Real Person Political Fanfiction (AO3 is Amazing)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024

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  • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
    @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +36

    I've never pronounced anyone's name correctly ever in my entire life.

  • @alexjames7144
    @alexjames7144 Месяц назад +15

    People really be begging George RR Martin to finish game of thrones when we have already achieved peak fiction

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +5

      Right? Who cares about George RR Martin's next book? "Joe Biden Gets Sold to BTS" already exists.

  • @obcorc
    @obcorc Месяц назад +20

    Huh...so this is what regret and gratitude at the same time feels like. Guess I got to experience a new feeling today, so that's cool.

  • @dodgyarchetype3251
    @dodgyarchetype3251 Месяц назад +15

    joe biden omegaverse goes hard

    • @dodgyarchetype3251
      @dodgyarchetype3251 Месяц назад +3

      I probably shouldn't've posted this reflexively like it's a discord channel
      I suppose I'll have to pay for my crimes

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +4

      No, that was a reasonable response.

    • @dodgyarchetype3251
      @dodgyarchetype3251 Месяц назад

      Trump picked a new club. Stupid Alpha. Now that Biden knew he could tell anyone at any time. There would be a call for his blood work, for his post-puberty paperwork, the public would be all over his past, even dig up his abortion when he was 18. Trump paused, grief squeezing his heart as he thought of that fateful day, of that horrible mistake. What would his life look like if he kept it, if he let Jeffery Epstein make him an honest Omega and got married?

  • @Ronphyxia
    @Ronphyxia Месяц назад +21

    This is why I pay for my internet

  • @mrpieceofwork
    @mrpieceofwork Месяц назад +15

    "Politics perverts" sent me tysm!

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +5

      There are some real sickos in the politics perverts community!

  • @ooredactedoo923
    @ooredactedoo923 Месяц назад +18

    I've been scarred for life

  • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
    @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +15

    Oh wow, sorry for the shaky cam about 20 minutes in. My new wired mic was tugging at the phone, and the thing holding my phone is kind of flexy so it went wild. I paused and redid it when that happened, but I didn't realize exactly how shaky that part was.
    But that sound quality!

  • @cmmosher8035
    @cmmosher8035 Месяц назад +12

    This can't be any less damaging than the podcast episode i listened to on Trump erotica. Still haunts my nightmares.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +5

      The Gare Davis one?? I listened to that! Incredible.

    • @cmmosher8035
      @cmmosher8035 Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash exactly. Been following BtB and ICHH since the last American presidential election.

  • @lolly9804
    @lolly9804 Месяц назад +9

    Never change internet

  • @ManaMercii
    @ManaMercii Месяц назад +12

    Oh my god

  • @chrisnotaperson8127
    @chrisnotaperson8127 Месяц назад +6

    Killer earrings!

  • @ThePiedPiperOfVienna
    @ThePiedPiperOfVienna Месяц назад +6

    That was like a car accident. It's horrible but you can't look away. I think I need a few more years of therapy now. Yeah, I know, you warned me...

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +3

      Not liable, et cetera
      I hope you have a good therapist lmao

    • @ThePiedPiperOfVienna
      @ThePiedPiperOfVienna Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash Yeah, that was a very smart move!
      Unfortunately, I'm between therapists right now. At least I already know what the topic of the first session will be.

  • @hemenemy
    @hemenemy Месяц назад +7

    That was hilarious and I need more

  • @flazay_da
    @flazay_da Месяц назад +7

    somehow i've never stumbled across political fanfic despite being deep in fandoms for over a decade. need to get high and laugh at some tonight

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +4

      There's so much of it and it's TERRIBLE! Have a great time!

  • @lalalalalalalalalala-js5xl
    @lalalalalalalalalala-js5xl Месяц назад +6

    Imagine a fix it fic for real life.

  • @franmcwhorter9654
    @franmcwhorter9654 Месяц назад +2

    Self Insert is my new Luchador name

  • @CraftyVegan
    @CraftyVegan Месяц назад +4

    Ngl, I’d probably tune in every single time for a Trash Read-along 👀 complete with interjections 👍

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet Месяц назад +3

    I have written an unhealthy amount for *several* spiderman fanfics where some of the characters are big seabeast/mermaid things. And i ain't even posted any of it yet.
    (And of course it's all queer as hell. FlowerPunk and ChaiPunk and so many polyships ftw!)
    (I was without a fanfiction level fixation for a decade. And now no one can stop me lol I'm so powerful!)

  • @dragonslaya16
    @dragonslaya16 Месяц назад +4

    Wow i genuinley needed this how could you read my mind like this.
    Get out of my head

  • @Magic_Milkshake
    @Magic_Milkshake 27 дней назад +2

    "They said yes"

  • @SpeedyShimeji
    @SpeedyShimeji Месяц назад +9

    I'm only like 10 minutes in and REALLY need to go to bed so I'll add any better and coherent comments tomorrow, but I HAD to say.
    Where there is fanfiction, especially political fanfiction, there is gay and lesbian shipping. I don't know why this is the case, but it just feels like the natural conclusion of these sorts of things. Trump and putin. Biden and Trump. Kamala and your mom.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +6

      Jessica Kellgren-Fozard did a video about fanfiction and why it's so gay recently! It was really good!

    • @CraftyVegan
      @CraftyVegan Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash oh! I just watched that and I loved it 🥰

  • @lathalassa
    @lathalassa Месяц назад +4

    by the gods, i want to bleach my ears so much rn ahhhhhhhhhhh

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +3

      Not responsible, fair warning, et cetera
      Good luck in therapy. You're welcome.

    • @lathalassa
      @lathalassa Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash XDDDD thanks a lot

  • @CompressedDuck
    @CompressedDuck 27 дней назад +3

    underrated

  • @awkwardpenguinftw
    @awkwardpenguinftw Месяц назад +3

    Ao3 is the best thing on the internet. And I'm addicted 😐

  • @Alexis-lt3zy
    @Alexis-lt3zy Месяц назад +5

    i need to understand the mindset that makes people write these fanfics, lol

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +3

      I think some of them are ironic, while others are mainly horny.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +4

      The people who wrote Rodman were clearly extremely horny for Hillary Clinton. Many boomer women are.

    • @Nisa4444-h1v
      @Nisa4444-h1v 14 дней назад

      When you’re really creative, and also really horny, with absolutely nothing to do, this is the natural conclusion. I’m really perfectionistic about mine, though, and absolutely would never write them down. The world is a better place if they stay in my head. I have a full on Multiverse of horny, self indulgent fanfiction in my head.

    • @Nisa4444-h1v
      @Nisa4444-h1v 14 дней назад

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trashk The Voice entirely ruins it for me. I can see why people would think she’s sexy though. She has those vibes.

  • @Alexis-lt3zy
    @Alexis-lt3zy Месяц назад +3

    also: i think forming a parasocial relationship with Mia Mulder might be a prerequisite for watching this channel

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +2

      That's fair, I do really like her. I would LOVE to meet her. We have exactly opposite body types and we would look ridiculous standing next to each other. But alas, I am not qualified to do anything that would ever put me in proximity to a popular Swedish politician.

  • @MayonakaMidnighter
    @MayonakaMidnighter Месяц назад +2

    Now seeing what you meant about never escaping it. And I still think you're awesome AF

  • @Nisa4444-h1v
    @Nisa4444-h1v 14 дней назад +2

    This makes me feel better about my weird sexual fantasies. At least the writing is actually good.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  13 дней назад +2

      @@Nisa4444-h1v lmao you shouldn't feel ashamed of fantasies, they're normal and can be as weird as you like

  • @oluwanike90
    @oluwanike90 Месяц назад +1

    "It's nice to meet you, traaash" 🤣

  • @franmcwhorter9654
    @franmcwhorter9654 Месяц назад +1

    I've long thought Rodham was quite suggestive

  • @user-fs4vo6cc2g
    @user-fs4vo6cc2g Месяц назад +3

    22:53 I immediately thought to make an edit to washing machine heart lmao

  • @williamcooper8024
    @williamcooper8024 Месяц назад +5

    Came for the name, subbed for the earrings, whats AO3? :3c

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +2

      @@williamcooper8024 archive of our own, it's basically a fanfiction website

  • @roseparade_
    @roseparade_ Месяц назад +2

    13:29 hahahahaha

  • @FriedMercy
    @FriedMercy Месяц назад +1

    i LOVE your earrings

  • @ehhwhatevericantthinkofago8903
    @ehhwhatevericantthinkofago8903 Месяц назад +1

    Your cool, I love all your videos and I'm too embarrassed to post a longer comment, even if I have thought of some cool ones.

  • @FlaminTubbyToast
    @FlaminTubbyToast Месяц назад +3

    Please don’t put *that* comment on blast😂

  • @justinnutter9008
    @justinnutter9008 Месяц назад +2

    Don't sell yourself short, my friend. You are 6 in of man, at least. That's the average anyway

  • @VitriolicVermillion
    @VitriolicVermillion Месяц назад +3

    Going by "Trash" here is kinda funny to me because I always wondered about the extended story of that character in New Vegas, in that irradiated shack near that nuclear test observation site. What was their life like? What if they had been a more important character? I need *you* to tell me. I need you to *write it,* Trash.
    Yes, I did intend that be read in the tone you read that first Kamala fic in, lol

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +3

      Wait, there's a character named Trash in New Vegas? I don't play video games because tbh they kind of give me a headache, but that's a great name! It's what my mom used to call me!

    • @VitriolicVermillion
      @VitriolicVermillion Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash Aww! That, I am thinking, is probably an excellent example of queer dark humor, but for all I know, it's also true!

    • @VitriolicVermillion
      @VitriolicVermillion Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Trash-Garbage-Trash So I'll just copy from one of the fanom wikis here:
      Trash decided to move into the abandoned shack at the old nuclear test site in order to become a ghoul because she was tired of her life. After a few weeks, nothing was happening until she noticed some of her skin coming off and her hair falling out. However, her optimism got the best of her, and instead of ghoulification, she succumbed to fatal radiation poisoning. Her accounts can be found in the three separate "Die-aries" located in the shack: entry one, entry two, and entry three.
      1: Dear Die-ary, I'm so done being confined in this human body. So, today I moved in to the shack at the abandoned test site. There should be enough radiation there to turn me into a ghoul. All around me this world is bleak and dreadful; is it so wrong to want a body to match it? I wonder what color my skin will turn and if I'll be able to find a good shade of lipstick to go with it. Probably not. God, everything is so miserable.
      2: Dear Die-ary, I've been in this shack for almost a week now. Nothing is happening. I'm so bored. And this shack is so hot. And it's totally ruining my hair. It's like, so hard to find dye this color in the wasteland. This sucks, I want to be a ghoul now. I hate all this waiting. Life, ugh, living is so overrated.
      3: Dear Die-ary, Good news Die-ary! I think it's finally starting to happen. Ok, so I do feel like, totally miserable (what else is new ha-ha-ha) and my skin is starting to peel off, but I'm pretty sure that is the first step. Oh, and my hair! I finally got it just the way I like it and now it starts coming out. Why does ghoulification have to be so unfair?
      Combined "behind the scenes" entries from two wiki pages:
      - She is a reference to the character of the same name in the film Return of the Living Dead.
      - The Die-ary is an homage to Johnny the Homicidal Maniac graphic novel in which Johnny writes in his "Die-ary".
      End of fandom wiki content.
      I can't help but read kind of a cruel and mocking form of trans allegory into this. I kinda identified with the character -- really more worldbuilding-humor than character, I guess, in terms of authorial intent. But I remember, like, my teenage misery thing was vampires, wanting to be immune to the threats of aging and natural mortality, and to be outside of anyone else's control, and stay young, but finally get to enjoy it. Also present was all the queer-coded stuff, and in fact trans coded (death and rebirth, very trans, also a subversion of a religion that undermined me) stuff, which I didn't understand (even though I read Anne Rice and so much of that was gay (based) as hell) at the time because of denial and dissociation and being trapped in this abusive family and religion erasing me constantly. I was just not anywhere to be found, and was always discouraged from trying to be heard and understood.
      I was a husk, like NV Trash, who, as the ghoul she wanted to become, would have been seen by many as a zombie. Her form of transformation into immortality, unlike the vampirism I wanted (usually treated as beautiful), would have come with what is regarded as ugliness, and doesn't that, taken as part of the trans allegory, represent the cissexist view of us from outside?
      There is a further way NV Trash resonates with me, in terms of what gets called "teen angst." The way she felt and the way I felt and often still do are mocked as such and treated as something to grow up and get over and take our assigned places as cogs in the machine.
      If you were ever into Nine Inch Nails, off of the album The Downward Spiral, there were two songs, "Eraser" and "The Becoming" that tended to hit really hard, for similar reasons to a lot of this stuff. Oh, and "I Do Not Want This." Fuck it, it was the whole album, really. Reznor didn't necessarily intend it, but there is the potential to read this powerful trans undercurrent into it, and especially my particular experience of it. The opening track, "Mister Self Destruct," starts by sampling an old Lucas movie, THX-1138, from a scene where a man is being beaten by the cops for no reason, and this set the tone to mirror my feelings of being constantly terrorized by authority, beaten down as if for sport, and being always monitored for the opportunity to beat me harder. That part of the tone is sustained in many songs in the album, notably "Big Man With a Gun." All of that is there still, in the background of the other tracks, even as they tell me that I need to reject what is happening to me, but that authoritarian terror keeps my feet locked down, continuing to take the beating. Later in the album, as the beating continues, "A Warm Place" starts to distantly sing to me like something from a hazily remembered dream of a long lost home that never existed, telling me that it doesn't have to be this way, if I could just die.
      All of this, and why these things resonated with me, and what all these things were trying to tell me, only struck me in recent years, because CPTSD is a bitch, and reconnecting with myself, who I had to hide away inside my armor for decades, coming back to me in these little tiny bits of realization that sting and burn, is a really difficult process. And then I find this character, Trash, dead, but to me more alive than some other characters, because of the resonance. The way she's written is a little upsetting, like they were making fun of her for being "angsty," but that may as well be me that writer made fun of.
      There's this thing called gallows humor. Two people awaiting their fate having a quick chuckle is gallows humor. The hangman and the crowd mocking the condemned, though, is just part of the execution, and that places her writer as her executioner, in that sense of writing her pain just to mock her with it, and in the sense of being the one to kill her. I feel like she and I are on the gallows together, her already on the rope, and me still waiting. And I just can't help but wonder: Who were you, NV Trash? Would we have been friends? Could we have steered each other away from this place if we had met sooner?

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +2

      @@VitriolicVermillion That's some incredibly deep lore for a character like that. I like the ghoulification as an allegory for transness, that's a neat idea. Becoming something horrifying to most people, a monster, but that's what you want for yourself. It's neat! I see that in a lot of transmasculine storytelling.

    • @VitriolicVermillion
      @VitriolicVermillion Месяц назад +1

      @@Trash-Garbage-Trash I assume you meany incredibly deep analysis, because "lore" would refer to what Obsidian wrote, which is next to nothing in this case, whereas I am just incapable of ever shutting up lol.
      Since you don't play the games, I don't want to just assume familiarity on your part, so I'll probably explain way too much, but: "Ghoul" is just the word given to name the condition of humans who took enough of the right kind of damage to their DNA that they no longer die naturally. They do physically degrade quite rapdly, though. Noses are never seen on ghouls, but that's probably more because it would cost a lot of artist ours to represent unique random tissue damage. I also believe that external genitals have a tendency to fall off. All skin becomes necrotic. Their voices become extremely raspy, because that tissue is damaged as well.
      Anyway, given all that, people who encounter these ghouls, but don't know about this phenomenon that causes them, may assume they are zombies. What's unfortunate about that is that sometimes, they're kinda right. Ghouls can retain control over their minds and bodies for possibly several hundred years; the nuclear destruction of most of the world, in the game's fiction, happens in 2077, and New Vegas is set in the 2280s. Some ghouls alive in the game date all the way back to before 2077, but unfortunately, there is no guarantee that any ghoul makes it that far before their mind degrades. They forget who they are, don't recognize others, cease humanlike behavior entirely, and become aggressive and feral, and will eat human flesh, like zombies. This degradation could come for any ghoul at any time, with no perceptible warning, and a prejudice grows from this possibility that leads to a lot of mistreatment for ghouls.
      Re: ASAB-to-monstrous transition: It's represented in a lot of like, transfeminine relating to monsters type stuff, too, because a lot of cis disgust centers on us very prominently and heavily. Not saying it doesn't happen when heading in a mascwardly direction too, but this is the flavor that I know.
      It sucks that games give you headaches. I've known a few people who get that or nausea from the first person perspective. Some of that can be addressed in various ways, like making sure to keep frame rate consistently high, or, I've even heard it claimed that vertically off-center crosshairs (ie at the two thirds point down from top of screen) can help, maybe because it takes the vanishing point of the camera's perspective and decouples it from the aim point, which maybe un-anchors your eyes from the screen, thus implicitly allowing you to take vision breaks from the game and do some form of the 20-20-20 (every 20 minutes look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds) thing automatically before getting a screen headache. I don't know, though. I can only guess at the mechanisms.

  • @DracoGalboy
    @DracoGalboy Месяц назад +1

    I'm only two minutes in and ... While vaguely aware that rpf can get very weird.. this comment section has me worried.
    Worried enough to stop watching? No.
    Even knowing that rpf is something I actively avoid and blacklist when possible.. and how abysmally political theater goes online.. I don't know if I *can/want to* stop watching.
    This video needs a dead dove do not eat warning on it

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +2

      I was thinking about "dead dove do not eat" today, I should probably add that to the caption!

    • @Nisa4444-h1v
      @Nisa4444-h1v 14 дней назад +1

      I used to absolutely despise even the concept of RPF. It totally creeped me out. Now I have quite a substantial collection of RPF in my head that I will never ever write down! When it’s just for me, it’s fine, but when it’s posted for the whole wide world to see, that’s a bit problematic.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  13 дней назад +1

      @@Nisa4444-h1v yeah it is a bit creepy lol, it's definitely fine inside your head though!

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet Месяц назад +1

    1:30

  • @michellybells8657
    @michellybells8657 28 дней назад +1

    Soooooo... can we get you to magically narrate ALL of AO3? Or at least all the lesbian fics?

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  28 дней назад +2

      @@michellybells8657 I might do a curated selection again sometime

    • @michellybells8657
      @michellybells8657 27 дней назад +1

      Yessssssss~ I'm so down for this!
      (Also when you talked about being 2 inches of man, I cracked up on the train platform and got a ton of stares from everyone around me. It was beautiful, I love making people think I'm a freak, because I am!)

  • @YuriConquersAll
    @YuriConquersAll Месяц назад +3

    Why is Joe 3'11 😭

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +3

      Lmao I think it's a reference to the original fic, and to the trope of romance protagonists always being "petite" because it helps masculinize the man when there's a big size difference??? 3'11" is hilarious though, that's next level tiny.

    • @Trash-Garbage-Trash
      @Trash-Garbage-Trash  Месяц назад +1

      Incredible username, by the way.