#quantum flux

INTRODUCTION

Why?

Why make a fan fiction of “Back To The Future?” Why mash up “Back To The Future” and “Quantum Leap”? What gives me the right? The sheer audacity?

Well…..

This project is a companion to another project, that being “Back To The Playlist”, which is a collection of playlists inside a profile on either Apple Music and Spotify. This little labor of love combines my love of music and one of my favorite things: Time Travel.

I love all things Time Travel. From Stephen King’s “11/22/63” to “Quantum Leap”, to of course “Back To The Future”. The 1985 original film was the very first movie I remember my parents renting from a small rental store called “Video Video”
 in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Seeing “Back To The Future II” in the theater is one of my earliest memories, and I can only recall in spurts, which is odd considering that the third film I remember seeing in the cinema vividly, despite them only being released mere months apart.

I began “Back To The Playlist” as “RadioVSL” in 2018. I included some “Back To The Future” imagery in the playlists from the beginning, but the focus was really about showcasing the popular music of every decade, in every genre, from the beginnings of recorded music until today. After more than three years of meticulous playlist curation, my engagement from Spotify and Apple Music listeners remained at a solid nil.

In 2023, I decided to try and boost engagement by rebranding “RadioVSL” as “Marty’s Music”, and leaning into the “Back To The Future” troupes. My engagement did increase. In fact, it doubled! I went from 6 followers on Spotify (most of whom were family and friends) to 12!

Some time in early 2024, me and my longtime creative partner Padraig Graywolfe began to chart a path forward for multiple creative endeavors. This resulted in the creation of “Mary’s Gate Entertainment”, an umbrella organization for several projects that include original music, storytelling, podcasts, social media, etc. After careful inquiries into internet trafficking, we concluded three things.

We had a lot of “brand competition” to someone on YouTube called Marty Music. This, seemingly very nice individual, teaches people how to play guitar. I myself have used some of his lessons and think he is very informative and good at what he does.

We determined that it was probably difficult for a passerby (in the internet sense) to decipher just what the playlist profile was. Is it just a BTTF fan? What exactly is it?

We determined that maybe people weren’t all that interested in curated playlists at all. Maybe people just want to make their own playlists.

Well I can’t do anything about C. And there is probably a lot of truth in C. But as for A and B, we came up with the idea for the name “Back To The Playlist”. That name pretty much says it all. It’s a musical time travel adventure.

Okay, okay, what does this have to do with this fan fiction? Don’t worry…I’m getting to that. I decided that these playlist profiles were never going to make me money. They were always going to be a labor of love. They were always just going to be a hobby. I was determined to set them up, make it look the best it can be, and make it be as immersive as it can be.

This is where the fan fiction begins. I wanted a way to connect some of the playlists to some kind of “thing”. I needed some kind of connective tissue, running through the whole thing. This fan fiction is the result of weeks and weeks of deliberation on that. My imagination just kind of ran wild, and this is what I came up with.

Yes—-I threw EVERYTHING at the wall. And no I’m not ashamed.

My goal is to bring in the “Back To The Future” fans, the “Quantum Leap” fans, the time travel fans. Come for the story, stay for the playlists, imbibe in the rest of the many many many creative projects that are to come. I’m looking forward to it, and I hope after you read this project, you will be too.

I’d also like to mention another fan fiction project that I started here on Tumblr…way way way back in 2010. It’s called “Haddonfield”, and it’s based on the Halloween movie franchise universe. After David Gordon Greene and John Carpenter began writing the scripts for “Halloween” (2018) and I found out pretty much everything I was writing was being retconned, I abandoned the project. Working on this project however has breathed new life into my motivations for that one, and I’d like to just say that there’s some good things brewing in this head of mine for that as well.

Peace, love, joy. Be kind. Enjoy the journey.

Your friend in time.

Vincent St. Louis

April 14, 2025.

⏪️BACK TO CONTENTS 🕐

NEXT ⏩️

THE METTA STREAM

◀️CONTENTS

NEXT▶️ (Coming Soon)

LISTEN TO BACK TO THE PLAYLIST:

CHECK OUT HADDONFIELD

WHO IS VINCENT ST. LOUIS?

MARY’S GATE ENTERTAINMENT

1111 gateways open

winds of change

bring new ways