Bet Your Future on the Power of Love

same as it never was.

GET READY HUEY LEWSERS 

McFly July is back again! Back to the Future was released on July 3rd 1985, so every July, we swig some Pepsi Free and celebrate!

There’s a prompt a day - tackle one, some, or all. Get inspired and make what-the-heck-ever: poetry, fanfiction, song, cosplay, aesthetics, fanart, tiktoks, anything BTTF.

Marty’s bed is surrounded by the leftover garbage. (With a plate of fries and part of a burger JUST SITTING there!)

There’s a bag & more cups outside the door.

And near Doc’s bed & other places in and around the garage. 

I can just picture the two of them working on some experiments for hours, when they suddenly realize they haven’t eaten in a while. So Doc says, “Well, let’s figure out what to get.”

Then they both stand there for a moment, pretending to be brainstorming an idea, before Marty turns to him & is like, “Hey, how about Burger King for the 47th time this week?”

And Doc just shrugs because it’s right there next door, so what else are they supposed to do??

when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

How To Spot a Shoplifter: Marty Edition

In the Rllmuk thread on CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk game, there was a bit of a debate over whether cyberpunk is a SF genre people only like because of ‘80s nostalgia.

So it occurred to me: you know what else is cyberpunk? Back to the Future.

Wait, hear me out!

1. ‘80s tech cobbled together and re-purposed, and also extrapolated into the future (fax machines)

2. The films fetishise Japanese tech (“All the best stuff is made in Japan!”) - and doesn’t future Marty work for a zaibatsu?

3. Mirrorshades:

4. Urban construction Sprawls out across Hill Valley over time

5. Shady black market deals go south (“the Libyans!”)

6. Kids scoff at the idea of gaming with one’s hands. Clearly that means that all their playing is done by jacking in.

7. Themes of insanity and questioning of reality:

8. ZOK proposes another one: “Marty’s existence in the future is temporarily reduced to a single photographic image, allowing us to consider the nature of identity in both the real and the virtual.”

The two Asian characters we do get to meet are both Japanese. There’s Chester Nogura, member of Griff Tannen’s gang and dressed in stereotypical fashion with his rising sun hoverboard, whose purpose is to act as a menace to our quick-witted white American hero. And Ito T. Fujitsu, older Marty’s boss in 2015, is an even greater threat - Marty is stuck at an apparently unfulfilling corporate job and Fujitsu has all the power over Marty’s very livelihood. Older Marty’s double ties are designed with, once again, the rising sun. Fujitsu (whose name comes from a japanese electronics company) literally has Marty by the neck.