Tina Ruth Belcher - Blog Posts

Thank you so much! I did not expect you to actually do that suggestion. especially since it was just a fake story cover. I wish it was a real fanfic, but no one has offered up their services yet. XD That being said, here are the links to the fics I suggested earlier but was too lazy to space out three links because Tumblr only lets you link stuff in specific areas. XD

I know the last one is just a profile, but I would literally take any Zekina fanfic from this person's account as a suggestion. My favorite is "I Didn't Need a 'Moment'" though.

A rough sketch scene from this hypothetical fanfic by @dreamboundedstar

Zekina Week 2023: Day 6 Beach Part 2

Zekina week may be over but I still wanted to get this colored. It's not as detailed as my other beach-related Zekina art but I still find it cute. I don't really have a set song that I picture Zeke singing in this image but so far what's floating around in my head atm is either David Choi's "By My Side" or " Darling I Love You". I'll probably change my mind on it later so feel free to have your own interpretation of whatever Zeke is singing. In the meantime, I will try to work on a character sheet for my BB oc, Willow.

Mother Author Laser Pointer Spoilers:

So Tina mentions that it's 4 years till she graduates and she's of college age. So this reveal means one of two things. Tina is officially 14 (unlikely) or Tina's bday doesn't fall on a month before May (more likely). So in short, My birthday headcanon of Tina being a March 7th Pisces is dead. XD I now have a good enough reason to change my headcanon for Tina's birthday to September 25th. She's now a Virgo-Libra cusp sign. Quite fitting and amusing at the same time for her to be the cusp of beauty X3. Also, it's Dan Mintz's birthday, which is another reason for the change.

Zekina Week 2023: Day 6 Beach

I have been waiting two days to post this! This is my favorite of the bunch and hope to color it one of these days. I've been waiting for more Zeke playing a guitar content but fanfics usually have him as a drummer. So I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the world. XD

I'll leave it to your interpretation of what Zeke is singing to Tina. I definitely have some ideas for what the song could be, but I'm personally having trouble choosing myself. Anyway, I know I'm late with the other two prompts. I'm going to do my best to finish the rest though so I can complete the set. I really wanted to do the prompts I missed as drabbles so I can practice my writing.

Enough about future plans though. I hope you enjoy the sketch as much as I do. X3

Zekina Week 2023 - Day 5: Project

Quick coloured art I did for these two :D

They're practicing on a school project which'd proooobably be less of a disaster this time i think ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Zekina Week 2023: Day 3 Shell

Those kids better hurry. Gene can only fend off the seagulls from Saucy for so long! (Louise is probably looking for shells too maybe XD) I like think I'm getting faster or maybe my standards for trying to be on model is decreasing. You decide! XD

Zekina Week 2023: Day 2 School

Why yes, I did choose not to give them a bottom half. No, I'm not sorry for it! XD Zeke is giving a quick glance at Tina daydreaming before going back to his schoolwork. Tina is a very creative person with a deep, rich, inner world, but sometimes she just wants to picture clouds as butts. XD

Zekina Week 2023: Day 1 Dystopia

Woo first day of Zekina week! Here's 16 year old Zeke and Tina fighting off zombies in the apocalypse. The reason Tina has a water gun instead of a real gun is because it's filled with salt water and it's funny. Here's the context of why it being salt water matters. https://youtu.be/L6gPkMsmEdI?list=PLtADktUah7yz059OofgVV2bk-WYeVPMnU&t=168 I kind of went lazy on the zombies but I hope you enjoy the concept regardless.

Are you all ready for this event?! 

Welcome to #ZekinaWeek23

7th May 2023 - 13th May 2023

Day 1: Dystopia Day 2: School Day 3: Shell Day 4: Puzzle  Day 5: Project  Day 6: Beach Day 7: Utopia

How do I participate?

Create something related to the prompts and our OTP, upload it and enjoy that you created something.  

But I can’t draw…

Don’t worry! There is so much more you can do! 

All forms of media/art are allowed! Editing a video, writing a fanfiction, formulating a headcanon or an analysis. Editing a graphic or a creating a moodboard. Recording an audio or a musical composition, creating a playlist of songs, get out your cosplay or do a photo shooting with some merch you own, maybe give a recommendation to a fanart or fanfiction!  Let’s get creative! Everything is welcome!

Don’t be shy with liking and reblogging each other’s work.

Will you reblog my work?

Heck yeah! Please use the hashtag #ZekinaWeek22 as the first tag or mention this blog in your description @TacosAndTouchtanks

Why Zekina and not Zina?

Glad you asked, phantom person that I use as a stand-in!

Zināʾ (زِنَاء) or zinah (زِنًى or زِنًا) is an Islamic legal term referring to unlawful sexual intercourse. (Wikipedia)

I think it would be disrespectful towards islamic peoples believes to use it as a ship name as well as considering the meaning “unlawful sex” of all kinds… I don’t think it would be a good ship name.

Meanwhile Zekina is only a name and surname in a couple of countries, so basically free for grabs! Let’s go with that!

Rules:

1. Everyone is welcome to participate.

2. This is an event to celebrate the romantic involvement of Tina and Zeke from the show Bob’s Burgers, but portrayals of them as friends are welcome too! (But no other ships with either of them.)

3. No reposting of other peoples work! (Sharing a link is fine, using graphics and scenes from the show is also fine.)

4. You do not need to have a tumblr blog to participate. However, if you are not blogging on tumblr and would like to see your work featured on this blog, I need you to submit it. (You can stay anonymous if you want to)

5. Sharing links to your works from other social media sites (Ao3, twitter, instagram) as a submission is absolutely fine

6. Don’t worry if you’re no native speaker. Use the language you feel most comfortable with!

7. (I don’t feel like it should have to be said but…) No bashing on other artists’ works or harassing others. Zeke and Tina would never approve of bullying, and neither will I.

8. Please help to spread the word with spreading this post.

9. Have fun! <3

Questions?

https://www.tacosandtouchtanks.tumblr.com/ask

This is why I made the poll for the pen name. https://www.tumblr.com/dreamboundedstar/714892108056674304/which-sounds-like-the-best-pen-name-for-tina?source=share I'm aware that I chose 2nd place but the poll was never about picking the winner but to help me realize what I really wanted. Shout out to the people that commented on the Reddit post I made that helped me figure out what I really wanted for Tina's pen name as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/BobsBurgers/comments/12p8xdk/imagine_this_tina_has_grown_to_be_a_successful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Tori Ryder as Tina's pen name is my backup plan in case the show makes its own pen name for Tina or uses her real name. That way I can say it's a completely different person and Tina's just projecting onto the cover as usual. Now that I got credits out of the way onto the piece at hand. Anyway, I've been wanting to do this for a while because I love Greek mythology, Tina loves horses, immediately wanted to do Tina as a centaur. I thought it would be funny to have one of older Tina's published stories be centaur people and a minotaur. I was hesitant to do it for a while though because drawing horse and cow anatomy is intimidating as all get out. Any other option would be expensive though so I eventually put on my big girl pants and did this. I think this piece made me develop carpal tunnel but it was worth it. Serves me right for not remembering to use my whole arm when drawing anyway. XD Originally the idea had Tina as the alicorn centaur and Jimmy Jr. as the sea centaur because Tina would want to be the alpha horse person while it was easy to pun JJ's name as a sea centaur (Swimmy Jr. XD). I switched it when I realized that Tina also had a love for marine life and her being a sea centaur became more fitting. So now onto the name of the characters for this fake story Zeke - Iezekial the minotaur Tina - Princess Tritina the ichthyocentaur

Jimmy Jr. - Prince Iakobos II the Sky Kisser the alicorn centaur Anyway, this is a fake cover I wanted to do because I thought it would be funny to do a trashy romance novel parody. I'm not intending to make a story based on the cover ever. I already have other story ideas that are slowly dying so I don't need to add another one. XD Here's the cover I based my cover's color palette on. https://books.google.com/books/content?id=UHWJkQdCSSwC&pg=PP1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U3w_r4ifjjKvLVPGpz285AX4gHYLw&w=1280 You're free to do a fanfic based on this cover if you want though. I encourage it so I don't have to do it! XD The basic idea is the story is a love triangle story and you're free to decide who wins (though it's Ancient Greece and it's Tina, you read the context clues XD). Anyway, hope you like it! I'm really proud of this piece. :3

Crab-Solutely Fabulous Thoughts and Spoilers

You mean to tell me that tonight's episode was a wrestling one and Zeke wasn't in it?! Shaking my freaking head!

How could you betray this sweet little gremlin boy like that! You know he would have loved being in this episode. We were robbed! That being said this was still fun even if they missed the perfect opportunity of including Zeke. You just know Tina was so annoyed, in a conflicting sort of way when Louise came to her room to show Tina the research she's been doing. Girl, Tina's been hyper-fixated on marine life way before you have. So you bet your bunny ears she already knows all the sea cucumber facts. Heck, she's probably shared her hyper-fixation with you plenty of times and you just now decide to be interested while she's trying to sleep, in front of her horse posters! XD

This is for a future piece I plan to do. I really wanted her to have a cool pen name because I can see her having one because she loves making alter egos for herself. I wanted to make one that looked interesting and creative, but not too creative that it doesn't look like a name Tina would come up with. So I decided on punny names that affiliate with stories in general. It fits Tina's brand of alter egos such as Dina, Dino, Quirky Turkey, and Mathy Kathy I'm probably the least partial to the Jericho one because I want to use a name that Tina hasn't already used. Who knows, maybe the poll will change my mind though. I look forward to seeing the most popular choice. I look forward to the results

Lol! So funny! Thank you for this cute and amusing gift! I was happy to help and I'm glad you enjoyed the gif so much. The art was definitely worth the wait. Those two silly teenagers! XD

The owl in Zeke's mind is hilarious! XD

A lil experimental piece for @dreamboundedstar as a thank you for making me the most perfect gif 🙏I hope you like it!

Just Another Cute Zekina Headcanon:

So I've been trying to mark off all the episodes that Zeke sits to the left of Tina in class ever since I really started noticing it in season 13. First I'll list what I found so far and then I'll get into the headcanon surrounding it. Disclaimer, I'm only human and I'm not aware of all the episodes that show Zeke and Tina in class together. I'm just only going by the BB wiki that lists the times Zeke appeared in a season and my own memory of whether the episode contained a classroom scene or not. In short, this post might get edited as time goes on if I find new frames by accident I can add.

So now onto screenshots. I'm not going to bother with chronological order because I don't want to. The most interesting one I found so far is "Pig Trouble in Little Tina". Before Tina enters into her nightmare we see Zeke to her left. After she wakes up from her nightmare, Zeke is gone.

What the heck is that all about? Why insert Zeke in only to make him disappear? My side headcanon is that Zeke went to the bathroom (or skipped class, either is possible) while Tina was sleeping because if Zeke was there he would have been the only one to ask if she was alright. They needed the scene to move along asap so they had to get rid of him because of it. XD

The next one isn't in Miss Jacobson's class but still shows the Zeke being to Tina's left pattern.

In "Bob and Deliver" their placement is obvious because it is to show that Tina will see Zeke as a rival in the episode. Also, it's simply easier for the audience to follow along with the conversation if they are next to each other. Next is "The Hormone-iums". The placement of Jimmy Jr., Tina, and Zeke is also for plot reasons. For some reason, Zeke isn't in the last one of the row like he usually is while Jimmy Jr. isn't in front of Zeke. The boys needed to be in those places though to show Tina's nervousness when she watches Tammy slanders her.

Still, even if the chair arrangements have changed, Zeke is still to Tina's left. Now for "Crystal Mess". While the placements of the characters are for plot relevance, it's also the closest to sticking with the current sitting arrangements of the characters. The outlier is Tammy since Jocelyn is more often than not in front of Tina from the other frames I found.

"Touch of (Eval)ulations"

"Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang"

"These Boots are Made for Stalking"

Now that I got all the scenes out of the way (as far as I know because there are a lot of episodes with Zeke in them), I can get to the point of this post. Since to Tina's left is the window, I headcanon that Tina daydreams and looks out of that window a lot. Even if Miss Jacobson is the one that assigns the seats for the students and it's not up to the students, I headcanon that Zeke specifically wants to be to Tina's left over her right because of the window. Anytime Zeke glances over at Tina for a second while she's daydreaming directly at the window, he likes to pretend for a moment that Tina is looking at him. He knows the window is getting all of Tina's attention, but it's still a nice thought that keeps him going for the rest of the time in Miss Jacobson's class. That's it for the headcanon. It's not much, but it's cute and I like it. X3

Guys, I Think Zeke Has a Type:

Zeke really likes the ones that wear mainly blue with a yellow (or analogous to yellow) hair accessory, doesn't he? XD The ones after Tina are from "Pig Trouble in Little Tina" and "Can't Buy Me Math". The middle one is a bit harder to prove since I only have the context clues of Tammy and Jocelyn immediately kissing the boys next to them to go by. There's no proof of anything happening between Zeke and the girl (which I dub Nessa until I find out her real name). Good for Zeke though if he landed a legit date in that episode. It's sweet given that he mostly goes stag at the school events. The last one was obviously never going to get anywhere (as it should because it's wrong for obvious reasons). I still felt I should include because it helps with my "blue clothes and yellow/analogous to yellow hair accessory" pattern that Zeke seems to have. In episode, it was a hilarious bait-and-switch when for a second the episode made you think Zeke was going to make his move on Jocelyn when in reality he wanted her to get out of his way. XD So yeah, that's all I have so far. I just found it amusing when I noticed it and I wanted to share it. The observation between Zeke and Nessa is still shakey because she could just be chilling stag next to Zeke that is also going stag on the hay ride. I just feel given the context clues in the episode, I think the assumption they were trying to get us to make was that everyone was kissing except for Tina and JJ until Tina asked to join along.

Cute story that I think really captures the humor of the show well!

Summary:

And Zeke smelled so good, like cinnamon and sweat.

𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐇𝐮𝐡. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐙𝐞𝐤𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥?

Tina stored that information for later.

Ha, frozen yogurt! Jimmy Jr. can't even afford regular yogurt!

So precious! Tina looks so comfy in that outfit! Love the soft, colored outlines too. I look forward to the context of this scene, whatever it is.

Commission I did for @jimmyjrsmusoems that miiiiight have something to do with her upcoming fic 👀👀👀 Better get your popcorns prepared guys it's gonna be super 💫❤

Now everyone shush up and look at these bloody idiot kids

So precious! I love it so much thank you, thank you! (I like to think Louise and Gene are doing the bare minimum and boiling the noodles offscreen XD. (Maybe I should give them more credit though, maybe Lousie would chop the vegetables because knife. Maybe Gene is helping Zeke make his 3 mother figures a song for mother's day as payment for the Bolognese help?) So if you have read the manga, "Kitchen Princess" this is basically that. Specifically, chapter 10 where the main character tries to remake the recipe of a dead person. The added difficulty for Zeke and the Belcher kids though is that the only people alive that know of the taste haven't had the dish for decades. No one can trust Gayle, Gloria is in Florida, Linda can't know because it's a mother's day surprise, and Lorraine is only semi-trustworthy. Taste buds change as you get older and what you assumed you remembered about a dish may not be the same as it used to be. So there's a lot that's stacked against them. That's not going to stop the kids from trying to get someone who has had the recipe and make them taste-test it until they get it right. I like to think as Zeke gets older, his knowledge of spices, seasonings, and even textures only gets better over time. So he's able to guess pretty well what a recipe needs based on a description. Though, that's a challenge all on its own because some of the descriptions are vague because again, they haven't had the dish in decades. The reason why they even decided to do this for mother's day in the first place is that it was originally Louise's idea. This mother's day Louise has become hyper-aware of how great her mom is and realizes she's the age Bob was when his mother died (which depending on if he's 44 or 46, it can range from 11 to 14. However, I choose 12 though because it feels right). So she decides to try again with the sauce since they have "Mr. Perfect Palette" Zeke here. Though they almost don't get him on board because Tina felt guilty asking for help on their mother's day thing when he has 3 mother figures (his bio mom, stepmom, and grandma if that wasn't obvious already) in his life he has to think about for mother's day. Zeke is literally their only hope of gettting anywhere close to correct on the sauce recipe in Louise's mind, so he still gets on board somehow.

I want this sort of "Sauce Side Story" sequel to exist so bad! Getting this awesome piece is a good alternative though. Thank you again!

Teenage Zeke & Tina commission I did for @qilin-crusader 💫

It's these two along with Louise & Gene trying to recreate that lost Bolognese recipe we saw in the "Sauce Side Story" episode. No worries, things are going jusssst fine (no they ain't)

I Decided to Analyze the Kisses From "UFO No You Didn’t" Just Because:

At first, I just wanted to see the time duration between the kisses Tina did with Jimmy Jr. and Zeke to see how long she did for both of them. I figured I might as well go further and analyze what was going on during the kisses. Since Tina kissed Jimmy Jr. first I'll start with him.

Okay, to start off the kiss overall lasts around 4 seconds which fun fact, the average time duration of a kiss nowadays is 12 seconds according to my brief research on Google. In the 1980s the time duration was 5.5 seconds which Tina was closer to. Though nobody well-adjusted wants to see 13-year-olds kissing for 12 seconds, so glad Tina didn't go fully for either average for what she thought would be her last kiss with JJu. Anyway, as the kiss goes on JJu is basically in shell shock for the duration of the kiss. Not much eye movement to try to process what is happening. Though it's clear that JJu is so shocked that his arms go limp and he loses his backpack in the process. Tina kisses JJu with so much force that they still move slightly as Tina turns her head to make sure her kiss gets every part of his mouth. When Tina first turns her head I notice that JJu's eyebrow does lift up, assumingly because he didn't expect her to deepen the kiss on top of not being expected to be kissed in the first place. His raised eyebrow only lasts for a bit though and it goes back to the normal shell-shocked position when Tina turns her head again. Lastly, and the most interesting part of the kiss in my opinion is the last turn of the head Tina does. Once she turns her head to the last side of JJu's face, he lifts his arm up. Even in his shell-shock state, he still instinctively lifts his arm up. Though, we'll never know if it's because he wanted to push her off or if he wanted to embrace her. Tina ended it before he could do anything with his arms. Though given his reaction of "Whoa" as Tina ran away, it's more likely the latter was the case.

Though even if the kiss did last longer, knowing JJu he most likely would have left his arms like that and have no idea what to do with them because he's a dumb, teenage boy who can't handle that much intimacy.

That's all I can think of to talk about for that kiss. Now onto my favorite one, to no one's surprise.

For Zeke's kiss, it lasts about 2 seconds. That's not surprising seeing as Zeke was never going to get the longer kiss of the two at this point in time. However, what's special about this kiss at the start is that the animators went out of their way to zoom in on Tina kissing Zeke. That's interesting because they didn't put in the effort to turn the medium-long shot into a medium shot for Jimmy Jr. and Tina's kiss. The camera zoom clearly symbolizes the shock Zeke is feeling and emphasizes the shock the audience is supposed to feel at this moment. Though it's also possible they didn't zoom in for JJu because they wanted the audience to notice the arm lift more when it happened.

What's interesting about the start of Tina's kiss to Zeke is that she starts her kiss with her head tilted and then moves it back to it being straight, unlike Jimmy Jr's kiss where she started straight and tilted it both ways as the kiss went on. It's safe to assume it's because she wasn't running towards Zeke for a kiss and was prepared to be more calculated in her kiss. In short, she wasn't going to break her nose for Zeke. Since Zeke only has 2 seconds, he has even less time to react to anything that is happening. He's so shocked that his arms are stiff in place as Tina pulls his backpack straps. Even with his shorter time duration, Zeke's mental reaction time is still faster than JJu's in that his eyebrows raise even higher for a second time (the first was when Tina first pulled on his backpack straps) and his pupils dart up and back in place, not believing what is happening (the pupils darting up and down is my favorite part of this moment X3). After his pupils finish moving, Tina pushes Zeke's backpack straps back with so much force that his arms swing a bit, showing how shocked Zeke was by the whole ordeal. No matter how fast his mental reaction was, it was clearly never going to translate fast enough physically.

After that Tina leaves the poor boy stiff as a board, wondering what the heck just happened.

The episode goes on and even if JJu had the clearly more intimate kiss, he never brings up the kiss even when it's revealed why she did what she did. Meanwhile, despite having the less intimate kiss, Zeke makes it clear that he's open to another kiss in the next apocalypse. Then he immediately drops the playful teasing once Jimmy Jr. gets suspicious of Zeke's wording. Knowing how jealous JJu can get and not wanting to hurt him, Zeke distracts him with wrestling.

I think that's about all I can add to this analysis of the two kisses. Hope you enjoyed reading it. I'll end this by saying, Jimmy Jr. may have got the longer kiss, but Zeke would always have Tina's last kiss that episode and that's more important in my book. XD Also here are some funny screenshots of Zeke's smile turning into a frown once he realizes he screwed up. XD

I was debating whether or not to reblog this because what I'm about to add is so small that it almost doesn't matter. Though, I feel that I should so I don't forget it. Anyway, thanks to @tacosandtouchtanks 's gif of the scene, I was able to analyze this scene even further. What I found was very interesting. I noticed that Zeke out of all the characters in the scene is writing using his pencil much faster than the others. Zeke is doing about three rows of answers while everyone (minus Tina) is only doing one row. Also, since his eyebrows are raised in this scene, he looks more concerned than pensive, especially compared to when he took a test in "Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang"

In that episode, he also wasn't circling answers as fast as he was in the gif above. So I came to two conclusions. One, this test is more important to him than usual and he is trying to answer as many as he can before time runs out. Two, my favorite one, Zeke is concerned for Tina and is trying to finish as soon as possible so he can immediately get Tina to focus on her own schoolwork because all she is doing is staring out at the window and not writing anything down. Anyway, I think I milked this scene for all it's worth and I have nothing left to analyze about it. XD

Linda: But trying to make people think you're cool is exhausting. And when you stop trying, suddenly the next person you talk to thinks you're the best person ever.

Cue the time-passing montage of Tina learning to let go of that embarrassing moment and stop trying to be cool. Most of the time it's with her family, at the restaurant, or by herself just investing herself in her favorite music again. However, there's this one frame I'm convinced has subtle symbolism!

The only time Zeke appears in the episode and it's to be in front of Tina while she looks out the window still sad from the event. Due to how this scene was set up it really looks like it's implying that Zeke is one of those that would think Tina is "the best person ever". However, Tina is too busy being sad to notice what's already in front of her. I mean, the window perfectly frames Zeke in (and sweet Susmita gets her moment too, even if it's just her hair and some of her skin) when they literally could have done whatever they wanted and changed the character in the seat in front of Tina. Heck, Tina could have been in the last seat and further symbolize the loneliness/self-pity Tina is feeling. It's possible they just wanted to stick with accurate continuity and have Tina, Zeke, Susmita, and the rest be in the same seating arrangements as they were in "Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang". For continuity reasons or not, I still take it as symbolism that Zeke already thinks Tina is the coolest person ever and Tina just needs to really look around her to realize it. The subtext I tell ya!

Linda: But trying to make people think you're cool is exhausting. And when you stop trying, suddenly the next person you talk to thinks you're the best person ever.

Cue the time-passing montage of Tina learning to let go of that embarrassing moment and stop trying to be cool. Most of the time it's with her family, at the restaurant, or by herself just investing herself in her favorite music again. However, there's this one frame I'm convinced has subtle symbolism!

The only time Zeke appears in the episode and it's to be in front of Tina while she looks out the window still sad from the event. Due to how this scene was set up it really looks like it's implying that Zeke is one of those that would think Tina is "the best person ever". However, Tina is too busy being sad to notice what's already in front of her. I mean, the window perfectly frames Zeke in (and sweet Susmita gets her moment too, even if it's just her hair and some of her skin) when they literally could have done whatever they wanted and changed the character in the seat in front of Tina. Heck, Tina could have been in the last seat and further symbolize the loneliness/self-pity Tina is feeling. It's possible they just wanted to stick with accurate continuity and have Tina, Zeke, Susmita, and the rest be in the same seating arrangements as they were in "Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang". For continuity reasons or not, I still take it as symbolism that Zeke already thinks Tina is the coolest person ever and Tina just needs to really look around her to realize it. The subtext I tell ya!

I pretty much agree with this. I definitely have other ships I have preferences over others in the show but this is the one ship in the show I have no compromising with. Louise and Rudy are adorable but I can live with it if they stay platonic friends. Gene, I don't care who he ends up even if I love his dynamic with Courtney and Alex. I love Bob and Linda's relationship, but I have nothing to worry about since they are already married and canon. Teddy and Kathleen, I want this pair to work out so bad for Teddy's sake. I'll be sad if he self-sabotages this relationship, but I'll manage if it comes to it. Zekina is the only ship I will ride or die on! Even if it sinks I will make like a captain and go down with this ship! I'll shoot every long shot to make them get together in my headcanons if the show goes in the opposite direction. The show set up way too many reasons why they should be end game whether directly or indirectly and I'm in too deep to quit ever man. XD

Zeke and Tina need to be endgame I will literally throw up everywhere if they do a future episode and Tina ends up with J-Ju. I know people really like Josh and Tina together but idk he just gives me this vibe, you know? Like I know he likes her for her but frankly he’s just not weird enough for her! Zeke likes her for her and is just as weird as she is. They’re literally perfect for each other. No I do not accept criticism.

zekina Valentine’s Day fic!

Since there's not going to be a Valentine's day episode this month. I wanted to fill that void by making these. So here you all go, puns and all! Happy Valentine's day!

Silly Tina Belcher Headcanon

She texts her hearts with 8s instead of 3s so they look more like butts. For example, like this <8 or this 8> (very versatile XD) Also, her favorite number is 8 in general because it's the number that looks most like a butt. It's her favorite also because of the infinity symbol and it rhymes with fate.

Bob's Burgers Birthday Headcanons (Just some of the kids, no adults bday HCs sorry)

Tina - March 7th, 1998 (I liked the idea of using the abbreviation of March and 7 to make it almost look like Mary. Mary sounds like marry after all, which is something Tina would like to do when she's older. RIP July 8th birthday headcanon I wanted to keep so bad.) Gene - December 3rd, 2000 (It's already confirmed that Gene is a Sagitarrius so this one was the easiest to choose. I thought it would be cool for Gene's birthday to be the median date of Thanksgiving and the first of the 12 days of Christmas. Also 12/3, twelve is divisible by 3. XD)

Louise - January 19th, 2002 (basically the opposite date of the median date of Tina's and Gene's bday, July 20th)

Zeke - May 23rd, 1998 (The most we know is that Zeke's mom was pregnant with him during prom. I thought it would the funniest outcome to have Zeke be born on prom night. The unfortunate part of the idea is that there's no one prom date, so I'm never going to have an exact perfect date for this idea. I also didn't realize I was using the birthday of Bob's voice actor until after the fact. So it might change later, depending on if I find a better prom date for Zeke's mom or not) Jimmy Jr. - February 17th, 1998 (Release date of Footloose, I thought it would be fitting for him.) Rudy - April 6th, 2002 (it's when the episode, "House of 1000 Bounces" came out so I just made it easy on myself for this one) That's all the bdays I want to give headcanons to. If anyone wants to give suggestions for better prom dates for Zeke's birth, be my guest. I choose 1998 for Tina, Zeke, and Jimmy Jr. because 2011 is when Tina's first birthday episode was aired and roll with it, regardless of the floating timeline. I needed to figure out which numbers were Saturday for Zeke's birthday somehow. XD

Well narratively speaking it was to make the easy innuendo. In terms of character, Tina was probably instructed by Louise to get Zeke because they needed a "hammer" for the whack-a-toe while Louise and Gene gathered the others during recess to speed the process. Tina kept it brief with JJ because she would take any skill he could bring to the team just so she could be with him, even though she wasn't asked to add him. It's the Belchies all over again! She also probably kept it vague for JJ so he would be curious enough to follow her and see what the heck is going on. Still, it is adorable to see Zeke getting so enthusiastic about the prospect of winning a dune buggy.

By rewatching S9e2 I noticed (along with before) that Tina only informed Zeke about the plan and he automatically agreed to help. Though Zeke is always a helper to others but bit more so with Tina. And what really gets me is that she explained it to Zeke but not Jjr. I don't know how to take it but it's definitely a different level. Because she would always try to include Jjr first on things and doing the opposite with others by trying to ignore mostly. Probably just looking into this too much but I'm really intrigued by this.

I wanted to update you, thanks to "So You Stink You Can Dance", I now conclude that Zeke became a Wagstaff student in 6th grade over 5th grade. It's thanks to Leslie getting his spirit crushed by Spencer that I was able to figure it out. Given Leslie can drive, is not much taller than Jimmy Jr., and I assume around the same height as Logan, the youngest he can be is 16. He also could probably be 17 or 18 but I'm going with 16 for now. I believe he would be much taller if he was in his 20s. Leslie used to love dancing and Zeke has a video of him on his phone his cousin dancing at the age of 13. We find out that Leslie tried to take his dancing to the next level "a few years ago" so it is at least more than 2. Since this is the first time Jimmy Jr. is hearing about Leslie getting crushed by the same man that he is going to get criticism from, Leslie had to have been rejected before Zeke went to Wagstaff. If he was rejected when Zeke and Jimmy Jr were already friends, you know Zeke would have been talking about it with JJ for comfort so it wouldn't make sense for JJ not to already know the story before the episode.

So my timeline is Leslie got the brutal criticism at 13 (to be fair, he could have been older when he tried out, but I think the intention of the episode was to show he tried out at the same age JJ and the rest to parallel his situation) while Zeke was 10. Zeke's family moves again when Zeke turns 11 and the scar of Leslie getting his dancing spirit crushed has faded after a year. He goes to Wagstaff in the 6th grade and meets a new friend with a passion for dancing that reminds him of the passion his cousin used to have and they immediately click, much to Tina's dismay.

I prefer 6th grade to 5th grade for Zeke anyway because it shows Tina's original disdain for Zeke in his fist appearance was fresh but not too fresh when it comes to him taking JJ's attention from her.

I have been rewatching some Bob's Burgers episodes and now I am going to show my headcanon of when Zeke first came to Wagstaff. TLDR version, I think Zeke became a student at Wagstaff between 4th and 7th grade. I think my safe bet is either 5th or 6th grade unless I find more evidence. Here's the evidence of how I came to the conclusion. So we know that Zeke wasn't there when Tina, Jocelyn, and Jimmy Jr. were in third grade because in the episode, "Can't Buy Me Math" Jocelyn immediately reveals that she remembers "the pee thing" while neither Zeke nor Tammy comment on it (Also wanted to bring up I know Darryl said 2nd grade but keep in mind he's a grade lower than Tina and the rest). Tammy doesn't because she wasn't there when it happened because she became a Wagstaff student in 8th grade. Jimmy Jr. left before we could ever find out if he remembered. Tammy and Zeke would have definitely commented on remembering it if they knew about it, one being more malicious about it than the other mind you.

So to me, I think it's safe to say that Zeke wasn't with them during third grade. I don't think Zeke was in Wagstaff in 4th grade either because in the episode, "A Fish Called Tina" We get a flashback of 9-year-old Tina with other students. Jimmy Jr. and Jocelyn are in the flashback, but not Zeke. Lastly, in the episode, "A Few Gurt Men" it is revealed by Mr. Branca that someone tried to flush down three spoons last year, which Zeke apologized for. So it's safe to say Zeke was with them during 7th grade and didn't just recently transfer to Wagstaff in the 8th grade like Tammy. So because of the evidence I gathered so far, I think between 4th and 7th grade is when Zeke moved and became a student at Wagstaff.

My guess is 5th or 6th grade until I see something that contradicts it.