Hi everyone!! With all the excitement around Midnighter and Apollo winning the King Yaoi tournament, I wanted to highlight the Authority's other queer couple: Jenny Sparks and Shen Li-Men!! I thought I'd put together a little reading list for anyone interested in them as a ship as an easy reference guide if you're looking to get started reading :) I recommend checking out my Authority reading guide (link) for the context around their relationship, but if you're just interested in the two of them here's what to read!!
Fanmix for Swift, fourth in a set for the Authority.
There's a little bit of Jenny/Swift and one track is for the Carrier (Time + Space).
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Lyrics:
Fly With Me - Artsvik
Over deeps, over hills
She casts her wings and now it feels
Love is one
Flying high she became
A sun whose love and light’s the same
For everyone
Another Way - Lastlings
Slip through the dark
Shot me from the start
Runnin', runnin', runnin'
I need just another way
I need just another way
Better Man - Ellie Goulding
Out of my head but you made me this way, I swear
Rose-tinted glasses, but trust me I'm seeing red
Took the confidence I had
You can watch me take it back
I'm in the future and the past
That's the perfect hourglass
Tried to make me lose my cool
Hold my karma in my hands
Every time I get a chance
Maybe I'm a better man
Run For Your Life - Tiffany Young
Now walk (Run for your life)
Walk (Run for your life)
It rains out of control
These chains don't have a hold on me
Don't say I'm a sinner
I'm ice cold, baby
On an ocean of glitter
Many Colors - Uh Huh Her
My destination, I'll give it all I got
This realization is long overdue
I'm fascinated with the way you move
Your many colors could light up the room
You bring the light of love
Cause fate leads the way
When my eyes are closed I think of you
Cause fate leads the way
Camo - BoA
In the darkness
With all the lights off
I’ve hidden my shadow
I can’t be tied down
To some place tonight
My face has changed
My heart is moving
But my camouflage will hide it
Time + Space - Thievery Corporation ft. Lou Lou Ghelickhani
Give me the sound if you want to travel
Give me the sound if you want to share
I need the rhythm to be able to send us
The strength inside you
The force in me
Through the light, I can carry your pain
Through the light, I can take all your worries
Come on, I can carry time and space
Evergreen - Faithless
Running with my rain face on
Today I woke up feeling sad
I know that you said
That one day I would be glad
Oh, the choirs of winter, birds are calling
To me and
All the leaves I came to love
Are falling
Ribbons on evergreen
Owls that pull them apart
I can hear you singing, my funny valentine
Oh, you know that breaks my heart
also was she killing swift because swift would hate jenny becoming a very murderous vampire, probably to spare Shen having to kill/watch the woman she loves become even further from her morals.... OR did she try to turn shen so they could be together and it backfired with Shens physiology.
also jenny is powerful but she can perceive things very fast- and there isent many singes of struggle... did jenny lure her, or did shen know and on some level let herself be killed, or was she trusting jenny so much she wasent trying to protect her self until to late.
am i overthinking one small panel? maybe but i will take the crumbs
jenshen angst where jenny knows she's gonna die because it's 1999 and her passing ushers in the spirit of the 21st century to replace her. counting down the hours together, jenny passing on in shen's arms
