#cobalt rambles

[cobalt-axolotl]

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!

[cobaltstarlight]

APOLOGY TOUR IS COMING TODAY!!!! LESS THAN 2 HOURS!!!!!!!!

Im (not) READY 😢

[cobalt-axolotl]

If I made a visual novel I’d fill it with blood soaked men, lesbians, Japanese mythology, Greek mythology, and a healthy amount of aro ace and pansexual representation.

if i was making a visual novel id fill it with blood soaked men and lesbians

[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)

[skyward-floored]

My sister: peggy why did you decide to eat the Lutetium cookie?

Me:

Me: ...no reason

[shrews-art]

I still find it shocking that nobody tells young artists that not all modern pigments are safe. Like. Just because we no longer use lead white and arsenic green and cinnabar and all that doesn't mean you can get elbow deep into oil paint gsksgsjgdjd

[cobalt-axolotl]

My biggest unpopular opinion is that Digimon fusion is a good season.

I’m tagging @it-came-from-mount-ebott and @sylvielark

Tag your friends:

Biggest unpopular opinion, I’ll go first, I think that the Star Wars Prequels are the best Star Wars movies.

I’m tagging @cobalt-axolotl and @delinquenc

[theradicalace]

got too reliant on cobalt.tools and now youtube downloads are temporarily broken on it and i'm at a loss for what to use instead :(

[tinyangrynerd]

looking back through some of my bugsnax stuff, i think 'man, it'd be nice to learn how to draw in the same style as the sketches from the game'

But then i'm also like 'but what if everyone's version of the journalist has their own style of drawing, that's like unique to them as that version of the character'. and i think that sounds more fun actually. just as like a fun little character building thing to do.

and i don't mean like 'they just draw in your own art style' ...which is also a valid option. but i more so mean giving them a specific way that they like to sketch. or even different items they use.

maybe they like to use stickers in their doodles!?!? maybe they use sparkly colored gel pens!?!? maybe they draw with comically simple yet charming stick figures?!?? maybe they only know how to draw from one of those old 'how to draw anime' art books!?!?!??! idk go wild!!!!!

[cobalt-axolotl]

… does thinking about fictional lesbians count as fetishization?… I’m asking due to we recently conversation with one of my mutuals an I think they blocked me over it…

I’m really wanting to know about that. Like I don’t personally believe it to be honest.

(Edit: for context: i was just talking to them about a fictional ship that i myself imagine to be a really wholesome romance.)

[cobaltstarlight]

346 eggs and still no shiny weed kitty

Im gonna take a little break to keep my sanity, plus I already miss my main girls back in my travel party

Im trying the masuda method on hatching Sprigatitos now in hopes to get a shiny lavender kitty myself

155 eggs and still no shiny as of yet!

[cobalt-punk]

Soooo....what's y'all's thoughts on how I feel?

I feel too old to be involved in a certain fandom I adore. That's another reason why I hardly ever post any art of it, including the OCs I have.

My mind tells me that it's absolute cringe that I still hold onto this series and OCs as hard as I do.

I am referring to Superjail and, in particular, my OC Maelstrom.

I was a fan and had this OC since I was, like, 14 years old. I'm 31 now. My mind's telling me it's cringe to keep up with it. I think it's time to move on.

With that being said, Maelstrom is most likely going to be retired as a Superjail OC. Will I quit drawing them? (if I ever draw again) No. They'll be remade as a personal OC. Maelstrom's been a part of me for years. I won't give up on them like that.

Blair and Rowan, however, may be scrapped entirely.

[currentlyreadingawesomefanfics]

:^

Laika (the dog), Sun and Cobalt

[thoughtseeker-the-dragon]

To everyone who only knows Aaron Cherof from his work on the Minecraft OST, PLEASE go check out his other work. If you didn't like the new MC ost for how well it fit with the game, his other work doesn't even BEGIN to have that problem.

we love the cobalt core ost

its a shame everything past Void (track 23) is content spoilers because those are some of the best tracks we've heard ever and we do not say that lightly.

...but for non-spoiler stuff, Self-Defense damn near peak OST. It needs to be longer, but the fight doesn't last more than 1 loop (pun intended) for us.

MAJOR finale spoilers below the cut, stop reading if you have not hit the big "future memory" button on the memory screen

(for those wondering why we linked bandcamp instead of spotify, that is a rant for another day, but it is available on both for free)

floof above, even THINKING about Timestream's reprise of Self-Defense in major key makes us tear up. Cherof managed to top peak and it couldn't have been in a more impactful song. You can't know what the implications of the reprisal are until you've seen Riggs go back for Riggs..? in the finale.

[starmagnets]

was thinking about how my various sonas would interact if they ever met and these two especially have a really funny dynamic in my brain. they’re like cats who go from chilling and being buddies to beating each other up for no reason and then back to chilling. yknow. its enrichment for them.

[minnesotamedic186]

*Ahem*

WHAT THE PECK-?