Since "Q conspiracy" was mentioned earlier in relation to her Bible reading, could it be something to do with the theory about a lost "Q document" used as a source by Matthew and Luke? I've never heard that called a "conspiracy" but I'm not that into theology so maybe sometimes it is? Which at least is less alarming than the idea of her going into Q-Anon stuff.
Yeah, it's that.
en.wikipedia.org
Ruby's a Tory, but she's not gone Q-anon far-right just yet, she's researching this biblical theory for a book she's apparently writing. And by "researching", I mean "reading the Wikipedia page". And by "writing", I mean "duplicating the entire Wikipedia page into Notion and changing the words slightly":
I wish I was kidding, but she shows herself literally just copying the entire Wikipedia page onto a Notion page. It shouldn't be shocking, considering she did this with every essay at uni to avoid actually reading the text, but Ruby suddenly claiming she's going to write a non-fiction book about Christianity is definitely a new and hilariously stupid curveball.
The "Takeaways for my book" section is essentially just random, speculative and occasionally insane information. Ruby ponders if women were murdered by husbands and the clergy to keep the secrets of the Q gospel quiet, and notes:
"Perhaps women did, at one time, attempt to share the truth about Q but were brutally murdered or deemed insane (maybe that's the best option) because it decredits (sic) them and is not so controversial or questioned...especially by a husband or priest...
I could find real cases of this".
Ruby's apparently going to embark on a Dan Brown historical treasure hunt to solve biblical cold case murders in her gap year now, too.
I'd love to see the look of despair on her literary agent's face when Ruby mentions this is how she's spending her time: Cobbling together "books" on topics she has no knowledge or understanding of, from materials plagiarised from Wikipedia with grand and completely nonsensical aspirations sprinkled on top.
The rest of the video is barely worth mentioning; it's another Ruby routine, so it's all been seen 1,856,923 times before.
Ruby stages her "getting ready" bathroom routine, which involves her violently yanking out half her already receding hairline with a brush and pressing her beauty placebo jade roller forcefully into her eyeballs for some reason.
No freckles are visible at any point, but they magically appear in later footage, so desperate is she to pretend they're real and she's just a precocious freckled child.
There are undeclared ads
everywhere - multiple for BARD 'N' BLAND, then ads for MISPAH TEENAH, Teapigs and Alpro. Absolutely no mention or on-screen disclaimer that these were all gifted and she has sponsor ties to all of them.
(BOHT OIY NAVVER LOIY ABOUT THESE THINGS AND AM NAVVER SNEAKY! I AWHWLWHEYS DECLAAHR ADS AND FOLLYOW AD RYULES! WHOIY MOHST YOO BOLLY ME SYO! WAA WAA WAHHH!
)
Fake timescales crop up once again; Ruby claims she read most of PAYTOSIM POSIUM (for what seems like the 15th time this fortnight) and annotated it in just 15 minutes, and if that weren't dubious enough, she stresses that she was actually reading VARRY SLYOWLY AND CARRFULL, implying that at normal speed, she reads 750 pages per minute and writes a novel in five.
Everything looks
repulsive, from the overlong sequence of the brushing her teeth and the limescale-and-mould-covered taps that are just spewing water unattended, to Ruby's laughably incompetent attempts at pretending she does the washing up and unloads the dishwasher every day.
They can afford a plumber to fix that leak, if it's an actual leak and not just Ruby leaving the tap running. She and her mother are both unemployed and occupying the house 24/7. Ruby certainly does nothing with her time, so cleaning a tap to make sure the plague isn't festering on it should be easy if they weren't such workshy layabouts.
Washing dishes is so alien to her that instead of rinsing the chunks of food out of the pans she uses, she just scrapes a bunch of thick oat gunk out with a lump of steel wool, confusedly runs that under a cold tap, pokes at a small section of the pan with a soapy sponge and calls it a day. Later, she pours a load of leftover tea directly into the bin instead of the sink. This family are worryingly clueless when it comes to absolutely everything. Society trusted two of these fuckwits with driving licenses.
Ruby includes forced sections like this to try to prove that she's AWLWHEYS BUSY and does AVVERYTHING around the house, but when has she ever not taken the easiest shortcut approach? She literally copied the entirety of Wikipedia to avoid doing any research or thinking up her own ideas, so there's no way in hell she doesn't just shove everything in the dishwasher usually. These brazen displays of incompetence only have the opposite effect than she intended, showing that she never, ever cleans, and if this is how she does it, it's terrifyingly gross and stupid.
She chugs water and eats only a small serving of inedible gruel made from porridge oats, old tea, pumpkin puree, a quarter of a banana, random nuts and a shitload of food seasonings.
Because Ruby desperately wants autumn to be part of her fake personality for some reason, she has started adding "PONKIN" to everything. Pumpkin foods, pumpkin drinks, pumpkin candles, pumpkin beauty products. It's so forced and embarrassing that it's enough to make you cringe your face off.
She claims to have lots of meetings that are VAARY HALPFOL, but no good news is shared.
She spends the Zoom meeting with her literary agent looking nervous and gesticulating wildly with her claw mitts. After it's over, she's back to the drawing board, mind-mapping her kids' book that she already apparently wrote and finished, now renamed from Penelope Peppermint to Penelope Stake.
There is no good news to be shared about Lottie Parton and the Lost Child, either. I can only assume that after endless rejection from publishers, Ruby proposed a radical new change to spice things up: The missing 9-year-old was murdered by the clergy, or forced into an insane asylum ("probably the better option") for sharing Lottie Parton's study secrets.
She has a PONKIH PODTIBBITY meeting, after which she brags that all her planners have "unfortunately" sold out. This isn't exactly a flex, since it took
months for her to offload just 3,000 planners to her 730,000 followers.
She stares at screens looking miserable, pretends to read while looking miserable, wanders the garden looking miserable. She can't even be bothered with her usual strained grimaces and instantly gives up, looking like she might cry at any minute:
But morning routines keep you happy and focus, and you're doing something wrong if you don't love everything you do! Ruby spends her days forcing herself to life a completely fake life full of lies, repetitive and dull tasks, and things she doesn't enjoy and isn't good at, all for a dwindling audience, then wonders why she's hopelessly miserable.