#back to the future

[astriiformes]

Thinking about Marty McFly's raging case of almost certainly untreated ADHD. Late to everything all the time. Almost missed his chance to get sent back to 1985 because he figured he had enough time to change outfits. Struggles with thinking fourth-dimensionally. He's a time traveler with time blindness. Do you understand.

[lillitth]

I wish a Time Machine

Back to the Future (1985) dir. Robert Zemeckis

[mythical-bookworm]

After all, what is really 'you' anymore?

[sticker-stars]

Happy 40 years to Back to the Future!! (Even though I'm celebrating four days late lol) This is one of my favorite movies so I dug up these old drawings of Marty McFly to celebrate! :)

[madscientistshowdown]

PROPAGANDA

Ivo Robotnik:

Funny robot building man (also I dont actually know if he has a doctorate or not). Metal sonic is my goat so I coudnt not. (Not reslly propaganda but das ok)

Emmet Brown:

Y'all it's Doc Brown he's theeee mad scientist. Also he fucks unlike the rest of these losers.

HE STEALS URANIUM FOR HIS TIME MACHINE CAR. AND IT WORKS! AND HE CHANGES THE PAST! GOES TO THE PRESENT TO CHANGE THE FUTURE AND GETS LOST. AND THEN HE MAKES A SECOND TIME MACHINE OUT OF A TRAIN ENGINE. he may not be the villain character in the movies, but he is properly mad.

I had to search up what his actual name was because everyone calls him Doc Brown, very mad scientist of him, no? Also figured out how to 1, time travel, and 2, do it in a baller car

[0rb0t]

If you ARE a Rick and Morty fan and you haven't seen the Back to the Future trilogy, you really need to. They're very fun. Especially II.

They're not masterpieces, but they're very fun.

edit: they haven't AGED the best is what i meant, but they're all extremely fun and insightful for you (us) Rick and Morty enjoyers

[elchujibly2]

ughhhhhhfhg whateve r

[martymcflyboy]

Marty says a lot of things

Took some of MJ Fox’s voiceovers from random stuff and made it an animatic! This took me a month… ENJOY jhkbsdfckshjefn

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

Hey I just got into the Bttf fandom fully and I wanna say I LOVE LOVE LOVE you art!! It’s so cute and I adore the way you draw Marty and Doc. And I also love your au drawings and comics in general but my favorite so far is the one for A Flat Circle in Time, it’s the first full fic I read that wasn’t a one shot and I have yet to find one that’s as good as it yet (but if you have recommendations I’d be more than happy to look) And I can’t wait to see what you’ll be drawing next!

thank you so much!! i’m very happy that you’re enjoying!

YESSS time is a flat circle is utterly peak i do fear. fun fact i’ve definitely said before but the day i finished that fic (in like one sitting basically) i ended up making this sideblog! i think one of my first reblogs is a qna about it hahaha…. for your kind words i disclose two loosely related doodles! the first one isn’t a specific scene bc i didn’t want to skim the fic…. im trying to forget as much as possible so i can reread it someday LMAO. the second one is based off tiafc doc calling him a little canary!

anyways welcome to the fandom! for more fic recs there’s the stuff by kathkin on ao3 which i think at this point is bttf fandom required reading LMAO….. on a cosmic scale and welcome to the panopticon are on the longer side (especially the latter haha) but goddamn they’re good. i still think about them……

plugging some of my buddies’ works too (all also on ao3)! carrotsofthepirrabean has the sickest paleontologist au (that just updated too i need to finish that), azhdarchidaen is working on a fic about doc thinking he’s messed up the space time continuum somehow but actually it’s fine bc marty’s just transgender (future boy i miss you…….. it’s a wip but in the meantime all his other stuff is there and it’s great), and LonesomeDreamer has many a short and sweet oneshot with a very liberal application of the jewish doc agenda

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[mythical-bookworm]

look at him go!

[s0up1ta]

i'm normal about this franchise

[corynm]

What the hell is a gigawatt?! ⚡️

[knickynoo]

After having officially finished the BTTF Minute podcast, I'd like to share another piece of conversation that I really liked.

It was during the scene where Marty first shows up to '55 Doc's house and chases him out to the garage, where Marty then goes through the whole "I know how you got the bruise on your head" story where he recounts the invention of the flux capacitor. One of the hosts of the show (can't remember which off the top of my head) mentioned that he was surprised Marty could remember all the details of that story he'd only just been told in the parking lot with Doc. Then Nick said something like, "Maybe that's what makes him such a great assistant for Doc. He's got a good memory."

And I just absolutely love that that ended up being their conclusion, because I feel like it's sort of an unconventional trait to assign to Marty? Especially considering the fact he's labeled a slacker by Strickland, and that Marty just generally appears frazzled and confused a lot. It's easy to label him a scatter-brain, make all the "Marty has a single brain cell" jokes and everything. He's a silly guy.

So them just casually agreeing that Marty's got a really good memory, and that it's part of why he works so well with Doc is super interesting! And you know what? I agree with them and think it's a great headcanon. Marty was told the flux capacitor story once at like 1:30 in the morning after just having witnessed a car travel through time. Yet he committed the entire story to memory in the moment, even remembering the name "flux capacitor" which is impressive considering that's a brand new term he'd just been introduced to. And he's able to re-tell the story for Doc in such a panicked moment after being sent to the past and having suffered recent head trauma.

Marty remembers it because he was interested! Totally invested in everything Doc was saying in that moment, so the whole story stuck, nearly word for word. And being in the "Marty has adhd" camp, I think it's very fitting of his character to be seen as a slacker or lazy by others and then have these moments where we see just how bright he is when the environment is right. And I love thinking about how maybe when they first met, Doc understood this right away. That he looked at Marty and went, "Oh, this kid is smart. He just doesn't know it."

[eckswizi]

one thing that is often lost on modern audiences watching the Back to the Future series is that, in 1985, the DeLorean was well known for being a shitty car. The only reason the DMC DeLorean is remembered fondly today is because of BTTF; had the movie never happened, it would’ve been one of those fancy cars lost to time and remembered only by car nerds (trust me, there’s examples of this). Potentially the primary reason for choosing the DeLorean to be the time machine is because of how notoriously bad it was. We even see Marty question Doc’s choice to use a DeLorean, and at the climax of the first movie we see the car fail to start when Marty is lined up to drive towards the wire. The DeLorean was known for being overly heavy, clunky, prone to breaking down, and annoying to maintain.

Basically, what I’m saying is, if Back to the Future was made today, they’d use a Cybertruck.