Hello there, writers and artists! Welcome to the Steddie Big Bang 2025, an 18+ Steddie-centric Big Bang. As you'll notice, we've updated our social media handles from steddiebang2024 to steddiebbang for continuity!

We have hit our cap for authors. Welcome emails and waitlist emails have been sent, so if you haven't received one yet, please reach out to us! We're still accepting sign ups for authors in the event we have drop-outs or if we're able to increase our cap during the sign up period!

Artist and beta-reader sign ups are still ongoing, and if you're an artist who plans to participate, we strongly encourage you to sign up sooner rather than later as we may increase our cap depending on those sign ups.

Author Sign Up Form || Artist Sign Up Form || Beta Sign Up Form

If you have any questions, please take a look at the guidelines below. We’ve also linked to the Q&A with additional questions addressed here on Tumblr. For any questions not answered there, feel free to shoot us a message!

a/s/l?: hey, hwkstiger94

Posting on October 15, 2024

Author: dismay_gray l Artist: @peachypurr | Beta: strangethetimes

↳ Keep reading below for a sneak peek!

we sent out our latest batch of emails a couple of hours ago and are all caught up as of this morning for all roles. if you signed up and haven't received a welcome email, please check your spam! sometimes, our emails get stuck in the spam filter. if you don't see it there either, feel free to message us to get it sorted!

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Steddie Big Bang '25 Sign Ups- Update

Hi there! Friendly neighborhood mods checking in with an update on sign ups.

We have hit our cap for authors. Welcome emails and waitlist emails have been sent, so if you haven't received one yet, please reach out to us! We're still accepting sign ups for authors in the event we have drop-outs or if we're able to increase our cap during the sign up period!

Artist and beta-reader sign ups are still ongoing, and if you're an artist who plans to participate, we strongly encourage you to sign up sooner rather than later as we may increase our cap depending on those sign ups.

You're all incredible and we're so excited to see what you all create!

Author Sign Up Form || Artist Sign Up Form || Beta Sign Up Form

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Steddie Bang '25: SIGN UPS ARE OPEN

It's tiiiiiiime! Sign Ups for all roles are officially open!

Like last year, we will be sending welcome emails in batches to not overwhelm our email account, so please don't panic if you don't get a confirmation immediately! There should be a confirmation message that appears on the screen once you submit to show that it's been received.

Also like last year, we will have a cap on authors to ensure we can keep up with all of your projects and do our best to pair teams in a reasonable ratio of artist-to-author! This year, we are capping teams at 125 authors on a first-come, first-serve basis. This may increase based on artist sign ups, and yes, there will be a waitlist should someone need to drop out during the sign up period! There is no cap on artists.

Please take a look at our guidelines, FAQ, and schedule linked below. As always, reach out to the mod team with any questions!

We're excited to see what you all create!

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that’s our mistake, thanks for pointing it out! sign ups will open on saturday, march 15th! the date and time are correct, we just stated the wrong day accidentally.

Steddie Big Bang 2025 - Sign Ups Opening SOON!

Hello there, writers and artists! It's almost time for sign ups!

Please take a look at our guidelines, FAQ, and schedule linked below. As always, reach out to the mod team with any questions!

A couple of reminders:

We're excited to see what you all create!

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Hi there!

Absolutely, you're free to enlist a friend to sign-up for you at your convenience. The info you'll need is as follows:

- Your name - Your email - Your discord handle - Your ao3 handle - Social Media links (you can share whatever you are most active on: Twitter, Tumblr or bluesky) - Your preferred communication method (Choose at least two) - And if you decide to take part in our writing schedules, your expected word count. We're working on a cap for authors so if you want to be a part of the bang this year we recommend you sign-up as soon as the form is open on March 15 at 12 PDT. We will have a waitlist like we did last year, and plan on increasing our numbers depending on artist interest, so if you're an artist consider signing up sooner rather than later.

Hi everyone!

We want to offer a helping hand for authors to ensure that everyone meets their own writing expectations!

This year, we’re offering personalized word count trackers for your project based on the word count given during sign-ups.

Here’s an example based on a 40,000 word estimate:

You will be able to fully edit it yourself if any changes in word counts occur, you write more on one week and not as much on another, or you want to add any notes about communication you have with your team or the mods.

Please note that we will only be providing based on your word count provided at sign ups and will not be editing the tracker once it is sent to you. There will be a section on the sign up sheet to check off if you’re interested and you will be sent the tracker shortly after confirmation of your sign up.

These are just guidelines that will help you stay on target for draft submissions and posting season, but you can always adjust based on your posting date once those claims pass. This is completely optional and only meant to be used to help you stay on track! We’re excited for Bang Season to begin!

Hey there!

Thank you for pointing that out to us! Sign-ups will open on Saturday, March 15 at 12:00 PM PDT. Please pay attention to the time zones. If you're not sure, you can click HERE and see what time it is for you. We'll be sending out reminders this week and the next, so if you're interested in joining the bang this year, fill out our interest form HERE. If you have already filled it out, you don't have to do it again. We look forward to seeing all of you this year!

Hi there!

For the 2024 round we had a no consequences policy, established after all the issues with the 2023 round, so if you haven't finished your fic you will be allowed to join the 2025 round. We do ask all the participants to be mindful of their workload for this new round, as this one will have consequences for not finishing the project.

The goal of a bang is to have a number of completed works with accompanying art, and although we understand life can get in the way, we will be more strict on this round to ensure we end the bang with completed projects.

Hi there, thank you for the concern, that's very sweet.

Unfortunately, as mods, we have limited information about the participants, so we can't tell you if everyone's doing ok, but we certainly hope they are.

There are still a few fics that are being updated and we gently encourage authors to keep working on their projects, even if the deadline has passed. We know a lot of people were excited about all the projects we presented in the bang and would love to see completed fics, even if it takes a while.