Ruby Granger #15 Dustcore

[phantomsbaebe]

Yup, it's not even fun cringe content anymore since it's just the same thing over and over with even less effort than the time before.

She skims books at most, so it's unsurprising that she never remembers even the titles (like Stephen King's "The Shankshaw Redaction" or whatever she kept calling it). I'm sure she just saw "Picnic" in the title and Victorian schoolgirls on the cover and thought it'd be a fun cottagecore romp to pretend to read.

When I saw Ruby was reading Shawshank, I was shocked because King isn't in her comfort zone at all because King, for all his absolutely earned popularity, is a challenging writer. He is such a genius at character, world building, ambiguous character development and plot. Shawshank is such a profound and yet visceral novel so I was looking forward to Ruby's thoughts on it - which were virtually non existent. I wanted her to talk about it like an English student is supposed to but I just got the feeling that it was too adult, too confronting and too raw and real for her sensibilities.

I am a very different person to Ruby. I love to be challenged in that way. You tell me a book was banned, I wanna read it. I am fascinated by the dark half of humanity just as much as I find comfort in aesthetics and the lovely things people are capable of, no matter how life has treated them. Shawshank straddles those two things quite nicely and Ruby did not want to see that. I just don't see how a student of English can really immerse themselves in literature and books and not accept both sides of books and people as part of the expression of the human experience.

 

[CleverLittleThoughts]

She labels things with her name so in case it gets lost.....

OMG In the US we are done with that kind of crap by 4th grade. I can't believe she actually does that. What the F?

We are adults. We pretty much do our best not to misplace or lose things. Keep your crap safe. But if we do lose something, if someone finds it they either turn it in to a main office or claim it for their own. That is what you get for being stupid. But please! We don't put our professors names on things! They would be livid! They are not babysitters! You lose something, you are responsible for resolving your own problem. This isn't elementary school. I am trying to imagine one of my professors or my advisor saying to me "someone left this pencil case in my office. Here, sweetie, I think it is yours!"

Pretty much 99% of this video was old footage with new talkover. Nothing more. I usually enjoy back to school prep videos, but I prefer more personal in depth information, like the latest pens someone has found that they really like, a new way of organizing something (dorm room tours are fun) and we didn't get much of that last year due to Covid. But hers is just spilling the same info and shots from the past few years mumbled together with very little new information that is actually up to date and helpful to the viewer. Thus, lazy Ruby is at it again. She makes me want to puke.

 

[Arya2231]

She only mentioned the actual contents of any of the books 6 times. Everything else was just the appearance of the physical object.

I skipped through it, and the only sound I heard apart from her voice was 70% of a new crunching book that had never been opened and read.
I mean, I have about 15 books lying around that I couldn't read after a few chapters because I didn't like them, but I don't pretend to have read them, let alone buy a new bookshelf to fill with books I never have and never will read.

 

[i_wanna_see_pictures]

Huh I’m so confused, she got a first for second year? But from the info I glean from these threads, she’s really not high-70s standard??

Does Exeter grade differently or something

She's definitely at least somewhat intelligent, it's just that she doesn't care to put as much effort into social media (her job) as she does for academia. She pretty much consistently gets high grades, which is sometimes difficult to believe

ETA: The way I see her is booksmart, lacking responsibility and knowledge of the real world outside her parents' mansion in the countryside

 

[scrantonstrangler]

Thread name suggestion:

Ruby Granger #16: Rooberoy Lockhart, author of ”Erimenthal Me”

This is the best suggestion, A+ reference and it has dark acadaymia vibes. Ruby probably thinks Gilderoy Lockhart is so, so inspirational

 

[i_wanna_see_pictures]

I'd like to believe that it's a troll account, but I'm leaning towards it being real. I can't tell which is sadder tbh

 

[Underjoyed]

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Dustcore to moldcore? That trunk looks sickening.

 

[missmina]

There is an element of perfectionism that goes hand-in-hand with procrastination, which means that you want to be perfect but you know you can’t so you put stuff off until the point where you end up having to half-ass everything because there’s no time left! I see that a lot in Ruby. I agree there’s an element of superiority there but it’s the same kind of thing that I see in Holly Gabrielle, that looking down on others to cover up a deep, deep sense of insecurity in yourself. I also think that with Holly (and possibly Ruby) that’s a part of her overall MH issues. A feeling of superiority and an ED is probably not a good combination at all.

Do we know she actually procrastinates and that's what causes shitty results in her supposed perfectionism though? I feel it's the same with how she's supposedly such a bookworm but actually doesn't even read most of the books, doesn't understand what she's reading at all and doesn't even care about her own book club. Has she ever made anything actually near perfection? I don't think so. Her videos always had shitty quality, random cuts and mistakes which I feel she was simply too lazy to refilm / correct. Her house and any surrounding areas are extremely filthy, her clothes have holes. Her content about her area of interest is poor quality too - factual mistakes, boring, no knowledge presented. She's lazy and mediocre but her family, private school tutors and her followers made her believe she's an academic genius, bookworm and perfectionist. But it's not true.

 

[CleverLittleThoughts]

Am I the only one who wonders how often she has to stop being "productive" because she has to pee with all the water and tea she drinks to overcompensate her lack of food? No? lol

Chipped nails. Old footage. Prancing through fields. Miniscule meals. Crooked and broken candles. Did anyone catch her little note on the screen saying that she was struggling with her candle but instead wrote "struggling slightky". What an English major. Can't spell or edit correctly for the life of her.

So much for the ole "cottagecore" aesthetic. She didn't even know what a courgette looks like. Enjoy your porridge diet, Ruby. Eating unbalanced meals have a way of kicking your butt later down the road. She will age well before her time and have health issues along with all her psychological ones. That's alright. She can always "pretend" it is fall and everything is just pumpkins and apples!

 

[_Ameliemia]

Well we know from her Depop that she sells her wrinkled clothes at RRP price so we know a giveaway for free would not be in her nature

You mentioning her depop got me nosy…. HAS SHE NEVER HEARD OF AN IRON? Also pls go check out her liked items, they genuinely all look like the clothes the elderly ladies in my village would wear

 

[it'sraining]

Yes! I hate how every time a public person is a bit shy, quirky or awkward, doesn't have a ton of friends and has unique interests, everyone says "I bet they're autistic!"

*sort of off topic but slightly related to Ruby- I've never posted here before but I've been lurking for ages. Also I know I'm like 10 pages behind but I'm only catching up now and I wanted to respond*

Oh my god YES. As an autistic person (who only recently started being more open about it) I've always heard "they must be autistic right?"- but the minute I said that I was autistic I'd just be told that I'm just shy/introverted/anxious/antisocial and that I couldn't POSSIBLY be autistic.

One thing that I have noticed about Ruby is the more I watch her videos.. she just seems more and more.. fictional. Like we all know she's basically living in her own dark-ACADAYYYMIA, cottagecore, "slow living" (side-note can someone explain the concept of slow living to me, I've only heard it from Ruby and I just don't understand what it's about) bubble, and then there's the lying but even then.. idk, maybe it's all the twirling around in fields or something??

 

[LitNerd]

One, thank you for this, I've been so curious about this video

"I don't like the idea that I will never will be living at home again"
As someone close to Ruby's age this baffles me. I feel once you move out, unless you have an absolutely terrible time as long as you have a good relationship with your parents you would want to go and visit but not move back home, anxiety or not. I suffer from extreme anxiety, have been back to my parents house and was stuck there for a while due to the pandemic, and as nice as they are there's no way I'd move back in unless I absolutely needed to.
I know the fear of being alone is very real, but to me running to your parents really isn't helpful.

You’ve summed it up brilliantly. This struck me as odd too and I’m in my mid 20s and haven’t moved out of my parents home yet so for me to find this odd says something for clarity I went to a university I could commute to, and my parents couldn’t afford for me to move out at that point, I did uni for 4 years and was applying for London based jobs when the pandemic hit one year of job hunting and one year of working from home and now I’m here nearly 25 and have never moved out of my one and only childhood home. But, even though my London office is not requesting we be back any time soon in the slightest, I’m currently in the process of moving to a flat on london alone because, as emotional as I’ll be, I know that it’s going to happen eventually and when I’m not emotional to leave I’m excited and I have good transport so should anything happen to my family (god forbid) I can get back if needed. That’s my thought process, if I was going to extend staying at home it would have been to save more money so maybe I could have gone into buying rather than renting first but I know that’s a slippy slope and if this place works out then I’m going to take the leap - rip the band aid off so to speak

 

[Ilaariaa]

this has been talked about so many times but i can't believe how rancid that porridge looks! if would honestly cry if that was served up to me. theres so many delicious foods you can make with zucchini/courgette (whichever word floats ur boat)

Yeah zucchini is one of the most versatile vegetables out there in my opinion but that porridge looked disgusting. Who would even think of putting zucchini in porridge?
Also it's a very bland vegetable on its own. It needs some olive oil, some garlic, some pepper etc to be delicious. And Ruby has no idea how to use those items lol

 

[CatCafe234]

Ruby’s mum’s blog is why, however much Ruby annoys me, I will always feel a bit sorry for her. Ruby is clearly struggling with something but the more you see of her parents the more you realise what a pair of utter twits they are. You can see where a lot of Ruby’s problems come from, and it’s such a shame that her mum especially seems to be more keen on promoting herself and her Vogon-like poetry than helping her daughter.

 

[Griftwood]

She drew them on over a 1 inch thick layer of bright white suncream before and expected people to believe they were real, so nothing surprises me now.

If I had to list the top 10 Roobee cringe moments, the fake freckles would be surprisingly near the top. I feel like they just epitomise (oh hey look, correct usage!) all that’s wrong with her.

 

[DrinaM]

When she said 'the man of the letters' I cringed so hard. I think she meant 'man of letters'. Trying to make herself sound smarter than everyone else as usual. The inside of that trunk is filthy. Ink dripping everywhere, including on her hands. Chipped nail polish. Bleh.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Jesus Christ I did not notice that

 

[buflesse]

From Ruby's mum's blog:

'even though I am now the 1950's housewife in my household, I am not a very good one. I am quite slapdash and happy for the house to look overall clean and tidy.'

This doesn't even make sense. Does she mean that she's happy for the house to look less than clean and tidy? And it's evident from the filth that she barely cleans at all.

 

[Deeznutslol]

Also I’m shocked at the surfing videos? I don’t understand how in some clips she looks so underweight/sick and in this she just looks like normal?

 

[Deeznutslol]

From the newest video: ”That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a mindful, restful day though, because I think you can coincide productivity with that kind of happiness.” Here’s a twelve-point term for you, Roobee: intransitive verb. Look it up Hint: ”coincide” is one of them.

For the sake of the entire publishing industry, I hope she isn’t still considering pursuing a career as an editor. And again, sorry Exeter, but I’m really questioning her grades when her grasp on grammar seems tenuous at best. (Unless she’s going for Shakespeare-level innovation? Come to think of it, she HAS introduced us to a number of words we’ve never heard before, such as ”francious” and ”alamac”. Using ”coincide” with an object is not a huge leap from there.)

It’s stuff like this that makes me question her incredibly high uni marks