#olnf edit

[remremsies]

You guys really liked my Tamarack princess edit, so I decided to make one of Renee as well!

@goldengroovy especially inspired me to do Renee next, hehe.

Also, I do all of my edits on Picsart if anyone’s curious!

[cinna-rose]

Decided I’m gonna post my our life edits to my tumblr as well :)

[disaster-magician]

Sorry your crush is oblivious Qiu, better luck next time!

(Fake screenshots! These are fan made based on incorrect quotes and not in the game)

[srenorsomethin9]

I finally made Step 1 of my OLNF OC/MC, I'm still designing her Step 2 version & it's probably gonna take a while cuz I dunno what her personality is supposed to be lmao. I also changed her first name because I didn't like the one I gave her before.

I'll also post her full-body version cuz 25% of it just got cropped in the character description lol:

[dreamtydraw]

Decided to make some customized version of the doll mc from olnf so it would fit my two babies ! Valentin and Darcie trought all the steps.

[luv-indigo]

researching….

[monicaeidolith]

so I've played Our Life: Now & Forever demo

Tamarack is my future wife I love her a whole lot 🥺🧡

+ my OLNF MC, Athena Suzuki 🌙

(I haven't draw step 3 Athena yet, but I plan to!)

(edit, yes I have now!)

bonus: Qiu's faces and Tam's fluffy protection wall mode close-ups

[citrusbuds]

STEP 1 ANDY!!

i tried my best to replicate the OLNF art style and i think i did pretty well ( ´ー`) step 2 andy is underway as well as soren step 1

Andy (they/them) is my Tamarack MC!! i am very open to people asking abt them please ask abt them f(^_^)

also enjoy some shittily edited memes

[devilzcatto]

My Franky,OLNF MC ,I redesign her and edit icon in game! After this, it's maybe my headcanon mc design.

In my rough sketch

[rainesrants]

random rant, but does anyone else hate hyper-fixating over something??

i was playing this game called "i was a teenage exocolonist" over the summer. i spent 135 hours on it in about a week or two. then, all of a sudden, the obsession was gone and i couldn't find the determination to complete the game. it's not the same as when i had the hyper-fixation, no matter how much i try to get back into it. and let me say, i got 25 out of 29 endings. i was this close.

same goes for my old tiktok account (@rainesrants). i was obsessed with this webtoon, school bus graveyard, for a bit, but after the creator went on a hiatus for some time, i stopped getting into it. now, i can't even post a single edit or slideshow.

there's definitely a lot more examples, but obviously, i'm not going to list out every single one of them. it just sucks because i really enjoy all of these things, but it's not the same as how it felt before.

i'm worried the same will happen for the our life franchise. i adore both olba and olnf, but ive realized that i've started to play it less and i haven't been interacting with the gbpatch tumblr account or patreon as much as i used to.

side note: if you haven't played i was a teenage exocolonist, i highly recommend it. it has multiple endings, different romanceables with their own backstory (my favorite is dys), and you get to choose the gender of your character! it has stories that'll make you cry and laugh, the music is nice, and you can replay it as many times as you want.

i know i'm not as into it as i was before, but it's still one of my favorites!

[remremsies]

Guyssss I changed my username from therealroli to remremsies and I also decided that I would prefer people calling me Remy :]

I have honestly gone through a lot of identity crisis lately and have been trying to learn more about myself. I might even make a post about it in the future, since I know that many people struggle with their identity and I would probably focus on gender, because I have been struggling with that.

ANYWAYSSS just a little update and also I came to give you a princess edit of Tamarack😊

[cinna-rose]

Made another edit! Decided to make two versions of the same edit, but I’m posting the one with my oc, Leona, and might post the general one on my TikTok- (or make two different posts)

[disaster-magician]

Looks like you found one of those golden retriever girls! Good luck with that, Tamarack

(Fake screenshots! These are fan made based on incorrect quotes and not in the game)

[srenorsomethin9]

I drew my OLNF OC & edited her in some Screenshots from the game

Here's a larger version if you wanna see her not shrunk:

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

the leaves were sparkling

cw. olnf week 2024, pre!release, step 1, day 1

pairing. sparkling leaves

notes. it's august 3rd and @olnfweek2024 is finally upon us. i'm not gonna lie, i'm the most boring our life player. with my favs, i just play as myself and act accordingly to the age i would have been at the time. across both games, tamarack is my absolute favorite lead and i can't not indulge in the shenanigans. not apologizing for my shitty editing skills lmao

Standing in the fork of a road in the autumnal forest of Golden Grove, Nyla feels more like the protagonist of a movie than a normal person.

Gone is the familiar scenery of Richmond, California and the people that came along with it. Richmond came with honking cars, oil-stained parking lots and the turbulence of being an inner city kid. Golden Grove, Oregon is practically a new world in comparison to the hoods Mom normally could afford to live in. And if it wasn’t less-than-savory neighborhoods with gang violence and shady neighbors they were staying in, it was Grandma or Grandpa's.

It isn’t the first time Nyla’s moved out of California but this time feels so different.

Everything about this is different.

They weren’t moving into the house of extended family Nyla only knew through stories beforehand. Or moving in with either of her grandparents. As far as Nyla knew, they didn’t have family in Oregon.

It’s just be her and Mom.

And we’re in a house!

A house not an apartment.

An actual home not temporary residence.

Nyla would have her own room, her own space, her own everything and it was far, far away from the normality that had been Nyla’s life until today.

And it’s just ours! At least once the real estate person finally came and let the both of them in the house. 

Until then, Nyla was free to play in the neighborhood and she wasn’t restricted to Mom’s normal “you can go from that corner to that corner”. At least, she wouldn’t be as soon as they’d moved in properly and gotten to know all they needed to know about the mountain town. Who cared about the town itself when there was a veritable forest to explore right behind their new house, however. 

In the forest, she’d find an answer to the mystery at present.

Hello.

Go out.

Hideout.

Nyla.

Nyla reads over what had been a paper airplane once more.

Hello.

Go out.

Hideout.

Nyla.

What does it mean?! Perhaps this is how Jack felt when he was equal parts confused and enraptured by the lights and toys of Christmantown.

Strange paper in hand while she stands between two roads, it’s not hard to believe Nyla's life has suddenly become a movie. Was this some strange code left to her by the mythical beings of Golden Grove? Where is this hideout she is supposed to go to? Would this entire journey take her into one of the fantasy worlds she adored reading about? There is only one way to find out and it all comes down to whichever path she takes.

“I’m right-handed, so I should go to the right, maybe,” Nyla mumbles thoughtfully. Talking to oneself is an easy habit to develop when your many siblings live far away from you and you have to make company somehow. Nyla loves to talk, she doubts she’ll ever be incapable of shutting up and being quiet like a good chunk of her relatives desired. “But I always go right though.” Because I’m right-handed.

Going right has never steered Nyla wrong before.

In spite of her tried and true method, brown eyes can’t help wandering to the path less traveled. She can feel it in her bones, something really really good is going to happen if she goes left.

Magical adventures never happen to characters like Chihiro or Kiki or Yusuke because they decided to do what they’d normally do. Chihiro got into the spirit world because she took a risk, Kiki met Tombo because she left earlier than planned and Yusuke would have never become a spirit detective if he never pushed that kid from getting hit by a car.

Adventures come from being different.

“I’m going left!” Nyla announces to no one in particular, wide-eyed in her excitement. Humming Smile Bomb obnoxiously loud, Nyla continues her quest.

What if this really is her moment, Nyla wonders.

What if she manages to stumble onto something mystical and normally unseen? In a forest like this, it’s easy to imagine being like Alice and falling into a rabbit hole into Wonderland. Or perhaps she’d find a cave with a sleeping dragon. Or perhaps she’d even stumble upon a faerie revelry and dance with the queen?

All of the aforementioned scenarios are easy to picture in a place like this.

There were no forests in Richmond, at least not where she lived.

Nor were things so magical.

Reds and golds blend into one another, mushrooms dot the forest floor. Living with the faerie folk crosses Nyla’s mind more than once as she takes in the sights and sounds of the forest.

Then she hears it; a clatter.

With as much reckless abandon a ten year old can possess, Nyla walks off the dirt path to find the source of the noise. Thin branches and crunchy leaves splinter underfoot and her heartbeat quickens in anticipation as she reaches a cluster of trees akin to the Circle of Holiday Towns. This is magic.

It has to be, Nyla thinks, as the golden rays that peek through the canopy paints everything in a pale glow. This is a place where faeries have their revels. The trees were harmoniously aligned and leaf piles dotted the ground. What if faeries are in them? Faeries are supposed to be good at hiding, Nyla remembers from her stories as she follows her instincts to one pile in particular. This one has a faerie.

Fate doesn’t give Nyla a second later to act on her faerie tale references.

“Hello!” Leaves red, brown and orange rise in a whirlwind as a kid around Nyla’s age leapt out of a pile, arms raised high. Brown stares into red as everything they’d thrown up gently drifts back to earth and just when it seems magic can’t be anymore real, their chests are aglow in berry-reds.

This is the prettiest person I’ve ever seen.

Sparkling, everything is sparkling.

It’s like all the sparkle in their fluffy gold hair was sharing its glow on everything surrounding it. The air and the leaves resting around them. If this is what magic is supposed to be, Nyla doesn’t feel the urge to argue against it.

“You’re so pretty,” Nyla breathes, brown cheeks warm.

“No you!” The sparkly-haired stranger giggles, round cheeks flushed pink as she beams in return.

I met a girl I'm gonna marry.

soulmate au: when you meet your soulmate, your chest glows. one of my favorite spins on soulmate verse that i rarely ever see, so i decided to whip it out for my olnf week debut! within my playthrough of olnf, it's love at first sight for the two of us, kid nyla knew she was marrying this girl when they grew up.

[goldengroovy]

For the OLNF week, is it art only or can we submit writing too?

Any type of art is allowed for OLNF Week! Writing, fanart, edits, maybe even songs or playlists are welcomed <3