Dear Insane Children,  Greetings from behind The Great Firewall! While the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) continue in Beijing we’re still suffering Internet Sadness Disorder. All the VPN companies are embattled and expats around China are variously sad, furious, and feeling a general sense of disconnectedness. There are articles…

Dear Insane Children,  Yesterday morning we had another in our series of Crowd Design meetings via Discord. The overarching topic was Alice’s collection of dresses but this quickly morphed into a discussion regarding the methods/designs surrounding the collection, organization, access to, and powers contained within those dresses.  For instance, do we allow dresses to be…

Hi everyone. Martin here again with a few bits and pieces to tell you about while American is up to his eyeballs in salty sea-dog pirate shenanigans. 1) DISCORD !!Yes, tomorrow (March 12th)  we’re back doing the Discord live-chat/design meeting. This will take place at 9am HK time, so please check to see what time…

Dear Insane Children,  Get ready for a LIVE STREAM over on YouTube! I’ve set the time for 10AM on Thursday, March 7th (Hong Kong Time). That’s 6PM PST on March 6th for those of you in the US (West Coast). You know the drill… hit THIS LINK to set a reminder over on YouTube. Hit…

Dear Insane Children, I’m back in Shanghai and working hard to get caught up. It’s cold. And raining. And it doesn’t help that just as I arrived back in China our primary VPN provider got hit with a massive take down. Things are slowly improving but it’s been tough getting work done when half the…

Hi Everyone Martin here again. So, I have now sent out the Backerkit surveys for all the Plush People to fill in.Exciting stuff. Everyone check your inboxes, and spam folders associated with the email address you have given here on Patreon.If you don’t see anything yet, you probably fall into one of these next categories.…

Dear Insane Children,  LONG TIME no see! Whew! And I missed you all very much! I hope everyone is doing well and that you are all warm, healthy, and happy.  I am still in Thailand but finally back to the marina after several weeks out on the water. We sailed from Krabi down to the…

Hi Everyone. Martin here again! Stopping by to let you know that we decided to go with a company called Backerkit to keep track of the Plush Rabbit fulfilment.We used them before on the OOTW project very successfully.It basically allows us to keep everything in one place rather than having to track everything with multiple…

Hi Everyone Martin here again.I have now extracted the data from Patreon for this month.It’s quite the large excel sheet I can tell you   🙂 Almost all of you have been charged now.So please check your account info/billing history for February and you should see “complete” in green over on the right.  If you do…

Dear Insane Children,  I have been completely off the grid for the past week. Sailing and diving across a range of remote islands in Thailand. Finally back to an island (Ko Lipe) with connection to the outside world… I checked Twitter, Facebook, the news, and… It’s a crazy ‘ol world we live in! Whew. One…