#carrds and docs are like.

[doctorbrown]

DOCTOBER '23 ⸺ 「 20 / 31 * REAR-VIEW MIRROR 」

June 12, 2025

23:11

❝Are you sure you can't spend the night, kids?❞ Marty asks as Ellie breaks the long hug with her father. ❝We've got the spare rooms and it'd mean a lot to your mother and I.❞

❝I'm sorry, Dad,❞ Ellie starts, and to her credit, she does look genuinely upset. ❝But Dan and I are travelling in the morning since this is my last open vacation for a while and—❞

❝And I've got to be in by five,❞ Emmett says, ❝to make sure these bojos don't screw something up. We open Saturday.❞

Marty sighs and moves to give his son a hug, patting him twice on the back. ❝I know, I know. You're adults now with your own lives. I just miss you.❞

Ellie pouts. ❝It's not like you never see us, Dad. You can call on the vidphone anytime you want.❞

❝No, no, I get it,❞ Marty says, a hint of a smirk ticking up the corner of his lips, ❝it's not cool to be hanging out with your parents anymore.❞ Before either of the kids can protest, Marty laughs. ❝Have a safe trip, Ellie.❞

❝El, Dad, El. Ellie's such a kid name.❞

❝And you're still my kid.❞ She groans dramatically and drops the point there, knowing there's no arguing with her father on this.

❝Break a leg this weekend, Emmett.❞ Marty nods at his son who smiles.

Both kids shuffle towards the door in an awkward line, reaching over each other to grab bags and sweaters. ❝And would you actually use the gift we got you?❞

Marty glances over his shoulder to the small box and envelope on the living room table and puts a hand on his hip.

❝Hey, I'm only fifty-seven! And I still look good for my age.❞ Apart from the soft age lines typical of a man in his late fifties and his greying hair, Marty still manages to carry a youthful energy tempered some by wisdom and experience. ❝I don't need to start thinking about that yet. Ask me again when I'm sixty-five.❞

Ellie makes a disapproving sound as her brother shoves her out the door and as the door slams shut behind them, leaving behind a deafening silence, Marty lets out a breath and shakes his head. He makes his way over to the couch and plops down, reaching for the piece of paper on top of the old-school birthday card.

A voucher for your first rejuvenation.

❝Really, those kids. What, do they think I'm gonna die tomorrow or something?❞

Before he can finish his thought, there's an urgent knock on the door in a sharp staccato rhythm that causes him to purse his lips. That sounds familiar, Marty thinks, but neither of the kids knock like that when they come over.

❝I'm coming!❞ he shouts, dropping the voucher back on the table without a care as to where it lands. He makes it halfway toward the door when the person on the other end knocks again in the same precise rhythm, causing Marty to grumble under his breath.

Whatever he had prepared to say when the door swung open immediately dies in his throat when the perpetrator's identity is revealed. Marty's eyes are blown wide, so much so they're in danger of falling out of his head. His breath catches in his throat and he would swear that, in that moment, he looks more like a fish gasping for air than a person.

❝Doc,❞ he breathes out when he finally remembers how to, and when the rest of his senses return, Marty barrels into his friend, capturing him in a tight hug which, after a second, he returns with the same warm affection Marty has always associated with him.

❝Doc, it's been—❞

Emmett immediately shakes his head, removing a hand from around Marty to hold it up, palm out. Stop. ❝Don't tell me, Marty. I don't know yet and I don't want to know.❞

Marty nods. ❝Right, yeah, future knowledge. But God, Doc, I missed you so much. What are you doing here? Why now? What's going on?❞ Before an endless stream of questions can spill from Marty's mouth, Emmett silences him again.

❝I have the answer to all your questions right here.❞ Emmett lets go to dig through the inner pocket of his overcoat. He produces a small rectangular gift bound in silver paper and hands it over to a very confused looking Marty.

❝Happy birthday, Marty,❞ he says, pushing the gift into his hands. ❝I've kept this secret from you for almost...forty years and now that it's completed, I figured this was as good a time as any to give it to you.❞

❝You came f—all these years into the future just to give me this? What is it?❞

❝I suppose the act of giving wrapped gifts must be obsolete by now if you're asking me what to do with a gift,❞ Emmett says, smirking. Marty gives him a look that very clearly says, you know that's not what I meant, Doc, but flips the gift over in his hands anyway.

Printed in what is unmistakably Emmett's handwriting is 'Do not open until June 12, 2025,' and Marty snorts at the familiar irony of it all.

Questions are clearly written in the lines of Marty's face and before he can even ask them, Emmett says, ❝Forty years is a long time for you to have seen results on this; you may not even remember insisting I do it, but I took your request to heart.❞

Marty's fingers curl around the edges of the gift. ❝Tell me you're at least going to stay for a little while, Doc. Come in, I'll grab Jen a-and—❞

To Marty's dismay, Emmett shakes his head. ❝I'm afraid I can't stay much longer; this was only intended to be a short stop, but I'm so glad to see you, Marty. You look well and I always knew that your future was going to be bright.❞

❝But Doc, there's so much I want to tell you. Jen and I, the kids—❞

❝Yes, I saw young—well, I suppose they're not young anymore; they've grown into fine adults.❞

❝What about Jules and Verne? And Clara? Are you going to see them while you're here?❞

Again, Emmett shakes his head. ❝No, that wouldn't be wise. Besides, I—❞ A high-pitched alarm screeches from Emmett's watch and he jumps, abandoning his train of thought as his eyes widen. ❝Damn! I'm late!❞

Marty blinks. ❝I'm sorry, Marty, I have to get going.❞ Emmett quickly pulls him into a crushing hug and Marty takes a moment to bury his face in his old friend's shoulder while he still can. ❝I think you'll find you have your hands full for a while with your gift. At the risk of repeating my past self, I'll leave you with these parting words: I'm proud of you.❞

Emmett pats his arms once before hurrying off. Marty stands there, dumbstruck, watching as his old friend climbs into a '76 Chevy Aerovette that he knows is the DeLorean in perfect disguise.

He stands there for some time even after the car and Emmett are well out of sight, gone back to whatever point in time he departed from to get here. Marty hugs the gift to his chest and quietly shuts the door, walking in a half-daze to the couch.

The clock reads 00:09 and Marty tears the paper off his gift.

It looks like a journal, but as Marty inspects it closer, he notices that the edges are worn from years of touch, there's a faint coffee stain on one of the corners, and the journal is at least double the size it started, torn apart and re-bound in a way that looks like it's ready to fall apart at any moment.

A piece of paper falls out from behind the cover, landing on Marty's lap.

First, let me tell you in writing, Happy Birthday, Marty. I expect I will have told you in-person as I delivered your gift, but one can never be wished well enough on their birthday.

By the time this gift finds you, I will have passed. If you ask why I chose to wait until this particular date of June 12, 2025 to present it to you, I'm afraid all I can say is that it felt right. As I do not know the precise date of my passing and have no intention of learning this information prematurely, I can only hope that enough time has elapsed where my delivering this to you will not open too fresh a wound.

But that is not the focus of this letter, nor do I intend to make it such.

You have always believed in me, Marty, even when nobody else has, and the enthusiasm with which you begged me to write this could not go ignored. So this is what I have been working on for the last several years with the knowledge that it would one day find its way to you.

You have been the greatest friend I could have asked for, and I hope that you will remember me fondly, even after some of the things you read here. This first-hand account of my life is yours to do with as you please, and I have been as detailed as circumstances will allow me to be. You will find no instructions for how to re-create the time machines within, though I do mention their existence in order to accurately recount our travels together.

I am proud to have called you my friend and just know I have treasured all of our years together.

'Doc' Emmett L. Brown

Marty blinks furiously against the tears welling up in his eyes. ❝God, Doc, you never change... I didn't think you'd actually do it.❞ The book weighs a ton in his hand and makes his chest weigh just as much.

The weight of his best friend's life story...

The journal's spine cracks as he opens it and there, in black ink, is something that threatens more tears.

For Marty, My partner across space-time. For Clara, Jules, and Verne, Who have made me the luckiest man to have ever lived.

He flips to the first page.

Every story follows a pattern. You start at the beginning, proceed through the middle, and then eventually reach the finale, in which everything wraps up, for better or for worse. A life story is no different, though the steps taken to reach said finale vary wildly between each individual.

So, as stories go, it is only fitting this one starts at the beginning.

❝Jen! Jen, you've gotta come down here! I just got a birthday present from the Doc!❞

#doctober 2023 #&; a great idea can change the world 「 hc 」 #so if you've read my carrd you'll know that i've presented doc's backstory in the form of an autobiography #which marty has insisted he write and more so after the temporal experiment's resounding success because #as he put it - every great scientist has an autobiography and marty is determined that #doc get the respect and recognition that he deserved #so doc agreed with the caveat that he would deliver it to marty on a future birthday likely after he'd already passed #doc is going to live to 100 years old easy with the rejuvenation and such but #he won't live forever. remember that he's technically *seventy-five* (four? eh depends on timeframe) when he returns from being in the past #since 9-10 years have passed for him despite no time passing for marty. he also doesn't want to live forever #and i've chosen to interpret rear-view mirror in the sense of looking back on the past #now through the book doc has gifted to him

[moonsidesong]

kind of thinking about trying to compile some kind of resource guide for existing english puyo fan translations .... cause like, they're all definitely Findable with a google search but i think for some people getting into the series would be less intimidating if they had their options laid out. it could also serve as a release timeline since.... puyo nexus doesnt... have. one of those.... idk if anyone would actually use it but boy do i love making lists anyway<3

#sort of like an upgraded version of that 'beginners guide' post i made back in like 2019 #(... god that thing is so outdated now. and also not very well made. sigh 😔) #dunno where the best place to put it would be? #a neocities would be cool i would like to make one of those but it also requires me to learn an entire new skill LOL #maybe just a carrd for now and i could work my way up to neocities someday #bri talks #google doc would be simple but harder to find if you don't keep the link on hand

[mythvoiced]

-. WEEOO quick note if you see links disappearing from my muses doc is because I remove them when I'm done with a page~ the new ones will be relatively bland and direct so they're easier to put together (I kept struggling with not fucking the template up but no template here SO--) so no worries, they'll be up soonsies~

#;psa #len does MAINTENANCE gosh i actually like the new muse docs as minimalist as they are they're pretty to me~ #i am trying to fuck around and figure out how carrd works too but turns out it's... i'm too lazy to do that i am so sorry #i KNOW i only need to do it once and then just... add the new stuff in that i need but as i'm doing it now i know what i'm doing LDSKGDFLJG #HAVE A LOVELY TIMEZONE gotta get back to work--

[moonrisenmuses]

Someone… explain Google docs to me please. I’m a boomer at 27 I’m great at the things I know but new trends are just ???

Do people see your email / Google name when you open the docs. Also how the hell does formatting work lmao.

#lowkey wanna do Google docs bc Carrd is out of my current budget atm for unlimited pages #I could just do Tumblr pages like I’ve been doing buuuut it’s not as pretty and #I worry people will think simpler pages = less effort / quality writing #Which is dumb but there ARE people that think that. #unfortunately im a writer and graphic design is not my strong suit #so any tips are welcome / encouraged #{ MUN SHIT }

[fireflysprincess]

i need to edit my f/o list still but im like.

yeah.

#that requires effort. and i wanna redo a lot since i dont have a lot of elements left so i was thinking moving a lot to a google doc or smth #and then like. keep the main ones on the carrd since i talk about them the most #idk im deciding still

[kxllerblond]

i genuinely think google sites is being slept on

#its like the love child of carrd and google docs kjdbfgdfg

[obeymeow]

being neurodivergent is all fun and games until you remember those hourly quote bots on twitter and think well maybe I can't make a bot anymore but I could schedule a few quotes a day, that shouldn't be hard. it sounds fun to have a bunch of quotes of my favorite character Thirteen from hit mobile game Obey Me! and its sequel Obey Me! Nightbringer. and then you think about how arduous collecting the quotes is going to be but she's only been in the games for maybe a year and a half with little screentime and you love collecting things so you start but then you remember that you love collecting things so naturally you have ALL of her screentime in the game and suddenly you have 45k characters of quotes and are several lessons into season 4 (which is truly a trial in and of itself) but not nearly close enough to the end but you refuse to just stop collecting the quotes and make the account with the EXCESS of what you have already because you literally only have season 4 to get through and if you don't do it just seeing the bot (because now you've been informed you can make tumblr bots instead) will haunt you with that knowledge even if nobody else would ever know. this is a general anecdote of a situation that could easily happen to anyone though and not in any way related to my life

#obey me on side #ummm i don't have a personal tag yet because i hated looking at this blog before the revamp so i'll do that later #with the carrd. usually when i say i'll do something later it means sometime in the next 3 years but i actually mean this one #but rn there's no way to tell i'm a lesbian (except for the thirteen icon. + probably also the ruri-chan banner she's lesbian colors) #okay maybe you can tell but I want to be CLEAR #anyway i would also like to note that immediately before starting this project i spent a full week lamenting my lack of free time #because I wanted to write some fics. and then literally as soon as i got free time I went um. no. quote doc instead I think #????? girl why did you do that to yourself #fortunately i'm now bored of reading s4 so i can go back to writing #unrelated but all of these fics contain a significant amount of solomon and i like him that's not surprising but it was unintentional #which IS surprising. like okay one of them is about solodeus (specifically mc playing matchmaker so i don't clickbait) so that's obligatory #and another is based off of the new solomon card (IT'S CUTE) so that's also kind of obligatory #(the third one is based off of luke's card from the dnd nightmare a while back because i was entranced by its strange unbalanced party) #but usually i try to switch up the characters i write about to get comfy with all of them and not just the ones that make sense to me #that's not entirely accurate it's my one braincell bouncing around like a windows screensaver picking a new fave every time it hits a side #but also to get used to writing them all. anyway #i'll just write about satan to balance it he's always been a fav but i am obsessed with him in nightbringer he is so offputting and tragic #if you're still reading these tags please see above on th 'later is up to three years' in regards to the fics still haven't posted anything #hoping to change that soon though I WILL eventually.

[destisea]

okay so i found out my carrd is kinda messed up and broken. so until i figure out what is going on-- here's my muse list. based on availability or level of muse i have for them. if you don't know a muse please feel free to ask about them.

primary

hypnos ( hades / myth ) briar moon ( hsr halovian oc ) yato no kami ( onmy.oji / myth )

secondary

idia.shroud ( twst ) suzuhikohime ( onmy.oji )

request

kayn ( league / highly selective ) hanya ( hsr / plot dependent ) tang.yun ( dis.lyte / plot dependent ) triki ( dis.lyte / plot dependent )

testing / considering adding ( friends only for now )

lumen ( ar.knights ) liam ( dis.lyte ) lilia ( twst )

#𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐂. / out of character #god i am so sorry guys #my tumblr is a mess... #looks llike ill be remaking my carrd anyway #sigh #i wonder if i messed up smthn with like coding or editing #im not v good at this #maybe i should go back to docs...

[kikiyo]

small layout update (dashcon + header) :3

#i like this style .. im going to redo my carrd at some #point too bc it feels a little hard to read #might opt for simple google docs to make it #more accessible mayhaps? #anywho ... perhaps here perhaps not let's let time decide

[hyaciiintho]

🌸｡*ﾟ+. Oh shoot it's almost breakfast time at the hotel. Lemme... squeeze out one more reply. I'm gonna be hopping between reading and writing replies after I get home ♡ Still trying to keep up with everything, but thank you to everyone who's been writing with me and being patient with me whenever I have my moments of quietude!

Been trying to figure out what to do for docs since I've changed my mind and hate the layouts LOL but someday soon I'll get bios up and done (and headcanons... and relationships... and-- sweats)

Anyways, gonna focus on this last reply and then nyoom to the desk before my shift is over! Hope everyone has a lovely day!

#MUN SPEAKING 🌸 ᴬ ʷᵉᵃᵛᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵗᵃˡᵉˢ; ᴾᵃⁱⁿᵗᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵃʳˢ #Breakfast time means I gotta look PROPER at the front desk so I have to put my laptop away dgfhjkdf #but ahhhh I've felt productive these days thankfully I'm pleased and happy with myself ✨ #when I get home I'll crank out a couple more replies but also let my adhd wander as I go to read this fic Inu sent me 💙 #It's been great so far so I'm -vibrates- excited to continue on and off 👀 #So many good reads these days between Alexia writing Carmeo and now this throwback to my old otp like damn 😌 fed well #IF ANYONE HAS GOOGLE DOC LAYOUT RECS PLEASE LET ME KNOW LOL or carrd layouts. I'm not picky. #I will pay money I am desperate for organization and CLEANLINESS #Anways off I go before it's too late dgfhjkkfjfg

[evielutionevie]

Finally have some sort of design in mind for Broken Vessel/Lost Kin for my HK AU! They’re in the middle, in between Ghost and Hornet :D (aka I wanted to compare heights between these three, and yeah, Hollow is way taller than all of them lol)

Design-wise, I wanted something a bit more gray since both the Ancient Basin and the Abyss don’t have much color in their environments, and since that’s where Lost Kin spends most of their time, I wanted them to represent that a little. They also have the longest coat of any of the siblings, since their canon design has an extremely long cloak that drags on the ground. That’s also why their sleeves are so long too! They also have a buttoned vest over a collared shirt because I thought it would look nice and I like to imagine Lost Kin as a bit more old-fashioned :D I also like to imagine their hair tied back with a ribbon, though it was too difficult to portray that in this drawing of their design.

As for any plot/role I have for them in this AU… I’m thinking that after escaping the “Abyss” (the underground, locked-up facility where PK placed all the vessels/rejects from his “Pure Vessel” project), Lost Kin (who I’m going to just call “Kin” for now) ended up getting picked up by Radiance, who tries to train and use them to do some of her dirty work. However, after a while, they’re finally able to escape her captivity as well, and now they reside near the Abyss, helping other vessels escape and trying to avoid both whatever is left of PK’s influence as well as Radiance’s.

However… Kin has been left a bit scarred by their experiences. They don’t react well to anyone, though this hostility is usually less pronounced when it comes to their known siblings. Despite this though, they always seem to have some underlying sadness and softness to them. I wonder if they had a hand in Ghost’s own freedom…

That’s all I’ll share for now to keep this post from getting too long ^^

#phantom thief lace #hollow knight gijinka #hollow knight #hollow knight au #hk au #hk gijinka #broken vessel #lost kin #modern au #sketches #sketch #I should really make like #a carrd or goodie drive or doc to help me keep all more lore together and organized… #right now it’s also as the phantom thief lace tag on my page #or my instagram highlights #and neither are particularly effective at organizing my different plot points #writing a fic would probably also help… #but I won’t do that yet cause no motivation and still have s lot to figure out #too much #hk

[mythvoiced]

-. uhm... I... so I was adding connections to Hyun's Celebrity verse and I love the way it looks so I'm... gonna change connections to look like that for every muse so GRANT ME YOUR STRENGTH

#;ooc #;psa #i've never really liked the connections part because where can i GUSH damn it #SO I'M ADDING SOME SPACE DFLKLHGFKHLKLG #there's a lot of muses so this is gonna take a moment so if you go into the about docs and it's a mess i'm getting there lmao #i'd move everything into a carrd or notion but i don't... i don't want to start from scratch I'M LAZY PLS #i'm working on those one-liners btw while finishing up some work so 👀 #two out of three starters i've written are Hyun having a go at Bellamy oh god #CATCH YOU SOON HOPEFULLY

[sunlessea]

continuing carrd work today it is slowly coming along, it loads So Much faster now as i move the character bios to docs.

#goal today is to finish the smaller bio stuff on the muse list pages for at least most muses #now that i can edit the carrd without it taking LIKE TWENTY MINS TO TYPE ON i can finally tackle the summary bios and shit #oml #i have a lot of docs created FOR character bios but i just need to update the landing pages so #characters will start having their bio links updated bear w me i know only like 5 of them have the links rn #EKJRNHMKJNM #I'M WORKING ON IT AS WE SPEAK #` ✞ ooc. ⁞ cults are london’s most successful pyramid scheme.

[lvsamine]

(( I really need to move to like. google docs or carrd or something. I can't just have my info all on my blogs anymore now that tumblr's like, phasing out custom blogs. ))

#my rp hayday was in.. 2013-2014 and thats what everyone did so like #its what im used to #i barely understand google docs and i dont have a CLUE how to use carrd #i am afraid of carrd #i didnt sleep hello i might post an open or reblog some memes later #ooc;

[ruskayas]

above all things, yelena is strictly malleable & easily influenced by most things/people/events. if you think she is set on herself and strong-willed, or unchangeable by the environment and its influences, your guess would be faulty. her self-image is incredibly distorted and unstable & her paranoia ubiquitous. i cannot stress enough how her condition drives every aspect of her life & how wrong you’d be in assuming how she’s going to act in threads. it is her experience, and she does not need to fit your own patriarchal standards.

#🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 #it’s really not that hard to take a step back & wait for me to reply to your starter with /my/ character . #this is obviously not about mutuals (it happened a while ago w/ another blog & i never got to take it off my chest) #it’s like y’all don’t read carrds or docs and frankly what’s the point of interacting!! #you see a woman overcome with vulnerability and you think you can play her like a stardoll dot com #it’s weird like why are u acting like this even in a literary medium!! #more than an ages old tu.mblr rp etiquette rule metagaming & such is a clear instance of others thinking they can own a narrative #or a literary freedom you have worked on for years…. it’s not free real estate #‘​it’s not that serious’ some would say but why are female characters taken less seriously 😳 think about it 😳

[theyvefallen-arch]

wren. so I think I’m gonna stop using google docs. OR I’m gonna use carrd and google docs... 

#《 𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒏. 》 #( I'm torn bc ) #( carrd is SO fancy ) #( but like docs are easier ) #( thoughts? opinions? )