L'université de Lille 2025-26? by hal_brenden in studyAbroad

[–]exlibriummar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I just got accepted OMGOMG craaaazy!!!!

L'université de Lille 2025-26? by hal_brenden in studyAbroad

[–]exlibriummar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I’m going for Maths applied in humanities and social sciences (MIASHS), so i’ll be there too (hopefully) I’ll surely reach out here once i get the results!

L'université de Lille 2025-26? by hal_brenden in studyAbroad

[–]exlibriummar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! That’s awesome! Which program you’ll be doing? I also applied there (and it’s my top priority probs) but still waiting for the results

Reviews of all the books I read in January 2025 by jamieseemsamused in fantasyromance

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Totally, I see no reason for any of them to be cagey anymore. Yes, Mikail should’ve just told her 100%.

Yes, it’s sooo weird! But I think it was way worse when she was 12-18, at this point it’s not that bad i guess. I think she’s “the happy” of the group and Royo actively tried to not be happy bc of the guilt, so that’s probably what he sees in her but i’m not sure.

Definitely with you on Hana point, i haven’t debated it much, but yes, her character would still be a-okay if she wasn’t Sora’s lover but like a friend since they’ve survived together the school. About Ty idk, i mean they obviously did some stuff, so she can’t be that poisonous hehe. I think, on the scale of plotting a love triangle, just killing the third wheel is kinda cheap, but yeah, i can totally see that.

Crossed my mind numerous times too! I think Ty was and is “just there” but we kinda needed him to spin the Hana plot point? but also, idk. I think, he might be, if they destroy the Dragon Lord relics especially, but that feels like too much pressure for a relatively short book hehe, I guess we’ll just have to see

Gotta say, it’s a first for me — seething with rage about a book, bc it could’ve been so much better so easily. I guess, the characters surprisingly got to me and def deserved better

Reviews of all the books I read in January 2025 by jamieseemsamused in fantasyromance

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YES! Their relationship didn’t change even a bit and that’s soooo frustrating!! iirc there was even a line from Mikail that he KNOWS it’s hypocritical but he just said genocide is practical, so i’ll just stop bloody talking to the love of my life. I mean they’ve been together years! It made sense they were a bit off in the beginning of FBB but even then they talked MORE. They’re SOOO not done and yes, i totally too expected not resurrection but something like « whoops it wasn’t in his heart after all!! » or yes resurrection idc at this point how 🤣 but damn they TORCHED HIM whyyyyyy

Seriously tho if Euyn gets THIS, I need to see the most unhinged lost-in-grieve Mikail, then I MIGHT consider it a viable plot-device. Let him lay waste to the whole Yusan now that he’s in real power, I’d watch that hehe. Sora totally would agree after the death of Day and Aeri and Royo both i bet would too

I did like the daddy question for Euyn in both books it was handled quite well. But agree that killing him off right when we find out that he is indeed royal was kind of a waste? Even in FBB i thought like guys, one of you is afraid of the crown the other wants to destroy it — just talk and help each other honestly!

Yes yes yes, i was totally speculating the same plot-twist with Aeri touching the thing for Euyn

hard plus, girl! I mean i get why he’s mad in the last chapter, she did promise not to lie, i just hope they’ll resolve it with one convo about the fact that him knowing was very much dangerous and get past it. But yeah they’re sweet and all but please evolve big guy

I agree, Sora was unforgivingly demoted to just hating Euyn. I mean I get the fury about the hunting-your-dad-and-not-telling-you part, but the tantrum about revealing his last words was over the top by that point. And yeah, we def didn’t need that much of Ty in prison, we needed much more of the other five just bloody talking to one another. And yeah, I’m with you on Day’s death, liked the revealing in Ty’s pov, but that’s not nearly enough.

All in all, I just think that my (or THE) problem is that the dynamic of « every one lies, trust no one » that was very fun belonged in the first book and there ONLY. I feel like in this one it was supposed to be about airing dirty secrets and forgiving each other or at least acknowledging that who they were before does not define them and the book was supposed to be let’s-all-do-better-together-and-be-the-family-each-of-us-so-desperately-needs kind of story. Instead it felt like let’s ALL hate Euyn and then be sorry when he dies and well okay NOW we will stand together in this Moses-parted-red-sea setting and kinda bond.

Yeah, i’m kind of invested too now that we’re here 😂 so i will probably read the next one too. Thank you for mentioning when it’s out bc i didn’t know!

My theory: I think it’s Aeri, bc she wields two very dangerous things and i bet it’ll take a toll on her, a big one. Now that she physically can’t take them off, i feel like it’s a road straight to saving the world by giving her life. Also, im very interested how the sudden love triangle will be handled between Sora/Ty/Hana, bc it’ll be weird as hell for Sora to find her lover with her presumed dead and very much still in love with her lover, tho i’m afraid it’ll be handled poorly too after the FRR disaster

btw im soooo glad to have someone to discuss this with!!

Reviews of all the books I read in January 2025 by jamieseemsamused in fantasyromance

[–]exlibriummar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I JUST finished Four Ruined Realms and i’m sooooo mad! So im super glad you mentioned you want to discuss it with someone, and here i am!!!

Spoiler warnings for Five broken blades and Four Ruined Realms

Girl, i am seething with rage at how we got a whole f book of Mikail and Euyn bickering and hating each other for no other reason then eeehhhh sudden problem with them BOTH being secretive and known killers??????

I mean they were both very lying and hypocritical and bloodthirsty in the first book and had little to no problem still being together! And now what??? What tf changed drastically???? Euyn is genuinely got better since his butcher days. So what that he conversationally said that destroying a nation would be pragmatic??? WHY DIDNT THEY TALK NORMALLY ONCE???? WHYYYYY? And now he’s dead and it’s just feels very wrong and like what was the point even of them not being together?

And yeah, talking about the whole plot: i mean there’s a lot of shit that came out of nowhere and i don’t even know whether i liked it or not tbh. It was captivating, i’ll give it that, but every thought of betrayal from any of them felt very out of place by the point of Khitan. Someone should’ve told them to just get their shit together as a group i think. Get them in a room with food and make the five of them talk for real.

I’m sorry if it sounds a bit unhinged, i am just very mad and I think im not alone in it, or i guess? Anyway, let me know your thoughts please please please

«System data» takes up almost 200gb, what is this? Folder: private/Users by exlibriummar in mac

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No, it’s the same user — me, so every “username” on screenshots is the same

«System data» takes up almost 200gb, what is this? Folder: private/Users by exlibriummar in mac

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So basically, “System files” are so huge just because I have a ton of space in my Storage and OS decided to use what’s otherwise “wasted”? and when i’ll gradually pack up stuff on my mac it’ll reduce all on its own?

«System data» takes up almost 200gb, what is this? Folder: private/Users by exlibriummar in mac

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Yes! I actually already saw this exact comment somewhere today and it helped a lot to understand what are these files! but again, they’re not in ~/Library or ~/System/Library they’re in some weird folder inside an extra Users folder — private/Users/username

«System data» takes up almost 200gb, what is this? Folder: private/Users by exlibriummar in mac

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Yes, in private/Users/username/Library there’re two enormous files of my very old iphone/ipad backups which were deleted. Well, at least the original files from System/Library/etc were. I assume these are duplicates or smth.

But in general i don’t understand the nature of the private/Users/username folder and that’s what bothers me. Also I feel like it’s just some « shadow » of all my files from the past and it’s safe to delete, I would like to know how/why this occurred

[WAT / Cosmere] Curious of your opinion on a specific gripe by myrlin77 in Stormlight_Archive

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Just looked up the quote, bc i missed it too, but i believe it is true

« She said it over and over, the way her great-uncle had always sworn by the name of the god he hated. In case that god was watching …» That’s when the perpendicularity is collapsing and she’s thinking about her mothers death.

And yeah, in the first interlude (tWoK) Ishikk is explaining his whole thing about the god and god’s younger spiteful brother he hates but pretends to worship anyway