cover by Panksage~*~
A Roomful of Strangers, by Kit Miller
Counting Wolves, by Togi Kayako (土宜草子)
Call That An Author Insert, by Kumokawa Tokuri (雲川 徳利)
Something Old, Something New, by Suzuran
Giving a Rest Its Due, by Greta Jia-Kang Cabrel
Cleaning Out the Magic Castle, by Iron Eater *
* illustrated
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I Want to Fuck You Like an Ecosystem, by Devin Ambrosia and Zan
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Thanks for spending 2025 with us at Shousetsu Bang*Bang! We’re glad you’ve joined us here at end of the year to close out the old and ring in the new with our theme-free December big bang issue! We’ve got stories large and small for you here, full of excitement, enchantment, romance — and, of course, explicit queer smut.
Since 2005, Shousetsu Bang*Bang has been providing the internet, free of charge, with issue after issue of original queer love stories with steamy scenes and (mostly) happy endings! As important as this was twenty years ago, it’s even more important now to be proud pornographers!
…And it’s even more difficult now to be proud pornographers. This year, we’ve had social media posts censored and ebooks pulled from distribution because of our content. We’re not expecting any more welcome of a corporate reception for this issue, nor for any of the issues we’ve got scheduled for 2026. Which sucks! It sucks to have these amazing collections of work by talented authors and artists, only to have our attempts to tell people about them cut off at what seems like every turn.
So please! If you like our small-batch, fully human-made artisinal queer smut project, tell people! Share posts from our Bluesky, Mastodon, Plurk, and Tumblr accounts! Make your own and tag us! Download and rate our ebook collections at Smashwords and Itch.io! Send links to your friends! Just please, do what you can to spread the word and to keep this noble twenty-year-old webzine going strong.
Thanks so much to all of you who’ve helped us make 2025 a great year at Shousetsu Bang*Bang! Whether you’ve contributed a story or artwork, edited someone else’s piece, cheered on creators in their endeavors, helped brainstorm new ideas, created new ways for people to read issues, or been one of those loyal readers, we appreciate you. We’ll be seeing you with six new issues in 2026!
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(For summaries, creators’ notes, and more, we would usually tell you to see this issue’s entry on the Shousetsu Bang*Bang wiki. In the interim, however, please visit the relevant Google Doc of contributor commentary for similar content.)
