I bet she takes her mother!Same if I’m honest, I’d definitely like to be in a position to undertake a similar trip myself, but seeing as I’m not, the next best thing is going to be the infinite opportunity for snark this is going to provide usWe’re going to have footage of Roobee frolicking in any number of quaint New England settings amidst autominal foylage, dramatic readings of Ammilee Dickinson and Nathayniul Hawthorne et al, and of course pumpkin spice everything as befits a rich white girl in Amurica. It’s the best of all possible universes, plus we can take bets on which parent will be accompanying her (since we all know what ”solo trip” in Roobeespeak actually means).
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She did say it was a solo trip, but that doesn't fit with anything Ruby's done previously. She won't visit local places without her parents, so I'm struggling to imagine her in Boston. That said, I think Boston is relatively safe for solo travel, at least compared to other U.S cities? That might be wrong though.
Did she just say Smithsonian..?
I've always read "bolognese" in my head as "BO-LOG-NEESE" and when I said it out loud my friends laughed and I was able to correct myself. I didn't double-down on how MY pronunciation was correct, or that "I say words however I like!". She can never admit when she's wrong, and she's wrong half the time.
This girl is so dumb.
I've always read "bolognese" in my head as "BO-LOG-NEESE" and when I said it out loud my friends laughed and I was able to correct myself. I didn't double-down on how MY pronunciation was correct, or that "I say words however I like!". She can never admit when she's wrong, and she's wrong half the time.
This girl is so dumb.
Productive morning routine in jail!
My money is on Daddy Bones just happening to go on a business trip around the same time, she may fly over
unaccompanied but he’ll be there for the handover.Also, like, if you can't pronounce a foreign word perfectly, it's fine. Some foreign sounds can often be hard to master, especially if you don't actually speak the language and you're just using a foreign word in your everyday speech. The Italian /gn/ sound is hard for English speakers because it doesn't exist in English.
Yesterday at my intermediate French course my teacher was like "yeah I'm not gonna correct you if you can't pronounce the r sound. They'll understand you anyway and it's not really the aim of this course to teach you to pronounce French flawlessly. It'll come naturally to you eventually"
But Ruby straight up adding or removing or swapping syllables or consonants and mispronouncing words in her own native language, which she also has a degree in, is just laughable.
I’m sorry but “literary tourism”?! Roobs, you’re going on holiday. Posing for photos with an old book, while wearing a school uniform, won’t make this an academic field trip.
I hope she does. No shade because a lot of people haven't travelled alone by the age of 22 and it can be a daunting thing for most people, let alone someone who has so far led the sheltered existence of a house cat. I'll genuinely be worried for her if she's wandering around the US propping her phone against walls and filming herself twirling down streets. I'm hoping she's meeting friends or family there and it's just a case of taking the flights by herself.
She's watching Gilmore Girls for the first time, good job I already despise all the characters 
she can't ruin anyone for me
she can't ruin anyone for meYeah, she can't even go camping with her best friend without parental supervision, and she couldn't stay in Exeter alone for more than a fortnight, and that was a place she had 4 years of familiarity with. There's absolutely no chance she'll be flying to America and back alone and spending three weeks on another continent solo. Mummy appears to do nothing but spend all her time enabling Ruby's descent into madness, so I'd bet on her going.
Ruby posting very short, condensed 'a "day" in my life' videos on TikTok really isn't doing her any favours, and somehow makes her days look even more uneventful, full of mindless busywork and embarrassingly fake than her usual fabricated vlogs do.
It's only 1 minute long, so you'd think she'd be able to find one thing in her day that actually happened that was vaguely interesting and that she can show. But nope, it's 60 seconds of her usual "AND THAN OIY..." tell-don't-show dubious accomplishments which all conveniently happen off-screen and that there's no proof of, with multiple 'THOMBS OP!" shots of her smugly congratulating herself for those mundane if not completely fictional achievements.
And she's both pitched up her voice to sound younger and sped it up.
She says she started reading and annotating "Paytohsim Posium", even though she's claimed to have already read it multiple times prior to this video. She claims she read some of the bible for some reason (I said it earlier in this thread, but with her renewed fascination with dusting off her old theology/philosophy coursework, I really think she's gearing up to reapply to start a philosophy undergrad degree again and delay adulthood by 3 more years).
She claims she planned another book she's writing, despite having not finished and certainly not edited any of the other 287 books she's claimed to have started this year. No evidence of this book planning is shown, she just waves a blank notebook cover at the camera (not a Ponky Ploddingtee one, naturally).
She says she edited a video in full and finished it. Now, you'd think she'd actually upload a video if that were the case.
She shows herself working on a Scotland holiday vlog on September 14th/15th. That was a week ago, and 10 days after the Scotland trip in question. Late to work on it, late to upload it, now presenting a week-old one-minute vlog as though it's new. She claims she does tit like this all in a day to try desperately to make it seem like every day she's rushed off her feet, but it's embarrassingly transparent how lazy she is.
After finally admitting that she doesn't design her own planners recently, she's back to embellishing her role in the business, even though she doesn't own it, doesn't run it, doesn't design anything and now does hardly any of the social media.
She claims to have two long meetings with "moiy stationery shop Onkin Poddocktifti" and "Pon Kopodtivtea". Either she's just founded two new companies or her language skills have somehow eroded even further. Even after watching a short video in which Ruby butchers the name of the business twice, her viewers are still none the wiser as to what it's actually called.
Whatever the reason for her being unable to not mangle the name of the business she falsely claims is hers, she doesn't do anything for the company, so there's not enough going on with her and Ponko's Podiatry to justify two long meetings.
She's only just managed to get rid of the last of the 3,000 academic planners two months after release (they used to sell out in a day) and her latest genius business plan - buying 300 washi tapes at retail prices from an Etsy seller, then putting them up for sale on a store where the minimum delivery is almost the same as the price of the item in the UK (£3 delivery for a £3.50 item) and probably more overseas - isn't going to turn things around.
After picturing herself all month gorping at the pumpkin patches behind her house, Miss "I AWHWLWHEYS SOPPORT SMWALL BUSINESSES!" didn't buy any pumpkins from the local farmers, and instead just did an online food order on Ocado where "OFFCWOARSE" she bought just a bunch of random pumpkin products to use as props in her assault on autumn.
Puree, burgers, granola bars - all things she could've made herself with locally-sourced ingredients, and making them might've been something resembling interesting and new "AUTOMINNAL" content for her. But nope, she just churned out another faked vlog and bought a load of "PONKIN" products online from a major supermarket, including granola bars despite having a horded stockpile of her "favourite" gifted, but never declared snack bars all over her house.
Then she brags that the archive that she borrowed materials from has requested a copy of her dissertation for their archives. There's no mention of which archive this was or any proof that it happened, but Ruby gives herself a smug thumbs-up all the same.
The archive also haven't even read her dissertation, so if they requested it, it's not a "IT'S SO GOOD, WE HAVE TO HAVE IT!" as much as a "Okay, we'll look it over, just stop spamming our email inbox already!" Because given Ruby's history of trying to turn anyone sending her professional/academic correspondence into her own personal penpal, along with her goal to get essays published somewhere despite their questionable quality (remember that time she bragged that she was getting an essay published in an academic journal and then it never materialised?), I'd bank on her having harassed the living duck out of the poor b who emailed her the documents she requested to tell them all about her dissertation until they agreed to read it. Much like that time recently when she got "invited" back to school to give a speech, after an unrelenting campaign of begging them to let her do it.
And to top off all the bull, she's back on the 'I'm gyowing to pre-tand tyo read a bock which is corrantly popular' wagon.
Ruby claims to dislike TV and movies unless Nord V.P. Anne are paying her to pretend she uses Netflix. She undoubtedly never watched iCarly or Sam & Cat, has no interest in Jennette McCurdy, Nickelodeon or the child entertainment industry and its sordid underbelly. She doesn't read biographies/autobiographies unless they're by or about her favourite Tory political heroes. She's just waving this around because it was either gifted (and not declared) or because it's popular right now and she wants a piece of the action.
And oh god, she's latched onto Gilmore Girls as part of her fake "AUTOMINNUL" aesthetic now. She doesn't have the attention span to make it through one scene of fast-paced dialogue, let alone the whole series. This will be another Call Me By Your Name/The Song of Achilles situation where she just shows herself with it every so often to earn popularity points.
its time for me to gate keep, she can have Dean and post season 3 RoryShe's watching Gilmore Girls for the first time, good job I already despise all the characters
Interesting. I wonder if another application to Oxford is on the cards? I have often thought that if ’Oxford or bust’ was Ruby’s goal it would have been more sensible for her to apply for something like the BA in Theology and Philosophy or the BA in Theology and Religion at a smaller college, rather than something like English Lit at somewhere Hogwarts-y. You need to be a good student either way but the overall odds seem better for less popular courses.
Optimistically hoping 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' will force the penny to drop, it's a pretty ironic book for her to 'read'. But it won't. Because 1. I'd bet on her not actually reading it and 2. she's way too infantilised and too deep in regression to know what's happening or care about stopping it.
What is it about growing up and the outside world that scares her so much? Does she seriously not have even the faintest dreams or ambitions for the future outside of her delusions? I know she's not the typical flavour of crazy we see here, but the past few months of behaviour from her have been unsettling. She reminds me of a more unhinged cosykitsune/Kenna.
The change in her from lockdown to now has been....not great - and I'm not Ruby-bashing here, I had to go back to my parents during lockdown after furlough ended, and the regression session/increased severity of my anxiety was insane.
She needs a mental health assessment, and some support to get out of that house. Her parents might be perfectly nice people, but they are not helping her one little bit. This isn't just failure to launch, the preparations to launch haven't even been made yet.
Sidenote, you know those cases where they find out some elderly hoarder who never left their rural family home has been living with the corpse of one of their parents for years? Ruby personifies those vibes.
I feel like somehow she never had a chance. The combination of strict, rigid routine at an all-girls private school, combined with isolated rural living with just her parents and sister is not a good one, it's one extreme to the other. I wonder if there's even a small village store nearby, has she ever had to venture out of the hovel alone to buy a loaf of bread or some milk?
What is it about growing up and the outside world that scares her so much? Does she seriously not have even the faintest dreams or ambitions for the future outside of her delusions? I know she's not the typical flavour of crazy we see here, but the past few months of behaviour from her have been unsettling. She reminds me of a more unhinged cosykitsune/Kenna.
The change in her from lockdown to now has been....not great - and I'm not Ruby-bashing here, I had to go back to my parents during lockdown after furlough ended, and the regression session/increased severity of my anxiety was insane.
She needs a mental health assessment, and some support to get out of that house. Her parents might be perfectly nice people, but they are not helping her one little bit. This isn't just failure to launch, the preparations to launch haven't even been made yet.
Sidenote, you know those cases where they find out some elderly hoarder who never left their rural family home has been living with the corpse of one of their parents for years? Ruby personifies those vibes.
I feel like somehow she never had a chance. The combination of strict, rigid routine at an all-girls private school, combined with isolated rural living with just her parents and sister is not a good one, it's one extreme to the other. I wonder if there's even a small village store nearby, has she ever had to venture out of the hovel alone to buy a loaf of bread or some milk?
Can anyone confirm where/when or whether she JANUINELY did declare this planned US trip to be solo?
She only wants to go to Oxford for the academic clout of it being "the best". She has no real interest in the place beyond that (part of the reason the studytubers all got rejected was because they couldn't give any real reason why they wanted to study at Oxford or why they'd be a good fit other than "It's the best and I'm entitled to it"). Going to a smaller college wouldn't be the ego-satisfying vindication she's always wanted, so she won't want it.
I very much doubt she'll apply to Oxford for anything other than English MA, but I'd also be very doubtful if she even applied for an MA at all at this point. She got a small taste of the workload with her dissertation, and I don't think she'll want to be challenged like that again.
I'm betting if she goes back to uni, it'll be at undergrad again purely to buy herself a few more years of avoiding life with very little work or challenge, at either Exeter where she's familiar with the staff (returning home every week, naturally), another uni closer to home like Warwick (another Russell Group uni that offers a Philosophy, Literature and Classics degree, so she could recycle half her old work) or an Open University degree so she never has to leave her room.
She's not smart, talented or naturally gifted at anything, and nowhere is that more apparently than in the real world where she has to compare herself to other adults her age. She wants no part of it. In her bubble of childhood regression, she can make-believe she's still a genius, get endless praise for her inept projects from mummy and daddy, and cocoon herself in a time capsule of when everything was perfect for her.
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She claims it'll be her "first time travelling by herself". It wouldn't be the first time she's called a trip with mummy a "solo" trip.
I'm certain the university actually looks at the channels of Studytubers and thinks 'oh duck, not again'.
I do feel a lot of sympathy for Roobs. If she looked outside her bubble, she'd know a lot of other universities are now taking Oxford's spot among those applying for their bachelor's currently. There are certain universities that give a CV an off-the-wall, 'different' 'wow'-factor, that don't look like Oxford-reject consolation prizes and signal what Oxbridge used to.
The only reason I can think of as to why she won't do this apart from her delusions is that she simply isn't looking to ever have a job other than 'influencing'. Which is okay, but this constant pursuit of Oxford is going to destroy her. The only videos of hers that have gained significant traction are back-to-school videos, her graduation, and her dropping out/fail videos.
Bath has come on leaps and bounds when it comes to research and CV clout, and St Andrew's/York are absolutely sublime choices for her when it comes to the quality of teaching, with Hogwarts-style buildings. Consolation prize Durham actually has an excellent English department, and their acceptance rates/quality of English teaching is rated higher than Oxbridge this year.
My little brother is a bit of a tit and needs people to know how amazing he is all the time a la Roobs (which I'll give him, he is genuinely something special, although I won't let him know and inflate that ego even more). But the difference is he's motivated, has worked multiple 'proper' jobs in the real adult world, and has lived alone since he was seventeen. 'I went to Oxford' doesn't beg the same questions and conversation and intrigue as it used to. So he did the academic work, did the legwork, and found a university that's selective and also has the kind of reputation where people are impressed and want to know more. And because he's lived in the real world, he knows what's important about a university and postgraduate opportunities, because he's watched where his friends managed to stumble with regard to university choice, university life, and postgrad opportunities (or lack thereof). I really do blame most of this on her having no experience in the real world.
I am pretty sure she thought she was gifted, intelligent, smart or whatever due to her obsessive use of notions and post it. with that you get through school but college and real life you cant conquer with notions
Oh no, roll on the phase of writing Rory Gilmore on her windows.She's watching Gilmore Girls for the first time, good job I already despise all the characters
When I was a very young teenager, I enjoyed studying a lot - I still do, I strongly believe effective study is a special skill you need to learn to use - but could never concentrate unless I was at home, alone. But we all try to curate an image of ourselves as teenagers, whether we want to admit it or not.
So I used to always sit with my textbooks open at lunchtime, alone, annotating. I wasn't annotating anything of significance, I was mostly playing with my glitter pens and cute highlighters. But people saw me reading and 'annotating' those textbooks, so I assumed they must have thought I was very IntElIgeNt.
That is Ruby behaviour. She thinks post its, flashcards, and cute dividers in her binders make her look like she's studying all the time because she's suuuuuuper smart. Arrested development personified. At 13, it's being a lame teenager who doesn't fit in, finding out who they are. At her age, it's sad.
I guarantee you she's only reading that Jennette McCurdy book because she heard there's ED content.
Reckon she's read Wintergirls? That tit's required reading if you're gonna be an ED girlie.
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