#olnf art

[yomigummies]

Qiu Lin and Tamarack Baumann poca!

i made some photocards of the two gorgeous OLNF LIs for my own enjoyment.. but i wanted to share this joy too!! :DD i put some watermarks on these tho LMAO but!! the ones without it are available in my ko-fi for free!! yes for real. for free!!

[stellarfoam]

Image description: digital art of an OC and Qui Lin from Our Life: Now and Forever. The OC is drawn looking at their phone with one eyebrow raised and a smile while texting, "u busy?"

Qiu looks down at their phone while twirling their hair around a finger. They reply, "free for u. busy for others." End image description.

honestly he’d say this (left is my oc)

[lilirot]

Swimsuit Tamarack

[sunny-arts-blog]

another comm~

[goldengroovy]

step 1 vs step 2

more doodles + rambles under the cut!

HELLO!! this is my nnew mc ames!! (she/her, although characters are bound to use the wrong pronouns in step 1 since nothings figured out yet).

as a kid, she's very brash and rude as a way to cope with the anxieties of being in a new place with practically nothing but her mom.

shes better at dealing with it in step 2! but theres the big dilemma of her favourite people hating each other.. uh oh

she's my mc for the Poly Route!!! they don't get together until step 3 however </3 feel free to ask about her!

[aoi1dee]

me: im not going to post or draw today i just not feeling it

pinterest: alright buddy here are memes to draw our life characters over

[dreamtydraw]

*check my notes* the whole gang is here !!!! Had the pleasure to work on all this comissions for the lovely @meesherbeans !!!

[citruspectful]

I have a VISION🥺

[rui-drawsbox]

comms for @meesherbeans ヾ(≧∇≦)ゞ! more halloween costumes but a teeny tiny bit late fdsgdf

[yomigummies]

moonbow ballet

a friend of mine showed me some pretty heels inspired by ballet shoes and i had to draw it on themst hehe

[akiacia]

what if maggie in golden grove

[deepiintheocean]

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 1 — Soulmates ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @goldengroovy's @olnfweek2024

MC: Micha

Long ass ramble under the cut 😂

Okayokayokay SO-

I love soulmate au's. I cannot tell you how many fics I've read or how many prompts I've played with or media I've consumed or how many bullshit ideas I've come up with in my own head for them, I CANNOT.

It's just - hhhhhhhhhhhh- Soulmate au's and Time Travel au's are just the shit that gets me out of bed some days 😩💖my world weary soul drinks that shit like medicine, okay?

That all being said, it's probably a little ambiguous which au I picked to some, so let me explain: There are two au's I'm mashing up here really, both are from fics I've read back in the day. One being a Clack fic and the other a Thilbo one 🤷‍♂️kind of calling myself out here but w/e, they were good fics.

The Thilbo one is easier to explain - the concept is "Heartsong" which is, literally what it says on the tin. You find out who your soulmate is the first time you hear them sing (and no, that does not mean everyone is just a naturally good singer - they can be ass at music but, the point is, when you hear them their song is the perfect song for you and your heart knows that). There's a lot of little nuances to this one - things like you hearing your heartsong when you dream so you always know the moment you find them. Also people who have quiet dreams because their heartsong died, sometimes before ever even meeting them. etc etc. The heartsong also seems to expand, in some respect, to instruments (as Thorin plays his harp one night and Bilbo starts to hum without thinking about it because it sounds wonderful to him and that's how Thorin finds out).

Overall, it's a very soft and sweet concept to me and as someone who has a deep love of music, it's also one of my very favourites.

The Clack one is a little less easy to explain? I think. Maybe because it's nuances are so round about but I'll do my best. The concept for this one is "I Only See Colour When I'm With You" - anyone who knows how Clack fics usually go knows where this is probably headed 😂 and I am sorry to have hurt you but, overall, the idea is: You live in a noir-esqu world where everything is black and white. This only changes when you find your soulmate, of course, who brings the world into full saturation and lets you see colour for - possibly - the first time in your life (I say possibly because I genuinely can't remember if you start out colourblind or if it's an age cap thing).

Unfortunately, for as much as I adore this concept, it's been a long damn time since I read the fic and I don't even know if it still exists somewhere. So I can't actually recall if it was a 'you have to touch them' or 'you have to hear them' thing but the fic takes place with Zack on the cliff right before Midgar where he holds Cloud and looks at the sky - so I'm willing to bet it's a touch thing.

I also really loved this fic because it was the first one I'd read that brought in the concept of multiple soulmates to me - As Cloud later sits with Aerith and sees the colour he couldn't see with Zack, meanwhile Aerith only sees black and white, because she was only able to see colour with Zack (who was never able to see colour with her, because he needed Cloud for that).

Essentially, they all needed each other to see the world in colour. As a polyam person who didn't quite realise I was poly back then, it was a very comforting (and now dearly cherished) fic.

Anyways! Now that you have the background on the two concepts, you can kind of get what I'm going for with this piece.

Tamarack, Micha and Qiu are all soulmates in a fuzzy, desaturated world (I'm sorry, I'm not cruel enough to but them in complete greyscale LOL) and the way you find your soulmate is by hearing them sing and, when they do, your world is suddenly vivid and bright and beautiful. Suddenly, you can see things as they were meant to be seen and it's a permanent change (unlike the Clack fic) but things are always clearest and brightest when your soulmate speaks or sings 💖

I get a real kick out of the idea that Micha's known for fucking months that Tamarack is his soulmate (if not years) because he's always listening to her play but never says jack shit about it because he's emotionally constipated that way 😂Though genuinely, it's probably because he just doesn't think he's her soulmate and he's a bit against finding out he's right honestly.

Joke is on him, he's Qiu's and Tamaracks soulmate! And he couldn't have picked a better moment to grow a pair an take the risk 🥰

[sunny-arts-blog]

Another comm finished~

[goldengroovy]

qiu lin + maxi skirt combo !!

[aoi1dee]

redrawing fanart for olnf that i drew last september lolol