#im always for 13 being in charge...👀

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Doctor Who || The Tsuranga Conundrum

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OMG this episode was so fun!!! i feel like it'll be a lot of fun to rewatch casually and any gretchen episode is amazing obviously

was NOT expecting the subplot about bob's hemorrhoid surgery but somehow it worked LMAO??? and i knew immediately that he was lying about his hemorrhoid being gone bcuz he was scared of the needle. i can read these characters waayyy too easily no surprises for me

gretchen calling her sister her youngest/baby sister makes me think she DOES have another sister who already got married which makes sense

I GOT WAY TOO EXCITED WHEN TEDDY APPEARED we've had like two episodes without him but i reacted like an energetic dog seeing their owner for the first time in weeks after they went on vacation. TEDDY IS THERE teddy my beloved 😁‼️‼️ also any interaction between him and gretchen is hilarious knowing they have the same voice actor and its just him riffing w/ himself in the studio

tina forcing louise and gene to play that boardgame had NO REASON to be that funny maybe its just bcuz i spent a lot of time doing puzzles and board games with my siblings but it was too real.... her saying she's in charge so theyre doing what SHE wants 😭😭

we got to see nat AND jen AND jen's hot cousin dave not to mention gretchen and gayle. love how many secondary characters they're bringing back this season after the Drought that was season 13 and as soon as they mentioned pickles was closed i was like "well jen's hot cousin dave works there right" and three seconds later they mentioned him. knowing deep bob's burgers lore has its perks i guess??

kinda disappointed they didn't mention that bob HAS driven the limo before in the road trip episode after nat was crying abt her girlfriend and everybody else was asleep like he knows how to drive it and we KNOW he does </3 and its cute that gretchen knows nat is linda's friend tbh i just love that. nat is her friend and she talks abt her to other people!! theyrr friends they're pals *starts sobbing and crying*

well at least gayle seems to be getting along with ms baker LMAO

bob trying to talk to hot male strippers on the phone oh he's hopeless 😭😭😭💔

"i think he's pretty hot" ??? what did bob mean by this

they should call the transgender sex workers from season one and ask if they could help out. marshmallow could fix this situation i know she could

"okay. i have a proposal as your babysitter. we stop playing the game, get the ladder, go into the attic, drop down into the crawl space and watch the stripper party through the vent in the restaurant" WHAT IS TINA'S PROBLEM IN THIS EPISODE 😭😭⁉️ all this bcuz she cant admit to her siblings that she isn't having fun playing the stupid board game. unhinged (ALSO CRAWL SPACE MENTION huge moment for people who watched s1ep2 earlier today <- me)

THERE'S MORE CRYING AT THIS STRIP CLUB THAN I EXPECTED DJDKSBJSHDHS

gretchen: you don't get it linda!! you're always the perfect older sister!!!

linda: i mean... im not

gayle: definitely not

linda: OKAY gayle.

gayle: she makes A LOT of mistakes. you know one time she tried to sleep with my husband

linda: no gayle that was you. MY husband and you. bob.

bob: that's true

sorry i just thought that throwback was really funny FJDMDJDKKSS when will dr yap return home from the war (he is an actual psychopath)

"big sisters are allowed to make mistakes too. we're not perfect. otherwise how do little sisters know its okay NOT to be perfect" gene and louise looking at tina right now like 👀👀

"oh THATS what you've been doing for me. thank you" "you're welcome :)" LMAOOO

not the point of this episode but now im just thinking abt tina someday throwing a bachlorette party for louise 😭😭💕 not that i think louise would want a bachlorette party or even want to get married but i dont think that would stop tina

this is reminding me of a fanfic i read where fischoeder was afraid of needles and bob went with him and held his hand because he was scared :(( bob and linda are so cute even when its butt hemorrhoid surgery

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ok you've got me. what are your thoughts on trans!bruce 👀👀👀👀

Oooooh so I started to answer this but I knew I had a lot of thoughts on it so I saved it as a draft but tumblr ate it and im so sad. But anyway here we are answering this ask (sorry it's been so long I've thought about it every day since receiving it). Tw for mentions of transphobia below the cut (but it's so brief you might miss it)

SO

Bruce is a trans man, right? He realized it pretty early in life, earlier than many, but he was only around 10/11. So his parents were already gone when he realized. He sat on it for a while before telling Alfred bc be was scared, but when he finally told his guardian he was so relieved.

At first Bruce asked to use they/them pronouns while he was figuring everything out. In the meantime Alfred asked local news outlets to start referring to his charge with gender neutral terms. He figured they could update everyone when Bruce decided on pronouns and a new name. Some places respected the request, some places ignored it.

About a year passed and shortly after Bruce turned 13 he came to Alfred with a new name and definite pronouns, but he didn't have a middle name picked out yet. His middle name from his deadname was after a person in his family that his parents respected a lot and wanted to honor. Bruce had issues changing it. He was worried it was disrespectful to do so. Alfred told him it would be disrespectful to himself to keep a name that he had grown out of just because he thought it made a dead person happy. Alfred assured him that his parents would want him to change his name if it made him happy to do so. He suggested that if Bruce still wanted to honor his parents he could take his father's name as his middle name. Bruce agreed and they started the paperwork to legally change his name from [REDACTED] to Bruce Thomas Wayne.

Bruce had always planned to become Batman and he started training before he ever told alfred about it, even if it just meant that he was punching a bag or teaching himself to hack in a lightly used part of the house. He got pretty good considering the fact that he was teaching himself, but his first test was when he made duplicates of every newspaper that mentioned him by deadname or misgendered him and broke into the gotham city public library to swap them out. He ended up being spotted by the security guard but managed to give them the slip and get away without them realizing why he was there.

Eventually he told alfred about his plans to become batman and poor alfred nearly had a heart attack at the thought of his kid endangering himself like that. Of course, Alfred agreed to help Bruce out, preferring to be kept in the loop rather than B hiding things that important out if fear if rejection.