#hnk fic

[nacrelysis]

would you take me for a ride, would you toss me to the side? (1995 words) by para_para Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 宝石の国 | Houseki no Kuni | Land of the Lustrous (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Antarcticite/Phosphophyllite (Houseki no Kuni) Characters: Antarcticite (Houseki no Kuni), Phosphophyllite (Houseki no Kuni) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Love Confessions, Getting Together, Fix-It, Post-Chapter 96: Ten Thousand Years, post-96 when i originally wrote it, technically antarc's attitude towards phos here diverges post-95, Fix-It of Sorts Summary:

"It was dawn. I saw you, there, atop the mountain of snow. Your hair floated around your head like strands of Shinsha's mercury, Antarcticite; I wanted so badly to touch it but I knew you'd never forgive me." I would have, Antarcticite thinks now, old with regret and sorrow. I would have let you, a thousand times over.

Ten thousand years later: a reunion on the Shores of Nascency, and the subsequent rebirth.

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i wrote this on tumblr in june 2022 in celebration of the end of the two-year long houseki no kuni hiatus. after two years and the end of the manga this april, the revised version is finally posted on ao3 (there was so much procrastinating that went into this, my god).

to ichikawa, thank you for such a gorgeous story.

to phosphyllite, antarcticite, bort and co., i'll see you again in all the fic and art ideas i have. good luck prying my cold dead hands from yall lol.

and to everyone in this fandom, happy ten thousand years! this has truly been, and will always be, our houseki no kuni <3

[slowpokecurry]

in honor of april fools 2024, i present to you... a houseki no kuni fic about baby phos attacking all the gems with boops.

[radishleaf]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 宝石の国 | Houseki no Kuni | Land of the Lustrous (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Euclase/Lapis Lazuli (Houseki no Kuni) Characters: Euclase (Houseki no Kuni), Rutile (Houseki no Kuni), Lapis Lazuli (Houseki No Kuni) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bittersweet, Reminiscing, Body Horror, minor body horror by the way, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst Summary:

Lapis Lazuli's head wasn't the only part they recovered that day.

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

[keirientez]

two other aus that i had like a few months ago

[veryace-ficrecs]

Hi has anyone done a houseki no kuni/ land of the lustrous fic list? If not, do make one

Thank you for your time (*´ ˘ `*)

Not yet! I can absolutely do that for you!!

houseki no kuni Fic Recs

Phosphophyllite by tamagoyaki - Rated G

A mute. An unfortunately brittle gem. A troublemaker. That's what the others know them as and what they believe to be true. But Antarcticite knows better, having been there since they found them in winter. Phosphophyllite's not as young as they think. Alternatively, the AU in which Phos returns to the past

Summer Stillness by atlanxic - Rated G

Phos gets into the habit of making daily reports to the sleeping Antarcticite, after that first winter. As well as some other habits.

Summer by FairyLights101 - Rated G

Their eyes narrowed. ��You… are Phosphophyllite, right?”

Metamorphose, or: Changing from Within by lapisgod - Rated T

Phosphophyllite—an aggregate of crystal, shell, gold, stone, and pearl—remembers being on Earth. They remember relishing in the destruction of all the gems, remember facing off with Cinnabar who betrayed them for a machine. Even though this is the case, when they awaken after that fight, they have woken up as the Phos from three hundred years ago. The Phos who had not yet lost themself nor anyone else. Still, they can't seem to forget.

With Cold Hands by orbitalknight - Rated G

Phos finds the perfect snowy view.

If Only I Was Never Here by beyond_bewildered - Not Rated

Phosphophyllite meets Antarcticite again. Phos, now broken more than ever seeks salvation from this unexpected meeting.

Keta by waterthemelon - Rated G

The moon is as silent as ever when the Lunarians sleep. But Phos' mind is in midst of a storm they can't control anymore.

winter's soldier by orphan_account - Rated T

memories piled up one by one by one, like snow.

atmosphere by Anonymous for housekinokuni - Rated G

Antarc and Phos' patrol, with a little detour.

Thank You by beyond_bewildered - Not Rated

The night Phos' loses his arms to the ice floes, Phos is alone in his room thinking of the past few days, contemplating what he needs to truly change so he can be helpful to the gems. And then he hears a knock outside his room. (This fills in the gap between the discussion with Sensei, Antarc and Phos after losing his arms and the following day where they search for new material for the arms.)

Stone Cold by StarsinmyTea - Rated G

Physical sensation is a curious experience for creatures made of cold stone - especially to one who has forgotten so many of their precious firsts. Phos finds themselves longing inexplicably for physical contact and in the process learns of the hidden language behind every touch and texture.

calcium dichloride hexahydrate by Yudonomi - Rated G

The other gems find it difficult to wake in winter, Antarcticite finds it impossible to stay through the spring. There’s no room for each other.

[noirrelite]

old drawing of Black Tourmaline, a friend's hnk OC from last year from a discontinued fic called "Land of the New Lustrous"

[dragonkeeper19600]

How I Would Fix Houseki no Kuni

By now, you guys are probably more familiar than you’d like to be with the numerous posts I’ve made about what I see as the many narrative failings of Houseki no Kuni.

I’ve already written extensively about my gripes with this train wreck of a manga, and as much as I’ve said already, I could keep going. However, over the past few days, I’ve found myself wondering what I would change to make the story stronger. After all, it’s easy enough to identify a problem with a story, but it’s a great deal more challenging to come up with a solution. I’ve already suggested some potential changes in other posts, but I thought I’d assemble all of my brilliant ideas in one convenient location.

So, without further ado, here’s how I would fix the garbage fire that is Houseki no Kuni:

First, I’d have Phos keep the encyclopedia job longer. It always seemed weird to me that this story mechanic was dropped so soon after being introduced, and I don’t think that was to the story’s benefit. Phos becoming more devoted to and more competent at the encyclopedia job would showcase his growing maturity, plus it would lead to a growing curiosity. A big part of what sets Phos apart in the original story is how willing he is to question things that the other gems don’t, such as Sensei’s possible connection to the Lunarians or whether there’s another job for Cinnabar. You could have his desire to learn more come from his desire to get the encyclopedia job right because he’s already fucked up everything else he’s ever attempted, so this is his last chance to be good at something.

Similarly, I would not make Phos a fighter, or, at least, I would wait until later in the series to make him a fighter. Manga and anime is already oversaturated with stories about people who learn how to fight. Having a protagonist who’s strong suit is not fighting would make Houseki no Kuni stand out from other seinen series. Instead, Phos’s usefulness to the war against the Lunarians would be as a tactician, using the information he’s collected from other gems (such as Alexandrite’s obsessive knowledge of the Lunarians) and his own observations to help the other gems fight more efficiently. Phos accepting that he isn't cut out to be a fighter would be yet another sign of his maturity. In my version, after he gets his new agate legs, he decides he can ditch the encyclopedia job and become a fighter like he’s always wanted, just like in the original story. However, after he sees the Amethyst twins shattered by the Lunarian weapon made from Sapphire, he realizes battle isn’t cool and badass like he thought but scary and really tough, and he decides the encyclopedia thing is where he’s needed.

Of course, Phos would be forced to take up arms and finally fight later in the series as the war with the Lunarians is ramping up. Phos would have a moment to muse on the irony of finally getting to be a fighter just like he always wanted after already deciding he didn’t want it anymore.

One more thing about combat is that the gems would wear actual armor into battle. Red Beryl’s job wouldn’t be just to make cute moe moe outfits for the gems to strut their stuff in but to forge armor to protect the gems from the Lunarians’ weapons. The Lunarians would find ways to get through the armor, of course, but it would be better and more believable than sending these rocks into a war zone wearing but ties and shorts too tiny to pass a public school dress code. The gems can still wear their uniforms when they’re just hanging out at the school, that’s fine, but when they go on patrol, they suit up in fucking armor. The fact that they don’t wear their armor around the school could actually lead to some tense scenes where the Lunarians attack the school directly and the gems there are caught unprepared and underdressed.

Phos’s motive for not hibernating during the Winter Arc would be, again, to observe Antarcticite and the winter season for the encyclopedia. However, and this is big, by the time winter ends, Phos would come to blame Sensei for Antarcticite’s shattering. This is a change I suggested in a previous post. The exact scene I described back then is that Phos sees Sensei shatter Antarcticite himself, but I don’t think you need to go that far. Phos’s blaming of Sensei doesn’t even need to be justified; he could just be lashing out at Sensei out of misplaced grief. But something needs to happen during the Winter Arc, while everyone else is asleep, to make Phos suspicious of Sensei. Perhaps Phos actually sees the Lunarians surround Sensei and tug pleadingly at his clothes, like they did in the actual manga, and comes to realize that the Lunarians and Sensei are connected. Perhaps Sensei hesitates to strike back against the Lunarians, because he’s guilty about not being able to help them or whatever, and that hesitation leads to Antarcticite being shattered.

At any rate, by the time winter ends, Phos is the only witness to this suspicious side of Sensei, and he finds that nobody will believe him about what he saw because the others are all refusing to accept that Sensei is less than perfect. The only one who’s willing to listen to Phos at all is Cinnabar because Cinnabar is grateful to Phos for listening to him. Plus, since Cinnabar is already isolated from everyone else, he’s less willing to keep so strictly to the party line. While he still loves Sensei, he’s less complacent than the others. I suggest these changes to the Winter Arc and its fallout because I always thought the chain of events that led to Phos being suspicious of Sensei in the latter half of the anime was pretty week, plus Phos being able to turn to Cinnabar for support would make Cinnabar a more prominent part of the story instead of getting shunted aside like he is in the manga.

Speaking of the Lunarians, I would change basically everything about the Moon. The Moon is not a high tech, utopian society full of karaoke bars, ramen joints, labor unions, advanced laboratories, and all that other stuff, but a surreal, Lovecraftian landscape that looks as beautiful as an ink painting of the Pure Land but is actually nightmarish and hostile. The Lunarians are supposed to be the tormented souls of human sinners unable to pass on to the afterlife, and their world should reflect that. In my version, the Lunarians have been driven insane by their long perdition, and while they look like divine figures from a Buddhist scroll, their behavior is so weird and alien to the gems that they find it hard to believe that these creatures were ever human. They can’t even communicate with the gems because their minds have deteriorated to the point that they can’t even understand language. The only Lunarian who’s coherent and rational is Aechmea, and even he’s starting to lose his sanity after running the asylum by himself for so long. 

Aechmea himself would also need to be radically changed. Somewhere along the way, the manga kind of forgot that Aechmea was supposed to be the villain. They try for this reveal that Aechmea was actually benevolent all along, and it 100% doesn’t work because A. a lot of his wicked acts are just gratuitously cruel and don’t further his supposedly well-meaning goals at all and B. the Lunarians aren’t really suffering anyway. To fix Aechmea, his sympathetic qualities and his villainous qualities both need to be enhanced.

So, my version of Aechmea is a well-intentioned extremist who chose the path of the bodhisattva but doesn’t have the supernatural patience and wisdom necessary to handle it. His backstory would be the same, but because my version of the Moon is a hellscape where he’s the only sane person around, his desperation to get Sensei to pray to free both the other Lunarians and himself is way more understandable. At the same time, the story would condemn the cruel things he’s doing by pointing out that he’s got no right to make the other races suffer just to save his own people. Aechmea would be portrayed as a lost soul, pitiful, yet misguided. And, above all, the Lunarians’ salvation cannot come about because of Aechmea’s manipulations. The story needs to show that the path Aechmea is choosing to try and save them is the wrong one.

On a similar note, Aechmea can’t make Phos into a human. I’ve already made a separate post about this note, and the reception to it was pretty positive. If Phos becomes a human/enlightened/bodhisattva/whatever, it needs to be in spite of Aechmea, not because of him. Phos needs to become human through his growing experience and his own choices, not Aechmea’s. 

Instead, in my version of the story, Aechmea chooses Cairngorm as Sensei’s replacement. Aechmea chooses Cairngorm because Cairngorm has been sealed inside of Ghost Quartz for most of his life, and thus, has never had any real agency. Hell, maybe Ghost Quartz is shattered specifically so Aechmea can then swoop in and claim Cairngorm, all so he can groom him into becoming a new prayer machine. It’s a sad fact that abuse victims are often abused multiple times in their lives by different people, and oftentimes, their current abuser is someone who “rescued” them from a previous abuser. When Aechmea “frees” Cairngorm from Ghost Quartz’s influence, he portrays himself as a savior who will show Cairngorm what he’s “really meant to be.” Aechmea and Cairngorm’s relationship in the manga already comes across as super predatory and sus, so I think the story would be better if it actually acknowledged that Aechmea grooming Cairngorm is bad instead of portraying their wildly unequal marriage as the “happily ever after” that it does.

Phos, on the other hand, would become a foil to Cairngorm because their growth and change happens because of their own choices and not because of Aechmea’s (you know, like the opposite of how it is in the manga). Phos would also choose to replace his body parts, instead of his body parts being lost through circumstance or being swapped out for him by other people. Him losing his legs can still be an accident, but it has the effect of showing Phos that his inclusions are special because they can assimilate basically any other material while still leaving Phos’s consciousness in control. However, after he gets his agate legs, every other new body part has to be a deliberate acquisition. For example, when he finally decides that he has to fight, he intentionally seeks out the gold alloy to replace his arms, whereas in the manga and anime, his arms were taken away by the ice floes, and replacing them with gold alloy was Antarticite’s idea.

Finally, the ending. In the manga, Phos is essentially tricked into enduring 10,000 years of mind rape to become the new prayer machine. In my version, Phos chooses to undergo the 10,000 year transformation, knowing that it’ll be tortuous and awful, because he’s willing to make that sacrifice to bring the Lunarians peace and finally end the conflict. The gems don’t become Lunarians in this version. My version of Lunarian society isn’t idyllic the way it is in the manga, so the gems wouldn’t want to join them, plus my Lunarians don’t have that kind of technology anyway. The sacrifice in this case is that Phos praying will also cause the gems that have been shattered to pass on as well, meaning Phos will never see Antarcticite again, and all the other shattered gems will be dead for good. But Phos is okay with that because 1. They realize from their interactions with the Lunarians and Yellow Diamond’s declining mental state that immortality is a curse and 2. They’ll still be around, and they’ll still remember Antarcticite, which is specially poignant because Phos has lost so many of their memories by now. 

There’s also some tension because when Phos makes this choice, no one is sure that he’ll be able to handle the nightmarish transformation without going insane the way the Lunarians did, and there’s a chance he’ll emerge after the 10,000 years as some kind of monstrous eldritch abomination. And because he looks so weird and alien after the transformation is complete, the surviving gems aren’t sure if he’ll actually be able to pray the Lunarians away or if he’ll become a new threat.

But, ultimately, he shows that the transformation was a success, and he prays all of the Lunarians away. Yes, even Aechmea, because for all the evil he’s done, he also lived every day in pure agony, so there’s no point in punishing him any further.

The surviving gems would still be alive, as would the Admirabilis. (Yeah, the plot point about the living races descended from humanity also being wiped out in the prayer is really contrived and makes no sense, so I’m chucking it entirely.) Phos, however, would no longer live among the other gems because he’s become so enlightened that the other gems can’t relate to them anymore. So, Phos remains aloof. But the other gems know where he is. When a gem is finally ready to die, they seek out Phos, who will ensure that they pass on. Phos vows not to pass on himself until the last gem has been shattered. Phos, the little gem everyone called worthless, has become the benevolent bodhisattva that both Aechmea and Sensei failed to be. End.

[graphx]

sooo the hyperfixation is fixating

forgot people want intro cards so they know their not following like a total weirdo or something…. haha….. yeah I wouldn’t know anything about that… teheeeeee

anyway hello page stalkers! I’m big on found family and general platonicness!!!!!

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the magnus archives

percy jackson

avatar the last airbender

fullmetal alchemist

mob psycho 100

madoka magica

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[turvuren]

Ongoing AU - YellowRutile - Start

Leash

just a masterthread thing i guess, I'll add on to this probably

Things to know:

gendered (F/M)

Rutile ♀Yellow ♂

Rutipad is going to be mentioned, or as a side pairing, but not the main one

whumppp

^ cw for disturbing themes

Plot

Rutile is Yellow's unwilling pet. Medieval AU, magic/hierarchy stuff... Yellow is a powerful mage, or something... still a WIP on that. Rutile lost to Yellow in a duel and winner takes all.

Asks open for this AU! Also recs, etc. Tell me what you want to see :)

Also, side note. Yellow is going to be more inclined towards how he behaves in canon; idk. My guy just wants his past partners back... and Rutile is the perfect candidate to project that onto. He'll try to style her hair like Ruby, change her eye colors into Sapphire's, mend her personality to be like Green... Yellow is just a depressed old geezer.

Gendered because I like girltile, and guyyellow. Also because Rutile uses more feminine stuff in manga blahblabla i just like her that way. More masc Yellow representation is nice too

That's all for this post ^^

[chocokeyboard]

FINNALY finished brothers in arms OMLLLL GRAHHHEHHHHHHGEHAHAHHHHH I WINN I WINNN

[hunterkhean]

"LET'S SWITCH!"

It's back baby!!! Chapter 4! Definitely not after months of hiatus on the series

Summary of the whole story: HnK AU (Cybertronian) SoundWave accidentally switched Body with Human AU (Humanformer) SoundWave!

Now both Rodimus Have to Deal with these different SoundWave in their life...

Let's just say... Human AU going to have to deal with a Sassy and overly confident SoundWave while HnK AU have a More Mild and Gentle SoundWave.

[crowzenn-murders]

Apocalypse AU, where Phos was a kid born during the apocalypse, and was with a community who survived, taking turns with scouting, hunting, and other survival needs, one by one though they get either killed, infected, or simply run away. and with a bonus of 5 year old Phos ( a code name) they just didn't care enough to bring her with them. Yellow probably forgot her. but being isolated alone Phos doesn't know about things that have happened outside of their community house.

More to come or something, idk im just bored and want to make someone suffer.

Help me flesh this out (⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠)

[ikkosu]

it struck me how prowl and lapis are so similar. I didn’t realize it until now (I sure have a type, huh). They’re both so manipulative, cunning even, hides a lot, skirts around things a lot —think they do things for the greater good. though, lapis is more calm, sporting a smile, eyes a moon crease. maybe, they’re a little more compassionate or perhaps that’s how they want themself to be. unlike prowl’s explosive personality that simmers under a controlled mask for so long. lapisphos would defn be similar to prowl, explosive anger, and violent tendencies though prowl isn't as demented mentally as they are. He's insane but not insane insane. On the other hand, lapis had a way with words, they’re able to convince the gems, but they could see through their intentions because they know what she’s like she eggs people on — never acts on it. prowl is lonely but lapis isn’t. like, ughhhhh, it’s given me some ideasssss. I want to write them together so baddd. idk if it’s like a crack ship or crossover I WANT TO WRITE THEM SO BAD

Look at my wife,

[saltymatoi]

he comfy

[house-of-the-lustrous]

Yesterday I remembered this fic existed. It's a fine, elegant work that you will surely enjoy even if you are not an Euc/Lapis connoisseur. Give it a read!