I'm a glutton for a punishment, so I sat through the second half of her new video.
It's ostensibly a new day, at an indeterminate time, and Ruby is "reading" 'When I Had a Sister' while probably daydreaming about what it'd be like if
she didn't have a sister anymore.
"Think of all the additional attention and presents I'd get!" Ruby probably thinks to herself, while continuing to plot a house fire.
To the right, on her laptop we see that Ruby is cataloguing all the books she pretends to read in Notion. Her overuse of Notion is nothing new, but the sheer extent to which she wastes her life cataloguing things in multiple, redundant systems is still constantly flabbergasting. This is all information she puts in Goodreads, too.
She also stresses how important it is to note down her "main takeaways" from every book, because you can't do anything just for fun, and apparently it helps her remember the book. In fairness, it probably
is a struggle to remember what happens in a book if you've never actually read it.
She doesn't actually show any of these "takeaways", presumably because they'd be filled with such enriching insights as:
- This book was big.
- This book was heavy.
- This book had pictures. I like pictures.
- The cover had green on it. This reminded me of nature. Then I went to frolic in the field.
- I saw lots of big words in this book when I flipped through the pages. I will take those words and use them at random. Big words are nice.
That or she'd just copy other people's opinions and reviews and shove those into Notion as her own.
"I just finished
my book," Ruby says, despite the book being written by Catherine Simpson and this copy of it belonging to the local library.
She also appears to have a minor stroke as she visibly struggles to remember the name of the book she's pretending to have read:
Ruby's then off to London, where she's chosen to dress like something resembling a normal adult for a change:
After seeing that billboard, presumably Ruby had to have her mother explain to her what a "pension" is, and then what "work" means.
Ruby likely furrowed her brow, confused, then turned to her mother.
"But mummy," she probably asked, petulanty, "this "work" thing sounds frightfully hard and terribly boring. Why don't people just take money from Holocaust charities and get paid to lie about loving things they've never used, like I do?"
Ruby's mother lifted her into her lap and pinched her cheek with pride.
"Because we're more special than other people," Ruby's mother whispered, as she dotingly cleaned a giant glob of dust off her daughter's face. "But that's our little secret. Just make sure you vote Conservative to make sure the evil migrants and poor people don't come to take our money away. But that's our secret, too. If anybody asks, you voted Lib Dem."
"Yes, mummy," Ruby said, before nervously checking her bank balance to make sure the tides hadn't turned against her yet.
They're going to Fortum & Mason's for some ice cream, and Ruby's excited that they have vegan ice cream. Although with Ruby's hazy definition of what veganism is, she probably assumed that this meant her ice cream came with roast suckling pig.
Ruby's solution to having a fragile, vintage copy of Dombey and Son that she claims to treasure is to continue treating it like crap, taking it with her on a trip to London with her mother for some reason, shoving it in a bag to get banged around, then wonders why pages are falling out. A Kindle edition of the book can be bought for as little as 45p. But nothing like destroying a supposedly cherished book in public "for the aesthetic".
Super-organised and ultra-efficient planner Ruby, who keeps timetables upon lists upon plans upon schedules shockingly managed to fuck up when reading the train schedule and they missed their train.
"So we got here on time and instead we've got half an hour to wait until the next one," she says, staring in contempt at the world around her. Again, Ruby's stupid mistakes are always someone else's fault.
Life advice for Ruby: If you're "on time" for
the wrong train, you are not on time. Perhaps spend less time wasting hours with useless to-do lists and more time learning how to cope in basic life.
"Remember to wear your mask!" Ruby scolds, her nostrils exposed, after neglecting to wear a mask herself for almost the entire pandemic thus far.
*I really want to
pretend to read this!
Fixed that for you, Rubes.
Ruby rushes to justify shopping at an expensive place by saying it's "a special occasion", although aren't they all when your sense of self worth is as inflated as Ruby's?
She bought another modern copy of The Secret Garden, because her vintage copy is "ugly" and she wanted a "beautiful" one. She also bought a load of matches because her house, against the odds, hasn't been reduced to embers yet.
LG Gram laptop sightings in this book: Zero.
Trying to find a trace of dark academia content in this "dark academia days" video like:
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