Ruby Granger #18 Still no deal with Waterstones but half her food was mailed from home

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Ruby needs herself some new money for rainhats, so it's time for yet another sponsored ad video!

Ruby's Notebook is clogging up the Pumpkin Productivity warehouse and they can't even shift that overpriced junk even with a discount. Ruby's going to give you the hard sell, though, and really pitch that bad boy with renewed vigor. It's an academic essential! Built from the ground up by Ruby, for Ruby! It has dotted pages, which are the best for taking notes! Which is why she doesn't touch that tit herself and uses a Rhodia lined notebook instead:

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Ruby starts her weekend by writing letters to her mum, dad, granddad and "friend". Either she's slipping notes under Blakeney's door every morning or her "friend" is the same person she sent her "autominal" card to: Herself.

She'll be seeing her parents in mere days, went on a Devon holiday with them days before this video and sent her mother letters only days before that. Ruby claimed she'd be spending less time at home this year, but clearly doesn’t realise that spending the majority of your time away from home in direct communication with the people at home all day every day isn't much different than just going home.

I'm not sure what eventful things Ruby believes happen to her in the scant 48 hours between letters, but I hope she includes these riveting adventures in her videos one day as opposed to the half-assed recycled crap she usually throws together. Evidently her parents don't actually talk to each other as Ruby feels the need to sent them separate update letters.

Her grandfather has precious little time left on this earth, and I'm sure there's much better things for him to do with his dwindling lifespan than suffering through Ruby's indecipherable handwriting and inane drivel before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Ruby writes exactly zero letters to Martha.

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"Today's video is kindly sponsored by NordVPN," Ruby says, wagging her finger in the internet's face. According to Rubes, NordVPN "allows you to change your VPN address", which misexplains the service and assumes people have VPN connections by default. Don't go off script when talking about things you clearly never use, Rubert.

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"It's currently...(Ruby takes a short break to figure out what time she's supposed to be pretending it is)...nine o'clock," she says, surprising herself.

Ruby informs us that she has decided to start cycling to campus, or at least pretending to. "And YES," Ruby snaps, she did go see her parents after saying she'd be avoiding rushing home every 5 seconds. But this was only because it was on their way. It's just a complete coincidence that "on their way" was to a place just next door to Ruby. And it was for an important family birthday gathering! So important that Martha didn't get an invite.

Not only did she drag her parents to Devon for a holiday to keep her separation anxiety at bay, she made them drag a hefty bike with them so she can make believe that she uses it.

It's time for outfit two already, and Ruby makes sure to show off the bike helmet that was conspicuously absent from every 'outfit of the day' in her last video where she pretended to have cycled to uni.

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Her dark macademia/Victorian chambermaid aesthetic has gone right out the window: No vintage basket-fronted cycle, no penny farthing - she rides a mountain bike.

She also has no clue what she's doing or where she's going. Perhaps if Ruby had spent more than a week in Exeter without fleeing home, she might know the way to campus. Instead she proposes just taking random turns at every junction until she magically arrives at uni, which is a great way to end up mired in a ditch by a roadside several towns away from your intended destination.

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Ruby manages to make it back home, but not without injury. Her nails look disgusting and bloodied, and evidently she was kidnapped and subjected to torture by bamboo shoots under the fingernails until she gave up her bank details (she presumably eagerly offered up Martha's money and/or life in place of her own).

She also pulls that pained squinting face that she now makes whenever she needs to remember what time she's supposed to be pretending it is or how long she needs to make-believe that she did something. It's become like a gambler's tell.

In this case she lies that she cycled for "about twenty minutes?", which doesn't line up with her claim that she went on an exploratory journey of blind turns through undiscovered streets to wind up a street away from campus and then travel back. So clearly she just filmed herself riding to the end of her street then turned straight back.

And since the lies flow like wine in Ruby's vineyard of deceipt, Ruby claims to be on her third outfit of the "day".

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As she shows off in her grime-covered mirror, Ruby wears her favourite nun blouse with a half-cape hanging off the back of it like she's the world's lamest, preachiest superhero. It's from "ASS-thetic-a London", which still isn't the right company name, but she's at least consistent in getting it wrong.

Ruby drones about how super-duper sustainable and amazing it is, recreating her comments almost word for word from her last video. And like last time, at no point does she mention that this shirt she's gushing over is a gifted product.

Ruby claims she's going to get started on work in a second. You'd be forgiven for collapsing with shock at the thought of Ruby getting a job, but she just means she's going to copy the Sparknotes for David Copperfield into Notion and pretend she read it for herself.

But she needs to set the mood first, so she creates some fire hazards with her super sustainable gas-filled lighter:

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Ruby says that it's nice to change up music choices rather than listen to the same things on repeat. She says this while subjecting her viewers to the same three songs she's used in every video for the past few years.

It's been a while since Ruby tried to convince everyone that her nails aren't always a chipped, dirt-encrusted mess, so she tries that again. Since she's very out of practice and malnutrition has ravaged her coordination, she immediately knocks nail polish remover all over the place.

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As the fumes consume her already addled brain, Ruby attempts to mop up the spill with a towel and then with her laptop for some reason.

Eventually insanity completely takes hold, and she starts polishing the top of her laptop with nail polish remover applied to a soiled, disgusting rag:

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Minutes after knocking highly flammable liquids everywhere, Ruby finally blows out the candles that are burning.

Ruby then pretends to do laundry, since her constantly showing off dirty, unironed clothes was apparently generating too much Tattle discussion to go unchecked. Rubes fumbles with the controls and opens and closes the washing machine door, then gives a thumbs-up to signify that she's happy with her charade and she won't have to pretend to do that again for a while:

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You might be wondering what happened to last video's claim that she hand washes everything in uber-sustainable laundry soap. Stay tuned for the next video, where Ruby yells, "And OF COURSE, I ALWAYS hand-wash my clothes" while pretending to hand-wash clothes in a kitchen sink full of dirty dishes and discarded carrots.

Just a few videos ago, Ruby was claiming that vlogging in public is too awkward for her, but apparently she got over that as she's now ignorantly walking through Exeter's busy town centre not looking where she's going, narrowly avoiding slamming into people and subjecting the city to her shrill "Look at me!" insanity.

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It's just a matter of time before the townsfolk gather their torches and pitchforks and chase her back to her parents.

Ruby explains that she had brunch with a friend who she met when she was 14, but hadn't realised that the friend in question also went to "AXE-eter". It's painfully clear that this friend had successfully managed to avoid Ruby for years up until they outran their luck and bumped into Ruby on campus. Now they'll be stalked and harassed endlessly by her. Ruby optimistically/threateningly says they'll get together again soon. Meanwhile this friend is currently fleeing the country or planning to fake their death.

After rambling manically about Bird & Blend, Ruby crams in some more undeclared advertisements, this time for Perkier bars, which she claims are her favourite, and she (big shock) neglects to mention were a gifted product.

Ruby shows off her schedule for the day, in which she's rewarded herself for things that clearly haven't happened:

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After that, all the recent talk on Tattle of Ruby's abysmal hygiene, lack of cleanliness and love of filth and germ hit a nerve, so it's time for her to feign being clean with some half-assed "chores". These do not involve cleaning her disgusting mirror or dusting anything whatsoever.

Ruby shows off her YouTube window and the recommended/partially watched videos are nothing but dieting/thinspo videos.

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She says she loves David Copperfield because she loves the sections about childhood, because of course she does. She also loves the use of "superperlatives" which are apparently like superlatives, but extra super.

Ruby lies about how long she was doing something for again and has another seizure as a result:

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And then in a new feat of editing laziness, Ruby inserts a title card with no title on it. Just a random, blank green screen for no reason:

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After that, Blakeney appears and they are making butternut squash soup for a "kyozy" movie night and eating squash skin, which sounds rancid, but to each their own, I guess.

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Blakeney has bought a mini pumpkin and named it Gavin. She keeps trying to place it on its side on the windowsill, but Ruby isn't having any of this nonsense. This is no time for whimsy, not when "autominal" aesthetics are on the line. Remember, it's important that we normalise embracing our inner child and doing silly things, but not when it clashes with Ruby's decor. After editing out a rant at Blakeney, she rants at the audience about the proper way to display a pumpkin.

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Ruby also bought Blakeney some sushi, because she thought she'd never tried it before. It turns out she has, and Ruby can barely hide her wounded betrayal, and almost snatches the sushi away and bins it.

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Remember in the last video where Ruby claimed she always dresses like she's going for a job interview in the 1800s, even on a lazy Saturday?

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Here we see what utter bullshit that was, as she wears regular pyjamas, and a house coat seemingly pilfered from the corpse of her dead great-grandmother.

Ruby seems almost like a normal person when she's with Blakeney, which is a shame, since Ruby always makes sure to edit out or talk over anything Blakeney has to say so that nobody else claims the spotlight but Ruby.

"I never used to watch television," Ruby says in a fake pensive voice. And she still doesn't, but this video is sponsored by NordVPN and she has to pretend to use Netflix to advertise it, after which, she'll never watch TV again until the next sponsored video.
 
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Not to mention that if you haven't read all of Dickens by the time you are 16 or something then what the hell are you doing studying English lit?
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I mean, I have a degree in English and have never read Dickens. Since when is he considered THE canonical author that all English students or book lovers have to read in order to be taken seriously? I know in this case we are talking about Ruby, and she is not exactly the model bookworm or student she so wishes she was. But, claiming that everyone should have read Dickens as a teenager, otherwise "what are you even doing" makes it sound like you have a very narrow definition of what studying English should look like, that doesn't match what reading for the degree is actually like. (At least not in my experience).
 
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Ruby needs herself some new money for rainhats, so it's time for yet another sponsored ad video!

Ruby's Notebook is clogging up the Pumpkin Productivity warehouse and they can't even shift that overpriced junk even with a discount. Ruby's going to give you the hard sell, though, and really pitch that bad boy with renewed vigor. It's an academic essential! Built from the ground up by Ruby, for Ruby! It has dotted pages, which are the best for taking notes! Which is why she doesn't touch that tit herself and uses a Rhodia lined notebook instead:

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Ruby starts her weekend by writing letters to her mum, dad, granddad and "friend". Either she's slipping notes under Blakeney's door every morning or her "friend" is the same person she sent her "autominal" card to: Herself.

She'll be seeing her parents in mere days, went on a Devon holiday with them days before this video and sent her mother letters only days before that. Ruby claimed she'd be spending less time at home this year, but clearly doesn’t realise that spending the majority of your time away from home in direct communication with the people at home all day every day isn't much different than just going home.

I'm not sure what eventful things Ruby believes happen to her in the scant 48 hours between letters, but I hope she includes these riveting adventures in her videos one day as opposed to the half-assed recycled crap she usually throws together. Evidently her parents don't actually talk to each other as Ruby feels the need to sent them separate update letters.

Her grandfather has precious little time left on this earth, and I'm sure there's much better things for him to do with his dwindling lifespan than suffering through Ruby's indecipherable handwriting and inane drivel before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Ruby writes exactly zero letters to Martha.

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"Today's video is kindly sponsored by NordVPN," Ruby says, wagging her finger in the internet's face. According to Rubes, NordVPN "allows you to change your VPN address", which misexplains the service and assumes people have VPN connections by default. Don't go off script when talking about things you clearly never use, Rubert.

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"It's currently...(Ruby takes a short break to figure out what time she's supposed to be pretending it is)...nine o'clock," she says, surprising herself.

Ruby informs us that she has decided to start cycling to campus, or at least pretending to. "And YES," Ruby snaps, she did go see her parents after saying she'd be avoiding rushing home every 5 seconds. But this was only because it was on their way. It's just a complete coincidence that "on their way" was to a place just next door to Ruby. And it was for an important family birthday gathering! So important that Martha didn't get an invite.

Not only did she drag her parents to Devon for a holiday to keep her separation anxiety at bay, she made them drag a hefty bike with them so she can make believe that she uses it.

It's time for outfit two already, and Ruby makes sure to show off the bike helmet that was conspicuously absent from every 'outfit of the day' in her last video where she pretended to have cycled to uni.

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Her dark macademia/Victorian chambermaid aesthetic has gone right out the window: No vintage basket-fronted cycle, no penny farthing - she rides a mountain bike.

She also has no clue what she's doing or where she's going. Perhaps if Ruby had spent more than a week in Exeter without fleeing home, she might know the way to campus. Instead she proposes just taking random turns at every junction until she magically arrives at uni, which is a great way to end up mired in a ditch by a roadside several towns away from your intended destination.

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Ruby manages to make it back home, but not without injury. Her nails look disgusting and bloodied, and evidently she was kidnapped and subjected to torture by bamboo shoots under the fingernails until she gave up her bank details (she presumably eagerly offered up Martha's money and/or life in place of her own).

She also pulls that pained squinting face that she now makes whenever she needs to remember what time she's supposed to be pretending it is or how long she needs to make-believe that she did something. It's become like a gambler's tell.

In this case she lies that she cycled for "about twenty minutes?", which doesn't line up with her claim that she went on an exploratory journey of blind turns through undiscovered streets to wind up a street away from campus and then travel back. So clearly she just filmed herself riding to the end of her street then turned straight back.

And since the lies flow like wine in Ruby's vineyard of deceipt, Ruby claims to be on her third outfit of the "day".

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As she shows off in her grime-covered mirror, Ruby wears her favourite nun blouse with a half-cape hanging off the back of it like she's the world's lamest, preachiest superhero. It's from "ASS-thetic-a London", which still isn't the right company name, but she's at least consistent in getting it wrong.

Ruby drones about how super-duper sustainable and amazing it is, recreating her comments almost word for word from her last video. And like last time, at no point does she mention that this shirt she's gushing over is a gifted product.

Ruby claims she's going to get started on work in a second. You'd be forgiven for collapsing with shock at the thought of Ruby getting a job, but she just means she's going to copy the Sparknotes for David Copperfield into Notion and pretend she read it for herself.

But she needs to set the mood first, so she creates some fire hazards with her super sustainable gas-filled lighter:

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Ruby says that it's nice to change up music choices rather than listen to the same things on repeat. She says this while subjecting her viewers to the same three songs she's used in every video for the past few years.

It's been a while since Ruby tried to convince everyone that her nails aren't always a chipped, dirt-encrusted mess, so she tries that again. Since she's very out of practice and malnutrition has ravaged her coordination, she immediately knocks nail polish remover all over the place.

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As the fumes consume her already addled brain, Ruby attempts to mop up the spill with a towel and then with her laptop for some reason.

Eventually insanity completely takes hold, and she starts polishing the top of her laptop with nail polish remover applied to a soiled, disgusting rag:

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Minutes after knocking highly flammable liquids everywhere, Ruby finally blows out the candles that are burning.

Ruby then pretends to do laundry, since her constantly showing off dirty, unironed clothes was apparently generating too much Tattle discussion to go unchecked. Rubes fumbles with the controls and opens and closes the washing machine door, then gives a thumbs-up to signify that she's happy with her charade and she won't have to pretend to do that again for a while:

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You might be wondering what happened to last video's claim that she hand washes everything in uber-sustainable laundry soap. Stay tuned for the next video, where Ruby yells, "And OF COURSE, I ALWAYS hand-wash my clothes" while pretending to hand-wash clothes in a kitchen sink full of dirty dishes and discarded carrots.

Just a few videos ago, Ruby was claiming that vlogging in public is too awkward for her, but apparently she got over that as she's now ignorantly walking through Exeter's busy town centre not looking where she's going, narrowly avoiding slamming into people and subjecting the city to her shrill "Look at me!" insanity.

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It's just a matter of time before the townsfolk gather their torches and pitchforks and chase her back to her parents.

Ruby explains that she had brunch with a friend who she met when she was 14, but hadn't realised that the friend in question also went to "AXE-eter". It's painfully clear that this friend had successfully managed to avoid Ruby for years up until they outran their luck and bumped into Ruby on campus. Now they'll be stalked and harassed endlessly by her. Ruby optimistically/threateningly says they'll get together again soon. Meanwhile this friend is currently fleeing the country or planning to fake their death.

After rambling manically about Bird & Blend, Ruby crams in some more undeclared advertisements, this time for Perkier bars, which she claims are her favourite, and she (big shock) neglects to mention were a gifted product.

Ruby shows off her schedule for the day, in which she's rewarded herself for things that clearly haven't happened:

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After that, all the recent talk on Tattle of Ruby's abysmal hygiene, lack of cleanliness and love of filth and germ hit a nerve, so it's time for her to feign being clean with some half-assed "chores". These do not involve cleaning her disgusting mirror or dusting anything whatsoever.

Ruby shows off her YouTube window and the recommended/partially watched videos are nothing but dieting/thinspo videos.

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She says she loves David Copperfield because she loves the sections about childhood, because of course she does. She also loves the use of "superperlatives" which are apparently like superlatives, but extra super.

Ruby lies about how long she was doing something for again and has another seizure as a result:

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And then in a new feat of editing laziness, Ruby inserts a title card with no title on it. Just a random, blank green screen for no reason:

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After that, Blakeney appears and they are making butternut squash soup for a "kyozy" movie night and eating squash skin, which sounds rancid, but to each their own, I guess.

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Blakeney has bought a mini pumpkin and named it Gavin. She keeps trying to place it on its side on the windowsill, but Ruby isn't having any of this nonsense. This is no time for whimsy, not when "autominal" aesthetics are on the line. Remember, it's important that we normalise embracing our inner child and doing silly things, but not when it clashes with Ruby's decor. After editing out a rant at Blakeney, she rants at the audience about the proper way to display a pumpkin.

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Ruby also bought Blakeney some sushi, because she thought she'd never tried it before. It turns out she has, and Ruby can barely hide her wounded betrayal, and almost snatches the sushi away and bins it.

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Remember in the last video where Ruby claimed she always dresses like she's going for a job interview in the 1800s, even on a lazy Saturday?

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Here we see what utter bullshit that was, as she wears regular pyjamas, and a house coat seemingly pilfered from the corpse of her dead great-grandmother.

Ruby seems almost like a normal person when she's with Blakeney, which is a shame, since Ruby always makes sure to edit out or talk over anything Blakeney has to say so that nobody else claims the spotlight but Ruby.

"I never used to watch television," Ruby says in a fake pensive voice. And she still doesn't, but this video is sponsored by NordVPN and she has to pretend to use Netflix to advertise it, after which, she'll never watch TV again until the next sponsored video.
I mean if she actually handwashed all of her clothes I would question her sanity. There's a reason most of our grandmothers collectively ditched handwashing and bought a washing machine as soon as they could
 
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I mean if she actually handwashed all of her clothes I would question her sanity. There's a reason most of our grandmothers collectively ditched handwashing and bought a washing machine as soon as they could
Oh, for sure. But that's even less reason for her to lie about it, because nobody's going to judge her for using a washing machine (even though she clearly doesn’t do that either).

Yet she still claimed to hand-wash everything, partly because she always lies about doing things that fits her mishmash vintage "aesthetic" and partly because she just happened to get gifted some expensive laundry soap that she needed to pretend to use.
 
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I'm also shocked by how much she rewears the same things each week
Does she not wash them, after cycling to uni? I feel awkward wearing the same jeans to my classes each week, even though I know they're clean...
I doubt anyone even notices, that’s a pretty bizarre thing to be self conscious about. Most people have washing machines and I doubt they give it a second look
 
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After rambling manically about Bird & Blend, Ruby crams in some more undeclared advertisements, this time for Perkier bars, which she claims are her favourite, and she (big shock) neglects to mention were a gifted product.
I hate that Ruby has co-opted Bird & Blend SO much. I'm a tea lover, and B&B are my favourite company for tea, because they're still independently owned and so friendly as a company.
 
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Doesn't handwashing waste more water than a power and water efficient washing machine? (Correct me if I'm wrong.) With all the outfits she changes, I highly doubt she's spending her days sweating by a washing board and a tub or a dirty sink tbh. She should get her hands on a mangle and judging by how childlike she wishes to be, then we can see some truly horrific Victorian aesthetics with crushed fingers. What a stupid thing to lie about.
 
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Doesn't handwashing waste more water than a power and water efficient washing machine? (Correct me if I'm wrong.) With all the outfits she changes, I highly doubt she's spending her days sweating by a washing board and a tub or a dirty sink tbh. She should get her hands on a mangle and judging by how childlike she wishes to be, then we can see some truly horrific Victorian aesthetics with crushed fingers. What a stupid thing to lie about.
It's such a pointless claim to make lmao literally no one is gonna be impressed by someone hand-washing all of their clothes in 2021. She just comes off as a weirdo and a compulsive liar. Also she's shown herself using a washing machine multiple times before so it's not like anyone's gonna believe her.
 
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No wonder it takes her months to finish the smallest of the Dickens books. What will she do when she has to move on to serious literature? (not romance, serial or "commercial" as Dickens was called back then - not now. But seriously, he is light reading compared to what she should be reading).

Not to mention that if you haven't read all of Dickens by the time you are 16 or something then what the hell are you doing studying English lit? lol (that last one is my personal experience - if you're not obsessed with books, classic lit and general reading, then maybe study aesthetics at uni? you seem to be so much better at those)
lmao as others have already pointed out, this is such bullshit. I managed to get a first in my lit undergrad without reading Dickens, and I'm doing an MA in 20th and 21st century lit, so Dickens holds little relevance to me. I can't imagine him getting more relevant when I do my PhD. Second, I hate to defend Ruby, but she has read a reasonable amount of Dickens before. This is the girl who supposedly reads A Christmas Carol every Christmas, remember? Plus her taking a module on Dickens now is in no way evidence that she hasn't read Dickens before, that's wildly illogical. Third, are you arguing that Dickens has no academic merit? For sure until relatively recently he hasn't had the 'highbrow' reputation that he now has, and definitely wouldn't have done at the time he was writing, but are you seriously suggesting that that means he isn't worthy of study? You're implying that only certain - 'serious', whatever that means - literature is worthy of academic study, which is simultaneously infuriating and an interesting argument. By that logic no 'genre' literature should be studied - crime, fantasy, sci-fi - because that also isn't 'serious' enough. Nor should children's lit or YA. And yet the guy who won the prize for best dissertation in English when I graduated wrote his diss on YA lit. The issue is very rarely what you read, but how you read it. If you ask the right questions about a text you will produce interesting work. Finally, this is literally a module offered by the university. Did you complain to your uni about daring to offer modules on authors you didn't consider 'serious' enough? Sorry if this has been a bit harsh, but c'mon, what a stupid take.
 
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she still has nearly 2850 notebooks left to sell hahahahaha more market research needed next time roobs
 
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lmao as others have already pointed out, this is such bullshit. I managed to get a first in my lit undergrad without reading Dickens, and I'm doing an MA in 20th and 21st century lit, so Dickens holds little relevance to me. I can't imagine him getting more relevant when I do my PhD. Second, I hate to defend Ruby, but she has read a reasonable amount of Dickens before. This is the girl who supposedly reads A Christmas Carol every Christmas, remember? Plus her taking a module on Dickens now is in no way evidence that she hasn't read Dickens before, that's wildly illogical. Third, are you arguing that Dickens has no academic merit? For sure until relatively recently he hasn't had the 'highbrow' reputation that he now has, and definitely wouldn't have done at the time he was writing, but are you seriously suggesting that that means he isn't worthy of study? You're implying that only certain - 'serious', whatever that means - literature is worthy of academic study, which is simultaneously infuriating and an interesting argument. By that logic no 'genre' literature should be studied - crime, fantasy, sci-fi - because that also isn't 'serious' enough. Nor should children's lit or YA. And yet the guy who won the prize for best dissertation in English when I graduated wrote his diss on YA lit. The issue is very rarely what you read, but how you read it. If you ask the right questions about a text you will produce interesting work. Finally, this is literally a module offered by the university. Did you complain to your uni about daring to offer modules on authors you didn't consider 'serious' enough? Sorry if this has been a bit harsh, but c'mon, what a stupid take.
Yeah, this is so well worded! My area (the Gothic) has been, until recently, seen as 'beneath' the academy (seriously, the field of Gothic Studies literally only started properly maybe late 70s/early 80s, which is practically nothing in Literary criticism), so the whole high brow/low brow argument is so subjective and bollocks.
 
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she still has nearly 2850 notebooks left to sell hahahahaha more market research needed next time roobs
She's going all-out on marketing though, so she's bound to sell them all in no time!

I mean, she's even advertising it on her own Instagram now (in the stories, so that the shame will vanish after 24 hours):

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Sure, she got the discount code completely wrong again, even though the correct one is literally right in front of her, and can be seen on the screen. But those notebooks will be flying off the shelf any day now...

She's also managed to find 40 extra planners from somewhere, and will be charging full price for them even though three months of the planner are now useless. And these will undoubtedly be returned stock, so probably used or defective. And if you're one of the many customers who ordered a planner that never arrived who never got a replacement, you can pay for one all over again that may arrive damaged, defective or not at all for that Pumpkin Productivity Russian Roulette!

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"ADMIN TASKS: Call mum."

What a bleeping robot.
 
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I know it’s briefly been discussed here, but what do you think Martha thinks about not getting letters, not invited to family gatherings etc? On the one hand I think she wants to just be a normal uni student with a healthy, typical social life but on the other I know that I would feel pretty sidelined by my family. We know that Martha and Ruby are completely different people but surely that’s no reason to prioritise and continue to baby the older one while leaving the younger one. But maybe I’m just reading into it a bit too much?
 
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She's become such a joke. I used to watch her videos as a relaxing escapism thing ages ago. Sure, she was always a bit kooky, but back in the day I found her being unapologetically herself entertaining and endearing. Now, years later, she hasn't grown one bit, she has regressed in every way possible and I am so irritated by her unwavering arrogance and ignorance that I can't even feel sorry for her dwindling mental and physical health.
 
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I know it’s briefly been discussed here, but what do you think Martha thinks about not getting letters, not invited to family gatherings etc? On the one hand I think she wants to just be a normal uni student with a healthy, typical social life but on the other I know that I would feel pretty sidelined by my family. We know that Martha and Ruby are completely different people but surely that’s no reason to prioritise and continue to baby the older one while leaving the younger one. But maybe I’m just reading into it a bit too much?
For all we know, Martha does get invited but chooses not to go because she's living her own independent life at uni.
 
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That tone of voice when she says "And I thought Blakeney HAD NEVER TRIED sushi before..." How bitchy she sounds.

Also: I spotted someone I went to school with in her Exeter city centre footage, I must ask him if he saw her filming. 🧐
 
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Sorry if this has been mentioned before and also TW TW TW TW

I think there is a chance (hoping it's not the case) that there is another reason her nails/fingers are so destroyed always. Has to do with her ed, but it's not the restrictive AN type :( It was what I immediately thought when I saw the close up of her injured nail, but I don't want to *name* it so that I don't trigger anyone. If you know what I'm talking about, I'm sorry

also re: my dickens waterloo, I didn't mean everyone has to study him, his works were nowhere near my syllabus anyway. I am just crazy and wanted to get my hands on as many classics as possible, so were my other fellow lit students (not crazy, just readers). Regardless of enjoyment or not, we just needed to be well-read so to speak. But again, that's me. Still, so weird that you can't read a book in a month, when you should be reading about a book a day/week at most and literature/books is what you are studying in uni? Just sayin

And and heads up will now be referring to AXATAR as the Nail Polish Uni. Pretending to read while playing with your nails, desk, camera and anorexia youtube watching is not serious studying, it's a joke and a barf
 
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i'm actually a little shocked that she's 21 and hasn't had sushi ? i understand ppl are apprehensive about sushi sometimes but come on not even some plain avocado sushi or some inari?
 
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