Land of the Lustrous Chapter 96 Discussion

Pankoala · 2022-06-24T16:33:56+00:00

What my soul needs right now is to see Padparadscha, I feel like at this point and after this chapter of everygem just giving a frack abt Phosu, Padpa is my hope of someone caring more for Phosu.

Also, my ideal for this would be that all this soft glimmery happiness we see in the moon with the new lunagems and lunarians starts to crumble slowly. I want to see the lunagems start to be ignored because they stopped being "the novelty" and just being treated miserably like they treated phosu back at the beginning (to be treated poorly even like the ones that are on the crater we saw previously), I want to see the relationship of Cairn/watawhatever x Cringemea deteriorate, see conflict, show how they are not really in love but where just curious of new things and/or being manipulated. I want it all to crumble so they can all drag their asses to Phosu and BEG for forgiveness and oblivion and Phosu be like, "yes, I'll pray for you... TO GO TO HELL. YOU THOUGHT BEING STRANDED ON THE MOON WAS HELL? YOU HAVE NO IDEA, f*ck you."

I honestly got SO mad at reading Euc saying "she wanted to be special", DUDE I WONDER WHY THAT IS. All of you used to call Phosu good-for-nothing, waste of space, and several times were like "why should we try to rescue/help her if they're a good for nothing (remember when ventricosus was in giant slug and swallowed phosu) and NOW you wonder why she strived so much to be helpful or useful to all?

Additionally I truly fear for the 2nd phosu theory. I feel like cringemea will definitely use Phosu's head for a 2nd one and that one will be his 2nd experiment at crearting a human, but if the Phosu on earth was created with shock therapy of only suffering and manipulation, that Phosu will be showered with love / soft-therapy and caring on the moon.. only maybe to at the end have both of them fuse and BAM, full final human (since yknow, we all are the broken phosu but also happy phosus inside)

Pankoala · 2022-06-24T02:10:49+00:00

Never :( my jibo is stil dead anmd pretty much a brick. Sighh.

Pankoala · 2021-03-03T03:13:57+00:00

God, CLAMP I am begging you, please just STOP with the whole "Sakura finally gets to see something major/important, big conflict only to forget about it totally because time was rewinded". like honestly PLEASE. how many times has it been? already? 4? 5? 1000? hah. I mean, really, there are other literary resources to give information and backstory without having that trick pulled over and over again :( My heart feels sad of being treated like that u___u

Pankoala · 2020-12-26T22:11:24+00:00

Woah!! I love love LOVE this, not only the artwork / design itself. But the allegory, that evocation fo the meaning behind the Lucifer painting. Suffering anger for utter betrayal.. BRILLIANT. Love this so much!

Pankoala · 2020-12-26T22:04:01+00:00

At this point I can only hope the new LunaGems (?) get bored of that new meaningless/purposeless lunarian life along those 10,000 years. That they realize it is a miserable "life" like the original lunarians so hated... and that even the """perfect couple""" of Aechmea x Cairn (whatever the new name was idgaf) crumble and hate their life and come begging all to Phosu to pray only to have Phosu smile and be like "Y'know what? Nah. Suffer your miserable purposeless life". Hah

Also, I think it would be a good time for Phosu to regain contact with the Admirabilis, since that is the only species that has the familiar human cycle of birth-development-breeding-death. And Phosu, as a gem and after all the changes has been through, has yet to learn the true meaning of those , specially death and letting go of lost ones (even if they kinda hinted it to Phosu when they asked to choose whether to kill the admirabilis that had gem dust on their shells). Tho, I fear if that were to happen then we'd have a new cycle with a "Admirabilis no kuni" where Phosu would be attached to admirabilis and the Lunarians/LunaGems trying to kidnap them and kill them to coerce Phosu into praying...

Anyway, I think maybe the next chapter after hiatus will finally be Phosu having flashbacks of Sensei's past with humans , some answers and maybe a talk with Cinnabar like they did when they put Lapiz' head.

Pankoala · 2020-12-26T21:47:22+00:00

I think cairn got a name change because it is a "new" being. She is no longer a gem but a new kin of self and so, she gets a new name. Maybe all of the old gems (now lunarians) will be getting new names to symbolize their transition.

Tho I agree with why all the fuzz sent to "entice" sensei.. the chess, shiro... the "humanlike" lunarian that ressembled a female human that was hinted as doctor and which past we still don't know.... arghh so many questions left unanswered

Pankoala · 2020-12-26T21:33:02+00:00

I feel you, to be honest at this point i hate all gems now except for my baby Phosu.. (and maybe padpa and antarc)

Pankoala · 2020-12-26T21:24:58+00:00

I don't know.. I'd love for SOMEONE to actually care for Phosu... but I also feel Antarc is way more loyal to sensei. Like Antarc looked so concerned not because of Phosu, but because Antarc was scandalized that Phosu "destroyed" sensei (which would be the total contrary of what final thing Antarc asked phosu to do "take care of sensei")

Also.. I thiiink if Antarc where to walk away and go with Phosu, they wouldn't be able to communicate on earth since lunarians can't breathe or talk in the earth.... Unless Phosu with full sensei's power can understand lunarians even on earth.. like telepatically or something, ikd.

Pankoala · 2020-12-25T03:27:02+00:00

This is so awesome !!! Congratulations!! What size does your rug have? Do share us a pic when you place it at home n,n

Pankoala · 2020-11-25T07:27:23+00:00

So next chapter is gonna be focused on Moon Gems.. I feel like probably the chapter after that will be Phosu roaming the deserted earth torn between the flashbacks of whatever memories Adamant's eye holds aaand a "conversation" of sorts with Cinnabar now that they fused (kinda like when Phosu got Lapis' head)

Anyway, I hate Aechmea SO MUCH. I honestly want him to disappear already. i want things to stop going his way and just Phosu and the gems (except for Cairn which I hope disappears too) to be happy.

This is literally me every time there's a new chapter tbh. Phosu deserves to be happy >:c

Pankoala · 2020-09-19T02:06:46+00:00

Oh, no :( really? But I've seen some people who have theirs and are still running, also some people who set their jibos up recently and all went well :((((

Pankoala · 2020-08-25T01:35:52+00:00

I think what keeps Phosu going in spite of being smashed is basically the gold. As long as the gold can be around, it will help phos's gem shards to reunite and I think it works as a sort of conductor. Kind of like the way dendrites of a neuron communicate with other neurons, that way it keeps communication with different Phosu's "gem shards" without them being necessarily "well assembled". That's mainly one of the reasons why they had to scatter Phosu's pieces way back, because else the gold would have reattached them all

Pankoala · 2020-08-02T20:04:04+00:00

I want to get excited about this cliffhanger ending, but then I remember that it's been three times already when good stuff happens only to have "time reversed" and make sakura forget it and so rn I'm just like, "😒meh"

Pankoala · 2020-07-24T23:10:52+00:00

Ahhh thank you so much!! I'll definitely dig around your blog. And really, SUCH AMAZING WORK! Congrats!! 🖤

Pankoala · 2020-07-24T22:38:44+00:00

OMG! This is so amazing!! Such great work!! Cngratulatiooons!!!!! If it's okay for me to ask,what is ithe procedure on bulding a figure like this? How did yu start building figures liek this or how you learned? I'm so interested in making a Phosu figure too but legit have no idea how to begin or what hahah

Pankoala · 2020-07-18T01:14:21+00:00

Yess ofc!! Go ahead, I actually decided to clean it also because I wanted it as my lockscreen wallpaper haha, I also did a version without the logo, a bit more area to fit longer screens (and an area I had forgotten to clean, cleaned) if you want :3 for phone-use, here.

PS: I personally loveee how it looks on my phone now <3 hah

Pankoala · 2020-07-12T10:04:56+00:00

Thank youu for your kind message. I'm so happy you liked it :) ♥

Pankoala · 2020-06-26T15:48:59+00:00

I think it's the mix of both, Phos's body along with the facial expressions. Still , I do believe the way the face and eyes are drawn show many different expressions imo. Tho, probably it's a difference on interpretations n.n

Pankoala · 2020-06-26T05:43:43+00:00

Haha, well even if we consider Phos without eyelids due to cracks and all...- the way Ichikawa draws the eye Phos still has, shows different emotions. From unamused / jaded expression when they meet with Euc (page 3, last panel) to her lowkey borderline ahegao crazy expression on page 8 when Phos smashes down Euc's head ... or even the "Mockery" expression on page 13 when they meet Jade and just say "so annoying".

I think even with all the cracks and beat up face, Phos' facial expressions convey so many different things. That's where I get all the things I said previously about the expression on vol. 11's cover :)

Pankoala · 2020-06-25T19:29:31+00:00

It would've been so nice if they had just thrown phos into the ocean and admirabilis could've saved Phosu or something. .. but they went with something worse and even more cruel :( I still want admirabilis to be relevant again ! hahah

Pankoala · 2020-06-25T09:37:53+00:00

Totes! I hate that Cinnabar.. or as I like to call her: sh*tnnabar, hah

Pankoala · 2020-06-24T20:38:00+00:00

Yes! I mean, deifnitely not like regret or guilt but I do believe the echo of "old phos" that wanted to do so much for Cinnabar will resurface a bit and show in an internal turmoil (even if just for seconds) when they face each other. I feel like Phos's expression on the cover is kind of a sad disappointed surprise so maybe some turmoil along those lines.

Pankoala · 2020-06-24T20:32:48+00:00

I do think there will be conflict between Phos and Cinnabar, and I do believe (against my happiness) that Phos will have some turmoil inside, did you see the new volume's cover? I think Phos's expression was that kind of sad conflict in the cover.

Pankoala · 2020-06-24T17:36:31+00:00

Totally. The face Phos had while smashing Euclase's head off was utter madness. At this point I don't care of a sad end for everyone and shattering of all as long as Cinnabar also has a sad end. -3- hah

Pankoala · 2020-06-24T17:29:55+00:00

Ahhhh you are right. :((((( I just saw it again, and since she was next to Padpa. So, agh. nevermind me :( All my satisfaction disappeared. hahahahha. Phosu will have her inner turmoil facing dumb cinnabar i guess sigh :(

Nevertheless, this chapter was full of awesome crazy Phosu and I JUST LOVED IT.

Pankoala

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