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SPRING SEASONAL UPDATE!
🕑 Added 2020-03-27 19:03:34 +0000 UTCHello Everyone, we hope you're doing well and staying healthy. As we hop on into April and the start of Spring, we want to recap our first quarter of 2020, as well as give you an idea of what to expect from us in the next few months!
First off: Everything is wack, but we want you all to know that OSP isn't going anywhere. We've been at this Working From Home gig for years and we're committed to giving you all a reason to laugh and an excuse to smile in these confusing times. So we want to thank you for spending a little bit of your time every week with us, and especially for choosing to support our work here on Patreon. It's because of your generosity that we're able to create content not only for you, but for the over One Million people who take joy and comfort in our videos.
This past week, we augmented our weekly videos with the "OSP Spring Break" Multi-Stream marathon. Over 6 streams and a combined 10.3 Years of watch-time, we raised a whopping $31,500 for Feeding America, providing meals to families and kids in need during this current covid crisis. We can't thank you enough for your help — your contributions alone will help provide over 300,000 total meals to communities all across America. We're currently hard at work on a few stream-highlights videos (those Dragons aren't going to find themselves), and we hope these will be nice little bits of bonus content for you in the coming weeks. We're feeling pretty wiped from the past week, but we hope to have some more streams for you in a couple weeks — Now that we actually have a capture card the possibilities are so much greater.
Outside OSP, Red has just finished Chapter 6 of her original webcomic Aurora! If you've yet to check it out, now is a great time to jump in and explore a year's worth of content. Aurora updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — you can follow Red's dedicated Aurora twitter here!
As for what's next, the first thing to keep an eye out for is next Wednesday's bonus video. If you haven't already, check out Red's Sneak Preview Video, but remember to keep the secret until Wednesday! On the video front, Red's starting the month with a Trope Talk about Urban Fantasy, and another the next month on Sequels. We've also got the Myth of Typhon coming up, as well as a rather entertaining Norse myth that begins, as many do, with one of Loki's pranks getting out of hand. On the Historical end of things, we've got a look at the History of England, and a Patron-Voted topic for History-Makers: Mr. William Shakespeare. We'll then hop to the late 1800s for a look at Japan's Meiji Restoration. And don't think that I forgot about Pope Fights either.
We've also got a few videos scheduled out for our new series History Hijinks, BUT we don't know what topics they should be on. And that's where you all come in! You helped name the series by voting on it, and now it's time to vote on some video topics! I've put down a few in the poll below, so please vote on your favorites, or leave a comment about a subject you'd like to see covered in a handful of short anecdotes.
But in a nutshell — We're sticking at it, and we're not slowing down. Now more than ever it's important for everybody to have some levity in their days, and something to look forward to in their weeks, so we'll keep doing our part to make this a little more bearable. Stay inside, wash those hands, and stay healthy. You're the best community we could ever ask for, and we like you alive, dammit.
-Blue
Comments
MversG
Plagues is a little on the nose for the present time. Honestly, Corona is Spanish Flu, just with Modern healthcare and information systems.
Pbc98
Failed assassinations: rasputin..... oh jeez that mess was a ride to learn about
Kylie Bensemann
Failed assassinations and short-loved empires were tied; then you tempted me with travel options. All of the above was the only option possible.
Bill Lemmond
Given how actual, current travel is pretty much cancelled, virtual travel might be especially helpful ... or not. I don' tknow.
AniOne
I want all of them dammit!
Plagues seems ill advised given the current state of things :sweat:
Lisa Ward
And all boxes ticked but most keen for Rasputin and co (yesssss!). Sending good health to you and yours Blue & Red. Be safe.
Red
A lot of good choices!
Anthony Docimo
Mongols and Mithradates!
Adam Howard
I support failed assassinations, but Napoleon’s made so many cameos in other vids it’s about time he get his own roast session
Matthew DenHerder
Voted Failed Assassinations, but hoping we can get to all of them eventually. They all seem like they would be interesting.
Failed assassinations are good history hi-jinks. Definitely looking forward to these. And if you ever get a chance to go at the Baltimore Riots of the 1850s (cannons in the streets!), I'd love to see your take on that as well. Keep up the great work!
Aivy
If it comes to the Plagues, maybe consider collaborating with the SciShow. They have quite a few interesting videos about diseases and their history on their channel.
Salvatore Corasaniti
Assassinations and the Grand Tour are both potentially hilarious. I voted for both of those.
shadowscribble
Plagues caught my eye, but I need the funny, so failed assassinations a go-go!
Slaughterbug
Love to see blue cover some of the hilarious screw ups assassins have made over the centuries.
Born Again Geek
I of course ticked all the above, but YES GRAND TOUR. Also, I'm curious what you think an enlightened 21st century version should include b
