RE: Trailer Trash

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In the year 2045, an MRI mishap transmits Tabitha Moore's mind back into her body in the past.Nowit's 1998,she's thirteen years old, and she has to confront her long, miserable lifetime of failures—and once again being trailer trash—all over again. ...Or, does she? /// A re-do story, everyone's guilty pleasure.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: FortySixtyFour

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 11,694
Views: 4,115,252

What readers say about RE: Trailer Trash

“This story is written by a writer. Not just telling a storey, but many, with an economy of words and method refined to the point that it seem like natural conversation and high literature converging in reality. In a meta homage to the craft the notes and an…”
perfectgeneralRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“The book is phenomenal. Had me crying a bunch. The author draws from her personal experience and weedles out the mundane really highlighting what makes it extraordinary. The description of experience, anxiety, fear, self-doubt and a teenage girls adolescenc…”
Dunc0neRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

perfectgeneralRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is written by a writer. Not just telling a storey, but many, with an economy of words and method refined to the point that it seem like natural conversation and high literature converging in reality. In a meta homage to the craft the notes and analysis are in the plot.Characters are developed by word, feeling, thought, need and deed. Each a required facit to illuminate the inner colour and brightness to full effect. Each living jewel balances the crown, heavy upon the main character's head. Everyone carries this great responsability to make the most of their life. The choice of what that means is entirely personal.
Dunc0neRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The book is phenomenal.
Had me crying a bunch.
The author draws from her personal experience and weedles out the mundane really highlighting what makes it extraordinary.
The description of experience, anxiety, fear, self-doubt and a teenage girls adolescence (all over again but different) puts me in mind of Marcus Aurelius's description of freshly baked bread and the smell of olives going sour. Just real things but elevated to something almost sacred. What is real? What do we experience every day.
I am enjoying this and when I write I now us RE: Trailer Trash as a yard-stick for what I hope to evoke and uncover in and about experiences as they are teased out on to page.
Also. the author does good research about stuff that is important.
The grammar is impeccable. One or two misspelled words every 8 or so chapters but the chapters are SOOOOOOOOO LOOOOONG. Especially later.
I stopped reading for a bit when Lisa came back. Because here behaviour and its effect hit too close to home.
I wait for new chapter now with my breath thoroughly baited.
Also. Bobby's cool. The interest in boys, etc is done really well. I have just finished a three week teaching practical at a co-ed school here in South Africa and it made me chuckle quite a bit. It is a public school and there is the whole spectrum of kids here from, has been dating for years to, "boys are like drugs, don't do them".
Also the deputy headmaster at the school and the English teacher were highschool sweet-hearts.
I gave the 'Style' half a star less because... I can see the writing evolve through the chapters and it makes me wonder what the story might have been like if it had been written now.
This isn't the best review... I am typing it out at my part-time job (secretarial work at a law-firm) with my employer looking over my shoulder.
Love you Author-nim. xx
GraveltonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
No litRPG, no portal to another world, but a really engaging coming of age and slice of life story. I was really surprised how much I like it. Recommended with no reservations to anyone looking for a good story.
Harmonious Arkos SlothRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Batman is considered one of the most relatable superheroes in media today. He’s just a regular guy with an unshakable will and the seemingly impossible, self-appointed mission of making his city safe one captured criminal at a time.
All while only using a full one percent of his power: His bank account.
Much like Batman, the protagonist of this story is also completely ordinary. However, unlike him, she starts out without even 1% power. If anything, she’s in the negatives in every conceivable way: A fat, dirt-poor, social pariah living in a trailer.
Hence the title.
Because of this, her goal is both as seemingly insurmountable as Batman’s, and so mundane, most people take it for granted: She wants to have a normal life, and be treated like an actual person that matters to those around her.
Unlike many time-travel stories involving fantastical settings, or power trips with the ultimate goal of “winning everything”, this story completely subverts several of the common tropes of the genre.
There are others it abuses for the sake of the plot, but that’s a given for these types of stories. With something so focused on characters and the conflict between them rather than a world-ending event, tension has to be manufactured from other sources.
The good thing about having a character that is as painfully average as the protagonist is that she is easy to relate to. Each of her victories will feel like the reader’s victory, because her goals are ordinary things, or accomplishable by ordinary means.
No saving the world, or plotting economic domination for this girl!
At its core, this is a story about a young woman’s fight against her own flaws and limitations in a desperate attempt to break out of her societal mold, and the impact her struggle has on those around her.
The main cast is of a manageable size and are well-developed. Each personality is distinct, and fleshed-out. Everyone has their own unique voice and clearly defined motivations.
Unlike many similar fictions, the
OogaChoogaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really like the pacing. Its slow and steady and really drives the actual amount of work the character is putting in rather than skipping past it. There is some action that is both realistic and drastic enough to matter. I'm not sure how realistic this high school drama is to real life but it sure is entertaining. All the characters feel unique and have their own personalities which is not as common as I would like.
I really freaked out when the chapter titled 'Book Two: Tabitha's new adventure' came out. I really did not like that chapter or really understand why it was there at all. Like it just happens and then it's never talked about again. Maybe it's like an April fool's that I wasn't reading at the time to catch. Any way.
I really wish there was some down time for her too actually use her future knowledge or do something for herself. Right now its just going from problem to problem and it's a bit much. The reaction from Tabitha is good because I would also be going crazy if every thing went wrong all the time like that, it's bonkers. But that my only critique I can think of right now.
[Ch 38]
QueenIslandzadiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Being able to go back in time to enjoy the 90s as they were, and redo some things before 2007 and take advantage of whatever knowledge you're able to keep with you and use to benefit yourself or your future self and situation. I would go back and try to prevent some shit from hitting a few fans.
AgasthenesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's the ultate wish fullfilosrory. You have a character with a lot in life almost certainly worse than your own get the chance to do better. And she does!
Now in addition there is good writing good characterisation, good dialogue and a good new spin on an undead horse trope.
5/5 would binge again
VMJaskierniaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Ok, the hint of fantasy/scifi is mostly in the time-travel. The rest is very realistic and just... good. It's good. It's like Judy Blume wrote a book about time-travel and made it into a redo-fic.
A woman in her 60s goes to get an MRI and it short-circuts. She ends up in the body of her 13 year old self. Her overweight, living in a trailer park, low-class, 13 year old self. That she had been trying to get away from for almost fifty years.
Now she has to do it all again. Or does she? Nope. She's going to get better *now.*
I can see why this is 5th best rated on the site. It's not litrpg, it's not isekai, but it's true. The main character has to overcome issues we can related to. We might actually have lived. She is all of us. And as she see her get better, we know we can too.
Great story, grammar, flow- everything's top notch.
celerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a story about people. About ordinary humans, growing up in a trailer park or the nice side of town. About misery and hope and responsibility. Read it to feel things. Writing is solid, plots are interesting, yet the characters and the emotions are what should grab you. Strongly recommended.
TealiciousTeaRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Introduction
A compelling 'contemporary' web fiction that explores a subdued second chance at life concept. I say subdued but in relative terms to her peers, she is 'overpowered' through the grace of life experience. The second life begins when she is a teenager and is a do over she has the same body.
Setting
A distinct and well realised 1990's 'North American' setting. Sufficently described in location but also expanded upon and given nauce in character interaction.
Personal opinion
The same body leads to the rather controversial approach the author takes the main characters 'fat' body. Now I have a 'thin' body so my comments should be understood in this light. I think the author fat-shames extent a certain extent, and I do believe the author could do more to portray that 'thinness' isn't the way to happiness. Unpopular as this opinion may be it is limited to the story not the author's explict intentions which is to show how becomming 'thin and pretty' can backfire.
The author does write a sophisticated representation of self hatred. From the main characters self view as 'trash' which is even in the title, to her idealisation and unrealistic expectations of what she is supposed to do to be happy and liked. In that she cannot and does not see her own efforts as good enough.
In terms of capturing 1990's America culture such a fat-shaming view was common again to an extent and it continues to today. The main character as such is believable and her motivations are understandable. Her beliefs and reactions are exaggerated but not wrong in her social relations the people she interacts with everyday. She makes for an excellent character.
Caveted by the understanding that self-hate, that hatred is a human condition. That hatred of others is an act, that hatred of particular groups of people serves the interests of the hating. That the hated group will come to believe that the hatred Is justified and the 'reasons' for it are valid because they are told it almost everyday