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Current favorite BTTF behind the scenes picture: Chris Lloyd chillin' on top of the train.
I still cant believe marty drinks diet pepsi like damn . he already has trauma he doesnt need that too
I'm determinedly going through my inbox as an attempt at a first step and I COMPLETELY forgot about this ask haha. For those reading along at home, this is in fact not a bot and is a personal friend of mine I coaxed over to Tumblr- they thought it would be funny to name themselves like a bot and frankly they are correct I think. ANYWAYS as for the ask. To be honest, I agree, diet soda tastes so bad. But, in addition to the usual knowledge- that drinking diet soda was a huge fad at the time in the 80s, and so lots of people were drinking it- I've both spoken to and seen tons of people across social medias mention that growing up with nothing but diet soda in the house led to them just. Deciding to keep drinking it, and on top of that their palates just don't like regular soda anymore.
And y'know, what with the fact that it seems George drinks Diet Pepsi too [and seems to be drinking it with??? milk???], I'm inclined to personally take this as my own headcanon.
HELLO LADS I thought I would contribute an absolutely absurd dream I had. I don't remember most of the dream but I remember Marty and his family [and Biff for some reason??? He might've been working there] and also me, my own dad and parts of my family were in a farm house and it just had a big label in the front "McFly". I think they'd just moved out there? I remember exploring around a bit then the POV switched solidly to Marty and he was looking around. They'd apparently found slivers of diamond in the light fixtures? So they had a lady coming through to check all of them to find them all and they were gonna make big bucks. But Marty was bored, so while he was looking for something to do he finds his guitar.
And. And he.
So he picks it up to start playing, and he shreds it. So well, in fact, that somehow a TORNADO KICKS UP in the distance, like somehow I can see the tornado forming from in the sky outside as the clouds start to swirl together. They kinda start swirling around Marty? Vague avatar like things. And he looks excited at this and I remember thinking "hm! Marty you should Stop" but he's having a good time so he shreds even harder.
Jump cut and. Well! It's a tornado. The house is destroyed. But like, in the cartoon way where the infrastructure is there like just the outer paneling and everything inside is gone but the McFly sign is still there. And I just remember everyone looking bummed [but probably not as bummed as they should be] and Biff just coming over to hit Marty with a "nice going, butthead". Marty was Utterly Unbothered though and if anything looked a little pumped after his apparent display of either godly power or just being really chummy with some grand power.
That's it that's the dream. I also distinctly remember thinking "why are you all just dejected I think we should be concerned Marty can control the wind slash tornadoes???" But alas </3
Also I think I remember sitting there watching him like "hm I'm the only one watching him do this. Logically I should stop him." And so instead I sat there watching him get excited and continue to jam out til the tornado spun around him and the farmhouse was destroyed <3
Hi idk if you still use tumblr (your most recent post is from last October lol) but i wanted to know where you got yout BTTF comic??? I want one really badly but i cant find one to buy online, did you have to go to a Japanese website or something?
Sort of, yes! I answered this in the replies of one of the original posts, but it Would probably be best to place the info up front and center, especially because as far as I know I still am the only source for more than just a few pages of the art in that thing. Anyway!
All you really have to do is make an account on the Japanese storefront of Amazon- you can use your normal address, your normal credit card, all that good stuff, so don't worry- and then paste the following into the search bar.
バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー (ポプラキミノベル ろ 1-1)
It should cost roundabouts $25 including shipping, so it isn't too bad at all! Happy reading!
Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Incredibly important question to posit here.
If there was a Muppet version of Back to the Future which character would make for the funniest one to be the token human?
okay because I’m losing my MIND over this. On the one hand, it would be SO funny for Marty to be the human, on account of it would make his entire family muppets. Can you imagine. So much of the cast of these films is Marty’s blood relatives. Can you imagine Marty- human, still definitely Michael J. Fox Marty- at the McFly family dinner scene in the first movie and everyone is muppets. Can you imagine the Biff muppet being intimidating. Marty full on chucking the Tannen muppets across the room. Marty being grabbed by muppets and successfully stopped. Muppets throwing Marty in the trunk. Marty is tall for once in his life but at what cost. Think about Biff again because I can’t stop laughing.
On the OTHER hand, Doc being this mad fucking scientist in this town full of muppets and everyone thinks he’s crazy. You’ve got this one muppet, a little guy, wants to be a rockstar, and one day he approaches the mad scientist and they become best friends. Everyone thinks he’s crazy but it’s never about him being a human in a sea of muppets, they’re just “his science is too crazy”. As this six foot some man just towers over all of them. Can you imagine Doc just practically sitting to maintain eye contact with muppet Marty. Doc falls in love with the Clara muppet and they have muppet children. No one questions this. Doc having to operate a train that was sized for muppets to get them back to the future.
They’re both such stellar options I can’t even function, thanks so much for coming <3 let me know what you think because I’m just gonna keep laughing about this.
putting this one on the blog IMMEDIATELY this is so FUNNY
very late addition but
my masterpiece,,,, muppet marty
REBLOGGING THIS ONE AS WELL ik the Bobs have said absolutely no reboots or sequels but I think an exception should be made someday Specifically for This. “Which version??” yeah <3
Something something, @sparxymcfly inspired doodle.
OH I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!! this is so cute oh my goodness :O
Hi everyone I happened to realize I had the perfect opportunity to contribute to the growing empire of @odddelorean . Hopefully this satisfies <3 Marty finally receives his duly deserves pizza!
There's a SICK 80's pizza place nearby that I just HAD to christen Marty at and Yes that's the Terminator in the background. Apologies for him! But we Had to sit at the Back to the Future table so alas! The Terminator is here.
AND SPEAKING OF HAVING WATCHED THE TRILOGY THREE DAYS IN A ROW which yeah, if you missed that I got extremely enabled by three separate friends who wanted to watch Back to the Future with me after I talked about it nonstop for so long :) AND I WILL BE SHOWING THEM THE REST OF THE TRILOGY it’s so good. I love my buddies. They’re great. BUT. But but BUT. The consecutive watches gave me some THOUGHTS. They’re not really big enough to be their own posts I don’t think, so this sort of setup of just a couple little things is, I think, the best way to go about it. And another read more since I’m quite chatty now that I’ve got my voice back, so enjoy if you’d like!
Sparx Thoughts!
I’VE BEEN GONE SO LONG. Finally getting the energy to write on here a little bit and staring at my surroundings as I’ve got McFly July nearly passed me by and an extremely silly post about pizza taking off... very nice to see this little corner of Tumblr still trucking along :)
I read your thing about Doc and his notorious hunching, and wanted to know what you thought of my take on it.
Him being hunched is probably from him leaning over equations since I don't think he stands fully straight. And doc most likely knows that Marty is self conscious about his very small stature. So by being at eye level and not literally looking down at Marty it helps him feel more comfortable. Doc is also probably one of those nerds that get excited as he explains things and being at eye level probably helps him with displaying that so he doesn't scare anyone if he, puffs himself up in a way like with how he bounces around in the beginning in the first one when he's like 'If works! It actually works!' he turns away from Marty as he does it, not towards him. As far as 50s doc doing the hunching thing he does it to have a bit more of a personal connection with Marty. Since he's probably looked down on and called stupid by his dad, judge Brown when he found out that his son didn't want a law degree and wanted to be a scientist.
Your post this morning was sent to me by a fellow BTTF lover and it's been the entire base of our friendship. I don't find many other fans in the wild, I guess you could say, so it's nice to know there's others as obsessed with the old trilogy as I am!
HIIIIIII I don't recall anymore when "this morning" was but it's surely long past by now. I am So sorry for how long this has been sitting here but here I go to eat your thoughts and tell you what I think <3 ALSO HOW DO YOU SEND GIFS IN ASKS.... your power. Or well uh it might just be my lack of familiarity with how Tumblr works despite being here for like... years. Pff. Still, thank you for putting them in my inbox :)
I DO totally agree that Doc probably does not have very good posture. Not all the time really, but Doc has always come across as the "do as I say not as I do" sort of guy when it comes to that sort of casual personal health and safety- to summarize what might have otherwise been a big ramble, the man eats Burger King often enough there's debris strewn across the lab in the opening scene when they've long since not even been in there. Doc getting so absorbed in his experiments that he not only hunches, but probably stands and contorts around in the weirdest positions possible? I'm just saying I think that's something the rejuvenation clinic probably did a really good patch-up on. And, y’know, it very much tracks considering how often he’ll just gesture and move about wildly and then just! Hold that position, whatever it is, for the time he’s talking!
As far as 50s Doc goes though, I think I could see that! For as silly as I got during that post, I do believe part of it for him back then was just the fact he was a lot less assured and not particularly well-versed in spending time with other humans for all that long at a time. To him, whether conscious or subconscious [and I kinda think it is mostly subconscious on his part], eye contact and visibly paying mind- and maybe even leveling the playing field- is probably something considerate to do.
Man. A lot of this sure is looping back into me wanting to go off on little side tangents about my beliefs about autistic Doc <:] That’ll definitely be another time though, as there’s still one point remaining in your ask I’d love to tackle. That being, Marty’s height and his feelings about it!
Granted, anyone is allowed to feel however they’d like, especially with something that doesn’t really get directly addressed at any point. Sort of, anyway. Marty being small comes up a lot, though, and personally, I’ve actually always been of the belief it’s something Marty doesn’t really think about until it is suddenly a problem. As far as I can tell, he’s never particularly minded, but I’m here to gather the evidence to my point of view! Is this a convenient excuse to talk about all these moments that I find very silly? Yeah :) It sure is.
I! Won’t be covering the movies very much here, if only because the post in question- the Doc crouching post- pretty much covered every significant instance of Marty being small being brought up in the trilogy itself. Does this make my point malleable? Perhaps! I’m exploring it anyway. Using a read more as well since it’s a touch image heavy AND kind of just a touch rambly.
Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Incredibly important question to posit here.
If there was a Muppet version of Back to the Future which character would make for the funniest one to be the token human?
okay because I’m losing my MIND over this. On the one hand, it would be SO funny for Marty to be the human, on account of it would make his entire family muppets. Can you imagine. So much of the cast of these films is Marty’s blood relatives. Can you imagine Marty- human, still definitely Michael J. Fox Marty- at the McFly family dinner scene in the first movie and everyone is muppets. Can you imagine the Biff muppet being intimidating. Marty full on chucking the Tannen muppets across the room. Marty being grabbed by muppets and successfully stopped. Muppets throwing Marty in the trunk. Marty is tall for once in his life but at what cost. Think about Biff again because I can’t stop laughing.
On the OTHER hand, Doc being this mad fucking scientist in this town full of muppets and everyone thinks he’s crazy. You’ve got this one muppet, a little guy, wants to be a rockstar, and one day he approaches the mad scientist and they become best friends. Everyone thinks he’s crazy but it’s never about him being a human in a sea of muppets, they’re just “his science is too crazy”. As this six foot some man just towers over all of them. Can you imagine Doc just practically sitting to maintain eye contact with muppet Marty. Doc falls in love with the Clara muppet and they have muppet children. No one questions this. Doc having to operate a train that was sized for muppets to get them back to the future.
They’re both such stellar options I can’t even function, thanks so much for coming <3 let me know what you think because I’m just gonna keep laughing about this.
putting this one on the blog IMMEDIATELY this is so FUNNY
Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Incredibly important question to posit here.
If there was a Muppet version of Back to the Future which character would make for the funniest one to be the token human?
okay because I’m losing my MIND over this. On the one hand, it would be SO funny for Marty to be the human, on account of it would make his entire family muppets. Can you imagine. So much of the cast of these films is Marty’s blood relatives. Can you imagine Marty- human, still definitely Michael J. Fox Marty- at the McFly family dinner scene in the first movie and everyone is muppets. Can you imagine the Biff muppet being intimidating. Marty full on chucking the Tannen muppets across the room. Marty being grabbed by muppets and successfully stopped. Muppets throwing Marty in the trunk. Marty is tall for once in his life but at what cost. Think about Biff again because I can’t stop laughing.
On the OTHER hand, Doc being this mad fucking scientist in this town full of muppets and everyone thinks he’s crazy. You’ve got this one muppet, a little guy, wants to be a rockstar, and one day he approaches the mad scientist and they become best friends. Everyone thinks he’s crazy but it’s never about him being a human in a sea of muppets, they’re just “his science is too crazy”. As this six foot some man just towers over all of them. Can you imagine Doc just practically sitting to maintain eye contact with muppet Marty. Doc falls in love with the Clara muppet and they have muppet children. No one questions this. Doc having to operate a train that was sized for muppets to get them back to the future.
They’re both such stellar options I can’t even function, thanks so much for coming <3 let me know what you think because I’m just gonna keep laughing about this.
WAIT OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED
“Maybe you were adopted” said to the whole entire human person telling the muppet Doc about his muppet dad getting bullied down the hall. Still not a word about Marty being a human person.
Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Incredibly important question to posit here.
If there was a Muppet version of Back to the Future which character would make for the funniest one to be the token human?
okay because I’m losing my MIND over this. On the one hand, it would be SO funny for Marty to be the human, on account of it would make his entire family muppets. Can you imagine. So much of the cast of these films is Marty’s blood relatives. Can you imagine Marty- human, still definitely Michael J. Fox Marty- at the McFly family dinner scene in the first movie and everyone is muppets. Can you imagine the Biff muppet being intimidating. Marty full on chucking the Tannen muppets across the room. Marty being grabbed by muppets and successfully stopped. Muppets throwing Marty in the trunk. Marty is tall for once in his life but at what cost. Think about Biff again because I can’t stop laughing.
On the OTHER hand, Doc being this mad fucking scientist in this town full of muppets and everyone thinks he’s crazy. You’ve got this one muppet, a little guy, wants to be a rockstar, and one day he approaches the mad scientist and they become best friends. Everyone thinks he’s crazy but it’s never about him being a human in a sea of muppets, they’re just “his science is too crazy”. As this six foot some man just towers over all of them. Can you imagine Doc just practically sitting to maintain eye contact with muppet Marty. Doc falls in love with the Clara muppet and they have muppet children. No one questions this. Doc having to operate a train that was sized for muppets to get them back to the future.
They’re both such stellar options I can’t even function, thanks so much for coming <3 let me know what you think because I’m just gonna keep laughing about this.
Today I am feeling SO soft about the fantastic running theme in the Back to the Future series about the power of love. Yes, I hope you heard it in your head too when I typed it out but REALLY I can’t stop thinking about it. About love and belief and support and how powerful it can be. Sure, there’s the inverse, we see plenty of that in the conga line of adults either being flat out awful or just utterly neglectful to Marty in the opening of the first film, and we know that didn’t do him well. But my brain’s hyperfocused on the good right now- how even the smallest bit of friendship, of goodwill, of caring, can utterly change the trajectory of a person.
In the first film, you’ve got “Calvin” with George and Lorraine. Sure, Marty was in on it to some degree to save his own skin, but there was nothing about saving his own skin in following his dad when he didn’t know what else to do, in saving him from being hit by the car just on instinct. Trying to stop Lorraine from drinking and smoking wouldn’t have affected much, but it’s still something he wanted to do. Marty hits George with the same saying Doc instilled confidence in him with- “if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything”. And after a week of this, of believing they could be better and helping to cheer them on, what did we get? Lone Pine, where the McFly family is prosperous and happy and doing leagues better than they had been before.
Kindness, love, belief, they have impacts. Hell, look at Goldie in the first film- Marty says he’ll be mayor and he’s floating on top of the world for the entire rest of the scene at the idea someone just said they bet he could do it. Sure, Marty wasn’t exactly saying that solely with the intent to cheer- Marty just knew it was going to happen. And yet, when the cafe worker is berating Goldie’s talk of a big future, that’s when Marty chimes in. That’s when, and more importantly why, Marty decides to say it- like yeah, Marty’s probably never been shaken more in his life, but hearing someone getting torn down when he knows they’re wrong, his first instinct is to shoot back and say ‘no, you’re wrong, he is going to be great someday’.
And for all the smaller examples, we have our biggest ones. Doc and Marty themselves. Marty, who was torn down by the entire world around him and could easily have been doomed to spiral downwards- both acting by presumption and by seeing “the sins of the father” in the son in 2015- and the man who Marty befriended, who drills into his head every day that he is capable, that he can do it, that he’s an amazing kid worthy of amazing things. Something he pushes forward all the time, honestly- with George, with Goldie, Marty’s go-to for cheering really is from the one guy who’s shown him mountains of kindness, love, care. In Marty’s mind, this is the truth, you can do it!
For all examples, I’m choosing to pull from the game for Doc, if nothing else because of the fact it was these examples that triggered a lot of this. Citizen Brown, who’s spent roughly 50-60 years of his life solidly under Edna’s thumb and for whom nothing has shaken him before, and Marty refusing to leave until he’s cracked through to get to the man who knows this is wrong, who loves science, who wants to help people and make things right! It’s in the absence of true love and support, in how Edna even managed to twist him to that at all even though we all know Emmett Brown is a good man who wants to help. And it was real love, the love and support and again, that belief, of someone who truly wants what’s best for him that snapped through it- shook Citizen Brown of the wrongdoings of what was going on, shook Emmett on that rooftop [and although it perhaps took some unfortunate methods to get there, the amount of unease Marty felt in doing a lot of what he did in episode 4, in my opinion, shows a lot of that love and of strength of resolve that he was willing to make himself the villain for even just moments in the face of wanting to help and so rarely knowing what else he could possibly do].
In the absence of love, people fall and cow and do whatever it takes to survive because there is no other option they can see. And in the face of just the tiniest bit of that love, they can blossom. We see it in Lone Pine’s existence, we see it in the game’s timeline having grown even kinder with Emmett’s reforged relationship with his father, in the McFly family’s happiness and in Marty and Doc themselves when they’ve got even just one other person who believes they can do amazing things. And they do! They literally love each other so much as to continuously, time and again, help save each other’s lives in both a milder sense and a very literal one.
The trilogy- or, really, the entire series, because it’s where it all begins- opening on The Power of Love is really truly doing something to me today. It’s true! Love is powerful and it can reroute time itself. And god that’s sick as hell.
Apologies for being dead so long! Touch and go, but I've just finished moving across the country! It's still quite early along and it'll probably be slow going getting back into the swing of it, but thought I'd at least reassure I'm still alive <3 I have asks to get on, thoughts to share, silly little projects to get on... But for now, a hello into the void!
Piggybacking off those lovely Einstein thoughts from the other day my brain’s continued trucking along, and I’ve found myself left with SUCH a lovely mental image I’m choosing to share with all of you now. Are you lot familiar with the film Because of Winn-Dixie? If not that’s fine, it isn’t terribly relevant moreso just the sparking memory that got this train a-goin. And I’ll be using it for visual aid. ANYWAYS guess the thought. Can’t?
Einstein bath days.
You KNOW they’re probably adventures and a half. He’s a very well-behaved dog, yes, but even then it’s impossible to know for sure how even a well-trained dog will respond to baths. An older family dog who was SO well behaved absolutely hated the water. So are we left with the mental image of Einstein shaking water off onto a frantic Doc and Marty? An Einstein who must be held in place as one of his dear owners sudses him up?
And on top of that, another spark from the scene above is where might they be washing the dear pooch. I don’t have access to my handbook where I think there might possibly be floor plans for Doc’s garage, but I think there might be a tub in his bathroom? Which does beg the second question- is Einie a tub dog, or an outside with the hose dog? Either one is rife with possibilities- running through the yard or through the garage, a pup with just Doc or a bit older with both Marty and Doc trailing behind. Or perhaps even sillier, solely Marty set to the task as Doc tinkers away in the lab, only to hear a loud shout as Einie triumphs over the hose.
Do I think there’s just as likely a chance that Einie would behave oh so sweetly for his favorite boy? Yes, yes I do. But I think entertaining the silly thought is just as fun. And hey, if nothing else, imagining the excited walk of joy of a squeaky clean Einie after a peaceful bath carries just as much amazing importance as far as I’m concerned.
I have nothing to add except this very old, very crappy drawing that I made about a year ago. Please do not comment on how I did not know how to draw hands. And how I still don’t know how to draw dogs.
oh my Goodness yes I’m putting this to the blog RIGHT now
Piggybacking off those lovely Einstein thoughts from the other day my brain’s continued trucking along, and I’ve found myself left with SUCH a lovely mental image I’m choosing to share with all of you now. Are you lot familiar with the film Because of Winn-Dixie? If not that’s fine, it isn’t terribly relevant moreso just the sparking memory that got this train a-goin. And I’ll be using it for visual aid. ANYWAYS guess the thought. Can’t?
Einstein bath days.
You KNOW they’re probably adventures and a half. He’s a very well-behaved dog, yes, but even then it’s impossible to know for sure how even a well-trained dog will respond to baths. An older family dog who was SO well behaved absolutely hated the water. So are we left with the mental image of Einstein shaking water off onto a frantic Doc and Marty? An Einstein who must be held in place as one of his dear owners sudses him up?
And on top of that, another spark from the scene above is where might they be washing the dear pooch. I don’t have access to my handbook where I think there might possibly be floor plans for Doc’s garage, but I think there might be a tub in his bathroom? Which does beg the second question- is Einie a tub dog, or an outside with the hose dog? Either one is rife with possibilities- running through the yard or through the garage, a pup with just Doc or a bit older with both Marty and Doc trailing behind. Or perhaps even sillier, solely Marty set to the task as Doc tinkers away in the lab, only to hear a loud shout as Einie triumphs over the hose.
Do I think there’s just as likely a chance that Einie would behave oh so sweetly for his favorite boy? Yes, yes I do. But I think entertaining the silly thought is just as fun. And hey, if nothing else, imagining the excited walk of joy of a squeaky clean Einie after a peaceful bath carries just as much amazing importance as far as I’m concerned.