Ruby Granger #25 Leaving all the books unread, chasing sponsorships instead

[mooncat]

I've only just come across this girl and I've binged watched a few videos over the last couple of days to get a flavour of what she's like. The comments about her nails are spot on I noticed it too.

I don't know if it's been mentioned before on her threads (I haven't read back through the 25 previous threads ) but what is with her odd looking fingers and toes?? Her thumb looks like a big toe and her big toes look like they're the wrong size for the rest of her feet . Despite that she seems to get her feet out on show in nearly every video. Don't judge me lol I notice these things it's not weird

I think it’s Brachydactyly or something, there’s been a discussion about it some time ago. while I absolutely agree that ruby can be criticised for a ton of weird things, her thumbs are not one of them. Guess I just find this a really weird thing to point out regarding there’s actual obvious issues. not wanting to police, do whatever floats you boat or whatever, but imo we shouldn’t comment on things like these as it’s, for once, really not ruby’s fault and it might play into her insecurities.

 

[Griftwood]

Why does Lottie have to be described using two phrases that are essentially synonymous? Who is this poor under-described 'other girl'? Why is the title similar to that of a school PSA film? So many questions.

I feel like Tattle is going to have this book written a lot sooner than Roobee finds a publisher (if she ever does), and it’ll be a lot better, too The other girl is probably some jeans-wearing harlot who was in a relationship and/or had a job in customer service, you know it’s always THOSE girls that go missing, not the clever ones who went to a nice school and spend all their free time with mummy and daddy.

 

[gaslightgirlboss]

hey!! I'm new to this thread, but I just wanted to say I really don't get why Ruby is making her dissertation so much more complicated than it needs to be???? Like, it's really not that deep?? I graduated last year doing English Literature at a Russel Group university, and the dissertation was literally not that big of a deal. The way she is acting is as if she is doing a PhD!! She just needs to read some books, research some sources, get some stuff from literary reviews and be done with it girly is doing TOO MUCH

 

[Deeznutslol]

Ruby not being able to talk to males is just part of the way she was socialised tbh. She went to a posh all girls school and it seems like she really doesn’t know how to interact with anyone who isn’t a middle class white girl from the home counties. Mummy and daddy made sure she never had to deal with any riff raff and then she went off to Exeter where she was easily able to find other rich, sheltered girls like herself to hang out with. I cannot imagine what it’s like to live in such a bubble tbh.

 

[emmer_moans]

I 100% believe that regardless of her grade, we’re going to get a “reaction” video where she announces a first. At this stage though, I’m not going to believe her unless there’s proof, which there won’t be.

Yes, Rubes will do her version of this reaction, mock surprise:

 

[morganmichelle]

I am aware of how fixiated I am on Ruby's figure and appearance (mainly because I'm ED-'recovered') but I just watched her story and have decided to stop watching her videos on any social platform. She's become very triggering for me (I know that's my own problem/issue blabla) because now even her collarbones and neck muscles/tendons are visible. She's losing weight by the minute and I will not support this damaging behaviour of hers. I will still lurk around here to see updates and such, but I will no longer be commenting as much. It'll be hard for me to do this but it's for my own good. Being recovered ≠ can't be triggered still.

 

[anakinskywalkers]

Uncle Roger

Thought Uncle Roger was a new nickname for Ruby for a hot minute

 

[springstudy]

It makes more sense to me the more I look back at why Eve Bennett was accepted to Oxford over Jade and Ruby. Like, I have no idea about their courses and what they were looking for, but I remember absolutely everyone thought Ruby and/or Jade had a chance. Eve was always more "common" in her videos, and people were astounded that she got in and not Ruby and/or Jade. But let's put it this way... Eve is more well rounded than either of them. You can picture her at a scholarly event talking on her subject, but you can also picture her chilling in a Morrisons staff canteen just talking away to everyone and having a laugh. She annoyed me in her videos but I always thought she seemed so mature for her age, and compared to Jade and Ruby, she came across so much more likeable and someone who could interact with a lot more people. Oxford must've saw that she could actually hold a conversation as she has had practice with that and more experience interacting with all different types of people. There's nothing that annoys me more than people like Ruby who have been so sheltered, never worked a part time job, never chatted to anyone outside of her bubble, that expect to just waltz in to a high establishment just because she wrote in her diary when she was 8 that her dream was Oxford.

Even Jade had to make it all about herself somehow and put up a dramatic video of her crying about her rejection and bathe in the praise it got afterwards for being "the most real video on Youtube", and then Ruby obviously looked at that and decided that she'd keep up her sobbing about getting a low grade in her first essay video to be "relatable". There's no way they didn't see all the critical comments about why they never got in and the "perfection" around studytubers and wanted to then change their ways and suddenly start showing off their problems. But the thing is, that doesn't make them relatable. They still, even after going through rejection, don't understand that it's not that they're good students that make them not relatable. It's their personalities and the way they deal with things. Like neither of them can look at their rejection and actually understand why that reason was, and I bet secretly they still believe that they should've got in and that some mistake was made.

 

[Deeznutslol]

Theory time:

Hitler and Goebbel used Beethoven and Wagner to churn a crowd into nationalistic narcosis and blindly following party orders.

Ruby's use of the "Dance of the sugar plum fairy" is slowly reaching the influencer level of Nazi propaganda in the sense that when the viewers hear the song and see the video of Ruby, they automatically accept the version of Ruby that she wants to portray to viewers. The music lulls one to a sense of passivity and whimsy, and the accompanying aesthetic reduces the need for critical thinking. That's why Ruby gets away with so much in her videos and why her followers can find no fault in their academic messiah.

I mean I get your point, but comparing her to literal nazis who were responsible for the deaths of millions of people is a bit nuts ngl ‍…

 

[gossip_guy]

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There's so much wrong with this.

Like people have said, the title is a terrible fit for the content. You're supposed to be able to read a title and get a feel for the tone and content of the book.

The blurb is clearly going for YA dark macademia contemporary mystery. The title is one you'd give to a third-rate Heathers knock-off dark comedy about a girl killing off her friends, or a simplistic Jacqueline Wilson-esque children's book where a 9 year old learns the importance of sharing their lunchtime snacks. Even then, it's a crappy, generic title.

Lottie Parton sounds like the most toffish Tory name. The only thing missing is a double-barreled surname and a picture on the cover of her hunting pheasant outside Waitrose while spitting on a homeless person. Way to make the main character instantly dislikable even before the blurb confirms that she's just Ruby.

Other red flags:

Ruby's agent apparently has this out on submission even though she's got Ruby writing the book essentially from scratch. "Revise and resubmit" requests are fairly common from publishers, but it doesn't sound like Ruby's even at that stage yet, so it's mind-boggling that she's out on submission with a novel that's evidently a complete mess and her agent has no apparent confidence in the current quality of.

The content of the book is completely out of Ruby's wheelhouse. Ruby can barely string together a coherent thought, let alone craft a compelling mystery about modern teenagers.

No doubt it'll be set at an all-girl's boarding school so that Ruby doesn't have to attempt to write a male character. There'll be no romance other than the unintentional undertones of Ruby’s self-insert protagonist obsessing over missing Blakeney Clarke Binkleby Cooke. There'll only be paper thin stereotypes as characters because Ruby only associates with people like her and has utter disdain for anyone else, so she's incapable of writing a diverse, interesting or believable cast.

The 'Good Girl's Guide to Murder'/'Am I Normal Yet?' comparisons in the blurb raise major alarm bells. They're two of the only YA books she's read pretended to read, and I would imagine she's applying her essay-writing technique to novel-writing: Read the synopsis of a few popular dark macademia-adjacent YA books and cobble together a paint-by-numbers plot full of YA clichés, archetypes and tropes with another thinly-veiled Ruby/Erimentha character as the lead and all romance removed. That's exactly what she did with Erimentha when she ripped off a bunch of middle-grade books.

That or this is absolutely going to be ghostwritten, with some writing house doing all the heavy lifting to craft a rote, easily-marketable, completely forgettable YA thriller from Ruby's incomprehensible notes about her productivity and ED habits and "facts" about Victorian letter-writing. I really hope that's not the case; I want the unfiltered mess of Ruby cringe for us to hate-read, not a generic YA book with nothing to laugh at. They've given Ruby a busywork rewrite task to keep her feeble mind occupied while the adults do the actual work, a bit like when parents give a child a small plastic construction playset to play with while the adults do home renovation, to trick the toddler into thinking they're helping.

Also, they market this as Ruby’s "debut", when Erimentally Deranged is right there. They clearly don't want anyone reading that.

 

[Griftwood]

Wow she looks so happy and fulfilled and like she’s just living her best life

 

[Deeznutslol]

so we r all aware of rubys parents uhmmmm "unique" and quite honestly sad relationship thanks to her mums poetry . well , was recently watching an older video of rubys (I followed a Scullery Maid Morning Routine *Victorian*) and noticed she sleeps in a different room of her house and noticed that it was her mums own room ( thanks to these messages left on the window)
- messages : "love u mum" , " we appreciate everything u do for us"
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was speculating the idea that her parents possibly no longer sleep in same rooms/ are split??? i honestly feel bad for this poor woman , her poetry can feel so depressing, i hope she gets the help/support she needs. this post may just be on overreaction / idk but i thought this rly stood out to me .

I agree she defo doesn’t seem happy, I think a lot of that is to do with the fact she honestly doesn’t really seem to do anything with her life. I suspect she has seen her role for the last 20 or so years as just being a mother and not much else, so now her kids have grown up, she seems to just be rattling around in that big old house all day doing fuck all.
I’ve always got the vibe that her and daddy bones get on well together though, they seem to often go on little trips and holidays together, and I don’t think it’s uncommon for married couples to sleep in separate rooms tbh. My dad was a heavy smoker when I was younger I literally cannot describe to you how loud this guy snored, when I was a kid I would regularly wake up and find my mum had slept in the living room because it just kept her up all night otherwise. Idk, her sleeping in a different room could be nothing, but I suppose you never really know what goes on behind closed doors!

 

[Deeznutslol]

I think you and many people here will make a bad comment about anything she is related with. I love this forum but sometimes I genuinely feel like ya all are talking shit just for the sake of talking shit. Like for example when she donated money to Ukraine, Ya all were like "wElL wHeRe'S thE pRoOf?" Did Jack Edwards and few other influencers that conducted the donations through livestream show you receipts? Wasn't it directly connected to the fundraiser? Besides this, I am sick of people judging her home-life without one single fucking idea what goes behind closed doors. Yeah she goes home a lot, yeah we can easily make an assumption she is a cry-baby that needs to be close to papa and mama, but now we know from her mother's poem that her father isn't exactly a fucking saint, so what if Ruby's mother needs her support or company to get through? What if Ruby is just being there for a loved one, because we have no idea how toxic her family life is and all we see is her slowly expiring in front of her bloody laptop. I am going "HELL YEAH" when ya all calling out Ruby for being a bloody liar etc, but there's always a limit to everything. Don't drag someone down just because you "need" to, you don't have to force yourself to DESPISE every single shit she does. She's a human like all of us, she has both good and bad inside of her.

I totally agree with you on a lot of this I can’t lie, sometimes I come on to tattle and read stuff people are writing (not just on this thread, on other threads too) and I’m like omg you need to get a grip and I’m sure people do the same about some of my posts too ! But that’s the thing about tattle, it is a gossip site, people come here to talk shit for the sake of talking shit and everyone has the right to express their opinion, even if it’s mega petty.

 

[Magpie02]

Man I'm just SO glad I went to uni when all this dark/light academia stuff wasn't a thing I just dressed in jeans and a sweater and still got two degrees, finished both with a first, so take that, Ruby!

 

[Finger-pointer]

Thank you
No names yet as I was convinced it was going to be another boy

I suggest Ruby.

 

[Auga]

Actually the more I think about it, it's annoyingly going to be half-decent, isn't it? Because of the agent. That explains all the edits Ruby has been making, which itself stood out given the lack of work on Erimentha before she released it. The agent has decided the way to sell it to publishers is by the Ruby Granger name, not by any brilliancy of the writing, and so all they have to do is make the writing passable. Which they can do via a lot of handholding with Ruby or worse pay someone to sort it out.

So Ruby will get to live out her fantasy about being a properly published author but only because she waved her influencer status in front of an agent's eyes. It's annoying for those who are better writers than Ruby (i.e. a lot of people) but who don't have thousands of followers. I would have had more respect for Ruby if she had submitted this under her real name without mentioning her youtube. But she's determined to be a Published Author at any cost.

 

[GrayNovember]

Ask, and it shall be given unto you

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Wow, you can definitely tell these people “became ‘adults’ not too long ago.” Why would someone who signed up for a fairly general book club expect to be reading a children’s book? And just because some children’s books cover serious issues like grief doesn’t mean the way they handle that content is going to be interesting to an adult who isn’t actively studying children’s literature.
I feel bad for anyone who’s sane and still in that book club.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Alright people, here is to hoping Ruby reads this threat and will actually take some advice for once:
Wash your hands, so there's no oil on your nails, use a base coat (to prep), paint your nails, then use a top coat (to seal) --> nice painted nails that last for up to a week.
It's not rocket science. She has shown herself in a previous video painting her nails and it was just one coat of color. No wonder it's always chipped. Especially with those white colors it looks so bad and scruffy

Not wearing nail polish is also an option? Like I know I don't have time to maintain nail polish so it doesn't look like a mess, and I'm bad at it too, so I just don't wear it? It's not a big deal. I don't understand why she insists to paint her nails when they end up looking worse than they would look unpainted 90% of the time.

 

[figgypud]

Why does she have to say that a random turmeric latte had "wasn't the best I've had but still good"? Most coffees I've had aren't "the best" I've had but there's no need to fucking mention it and name the small fucking company.

 

[VeryFerociousDrama]

Just noticed that Bones Cottage AirBnB seems to have only two bedrooms. Perfect for Daddy Bones, Clare, and their only daughter Ruby. Totally no other children in that family. No younger siblings. Just Ruby. And the dog/s.