Around christmas time you can sometimes find Krampus & Nikolaus chocolates in Lidl! I still have mine (couldn't bring myself to eat them, the Krampus was just too cute lol)I still need to watch the video . . . I'm curious as to whether she will analyse aspects of Father Christmas in the context of "scarier" European St Nicholas traditions (where Nicholas travels with demons). I always thought the externalised representation of the dualistic "duties" (reward & punishment) of Father Christmas seemed older: there's something nice about having two separate beings for these two duties. It's less complicated theologically and philosophically. Yet I was thinking just now that this might purely be the result of amalgamation: stranger pagan traditions had to be folded somehow into the narrative of a saint giving gifts, so instead of allocating the punishment duties straight to the saint, the demons got to tag along with him instead. Well, I'll just watch it. I'm sure it will be frustratingly shallow.
You can find European/Alpine Christmas traditions from the same time period by searching Krampus & Nicholas. A little horror with your Christmas? Why not . . . Actually some explanations state explicitly that Nicholas and Krampus live together year-round.
As Ruby reads here, let's see if she takes any of your ideas!(Catching up so sorry for the probable incoming double post as I'm still only on p 26 lol)
What is super frustrating is how EASILY Ruby COULD have made the title (or even basis) of that dissertation into a viable, Literature-centred piece of work. Christmas was undoubtedly a huge phenomenon within the Nineteenth Century and 19th C lit- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas was published in 1823, after all.
She could focus on:
- How Christmas traditions were established through popular fiction or poetry in 19th Century Anglo-American Lit
- The Victorian Christmas ghost story tradition
- Victorian Children's poetry and Christmas
- Christmas-themed periodicals and how they promoted various ideas between the classes
Like this is such a short and rushed list because I'm tired and it's a bad MH day but C'MON RUBY IT WOULD BE SO EASY ARAOIJFAOFASOIFDJASFO
I am absolutely certain I saw her respond to a comment a couple of weeks ago of someone telling her to try reading Spanish poetry, cheeky how she’s taken that idea and used it for an adShe loves to read Spanish poetry!We keep learning fascinating new facts about Roobee through the ads she does.
THIS! No one can chew porridge that much, it is already soft. Btw long time lurker here, I enjoy reading your comments so much that’s why I follow Ruby lolI just watched the section with her breakfast and the amount of times she was chewing each bite really stood out to me, despite how she sped it up. She needs help.
It would be awfully tempting, if I were an evil person, to turn it into some kind of game to make increasingly subversive suggestions for things Ruby to do in the comments and see if she presents them a couple of weeks later as her own idea.I am absolutely certain I saw her respond to a comment a couple of weeks ago of someone telling her to try reading Spanish poetry, cheeky how she’s taken that idea and used it for an ad![]()
I didn't/don't study at Exeter, but in my experience generally - dissertation proposals can be rejected for 3 main reasons:Also question for anyone who knows: how do diss proposals for English at Exeter work? How detailed is it meant to be, and how often do proposals get rejected? Is it necessary for her to be doing as much work on it at this point as she is? When I did mine I literally just had to pop an email to the coordinator saying "this is the area I want to look at" and that was it, I assume Exeter requires more than that?
The sheer irony and lack of self-awareness in everything she does is off the charts.Mildly obsessed with the irony of that bowl saying "PLEASE SIR I WANT SOME MORE".. it's such a tiny amount of porridge.