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I've never read Homestuck but there's a type of media that I call "a Homestuck" and I think it's a useful categorization. The main criteria are:
long enough that the time investment is a serious barrier to entry
irrevocably changes your personality
brings something genuinely unique to the table. there is no real substitute for reading/playing/watching it in its entirety
Fate/Stay Night is a Homestuck. Worm is a Homestuck. When They Cry is a Homestuck.
Undertale has cultural impact similar to a Homestuck at first glance, but the fact that it's a pretty short and accessible game means that you don't get the particular mix of sunk cost fallacy and an intimate experience with a piece of media that results in you needing to connect with others who have already put in the time investment. You can buy your friends Undertale and expect them to play it if they're not too busy; telling a friend to read Homestuck is giving them a quest that, if accepted, will spark an odyssey. to read someone's Homestuck is an act of love without true equivalent.
JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, especially if you decide to get up to date with the Manga.
Oh my god, you're right.
business anatomy of a concert: a 101 for hanson fans ahead of the monday tour announcement
So I donât make it much of a secret that many Hanson fans donât quite know how live entertainment works as a business function. Thatâs okay! Itâs not meant to be a transparent process. Iâll admit Iâm the one who submitted the post-RnR confession about venue management. Not like people didnât figure it out but whatever! Tour dates are coming on Monday and I expect in typical fanson fashion, many people are going to be disappointed. I hope this will explain why things may or may not work out in your favor. This is how a show works in a very loose form. Iâm sure their protocol isnât exactly like this, but this is the gist of it: Bex negotiates contracts with venues on Hansonâs behalf. Here and there sheâll need their input but by now sheâs been with them long enough Iâm sure itâs an easier process. Keep in mind that she and possibly Walker sell the guysâ services to the venue. Thatâs why they often go back to the same places because of good relationships. It can be more difficult to get into a new venue or return to the same place with new ownership sometimes. Tour season is competitive and busy.
The most important part of the contracts is the guarantee. Thatâs the actual base fee the guys walk away with. I havenât a clue what they charge, itâs probably less than youâd think. If I had to guess Iâd say low five figures per show. Please keep in mind that it does not matter how many tickets sell for a show, they will get paid the guarantee no matter what (which is why itâs called a guarantee). Typically sellout/capacity percentage bonuses apply to most contracts except for Saturday performances, give or take. Thatâs dependent on each venue though. And I donât think the bonuses are that much, but again that may differ. Contracts will also include things like accommodations and media schedules. Venues partner with specific media channels and hotels and get ridiculously good rates, so if youâre upset that theyâre staying at a four or five-star placeâŚthey didnât pay for it and the venue paid a fraction of what you would. They just pay for incidentals and upgrades (room service and suites/services if they request a different room), excluding Bex who they cover themselves, usually at the same rate the venue pays or at a secondary hotel. Bex may also schedule other media for them as well independently. That just depends on each market and venue, but the general idea is that the venueâs stuff comes first. Their contracts may also include travel, but thatâs more likely in the event they have to fly rather than drive, or if they have to backtrack and zig-zag to get to that particular city. Usually, travel is just a flat fee stipend that covers most of their expense, not entirely. When I managed a venue it was almost always $400 per performer, with a few exceptions here and there. Hanson does not get a percentage of ticket sales aka door deals. Thatâs not how that level of contract works. Ticket revenue is there purely for the venue to break even on the investment and ticket prices and fees are covered in the contract to keep them even throughout the tour. The venue hires the artist to attract customers. The venueâs profit center is the food and beverage sales. Which leads me to my next and most important point: If you want the guys to come back to the same venue you will see them at this year, please remember that the venue needs to turn a profit. Buy food and drinks, tip the staff well, and treat them with respect. You would not believe how much influence a bar manager or coat check person can have on the owners if the audience is awful and causes too much trouble or costs the venue in hidden things later that make it not worth their time to hire Hanson again. Itâs not super common but it has happened. If nothing else it may reduce their negotiated fee the next time they tour. If the guys try to bring the beer along with them this time, please do not complain about bottle prices. They and the servers have zero control over it. Liquor laws fucking suck and the venue has to take a big cut for them to make any money. If you donât like it, simply order another beverage you do like. If you do decide to buy a bottle, still tip just as well because the bartenders will otherwise lose money that night and that is a surefire way that the guys wonât be able to bring the beer again. Hanson works for the venue, Bex works for Hanson. The venue has final say in just about anything, period. Anywho, after all that is said and done and the show ends, thatâs when the guys, Bex, and the managers go over the payout (essentially a receipt; both parties keep a copy) and sign off on bonuses, etc. Honestly, unless thereâs something specific to verify, Bex signs the payout on their behalf and takes the check and the guys just hang out with the owners, and rest for a bit while the techs strike and pack, and venue staff finish up and close. Please donât whine if it takes them awhile to come out to the bus. I know it sucks, but I promise you no one is dragging their feet inside, except the guys putting theirs up for a few minutes to unwind :) Not gonna lie, as a former venue manager this is usually the coolest part of the job when I did it, but itâs good networking and such for the future. If there was any fan drama that night that got anyoneâs attention, the guys will find out then, so behave! Sorry not sorry for the novel. I just want to set that out there now before everyone gets whiny on Monday. For the international fans, I really hope things work out well for you and theyâll be able to make it to your country!
This definitely goes into a lot more detail than what I knew, but I think the biggest thing for fans to remember is that a venue has to want Hanson there. And like you said, a lot of that depends on how the fans act (although Iâve also experienced venues having such a preconceived notion of the fans/Hanson that they made it a bad experience for everyone). One of the smallest venues Iâve ever seen them in only had them once because âthey didnât sell enough tickets.â Yet they can sell out places 3x as big. Go figure. I guess the point is that there are a lot of factors that play into why Hanson do or donât play in a certain city/venue/etc.Â
(Also, I may or may not have bookmarked this for fic research purposes)
I think the biggest thing for fans to remember is that a venue has to want Hanson there. Nailed it! For the small venue/turnout thing you mentioned, Iâm sorry the staff were dicks! Usually the people you interact with; security, servers, etc., have little to no idea what sales actually are, and in many venues thatâs confidential so the box office may either not tell you or straight up lie. So if they said the turnout was low that probably just means the pre-sales before walkups happen. Or theyâre just shitty people which I have experienced several times both as a guest and a manager. Staff can definitely make or break the experience for the fans too, thatâs for sure. Feel free to PM me if you have questions for your research :)
This was the promoter for the venue, who was hanging outside the bus while his girlfriend was at the M&G she hadnât actually won. Yeah. He basically just added her to the M&G group because he could.
I wasnât surprised later to hear that Hanson didnât want to go back to that venue anyway.

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Isaac Recording Papoose on the Play EP. -Z #MakePlay
**it skips the queue because itâs about the new EP Play
Someone should really be keeping track of all the lyrics fans have claimed predict the end of Hanson as we know it. And how many times they have been wrong.
Having given this more thought while I drove to work and listened to the album, Iâm revisiting this with my serious literary critic hat on.
Within this EP, they actually use all four definitions of âplay,â three of them within this one song.
In Freak Out, Ike sings âitâs time to play.â Thatâs the theme of the EP, what theyâve been telling us all along. Have fun, cut loose, do your thing.
Second verse of Feeling Alive, âIâve heard my gut say/itâs your time to play.â Okay, almost the same lyric. But this time it has the connotation of a competition, a sport, even a battle.
The part you quoted, of course, uses the noun play. A piece of theatre. The world is a stage and we are players in it. Not a new metaphor at all. And at the end of that verse, just before the drums kick into that military cadence that leads into the last bridge/chorus (the last act?), he shouts for Zac to play. As in, play the song.
Honestly, for guys who canât spell a damn thing, they have a way with metaphor. Reading only one meaning into ANYTHING they sing is just ridiculous. There are so many more layers and shades of meaning that thereâs no point getting upset over one thing you think they seem to be saying.
Fucking Rant About Hanson
Sorry guys, but I need to go on a rant about Hanson. Donât get me wrong. I fucking LOVE this band. But itâs the same as when you love, say, your husband or your mother. You love them unconditionally, but some things they do just make you want to bash your head against a wall.
The thing that pisses me off about Hanson is that, as innovative as they are in the music business, are still not doing things right. They are hell bent on making their music really hard to access - like, the whole Members EP thing. Now, on one hand, I get that from a business standpoint it is smart to provide something really special for your fans, like stuff they can only get by paying for your fan club. But in my opinion, that should be the other extra stuff - things like livestreams, or even merchandise or whatever. And they are great at that part of it, they come up with a lot of awesome, creative things for their fans and Iâm sure that does help them make more money.
But, the MUSIC should be accessible. Like, your music should be all over Spotify, Youtube, Facebook etc. To make it easy for people to discover your music and get invested in you. Not to mention that if your music is getting views on Youtube, you do actually get paid for it (not a ton but still). ANYWAY Iâm getting sidetracked by my point is they make it really hard for people to find, discover and SHARE THEIR MUSIC! Like it or not, that just is not how the fucking music industry works anymore, in the internet age, and Hanson more than anyone should know that.
I get where youâre coming from: I think some of their fanclub EPs are the best stuff theyâve EVER done, and itâs frustrating thatâs not widely available to represent them as a band.
BUT
I think I understand why they choose to do it like this: they think if they put it on Spotify and Google Play &etc. theyâre not going to pull many new people in, AND they think a lot of their Die Hard fans wonât pay for it.Â
Which is fair. I know I probably wouldnât have bought fanclub membership most years if it wasnât the only way to get the fanclub EPs.
This strategy wouldnât work for most other bands. Either theyâre big enough that their new music is going to be easily accessible all over the internet the moment of its release or theyâre small enough that no one is going to listen to them at all if they have to pay money up front.
For Hanson, who have a small but extremely dedicated fan base, it comes down to the fact that this is the way theyâre going to make the most money.
Middle of Nowhere - Hanson
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This past Oct. 2, I was sitting in a bar at Universal Studios. My husband and I had just toasted my brother and his brand-new (like, of the past hour) fiancĂŠe, and we were on our second drinks in preparation of the madness of Halloween Horror Nights; since weâd spent the entire day at the parks already, we needed something to keep our adrenaline going. Our twenties are gone, after all, and the Orlando heat and humidity like to stick around for longer than acceptable. Which makes theme-park days oh so fun. The guy in the bar whoâd been playing guitar and singing to entertain everyone for the past hour wrapped up a rendition of âBlister in the Sunâ and promptly began on something else. âIs this âJack and Dianeâ?â my husband asked. As a casual John Cougar Mellencamp fangirl, I listened intently. And then my eyes grew wide. âDude, no, heâs playing âMMMBop.â HEâS PLAYING âMMMBOP.ââ And he was. Being in a public place, completely sober ...
I need to get this out. Everything is better out than in.Â
There was a confession today that asked what the surviving band members would do if one of them died. Which made me think of the fact that, in fact, that almost was reality in the not-so-distant past.
Which made me remember That Walk. Which started a flood of memories surrounding That Walk that I really shouldnât have been thinking about at work, because even now, even what? 7 year later? 8? Iâve lost count.
Back up. There was a night were Isaac almost died. It was during / after a show in Dallas, TX. He went to the hospital after the show. We drove back to Tulsa in the pouring rain after the bus driver telling us that they were not going straight to Tulsa from Dallas. That was the point where we knew something was happening.
Woke up to hear that the show was canceled and we should turn on the local news. There sat Zac and Taylor, looking more tired than I have ever seen them, in the same clothes they had on when we left the night before. They were saying the show was canceled, that Isaac was sick. But from the way they lookedâŚyou just knew it had to be more than that. They looked so close to breaking. It was hard to see them that way.
Then Taylor said the unbelievable: the walk scheduled for 3pm would still take place and they hoped everyone would still show up. How could they look like that and still be holding a walk? It didnât seem mentally healthy for them to still to try to be âHansonâ at that point. But Taylor gave a smile Iâm sure he thought looked genuine, but those in the fandom knew better.
A little before 3, we arrived at Cains, the location of the walk. Along with seemingly every press reporter in Tulsa. Taylor and Zac came out. Zac saw the press and looked ready to run, but Taylor just gave him a pleading look, a look that clearly said if Zac ran, so would he, and how would that look? So Zac stayed. He could barely look at all the cameras fixed on him. Taylor was visibly trembling as he talked, just load enough for the cameras but what he hoped was not loud enough for the fans.
I heard a few words. Blood clot. Lungs. Surgery. Not sure of his status. Hopeful heâd be okay.
HowâŚhow could these boys be doing this right now? How could they be in Tulsa in front of fans when they did not even know if their brother was going to be okay?Â
Zac didnât say a word. He didnât seem like he was even there. It was the definition of going through the motions. He would periodically flinch or swallow back tears on something Taylor was thinking, but that was the only indication that he hadnât had a complete mental break.
Taylor, bless him, was trying so hard to seem okay. He had changed closed, but you can tell he still had not slept. The shaking refused to stop as he talked, either to the press or to the fans. He tried so hard to brush off what was happening, thanking the fans for coming. Saying that they came back because they knew people were already in town for the show and they didnât want to leave us hanging.
The came backâŚ..for the fans? They left Dallas, where their brother could very possibly be dying, for the fans.
That was the first time I actually felt horrible for being a fan. This wasnât where they were supposed to be at this moment. It was more than a bandmate in the hospital in Dallas; that was their brother. That was their family. It was deeper than the band. They were worried about Isaac because he was their guitarist. Guitarists can always be replaced.
They were possibly losing someone closer to them than we can imagine. And they left the hospital. Left Dallas. Left before they knew he would be okay.
For. The. Fans.
At that point, I wanted to turn around and leave. This wasnât fair to them. If we werenât there, they wouldnât be there. If we werenât in Tulsa, waiting for them, they would be in Dallas, where they belonged.
But the walk still happened, despite everything. It shouldnât have. There was no reason for it to happen. But it happened.
The feeling of That Walk was so different than any other walk I had ever been on, either before or since. It was a feeling of not knowing if this was the last walk that would ever be held, because no one knew if there would still be a Hanson. It was somber and reflective.Â
A couple fans were crying as they walked.Â
We all felt a seachange happen with That Walk. It happened like a wave crashing over the fans as we realized that what we had with these boys was all at once fragile and deep. Something that could be shattered at a moments notice, but also something strong enough to survive even moments like the one we were experiencing together. We were woven together in ways typically reserved for the closest families.
At one point, I was walking near Zac, who was surrounded by friends and checking his phone constantly. You can tell he was afraid of what the next text may say, but he was desperate for it to be delivered anyway. I caught his eye and smiled sadly at him. I was already crying as I walked, but it seemed okay at that point.
He gave me the same smile and mouthed âThank you.â
Thank me? For what? Making him leave Dallas? That hardly seemed like a good thing.
Then I realized: Thank you for being there. Thank you for surrounding him with the love and support they needed at the moment.
They didnât come home out of responsibility to us. They came home because they knew that they were safe with us. That we understood. That we would be their strength they didnât have at the moment and hold them together when the world was shattering.
The realization was both beautiful and heartbreaking. I will wished they werenât walking beside us. But I realized that if they had to be anywhere besides Dallas, I was glad they were at least with people they trusted to keep their hearts safe.
I will never forget the feeling of That Walk. I never want to experience those feelings again. I never want a REASON to feel them again. But feeling them was beautiful and somber and fragile and heartbreaking and inspiring and everything I never expected to feel when looking at someone I felt to be a stranger to me. But in that moment, the little strings that bound us all together were the strongest bonds in the world.
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mmmbopdubadopbopdubopdoobydopbopdubopmmmbopdopdooooo Yeah? Yeah. ...
the beginning made me nervous, but it made my heart happy by the end. <3

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