Context: Gourmet Pens is a prominent fountain pen youtuber/reviewer/influencer (is fountain pen influencer a thing?) definitely on the artsy side of things in terms of highlighting very wet-writing and experimental pens for hand-lettering.
Rickshaw is a messenger bag company that established a big presence in pen accessories, with lots of collaborations with other pen vendors. In the last couple of years they've also expanded out into more explicitly "EDC" stuff, adding a "knife things" category to their storefront and including options for morale patch loop fields on many of their products. (Velcro morale patches being a military thing that has become hugely popular in the EDC/tacticool community because you can put put fun (often fascist) patches on things and change them around whenever you want.)
Tactile Turn is a machined pen company out of Texas that a couple of years ago expanded into knives; interestingly, their knife storefront is kept separate from their pen storefront.
Zero Tolerance is an upscale division of Kershaw, one of the giant names in pocket knives. They make big (almost all over the 3" length limit that many municipalities have ordinances around), mostly "tactical/tacticool" knives.
Anyway, there's no takeaway here, it's just an amusing encapsulation to have an artsy pen youtuber review a cute "cupcake camo" EDC organizer, tactical-friendly expensive gel pens, and large knife replete with paracord lanyard.
Also, I should disclaim here: I have own a number of knives and flashlights and EDC things, about which I've had a range of feelings over the years. I've bought Rickshaw products, and I also have a Tactile Turn pen -- it's an incredibly good pen btw. There's also nothing inherently fascist about having "tactical" objects and indeed actual weapons (see: the John Brown gun club community), and I have no problem with armed resistance to fascism.
But when it comes to consumer hobbies, it is just kind of brain tickling that it's increasingly hard to disentangle the fountain pen industry from the knife and gun industries.
