finlaena: (gl - absolute!salakk)
Love, Probably - A Green Lantern Corps AU Fan Fic

by Fin Laena

Summary: Slyggians are a rational, logic-minded people; none so more than Salaak.

That is, until he experiences something he cannot rationalize away so easily: the mortifying ordeal of being known.




Notes: This is my first Green Lantern fanwork in almost 15 years; suffice to say I’ve had to do a lot of catching up since I stopped reading in 2013 lmao. (I’m still catching up on the newer Earth Lanterns -Simon, Jessica, Jo, and Keli- so they don't really have a role in this particular fic.)

That said, this comic is set in its own, wholly separate universe from the comics or any spin-off media (let’s call it “Earth-1126” for now) and it’s basically a mix of headcanons and carte blanche from various continuities (i.e. Ghi’ata is present and also still very much alive); some comic events may be referenced but they’re unimportant for this particular story. (i.e. referencing the 1980's Englehart-Staton run, etc) If you're expecting this to be canon compliant, you're gonna be disappointed.

This comic is being cross-posted on Tumblr and AO3, too. Pages are done in batches of 5 at a time due to Life(tm). I dunno how many pages this will end up being, tbbh.

Anyhow, thank you for reading this incredibly self-indulgent fan comic that’s been slowly rotating in my head like a rotisserie chicken for the past 15 years and has only now become an actual story.

( Pages 1 through 5 )

( Pages 6 through 10 )

( Pages 11 through 15 )

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9/24/26 11:13 am
finlaena: (gl - future state!salaak)

There's nothing more saddening than having to tell someone you don't do fan art for a particular fandom anymore and haven't for several years now, especially when they're super excited to have found content they like is also rare.

At the same time, the horrible, cynical part of me wants to quote Professor Frink:

Which is petty as fuck, not going to argue there.

I can't help but feel kinda bitter when this happens, because my first knee-jerk reaction is to question and it dredges up ugly, terrible feelings that put me in a sour mood for the rest of the day. Like, you missed the boat by 4 years in this case. And now I have to deal with someone who may not react well when I tell them, politely, that I'm not doing this stuff anymore.

But... I know what it's like to come across content that you've never seen before or see very little of and having that feeling of excitement and joy. Went through it when I found some Green Lantern fics that never existed when I was hugely active in the fandom and was made fun of/iced out for being more of a fan of the aliens than the humans. So I shouldn't be too harsh.

Still, I ain't ever going back to the FF14 well. The Cid/Nero shippers and Gaius haters made it very clear to me that what I do wasn't wanted and I have zero desire to subject myself to that godforsaken fandom again.

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9/2/26 01:06 pm
finlaena: (gl - future state!salaak)

So, the age and fandom discourse came up again the other day. It's this discourse that's made me want to step away from fandom when I hit 40, seriously. I'm getting to be too old for this shit, man. It ain't worth it anymore.

I've spent the better part of 25 years under the radar, interested in the characters that the majority of fans never give 2 shits about, and have wasted so much time, effort, and energy into futile fannish pursuits.

To be brutally honest, I'm at a fork in the road with my life right now due to offline matters and am going to have to make some tough asf choices in the months ahead. Hell, I never wanted to make it to 40 in general, either, but life had other plans.

Maybe the kids have a point about being too old to be in fandoms.

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