#Tate Mcgucket

[euphoriaface]

don't even talk to me about them man

[pixeltwix]

-Unrelated McGucket Ramblings

Because my mental illness is metal illnessing my brain has been having a wonderful time combining interests. Specifically gravity falls and the Odyssey of all things?

The parallels between Fiddleford, Emma May, and Tate -& Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus is driving me bonkers. EVERYTIME I hear songs like ‘There Are Other Ways’, ‘I’m Just A Man’, and ‘Love in Paradise’ I can so vividly see Fiddleford so ardently longing for home, for his wife, for his son, but something or some event keeps pulling him back every single time he has a mind to just go home. I can’t help but let my head make the connections and rewire silly lyrics to fit closer together than I already feel they are.

‘Back at home my wife awaits for me, she’s my everything, my Emma May. And she’s all my power, all my power, but it’s been (x) long years. Oh (x) long years since I have seen my wife, and now the god of (chaos) is out to end my life-“

Additionally while I do not see Emma May as Calypso to any degree, her few lines in ‘Love in Paradise’ stuck out so hard to me if it was outside of the context of Calypso & Odysseus’s no good very bad situation. Just the-

“It will be fine dear, come back inside dear, love of my life come back to paradise. I know your life’s been hard, I’ll stay inside your heart. I love you my dear, I love our time here, life would be so much worse if you had died. Please stay away from harm, stay in my open arms.”

Is SO POST FIRST PORTAL TESTING FIDDLEFORD CODED- when Emma May finally comes up for herself to check on him in Gravity Falls and sees his condition. I refuse to believe for a moment that she didn’t at least try to understand what was going on before fearing for her and her sons life. Finding her husband most likely stumbling around like he doesn’t even know himself or where he is, trying to soothe and bring him back to her. And at first it seems like it’s working, like he’s slowly piecing together what she’s putting down, but then he’s sparking, spiraling again. She tries a final time to coax him from whatever whirl of madness he’s gotten himself into, but it never gets better. In fact it keeps getting worse. But just the vISUAL ALONE of her with that part of the song trying to bring him away from harm all the while he’s still deeply haunted with the ‘all I hear are screams’. AHHH-

Additionally the narrative of Penelope stalling her suitors for YEARS because she’s hoping, praying, that her husband is still alive, still out there somewhere. That maybe just maybe he’ll come home. I am screAMING and pointing at the Emma May core of it all. I’ve been meaning to develop elderly FiddEm dynamic be it platonic for the sake of recovery, but my biggest thing with her design is despite after all these years she sTILL carries aspects of her husband with her. Be it wearing his old specs he left at home or still keeping her floral motif with her brooch. She still loves him deep down- she always will, and she’s always gonna mourn the life that could’ve been if Bill hadn’t been involved, but still. Keeping him as apart of her even if she ‘hated’ him for so long kept her going.

Also idk plus just the-

‘Hell no, I could kill you where you stand. I’m no pet, I’m a married man.’

Is silly to me because I know it would be very ooc for Fiddleford to have THAT much bite even if he is capable of ‘lashing out’. Regardless it’s still amusing brain movie content to envision-

If I didn’t already have so many other ideas on hand I’d draw this all myself, but raaaaa so many other concepts I wanna draw first :(

[tinfoil-jones]

Tate Pines AU: Professionals Have STANdards

Stan never let Tate out of his sight, he was a very dedicated father. Man wouldn't let anything happen to his baby. Did that mean he involved Tate with his crimes from literal birth? Yes. He was very dedicated, that didn't necessarily mean he made the best or most responsible parenting decisions.

With a kid, especially one he refused to ever put down, he couldn't get a legitimate job even if he wanted. So the entire five years Stan had Tate leading up to moving in with Ford, he was just a criminal. That was all he did. He was actually a much better criminal than he was in canon because now it wasn't just himself he had to worry about; failing himself was one thing, but he wasn't going to fail his son. He wasn't losing his family again. He focused more on doing things that were lower risk (but lower reward as a trade off), and put more of his skills into not being caught.

Which, he actually succeeded as a career criminal in this era, he was only arrested once in Tates childhood, and they only had their mugshots taken, they were let off with a warning (hence Tates only baby picture being a mugshot). He never repeated that mistake.

Anyways, there came a point where one summer, Tate is only like a year old, so Stan is carrying him in a baby carrier as he is actively robbing the cars parked in a grocery store parking lot.

But in one of these cars, someone left their baby inside, and Stan is outraged because some irresponsible parents just locked their baby in a hot car in the middle of summer.

So he breaks the baby out obviously, and cools them down, but he doesn't stop there. He waits for the parents to come back so he can angrily rant at them.

Anyways I just want ya'll to imagine Mullet Stan carrying baby Tate in a Huggy Wuvvy Tummy Bundle, while they're both wearing ski masks, and he is in an absolute rage ranting at these befuddled parents, and not listening to their excuses. "What, you were too busy shopping to bring your baby with you? I'm committing burglary and I still didn't leave my baby behind."

He still robbed them, but he also taught them a very important lesson; don't leave your baby in a hot car, or a horrible twentysomething single father is going shame you in the middle of a Walmart parking lot.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

something I've been wondering... why, exactly, is Tate Mcgucket in Gravity Falls?

Yeah, he's Fidd's son, but Fiddleford left his family in California when Ford called him up for the big project. The closest we get to seeing him in Gravity Falls is a snapshot photo.

And we know his wife left him.

Why would his son move all the way out to the weird town where his dad went crazy, the dad he probably hasn't seen in decades? And just, take up a random small job there and ignore the old man? What? Why stay?

So... what if... that's not Tate.

What if... that's a robot Mcgucket built to cope with losing his actual family? We know Fidds tends to invent incredibly life-like robots when dealing with interpersonal dramas.

And he just... forgot it wasn't actually him.

He's been in Gravity Falls a loooooong time. He abused that memory gun pretty bad. What he that's just what he thought Tate would be like? Would anyone know if Tate was a fake? Would anyone in this weird town even think to ask the question?

Tate, why are you here?

[misteria247]

Me when. Me when. Me when Pacifica is the child fiddleford never got to raise and when fiddleford is the good father Pacifica never had

Man, having tate be around for this, being silently a little bit jealous and wondering why he wasn't as lucky as Paz and did not get to have Fidd in his life like this.

do you see the vision

:0 Anon I see the vision and it feeds me immensely omfg

Edit for some reason this ask came up as Anon and now I'm looking at it and realizing you're not an Anon shdgdgdgddhdh I'm so sorry.

[butchtateandtackle]

yeah man whatever

[evilgoodguys]

he was his father's greatest creation.

[slightlyartist]

Tate deserves to punch Ford so I drew it, felt really therapeutic <3

[wormspoodle]

some misc stuff i had colored except i clearly have a brainworm and its named fiddleford mcgucket which is. unfortunate.

[picikutya]

Muahuahuahua

[scurvyboy]

not as much memory loss timeline fiddleford you're so cool

[euphoriaface]

yall already know about bill's jealousy over mcgucket but now get ready for... jealousy over a baby

[pixeltwix]

{McGucket Family Tree}

I did promise to extend my lore and story for Fiddleford just as I did for Emma May in this post, buuuut for today I’ll be doing a more general Fiddleford family post without diving into his life in depth (I swear I will get to it eventually though. Today will just be small details and their designs :P )

The McGucket family definitely gives off ‘weirdo’ vibes. They’re a well known family in the town, but they always have a bizarre aura about them that sets them all apart from the rest

Bobbie Jean, his mother, and Arlo, his father, settled a bit later into a family than most others would in town, but their patient natures only brought about a very loving family

Blanche is the first born followed by Fiddleford some years after, but now you may ask, ‘why doesn’t anyone else have a goofy name?’

Per McGucket family tradition the first born son is always to have an unconventional or silly name, otherwise it’ll bring about bad luck. The McGuckets are very superstitious people after all!

To play off the weirdo vibe and unconventional energy of the family though I feel all of the McGucket kids have something about them that keeps them apart from most others

Blanche isn’t interested in romance or relationships despite the towns folk gossiping and calling her a spinster for her age

Fiddleford is exceptionally smart and capable of things beyond average comprehension

Lenore is artsy, independent, and favors women over men. Thankfully her parents would never force her into a marriage and protect her at home

Darla is the sweetest kid you’ll ever meet, but her anxiety is 10x worse than Fidds, speech not easy for her even with her own family

Huck is the second born son, but definitely not a farm kid. He detests everything about it and has tried on many occasions to set the pigs free

And then Sally has zero filter, enough said on that. She wastes no punches verbally and struggles to make friends on account of it

But then of course there’s the newest lady in the McGucket family, Emma May. I could talk for hours about her, but joining the family wasn’t exactly the smoothest transition for her

Growing up in a very unorthodox setting with cult influence she was unused to being welcomed into a home where kindness was given without strings attached

The McGuckets were more than happy to help her understand this though and even happier to learn about the woman who managed to steal their (usually socially inept) sons heart

While poor as the McGucket family is I imagine their family home has been with them for generations. Naturally as the family grows so too must the house. I’d imagine their place looks a bit of a mess with all the steady added additions to the house and barn, but it’s all so chaotically organized and right it difficult to not be endeared

While the main house is packed and lovely most of everyone spends the majority of their day out working the land and taking care of the animals

Thankfully they are not alone as the family is quite extended and equally generous and kind

There are plenty more men who have fallen victim to the silly name tradition that the McGuckets have, but the two closest in age to Fiddleford are the most relevant

Thistlebert and Diddsley were really his only friends aside from his siblings growing up, but really these two already felt like older brothers anyway

Thistlebert has an affinity for ‘saucer people’ always curious of alien life even if he doesn’t have the intellect of Fidds to understand it

Meanwhile Diddsley acts as more of the enthusiast for chaos. Always encouraging Fiddleford when they were kids to make the next big thing for them to wreak havoc with. Be that mini pig robots or tractors that can go over 80 mph, he was always the first to give suggestions

Like I said, this will not be the post where I hyper focus on Fiddleford himself, but to conclude I’ll simply say- The McGucket family is literally so silly

Like they’re all very capable and hardworking people, but they will find time to be fun and enjoy their lives without being serious all of the time

In a way it helps them cope with the conditions of their lives and the struggles that they realize most likely will never go away

But despite that every generation becomes more and more optimistic, Fiddleford’s literal dream to be that he an make enough money to provide for his own family one day

[creepst-crypt]

Wouldn’t it be horrible if he’d witnessed something so scary while in Gravity Falls that he makes a memory gun and ends up using too much to the point he loses his own self identity for the next 30 years and never returns home.

[mouseshift]

i cant believe i missed fiddleford friday. by like 3 hours

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

It might be a little while before I actually get the comic out, so here's a small title card for it or something to hold you over‼️

My post where I mentioned this!!!