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I’ll keep shimmering-stims up as shimmering-stims-archive. But I’ll be moving operations to just this one. Thank you for understanding guys

So I’m planning on merging my two edit blogs. I’ll reblog all my stimboards here and then just do all types of editing on one blog just to make my life easier

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ENA at the beach stimboard

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Hi guys something a bit different today! I recently made myself an ENA desktop layout. I really liked how it turned so I thought I’d post it.

It includes 4 wallpapers and 7 custom desktop icons. It also has an icon changing tutorial and a screenshot of my desktop as a reference for use!

You can download the stuff here!

Here’s what my desktop looks like now! I do plan to add more icons to the folder in the future. Also if people like this I might consider doing more!

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Meanie ENA stimboard

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At least it’s back to normal, yay!! Tumblr makes such dumb decisions for no reason, like Tumblr live (+ only being able to disable it for 7 days before having to re-disable it) and replacing where you can access your profile with the dumb Tumblr mart (and you can’t even disable that… so dumb…).

Ye it’s very nice it normal again! I just have cosmically bad timing lol. But yeah Tumblr has to make at least 10 bad decisions a year to fill their hellsite quota. But apparently the Tumblr mart will be banished soon and the profile button will return to its rightful place. Also Tumblr Live only being disabled for 7 days is annoying but also kinda hilarious to me. I know it’s supposed to make you just accept it but I think it just made everyone hate it even more.

Maybe one day Tumblr will make good decisions consistently. Eh who am I kidding that’s never going to happen.

Anyway have a good night or day anon! Thanks for stopping by to chat.

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I go through all the effort of resizing my gifs and writing an info post just to find out Tumblr mobile is back to normal. Why do I have horrible timing with things? Oh well at least it’s fixed.

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Salesperson ENA stimboard

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messing around with an old oscilloscope | my video, link back here if using

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Coping with the new Tumblr Mobile image layout (outdated)

Tumblr has once again made a bad decision. As you may know gifs in mobile now work different and many stimboards/moodboards have been ruined by it. Here are some tips to make your boards consistent on both mobile and web.

Why is this happening?

Tumblr mobile now show images as their real size. Before if you have a 600x600px image beside a 400x400 one the images would scale down perfectly since they had the same aspect ratio. Now if you have a 600x600px image beside a 400x400 one the images will be disproportionate to each other throwing off the whole board.

About moodboards

With moodboards I'd personally recommend just compiling them all in one big image then posting that image to Tumblr. This protects your board from current and future Tumblr tomfoolery. I personally use Photopea to make mine but other popular sites include: Canva, Picsart and Ibis Paint. Also you should export your big image as a png since they are higher quality and compress better.

Here is a template for a moodboard layout but you can make your own if you want special layouts or want to make it fancy.

About stimboards

Stimboards require a much more tedious process. You will now have to resize all your gifs and central image to be the exact same size being the same aspect ratio doesn't cut it anymore. I'd recommend going with 300x300px or 350x350px since 400px is where a good amount of gifs start to go over the file size limit (10MB).

For resizing I'd recommend using EZgif it is your best ally when it comes to editing gifs.

What about my old boards?

They're kinda messed up forever now. Unless Tumblr fixes their mistake or adds an option for different ways to display images in a post. If you want to redo them I would hold off for now since this is a relatively new update and it only affects mobile so there is a chance it will be undone.

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Mayoi Ayase red & black themed stimboard

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Not a request, just a question - how do you make stimboards? /gq

Long answer warning

I start with getting the static/regular image if possible you want a png (even if it has a background) since they’re higher quality than jpegs.

Then I open up a notepad on my computer or phone to keep all the links in until I put them into Linkslist.

Then I look for gifs, I usually start on Tumblr then move to google if I can’t find the right stuff then if I still can find the right stuff and won’t comprise I’ll try to find a video to make a gif from

When saving gifs be mindful of the scum of the earth know as webp. Webp was supposed to be a universal file format but not many sites support it this is made worse by google converting literally everything to webp. This can be avoided on Tumblr by doing this on computer: click open image in new tab, scroll to the end of the url, it will say gifv, take of the v and then press enter, it will now save as a gif.

In an ideal world all the gifs you like would be a 1:1 ratio (square shaped) but alas that almost never happens. This is problem because of the way Tumblr formats images. Take this example: the pictures of both ENAs are the same file but since one was paired with a wide but short image it was zoomed in so it matches.

There is no way (as far as I know) to crop images within Tumblr so you’ll have to do it outside of here. Me and everyone else seems to use ezgif. Ezgif can convert webps to gifs, crop gifs, add effects to them and many other useful things.

Anyway now that I have some gifs I like I make a draft post and see how it looks. Then I rinse and repeat the gif finding process until I’m happy with the board.

Finally I put all my links into Linkslist (I do this because I’m lazy and don’t want to put 8ish links into a post one by one) then I add a caption to my board, put the sources link and done!

Also I believe it’s technically possible to make one large file in photoshop then post it to Tumblr as one image. I say technically possible because the size of a gif file that holds 8 moving parts and isn’t compressed beyond recognition would be too much for Tumblr to handle and would most likely exceed the size limit.

Also also Tumblr can only do 3 image for width. So if you wanted let’s say a 4x3 board you would have to merge gifs in photoshop or photopea put a white divider between them while also being mindful of how the image size stretching I mentioned before works. So that’s why no one does anything besides 2x3 and 3x3 stimboards.

This might sound like a lot of work but when you get in the groove it’s really fun. Especially when it’s a request so you’re extra excited to get it out so they can enjoy it.

Anyway I hope this wasn’t too bland a read and was maybe a bit insightful. Have a great day thanks for taking interest in the blog!

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MEIKA Hime and Mikoto stimboard

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Psst go check out my new carrd it’s very cool if I say so myself

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Can you do an ENA stimboard if you haven't already? :0 thank you in advance

Here you go my psychic anon. This was really fun! I’ll probably do some more ENA stuff in the near future.

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ENA stimboard for anon

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Just so you know! ENA from Joel G :)

Yeah I know ENA! Also something super funny I was literally just going to change my blog to and ENA layout when you sent this. I guess you’re a psychic anon /j

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Gumi stimboard

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