Excuse me. I have to go flail with glee for a few minutes.
Hehehehe!
Oh, Susan - you totally make Sheridan look like the biggest wimp in the universe.
She so, so does.
The decisions like whether to have Delenn require rescuing or just injured are always soooo hard in writing stuff like this.
Yep. I tend to write a lot of kickass characters interacting together, but usually it's a het couple, so if I ever get to a point where plot enters into the picture, I usually have the girl save the guy or otherwise be the proactive one just to do my part at redressing centuries of gender imbalance in fiction. (Speaking of unexpected problems in writing femslash: pronouns! I'm so used to writing het that I've gotten into a habit of using lots of pronouns rather than names or epithets, but I can't always do that here without causing confusion about who's doing what! It's totally screwing with my rhythm, and I'm going to have to go over this with a fine-toothed comb to catch all the confusing instances once I finish it.)
you can always just go for Susan saving the day because, hell, she's good at it
Bwahahaha. That she is. If I do go with Susan saving the day, in the interests of expediency, I think I'll just have Delenn sort of swimming in and out of consciousness, so what she sees of the rescue is very short and confused. *g*
And yeah, B5 brings out the angst-whore in us all, I think. It's just natural for the series - it's hard to make anything totally fluffy seem right in their universe, much as we all may wish it to be.
Alas, I think you are right. Although it doesn't stop me from trying for most of my fics. *snerk*
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Oh, Susan - you totally make Sheridan look like the biggest wimp in the universe.
She so, so does.
The decisions like whether to have Delenn require rescuing or just injured are always soooo hard in writing stuff like this.
Yep. I tend to write a lot of kickass characters interacting together, but usually it's a het couple, so if I ever get to a point where plot enters into the picture, I usually have the girl save the guy or otherwise be the proactive one just to do my part at redressing centuries of gender imbalance in fiction. (Speaking of unexpected problems in writing femslash: pronouns! I'm so used to writing het that I've gotten into a habit of using lots of pronouns rather than names or epithets, but I can't always do that here without causing confusion about who's doing what! It's totally screwing with my rhythm, and I'm going to have to go over this with a fine-toothed comb to catch all the confusing instances once I finish it.)
you can always just go for Susan saving the day because, hell, she's good at it
Bwahahaha. That she is. If I do go with Susan saving the day, in the interests of expediency, I think I'll just have Delenn sort of swimming in and out of consciousness, so what she sees of the rescue is very short and confused. *g*
And yeah, B5 brings out the angst-whore in us all, I think. It's just natural for the series - it's hard to make anything totally fluffy seem right in their universe, much as we all may wish it to be.
Alas, I think you are right. Although it doesn't stop me from trying for most of my fics. *snerk*