The Limitless Musings & Daydreams of Rose of Pollux
@rose-of-pollux
"This one's for the dreamers... like me." -- Doc Brown, BTTF the Musical
A daydreamer and writer (original+fanfic) with a vivid imagination. Also bird nerd.
(She/Her, AroAce, American-born South Indian/desi, practicing Hindu)
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The way my main BTTF fic timeline works, I operate on a fusion of the musical, movie trilogy, and Telltale game timelines; I take elements from each, and while my written version of Doc started out sounding like Christopher Lloyd, he's very much now heavily based on Roger Bart--I write out of timeline order, so just keep that in mind if Doc's voice isn't quite consistent from fic to fic.
I write Doc as very asexual, which was definitely the vibe that I felt from the musical; subsequently, my backstory for Doc and his relationship with Clara differs greatly from the actual Part III, and I haven't quite figured out how Jules and Verne fit in--only that they just exist for now, and I'll figure their origins out later.
Lastly, I operate on the headcanon that, in the Lone Pine timeline, George and Lorraine remain good friends with Doc after 1955, initially because they think he's their link to "Calvin Klein," but eventually as true friends. This ultimately led to them asking Doc to be Marty's godfather--a role Doc takes very seriously and makes him even more protective of Marty than he was in Twin Pines.
And now, the fics themselves--I'm going to try to keep these in chronological order from Marty's POV (as best as possible, since, in a few of them, he isn't born yet); distinctions between Twin and Lone Pine timelines will be noted as such, and AUs will be listed separately--
(Updated 1/31/26: added a multichapter fic and its coda)
Main Timeline--
To Find Where I Belong (Twin Pines)
Misunderstood (1931 Twin Pines)
Art Isn't Easy (and Neither is Science) (1931 Twin Pines)
Miles to Go Before I Sleep (1945 Lone Pine)
Stumbling Block (1949 Lone Pine)
The Fork in the Road (1963 Lone Pine)
Faded Ink (1968 Lone Pine)
Across Time (1968 Lone Pine)
All the Time in the World (1969 Lone Pine)
A Dark and Stormy Night (1973 Lone Pine)
The Darndest Thing (1974 Lone Pine)
Live and Learn (1976 Lone Pine)
All the Difference (1976 Lone Pine)
Is Anybody Home? (Twin Pines)
When the Walls Close In (Twin Pines)
Seeing Red (Twin Pines)
True Blue (Twin Pines)
Silence and Darkness (1982 Twin Pines)
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud (Twin Pines, twoshot)
Instincts (1982 Twin Pines)
Doubts and Dreams (Twin Pines)
Life's Little Challenges (Twin Pines)
A Shot in the Dark (Lone Pine)
Running Late (Twin Pines)
Once in a Red Moon (Twin Pines)
Lost and Found (Twin Pines)
Reckless (Twin Pines)
Threads of a Timeline (Lone Pine)
Days of Wine and Venom (Lone Pine, multichapter, complete)
April, 1984, pt I (Twin Pines)
April, 1984, pt II (Lone Pine)
With Friends Like These (Twin Pines)
Summertime Blues (Twin Pines)
Back Down to Earth (Twin Pines)
And I Know What It's Like (Twin Pines)
No Turning Back (Lone Pine)
As I Lay Dying (Twin Pines)
Morale Boost (1955)
Until They Lose the Light (1955)
No Rest for the Weary (1955)
At the Heart of the Paradox (Twin Pines becoming Lone Pine)
Out of the Blue (Pt II, retconned since I'm doing something different)
Cadence of Hill Valley: The Song of Time (musical-verse pt II; multichapter WIP)
Cadence of Hill Valley: A Link to the Past (not written yet, musical-verse pt III)
Sixty Seconds (pt III, may be retconned by the time I finish the Cadence series)
All You Do Is Think (pt III, retconned due to the Cadence series)
A Fragile Thing (Telltale game)
Start From the Happy Ending (post-Telltale game)
Unexpected Arrival (possible Telltale sequel, standalone for now)
Haven't Heard that Before (post-canon)
Faces of Family (post-canon)
They Say that Time is a Healer (post-canon)
Battle Scars (post-canon)
Keep the Faith (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
'Cause I Might Not Make It Back (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Time Is Not Eternal (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Nothing's the Same (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Beyond Our Control (post-canon)
A Long and Involved Conversation With Myself (post-canon)
Beat the Odds (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Close to Home (post-canon)
You Can't Fight Fate (Or Can You?) (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
One Constant (post-canon)
The Impossible and the Improbable (post-canon)
Seelie Wight (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Emmett Brown and the Timepiece of Saturn (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
Pressure Point (post-canon, multichapter, complete)
The Ancient Relic (post-canon, 2015)
Ashen Pines AU Timeline (the Cold War goes hot in 1971, and when Hill Valley is incinerated by people looking for Doc and his knowledge of nuclear weapons, Doc goes on the run with the three-year-old orphan he just adopted--Marty McFly)--
Up In Smoke (oneshot)
To Be Told You're No Good (oneshot)
Nowhere to Turn (oneshot)
A Moment of Peace (oneshot)
Lessons Learned (oneshot)
Teach Him a Lesson (oneshot)
Injustice (oneshot)
Don't Look Back (oneshot)
I Can See the Fires Still Alight (oneshot)
Fatherhood (oneshot)
Vertigo (oneshot)
Emergency Exit (oneshot)
The Lonely Mountain (oneshot)
Slipped Away (multichapter, complete)
Leave This Pain a While (oneshot)
Justification (oneshot)
A Simple Wish (oneshot)
Other AU fics--
Audivi Famam Ilius (Fantasy AU)
Shattered Dream (Turn Left AU)
Life, Life (Frankenstein AU)
Discord and Rhyme (Werewolf!Doc AU)
Where the Sea Meets the Sky (Merboy!Marty AU)
Space Pirates (Space Opera AU)
The Human Element (Cyberpunk AU)
The Project Chronos Affair (Doc and Marty join U.N.C.L.E. AU)
Rules of the Game (U.N.C.L.E. AU continuation)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: Time Stood Still, pt 5/15
Fandom: Gilligan’s Island/Back to the Future/Scooby-Doo (13 Ghosts-era)
Rating: K+
Summary: The apprentices discover more quirks about the antimatter void as their mentors clash in the confusion of what's been happening.
Watch out! This plant eats meat. While it normally feeds on insects, the pitcher plant (Nepenthes rajah) has also been known to snare vertebrates including lizards and small mammals. Its sizable pitcher, a modified leaf, can contain up to 34 oz (1 L) of fluid, which is often enough to drown small critters that happen to fall in. Powerful digestive acids are then released as the plant breaks down and absorbs its prey.
Photo: Alastair Robinson, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
