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[thisbluespirit]

Since I was name-checked, hello, I AM fond of Five/Tegan!  (They were my first Target novelisations back in the day when you could not get hold of actual telly stuff and Big Finish wasn’t dreamt of yet, and it was So Obvious to my twelve-year-old self that they were a deeply repressed and awkward Thing.  Nothing’s ever really changed my mind yet.)

If you’re looking for fic, I haven’t actually written very much Five/Tegan.  I love them so much I can’t write them; you can see why their vibe is very much mine, too, lol.  Although anything I write with Five & Tegan in has an underlying Five/Tegan-ness going on there to some degree (in my head).

It’s quite funny, because back in Teaspoon days, Five/Tegan was one of the big Doctor/companion het ships for classic Who, but then with Janet not being willing to be in Big Finish for so long, Five/Nyssa took over on that front, and Five/Tegan never really recovered steam again after.  Which is annoying if you still intensely ship it and aren’t much good at writing it, ahem ahem, ahem. /goes up in lilac & beige coloured shipping smoke

But that means there IS fic out there if you know where to look.  Here’s a link to a Five/Tegan Manifesto I did for het_reccers years ago, which has 10 Five/Tegan works in it and I still think they’re pretty great.  Several of the authors did some others as well, especially LilacFree on Teaspoon, who you should definitely check out, as being particularly good.

Some works I’ve found since then:

a hole in my heart and your girl she dreams of flying by zauberer_zirin (If LJ starts warning you about adult material, that’s just about LJ and comm/journal settings for reasons; these two works are PG and not adult material, just click on the “I am over 18″ button and ignore LJ being weird.)

Two Hearts by emerald_arrows

Tegan and Five - cute art by @mentalrhapsody​

A Partnership in Time by Merfilly

Doubt and Doubles by @lurking-latinist​

In terms of my own stuff, because I have written a ridiculous amount over the years, the ones that have a more Five &/ Tegan focus are:

Summer’s Outing

Subdivide and Multiply (which is also kind of poly, but not in depth; it was just that someone said Five’s era had a perfect sedoretu arrangement right there, so... /shrugs)  (Tegan didn’t want to marry three other people just to get a house.  That was what estate agents were for.)

Bleeding Out (Five gets injured; Tegan has to help)

Legal Requirement (actual Five/Tegan, amazing, for an exchange, obv.)

Anyway, I could talk a lot about why I ship it and how it works (and does and doesn’t) and Thoughts and Ideas, but since you are mainly after a bit of fic, here are some recs and even a bit of a light-hearted old manifesto, and if you do get into reading this ship, it’s worth exploring Teaspoon, because there is more over there!  (Cybermoggy, LilacFree and theshoelessone all wrote several more, just for starters.  There’s also someone whose name I need to see if I can remember who wrote, not Five/Tegan, but some really great Five era missing Adventures novel-length things.)

@thisbluespirit is fond of Five/Tegan, you might enjoy having a look through her AO3!

oh NOOO I've been FOUND OUT my fic-reading habits have been broadcast to the world DSKJFHSKDJFHKDSJHFKJSDHFKJHSDKJFHSKJDHF THIS IS AN ATTACK

(actually I'm just being silly and DramaticTM, this is totally fine and I very much appreciate the tip!! if I had actually wanted people not to know, I would’ve sent the ask as an anon. I just saw this pop up in my askbox last night and almost *lost it* cackling bc I didn't expect it at all kdsfjhskdjfh 😂😂 but as I saw someone else mention on a reblog of a post about this very pairing, sometimes you see a pairing and you just can't help but go "oh. That's actually compelling. let's explore what could potentially happen here for a bit.")

and I went and glanced through her AO3 last night before I went to sleep and found at least one really promising fic there!! so thank you so much for the suggestion, Aurelia!! :D