SUMMER SEASONAL UPDATE! (Patreon)
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Hey team,
It's (slightly past) the first day of summer, which means it's time for an update on what's new and upcoming for OSP. TL;DR: Not much is changing for the summer, because we're really trying to go easy on ourselves. More Detail Diatribes on the way, and more of the rebooted City Minutes.
This past season we introduced two new shows, Detail Diatribes and City Minutes. One worked great, the other needed a rework, but we're very happy with how both have turned out. These two shows are really exciting to us, and we've got over a dozen video topics listed for each, but mainly, they were designed to be slightly less labor intensive than the average video, which has really come in handy these past few months.
For several reasons, it's been a rough spring. Nothing has been dire, but it's been a lot of little things adding up to become overwhelming. The first thing to go has been the live-streams, which we've unfortunately only done a few of all spring (but we're hoping to get back to it soon, with a game less stressful than Hades).
Thankfully, it hasn't affected our sacred Every-Friday upload schedule – but we've had to make adjustments like the new shows, which give us a little bit of a break between bigger episodes while still being Good Content (we hope). We know that taking a break and missing a week or two is an entirely valid option – but between 1) City Minutes being half the runtime of a typical history video, and 2) Detail Diatribes being astoundingly fast to make and doable on less than a week's notice – we're hoping that we can make Easier Content rather than No Content.
So how does this affect the upload schedule? Red's will stay about the same, alternating between Myths and Trope Talks, but my schedule will approximately alternate between History Summarized, HistoryMakers/History Hijinks, and City Minutes. Exact ratio is subject to change in response to IRL schedules (such as me and Cyan getting married later this year), but that's the general idea. Interspersed among all that will be the occasional Detail Diatribe, as needed. The schedule is getting a little more complex, but we hope you really like the new content that we're bringing into the OSParty.
SO, what videos are coming in the next couple months? Well well well, we've got the Misc Myths of Zahak the Snake King from the Shahnahmeh, the myth of Cow Herd and Weaver Girl, the myth of the contest for the naming of Athens (with new pins!); Trope Talks on All A Dream, Queer Coded Villains, and Detectives; Histories Summarized on Britain and Naples & Sicily; History-Makers on Aristophanes and Maimonides; History Hijinks on Rome's Crisis of the 3rd Century; a City Minutes on the British Empire, and a Detail Diatribe on Castlevania. Many topics, excitement! We're also aiming to get back on live-streams via Breath of the Wild. And we've got some great podcast guests on the horizon, including Hello Future Me and Tasting History!
All this to say that we're doing our best to take it easy for the next few months while still providing you all with the content you're here for. That's a tough balance to strike, and it's likely why we've noticed so many of our peers in every single corner of YouTube adjusting their video output to give themselves more breathing room. We're hopeful that you'll enjoy the new content we've been rolling out, but if you don't, let us know! We're always listening to feedback, especially from here on Patreon, and especially especially when we do something new or different.
For this season's poll, we've listed a handful of potential topics for future Detail Diatribes, and we'd love to hear which one you're most excited about! Vote for as many or as few as you'd like!
Thank you for watching, thank you for supporting, and thank you for reading. We know we're not the only ones going through a tough stretch, so we hope that you're able to take care of yourselves and overcome whatever challenges are in front of you.
Cheers,
-B