you know how it is: you catch the last half of a movie you enjoyed in passing in the past and suddenly it's all you can think about. not on my 2024 bingo card but we ball
hello, welcome! the name's kit! pronouns they/he and i go by masculine honorifics like sir and mr. i got terribly self-concious about posting about these movies on my main for really no reason whatsoever, so i made an entire new sideblog for it! yippee! i don't know exactly how long this intense new interest will last for me (although in this moment of time it seems i will be here for the long haul) but seeing how relatively small this fandom is i might as well chip in while i'm here.
feel free to drop in any requests or doodle ideas in my patented query box! no guarantees i'll actually do em but the chances are high. will take ten thousand eternities however bc i'm addicted to making entire storylines out of them sometimes and getting ideas for completely different things the other times. mb bros. (more info here)
you'll find my doodles in the #kit does an art tag! anyone who writes anything nice in the tags of my art know that i will be normal about it forever. i've also got #kit yap session for what it sounds like and #kit read a fic and is making it your problem which is also what that sounds like. i'm great at this tagging thing
i've also got some special tags for the various aus and stuff i've been working on! if you want to check them all out in one place easily here they are for your viewing pleasure:
#weredoc au, where doc turns himself into a werewolf through the power of Science: formerly my most popular one, has the most content(?)
#mermarty au, where marty is a little fish guy: wrote a little bit of plot for it but it's mostly for the vibe
#cowboy jennifer, where jen goes to 1885 with marty: sort of a crowdsourced au, contains a couple of other people's thoughts on the matter as well as my own stuff
#cat to the future au, where i've. erm. well it was bound to happen eventually i've drawn them as cats
#bttfsu au, in which they're all gems set in the universe of steven. uh. universe. fits right into su's canon and it would probably help to know something about su beforehand but not necessarily required
#tiffany tannen, my wretched daughter that i hate. plays on the idea that biff somehow was able to bag someone and have a kid with them in the lone pine timeline, thus producing tiff. primarily about tiff making being bisexual a huge problem for everyone involved but there's a little bit of the implications thrown in there. marty why'd you create that guy
#LIVE KIT REACTION, which is not an au this is (or was, at first) me reading every bttf comic in what i hope is in order. if you like the obvious pointed out to you and my award-winning sense of humor there is plenty of that. i also put literally anything idw comic related there
(formerly tumblr had decided to be a little bitch and took from me my ability to reply so for most of this blog's existence i was forced to reply via reblogs. but it's fixed now WOOHOOOO)
(NUMBER ONE MAMM/ETT HATER!!!!!!! I HAVE THE BROOM AND I AM SHOOING ALL OF YOU OUT INTO THE STREET!!!!! LEAVE!!!!!)
While looking over details for a story I'm working on, I noticed in the McFly house there is a bird cage in the background with a bird inside. Said bird exists in both timelines and appeared to be a yellow canary. I kind of latched onto the idea that the bird for the most part is a family pet but is closest with Marty. Hence, we get Kirk here.
Now, diving way into personal head canon and story telling: Kirk is the family bird and they have had him since Marty was about 8 years old. While mostly the family bird, he's more so Marty's bird since Marty spent the most time with him and learned to take care of him. Kirk is Marty's little song bird and Kirk often chirps along to the music Marty plays. Marty adores him and missed him like crazy the two weeks he was gone time traveling. (He made sure to spend quality time with Kirk after he got back.) Kirk is generally a pretty chill bird and gets along with all the McFlys. Content to rest on shoulders, heads or just be nearby. He used to be a bit of a menace when they first got him but he chilled out over time.
And that's about all I got. Pretty simple and just another fun layer to the McFly family. Also he was named Kirk for... well pretty obvious nerdy reasons haha.
Anyways, hope you enjoy Marty and his little friend.
kit reads a comic: untold tales and alternate timelines, issue 1 (part 2)
finishing off the rest of the issue today! very convenient this one is split into two. i fear for the length the other reaction posts will be when i have to go through the entire issue for the story instead of half-and-half.
time to look for some good scientists. i'll even take the sub-par ones
oh shit i was right it is about doc getting picked up for the manhattan project! the comic opens on the california institute of technology, 1943, as helpfully supplied by the text box. i think this is the one where doc shows them his jello cube with a singular mushroom in it. the mushroom is very important. anyways, doc storms into i think his boss’s office and he’s very mad! his boss asks him why he’s not teaching to which he replies this:
gotta search up something rq.
yeah this is funny. [a la shrek they don’t even have dental] he doesn’t even teach a math course
docs mad bc he’s noticed all his other colleagues have been disappearing to contribute to what he guesses is a “top-secret think tank” for the war so what’s he still doing here?? that should be him!! (or in his words, “you should’ve bussed me off ages ago!”) throughout his whole rant about credentials and stuff he’s doing this:
the pose and the face are very silly to me. yeah this guy looks highly qualified to me. checks out
i also love how similar he’s drawn to the video game version of him. i can hear this in his younger self’s video game voice
so his boss is like yeah you’re right there is something going on and we thought about you for it and doc immediately takes this as a confirmation that he’s going and asks “can i bring my dog?” which i thought was cute. the canine assistant is very important to him. his boss goes no wait. we get this explanation :
you can say you think his place is a mess. it’s okay. love the stress on “psychologists” too like damn you really think it’s that worrying
doc is not the slightest bit offended he just goes yeah i get it. but ☝️i have an idea
we cut to:
a very tidy and respectable home! seems he’s cleaned up! they’re like yeah based on what we’ve seen we think you’re fit to come with us. then they step on his mail on their way out which reveals that this isn’t his apartment! it’s his landlady’s! tough luck doc….
doc goes home, not deterred by this in the slightest. he WILL be bussed off to that think tank. he’s put his mind to it and by god is he going to accomplish it. oh weird his apartment lights are on-
GOVERNMENT PEOPLE JUMPSCARE
love the guy on the left’s face like yeah. we broke into your apartment. we’re the government. we can do that
also his apartment isn’t even that bad. look how much floor space is clear! plenty of room to roam still, no problem (the bar is low.) (please ignore the giant death ray)
also he still has the stuff on his walls in 1985! the cat clock, the sax, the giant taxidermy fish
the guy in the back turns around OPPENHEIMER??? what are you doing here…. (we know what he’s doing here) (bomb)
they’re like yeah we knew it wasn’t your house this whole time. we respect the hustle. you’re with us now you’re now officially part of the manhattan project! doc says this is cause for celebration and he pulls out:
THE JELLO.
the mushroom really is perplexing. free my man
and that’s the end actually! i thought it would be longer, i’m surprised there isn’t more. looking at the page count this checks out though.
doc being so eager to get into the project is like.
(he doesn’t know.)
not much on the bingo front today. i assume he got his landlady’s permission to use her house but he also could’ve not so it’s a toss-up to if the square is filled
i’m sure this will be cleared up in a later issue (and by that i mean he’s definitely committing another, more clearly defined crime)
well, we found our good scientist! next on kit reads a comic: the government breaks into doc’s house again.
asdfsgafhg I just think A Lot about Doc in the Manhattan Project; it's one of my favorite bits of lore given all the implications of it--also it's mentioned as canon in the musical (where Doc is even younger at the time of the Project than game-verse), which also features Doc singing about how he's never had any successes and is just a dreamer.
Like, he technically did have a success with the Manhattan Project, but he doesn't consider it a success because of the deaths and arms race it caused (which is elaborated on more later on in the comics you're on).
Also, the musical having Doc in the exact same radiation suit from the Project and that suit being the cause of his demise in the Twin Pines timeline is all kinds of poetic irony. At any rate, thank goodness for Marty.
kit reads a comic: untold tales and alternate timelines, issue 1 (part 1)
due to popular demand (like 5 guys and some likes on the post) i have decided that on top of all the other stuff i have going on, i should add reading a bunch of comics and yapping about them to the list. now, i'm not exactly the most articulate of guys, so there's probably not going to be anything particularly insightful throughout this whole thing (the closest we'll get to that is probably going to be screaming and several emoticons) but! what i lack in brain power i make up with bingo! that's right i'm also going to be playing bingo as i read HAHA
to kick off the series of comic readings and subsequent yap fests and bingo checking, we have issue 1 of the IDW comics! the titles of the stories in this one are "when marty met emmett" and "looking for a few good scientists", so i guess the first one's going to be the comic's version of marty breaking into doc's garage! the second one i'm not as sure about, mayyybe it's doc being recruited into the manhattan project? bc i know the comics touch on that
i've never read these before so my following comments will be in real time, more or less, but. i will say. i know about and already have Opinions on the comic's version of how marty meets doc.
pre-conceived opinions and more under the cut!
so the comic begins with doc working on the time train before clara and the boys walk in. we get this exchange:
he wants to say the title of the franchise he's in sooo bad. also i love the little model on the side
he goes on to explain a condensed version of his life story to his sons, which includes his house burning down. i've only ever heard of it being an accident or his own doing for insurance money, but interestingly he suggests arson as a reason for it burning to the ground! thinking about this a little more, this still lines up with doc doing it himself bc that is still arson, and that probably was the intention with the line? but now i'm thinking if someone else besides doc himself burned his house down? never thought of that before idk why. someone could do something interesting with that i think
HE CALLS HIS GARAGE AN AUXILIARY STRUCTURE LMAO. anyways doc's starting on his "how he met marty" story now
marty.... my boy.... he really loves his red tshirt and jeans combo huh
needles comes in and demands his interocitor tube for guitar reasons, they scuffle, it breaks, he needs to get one back or else needles is going to beat the crap out of him, all that jazz. oh and also needles confiscates his guitar. just to be even more of an asshole
also this blonde chick needles hangs out with reminds me of spike from griff’s gang in 2015. mcflys are always getting harassed by blonde bullies it seems. get your mitts off him girl!! also also the third cronie’s face in this panel is so funny to me. dawg is thinking about getting taco bell or something his ass is NOT present in the conversation
on his quest to get another tube we spot red the bum. hi red
turns out doc bought all the tubes so now marty has to go to his garage to get them. marty cracks the password riddle to doc's fence (after getting electrocuted by it gbkgbjkg), to which he responds "kid's stuff." which is really funny to me for some reason. what a dork. marty i've got terrible news for what you are (a kid)
NEURON ACTIVATION
do the walls just keep closing in? will he know if he’ll ever win?
he's a very polite trespasser. no broken property from this boy! marty finds a key and worms his way into the window, where he comments that it's a good thing he's not as big as needles. being 2 apples tall does have its uses after all
HE GOT RUBE GOLDBERGED </3
oh the iconic "auugh". "aiigh" edition. my man’s in air jail </3
marty frees himself from Air Jail and immediately gets tackled by einie. doc emerges from wherever and tells him congrats! he passed the test! doc says "it's about time" which implies that he's just kind of been waiting around for some guy to solve his puzzles? like that rube goldberg was primed for a While. he wakes up in the morning and goes man i hope i get someone with my rube goldberg today. does he have to navagate around that thing? he's got a dog loose in the garage auxiliary structure. has he accidentally rube goldberged his dog? has he accidentally rube goldberged himself? the active rube goldberg at any given moment is really funny to me.
oh he put up a job listing as an assistant that's why he set up the whole thing. i thought he just did that. for fun. wait i knew this already why am i surprised? anyways he thinks marty figured out his employment ARG and asks him when can he start.
by the way. not me going "how can i make this about him being transgender" quite predictably. but i don't think once marty's name has been said by anyone so far? it's just been "mcfly".
he starts with his last name which everyone calls him, then realizes this is probably as safe a space as you can get and gives him the name he picked out for himself! his name's not just mcfly, it's MARTY mcfly, emphasis on the marty. and doc immediately uses it!
also unrelated to this tangent look at einie. he sits so polite. marty's "uh." of confusion at einstein's name too GJBGJG
putting this entire bit here bc i have things to say about all of this:
1st panel: this is like the one thing i like about this version of this event. einstein likes him! he's an excellent judge of character! he smelled Friend and oh yeah that is a Friend alright. good boy
2nd panel: moment IMMEDIATELY ruined. do NOT try and tell me this is how doc got his nickname!!! i know in my heart of hearts marty 100% came up with the "doc" nickname himself naturally and completely randomly one day and you can pry this hc out of my cold, dead, over-used and under-stretched hands. i’ll be so fr this is the bit i have the most problem with out of this entire version of their meeting LMAO. sure whatever you can have the inexplicable rube goldberg. you can zap people who try to ring you up and hide a password in there. but you can’t have this!! i refuse to believe!!
the whimsy in doc's step is amusing though.
3rd panel: bro looks devastated...... he was here to rob him :( ? his employment ARG didn't work after all :pensive: marty petting einie and clarifying that he would've asked "very politely" is very cute though. like i said, most polite trespasser
they're relating their interests...... excellent. "i never discuss it!" is really funny to me for some reason. bro is so cheerful about his wretched Work which he cannot disclose for any reason. also einstein's food thing was just always Like That i guess. gross, doc
ok wait so doc Was actually just waiting around to see if he'd catch a guy in his rube goldberg. freakish behaviour tbh /aff. also marty seems genuinely upset that there's no job! he wanted to hang out with that old man so bad :(
(i’ll be so fr. i kind of laughed when that second panel came up. it’s so dramatic for no reason BDJDBDJ.)
ends up doc just wanted the box the tubes came in. im sure there must've been a better way of doing this, doc. also when asked about pay negotiations bc doc offered him the job anyway, marty says he's just "happy to be the guy who knows doctor emmett l. brown!" which i think is cute. his payment is friendship <3
anyways marty hands over the tube to needles and goes oh yeah i stole this from doctor brown. to which needles holds it like it's a bomb LMAO
also MANHATTAN PROJECT REFERENCE ??? ? ??
also they drew this pic!! so cute
verne fell asleep through the story </3 so sad. guess you'll have to start over doc
i don't like how convoluted they make the breaking and entering thing, i feel like doc would not really be all too concerned with rube goldberging someone breaking into his garage to be friends with after they solved his riddles two. i think he's fully committed himself to the recluse life at this point. after reading all that, this opinion has Not changed for me in the slightest, but it was still fun to read! i can dislike the story direction and still think it's cute. we accept all sorts of doc and marty first meetings in this household. if you want to know how i personally think it went though i have this ask i answered once
originally i was going to do the second story in this same post but i think that's enough comic for me today. here's how the bingo sheet is turning out so far:
no bingo alas. recently i figured out that the story needs time travel or at least the delorean in order to get a bingo (where i was playing it with something else and got literally every square except any of the time travel ones and had like four almost bingos) and im going to pretend i did that on purpose bc im pretty sure i didn't LMAO. master bingo maker right here
next on kit reads a comic: we search for a small amount of decently qualified scientists
