COYOTE TATE

frothing from the mouth about tate mcgucket

[coyotetatertot]

Ain't gonna finish puttin aesthetics on this blog for none :)

Proceeding forward I'm just ranting and raving about the McGuckets, analyzing dynamics and parallels in their tragedy, planning a couple of no ship fics that deconstruct their characters and focus on personal growth, healing, and reconnection along with cross-generational bonding with Stan twins, maybe a few drawings, raving about painful bluegrass songs, lots of headcanons and overall frothing at the mouth.

Appalachian English ahead, disorganized spam and unhinged behavior ahead, I ain't posting anything about ships you don't gotta worry bout that, but genuinely I am obsessive, hyperactive and a little unstable so if you aren't here to roll with it do NOT tap on the glass of my enclosure 😭

Admin is Appalachian diaspora, bluegrass fanatic & banjo player, former computational physics major who now works in IT and can feel my PDE skills fading — call me Coyote, they/them, 25.

Enjoy the shit show

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Art -- #my art

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[triptychcryptid-deactivated2025]

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Here's a Holiday Fidds and Emma May I drew for @a-tato-box !

[coyotetatertot]

i finished consolidating all of my tate lore

also here's my tate playlist that essentially goes through the lore from start to end

idk what kind of mental illness this is but he's in my head and won't leave.

[dajiistrans]

"Uhh AFAB transfem people could be intersex-"

Without looking it up, tell me what types of intersex people would be assigned female at birth and simultaneously need to transition to being female. I don't think you know, because most of you were just using intersex people as a rhetorical shield for your real audience - cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women.

[ugly-anarchist]

I'm intersex, so I'll tell you.

Sometimes intersex people have a complicated experience with being "assigned" a sex. Sometimes an intersex person is assigned female at birth and then coercively or even forcefully reassigned male later, usually during puberty. So in order to identify as a women they would need to subvert their assigned male status.

People born with a micropenis or other forms of ambiguous genitalia pretty much have a 50/50 chance of being assigned male or female, it's kind of up to the doctor or ever how that doctor is feeling that day. What this means is that someone who was assigned female can have an identical body to someone who was assigned male. This means that an afab person can be born with a penis and go through a fully masculinizing puberty. Even if they're afab, they may feel the need to go on hrt, get bottom surgery, and go through a transition process that is identical to that of an amab trans women.

Some intersex people don't consider their physical sex to be either female or male and may feel the need to transition to a body that they feel is female/male, regardless of what their agab is.

Essentially: Afab doesn't mean "fully recognized and viewed by society as female" nor does it mean someone with a typical female body/experience. It describes an event that happened at the beginning of a person's life. This event can have an effect on the experiences of people later in life but for intersex people specifically this event is often either traumatic or just plain inaccurate and doesn't describe how we actually live.

Many intersex people, regardless of agab, feel as though they have to transition (both socially and medically) into their gender. Sometimes this takes the form of people who were assigned female and have transitioned into being women.

And before anyone says it: No. Often times afab intersex people are not seen as women or even remotely female. There's a lot of people who believe that ALL intersex people, regardless of agab, are "males with DSDs". I myself have been told that I'm not female and there's nothing I could do to be female.

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

And since you all clearly want our trauma rather than "because our identities matter even if you don't get it" as a response, here are some examples of intersex people being forcibly feminized later in life than most of you all pretend happens to us:

As for "cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women" - just say you don't see hormone disorders as intersex. Fun fact - for most of my life, I was diagnosed with PCOS. For all of my life, I had parents and doctors neglecting heart issues. Parents who got angry when I wanted to see a doctor.

Then I found out I had CAH this entire fucking time. Which looks like PCOS in certain aspects, but isn't. CAH comes with critical heart issues and is often met with cosmetic surgery on infant genitalia to reduce clitoral size, despite this not impacting the heart.

I didn't know I had that fucking surgery until this year despite being sexually active for nearly 20 years and always having complications and weird looking labia! :) My lifelong heart issues never even got medicated until I was 28!! My parents intentionally medically neglected me to avoid me finding out I was intersex!!

I'm saying this, not because I consider myself a trans woman (I don't), but because intersex people with hormone disorders are OFTEN who you bigots are referring to when you're talking about "cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women" or "cis women fetishizing intersex people" or anything else in that fucking horrible, obnoxious, intersexist realm. Hormone disorders are called hormone disorders because doctors want intersex traits to be a fucking disorder. Not because of the heart issues or other actually treatable issues that ARE DISORDERED! And y'all aligning with this mentality is so fucking horribly bioessentialist and nasty.

Your limited understanding of natural human sex diversity does not give you the right to define transness for other perisex trans people, much less intersex trans people. Your inability to understand that intersex children and teens are ALSO reassigned and mutilated is YOUR ignorance, and demanding OUR trauma to educate your ignorant fucking ass is some nasty, pathetic bullshit. The fucking backbone on people like this who pretend to give a shit about marginalized people while directly harming us being made of pure fucking goop. Cowardice.

[butchtateandtackle-deactivated2]

in my mind there is coherent literary analysis of tate but in practice its just this.

[pixeltwix]

Life After Divorce for Emma May

For awhile now I’ve struggled to figure out what job Emma May could’ve taken up after the divorce as for so many reasons this is SUCH a messy topic.

Firstly, do y’all ever think about how the only reason Fiddleford was even going to Gravity Falls in the first place was to secure more money and provide a better financial future for his family (something he’d always dreamt of doing) only to then lose his memories, leaving the family in shambles, and ultimately leaving them in a worse financial situation with Em as a single mom?? Cause I think about this ALL the time-

To me it only makes sense that Fiddleford would marry someone just as lovely and sweet as him, but also someone who is tough enough for both of them. Let’s all nod our heads and agree that Fiddleford is a pushover and a major people pleaser. Most of his kindness to Ford is him outwardly wanting validation from an old friend he admirers because otherwise he feels useless and unintelligent. Ie Fidds whole, ‘I’m the builder, if I’m not building something than I’m useless’. So when he becomes too exhausted to build and Ford grows frustrated with this he tries to make up for it with gifts etc :,). That paired with some chronic anxiety is a recipe for a man who needs someone who can understand that and is willing to help him- his wife. mutually patient and kind as he, is happy to be that for him.

Regardless as far as her career goes, smart as she is, I don’t see her as book smart? Rather people smart? Emma May knows how to talk someone up, knows how to make a deal, knows how to defuse a situation, and could probably sell someone their own shirt off their back. Perhaps that could stem from the cult background I explain here and here, but regardless she’s witty in conversation and great at pretending she’s an expert on something she’s never heard of.

Naturally I thought sales would be a good place to put her, maybe rise the ladder that way? One of those late night tv marketers? But it didn’t feel like enough? The 80’s were a prime time for women to put themselves into the workplace, incredibly toxic as the environment was for them it didn’t stop women from being excited to be there. Ironically it’s the perfect time to divorce? Even if she didn’t want to, after the giant homicidal pterodactyl robot it sort of felt like a, ‘even if I still love my husband, if I value me and my sons life, I have to do this’ sort of thing

After taking that into consideration I thought ‘honestly bigger is better’ so I brainstormed harder to figure it out. And after a few lengthy rabbit holes I believe I figured it out. While Fiddleford acts as sort of the Bill Gates of the Gravity Falls universe I thought ‘who’s someone else deeply recognizable in Americas pop culture, but tv related?’ And then it hit me, ‘oh my god what if Emma May acts as the Oprah of the Gravity Falls universe? The Emma Dixon Show?’ (In the sense of a beloved tv personality that unexpectedly rose to great fame in the mid 1980s) The-match up felt perfect enough and a mid 80s timeframe feels realistic too as it gives her those three years to struggle and figure something out to provide for her son.

But also hi hello, I needed Emma May to peruse some sense of tv fame for the sake of her last name becoming a synonymous one. Considering I have no idea where miss Emmaline Butternubbins wound up after the fall of Billville (or hell if she’s even alive some twenty odd years later) but I love the idea of Emmaline recognizing the name ‘Dixon’, seeing the similarities on tv between Emma May and what she remembers of young Madeline, and wanting to reach out. Mainly out of fear that Ciphertology is rising again and she wants to talk some sense into her, sure, but once they meet or get in contact and Em couldn’t be further from that?? She’s relieved. Plus the two can bond over the absolute madness of the cult (also Emma May gaining a mother figure that isn’t Fiddleford mom? I love Bobbie Jean, but Em needs even more maternal support)

Also also?? I always envisioned Emma May as the type of gal to be super into photography. She just loves taking pictures of memories, people she cares about, and stuff she likes.

So this especially grew once she had Tate, the kid naturally being used to getting his photo taken for scrapbooks, and he loved being photogenic

But once his mom becomes a tv personality he begins to detest the public eye and the cameras of others

Its a hatred he keeps to adulthood especially, having zero tolerance for anyones cameras (other than his moms polaroid camera) pointed towards him

[coyotetatertot]

tater to me

[askgravityexplorers]

Hi Tate!!

[coyotetatertot]

That's going to kill me actually

[pixeltwix]

👁‍🗨Ciphertology & The Dixons👁‍🗨

Sooooo…Emma May’s family was involved in a cult, right? Let me elaborate. As a fellow creative I have been known on many occasions to forget details big and small about my own world, but names? No, names are never something I tend to duplicate unless for a very specific thematic or world building reason. So color me stoked when I was curiously learning about Bill’s cult arc in the 1950’s and found one of his first followers was a young girl with the surname, you guessed it, Dixon!!

Considering Alex Hirsch is very purposeful with things and little hints, while also leaving the audience to figure things out for themselves while he sits back and laughs, I can’t help but feel the surname Dixon is a bit TOO coincidental in this instance. From what we see, Ciphertology and the followers were a mash of a bunch of real life cult references while doing the usual Hirsch thing of filtering Bill into a concept perfectly well.

All in all it’s a very interesting thing, but what I found more interesting were the people involved. Sure you have the puppet leader, Silas Birchtree and a bunch of other out there names, but amongst sits a simple ‘Madeline Dixon’….. Alex Hirsch I’m going to screAM :D

From what we learn, after the cult is forcibly disbanded by the US government and every trace of the town is wiped off of maps and history books, the people are spread throughout the country and given opportunities to start life over again. Not everyone followed that however and some continued to follow the Bill Cipher cult. And honestly I can’t help finding myself bouncing back to the very concept that is-

What if Emma May Dixon grew up in a recovering cult family? What if her family still believed in the cults teachings like some and practiced it in secret at home? And if that is true how am I meant to feel towards the idea that her future husband, Fiddleford McGucket, would become a cult leader himself all because of the very thing that was the foundation of her own cultish upbringing?

Honestly if that’s what Alex was shooting for, I’m calling him a genius cause that’s such a fascinating idea to work with. The concept that Bill has personally affected and rooted himself so deeply into the show and it’s characters that even those we don’t get to see still have dealt with him to some degree.

It just all feels too perfect too. The surname Dixon implies enough, thanks to Alex’s upfront and to the point naming, that Emma May too is a southerner like her husband. Or at the very least she’s in that farmy side of the country. And where did Ciphertology come from? Orchard Lake, Kansas. Madeline Dixon very well could be Emma May’s aunt or older sister considering the cult began in 1952. And assuming Em’s the same age as Fiddleford and the Stan twins then we can assume vaaaaageuly that she’d be born in 1955. Meaning she’d be either growing up in that recovering environment or indoctrinated into it.

We can assume well enough then that she didn’t follow the cults teachings considering she seems well adjusted with her family, living in Palo Alto, but it also kinda reaffirms why she’d be so quick to throw divorce on the table once she sees Fiddleford’s memory wiped condition. That on top of we can only assume his behavior was alarming and erratic and a far cry from the personality of her husband that she was used to (especially when you consider bRO made a homicidal pterodactyl robot because he was so distraught and upset towards the idea of being divorced..like yeah man..that might solidify her decision my guy..)

But if she ever saw the symbol of Bill’s eye or anything in relation to him anywhere in Gravity Falls?? Especially the Society of the Blind eye symbol spray painted all over? After either learning to fear Bill or worship him in her upbringing depending on what their family did after the cult was disbanded? I wouldn’t blame her for high tailing it out of there and worrying for her and her sons life- (Fiddleford..Emma May..I am your biggest fans, but y’all have me bonkers sometimes) But also consider how most ex cult members naturally want to give the very opposite traumatic life that they lived to their child? If Emma May were to see semblances of what she relates to Ciphertology in Gravity Falls, I don’t have a hard time believing she was getting tF out of there for the sake of Tate’s well being & future

In short- hi, I now believe Emma May’s family was in a cult and the very idea of that will ruminate with me for awhile :D But also double hi?? Madeline DIxon looks vaguely similar to how I envisioned and draw my Emma May design? Coincidence, I think nOT :P

[wav3y-zzz]

Emma-may & wee Tate! I think Emma-may would send letters instead of only calling fiddleford, just to send personal pictures and notes and whatnot. Type of gal to put pressed flowers into her letters

[coyotetatertot]

headcanon that Tate can tame the murderous geese at the lake

[coyotetatertot]

Tater Fandom come get some music. These songs are 🪕🎸 two halves of the same coin: two variations of the same (very) old folk tune. One Bill Monroe the other Kurt Cobain idk what else to say. If this ain't the most fidds and tater shit

[coyotetatertot]

developing my Tate lore but it won't be done till after work (night shift FML)

[coyotetatertot]

@tatefan811

OH GOD THANK YOU 😭😭😭 it is still a WIP I'm having to update bit by bit but I'm glad someone else in tater fandom enjoyed what's down so far 🥹🥹🫶

[coyotetatertot]

developing my Tate lore but it won't be done till after work (night shift FML)

[coyotetatertot]

Oh, fuck me. I'll make the account for Tate, cuz I'm tweakin out without it.

[coyotetatertot]