Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

[newaccount2022]

The fact she’s using ‘Granger’ as her surname for writing/the book 🫣. So ridiculous, she’ll really regret that in a few decades lol

 

[StatusWoe]

The mystery hook should be "where did the missing person go?", not "who is the missing person, how did they go missing and how is the protagonist related to any of it?"

The mystery hook is ''most importantly, how has the missing child affected Lottie's GCSE coursework?'' Because...priorities.

Given her favourite series ever is Harry Potter you'd think if Ruby wanted to write for a younger audience she'd write something more in the fantasy realm of things. Can't imagine stressed school kids will find much escapism in reading a book about a stressed school kid

I think she's aiming for the Jacqueline Wilson style of realism/teen issues fiction.

And in a way, it's not even her fault - any child who was sheltered and coddled to such an extreme degree for all her life would struggle massively once she has to deal with moving out, becoming independent, getting negative feedback sometimes, solving problems on her own, etc.

I'm mostly in agreement with your post, but not sure about this. We know that Martha hasn't had the same issues as Ruby with independence. I think a lot of it's related to personal issues Ruby's dealing with rather than overprotective parenting.

 

[gossip_guy]

The mystery hook is ''most importantly, how has the missing child affected Lottie's GCSE coursework?'' Because...priorities.

9 year-old girl Janey is missing, presumed dead, but the girl's family are so impressed by how diligently Lottie stays on top of her homework while raising funds for a school combination Holocaust/RIP Janey Memorial that they adopt Ruby Lottie as their new replacement surrogate daughter. No need to keep looking for their actual child anymore. They were pretty disappointed with the way their missing daughter didn't know all about the geography of Kenya, never corrected their grammar and often slept like a starfish rather than sleeping straight and rigor-mortised like a pencil, which was completely unacceptable, so this is a much better arrangement.

An epilogue will explain that missing Janey was raised by wild animals in the woods and went on to have a magical life embracing nature, free from the hustle and bustle of modern life and spared the complexities of high school education that would no doubt confuse her feeble brain. Ruby Erimentha Lottie gets to live her dream of being 9 again, so it's a happy ending all around.

But at the last second, Ruby Lottie remembers that she actually has a biological sister, Marla, who wasn't mentioned at any point previously in the book, but has also now gone missing, providing a shocking cliffhanger for a sequel.

 

[taleofthetimes]

The fact she’s using ‘Granger’ as her surname for writing/the book 🫣. So ridiculous, she’ll really regret that in a few decades lol

I agree. It's also not exactly hard to find her real surname at this point, so I don't understand why she still tries to keep it a secret.

 

[newaccount2022]

I agree. It's also not exactly hard to find her real surname at this point, so I don't understand why she still tries to keep it a secret.

AND she has a lovely surname! it would work so well with mystery/fantasy YA or kids books.

 

[figgypud]

I agree. It's also not exactly hard to find her real surname at this point, so I don't understand why she still tries to keep it a secret.

It made sense when she was underage. Now she has a good opportunity to properly rebrand and move on from study videos by going by her actual name but she definitely won't because stranger danger!

 

[StatusWoe]

Can I put forward 'Granger! Granger! High Voltage! as a potential thread title again? I'm sorry, I don't remember whose idea it was.

9 year-old girl Janey is missing, presumed dead, but the girl's family are so impressed by how diligently Lottie stays on top of her homework while raising funds for a school combination Holocaust/RIP Janey Memorial that they adopt Ruby Lottie as their new replacement surrogate daughter. No need to keep looking for their actual child anymore. They were pretty disappointed with the way their missing daughter didn't know all about the geography of Kenya, never corrected their grammar and often slept like a starfish rather than sleeping straight and rigor-mortised like a pencil, which was completely unacceptable, so this is a much better arrangement.

An epilogue will explain that missing Janey was raised by wild animals in the woods and went on to have a magical life embracing nature, free from the hustle and bustle of modern life and spared the complexities of high school education that would no doubt confuse her feeble brain. Ruby Erimentha Lottie gets to live her dream of being 9 again, so it's a happy ending all around.

But at the last second, Ruby Lottie remembers that she actually has a biological sister, Marla, who wasn't mentioned at any point previously in the book, but has also now gone missing, providing a shocking cliffhanger for a sequel.

Ngl, if you write this, I'll read it.

 

[Saskia69]

Yup... to quote her ranty rant: "EVERYTHING ELSE COMES SECOND (including YouTube, which I cannot and will not rely on for book sales; I just can't let myself do that)"

Thread title: RubME (everything else comes second) Granger

 

[sneks]

I've read it several times and still don't even understand what the hell she means.

She SHOULD wear makeup so that people will laugh at her because she's not "cool enough" to wear it? Or she SHOULD wear makeup because she's realised she's "cool enough" to wear makeup, like the cosmetics police would come taze her for putting on foundation and mascara if her coolness level wasn't high enough?

I think she's trying to say that she should do what she wants, including wearing makeup, without worrying about whether people will laugh or think she's "cool enough." Which seems like an odd concern given her content and lifestyle (if anyone's going to laugh at her, its going to be for making videos of herself eating gruel by candlelight, not for putting on lip gloss) but there it is.

 

[heroesfeast]

Ruby Granger #29 Is it soon yet?

 

[Griftwood]

The book you finished writing? Or the book you finished pretending to read? Or the book you just simply finished by unspecified but undoubtedly efficient means of destruction? Learn to use words, Roomba.

 

[gossip_guy]

The book you finished writing? Or the book you finished pretending to read? Or the book you just simply finished by unspecified but undoubtedly efficient means of destruction? Learn to use words, Roomba.

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The desperation is real.

Ruby, check how many people bought Erimentha Parker. Okay, now subtract 75%. That's a very generous estimate of how many of your fans will buy a second book from you after the last shitshow, considering you've just written the same thing again.

She's put up a daily vlog on Insta that's mostly a profoundly dull series of the usual "AND THAN OIY did this AND THAN OIY did that" pointless crap, but she mentions she met with her literary agent and cuts to this photo of herself. No other footage of the meeting or her agent is shown.

She looks like she's either been crying or is about to burst into tears, or both. Definitely bodes well for her literary future!

 

[CatCafe234]

I’m not in the mood for deep thought this morning and tbh, I’m utterly distracted by the headband. How it is staying on her head when it’s so far back?

 

[marcelprout]

Oh ok, so we're resurrecting the typewriter, feels like yesterday that she bought an entirely new computer for her writer aesthetic... Everything with her has been so boring and so wholly unoriginal that I only have one question: IS IT SOON YET

 

[inaworld]

Oh dear, oh dear

I’m not in the mood for deep thought this morning and tbh, I’m utterly distracted by the headband. How it is staying on her head when it’s so far back?

I think - and hope - that it's a hat

 

[Auga]

Is it the lighting or is her hair a lot more blonde?

 

[Ilaariaa]

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Oh ok, so we're resurrecting the typewriter, feels like yesterday that she bought an entirely new computer for her writer aesthetic... Everything with her has been so boring and so wholly unoriginal that I only have one question: IS IT SOON YET

So she bought a brand new iMac specifically to use it for her writing and she doesn't even use it lmao

 

[Deeznutslol]

She clearly thinks this book is gonna take off and envisages herself as this insanely successful author, and it’s just like… stop being so deluded??? This agent hasn’t picked her up because she thinks her writing is actually good, she has picked her up because Ruby already has a fanbase of 600k and she knows influencer books are an easy sell. Otherwise she wouldn’t have had so much as a look in with this rit book

 

[FolderDuvet]

I suppose you have to bear in mind that she was in her final year of university so no doubt had plenty of coursework to complete. So there will have been a lot less "free" time to read.

I know during term-time, I did a lot less reading for pleasure than I would have liked, as there was always a deadline around the corner, so for me, 60 books would have been an incredible number.

I really enjoy reading, but I like to take my time with books to really engage with the material, and also take 2-3 days break before starting a new one to give myself time to really "digest" it and think about it, maybe read some reviews to see what others have thought of it and maybe throw in some non-fiction to cleanse the palate so to speak, before diving into a new world with new characters.

It's why I'd probably never do a readathon, unless maybe all the books were part of the same series, like A Song of Ice and Fire for example.

I don't have any yearly reading goals and I think it's something that would just make me tempted to choose shorter or easier books to hit the number (which is something we see Ruby do frequently), instead of spending a solid week on a really challenging read with 600+ pages.

The only reason I brought up what I did was that I was also in my final year of a degree (masters year of an undergraduate masters), writing a dissertation, and preparing for exams. I do read the odd thing that is challenging, and that I like to take time to digest, but I fill in the gaps around those books with chaff, mostly. I find, if you pick certain books at the right level (could be YA, but doesn't necessarily have to be) reading becomes far more like watching TV than serious study. Hence, I ended up replacing all my individual consumption activities (watching TV, browsing social media) with reading.

Again, I don't consider this impressive. The books aren't hard. They're not earth shattering. I could have gotten through a lot of the TV shows people have been suggesting to me. I simply wanted to draw in the fact that Ruby claims she reads absolutely loads, like every chance she gets. She seems to read a lot of things that are not all that hard (this doesn't mean they don't have things to say, mind.) Now, if she was taking her time of the children's and YA fiction she reads to analyse and consider them, then I would not have a point. However, you would think she has more to say about them than she does.

idk about 'impressive' (I dont think reading any number of books is impressive. people should read for enjoyment and not to impress themselves or other people), but 60 books in 6 months is a lot. thats a book every 3 days. it's not realistic for most people with responsibilities, work, school imo. I dont think a 'low output' of reading is Ruby's problem - it's that she skims books and rarely delves into the text. If Ruby read 5 books a year and actually engaged with the content she would get much more out of her reading. LMFAO lets not act like Ruby needs to do any more of those ridiculous 'I read 5 books in a day videos'. Quantity means nothing.

Absolutely. This is the thing I was trying to get across. As a student in more or less Ruby's position this year who also very much enjoys reading, I manage to churn through and actually read far more books of a similar quality than she has. I was trying to contextualise her quantity in the context of her quality.

I agree here. I don't think reading is about "output" (idk what that's even supposed to mean, you're not putting anything out, surely it's more about putting something in). If your primary way of quantifying what you've read is the number of books, that seems pretty shallow and performative. It really means nothing. Reading a book does not equal fully absorbing the information. Purposefully reading something slower can mean you're being more thoughtful about the writing. There are plenty of people who will read one book to every 5 that Ruby does, and still get way more out of it than she ever will.

I think people are willfully misunderstanding my reading strategy (and the reading strategies of people who read a lot.) For me there are two classes of books. Books strictly for pleasure, and books that also challenge and stimulate. I use the former kind to pad around the latter kind. This means I can still be reading when I'm not in the mood for something challenging. Not every book one reads has to be earthshatteringly poignant and difficult (well, unless you follow Nietzsche's content diet.)

ANYWAY: To restate my point, I was just considering eternal refrain of these threads: Ruby doesn't actually read that much. And what she does read she doesn't consume critically. As someone in a similar position to her who reads books of a similar level, I managed to read far more, and I'm not even doing it to maintain an online persona and make money. I'm currently coming to terms with the deceptive way she presents herself, and this was just one of those things where I realised her facade.

 

[ellonor]

It made sense when she was underage. Now she has a good opportunity to properly rebrand and move on from study videos by going by her actual name but she definitely won't because stranger danger!

granger danger