Ruby Granger #15 Dustcore

[Arya2231]

Possibly, but it defeats the purpose if she then dresses like she's a Victorian chambermaid. "49 Essentials for Back to School 1897."

Stop giving her new ideas!

 

[yayadumpling]

loads of booktubers will say "this book has a dark academia vibe' nowadays! reading books such as song of achillies and the secret history fit into the vibe/aesthetic!

 

[Birdyboo]

Last Story on Instagram … freckles are back

 

[Supertramp]

Grace Beverley vibes right there smh

Hahahahaha too true, Ruby is the Grace of the study world - right place, right time, privileged enough to make the most of it but no real skills to speak of

 

[Arya2231]

She didn’t just give The Famous Five 2 out of 5 stars omgView attachment 725516

I used to read my parents’ old Famous Five books when I was a kid and I LOVED them.

This is a real shame and proves that she has no taste at all! How can you not like the FF? I am disappointed. For me it's like someone not liking Harry Potter.
I devoured them so much as a child and listened to the tapes every night to go to sleep.

It’ll be because they eat all the time, and non-vegan food, at that. Dainty Roobee must draw the line somewhere, much as she enjoys reading about food.

Yes, imagine that. Breakfast, lunch, tea time, picnic, ice cream, dinner. That's not normal. Especially Dick is far too hungry for anyone to like him

 

[yayadumpling]

Genuine question, because English isn’t my first language -isn’t “very favourite” like an idiom? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it elsewhere and if you google it, it does come up in language pages as something that exists/is used. I thought it was a way to emphasise further that you really like something?

yeah, it's one of those things that if you were incredibly pretentious about grammar and syntax wouldn't use, but is still spoken and written in everyday English which is totally fine as you can still derive meaning from the sentence/phrase easily (i wouldn't use 'very favourite' as it just sone awkward to me but i definitely say 'most favourite')! i THINK the correct way to say it is "this is my absolute favourite' (pls don't come for me if it isn't, i have had a long day at work). but to get to the point of my comment, i was just again pulling ruby's leg as she acts like she's an academic connoisseur but makes mistake such as these (which are completely fine to make as they are used in everyday english)!

 

[justcantbearit]

Makes sense! Mad how much she lies though...

Except her sister posted the same photos…

 

[MGB01]

Also, after watching her recent video, I can just imagining her rocking up to lectures with her quill and ink and her ink blotter and blotting paper and she sets all these out on her desk before the lecture starts.

didn't someone say they've seen her do this before?

 

[i_wanna_see_pictures]

Her voice sounds quite different in this video, deeper and perhaps a little more mature? Maybe, just maybe, she's trying to sound more her age and less like a precocious child?

 

[lemonbanana]

Do undergrad dissertations get made public at all? (Apologies, not very familiar with how these things work, I'm a while away from it!)

Undergrad dissertations don't usually get made public, at least where I'm from. Sometimes my university makes them public for other students to read as an example, but it's rare

 

[gossip_guy]

Yup, she doesn't like reading and hates most popular books as they contain grown-up themes and ideas and require more thought and concentration. But being a bookworm is part of her manufactured personality and she craves praise and acknowledgement at all times, so she has to like all the books other people do. "I'm not like other girls" is just the "I based my entire personality on other girls" catchphrase for her.

As daft as it is, people won't disagree with you faster on the internet than if you say you don't like or aren't interested in their favourite things, even if you have constructive and rational reasons. "I never had an Ancient Greece phase when I was younger like everyone did" is a very stupid reason - I can see logic in wanting to familiarise yourself with Greek myths to better enjoy a novel deeply rooted in them, but like everything, she explains herself in a completely alien way. She would've gotten a tonne of comments/DMs about not reading the book after that last video and has now instantly U-turned. She still won't read it. She'll revert to her usual tactic of lying about reading it, give it vague praise based on the cover blurb, give it 5 stars on Goodreads and never speak of it again.

Called it. She's so predictable.

 

[missmina]

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

She's extremely lazy. Doesn't deserve all that money for this shitty effort.

 

[CatCafe234]

I'm still waiting for her landlord to see what she did to the kitchen cupboards
Also what's happened to her new plant had it just been left in her uni house all summer

That plant was literally just in a plant pot - no saucer or anything (and it was next to the TV, which will be fun when they water it …) Unless Blakeney took it home with her that poor plant will be deader than the dodo by now.

 

[CatCafe234]

Someone pls take one for the team and inform her about fucking candlesticks vs. tapers, I can’t deal any more.

The tall skinny candle you call a candlestick, Roobee, is a TAPER. Repeat after me: T A P E R. The thing you stick your candle (taper or otherwise) into? That’s a candlestick. You get two guesses as to where the word comes from, and the first one doesn’t count.

Seriously, this has become one of those things that literally makes my teeth itch every time she says it.

 

[catsandteabooks]

It's kind of painful to see books recommended on this basis, but what can you do? I read (and reread) TSH before uni and adored it; the prose, topics, and unreliable narrator fit my tastes.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and deliberately not refresh my understanding of what the dark academia aesthetic allegedly is. Instead, I will recommend a couple books with the same darker, melancholic, introspective, scholarly or pseudoscholarly feel to them. Finally: Harry Potter doesn't belong to this aesthetic imho. Even if I don't truly believe in the "aesthetic," HP has no real place in it. (How d'ya like them apples, Ruby? jk I'm just playing)

Elizabeth Hand, Waking the Moon - very well researched on the anthropological side

I'm a huge Nabokov fan and think most of his work can fit this "aesthetic." The same goes with Proust.

An atypical recommendation: Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright. I'm not sure if fits the aesthetic at all, heh, but it's good.

I have to cut this short - I'll make another post later with more and also include a bit more explanation.


Quick reply, have to pick up the dog from the vet, but
1. Nothing wrong with using a preexisting world!
2. I haven't read SoA so cannot comment (yet)
3. Circe is great, agreed!
4. If one has experience with Homer (at all - no need to be an expert), Derek Walcott's epic Omeros is marvelous. It's not for everyone, but even when I wasn't completely sure if I liked epic poetry, I loved this work.

I have never seen someone mention Waking the Moon and am so excited now!!

Books can inspire you- The Secret History and Waking the Moon definitely inspired my love of ancient history and helped me when I was looking for degrees, but Ruby places so much faith in them when often they can do little more than give you a push, and the rest needs to come from some deeper personality or passion. Sadly Ruby seems to lack that deeper personality/have buried it under useless productivity and busywork. I think she should take a break from YouTube and maybe do some introspection on what she’s actually interested in, maybe research it (well, unlike her victorian series) and come back with videos about it; I for one would find that so much more interesting than useless “back to school” tips and a thousand morning routines that mean nothing.

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

exactly! Also, when moving/cleaning I give away a lot of the novels in my collection to local libraries/friends and give them a new life. Nobody will accept books which are written over like this, and she does that in her regular books as well, not only textbooks...While buying used books I get a lot of ones with notes written around in pencil, but usually in a way that doesnt go over the printed text, and you can either erease it or keep it, since writing in pencil is faint and doesn't disturb from reading much. What she does on the other hand, is just destroying those books in my opinion, they loose both their value and any aesthetics they may posses

Also,I didn't know about that brown noise thing, thanks guys! This is such a helpful tip, why hasn't any studytuber shared it earlier... Oh right, they don't face the same struggles as regular people who are studying lmao

i realise Amazon is problematic however you can get noise cancelling headphones or earbuds for about £50 from brands like tao tronics. Don’t need blooming BEATS

 

[Welshgal]

What a horrible, boring, pointless video.
Not going to comment on the porridge because ew.
The bags under her eyes are shocking.
Her nails are disgusting looking.
The video quality -as usual- is terrible.
I think I rather study than watch another second …

 

[July9696]

wait she bought her own house out of her own money?????? wtf

Daddy’s money.

 

[CatCafe234]

I tried to start watching the new upload but the bit at the beginning, where Ruby’s doing dramatic reading again over the noise of what sounds like builders did my head in. Did she really watch that back and think ‘well done me, another fine video to upload’?

 

[What_A_Biscuit]

Hey, new member here. Pardon my english, it isn't my first language.
I can't believe I found this here lol I thought I was the only one who found her kinda weird and getting progressively weirder xD Does anyone else feel like she might be autistic though, I don't want to speculate cause that is rude but I know people with autism who behave in ways extremely similar to that of Ruby.
Off the top of my head, one of the key factors of autism in girls is actually executive dysfunction, as in they either procrastinate or jump from one thing to the other without really accomplishing what they set out to do. Almost like ADHD but not quite. It explains why she feels the need to clock every second.
Another one is the inability to understand social cues or the framework of society/ human behaviour. It would explain why she loves aesthetics, it's probably cause it's the easiest way of being normal( or being seen as normal) or having a readymade personality that fits into a framework she doesn't understand.
I have no idea if this is coherent lol, just something o was thinking about.