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Post-Hype Realism is not a product. It is a doctrine, a working catalogue, and a one-person operation that publishes openly. The essays are free to read. The music is free to listen. The PDFs are free to download. The Manifesto is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial reuse with attribution. Everything else is all rights reserved.

Sponsorship is what makes that possible. A sponsor underwrites the work so that the work does not need to bend itself to a market that rewards opposite of what it stands for. The sponsor receives acknowledgement and proximity to the practice. The sponsor does not receive a product.

If sponsorship makes sense for you, it is usually because one of these areas of the practice resonates. Pick one, propose what feels right, and start a conversation. The forms below are not packages and not tiers. They are the shapes the practice already moves in.

Acknowledgement, proximity, and a direct relationship with the finished work the sponsorship made possible. The specifics depend on what is being supported and who is asking. A short list of what has been useful so far:

• A named line in the colophon of the work the sponsorship made possible. One line, Mono register, the way the rest of the site reads. Anonymous on request.
• Signed copies of the PDF or printed artefact where one is produced — the finished edition, the same one any other reader can hold.
• A direct send of the annual transparency letter — the same public report that gets published openly on the site, delivered to sponsors as a courtesy so the trace of where the support landed is not buried in the archive.
• The right, where it fits, to mention the sponsorship in the sponsor's own communications with attribution.
• For ongoing sponsors who consent, a line on a public sponsors page (planned). Silence is the default. Visibility is opt-in.

If you want something else and it does not compromise the work, ask. The list is descriptive, not exhaustive.

Not a transaction. A sponsor does not buy a song, a logo placement, or a guaranteed deliverable on a schedule that suits them. The work decides what the work makes.

Not editorial influence. The line in the colophon is the only place a sponsor's name lives inside a release. Sponsors do not shape content, edit drafts, or veto releases.

Not a perk system. There are no tiers, no levels, no badges. Two sponsors at the same scale of support may receive different forms of acknowledgement depending on what fits them.

Not an ad slot. No logos on the homepage. No banners on essays. No paid placement anywhere. The colophon is the receipt.

Not affiliation. A sponsorship is a finite arrangement around something specific. It does not make the sponsor a partner or an officer of the project, and it does not grant any control or governance role.

A dedicated /sponsors page will list ongoing supporters of the doctrine in a single Mono register, alphabetical, one line each, no logos. The page is opt-in. Silence is the default. Names appear only on explicit, written request.

Three questions decide whether a sponsorship fits. One: does the sponsor's other work contradict the doctrine of honest tool use? Two: does the sponsor expect a deliverable that compromises the seam-visible aesthetic? Three: would naming the sponsor in the colophon embarrass the work? If any answer is yes, the sponsorship is declined with a thank-you. The filter is alignment, not budget.

Write. Say which area resonates. Say what you would want to support and at what scale, in your own words. Numbers help, but they are not the first thing. The first thing is whether the work and the sponsor fit. The rest is figured out together.