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• Too old for tumblr.
• Nerd of all trades, master of none.
• Co-editor of Shousetsu Bang*Bang, a webzine of original gay sexy stories.
• My Shousetsu Bang*Bang stories can be found here.
• I am beeblebabe on Livejournal and whitneyarner on Twitter.
• I like watching people do smooches. An important thing you should know about me is that I own the URL manpelt.com.
• Blog is occasionally NSFW (depending on where you work,) but I tag for that.
PB/Marceline: practically canon.
Just a cheerful springtime-flavoured picture to get myself into the swing of the new year — it’s been a tough one for me, art-wise! I’m glad to have finally finished something just for fun.
11x17” poster available at my store!
From Volume 9, Special Issue 8
When the water closed over Delphine’s head, she felt not fear, but anger. The sea was dark and swirling around her, and she was dazed from the impact of her body on the waves and could not right herself to find the surface again, no matter how hard she kicked her legs. She kept the air in her lungs despite wanting nothing more to let it out in a torrent of curses. Damn the storm, damn her crew, and damn herself the most for being tossed out over the prow.
My story! If you ever said to yourself, ‘Man, Ursula from The Little Mermaid is HOT!’ this is the story for you!!
From Volume 9, Special Issue 8
JULIA: It’s just a little— Oh, shit.
[quick cut]
JULIA: And then you want to— Shit. Balls. Hold on.
[quick cut]
JULIA: But always— [offscreen crash] Oh, sweet Jesus, fuck me sideways.
[quick cut]
JULIA: Well, either these will be the best petit fours I’ve ever made, or I’m just going to have to kill everyone in the building to cover the evidence.
[musical cue, title card: “BLESS YOUR HEART”]
This is a very special and very silly story that my partner in crime wrote that I must draw special attention to because: the cocktail recipes in it are mine! Created for something that ended up disastrous, so I’m glad they can have new life here.
The Staff and Participants of
Shousetsu Bang*Bang
request the pleasure of your company
at a High Tea Special Issue
Monday, the twenty-sixth of April
two thousand and thirteen
Sapphic delights will be served
Admission gratis
Donations of comments and sharing gladly accepted
R.S.V.P.
Hosted by Your Editors
(via shousetsubangbang)
Signups are now open for the March 25 issue; the text deadline for the issue is Tuesday, March 19, and the art deadline is Saturday, March 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. As always, you don’t have to sign up to participate, and you’re not creating an unbreakable contract by signing up, but throwing your name into the hat is always a good way to get that creative impulse going! Signups for the beta reader pool will be in an upcoming post.
This is the first special of the year, where we trade boys for girls and let the lesbians run free! The theme this time is Tea for Two: How do you ladies take your tea? Hot? Sweet? Spiked?~*~
Signups are of course still open for the February’s Hookers and Blackjack issue — this is the part of the year where we’ve got a little overlap, and we know it’s a bit of a crunch, but contributors are welcome to take part in either or both issues!
Ladies, please!
Here’s the complete schedule for 2013: themes, descriptions, deadlines, dates, and all!
FEBRUARY 25: HOOKERS AND BLACKJACK
text deadline: Tuesday, February 19
art deadline: Saturday, February 23
Build your own theme park! But remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
MARCH 25: TEA FOR TWO (F/F SPECIAL)
text deadline: Tuesday, March 19
art deadline: Saturday, March 23
How do you ladies take your tea? Hot? Sweet? Spiked?
APRIL 29: PLAYING DOCTOR
text deadline: Tuesday, April 23
art deadline: Saturday, April 27
Whether you’re suffering from a broken heart or a terminal case of handsomeness, the doctor is in.
JUNE 24: HEROES AND VILLAINS
text deadline: Tuesday, June 18
art deadline: Saturday, June 22
Calling all caped crusaders and men of steel: your city needs you now more than ever.
AUGUST 26: ON WRITING
text deadline: Tuesday, August 20
art deadline: Saturday, August 24
Bibliophiles, rejoice! This issue celebrates books and the people who like to create, compile, collect, critique, and/or consume them.
SEPTEMBER 23: DISTANT SHORES (ARTIST SPECIAL)
text deadline: Tuesday, September 3
art deadline: Tuesday, September 17
Our third artist special focuses on far-off places and the fun of going (or not going) there.
OCTOBER 28: MASQUERADE
text deadline: Tuesday, October 22
art deadline: Saturday, October 26
Mistaken identities? Clever disguises? Elaborate costuming? Who was that masked man?
DECEMBER 16: THEME-FREE (BIG BANG*BANG)
text deadline: Tuesday, December 10
art deadline: Saturday, December 14
And as always, if you want your big story to have its big break, December’s the month to do it: the sky’s the (word) limit.
~*~
Want to participate? It’s easy! Signup posts go up about two months before each issue, both for a nonbinding way of declaring commitment and for authors to hook up with volunteer illustrators. Regardless of whether or not you signed up beforehand, stories are due in our inbox by the Tuesday before the issue goes live, and all standalone images/illustrations are due by the Saturday before. You can find more rules and details in our mission statement.
Illustration for an awesome story in this month’s Shousetsu Bang*Bang, the ladies special.
This is the art from my most recent story! It is basically EXACTLY what I had envisioned, and I love it!
(via shousetsubangbang)
Greetings, new followers! If you fine people are interested in seeing our previous ladies-only issues, well, here are some links for you!
- Special Issue 1: A Maiden’s Confidence
- Special Issue 2: Amoris Ignis Perpetuus
- Special Issue 3: Time and Time Again
- Special Issue 4: Haunted
- Special Issue 5: The Road
- Special Issue 6: Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers
- Special Issue 7: Leather and Lace
And for those of you who a hungry for some content full of boys, well, you’re in luck, because you’ve got all the past other issues to go through! And don’t forget that signups are open for Issue #36, Crime & Punishment.
Feel free to link, share, and distribute this version wherever you like, as long as you play by the Creative Commons rules on the copyright page and don’t change or charge anything. For those of you interested in formats other than .pdf, be patient — we’re getting different avenues of distribution ready.
Also, as this is still a new project for us, we’re looking for feedback, both good and bad. Feel free to leave comments here or email the SSBB account; be sure to tell us what platform/device you’re using so that we can get a good sense of how this works in a variety of contexts. Suggestions are of course appreciated, as are ideas about different features you’d like to have incorporated in a downloadable issue. Every if all you have to say is ‘everything looks perfect’, we’d love to hear that.
You’ll also notice that at the end of every entry in the digital version, there’s a link back to the story’s original LJ entry so you can tell the creators what you thought. As always, Shousetsu Bang*Bang is a 100% volunteer-run enterprise, and we have every intention of keeping it that way. We don’t charge, solicit, or even accept donations — this is a project that runs on love. As such, if you enjoy something, please: a) tell a friend, and b) tell the creator. The best way to convince the people you love to keep making the things you love is to tell them how much you love it. Love is a very powerful currency.
