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Trope Talk: Pure Evil!

because I'm bad, I'm bad, I'm really really bad

Reward: Nikki (OC)

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New Vid: Steel! Featuring Matt & Ilya of "That Works"

Oh MAN this is exciting. Not only do I get to talk about a cool topic, but I get to discuss it with the guys behind Man At Arms: Reforged, one of my favorite shows on YouTube. (Shoutout to DEFY Media for going bankrupt and locking their channel...)

Matt and Ilya from Baltimore Knife and Sword have started a new channel called That Works and were super happy to jump into this episode to discuss the history of Steel from ancient India to the modern day, and I'm insanely thankful to have h...

Reward: Pink Diamond (Steven Universe)

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Miscellaneous Myths: Five Suns!

it's the aztec creation my- no, wait, it was destroyed. THIS time, it's the aztec - hang on. THIS - no. dang it. uhhh THIS TIME FOR SURE it's the aztec creation myth! WOOO

New Video: OSP's Recipes

Carthage: *exists*
Rome: ScipioAfricanus.png 

Now THIS is shitposting.

-Blue

New Video: Roman Empire!

Well give me a gladius and throw me in the Colosseum, it's the Roman Empire!

I greatly appreciate the topic suggestions from you all, and tried my best to include as much as I could in a 11 minute video. I hope you enjoy it!

No rest for the weary though, as I've got one more collaboration lined up for my next video, speaking of swords... ⚔️ 👀

-B

Philosophical Phridays Vol 2: Blue's NEW BOOK! :D

It only took the better part of three years but I've just released my new book! And I did an absolutely horrible job of hyping it up because I didn't plan that far ahead and this is the first any of you are hearing about it. Oh well, but that's okay because it's out now and you can read it digitally or IN PRINT!

Aaaaaahhhhhh, this is actually happening, what even is real life???

Anyway, uh... Rome video tomorrow! :)

-B

Patron Map Reward: Swedish Empire

Aah, the Historical Swedish Empire in 1630. I say this to distinguish it from the true modern Swedish Empire — IKEA. May we serve our lord and master one hex key at a time.

This map was commissioned by $20-tier patron Samantha Webb!

I quite enjoy the Swedish color-scheme, if I do say so myself.

-Blue

Reward: Profile Pic

This was the chibi request from tier-20 patron Emily Alexandra Queek!

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Trope Talk: Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass!

I love this trope, and not just because of the name.

Bonus Video: Presentation on Catholicism & Orthodoxy

This past week I gave a talk for my university's Catholic community about the different culture, history, and theology of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Bit different from the usual fare, but nonetheless exciting!

The audio is recorded right off of my laptop's default microphone so quality isn't great, but if this is something you find interesting, possibly worth a look.

-B

Spring Seasonal Update!

Hello everybody and welcome to a Seasonal Update of what's going on with OSP right now, and what you can expect from us in the next couple months!

The past few months have been great for the channel. We've been collaborating with multiple different creators for mythology and history videos, we've had an outpouring of enthusiasm for Red's di-VINE series, and Blue's God of War livestream playthrough was a blast.

And we've got a lot of special stuff just over the horizon — between ...

Roman Empire: Topic Suggestions

Hey everyone. With my China video posted, I'm switching gears to start scripting a video about the Roman empire, and I've hit a bit of a Hadrian's Wall. 

I'll be going back and doing a new and significantly improved two-parter on the Roman empire to replace the poor first attempt  I did four long years ago.

Basically, I can talk about a lot of stuff. It's Rome, I majored in this. But I don't want to needlessly retread things everybody knows. I'll be going beyond the surf...

New Video! Medieval China

This is — for the lack of any better words — a thick video. I suppose that's what I get for trying to cover 1,000 years of detailed history in a single video.

The next video will be about the Roman empire because this month has been 6 different levels of insane and I want to go to my happy place.

-B

Super Special Bonus Video: How to do Research!

Happy Tuesday! Blue and I both hammered out nonstandard videos this week. Enjoy this super-bonus content!

Reward: Ruby Rose (RWBY)

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Reward: Korra (Legend of Korra, s4)

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New Video: Five Dumb History Tales

Calendars are a funny thing. So is math. As it happens, I'm bad at both, so here's a fun video with some silly stories before next week's video on Medieval China.

This is very much an experiment, as I've never really done anything like this before. If you like it, leave a comment and I'll do more!

-B

Patron Reward: Napoleonic Empire Map

This is a $20-tier reward commission for Patron Morreth De'Alean, a map of Napoleon's French Empire at its greatest extent, in June of 1812, juuuuust before ruining everything by deciding to invade Russia. Tisk tisk, when will those silly kids learn.

This map includes all territories allied with Napoleon, so while Austria-Hungary wasn't part of the French Empire, it's being looped in here.

I tried to see how far I could push the design of this one. The general palette is a classic...

Miscellaneous Myths: Nerites!

This video is the reward for $100-pledger Ryan the Nomad!

Patron Reward: Map of Ancient Dacia!

This was the $20-tier reward for patron Miruna Manea, a map detailing the Kingdom of Dacia at its greatest extent, during the reign of King Burebista.

This one was really fun because I got to do a little bit of investigative cartography to track how the borders grew during their campaigns. I also think it looks like watercolors on marble and I think that's just cool. I also made a version that listed off several important cities but for the sake of showing you all one map I went with th...

New Video: Mesopotamia!

This video is part of an 11-creator collaboration all about The Bronze Age! It was super exciting for me to do another big multi-channel project after hearing such a positive response to Operation Odysseus.

I still have a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around just how sprawling the history of Mesopotamia really is. Their story basically ends even before "western history" gets going in ancient Athens. Eridu is just casually chilling there for 1500 years — that's insane to me.

Reward: Cyrus Albright (Octopath Traveler)

This was the chibi request from tier-20 patron A Person!

I forgot I'd already drawn you a chibi, so… here's a second one. It's a one-time thing because I goofed and didn't realize until I'd already finished the drawing. Nobody go getting any ideas.

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Reward: Hawk On A Lightpost

This was the chibi request from tier-20 patron HawkOnALitePost!

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Reward: MURA-128 (Space Station 13 OC)

This was the chibi request from tier-20 patron Joseph Purcell!

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Miscellaneous Myths: Aphrodite!

one upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling into an ever-deepening spiral of historical complexities and fragmentary mythology in endless and futile pursuit of the truth

New Video: Medieval Spain!

This video was an absolute joy to make. The research was absolutely eye-opening. It's always fun jumping into a topic that I'm interested in but not especially familiar with, and this story was a gift that kept on giving for 700 years! I hope you all enjoy watching this video as much as I enjoyed making it.

Next up, myself and 10 other YouTube History channels will be collaborating on a big project about the bronze age! Stay tuned for some ancient Mesopotamian goodness.

-B

Discord Server: Mods

Hi all, you may have seen that we just launched a Discord server for OSP. At the moment it's kind of gigantic and it moves at about a million miles an hour, and that means we'll need some moderators to manage it. If anyone is interested in moderating, please leave a comment and we'll message you!
(We're also going to try to work on patreon specific perks but one thing at a time we just want it to not explode first)
Cheers all
-B

Reward: Bellona (Roman War Goddess)

This was the chibi request from tier-20 patron Matt Richards!

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