Bet Your Future on the Power of Love

i'm paige and i like tea

[thievesandbeggars]

[thievesandbeggars]

So many people have reblogged this with such intense yearning in their tags and it makes my heart happy every time.

[autoraton]

same as it never was.

[bet-your-future]

@lovescrashingwaves a random song happened to be playing when i scrolled past and it was so perfect i had to stop and record

[mjf-af]

GET READY HUEY LEWSERS 

McFly July is back again! Back to the Future was released on July 3rd 1985, so every July, we swig some Pepsi Free and celebrate!

There’s a prompt a day - tackle one, some, or all. Get inspired and make what-the-heck-ever: poetry, fanfiction, song, cosplay, aesthetics, fanart, tiktoks, anything BTTF.

Just tag your creations #mcflyjuly so we can find and share them! 

[slowmotionmovesme]

what day is it

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[knickynoo]

Sometimes I stop and think about the ridiculous amount of times Doc & Marty must have gotten Burger King each week. I mean, his garage is overflowing with the wrappers and cups, and it’s a great detail. 

Marty’s bed is surrounded by the leftover garbage. (With a plate of fries and part of a burger JUST SITTING there!)

There’s a bag & more cups outside the door.

And near Doc’s bed & other places in and around the garage. 

I can just picture the two of them working on some experiments for hours, when they suddenly realize they haven’t eaten in a while. So Doc says, “Well, let’s figure out what to get.”

Then they both stand there for a moment, pretending to be brainstorming an idea, before Marty turns to him & is like, “Hey, how about Burger King for the 47th time this week?”

And Doc just shrugs because it’s right there next door, so what else are they supposed to do??

I hope those two occasionally ate a vegetable or something. 

[urban-caravan]

this is,,,,, the plot of telltale’s back to the future game

[frutiguro]

doc as an 80s teen maybe??? 👀

I imagine him having a very ‘dad’ taste in clothes and Marty desperately trying to get him to wear something 'cooler’

[futureboymcflyy]

this fit. this fit is unparalleled. ALL i have to fucking say. that’s the post.

[niconaranjo-deactivated20210310]

Un petit hommage à Retour vers le futur. 

[fairict]

when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

back to the future (1985)

[mjf-af]

10:04pm

Keep reading

[bet-your-future]

so good so good this is so good in its entirety but my favorite part — “His feet feel like television static every time they hit the ground. He is cold and wet from rain that he’s outrun. He is hot and clammy from going so long.” i had to go back and read this out loud to savor it fully *chefs kiss*

[michael-jpk]

How To Spot a Shoplifter: Marty Edition

@mjf-af

[mjf-af]

@lonepinetimeline just ????????? mails martys out randomly because they’re overflowing with????? LOVE? GOOD PERSON JUICE ???? Everybody, Theo is a better gift to the planet than Mountain Dew Hat guy

[variousvarieties]

Back to the Future is Cyberpunk

In the Rllmuk thread on CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk game, there was a bit of a debate over whether cyberpunk is a SF genre people only like because of ‘80s nostalgia.

So it occurred to me: you know what else is cyberpunk? Back to the Future.

Wait, hear me out!

1. ‘80s tech cobbled together and re-purposed, and also extrapolated into the future (fax machines)

2. The films fetishise Japanese tech (“All the best stuff is made in Japan!”) - and doesn’t future Marty work for a zaibatsu?

3. Mirrorshades:

4. Urban construction Sprawls out across Hill Valley over time

5. Shady black market deals go south (“the Libyans!”)

6. Kids scoff at the idea of gaming with one’s hands. Clearly that means that all their playing is done by jacking in.

7. Themes of insanity and questioning of reality:

8. ZOK proposes another one: “Marty’s existence in the future is temporarily reduced to a single photographic image, allowing us to consider the nature of identity in both the real and the virtual.”

See? All the best SF is cyberpunk.

[raeseddon]

I’d totally buy that the 1986A timeline “Hell Valley” is some level of cyberpunk distopia what with the heavy overtones of evil corporate conglomerates (BiffCo) and the general look and feel of that timeline as a whole. Also look at the other articles in the newspaper: “Nixon to Seek 5th Term: Vows to End Veitnam War by 1985” and “BiffCo to Build New Dioxin Plant” dioxin being just… extremely toxic as hell vaprorous chemicals.

The comics take it one step further with Doc getting comitted in 1986A: he discovers that he wasn’t only comitted but subjected to a lobotomy, so there’s also that. I’d have loved to have seen the world outside of “Hell Valey” in 1986A, even though there was no room for it in the movie proper.

[lonepinetimeline]

I know this is an old post but I felt the need to expand on op’s second point. The BTTF movies don’t only fetishize Japanese tech - their entire concept of the future and what’s futuristic hinges on the same brand of techno-orientalism associated with the likes of cyberpunk classics like blade runner. This article by wendy lee describes this phenomenon as it plays out in bttf2. TL;DR: Back to the Future 2′s depiction of 2015 shows Hill Valley as a bustling, technologically-forward, multiethnic city with East Asian aesthetics and a rather notable absence of positive Asian characters.

The two Asian characters we do get to meet are both Japanese. There’s Chester Nogura, member of Griff Tannen’s gang and dressed in stereotypical fashion with his rising sun hoverboard, whose purpose is to act as a menace to our quick-witted white American hero. And Ito T. Fujitsu, older Marty’s boss in 2015, is an even greater threat - Marty is stuck at an apparently unfulfilling corporate job and Fujitsu has all the power over Marty’s very livelihood. Older Marty’s double ties are designed with, once again, the rising sun. Fujitsu (whose name comes from a japanese electronics company) literally has Marty by the neck. 

What is techno-orientalism but another brand of yellow peril? As far as I know there’s no proven connection between the rise of cyberpunk and Japan’s economic success in the 1980s, but it’s pretty damn likely that some of the typical characteristics of the genre rose out of westerners attempting to reconcile their ingrained anti-Asian racism and xenophobia with the unavoidable fact of Japan’s technological prowess. BTTF, with its emphasis on technological innovation and the implications thereof, is no exception to that trend. For all that small-town America Hill Valley has changed “for the better” by 2015, the racial and xenophobic anxieties of the times in which the films were released shine through plain as day.

[knickynoo]

Marty McFly saying “Perfect” in situations that are anything but

I like how they stuck with this little characterization throughout the trilogy.