I was walking home from posting Christmas cards (every sodding year I miss the second class post deadline: such an arsewit, I am) and mentally composing a post to dw_ficsearch  to hunt out the following fic: Can't really remember the plot (or if there was one), but Five found Turlough making him a cup of tea, and discovered that the ginger one is actually a huge tea-nerd: insists on making it in a teapot, fusses about whether you put the milk in first, etc. I just remember it being kind of adorable.

Then I wondered if maybe I'd written it and forgotten it was me.

Then I realised that actually it's not Turlough, it's Hex, making tea for Ace, and it's not a fic, it's The Settling. From this I conclude that:

1) I am the worst fangirl ever
2) Ace/Hex = Five/Turlough: knowledgeable voice of experience who frequently gets exasperated by companion but is also desperately keen to teach them stuff while also trusting them to not be utterly helpless alone/dopey tart who looks nice in a uniform and causes confusing sexual tension
3) Canon is wonderful, for it has provided us with two boy companions who really like tea
4) There should be more fic about #3

In other news, I still hate 2Entertain. I bet there were loads of excitable people who could have been indoctrinated into the temple of ginger off the back of Time Crash who will instead end up watching Time-Flight and Warriors of the Deep, conclude that the Davison era is the most helplessly pathetic shambles imaginable, and never watch any old skool joy ever again. Bastards. Bet they release Four to Doomsday next, just to make me cry.

I have not watched any Turloughy Who in aaages. So: Frontios or Enlightenment?

(Also, cheers to all who responded re that Torchwood business: not ignoring anyone, just being disorganised/busy. But if you expressed an interest, promise to get back to you soon, and apologies for uselessness.)