Ruby Granger #26 Ruby Granger is a bad writer

[rubella]

"The English dissertation is an 8,000-word extended essay where students shape a distinctive research project in consultation with a member of academic staff."(found that on the Exeter website btw).

I genuinely can't understand how it took her a YEAR to write 8,000 words? I obviously understand it takes time to write, but a whole year and she is still making edits to it??

Damn she's really averaged under 22 words per day for the last 365 days

 

[emmer_moans]

she got invited to a Netflix premiere??

Seems a bit random but this outfit looks okay. I wonder if her management sorted out a stylist for the night or something?

 

[dodadedo]

why does it lowkey look like John Lennon

Imagine there's no ageing
It's easy if you try
No need to be grown up,
Tea and roleplay all the time.

Imagine all the peee-puuuu-uuu-uuuhl
Giving me their cash,
You-ooo-oooo

You may saa-aaa-aaay I'm a liar
But I'm the most speshul ever one.
I hope somedaaa-aaay you will join me.
And the wooo-ooo-oorld will have peas with milk.

 

[StatusWoe]

Finally got around to watching the new video. Thoughts:

Ruby starts her day off with some creepy af smiling.

Ruby sticks her head out of the window and does some more fake smiling. This time the smiling is sly, as though she's thinking 'they will never know where the bodies are buried. They will never look in the mouldy trunk.'

Next Ruby does some of the loudest hair brushing I've ever heard. It sounds like a metal shovel being scraped across a brick wall. I wish she'd get a nice haircut - it would be easier to maintain and look healthier.

Unfortunately, the current look is more Cousin It from the Addams Family.

Ruby brushes her teeth while reading again. I can't be bothered to screenshot it because we've seen this part of her morning routine about 500 times by now.

Spoiler: ED

Ruby makes a breakfast that looks edible. Then she adds frozen peas.

Narration starts suddenly at this moment, so a warning to viewers to hold onto their peas lest they end up scattered across the floor.

This annoyed me. I've mentioned in a previous thread how much I loved The Brothers Karamazov. I want to gatekeep it from Ruby. It may be a classic, but there's not the remotest chance that Ruby will be interested in this novel - not even the theology. She's already flicking through it in a bored sort of way before moving on without comment.

Fortunately, the best part of the video comes next because we get to see Dog Granger, our favourite Granger. Dog Granger chases after a frisbee and (unlike Ruby) gets a nice haircut. What a productive day he's having.

There's also a rabbit.

Sadly, this happy interlude can't last forever, and Ruby is back in the kitchen making AHHHfternoon tea with Burn & Bend 'hot cross bun' tea. Poor Mother Granger: Ruby gets her to drink the tea and guess the flavour. Is this culinary roulette part of her everyday life? Let's hope not.

I learned that Rube's Netflix time limit is set to zero minutes, which essentially means that she's banned Netflix. Ruby claims this is to discourse her from using it. Dis-scourge? Let's assume she means discourage.

''In the evenings before bed I'm not super productive'', says Ruby. You're not meant to be, you giant waffle.

And on that note, I can't be bothered with this video so am setting my time limit to 'IT'S TOO LATE, STATUSWOE, YOU'VE ALREADY WASTED A PORTION OF YOUR LIFE ON THIS.'

 

[rubysdeadfly]

is she aware its okay not to find beauty and joy in everything like it's okay to look a tree and think "yes thats a tree" not everything has to be this faux deep appreciation for everything. A gust of wind can sometimes just be a gust of wind she doesn't have to deep it and always make it into a glorious reminder that the world is breathing as it tangles your hair. It's good to do that sometimes but good god girl its okay to feel apathy at the mundane sometimes

 

[Confidant]

The irony of this uni lecturer giving advice about answering the question, not giving unwanted opinions and engaging with critics beyond just parroting their views and Rubert replying ‘thanks!’ when we know she’ll 100% be doing those things in her dissertation

 

[tuneyloon]

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD? Last seen trying to escape from Ruby's picture book

 

[Redrose97]

Just feel like she is really regressing with that study of me. The fact that she is dressing like a sickly victorian primary school child and the boater makes her look like she is twelve, it's like she is in recovery after wearing a more adult outfit to that premier and just regressing even more since she is at the end of university. That dress just looks like a sack on her and just makes her look frail. What look is she trying to get achieve with this? Lazy content as well.

 

[Fastgirl154]

Coming in to thank everyone for spoilering any Ed related discussions, it gives my brain that extra protection against obsessing over Ruby’s food/body etc.

Amazing how a bunch of strangers get it..but when someone calls Ruby out for Ed-baiting it’s bullying

 

[1]2]

MILKY PEAS IM GOING TO SCREAM

 

[Moosey]

They're all going to Cambodia so Ruby probably refused to go because she'd be too far away from her parents. I also feel like Cambodia might not fulfil her colonial dream of being a Victorian woman.

I really wish she was going just to see her walking down the streets of Cambodia wearing a tailcoat and straw bowler hat completely oblivious to the death glares directed at her by the locals

 

[marcelprout]

To be honest, her (current, lol) dissertation topic felt a bit of a miss to me from the very beginning. I personally find it kind of symptomatic of her very limited grasp of the literary field (although this is coming from a Comparative Literature grad so I might be misunderstanding her course); first off, she is using Carroll's letters as a primary source which is really useless without a properly contextualised research question (as letters are semi-literary at best and were most likely not intended for publication which pends further questioning on their relevancy to the topic) and also, even when she wants to open up topics of epistolary genres, there is the very problem of intent behind them (letters are tricky since, when authentic, they can be either useless without context or with minimal interest to interpretation - and when artificial, there is the whole field of epistolary novel which has absolutely nothing to do with her). So, she'd first have to establish their literary merit and then probably place them within some sort of context to justify her specific choice? Also, will she ever consider any sort of theory of autobiographical discourse? She really shot herself in the foot with this topic imo, it's too broad for an undergraduate and also just really, really...meh. I know her goal was to "contribute something to the scholarship" and this will be either tragically under-researched or just unintelligeble since there are so many tangents to go off and none of them really go anywhere. Oops.

 

[springstudy]

Spoiler: Oxbridge Rant

Just because you're 'good enough' for Oxbridge, that doesn't mean you should apply.

• Oxford and Cambridge offer a smaller range of courses and subject combinations than most other universities. This is not good if you don't want to specialise early or prefer a more Liberal Arts style curriculum.
• Some courses are not available, e.g. aspiring marine biologists/oceanographers would be better applying to Southampton because of its facilities, proximity to the ocean and specialist course. If you applied to Cambridge you'd need to wade through the entire Natural Sciences Tripos. Just to use one example from many.
• Research strength doesn't always translate into teaching quality. Many lecturers are more interested in their research than teaching undergrads. Just saying.
• Many of these courses are very traditional which will suit some people but not others. Personally, I'd prefer a more flexible course, even though I appreciate the thoroughness of the Ox/Cam ones. Example: English at Oxford is very chronological in its structure, so if your main interest is in modern, American or foreign lit then its better to apply somewhere different, maybe for a comparative literature course instead.
• The assessments are heavily exam-based. Yes, there's a dissertation for essay subjects, but most of the assessment for arts subjects is based around 3-hour written exams. Again, if you're great at coursework but not timed exams then perhaps reconsider. Having your degree graded on the basis of a final year exam marathon increases the stress SO much more than if you're being assessed throughout your course via a mix of assignments, projects, presentations, essays, etc.
• Short terms and intense workload mean that there's extra stress. Students with mental health conditions will be especially affected by this. I decided against applying to either of these unis for mental health reasons and have no regrets.
• It's harder to have a balance between academic work and student life. Because Oxford/Cam both emphasise the academic side, it might not be possible to take advantage of all the extra-curriculars and student clubs offered at university. I think that's sad.
• Even a first from Oxbridge doesn't mean you'll have good job prospects. To explain: a lot of the newer, less traditional universities are much better when it comes to offering work placements and preparing students for the workplace. This won't be a factor for everyone - some people just want a purely academic degree - but I've definitely known people flounder post-graduation, many ending up overqualified for the work they're doing and frustrated by it, whereas others from less prestigious unis go straight into a job and work their way up.

Just waiting for Ruby or Jade to make a video called "Why I'm glad I was rejected from Oxford!" with every one of your points stolen

 

[gossip_guy]

This is just a worse version of the time she went three times over the word limit for an essay before cutting it down.
Nobody is going to congratulate her on being incredibly inefficient and creating more unnecessary work for herself.

I'd wager a kidney that those weren't quick revisions to clean up errors and structure, either. She's likely fully rewritten it from scratch or near to it seven times over because she has no clue what she's doing.

I'm sure she thought people would be VARRY IMPRASSED with that seven draft reveal. It's definitely an extension of her "I ALWAYS write thousands of words over the word count" nonsense; she thinks it's a sign that she's working harder than everyone else, but it's just highlighting that she's incapable of following the assignment structure and easily goes off the rails and wastes all her time on irrelevant stuff. It's especially hilarious coming from someone who presents themselves as a master of planning and organisation.

 

[Griftwood]

I don’t want to be *that* person, but on Jade’s story it said they all invited their parents and Jack had a picture of him and his mum there. But the sentiment still stands for all 3 of them! And the question of why she only invited her dad!

Maybe Mother Granger had errands to run in Woking again.

 

[gossip_guy]

Maybe Mother Granger had errands to run in Woking again.

And Ruby's dad couldn't pass up an opportunity to mingle with some like-minded Tory parents and talk about some very legitimate tax-free investment deals.

 

[gossip_guy]

Roobee’s chair in August of last year:

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Roobee’s chair now:

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I honestly don’t know how she’s managed it. I guess she really does frolic in the muddy fields and then sits her grimey ass on a white chair. Super gross.

What the actual hell. I didn't even consider that was the same chair, I assumed she dragged an old one out of one of their numerous spare rooms.

It's a testament to just how much time she's spent back home all year that she's managed to utterly destroy that chair with heavy use despite living in Exeter.

 

[Scapier88]

Just saw Ruby's story is it me or has daddy bones taken Ruby

 

[Ilaariaa]

I found a copy of Erimentha Parker out in the wild . Generously priced for 99p in a charity shop.

The irony of Ruby's magnum opus ending up in a charity shop

 

[lesbean]

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I love the juxtapositions. The boater hat, the sunglasses. The Victorian child dress, the Starbucks cup.

The black tights and white converse too

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I love the juxtapositions. The boater hat, the sunglasses. The Victorian child dress, the Starbucks cup.

When you’ve got punting with Lewis Carroll at 3 and a Lana concert at 5

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lol the bar just gets lower and lower for her content, doesn’t it I’m not going to watch 30 minutes of Roobster squinting in direct sunlight while someone mows the lawn and listens to music in the background.

PLSS THE EMILY DICKINSON RECITATION IS SO CRINGE ITS PHYSICALLY PAINFUL TO WATCH
all those awestruck breathy laughs and contrived whimsy like shut uppppp you’re in public behave