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I think in British English, parenthesis using brackets is valid. We consider parenthesis as being through brackets, commas and dashes, rather than just brackets, as being pretty similar. It's a tonal/register difference, but grammatically it's usually fine.
I went to her video and paused it so I could read. HOW is that an essay by a final year English Literature student, currently sitting on a First? HOW.
I'm probably overthinking it but maybe she's just a truly talented, one of a kind troll. She knows we scrutinize every frame in her videos. She could have written a shitty essay page and pretended that was the real one just to mess with us. She knows putting frozen peas in oatmeal is disgusting but also knows the reaction it gets here. This would also explain why she constantly ED baits in her videos - she's a troll who doesn't care that she's hurting people. Okay I'm gonna take off my tin foil hat now.
Have anyone else noticed that whenever she does this weird grimace selfie she’s not looking into the camera, she’s looking at herself? And does anyone else find it creepy? Cuz I do
It's not hard to see why she's constantly going well over the word count if she's including a shoddily written high school book report as the intro to every essay. It took her an entire page to say practically nothing.
Have anyone else noticed that whenever she does this weird grimace selfie she’s not looking into the camera, she’s looking at herself? And does anyone else find it creepy? Cuz I do
She's either never figured out how cameras work or she’s just that self-absorbed. Whenever she takes mirror photos, she smiles at the phone in her hand rather than looking in the mirror at the lens:
Had this been for an ESL course, even a non-advanced one, she'd have lost points for that. Makes me feel better about my English to be honest to see a native speaker and aspiring writer make this kind of mistakes.
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She's either never figured out how cameras work or she’s just that self-absorbed. Whenever she takes mirror photos, she smiles at the phone in her hand rather than looking in the mirror at the lens:
She's either never figured out how cameras work or she’s just that self-absorbed. Whenever she takes mirror photos, she smiles at the phone in her hand rather than looking in the mirror at the lens:
Sorry, I can't tell - is that a five-year-old flower girl at a wedding wearing the outfit her parents picked out for her, or a soon-to-be college graduate?
Sorry, I can't tell - is that a five-year-old flower girl at a wedding wearing the outfit her parents picked out for her, or a soon-to-be college graduate?
Look, even the poor little candle wants to escape.
It must be such a relief for Roomba to finally have the dissertation out of the way. I really hope the next year isn't 'write with me' videos from her bedroom, though. Nothing at all wrong with writing a book, but I'd love to see her venturing out more, maybe doing some solo travel or volunteer work. I think it would be more rewarding.
I don't think even she knows. It's just a kitchen sink of tangential nonsense.
Near as I can interpret from all the bits she's shown, her dissertation is something like:
How Lewis Carroll's letters are works of literature in their own right and a VARRY KOIND gift to others.
[Irrelevant tangent about nonsense poetry.]
All letters are gifts.
[Irrelevant tangent about the Coronavirus.]
Victorians sent lots of letters and had lots of rules of ATTICAT for correspondence.
[Irrelevant tangent about the Victorian era unrelated to letters.]
Society also has many different cultures of gift-giving.
[Irrelevant tangent about Cicero.]
Gifts are VARRY KOIND.
[Irrelevant tangent about bereavement correspondence.]
Kindness is VARRY important
[Irrelevant tangent about genetic editing.]
LATTERS are THE MOST MOSTLIEST FORM OF KOINDNESS.
[Irrelevant tangent about literary dedications.]
Lewis Carroll was a VARRY KOIND MAN and also VARRY IMPORTANT.
[Irrelevant tangent about the history of the artistic muse]Section deleted.
[Irrelevant, inaccurate tangent about the history of Alice in Wonderland with no mention of Lewis Carroll being a diddler of children.]
In conclusion, KOINDNESS IS VARRY GUD AND LATTERS ARE VARRY KOIND AND LEWIS CARROLL SEND LYOTS OF LATTERS AND THAREFORE LEWIE WAS A VARRY GUD AND KOIND MAN. He inspires MANNY PEEPUL TYOO BEE KOIND TYOO THIS VARRY DAY, WITH COMPANIES LOIYKE PONKIN' PRODOCKTIVTEE OFFERING VARRY KOIND PRODUCTS AND PRICES. THE AND.
Ruby can't even figure out how capital letters, punctuation and consistent titling work, there's no way she'll be able to have a coherent, intelligent and literate thesis run for 10,000 words.
The titles of the three videos in this series:
'Study With Me (a week of daily study with mes) + giveaway'
'a productive study day #2'
'A Study Day with Me + sharing an extract I had to cut '
What a dunce.
Ruby has definitely been reading Tattle again. @Griftwood mentioned the blurring of pages, but the timelapse footage is full of contemptuous, demonic glares at the camera, as though she knows we're going to be going through frame by frame.
It also does nothing to convince people that she's remotely on-track with getting this handed in and having it be in anything resembling readable quality, let alone worthy of the First she's expecting.
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(Pictured: Ruby doing "a littull bit mwoar wahhrk" on her final assignments", which looks suspiciously like a lot of last minute panicked rewriting.)
She casually mentions that she's just going through and noting things which she still needs to research, or things she's added which are unsubstantiated. "Because sometimes as you're reading it, you realise you've written something which maybe you should cite your source for."
I don't know what's more hilarious:
That Ruby is on at least her 8th draft and still hasn't cited her references.
That Ruby is 8+ drafts deep and is offering up something as integral as the idea of citing your sources as a hidden secret to essay-writing.
That Ruby talks about this in the 2nd person, stating that "YOU" are doing these things, as though she thinks that fucking up her dissertation to this extent and not bothering to research and cite references throughout her entire dissertation until the last second is perfectly natural and done by everyone else, too.
This dissertation is an unmitigated disaster. Just when you think the car wreck is over, a plane crashes into it from out of nowhere.
Her process only gets more ludicrous. Rather than just finally edit her fucking dissertation once and for all, Ruby decides that she's going to procrastinate and overcomplicate things even more by annotating her entire disseration for the 372,946th time and colour-coding the whole thing by category of what needs changing.
And, of course, she has to introduce redundant planners and to-do lists into the mix, too.
Not only is this entire endeavour completely unnecessary when she could've just read through her dissertation and edited as she went, this whole thing is rendered especially pointless because it's only a three-colour system:
1. Sections where Ruby has poorly phrased things (I can't see how the whole damn document's not coated in layers of pink pen given Ruby's illiteracy and fragile grasp of the English language).
2. Sections that need researching.
3. Sections that need moving to earlier or later in the essay.
This is yet more of Ruby's productivity placebo busywork - adding extra steps to accomplish nothing but wasted time, but because she added an extra step, she felt like she did more. All this when she could've just saved a new draft on her laptop and edited it directly as she went.
And pro-tip: if you can yank an entire section of your dissertation and drop it in a different place without turning the whole thing into a disjointed, directionless mess, then it's already a directionless, disjointed mess.
A ghastly slurry of watery milk, carrot shavings, a third of a chopped banana and some unidentifiable slop in the corner. It's barely enough to fill a quarter of a small bowl.
Of course your brain's turned to sludge, Ruby. You aren't eating anything. Not only that, you're still encouraging others to follow your lead and imitate your dangerous habits, you utterly despicable cretin.
This puddle-brained dimwit then goes on a ramble about how much she loves bluebells, and in predictable Ruby fashion, proclaims them to be quite possible her FAVOURITE flower, because she likes that it's only here for a short time. I mean, that's the case with most flowers. But childhood's only there for a short time, too, and Ruby loves that so much she's spend the past decade trying to extend it, so maybe this is an extension of that.
She says she spent some time watching study vlogs (because nothing she claims to do can stray too far from her superficial academia obsession).
"I HONESTLY watch these ALL THE TIME," she lies, claiming to get an "AXTRA BYOOST OF MYOTIVATION" from them. At the myoment I'm loving 'love, nika''s videeyowsss, they're varry gud."
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Ruby moans that she's had to cut a big section about the history of the muse in Greek mythology. She says it's really painful to have to cut it after working on it so much and spending so much time researching it. Somehow it didn't occur to her the second she started researching it, or at any point until now, that this has no relevance to her dissertation degree in any way. But the same's true of most of the crap she's shoehorned in.
"And THANNN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk on chapter tyoo of moiy dissertationnnn AND THAN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk I think this toiyme on the introductionnn tyoo moiy dissertationnn--[awkward cut mid-breath]"
This is a complete thing that she says. Her brain, feeble as it was, is gone.
She downplays this as a "littull bit mwoar wahrrk" to make it seem like this is a mere drop in the bucket compared to her immensely productive achievements. Look at the fucking state of that, in what should be the last draft. What a mess. It's wonderful.
"haha?" One day, Ruby will learn to human. In the meantime, she isn't a fan of things that taste like anything, but she is a fan of replacing meals with water.
After failing to eat again, Ruby states that the key to motivation when your brain is flagging is just to change study locations. Why not go study in your student kitchen or family kitchen? You know, places were there is definitely no thoroughfare of people wandering through and it absolutely won't distract and inconvenience everyone involved. Speaking of inconveniencing people, why not swap rooms/desks with your sibling? (There are all genuine suggestions that she offers.)
Ruby moves to one of her 4,963,595 musky, dust-filled spare rooms full of junk shop clutter and the sudden surge of motivation is immediately evident:
Daddy Bones can be seen angrily attacking the grounds of the estate with a strimmer, and it's clear that having Ruby back home indefinitely is causing him to go full Jack Torrance.
Ruby's mother has also seemingly taken to the idea of replacing food with work; a 'Clare's Cafe' menu on the wall outlines a to-do list of household chores that she to-didn't.
The Roomba has been crossed off and given a tick, replaced with 'hoover', which goes unchecked. This is the Roomba that Ruby's mum drowned while flooding the kitchen, so it's no shock that it's out of action.
She also writes out chickens as "chooks" - oh, what a lark, to pretend to be one of the common folk while voting Tory and living with a tax-dodging crook and a charity thief!
Another day down and she's still no closer to salvaging this disaster.
Ruby Granger #27: Finished her studies, diss was a mess, now let her hide back in her room and regress
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