dary // 19 // welcome to my bttf blog! i'm an artist and fanfic writer, sometimes do analysis as well // DNI if you ship mammett //layton sideblog: @daryslaytonramblings
i realized i never made an intro post so here it is lmao-
hi tumblr, my name is dary! i go by she/her pronouns, but feel free to use they/them as well, i don't mind :D
i'm 19 years old and from europe (my timezone is gmt +1)
as you can see from my blog, my main interest is the back to the future franchise :] i do things for the fandom like writing and drawing; you can find me on ao3 under the same username (daryfromthefuture) and on instagram under @/rynaaa_a.
talk to me about bttf in general but specifically (bold = main fixation):
⭐1940s doc/manhattan project lore
⭐1950s doc
⭐bttf the musical
⭐bttf the game
⭐doc and marty's friendship (!!!)
some fun facts about me:
i learned to skateboard because of marty mcfly and my favorite drink is pepsi (WITH sugar)
i speak english, german, russian and like basic french (english being my third language learned out of these)
my favorite subject is history and 20th century history is another big interest of mine
writing is my favorite thing to do ever and i want to write movies someday
my favorite bands are huey lewis and the news & queen
i'm taller than mjf by three inches
i ran out of fun facts, may add later LOL
thank you for checking out my blog! i'm always open to making new acquaintaces, so feel free to message me :D
fanfic directory under the cut!
FANFIC DIRECTORY (status: September 22, 2024)
MULTI-CHAPTER:
Until I Get Home: Stuck in 1885 AU fic, focusing on Marty and Doc's relationship and how it evolves when exposed to various different circumstances during their time in the 19th century. Words: 100,100, 30 chapters. Status: Complete
Fourteen scraps of paper: Fic focusing on filling out the 30 years between 1955 and 1985 in the Lone Pine timeline. Words: 11,243, 5/18 chapters. Status: On hiatus (dunno whether I will pick it up again tbh...)
November: Smaller, slice of life fic set post-trilogy. Marty gets sick and Doc takes care of him. Words: 4,636, 3 chapters. Status: Complete
We Do Need Roads: Road Trip fic also set post-trilogy. Doc takes Marty on a road trip across the country after the latter graduates, which gives them a great oppurtunity to catch up. Words: 19,016 (estimated to be around 80K), chapters 5/20. Status: Work in progess
The Perils And The Promise: A rewrite of Jules Verne's "Around The World In 80 Days" with the BTTF characters in the main roles (man I love ridiculous AUs). Words: 57,111 37/37 chapters. Status: Complete
TRINITY TRILOGY
Three stories set in a universe in which Marty accidentally ended up trapped in the 1940s and follows Doc as he goes through the Manhattan Project and the years after. Together, the stories will take up around 135,000 words and 60 chapters. Hyperfixation has quite the power guys lmao
Most People Were Silent (45,352 words; complete)
A Few People Cried (45,024 words; complete)
A Few People Laughed (17,868 words; WIP!!)
ONESHOTS
Time Waits For No One: AU of BTTF 3 in which Marty comes down with pneumonia during the week in 1885. Words: 10,054
Flight Of Fancy: A character stufy of Doc, focusing on his relationship with science and the development of the flux capacitor. Words: 6,022
The Weight Of Us: A small "crossover" (is it really a crossover if it could be canon) with Oppenheimer (2023) in which 1940s Doc and Robert talk in August 1945. Words: 1,129
He Didn't Start The Fire: Prequel oneshot about Marty and Doc's early friendship days and how the teen reacts upon finding out that Doc worked on the Manhattan Project. Words: 5,459
Double Visions: Doc and Marty have a heart-to-heart after the events of BTTF: The Game. Words: 2,028
A Day At The I.F.T.: In a universe in which BTTF: The Ride is canon, Marty visits the institute of future technology. Words: 1,764
Time Heals All Wounds: Oneshot set in 1931. Young Emmett and Marty shenanigans. Words: 1,031
Nighttime Inn: Miitopia AU oneshot in which our hero Marty talkes to Great Sage Doc post-final battle. (have I meantioned I love ridiculous AUs)
Meet The Family: post-trilogy oneshot focusing on Marty's inner conflict about the whole Doc and Clara thing
Thanks for the tag, @thestolenbook! Sorry it took me a week to reply!
Favorite color: Brown! It was blue for the longest time, but since adulthood, it's shifted. Blue is still a color I love. It feels like imagination. Brown just feels like grounded color of my soul now, though. I am at peace around browns (and blues!).
Last song: "No Time for Caution" by Hans Zimmer, from the Interstellar score (2014). I am always so thankful this gorgeous score exists.
Currently reading: I've been re-skimming and doing some of the exercises in Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark. His voice is great. I never feel like I'm being lectured at.
Currently watching: rewatching In the Eye of the Storm on Discovery for probably the third time because I love weather documentaries. When I was sick in bed for three days over Easter break, I did nothing but watch tornado videos on YouTube on my phone. OUAT reruns when I'm holed up in my craft room (I need to get back in there soon)!
Currently craving: Red meat. I'm not craving it so much as feeling like I need its sustenance every night when dinner rolls around. Give me a cheeseburger, meatloaf, steak, Hamburger Helper...I know high stress can deplete a few things in your body that red meat can replenish, so I'm gonna say that's why.
Coffee or tea: Both is good. Coffee is less frequent these days with the amount of stimulants I take, but I'll so get a giant mug of decaf for a day of writing. Tea is more common. Mostly herbals. Lemon for when I feel under the weather, peppermint/ mint for head colds, and chamomile for comfort/ I need warmth in my bones.
Tagging @moonlightandstarshimmer, @mythical-bookworm, @daryfromthefuture, @goldenwingediris, and @darklybound if you guys wanna play/ haven't played yet! And anyone else who sees this and wants to snag it!
Favorite color: burgundy all the way. if you asked me to assemble an outfit in one color, i could give you like 5 different options in burgundy. the tips of my hair are burgundy. it's fantastic.
Last song: "Mariners Apartment Complex" by Lana Del Rey! been discovering her music for myself lately and have found quite a few to add to my liked songs.
Currently reading: 1984 by George Orwell. not gonna lie, i'm having a hard time getting into it...i hope that'll change after the plot progresses.
Currently watching: granada sherlock holmes! just watched "the empty house" and i am in pain. ow. /pos of course, but i love them so much.
Currently craving: not having to come up with and cook dinner every freaking day. serious answer is ramen with fried chicken
Coffee or tea: tea. i still do not like coffee and idk if i ever will. skipping this adulthood step lmao
tagging @wordsofawanderingsoul, @ghostlybugenthusiast, @blairette-on, @childofwatercos and whoever else wants to do this!
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
the ruin section in professor layton vs phoenix wright (no i won't stop talking about this game). i loved the colors and the character interactions in that chapter specifically. and the music! not to mention hershel and phoenix got to solve a puzzle together 🤭
not sure if that's what was meant by underground level but it counts to me
Is there a food from a game you would love to have in real life?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
id love to try the stuff that we feed the miis in miitopia. iirc there were some pretty cool drinks and also food items that looked extraordinary good. doesn't have to be steamed scorpion or whatever they had in the desert but y'know
sorry i've been away i love being busy (extremely loud incorrect buzzer) but IM BACK with more martymania stuff!!!!!!
i wanted to doodle a quick a ref sheet mostly for myself but i thought i'd share here as well! if you'd indulge me, i have some headcanons/backstory about the individual duos i'd like to share under the cut…………………………. :3 i'll also put them individually there! <3
the mona lisa and his best friend the mona lisa 2 in their pure of heart original form…… sighs………
i don't actually know what i could say here that wouldn't be already known knowledge…. erm… i'd like to think this au takes place directly after telltale keeping to that true bttf style of just being back to back nonsense. that bit with all the older marties at the end of the game? oh yeah baby. that's this. specifically the last one who gets mad at the other two for "altering his timeline one too many times" i'd say is either bad-end trilogy marty (doc never comes back for telltale and marty dedicates his life to trying to find him) or 1985A turned 2015a marty just from his grungy attire. that's all i got. maybe i'll think of more? but yeah. the duo of all time i love them so much
coughs into the microphone
now we're getting to the good stuff. 1985a. hell valley. ooh BABY
so for doc in this design i wanted to mesh his regular 1985/1955 attire to really drive in that "this is lone pine doc that KNOWS something has gone wrong" kind of feel. god that makes me cry real tears…..
i'd like to imagine his estate fire still happens; he still tries to make the delorean but is way too late. i'd also like to believe biff put him in the mad-house because he is probably the only wide-eyed scientist in the town and doc is probably very HEY GUYS SOMETHINGS WRONG. SOMETHINGS GONE VERY VERY WRONG. I SWEAR. GUYS. (shoutout to @hymntoody for bringing this idea up i cried about it for like 7 hours it was so beautiful you're so right /pos)
you'll notice his 1955 jacket wrapped around his waist all burnt up from the fire, and his undershirt is the 55 one. i think this doc would hold on to those items/other 1955 things to "prove" to himself that he KNOWS something's wrong. all those years of nobody believing you would probably mess your head up a little. he also still keeps marty's letter on him at all times. i'd like to say in the event bttf2 doesn't happen he breaks out of the mad house sometime after october 26th and brute-forces trying to find marty and get his help to make everything right. cue a parallel between regular marty and citizen brown but 1985A doc and 1985A marty. oh my heart.
the saddest part about these two i don't think they'd ever meet. doc probably tries. he tries his best. after marty never shows up to his workshop he goes and tries to find him himself. but for obvious reasons he's never been able to get a hold of the poor kid and then whoops in the mad house you go old man
perhaps in a timeline where bttf2 just doesn't happen / marty fails doc breaks out and teams up with his marty to make things right or if you wanna be angsty get revenge
okay you thought 1985a was long hold onto ur flux capacitors
so a bit of background first! citizen marty/evil martin as i like to call him originally came from an AU idea where doc is the one who makes it to citizen valley and has to enlist citizen marty's help in getting home. the reason i call him evil marty is not just because he is regular marty's direct opposite but i think those traits are taken to the absolute EXTREME
we all know how devoted martin is to being recognized by citizen brown. i think he's very goal-oriented, cold and absolutely a perfectionist. (note: this is also why i think martin dropped the guitar. he wasn't good at it straight away. god. sorry. crying in the other room i'll be back) essentially turning marty's introverted nature and focus on his music into energy that is devoted into nothing but work. martin's version of citizen's brown motive to sabotage regular marty in setting everything right is his and citizen brown's success
like think about it. martin has accomplished so much at such a young age. imagine telling him that his true self is meant to be this slacker punky teenager who sits around playing guitar and hanging out with doc all day? that last part might sound nice, but what does marty have to rely on? that lack of control is what i think scares martin. martin has a future engraved in stone. marty's hasn't been written. (making myself cry AIUGH........) additionally doc's only """successful""" (i am sure he has had more) invention is the time machine and he's not that famous(?) ; all of regular doc's stories sound like headaches to deal with anyways
citizen brown from what i gathered from the games is only really vaguely familiar with martin. he does that whole monologue when marty walks in for the first time but he could have just gotten that off a paper or something who knows
again accounting for the fact marty doesn't come back and fix everything i think citizen and martin eventually meet. perhaps when martin's graduated from college. unfortunately i don't think they'd ever bond like doc and marty. it's strictly professional. i also think edna wouldn't like martin either. there's just something about him that doesn't sit right with her
anyways holy yap sorry about that...... uhm.... i'll write more later maybe...... if people want…. i have so many ideas for this au :3
Oh, good gracious.... This can range anywhere from Julie Fowlis (Scottish folk) to Caravan Palace (French electro-swing) to plenty more, and I don't even know if composers like Hans Zimmer or Franz Schubert count. 😂
Blazes, uh...well, if you like classical music, I highly recommend you check out Schubert's "Erlkönig." It's very thoroughly made with lots of intricacy to convey the intended story. (The versions from Ian Bostridge and Daniel Norman are my personal favorites.)
Cyan.
Tagging @inkinary, @aregularirregular221b, @moriartea221, @lestradelurkshere, @whenyoulikeandwhereyoulike, @rosemelodyshah, @daryfromthefuture, and anybody else who wants a go.
1. my favorite artist is marina and the diamonds! she's made so many great, catchy songs, and most of them have fantastic messages also. as for my favorite band, i'd go with the happy fits, queen, and huey lewis and the news.
2. continuing to promote marina by giving you my current favorite of hers: "obsessions"
3. lavender!
tagging @bg-sparrow , @blairette-on , @wordsofawanderingsoul , @professorsaber , @childofwatercos , @ghostlybugenthusiast and anyone else who wants to play :) a wild mix of fandom blogs but hey, the more the merrier-
p.s.: used to have to listen to "erlkönig" in music class, and i have personal beef with it because we listened to it so. many. times lmao
