The Shousetsu Bang*Bang Museum of Fictional History is pleased to announce the newest addition to our collection: Issue 98. This lurid anthology is a remarkable example of the best smutty queer romance the internet has to offer today. Readers will thrill at the sordid tales and images of history contained within, and at their delightfully sexy conclusions.
Issue 98 joins us as part of the museum's permanent collection. It can be viewed alongside the rest of our exhibits in perpetuity.
The Shousetsu Bang*Bang Museum of Fictional History is a completely unlicensed, unchartered, community-sponsored no-profit organization. If you love Shousetsu Bang*Bang and believe in our mission, join today! Become a member by reading the issue, leaving appreciative comments for creators, sharing links on social media, and even contributing your own works to future issues. With a little generosity from friends like you, our mission can continue on into whatever the future may (or may not) have in store.
Are you looking for some new or refurbished queer erotica? Then come on down to Shousetsu Bang*Bang!
This month at Shousetsu Bang*Bang, we've got a whole selection of incredibly work-unsafe stories and art to meet the needs of your busy life. We won't be beat when it comes to quality and selection. We've got smut to fit your needs and smut to fit your budget!
We've got the best deals in town! We're giving you brand-new and new-to-you queer romance -- no money down, no financing, no hassles! Drive the new issue off our lot today! You want more? We'll give you more! Come down and browse our whole back archive. We won't be satisfied until you're satisfied!
If we can't get you the happy ending you're looking for, we'll give you a full refund! That's the Shousetsu Bang*Bang guarantee since 2005!
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Which unnamed queer webzine, now in its eighteenth year of production, just released its newest issue? Rumors are flying!
A tipster tells us that the zine's 95th issue is now out -- and we do mean out. This issue comes complete with steamy, scandalous tales of queer romance that would be quite a shock to the fans. That same tipster says it's "off-the-charts sexy" with "wall-to-wall smut" that covers everything from the stage to the screen, from movies to music, from the internet to real life.
What few know is that despite being one of the most exclusive events of the year, this issue is apparently completely free! No cover charge, no subscription model -- they're just really giving this away?
What do we think? Your guesses are welcome in the comments as always, as are your words of appreciation for the creators!
Well, friends, we did it: another year of Shousetsu Bang*Bang!
For our final issue of the year, we present our theme-free big bang: over a quarter of a million words, tons of images, and more smutty queer goodness than you'll know what to do with. Hopefully, in this busy season, you'll be able to find a quiet moment to enjoy curling up by the fire (or the air conditioner, depending on your location) with these stories of love.
If you'd like to return this Non-Denominational Holiday Gift-Giving favor, please do two things: one, share the news on social media, and two, leave comments for creators telling them how much you enjoyed their work. We remain an all-free, all-volunteer publication because so many people have worked their tails off this year, all for the love of making things and sharing them with others. Appreciation is our currency here, so please remember to tip big.
Please comment at https://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/bang-bang-no-94-signup/ if you plan to submit a story or artwork for this issue. Artists should specify whether you're submitting a standalone piece, offering to illustrate a story, or doing both. Artists offering to illustrate should provide either links to or thumbnails of past works as examples of style; writers wishing to collaborate with artists (or artists wishing to collaborate with writers) should respond directly to comments to this post.As always, you don't have to sign up to participate, and you're not creating an unbreakable contract by signing up, but it's always a good idea!
As always, our last issue of the year is a theme-free big bang, where the sky's the limit!
NOTE: This issue is a big bang for both text and art. For text submissions, there's no upper word-count bound for stories submitted to this issue. For art sumbissions, we open up this issue to unlimited sequential art and short comics. (Just make sure all text to be included in the images is submitted by the text deadline for editorial review.)
Quick Answers: Interested in participating but don't know where to start? Bring your quick questions here!
Found in the drafts folder of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston
The above listed were the contents of the issue I read, and now I have placed them all in my bookmarks folder, along with all other abominable pieces of my browser history. With it shall go this record of mine — this test of my own sanity, wherein I have descended into the very mouth of erotic madness itself. I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of pornographic horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer I can no longer look upon without the singular thought: gaaaay.
But I do not think it shall be long before I return to these entrancing pages. As so many others before me have gone, so shall I know. I know too much, and the issue is still live.
Shousetsu Bang*Bang still lives, too, again in that foul and dreary void we call the internet. Though oft in the past it has seemed to sink beneath the waves, lost for all eternity, its ministers on earth still bellow and prance and proclaim its glories from glowing screens in lonely places. It is not trapped eternal within the abyss, but rises now with its newest issue, calling forth queer terrors until the world screams with frenzy and delight. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise (if you know what I mean). A rainbow of spine-chilling monstrosities waits and dreams in these pages, and news of its coming spreads across the tottering platforms of social media. A time will come — and that time is upon us now!
If I do not survive this issue, may others herald its arrival and leave comments for the creators, as a warning to others of what mind-bending, jaw-dropping, not-safe-for-work mysteries lurk within its borders. Alas, I fear it is too late for me. I feel my mouse pointer drifting slowly, inexorably toward the links, as with trepidation and rapture I once more descend—
Issue 95: Celebrity Skin * issue date: Monday, February 28 * text deadline: Tuesday, February 15 * art deadline: Saturday, February 26 Everybody wants to be naked and famous in our red-carpet first issue of the year!
Issue 96: Coming Around Again * issue date: Monday, April 25 * text deadline: Tuesday, April 12 * art deadline: Saturday, April 23 That porn you like is going to come back in style.
Issue 97: Fit to Be Tied * issue date: Monday, June 27 * text deadline: Tuesday, June 14 * art deadline: Saturday, June 25 Get ready to show some restraints for an issue that's bound to be sexy!
Issue 98: The Way We (Never) Were * issue date: Monday, August 29 * text deadline: Tuesday, August 16 * art deadline: Saturday, August 27 Bring your best period pieces to this (alternate) historical issue, where the past isn't always what it used to be.
Issue 99: 'Til Death Do Us Part * issue date: Monday, October 31 * text deadline: Tuesday, October 18 * art deadline: Saturday, October 29 Our traditionally spine-tingling October issue will have you saying "I do" to making everyone's Halloween sexier.
Issue 100: Theme Free * issue date: Monday, December 19 * text deadline: Tuesday, December 6 * art deadline: Saturday, December 17 Can you believe it? Our centennial! Join us for the biggest, bang-bangiest theme-free issue yet!
Interested in doing a cover for one of the first five issues? We're looking for full-color, finished pieces with homosuggestive, if not downright homoerotic, themes. Looking back at the covers of our previous issues, you can see that they run the gamut from sweet to sexy, from serious to silly, and everything in-between.
If you're game, send us an email at shousetsubangbang@gmail.com and list your top three theme choices. We can't promise that everyone will get everything they want, but we'll do our best. Preference will be given to individuals who a) have been active participants in SSBB, and b) have not done a cover the previous year.
This is a signup for the October 25 issue; the text deadline for the issue is Tuesday, October 12 and the art deadline is Saturday, October 23.
Please comment here if you plan to submit a story or artwork for this issue. Artists should specify whether you're submitting a standalone piece, offering to illustrate a story, or doing both. Artists offering to illustrate should provide either links to or thumbnails of past works as examples of style; writers wishing to collaborate with artists (or artists wishing to collaborate with writers) should respond directly to comments to this post. If you don't have an LJ account, please leave alternate ways to get in touch with you. As always, you don't have to sign up to participate, and you're not creating an unbreakable contract by signing up, but it's always a good idea!
The theme for this issue is Strange Aeons: That is not dead which can eternal lie ... but is it sexy? Find out in our traditional spooky October issue!
NOTE: SSBB's October issue traditionally waives that general rule that says all stories submitted here should have shiny happy endings. If you still want your characters to wind up happily ever after, go for it! However, if you're inclined from time to time to take things to more ambiguous conclusions, this is your chance.
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