Stormweald
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Ruby Granger #11 A book a day will not keep the ignorance away.
CatCafe234
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I think Holly is just as toxic and unwell as Ruby, but in slightly different ways. Neither should be viewed as aspirational.
Stormweald
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Note to self: never become a Youtuber to avoid people simping over my dad.
gossip_guy
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Ruby, you don't know who these children are! Why would you be invested in who of them is announced as head girl?!
Someone needs to lock her up. It's 'padded cell, throw away the key' time.
coffeehead
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I don't think she has donated the money... I think she has been very careful with her word choice there when she says "reinvested" - I think she's keeping it but will mentally earmark it as going towards production of content about the holocaust or whatever. I think she will justify spending it on reading material about the holocaust so that she can then 'educate" her followers about it. If she had donated it to a charity, she would have written donated... I think she's been sly here
LydiaDeetzHat
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No comment on Ruby . Just wanted to send some love and support to everyone who has shared their own journey and experiences on this thread,
pomegranate_seeds
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sorry for double commenting but her comment section is absolute bonkers.
I will riot if the next thread isn't called "pedantic book sniffer"
She's not introverted, she's mentally ill. Introverts don't have anxiety attacks when spending time with people. I'm an introvert, I'm also shy and awkward and hate being the center of attention or having to speak in public. Those to me are different traits. My boyfriend is also an introvert but he's very charming to people, he's good at public speaking, and forms/maintains friendships easily. He just prefers to be on his own. My brother is an introvert but he's also super funny and charismatic and always makes people laugh.
There's plenty of introverts who are able to have careers where they have to meet a lot of people. I would say that most jobs require you to interact with other people. That's not society being bad, it would be impossible to accomplish most things without working with others.
Of course she feels like society isn't for her. Society is never gonna accommodate someone who can't leave her bedroom or socialize and refuses to act her age in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean that society isn't made for introverts or whatever.
There's plenty of introverts who are able to have careers where they have to meet a lot of people. I would say that most jobs require you to interact with other people. That's not society being bad, it would be impossible to accomplish most things without working with others.
Of course she feels like society isn't for her. Society is never gonna accommodate someone who can't leave her bedroom or socialize and refuses to act her age in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean that society isn't made for introverts or whatever.
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judgejohndeed
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Sorry but this post is absolutely mad. I’d already muted you because I find your posts utterly bizarre but suggesting straight A star at GCSE and A*AA are ‘fine’ and ‘nothing to write home about’ is insane. They are excellent grades far above the averages, if you allow your dislike of Ruby to lead you to claim otherwise I think you need to give your head a wobble to be honest.
Scapier88
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How many times can she drop out and retake her last year
Are we going to be getting vlogs in seven years time.
Going hello this is Ruby and welcome back to my uni vlogs as always I will be daily vlogging the first two weeks off term
Don't mind the noise that's just Blankney getting her children ready for nursery
Are we going to be getting vlogs in seven years time.
Going hello this is Ruby and welcome back to my uni vlogs as always I will be daily vlogging the first two weeks off term
Don't mind the noise that's just Blankney getting her children ready for nursery
gossip_guy
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It's Ruby's final ever "daily" university vlog! Well, until she finds a random, unreleased one on her hard drive in six months and uploads that in an ongoing attempt to gaslight people regarding her weight, like she did last last year.
Until then, though, lets have a look back at this year's offerings, in list form, because Ruby loves a pointless list.
Ruby's University Vlog Extravaganza 2021 - The Titles:
As you can see, there's no sense of uniformity or consistency in Ruby's titles.
Some are capitalised, some aren't. Some are titled and numbered 'Final Year Vlog #XX', some aren't. Some have "(vlog)" in the title, some don't. It's a compete mess.
If you were coming to Ruby's channel fresh today as a new viewer, you'd have no clue what order these videos were supposed to be viewed in. Ruby titles her videos as if she's practicing some weird Venn diagram writing experiment where each new title in the series can't contain any of the same words as the one before or after it.
This is true of all her videos, which are named with a random word soup of nonsense and meaningless "aesthetic" buzzwords, but it's especially annoying when she does it for an ongoing series like this claims to be. There's no clear delineation between her videos. No distinct series. It all blends together in one repetitive, messy menu consisting of video porridge for every meal.
Now, onto today's serving of vlog gruel!
Ruby starts with a desperate ad for her stationery products that nobody's buying. It's been over a month since "The Notebook" was released, and she's only managed to sell 158 of the 3,000 units her company were stupid enough to order. It's almost like people aren't dumb enough to pay £9 for a small cheaply made, poor quality notebook.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, I'll offer Ruby a suggestion: Drop the price. You might sell more. And since you're a self-proclaimed bookwork, I'll offer up the new proposed price in the form of this classic novel:
(It's about young sociopaths, Ruby; you'll relate.)
Ruby forgets to include her 'Daily University Vlog' intro/title sequence again, like she did last week - only the middle five out of the nine videos that had an intro. Again with the random, lazy lack of consistency.
Ruby: "This is the final of the DAILY vlogs that I'm going to be doing." Hold up a sec, there, Ruby.
Ruby's University Vlog Extravaganza 2021 - The Dates:
Vlog 1 - Uploaded Sept 20th - Filmed Sept 13th-15th
Vlog 2 - Uploaded Sept 21st - Filmed Sept 16th
Vlog 3 - Uploaded Sept 22nd - Filmed Sept 20th/??? (Includes a tacked-on Q&A recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 4 - Uploaded Sept 24th - Filmed Sept 21st/??? (Includes a tacked-on Q&A recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 5 - Uploaded Sept 26th - Filmed Sept 22nd/??? (Includes a random book ramble recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 6 - Uploaded Sept 30th - Filmed Sept 23rd & Sept 30th
Vlog 7 - Uploaded Oct 2nd - Filmed Sept 23rd/24th/??? (Includes a tacked-on 'resolutions' list recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 8 - Uploaded Oct 9th - Filmed Sept 25th-Sept 27th
Vlog 9 - Uploaded Oct 11th - Filmed Sept 28th
By no measure are these "daily" vlogs, Rubes. I mean, if my boss told me they needed me in work every day, and I showed up every third Wednesday and alternating weekly Mondays and Thursdays, only appearing Fridays if there's an easterly breeze and the moon is full, I'd be fired. What's your excuse for inventing your own calendar?
Either you're an idiot, and in your third year of an English Lit degree, you still don't know what the word "daily" means, or you're a gaslighting liar fudging the numbers and hoping people don't notice so you seem very organised, efficient and productive. Pick one, Ruby. I guess it's better than the reality that you're both.
It's a new day, and Ruby's studying for a change. It must be a struggle though, since her laptop is covered in such a thick, disgusting layer of dust, grime and filth that half of the on-screen text is completely obscured.
Ruby, for the love of god, clean your laptop, you swamp goblin.
Meanwhile, the LG Gram laptop she got for free sits pristine and unused, buried in her sock drawer at home.
It's apparently finally autumn, even though Ruby has been claiming it's been autumn for several months now.
Her reaction to the arrival of cold weather is to allow the pagan demon which is possessing her to manifest briefly to celebrate:
Ruby, I loved you in The Shining!
If you had "Ruby complains about how cold it is, regardless of the weather" on your bingo card, cross that one off, because her house in AXE!-eter gets "very, VERY cold".
After rejoicing about/complaining about the cold weather, she mentions that she "accidentally" recorded herself talking for nearly 5 hours, which she proudly says she does "so much". Ruby will undoubtedly listen back to this recording of herself talking like it's some self-absorbed podcast made for her, by her.
It's time to venture into the outside world, and true to her resolution to immerse herself in academia and university culture for her final year, she's arranged a study group meeting in...Waterstones. Ruby "Support Small, Independent Business" Granger continues to give big companies all her attention and money. They're not going to sponsor you, Ruby, you can stop now.
After forcing three of the unsuspecting staff to wave at the camera, Ruby acts like she's been mobbed by fans, claiming that two of the staff watch her videos, even though the staff likely only know her as "that spoilt street-urchin-cosplay weirdo who never leaves".
After her study session and taking up an entire table to herself for most of the day, Ruby beelines it to the children's books, naturally.
Then it's time for Ruby to pretend to post some parcels, by opening the postbox door, then closing it again.
When her Depop buyers inquire about their missing parcels and she pleads ignorance, it's a given that:
A. She didn't get proof of postage.
B. She didn't even post it.
Then it's time for a food haul, and after a browse of the Christmas things at Marks & Spencer's, Ruby shows off all the food she's going to avoid eating this week.
Ruby reveals that her personal tutor for the final year of university is completely new and someone she's never spoken to before, presumably because her previous personal tutor was finally granted a retraining order against her.
After almost breaking down in tears because her mother sent her a parcel of some shit she forgot to bring, Ruby sternly points at us as a non-verbal warning to pay attention - this rollercoaster ride of excitement is about to reach its peak as she reveals what essential emergency items just needed to be urgently posted to her.
Item 1: Cardomom Pods.
Item 2: Pea Protein Powder
Item 3: Powdered Peanut Butter
Item 4: Mild chilli powder (or "mahhrr chulee-powder", according to Ruby)
Item 5: Arnica cream, which Ruby emphasises she did not ask for - gawd, mother, can't you get anything right?!
Item 5: Gingerbread men
Item 6: A mostly dead rose from the garden
Item 7: Random Cricut paper/attachments
Item 8: A copy of the book To The Letter by Simon Garfield, which Ruby needs for her dissertation, even though she still hasn't chosen an appropriate dissertation topic, and couldn't use the library copy because hers has loads of annotations - which she proves by flicking through to show one small highlighted passage.
So, all essential stuff that couldn't wait a couple of weeks until she's back home, and was definitely worth the hefty cost and energy waste of having that big parcel urgently posted to her. She most definitely didn't just ask her mother to send a bunch of random crap from the kitchen so she could feel like a boarding school child getting a food delivery from back home. You've earned a stern finger-point for even entertaining the thought:
Then it's time for a book haul, where Ruby unveils another two books that she'll pretend to read: Wintering by Katherine May and the last Miss Peregrine's book. Ruby says she craves nature writing passages. Aesthetics first, everything else never.
Then it's time for Ruby to cram in an undeclared ad for Allplants, in which she gives a glowing endorsement for this plant-based food service whose food she hasn't actually tried yet. Did you pay for this, Ruby? If not, why haven't you made that clear?
In a genuinely shocking display of rare common sense, Ruby has decided to go to a yoga class taught by a trained professional, instead of constantly risking injury with her own poorly-executed backyard yoga. That common sense is short-lived, though.
After dressing up like Georgie Denbrough, Ruby decides to take a waterproof bag to hold just a bottle and her purse and phone, which would fit easily and safely in her pocket (and also her phone wouldn't be getting violently smacked against a metal bottle, which she does at least once).
This wasn't just a transparent and forced excuse to show a gifted bag in hopes of getting more free stuff, how dare you think that! Don't make her point disapprovingly at you again!
Then it's time for Ruby and Blakeney to unbox the Allplants order, with a special appearance from all the New Yorker clippings that they glued all over the kitchen, which are already tearing and peeling off:
Ruby gushes over how amazing the food is, even though she hasn't tried it and, let's be honest, will not eat a full portion of any of this, if she even tries it at all. She gives a massive thankyou to Allplants, without actually specifying that it is gifted.
Ruby, let me tell you about a couple of little words called "ethics" and "integrity". You might not know what they mean, having never displayed either quality, but when you receive something for free as an influencer, you should make it clear that it was gifted to you, or you were paid to advertise it. Neither option requires you to give the product or service endless praise and an unreserved recommendation without even trying it.
Every time you bend over backwards to give glowing praise to products you never use, haven't tried or don't like, you just look like a fake shill for all these random companies, willing to do and say anything for free stuff and money. What little integrity you have left gets chipped away. It's sleazy and dishonest, which is fast becoming your entire brand.
Just be honest. None of those influencer sponsorships demand you to declare they're your favourite thing ever, so why keep doing it? Not to mention the obvious problem with a wealthy influencer getting an abundance of free food they can easily afford to pay for, to let go to waste in their freezer, in a time when so many people struggle to get basic meals.
After a surprise cameo from Watermelon Dude (RIP all of Blakeney's other fridge magnets, which weren't "aesthetic" enough for Ruby), that's all for the "daily" university vlogs forever, or until Ruby decides to enrol in uni all over again to begin the process anew.
Until then, though, lets have a look back at this year's offerings, in list form, because Ruby loves a pointless list.
Ruby's University Vlog Extravaganza 2021 - The Titles:
- University Move-In || unpacking, studying, book shopping
- English Literature Student Book Haul (vlog)
- First Day of Classes + what am I studying?
- library study with me & napping
|| Final Year Vlog #04 - Perusing the University Library
studying & reading outside - Dark Academia Room Tour || Final Year Vlog #06
- New Academic Year Resolutions & study with me || Final Year Vlog #07
- doing all of next week's university work (study with me)
- A Rainy Study Day || book & coffee shops
As you can see, there's no sense of uniformity or consistency in Ruby's titles.
Some are capitalised, some aren't. Some are titled and numbered 'Final Year Vlog #XX', some aren't. Some have "(vlog)" in the title, some don't. It's a compete mess.
If you were coming to Ruby's channel fresh today as a new viewer, you'd have no clue what order these videos were supposed to be viewed in. Ruby titles her videos as if she's practicing some weird Venn diagram writing experiment where each new title in the series can't contain any of the same words as the one before or after it.
This is true of all her videos, which are named with a random word soup of nonsense and meaningless "aesthetic" buzzwords, but it's especially annoying when she does it for an ongoing series like this claims to be. There's no clear delineation between her videos. No distinct series. It all blends together in one repetitive, messy menu consisting of video porridge for every meal.
Now, onto today's serving of vlog gruel!
Ruby starts with a desperate ad for her stationery products that nobody's buying. It's been over a month since "The Notebook" was released, and she's only managed to sell 158 of the 3,000 units her company were stupid enough to order. It's almost like people aren't dumb enough to pay £9 for a small cheaply made, poor quality notebook.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, I'll offer Ruby a suggestion: Drop the price. You might sell more. And since you're a self-proclaimed bookwork, I'll offer up the new proposed price in the form of this classic novel:
(It's about young sociopaths, Ruby; you'll relate.)
Ruby forgets to include her 'Daily University Vlog' intro/title sequence again, like she did last week - only the middle five out of the nine videos that had an intro. Again with the random, lazy lack of consistency.
Ruby: "This is the final of the DAILY vlogs that I'm going to be doing." Hold up a sec, there, Ruby.
Ruby's University Vlog Extravaganza 2021 - The Dates:
Vlog 1 - Uploaded Sept 20th - Filmed Sept 13th-15th
Vlog 2 - Uploaded Sept 21st - Filmed Sept 16th
Vlog 3 - Uploaded Sept 22nd - Filmed Sept 20th/??? (Includes a tacked-on Q&A recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 4 - Uploaded Sept 24th - Filmed Sept 21st/??? (Includes a tacked-on Q&A recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 5 - Uploaded Sept 26th - Filmed Sept 22nd/??? (Includes a random book ramble recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 6 - Uploaded Sept 30th - Filmed Sept 23rd & Sept 30th
Vlog 7 - Uploaded Oct 2nd - Filmed Sept 23rd/24th/??? (Includes a tacked-on 'resolutions' list recorded on an undetermined day)
Vlog 8 - Uploaded Oct 9th - Filmed Sept 25th-Sept 27th
Vlog 9 - Uploaded Oct 11th - Filmed Sept 28th
By no measure are these "daily" vlogs, Rubes. I mean, if my boss told me they needed me in work every day, and I showed up every third Wednesday and alternating weekly Mondays and Thursdays, only appearing Fridays if there's an easterly breeze and the moon is full, I'd be fired. What's your excuse for inventing your own calendar?
Either you're an idiot, and in your third year of an English Lit degree, you still don't know what the word "daily" means, or you're a gaslighting liar fudging the numbers and hoping people don't notice so you seem very organised, efficient and productive. Pick one, Ruby. I guess it's better than the reality that you're both.
It's a new day, and Ruby's studying for a change. It must be a struggle though, since her laptop is covered in such a thick, disgusting layer of dust, grime and filth that half of the on-screen text is completely obscured.
Ruby, for the love of god, clean your laptop, you swamp goblin.
Meanwhile, the LG Gram laptop she got for free sits pristine and unused, buried in her sock drawer at home.
It's apparently finally autumn, even though Ruby has been claiming it's been autumn for several months now.
Her reaction to the arrival of cold weather is to allow the pagan demon which is possessing her to manifest briefly to celebrate:
Ruby, I loved you in The Shining!
If you had "Ruby complains about how cold it is, regardless of the weather" on your bingo card, cross that one off, because her house in AXE!-eter gets "very, VERY cold".
After rejoicing about/complaining about the cold weather, she mentions that she "accidentally" recorded herself talking for nearly 5 hours, which she proudly says she does "so much". Ruby will undoubtedly listen back to this recording of herself talking like it's some self-absorbed podcast made for her, by her.
It's time to venture into the outside world, and true to her resolution to immerse herself in academia and university culture for her final year, she's arranged a study group meeting in...Waterstones. Ruby "Support Small, Independent Business" Granger continues to give big companies all her attention and money. They're not going to sponsor you, Ruby, you can stop now.
After forcing three of the unsuspecting staff to wave at the camera, Ruby acts like she's been mobbed by fans, claiming that two of the staff watch her videos, even though the staff likely only know her as "that spoilt street-urchin-cosplay weirdo who never leaves".
After her study session and taking up an entire table to herself for most of the day, Ruby beelines it to the children's books, naturally.
Then it's time for Ruby to pretend to post some parcels, by opening the postbox door, then closing it again.
When her Depop buyers inquire about their missing parcels and she pleads ignorance, it's a given that:
A. She didn't get proof of postage.
B. She didn't even post it.
Then it's time for a food haul, and after a browse of the Christmas things at Marks & Spencer's, Ruby shows off all the food she's going to avoid eating this week.
Ruby reveals that her personal tutor for the final year of university is completely new and someone she's never spoken to before, presumably because her previous personal tutor was finally granted a retraining order against her.
After almost breaking down in tears because her mother sent her a parcel of some shit she forgot to bring, Ruby sternly points at us as a non-verbal warning to pay attention - this rollercoaster ride of excitement is about to reach its peak as she reveals what essential emergency items just needed to be urgently posted to her.
Item 1: Cardomom Pods.
Item 2: Pea Protein Powder
Item 3: Powdered Peanut Butter
Item 4: Mild chilli powder (or "mahhrr chulee-powder", according to Ruby)
Item 5: Arnica cream, which Ruby emphasises she did not ask for - gawd, mother, can't you get anything right?!
Item 5: Gingerbread men
Item 6: A mostly dead rose from the garden
Item 7: Random Cricut paper/attachments
Item 8: A copy of the book To The Letter by Simon Garfield, which Ruby needs for her dissertation, even though she still hasn't chosen an appropriate dissertation topic, and couldn't use the library copy because hers has loads of annotations - which she proves by flicking through to show one small highlighted passage.
So, all essential stuff that couldn't wait a couple of weeks until she's back home, and was definitely worth the hefty cost and energy waste of having that big parcel urgently posted to her. She most definitely didn't just ask her mother to send a bunch of random crap from the kitchen so she could feel like a boarding school child getting a food delivery from back home. You've earned a stern finger-point for even entertaining the thought:
Then it's time for a book haul, where Ruby unveils another two books that she'll pretend to read: Wintering by Katherine May and the last Miss Peregrine's book. Ruby says she craves nature writing passages. Aesthetics first, everything else never.
Then it's time for Ruby to cram in an undeclared ad for Allplants, in which she gives a glowing endorsement for this plant-based food service whose food she hasn't actually tried yet. Did you pay for this, Ruby? If not, why haven't you made that clear?
In a genuinely shocking display of rare common sense, Ruby has decided to go to a yoga class taught by a trained professional, instead of constantly risking injury with her own poorly-executed backyard yoga. That common sense is short-lived, though.
After dressing up like Georgie Denbrough, Ruby decides to take a waterproof bag to hold just a bottle and her purse and phone, which would fit easily and safely in her pocket (and also her phone wouldn't be getting violently smacked against a metal bottle, which she does at least once).
This wasn't just a transparent and forced excuse to show a gifted bag in hopes of getting more free stuff, how dare you think that! Don't make her point disapprovingly at you again!
Then it's time for Ruby and Blakeney to unbox the Allplants order, with a special appearance from all the New Yorker clippings that they glued all over the kitchen, which are already tearing and peeling off:
Ruby gushes over how amazing the food is, even though she hasn't tried it and, let's be honest, will not eat a full portion of any of this, if she even tries it at all. She gives a massive thankyou to Allplants, without actually specifying that it is gifted.
Ruby, let me tell you about a couple of little words called "ethics" and "integrity". You might not know what they mean, having never displayed either quality, but when you receive something for free as an influencer, you should make it clear that it was gifted to you, or you were paid to advertise it. Neither option requires you to give the product or service endless praise and an unreserved recommendation without even trying it.
Every time you bend over backwards to give glowing praise to products you never use, haven't tried or don't like, you just look like a fake shill for all these random companies, willing to do and say anything for free stuff and money. What little integrity you have left gets chipped away. It's sleazy and dishonest, which is fast becoming your entire brand.
Just be honest. None of those influencer sponsorships demand you to declare they're your favourite thing ever, so why keep doing it? Not to mention the obvious problem with a wealthy influencer getting an abundance of free food they can easily afford to pay for, to let go to waste in their freezer, in a time when so many people struggle to get basic meals.
After a surprise cameo from Watermelon Dude (RIP all of Blakeney's other fridge magnets, which weren't "aesthetic" enough for Ruby), that's all for the "daily" university vlogs forever, or until Ruby decides to enrol in uni all over again to begin the process anew.
miabaileyemblin
Member
We shame her gift-giving abilities but this is actually sweet
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gossip_guy
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Hi guys!Ooh you're right! Hi Marfa!
--I mean, wait, no, I'm not me--I mean, Martha.On an unrelated note, does anyone know how to get home from Sheffield when the trains aren't running and your parents won't answer your calls because they're too busy waiting on your sister hand and foot? Asking for a friend.
gossip_guy
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Mr. Aldrich. Mr. Longrich. Ruby's so obsessed with money that she can't stop naming all her teachers [Blank]rich.Just went to check, and it's still not clear how she arrived before everyone else including the teacher. Perhaps, like Hermione, Erimentha has a time turner? Or else you're right, and she totally cut class.
Chapter 20
I arrive to Physical Education promptly and change before any of my peers arrive. The tennis courts are empty and I run a quick lap of the vicinity, struggling to get warm. The sky is blue but the air is crisp and cold and I shiver underneath my jumper. The sun is watery amongst Byron’s “cloudless climes” and warms my scalp as though it were once again August. It is queer that barely a month ago the sun was so hot there was a hose pipe ban; that barely a month ago, I wasn’t scared to walk down school corridors by myself. The late September frost means that the court is a little bit slippery and I watch my feet as I jog, careful not to make a spectacle of myself by falling over. I can hear the chatter of eleven-year-olds drifting across the grassy ridge in front of the pitch: meaningless talk of weekend plans and television shows. I can hear Kimberly’s distinctively sly voice diffracting around the hill.
“Come on! Hurry up!" Mr Longrich calls. “See here, Miss Parker’s waiting for us all already. You really need to practise getting dressed more quickly — it shouldn’t be that difficult kids!” I can see my peers sniggering as he turns my way, his uncovered knees already turning blue in the cold. “You can have a house point for that speedy changing, Miss," he says loudly, only making the other students giggle more.
Maybe she'll change it up in the sequel and branch out a little with her naming conventions.
A sneak peek at the character list for her next staggering work of genius:
The Productive Heroes:
Opulentia Sosowealthy
Honeysuckle Cashaplenty
Affluentina Goldmine
Chadwell Stocksandbonds.
Hershell-Henry Massiveinheritance III
The Villainous Bullies
Dave Skintpoor
Doug Notapenny
Charity Destitute
Jessica Bouncedcheque
Anny Sparechange
Bookperuser
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I bet she didn’t post “What I got for Christmas” to avoid comments from people who ordered planners who would have said, “guess what I DIDN’T get for Christmas”
MGB01
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this is so sad? marfa bestie my bday is in june clear your schedule and come round