Wanted to again give big congrats on your upcoming top surgery 👏 I want to say, I'm very inspired to write an old Fiddauthor fic because of your writing. I have a very ambitious project in mind 🩷😊 Also, I was curious, do you have any particular trans!Fiddleford headcanons you would want to share? Thank you for sharing your writing with us 🩷💜🩷💜🩷💜💜💖
It’s been a surreal time getting ready. It’s fitting that I’m gonna get an up close and personal look at the hospital while working on Dial Tone lol.
Also YAY!! Post canon Fiddauthor is so dang heart rending, you should totally do it. And honestly, go for ambitious. I can’t tell you how much I hemmed and hawed with my wife over whether I was doing too much for Dial Tone. But no! if you get a wild idea, you should run with it!
As for trans Fiddleford headcanons, lemme see:
I’d say he totally DIY’d his hormones at the junkyard. For years. Sometimes the quality was better or worse, and when he was really out of it, he’d either take it too often or go weeks without remembering. Getting his T levels stable has probably helped his recovery a LOT.
That man aint had top surgery. Not a chance. He’s got the hollowed out chest and loose skin, but he was either far too busy or wasn’t stable enough to get that sorted. And now that he is, he isn’t too worried about it.
That said, he has had a hysterectomy. They were super common for folk to get in the seventies (Not even for trans stuff btw.) Interestingly enough, the medical requirements to get a hysto approved were very low back then. Something as simple as claiming severe pelvic cramps or irregular bleeding could have been enough to secure approval.
I say that because I think that he had a full hysto with the ovaries removed as well. Seems like a superfluous detail, but I think part of his health struggles during those years on the street was due in part to having a truly jacked up endocrine situation. He had no "natal back up" for his hormonal production, so during those less lucid periods when he couldn't make/forgot to take his own junkyard T, his body had nothing. And a lack of hormones can cause things like Insomnia, abrupt menopause symptoms, irritability, mood changes, loss of muscle mass and bone density, and even arthritis. It's savage on the body.
Fiddleford may be nearly bald, (which he doesn't mind), but the man's got body hair like nobody's business. He's got them thin, wispy, white tufts of hair on his shoulders, the backs of his hands, all of it.
He's designing his own play prosthetic. Silicone works a pain in the ass, and working on the haptic sensors is tricky and tedious, but he's got a laundry list of wants that no online retailer seem to have (or even think is possible). And he ain't settling, so he's making one his own. And meanwhile Poor Ford is red-faced in their shared workshop and trying to focus on his own work, knowing full and well that Fiddleford is literally building a way to fuck him.
Ok so like a LOT of this was focused on the medical side of things but like. . . Yeah. Fidds is an older man. He's chillin'. He's still goin shirtless at the lake without having top surgery. He's getting his shots every week. Things are good.
