#Cobalt Posting

[corvidmellow]

woe

sketches be upon ye

rainette belongs to @groovygladiatorsheep !!

shattered dream belongs to galacii-gallery!!

cobalt belongs to me!

[shadow-cafe]

I swear you guys are like magic..

( @resonatingradiance )

We are magic!

-Cobalt

Catherine Edit: He's being silly.

We just a wide amount of resources at our disposal ^^

... To put it simply, we have a lot of time and stuff ^^;

[royalarchivist]

How to Archive VODs and Clips

Whether you want to download VODs and/or clips for your own records or because you’d like to share them online, knowing how to archive things is handy, especially when so many streams become lost media once they’re deleted off Twitch and/or YouTube.

Here are a few programs that I use for Royal Archivist!

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Of all the programs on this list, my personal favorites / the ones I most strongly recommend are Cobalt and Twitch Downloader! (When all else fails, OBS is also a good backup).

Cobalt

Cobalt has gained a lot of popularity the past few months, and for good reason! It's a very reliable, extremely user-friendly website that lets you save videos in MP4 formats, convert them into MP3 formats, or video-only without sound.

Cobalt is currently compatible with: BlueSky, Dailymotion, Facebook, Instagram, Loom, OK, Pinterest, Reddit, RuTube, SnapChat, SoundCloud, Streamable, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, Vimeo, VK, Xiohongshu, and YouTube.

Twitch’s built-in download feature

If you’re downloading your own clip, this is the easiest method to use

First, navigate to your clips page.

To do this, click on your Twitch icon and go to “Creator Dashboard.” There will be a row of icons on your left - click the fifth button from the top (the one above the settings icon) and click on the link that says “Clips.”

At the top of the page, click on “Clips I’ve Created” and you should see a list of every clip you’ve ever made (regardless of whether or not you’ve published them, the clips are there!)

If you're having trouble, you can also type: https://dashboard.twitch.tv/u/ YOUR USERNAME HERE /clips/created

Click on the share button, and the list shown in the photo below will pop up.

After you click on the “Download” button (for landscape or portrait), a new tab will open up with the clip (which will autoplay, so heads up if you have your volume turned up high!)

Right click on the video and click “Save Video As”

That’s all there is to it! Please keep in mind that Twitch’s download function only works for clips you’ve made! You cannot use it to download VODs, or other people’s clips.

Twitch Downloader

Twitch Downloader is by far the BEST Twitch download program I have ever used. I’ve used several different ones, some which have broken because of Twitch’s updates, others which have fallen into disrepair because their creator no longer updates the program, but this one has been working consistently for me for a little over a year now. I’ve kept it very close to my chest because I’m terrified it’ll stop working one day, but it’s better to share resources than horde them out of fear.

Pros:

HD quality for all downloads! Whatever quality the stream was, that’s the quality the download will be (unless you adjust anything in the settings).

The best feature of this program is you can adjust how much you want to clip! Only want a 30 second clip from a 6 hour VOD? You can specify the section you want to download so long as you know the timestamps where you want the clip to start and where you want it to end.

You can download entire VODs.

When saving the file, it will automatically enter the original name of the stream and the stream date. (You can change this, but it’s very handy when you’re downloading an entire VOD and not a section of one).

It will automatically prompt you to update it when a new version has been released. (You do have the option to opt out of this, if you want).

There are a lot of other features available, however, I’ve never tried any of them so I can’t say how well they work. The Github page has a lot of examples and a Q&A section though, so check that out if you’re curious!

On the rare occasion that the program encounters issues, it's easy to use a past version, and the creators are quick to release new updates that resolve any problems. As of today (February 21, 2025) the latest version is currently 1.55.2, which updated last week.

Cons:

Sometimes when you click “Get Info” it won’t immediately load the VOD. This is pretty easy to solve by just restarting the program, so it’s not a huge issue imo.

You can’t preview clips before you download them, so you need to know the exact timestamps you want.

You can’t download VODs that are privated or no longer on Twitch.

How to use:

Download Twitch Downloader from Github and install the version that works for your computer. (In this case, I would download the GUI Windows-x64.zip version. Make sure you’re downloading the GUI version if you want a user-friendly version of this program).

Enter the URL of the VOD you’d like to download.

You can adjust the quality of the video and the length. If nothing is specified in the “Crop Video” section, it will download the entire VOD.

Once you’re ready, click the “Download” button and you’re good to go!

Open Video Downloader

If you’ve ever wanted to download any kind of video, I’m sure you’ve heard of Youtube-dl. There are different versions of this program, but some of them are a bit finicky and if things stop working, it can be difficult and frustrating trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it — which is why I recommend this program.

Open Video Downloader, aka youtube-dl-gui, is one of the best video downloaders I’ve ever used. It’s basically Youtube-dl with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that makes the program very easy for anyone to use.

Pros:

No coding knowledge required! VERY user-friendly.

The creator fixes user issues very quickly! Whenever the program experiences a problem, a new update is released within 24 hours.

It can download videos from pretty much all major social media platforms, including Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, Twitch clips, Instagram, and more.

Cons:

You can’t adjust the length of what you want to download. If you want to download a 2 minute section from a 5 hour Youtube VOD, you’ll have to download the entire video.

On rare occasions, I’ve had issues where it cannot download an unlisted Youtube video. There are sometimes ways to get around this, but it’s a pain and usually not worth the effort.

How to use it:

Download the latest version of the program from GitHub. Scroll all the way down to “Assets” and select the version that’s right for your computer. (For example, I use Windows, so I would download the .exe file).

Once you’ve installed it, you can start downloading things! For this example, let’s say I want to download Quackity’s “Welcome to the QSMP” video. All I need to do is copy the link and paste it into the white box at the top of the program.

Once that’s done, you should see the video pop up in your download queue. You can queue multiple videos to download at once (you can also download entire playlists too). When you’re ready, click the green download button on the bottom right (as shown in the picture below) or if you only want to download one specific video from your queue, click the download button (circled in red) next to the video.

You can adjust the quality of the video you want to download, and in theory you can choose whether to download just the audio or just the video of a video, but personally that’s never worked for me. That might just be a me issue though.

If you’d like to change where your videos are saved to, click the Folder button (circled in yellow) and choose a download destination. If nothing is chosen, it will default to your Downloads folder.

There are ways you can customize this program, but like I said earlier, this program is very very easy to use and does not require any tinkering whatsoever. You open it, download what you want, then close it. Nice and simple!

Other Recommendations

OBS is a good backup when all else fails! I have to use OBS pretty frequently for YouTube VODs, since there aren't a lot of tools that let you clip parts of a YouTube video (and I'd rather not download an entire 7 hour long VOD for a 30 second clip). There are already a lot of good tutorials out there explaining how to use OBS, so I recommend poking around and seeing what works best for you. If you're new to video downloading / archiving things, I'd still recommend starting with some of the tools I mentioned above first.

I’d recommend making a folder on your computer for clips. I find it very helpful to name all my files with this method: [Stream date] Streamer name - Something that helps me remember what this clip is about / something that will help me find it later, or a quote.

Example: [2-6-24] Mike - I hate capitalism

If you’ve got a significant amount of clips on your computer, I’d recommend backing them up and/or saving them to an external harddrive!

That’s about it! I apologize if I’ve missed any steps, but hopefully everything is more or less easy enough for folks to understand! I’m someone who does not like downloading random programs onto my computer and I’m very paranoid about cyber security, but I’ve used these programs for over a year now, and they’re very reliable and trustworthy. 10/10, I recommend both of them.

Lastly: if anyone has a recommendation for good Youtube clip downloaders, please let me know! I haven’t found any good programs that let me specify how much of a Youtube video I’d like to download, and I am suffering. Help your friendly neighborhood Archivist so I can share more clips from the early days of QSMP.

[wardensantoineandevka]

it's incredibly tedious and aggravating that there's a persistent belief in some corners of the fandom that EVERY educational, archival, or library institution in Exandria is associated with the Cobalt Soul. it comes up a lot in criticisms of the Cobalt Soul, and half the time, it turns out that post is angry at a non-Cobalt Soul institution.

the Alabaster Lyceum in Emon (prohibitively expensive tuition) is not affiliated with the Cobalt Soul. the Vellum Steeple in Uthodurn (gave the Nein a hard time over access) is not affiliated the Cobalt Soul. the Starpoint Conservatory in Jrusar (required Imogen have a letter to access their library) is not affiliated with the Cobalt Soul. the Aydinlan Seminary (Ludinus simply walked in despite being an enemy of the Cobalt Soul) is not affiliated with the Cobalt Soul.

I'm not saying that the Cobalt Soul is a perfect institution by any means, I'm not saying that the Cobalt Soul doesn't often share some flaws with non-affiliated institutions, and I'm not saying there's not discussions to be had about how successfully or unsuccessfully they uphold their ideals. I'm just saying it is consistently annoying and aggravating to watch some try to have that conversation — then they turn around and cite examples of institutions that are decidedly NOT the Cobalt Soul. the Cobalt Soul does not, in fact, manage every single library or archive in Exandria.

[dogzcats]

Marine

Cornelis Boumeester

Late 17th century

Colbalt blue and white ceramic tiles

[meat-fr]

Color Guide for matching Festival Genes + Primal Eyes

Now i want to say this is not meant to be some definitive guide. These are just my attempts at matching colors as closely as i could find with what's available on the color wheel currently. Some of which were quite tricky to find a good match for (or is maybe not even the best use for the gene, looking at you Crystalline...). Will list the colors used for the scries above, but I'll also have some notes for some other similar matches or other color ideas. Overall, this was just a fun little project to work on as the genes released, and maybe some will find some use from it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Light: Sanddollar (Flaxen is a very close 2nd, if you want a very slight warmer color. Banana could also pass, but i find it a little too dark compared to the eyes)

Lightning: Robin (This one's tricky since the color IS the lightning rather than the outline, but Robin is bright enough to give the illusion of being white with a matching blue outline. Aqua is a close 2nd, but again is a little to dark in comparison)

Fire: Sunshine (Saffron if you want darker, more orange fire. Marigold if you want a lighter, more yellow fire. Sunshine is the middle ground of these two. All 3 of these match very closely, so up to your personal preference here)

Arcane: Bubblegum (Matching to the little runes. If you want to match to the eyes themselves, Orchid is the closest match without being too dark in color)

Plague: Vermilion (Berry if you want something less egregiously bright. But i do think Vermilion is technically a closer color match, tho both are very close. If you want a color flipped match, Chartreuse matches the colors pretty well, or Crocodile is you want a similar pallet but less bright (and also has a slight bit more red to it's accents). Bonus color: while it doesn't really match the eyes, Red has a very good Plague-y vibe, if you're a fan of the red+green aesthetic)

Earth: Pumpkin (This one has been the most difficult one to match with all the colors going on with both the eyes and genes. But it leads to a bunch of potential options that just kinda almost match. Ultimately tho there's not really a perfect match for these, just go by your own preference. Ginger matches close for a solid color match. For multi-toned picks, some other good options are Caramel, Peach, Ivory, Seafoam, and Cream. Sadly there's not really any colors that adds more pink secondary tones. (also as an added bonus for these: if you want to match with the geode currency used for the festival: teal, ultramarine, and splash are some good picks)

Ice: Eggplant (Indigo if you want just a very slight more saturation, but ultimately the two are nearly indistinguishable from each other. if you want some really dark blue ice in the same hue, Sapphire works well. If you want a lighter ice color: Sky, Periwinkle, Twilight, and Storm are the closest without going just full on white)

Shadow: Grape (Royal or Violet for a more subdued color, tho i find them a little too bright. The strong highlights on this gene make it tricky to match perfectly, especially when we don't have many darker purples as is. But at the same time, you really can't go too wrong with most of the purple range with this gene, it's just a matter of preference)

Wind: Peridot (Not much to say about this one. This color is incredibly spot on. I guess, if you want something a little darker, Pear matches the darker tips of the eyes)

Water: Cornflower (The whole Lapis-to-Sky range works here, for varying degrees of saturation and brightness, but i think overall Cornflower has the best balance out of all of them? (it looks the closest on adult dragons at least). Idk, this one's really tricky too xP And i am once again painfully reminded that we don't really have any good super vibrant colors in the sky blue range T___T All the closest colors are either too green or too faded. Also as a bonus option: If you want a foamy look, Ice and Pistachio work really well for this)

Nature: Orca (I initially thought Peridot would win this one, but then Orca came out of nowhere. Peridot's still another good option tho, the flowers are just a little more on the green side than the ones on the eyes (but they do match with the actual 'eye' part of the eyes). Also for a bonus color, Pearl also looks really nice paired with nature eyes, even tho it does have a lot of purple in the vines. the leaves and flowers still match really well. And as far as i can find, there's not really a good way to match the vines to the vines of the eyes, since that parts seems to stick to darker colors and browns)

[shadow-cafe]

Don't die! :3

Edit:

He asked for it though. Did you read his order?

-Cobalt

Pelipper Mail:

Your order from the @shadow-cafe, hand picked by Cobalt:

Custom Drink x 1 -A rowap berry smoothie made with 30 of the most sour species of rowap berry. -An unknown amount of citric acid added to the mix.

Notes: Please don't actually drink this unless you can handle crazy sour stuff. This particular species of rowap berry can and will hurt and I crammed 30 of them in here along with plenty of citric acid. -Cobalt

Have a wonderful day!

Thank you, I hope you have a good day too. I’m going to have to. And if I don’t drink it I’m going to be really really disappointed in myself. I have to know so I’m going to.

I’m a little scared, I hope it’s not gonna be warm when I actually drink it. Until then I’m going to stare at this.

Not of the sour flavor, I mean. I’m not scared of that. If it hurts, it hurts. It’s more important if I figure this out.

Okay I’m a little scared of it. Is it really gonna hurt if I drink it

[misterlemonztenth]

01-01-25 | 1920s Prohibition deco masterpiece. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[quixoticanarchy]

Finished reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara and he does a good job showing how the cobalt supply chain is inextricable from incredible human suffering, near-slavery, rampant exploitation, environmental devastation, and child labor. And it’s very clear that no promise a tech or battery manufacturer makes that their supply chain is clean means literally anything bc industrially and artisanally mined cobalt are mixed into the same supply untraceably. And the book also covers the fact that cobalt supplies are finite and when the DRC’s cobalt is exhausted the industry will move elsewhere, rinse and repeat, and the people in the Congo will be left with the ongoing and unremediated -maybe irremediable - damage. All of this so that we can have smartphones, electric vehicles, iPads, electric scooters, almost anything with a rechargeable battery.

It’s also clear that the tech and battery industries are interested in good PR and making empty statements about human rights when they should be taking responsibility for the working conditions of small-scale miners (and minors) dying at the bottom of their supply chains. What Kara doesn’t really address is the demand side of this equation, not just the demand by companies whose products use cobalt-containing batteries but also the consumers sustaining that demand, who buy every new smartphone and eagerly pin their hopes on electric vehicles to let us keep our car-dependent world without the fossil fuel guilt. The book takes it for granted that cobalt will be required in high quantities for consumer electronics and for “green” tech, and to some extent this is true - as in, none of those demands or uses will cease overnight and in the meantime we should worry about how to address industrial and business practices and government corruption in order to treat Congolese miners as human beings.

But it feels incomplete without also asking questions like: should that demand continue? Can it? Do we need this many devices? What costs are acceptable? Can we really have our cake (smartphones, EVs, etc) and eat it too (slavery-free, non-exploitative supply chains that don’t kill the people at the bottom and lay waste to the environment)? What if - as the book would seem to suggest - we really cannot? If one goal of the book is for people to realize what conditions underlie the extraction of cobalt, what action is then incumbent upon us? Personal consumer choice will not undo all this harm, but it is a necessary step in rethinking or attempting other ways to live. Is it a right to have a smartphone, a new one every year or two, if it comes at the price of other people’s human rights? At what point do we say that it is not an acceptable cost that the extractive industries are perpetuating neocolonialism and near-slavery in order that we should have comfortable lives?

We know we have to stop relying on fossil fuels or we’ll burn down the planet (to a greater degree than is already locked in) but the “green energy transition” is not clean at all. Capitalism seeks the lowest price for labor and the highest profits; obviously these extractive relationships owe a lot of their horror to being conducted in a capitalist milieu. But even thinking about, say, a socialist world instead, if it aspires to still provide smartphones and electric vehicles en masse and maintain the comforts and conveniences of the “Western” lifestyle then we would still be relying on massive amounts of resource extraction with no guarantee of less suffering. The devices are themselves part of the problem. The demand for them and the extent to which “modern” life in “developed” countries relies upon them is part of the problem. It is unsustainable. It is built on blood and it makes a mockery of purported values of dignity, equality, and human rights. The lives of Congolese cobalt miners are tied to how we in the “developed” or colonizer countries live and consume. I do not think their lives will change substantially unless ours do.

[corvidmellow]

do a secret santa, they said

it’ll be fun, they said

the prompt was literally “do whatever the fuck you want as long as there’s something vaguely christmas about it” so i chose to do a christmas party with all of my skeletal(ish) ocs

except requiem, fuck that guy

[shadow-cafe]

:3

-Obsidian

Kichi Edit: :3

Cobalt Edit: :3

:3

[shadow-cafe]

Hello and welcome!~

To the Shadowed Cafe! To the Distorted Diner! To the Respite Restaurant! All of these depending on the day~

What is the Shadowed Cafe? It's a Cafe in the Distortion world! A nice Giratina helps us get to those who need a nice place to relax while they're here, Shadows also come here and order food here and there~

Feel free to drop by!~ Humans are allowed to sit in the Cafe without buying anything if they wish~ We have free wi-fi and a machine that helps make air for you to breath. <3

The others will write little intros so you know about them and we will link them here~

Me (Catherine)

Obsidian.

Kichi.

Crackle? (He doesn't work here, just has the account info)

Sodalite. (Not here yet, added preemptively)

Amber.

Cobalt.

Bismuth. (Not here yet, added preemptively)

Part time staff (People who aren't on the account but work here) Hound (On the @pokemonveterinarian account)

//Ooc info below the cut!

//@theshadowqueenofthedistortion here! With @messyzoranablog running this one together!!

//Semi-Serious blog, we will participate in active silliness and also write serious stuff. Will sometimes touch on death, abuse and a few other things, we will tag the serious stuff with their appropriate tw/cw tags.

//No s3xual asks please.

//Magic anons are on but we will be picky with them. Please say who you are directing them to-

//We are very open to crossover stuff! Along with sapient pokemon and other types of blogs!

//Pokemon in this universe have human levels of sentience, however they are aware of places that have Pokemon that aren't sentient, so they won't find that odd.

//Real life animals exist along side Pokemon in their universe, like divergent evolution (not the pokemon thing, the science thing)

//What the tags mean

#Cafe Posts: General Cafe posting. #Catherine Posting: Catherine posts. Written by Shadow #Cobalt Posting: Cobalt posting. Written by Zorana. #Amber Posting: Amber posting. Written by Zorana. #Obsidian Posting: Obsidian posting. Written by Shadow. #Kichi Posting: Kichi posting. Written by Shadow.

#Sodalite Posting: Sodalite posting. Written by Shadow.

#Bismuth Posting: Bismuth posting. Written by Zorana. #Crackle Intrudes: Crackle posting. Written by Shadow.

#Orders to go~: For those who ask for things in the ask box.

#Come on in: The Closed and/or serious RP tag. #//Shadow mod speaks: @theshadowqueenofthedistortion mod speaking. #//Zorana speaks: @zoranaroleplayhub/@messyzoranablog mod speaking #//Mod Reference: Shadow and/or Zorana making references. #//Shadow Art: @theshadowqueenofthedistortion mod art. #//Zorana Art: @zoranaroleplayhub/@messyzoranablog mod art.

//More to be added!

//Do you think I wrote the word posting enough? /silly -Shadow

[burakku-jakku]

Yukari Astro Boy coloring book (1967)

(x)

[prevailinghatred]

JUST SAW THIS WHILE WATCHING MORE OF G1?!??

CANON. 🏳️‍🌈

[elrielffs]

Guilty as Sin doesn't matter.

The articles don't matter.

Spotify, Audible etc don't matter.

SJM talking about ill fated bonds doesn't matter.

Using the colors blue and teal apparently matters.

[cobalt-axolotl]

Hey guys let’s make a salad, I’ll go first,

tungsten cubes.

Please reblog with you additions