Anyway, if you want #communityMedia and community focused alternatives to the products produced by the tech silos, it means we're all going to have to do a lot more work collecting, curating, sharing, and funding media production.

Community is inconvenient. Someone has to wash the dishes, someone has to peel the potatoes, someone has to write the 5000 word thinkpieces on American and Japanese soft power as evidenced by the way our various media have spread (and not spread) through the world.

I've talked a lot about our toys, and why we make them, but I figure I should explain again.

I make the toys that I want to see in the world.

I've been collecting toys for years, but those toys are so often made by or in service of corporations that want to lock up our culture and burn our planet.

So I created my own characters, started writing, mined the public domain, and started making my own toys and telling my own stories.

Stories that don't enrich some far off corporation or overstuffed capitalist, toys that are made sustainably, by people who are being paid a reasonable amount of money.

We tell stories that reflect our values, it's #CommunityMedia, and we're making toys that reflect those values too.

It's one part #anticapitalism, on part #openculture, and a small dose of #smallThings

We can't do it without your support, so if you see something you like in the toys that we make, boost it. If you want something, and you can afford it, buy it.

Ask questions, help us tell stories.

Thanks.