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what do you even caption this

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who is marty mcfly? #2, pages 7-8

original pages + pages w/ no effects + a bunch of bonus stuff including yap session under the cut:

so i read this comic ahead of all the other ones bc i heard it was the best one, and as i was reading it i was like hm yknow this would be fun to redraw. like i'm not going to do it, obviously, because that would be a lot of work and i haven't even read all the other ones. but it would be fun! not going to do it though

so erm..... was that a lie or what. i'll be so fr what tipped me over the edge was the "little flaw" bit of dialogue bc i came up with the framing of him being really small in a panel and it was like shittt i'm cooking i gotta draw this. also the double meaning of "little flaw" (marty's existence in the timeline but also just marty himself) just kind of amused me haha

my process for this was to copy down the dialogue and then NOT LOOK AT THE PAGE ANYMORE. so aside from the dialogue and the general actions that the characters were doing, everything on the page was from my own ideas! if you compare the two i might've deviated slightly from the original. just a little. nothing too crazy of course of course. not like i changed like. everything

i am addicted to inserting more panels for every single expression. if you look at the sketch version of page two there was even going to be an extra panel at the end just for an additional expression and no dialogue but it made the page crowded as i was drawing it so i took it out RIP. in the end i drew 25 panels compared to the original's......... 11. oops

re: dialogue inflection i've noticed that comics tend to emphasize at least one phrase per speech bubble. if you read it with said emphasis usually it's alright but sometimes it flows kind of weird? ("wash your hands" is the biggest one here imo) which is why i changed the inflections i thought it flowed better. also i added a couple of minor things (most notably two waitaminutes i think gbgkbjgjk) to make it sound more natural but overall i stuck to what they were originally saying

ok so the "not look at the page anymore" part of the process is entirely false i did look at it again to shamelessly trace that car. so if you were wondering how i managed to draw such a nice car it's because i didn't LMAO. i think you can tell which cars were traced and which ones i actually naturally drew bc some (re: one that i just copy pasted bc i was lazy.) actually look car-proportioned and some (literally everything else sorry marty's truck) do not. also this is why in the 3rd yugo panel there is no lining in the back of the car. there was no back for me to trace and i was tired.

here's the color test (+ learning how to draw professor irving) i did! unfortunately did not have the oversight to color test the background colors too. i was in the art trenches with those. i hated drawing those backgrounds so much you can tell all of them are half-assed GBKGGJ

speaking of colors i think that the first one's colors are better but i was so done with the whole comic making process (aka. the backgrounds) by the second page that i 1. took like two months off of drawing it and 2. just threw shit at the digital page to get it over with LMAO. like sure ig we doin dark red now

also don't look at the backgrounds too hard. the garage/storage unit thing (changed from a truck trailer bc 1. not sure how you'd install a sink in there? the sink in the storage unit was already stretching it. how did you get plumbing in there man that thing's a rental. and 2. no way in hell i was drawing ANOTHER VEHICLE) is very spacially inconsistent and while this annoys me idrc i'm just here to draw characters in situations.

in the original he's wearing his puffy vest over a white shirt and another red shirt (so his normal outfit but To The Left) but i didn't want to draw that so i gave him a different fit. it's based on apparently this photo from the previous issue? i remember seeing it prior to drawing these but i could've sworn his inner shirt was yellow in the picture and also it looked different. guess it was white the entire time? or maybe i have the issue wrong and this is a completely different picture of marty wearing the red sweater + collared shirt combo. oh well

i keep reading "i know who you are" as "i know what you are" and it never fails to be funny to me. leave him alone dawg

tried to make irving a little more menacing in these considering he's a stranger that just happens to know about the time travel stuff and also who marty is and how to contact him? i actually don't really remember how he got this information but i'm sure it was sketchy as hell. also marty just kind of. agrees to go with him? with no further question. by himself. at night. luckily for him this was not irving's current intention but i've learned that marty is very easy to kidnap. he followed directions to the second location so easily. marty have you not heard about stranger danger?? stay safe out there. your list of traumas is already so long you don't need to encourage another one

my favorite bit of framing is the mirror shot. do you guys think the mirror shot is cool i think it's cool. irving my man back up let him wash his hands and contemplate his existence with his personal space intact thanks. my second favorite is irving throwing the napkin bc i think it's funny

last bonus before the conclusion of this post: a doodle i did as i was making these based on my impression of how the comic was going

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–When you get the keys to the city)))

–Wha-

AWWW🥹🤲🤲

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7 sentence sunday (on a thursday)

thank you for the tag, @bg-sparrow !!

this is from my fic i wrote for laywright week, titled...haha. i ain't spoiling that. i actually really like the title

��I’m gonna open a window,” Patty announced, hands against her hips. “It’s merely April, and yet, its already so warm these days!” “Yeah, we haven’t seen rain in a while,” Phoenix muttered, “Can’t be good for the crops.” “No, that isn’t good, you’re completely correct,” Patty said. One of the bakery’s windows was now fully open, allowing the night breeze to escape through, tousling Hershel’s curls, and the man very briefly removed his hat to bring them into a proper position before putting it back on. Phoenix felt the temperature in the room rise even further, and the open window did nothing to combat it.

tagging uhh idk. anyone who wants to fo this

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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

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Luke Showdown (Luke Off) - Finals

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mcfly july 2025: canada 🇨🇦

did you guys know. i am, in fact, a honorary canadian /silly

fact is, i spent a school year abroad in burnaby, a town near vancouver that happens to be the town one michael j fox spent a bunch of his childhood in! and naturally, i have collected a few pictures that i took when partaking in activities related to bttf >:)

1. first of all, the school i attended literally had a THEATRE NAMED AFTER THE GUY. so that's one

(zoom in a bit to read lol)

2. not only did i manage to get my hands on his biographies in the bookstore there, i also found these two action figures in an actual store! here in germany, we barely get bttf merch in stores, so that was a very special moment

3. in art class, all my projects turned out to be bttf related somehow. my art teacher was a huge mjf fan and she's even met him in person, so she was my biggest supporter ahfhjsf. this is one of the projects i made! if you haven't guessed, it was during christmas lol (ignore the science book, i was DEFINITELY doing all my homework at home, uh huh)

4. that same december, i logged onto a q&a conference with bob gale that i could finally join because for once it wasn't the middle of the night for me when it was on LOL. he confirmed that doc is like a father to marty :) another memorable quote was "why therapy when you have bttf: the musical?"

5. at fanexpo vancouver, they had this awesome hill valley made out of legos. i went as marty and got a bunch of bttf prints hehe

6. soon, my little "canada-based" bttf collection began growing!! had this display on my suitcase. no i don't want to know how much money i spent. that bttf 3 novel is an item i'm really proud of, though.

7. in may, me and my friend @thespookyparty went to see bttf on the big screen. all three were on, but we unfortunately only could stay for the first two because it got late </3. still remember the chicken noises some guy in the back made whenever the chicken thing was mentioned

8. another art project of mine! my teacher loved this one so much that she wanted to get it to mjf to sign it. like, she was serious about it. unfortunately that didn't work out, rip

9. another big thing that i don't have photos of is the completion of my fic, "until i get home", that happened during that very same year. in fact, i wrote most of it during my stay in canada, and the whole experience of being alone in a strange environment helped me a lot while writing it to be able to relate to marty.

last but not least: i am eternally grateful for my dear bttf friends @pine-killer55 , @bg-sparrow , @whosmurphy , @bri-to-the-future , @nemmet , @styxbugg , @jay-is-writing , @poly-outatime , @mangotortoise and @emmkitt for making the year so memorable. all the roleplays, the memes, the bttf watchparties in which discord would give up whenever johnny b goode came on, the garlic phone games, and all the fic ideas we tossed around (the scarlet fever arc was YOUR fault) - i wouldn't be the same person if it wasn't for all of you, and i'm so glad we connected during that year and are still talking basically every day :)

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PROPAGANDA

Frank n Furtur:

He's a sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania. He also made a dude like Victor Frankenstein, but he didn't abandon it like HE did. Queer icon of the '70s

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

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Happy 40th Anniversary to Back to the Future!!! I spent the last couple months procrastinating working on this animatic in celebration, exploring Doc's life and scientific journey, leading to his most incredible success :)

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HAPPY 40TH BTTF ANNIVERSARY!!!

this took me literally so long. i think im going to curl up into a ball and hibernate for the next 2 months

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🎉⚡️Happy 40th Birthday, Back to the Future! ⚡️🕰️

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back to the future + onion headlines (part 14)

part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / part 5 / part 6 / part 7 / part 8 / part 9 / part 10 / part 11 / part 12 / part 13

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We've been doing this for five years??? Back to the Future was released forty years ago on July 3rd 1985, and every July for the past five years we've gotten together this way to celebrate!

There’s a prompt each day - try one, some, or all. Poetry, fanfic, songs, friendship bracelets, cosplay, aesthetics, anything BTTF is welcome!

Just tag your creations #mcflyjuly so we can find and share them!

This year: 🎉 Because it's Back to the Future's 40th birthday, there are 40 prompts! The last 9 are secret, and will be revealed randomly throughout the month. Each one will post at 12 noon EST on this blog, so keep an eye out--you never know what day a surprise prompt will drop. 👀

and Because it's McFly July's 5th birthday, we're gonna party like Doc & Marty! 🍔👑 No one should know too much about their future, so I can't say much here, but if I reblog/reply to a McFly July post of yours with a burger emoji, that's a sign you'll be getting a little something in your inbox!

Have fun and please don't drive 88!

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thanks @bg-sparrow for the tag!

coffee or tea || early bird or night owl || sandalwood or lemongrass || spring or fall || silver or gold || pop or alternative || freckles or dimples || snakes or spiders || mountains or fields || thunder or lightning || norse mythology or greek mythology || green or red || flute or guitar || ruby or diamond || butterflies or honeybees || cake or cookies || typewritten or handwritten || secret garden or secret library || rooftop or balcony || spicy or mild || concert or theater || london or paris || van gogh or monet || petrichor or sea salt || denim or leather || chatter or music || forest or desert || dragons or unicorns || masquerade ball or yuletide party || violence or heartbreak || hugs or kisses || bergamot or lilac

tagging @pine-killer55, @mythical-bookworm, @itsthemorph and who else wants to fo this :)

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PROPAGANDA:

Olivia Octavius:

Iconic plot twist of her being Doc Ock and just as mad and evil as her boss as Spider-Man tried (and failed) to charm her thinking she was just a normal scientist.

She is mad but in a hot way

I love her manic energy and the fact that she's friends (maybe even more?) with the Aunt May we see in the first Spider-Verse movie!! Also, the fact she still mentors Miles while being Spider-Man's enemy? Iconic.

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

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One of the funny things about getting into Back to the Future is realizing how insanely culturally ubiquitous it is. Your favorite youtuber is using clips of it. Character designs are based on it. You go to a movie and the school dance is Back to the Future themed for basically no reason at all. People are making allusions all the goddamn time, sometimes without even realizing it. Her influence.....

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this is how parts 2 and 3 went right

based off this classic: