Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!
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Yeah, I'd stake money on an overall First, with 2:1s for dissertation and creative writing. If she'd got less than a First, she'd either never mention getting her results, or she'd go off-grid in a sad funk. We'd get sporadic posts about how academia isn't as important as everyone (i.e. Ruby) says, followed by a bitter "University might not be worth it" video in which she blames everyone else for her results and expectations.I still think she's got a first. She seemed happy in this video. I'm guessing she just hasn't got around to doing the results video yet.
She showed off a to-do list on her Insta with a task for today labelled 'edit new video', so that's probably her results video (or possibly just a Brighton vlog that's 99% undeclared ads for BARD 'n' BLAND).
She'll definitely upload one, she's just always been completely lazy and incompetent as far as quick content turnaround is concerned (remember the "daily" uni vlogs that came anywhere from 3 days to several months apart?). Anyone else would've had a reaction video filmed, edited and uploaded the day of.
I did and hated it .Didn’t like the writing style or the story. You can guess the end from the first few chapters.
I'm not even going to pretend to be surprised that Ruby, after reading 50+ books this year and finishing an English Literature degree, has managed to exclusively pick five books written by white American and British authors.
I read We Were Liars back as a teenager when it was super popular on Booktube. I don't remember liking it at all, but I can see why Ruby likes it because of it's focus on rich privileged teenagers with inherited wealth.
I read We Were Liars back as a teenager when it was super popular on Booktube. I don't remember liking it at all, but I can see why Ruby likes it because of it's focus on rich privileged teenagers with inherited wealth.
9:16 minutes did she really just say "It's kind of exactly what we, as children, imagine authors to be"
She posted that storie talking about Blakeney
And when I went to see the profile of this brand, it seemed to me something Ruby would do (the
emoji was the hint for me)Maybe they're launching it together? Or Ruby is just helping Blakeney with the marketing?
Her quoting CS Lewis as the justification for reading children’s literature infuriates me!
Context: my undergrad dissertation (exact same Uni and course as Ruby) explored the value of returning to Roald Dahl texts as an adult, in terms of fostering greater empathy between generations (one of my motivations for choosing Dahl was the wealth of praise and criticism for his work, in the context of adult-child relations)
In my dissertation, I quoted from the very same CS Lewis lines that Ruby holds up as gospel. The difference? Lewis’ justification for adults being “old enough to read fairy tales again” was prefaced by one word: growth. Not simply holding onto childhood at all costs, but not letting it go as you continue your journey into adulthood - which includes reading more widely and, shock horror, simply ADULTING!
I was going to give a long, rambling summary of it here but, firstly, I have covid (take two!) and, secondly, no summary could surpass Lewis’ original words anyway! So I’ll just paste them below (key parts in bold) and leave you to interpret…
“The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two. But if I had to lose the taste for lemon-squash before I acquired the taste for hock, that would not be growth but simple change. I now enjoy Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Trollope as well as fairy tales and I call that growth: if I had had to lose the fairy tales in order to acquire the novelists, I would not say that I had grown but only that I had changed. A tree grows because it adds rings: a train doesn't grow by leaving one station behind and puffing on to the next. I think my growth is just as apparent when I now read the fairy tales as when I read the novelists, for I now enjoy the fairy tales better than I did in childhood: being now able to put more in, of course I get more out.
Context: my undergrad dissertation (exact same Uni and course as Ruby) explored the value of returning to Roald Dahl texts as an adult, in terms of fostering greater empathy between generations (one of my motivations for choosing Dahl was the wealth of praise and criticism for his work, in the context of adult-child relations)
In my dissertation, I quoted from the very same CS Lewis lines that Ruby holds up as gospel. The difference? Lewis’ justification for adults being “old enough to read fairy tales again” was prefaced by one word: growth. Not simply holding onto childhood at all costs, but not letting it go as you continue your journey into adulthood - which includes reading more widely and, shock horror, simply ADULTING!
I was going to give a long, rambling summary of it here but, firstly, I have covid (take two!) and, secondly, no summary could surpass Lewis’ original words anyway! So I’ll just paste them below (key parts in bold) and leave you to interpret…
“The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two. But if I had to lose the taste for lemon-squash before I acquired the taste for hock, that would not be growth but simple change. I now enjoy Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Trollope as well as fairy tales and I call that growth: if I had had to lose the fairy tales in order to acquire the novelists, I would not say that I had grown but only that I had changed. A tree grows because it adds rings: a train doesn't grow by leaving one station behind and puffing on to the next. I think my growth is just as apparent when I now read the fairy tales as when I read the novelists, for I now enjoy the fairy tales better than I did in childhood: being now able to put more in, of course I get more out.
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TheShe posted that storie talking about Blakeney
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And when I went to see the profile of this brand, it seemed to me something Ruby would do (the
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Maybe they're launching it together? Or Ruby is just helping Blakeney with the marketing?
thing is something Blakeney does that Ruby absorbed, along with imitating Blakeney's clothes, hairstyle, etc.I think Blakeney just works for the company now as a marketing/social media person, it's not her own company.
A new Legend is born – Petrow’s own brand launched on Amazon, January 2022
www.petrowfoodgroup.com
The brand is owned by another company and has existed in some form for a few years.
It looks like she’s just decided to get off (public) social media. There’s a thread on her here with some updates: https://tattle.life/threads/molly-jones.25429/page-4
Oh thank you for posting that quote, I really liked reading it! And yeah Ruby totally misunderstood poor C. S. Lewis didn't she. Using his metaphors, Ruby wouldn't even be a train moving from station to station, she'd just be a thin little train engine
Ruby the Tank Engine
make it a thread title
Obsessed with her describing F.Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda's marriage as "strange" he locked her in an asylum I don't think strange is the correct word but pop off.
Also she mispronounced Joan Didion's last name, this is why I wanted to gate keep my queen Joan from her.
Also she mispronounced Joan Didion's last name, this is why I wanted to gate keep my queen Joan from her.
Sometimes you just need the original words in whole to put it in context. The full essay is here: https://myweb.scu.edu.tw/~jmklassen/scu99b/chlitgrad/3ways.pdf
ps: at the risk of blowing my own trumpet, my dissertation very much validated that that consuming/studying Children’s Lit as an adult can be academically fulfilling - if you do so in the true spirit of Lewis’ words! I got a 1st for my dissertation, which was the only first of my 3rd year. Sure, that makes me very different from Rubes who - potentially - got a 1st in everything but her dissertation. However, it did show the merits of returning to children’s literature, with an adult’s perspective, to see things you may otherwise not! And for that alone I count my lucky stars I am not living in the perpetual state of childhood that Ruby is.
#29 Ruby The Tank Engine hiding controversy behind the smoke!
This has to be one of my all time favourite comments on here, I’m dead
OT but I'm convinced I saw Marfa at a concert the other day
Same, I have an image in my head now of a random Tattler time-traveling to reach their hand into poor Mrs Tchaikovsky’s womb to yank out the unborn composerThis has to be one of my all time favourite comments on here, I’m dead
Not trying to diagnose, just thought it was interesting..Im lowkey disappointed that she’s not taken the time to branch out during the start of her gap year to do some different videos or to expand her “brand”. She isn’t studying any more and as other posters have pointed out, she’s pretty much replicating videos
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