[A/N: This was originally posted on my now-deleted tumblr in August 2013.]

Trekkiefeminist has been running a Behind the Camera week over on her Star Trek blog, and her mention of D.C. Fontana made me think of doing the same for Babylon 5.

I guess I should preface this by saying that Babylon 5 is, and probably always will be, my favourite TV show. I love it with all the passion of a fourteen year old, even with the insight of an adult. It also has two of my favourite female characters of all time: Susan Ivanova and Delenn, as well as several other women who I love very much (and wow, do I sten for Liz Lochley when provoked). I would wholeheartedly support the statement "Babylon 5 has the best women." Because, seriously, Delenn and Ivanova are the best. Also, ♥.♥

However, when people start saying that B5 did the best ever at representing women, I start to make frowny faces at said people. Because of that is the future, there’s been some kind of calamity that’s knocked the female population back to somewhere between a quarter and a third of the whole, just saying. And that’s humans. Aliens just don’t seem to need as many women as we do. Like three is totally fine.

Behind the camera, the situation is just as bad if not worse.
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Title: never inconvenienced by the sun
Author: muccamukk
Pairing: Susan/Delenn
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Something goes disastrously wrong with the heating in Delenn's quarters; she goes to Susan for help.
Notes: This story is a follow up to dans le meilleur des mondes, but all you need to know about that one is that Susan and Delenn were in a relationship before they were assigned to Babylon 5, it didn't go well, and now they are tentatively getting to know each other again.

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