Adventures in Golden Grove

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• Cranberry Fluff by QuirkyEnby

  Fandoms: Our Life: Now & Forever (Visual Novel)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  16 Apr 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin/Main Character | Franky Second
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin/Original Female Character(s)
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin
  • Main Character | Franky Second (Our Life)
  • Original Female Character(s) of Color
  • Hair Washing
  • Hair Braiding
  • Mutual Pining
  • Step 2 (Our Life: Now & Forever)
  • Qiu POV
  • Teen Crush
  • Sleepovers
  • MC has Cranberry Hair and Eyes (Our Life: Now & Forever)
  • is it gay to fantasize about kissing your best friend while detangling their 4C hair?
  • MC's name is Mariaja/Yaja
  • Canon Queer Character of Color
  • Queer Themes
  • Teen Angst
  • They/Them Pronouns for Qiu
  • Heteronormativity
  • cisnormativity
  • amatonormativity
  • pre-release

  Summary

  "'Then you agree. That I’m gorgeous.' Her eyes glinted like fresh berries covered in dewdrops. It would be the easiest thing in the world to kiss her soft, full lips, yet Autumn froze in place."

  14-year-old Qiu Lin helps their childhood friend detangle her hair at a sleepover, and feelings ensue.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Adventures in Golden Grove

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  372

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  54

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  703

• Teenage Dirtbag (Guess I'm in Hell) by QuirkyEnby

  Fandoms: Our Life: Now & Forever (Visual Novel)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Other
  • Work in Progress

  15 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin/Main Character | Franky Second
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin/Original Character(s)
  • Qiu "Autumn" Lin
  • Original Non-Binary Character
  • Canon Non-Binary Character
  • Canon Queer Character of Color
  • Inspired by Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
  • cheerleader mc
  • Teenage Drama
  • dating someone else to avoid your feelings for your childhood bestie check
  • Qiu is Bad at Feelings (Our Life: Now and Forever)
  • Named Main Character | Franky Second (Our Life: Now & Forever)
  • set between Step 2 and Step 3
  • pre-release
  • She/Fae Pronouns for MC
  • Songfic
  • Jealous Qiu (Our Life: Now and Forever)
  • School Dances
  • Mild Hurt/Comfort
  • Femme Non-Binary
  • Qiu is a Metalhead (Our Life: Now and Forever)
  • Qiu is Angsty (Our Life: Now and Forever)
  • vague references to Step 2

  Summary

  Gifty Appiah has been pining after her best friend Qiu Lin since she was ten years old, but she can't live her life waiting, at least that's what the world says. When a football player asks her out to a school dance, she accepts; what's the harm, really?

  Qiu Lin often stares out their bedroom window, watching the world pass by. They were admittedly sulking, since Gifty, their Gifty, is going to the dance with some jerk from the football team. It only added fuel to their self-hatred.

  Little did they know, nothing would go according to plan, and Qiu would be the only one there to help pick up the pieces of Gifty's broken heart.

  Title from Hannah Grae's cover of Teenage Dirtbag

  Series

  • Part 2 of Adventures in Golden Grove

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  736

  Chapters:

  1/2

  Kudos:

  3

  Hits:

  131