#houseki spoilers

[miawerz]

god loves you but not enough to save you

[rhythlart]

I don't want HnK to end

[assbootycheeks6969]

Old Phos study with Prismacolors that I did a while ago :3

[amanthatcantdance]

[kellerybird]

*gross sobbing* (major houseki no kuni/land of the lustrous spoilers I just. I gotta process this somehow) (reblogs ok!!)

[mieowkoid09]

:)

[savruen]

I really love the direction manga has gone! A very random fanart haha.

[chickendogg-art]

This death will be art

Unfortunately, Hnk is coming to an end on April 25th, so I made an art piece devoted to chapter 106, and the series as a whole (Also, I love Brongo so I just had to draw him-)

I just realized how weird this probably looks to people who have never read Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous lol, a chess piece and and an eyeball with limbs XD

[sunnysam-my]

Can we talk just for the moment about how this moment was so fricking significant, but nobody knew it until it was too late.

This was the moment Phos cried, like a human would. Out of sadness. They started to become a human in this moment. Obviously, Phos was turning into a human even before that, but it wasn't like that.

The human part of Phos was created out of tragedy. They were born from sadness and that shaped their view of humanity. They can't see humanity as anything but tragedy.

SPOILERS for anime watchers only:

Phos could hear the Ice Floes, that were also called "sinners", they echo insecurities. Later on, it was revealed there are two types of Ice Floes, Sensei’s Brother and humans who stayed on earth, dissolved and became particles. The ice floes' words are said to be noises that just sound similar to words. However Phos could hear them loud and clear.

Sensei’s Brother tried to take Phos arm, so it isn't surprising that they used a language that only Phos would hear. But Phos was the only one who could understand the Floes' screeching thought-out the whole story.

I'm guessing he didn't hear just Sensei’s Brother. He heard the lost human souls who cried about being in pain and wanting to go home. He heard cries of monsters who destroyed their planet and those cries, those emotions, inevitably caused Phos to lose Antarcticite.

SPOILERS for most recent chapters (103 and 104)!

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Even at the very end of it's existence, What's Used To Be Phos is terrified of being in any way human, they see it as a threat. They are afraid that their humanity will rub off on the pebbles and destroy what's left on earth.

Phos crying was the beginning of the end.

Man, this story is so tragic.

[soulsty]

//includes spoilers for the Houseki No Kuni/Land of the Lustrous manga

Binge read this manga, got caught up with it, and am now completely brainrotted

[cheesepancakes]

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Rest well now, Phos.

[ttarts-tm]

✨Life Cycle of Phosphophyllite ✨

[rhythlart]

[iheartfrogs1904]

HOUSEKI NO KUNI IS CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED.

One of my most favourite pieces of media has to be houseki no kuni. It shows such a disgustingly sad story with such BEAUTIFUL visuals and writing. Something I find about my favourite pieces of art is when it tells a story starting off with nothing, or with something underlying you could only have known was another piece to the puzzle after it’s been revealed to you, like attack on Titan. Anyone who’s read houseki no kuni knows what I’m talking about, it starts off with knowing nothing, literally in the pov of Phos being as ‘ignorant’ as them and all that. What I think sets it off from the rest is that throughout the story, the other characters don’t seem to emotionally or mentally change the way Phos does. Aechmea designing and using Phos as a puppet, breaking and moulding them into an empathetic, sapient being. The way everyone had accepted Phos’ fate to become the one to leave behind, them having no regard for how Phos would feel or even apologize for how they treated them shows the huge lack of humanity of them all, shows why it needed to be Phos to be the one to stay behind too, because they did genuinely care for others. The way the others treated each other could have come off as caring but at the end of the day it was so superficial, especially with the way we can see their relationships develop from being divided to all living on the moon together to being prayed away, it was all surface level, even after a millennia they all lacked empathy, EVEN DIAMOND. The way the diamonds mirror society in how our value is how we contribute to it is taken to an extreme in this story, the other gems genuinely not caring if Phos could have died when they got swallowed by that creature because of how easily they broke, similar to Cinnibar.

I actually love how when Cinnibar is finally accepted they are completely devoted to helping a cause they know nothing about, not caring about what Phos had to say because they were finally accepted into the society they had never been a part of. The one person that showed them empathy, they would not listen to because of how low their self worth and esteem was, mirroring how someone whose climbed their way to the top from the bottom seeing themselves as a pig with lipstick on, for Cinnibar it genuinely coming from a way of thinking about their society and not them actually feeling anything. If they felt something, you would at least be shown that turmoil, but Cinnibar, just like the others is not an empathetic person.

Anyway, on the topic of empathy the fact that the gems didn’t seem to be emotionally affected when Phos attacked the island with the other gems as well again shows their lack of it. They just buried Phos and went about everything as it was, being able to carry on and not carrying any vendettas or anything, always just indifference. You are never shown any major inner turmoil of the other gems, maybe a bit of questioning or slight sadness but never any pure raw emotion. Even earlier in the series where other gems disappear to the moon, they’re sad but never in deep disparity, always close to humanity but never actually experiencing it except for Phos, or maybe Antarc too, maybe that’s why they were so easily replaced by Cairngorm, who knows.

[jinaprivat]

The moon princess. Moon Cairngorm is pretty fun to draw, I kinda gave up with the lighting on the dog that's why it looks dead inside

[cinderduck]

I don't need any of you.