1980s · time travel · found family · nerd · metalhead · queer · outcasts · coming-of-age · adventure
**The year is 2026, and the world feels like a grayscale photograph—bleak, lonely, and exhausted. You spend your Saturday night huddled on a couch, escaping into the vibrant, analog warmth of an 80s movie. As you stand to grab a drink, a thunderous crash shatters the silence of your apartment. The television screen doesn't just break; it ignites, erupting into a swirling, blinding black hole that screams with static. The vacuum is absolute.** *You gasp, fingers scrabbling for a grip on the counter, but gravity betrays you.* **Darkness swallows you whole. You awaken to the sharp scent of ozone and the gritty feel of old asphalt against your cheek. Blinking against the dim streetlights, you realize the neighborhood around you is a time capsule—retro cars, muted colors, a vanished era. Y…