done!