Ruby Granger #35 Hello, it's Flu-bee!

[hkcurly]

Oh hi hello look what I found

“Heaven — is what I cannot reach”: How Emily Dickinson’s Voice was Influenced by Spoken Worship in Amherst and the Book of Revelation | Department of English

english.umd.edu

I remembered she had talked about "having a paper published" and I wondered what became of it, so I googled "'Ruby Bones' essay".

edit: It's just as we always imagined - word salad cobbled together from way too many sources and not a single original thought to hold it together.

Maybe I'm being snobbish but nothing screams 'I'm not a good writer' more than using "this essay will..." at university level

What bothers me most is she never tells us how "private" and "public" are being defined by her, the critics she's discussing, or how they may have been defined at the time of Dickinson writing. You can't present an argument like this without defining your terms. Your whole god damn argument rests on how you define these terms.

If I've picked it out correctly, I think her core idea is interesting; a binary, public OR private approach isn't useful in understanding Dickinson's poetry or her intentions. There's so much potential in this argument and it's all wasted

The fact this was published in any capacity is astounding to me.

I hope Ruby gets into Oxford. It has been mentioned here a couple of times before, but I want to repeat it: Though not guaranteed, there's at least the possibility of her learning some humility there. Which won't happen if she continues to live in her fantasy world at home. Or if she starts teaching but being left alone in the classroom with no honest feedback by experienced teachers.

Yooo lemme tell you, I went to Cambridge for my master's after getting a first in undergrad elsewhere and it humbled the ever living fuck out of me. And I didn't even have the same jumped up ego she does, I went in thinking applications to my course must've been sparse that year.

 

[Larancia]

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[ammie]

I'm still shocked she went from a double bed to single bed like my favourite upgrade was going from a single bed to a small double because it's so comfortable. Also her nails don't look tacky, looks like she got a gel manicure I'm honestly just jealous she has the time and energy to do random research in the mornings, I don't even have the energy to write on the weekends because I'm so tired from the work week.

 

[StatusWoe]

• There's a wolf howling downstairs and I think Ruby should sort that problem out before recording her video.
• Apparently the Brontes were genius because they captured emotion. Unless their contemporaries were all chatbots, this isn't a unique selling point.
• I can't believe she just described Pilgrim's Progress as basic. I don't think it was written as a children's book either (?), though correct me if that's wrong. You'd think a literature and theology student would have a better idea of its context.
• Ruby, stop trying to make Girlboss Cordelia happen.

 

[ariawyn]

At this point the most impressive thing about her is how she manages to consistently not have a single clue about what she’s talking about every single time.

(the second most impressive thing is the scale of the delusion regarding the first thing)

 

[londongirl92]

sorry for the poor screenshot but the comment on her most recent YT video... I guess we weren't the only ones that noticed! Wonder if she'll delete this?

 

[Griftwood]

I've had Roobee yammering on in the background today while I waahrk, and it's amazing how many lies one catches. In that video that was sponsored by the wildlife conservation charity where she JANUINELY wasn't being paid but had to declare it an ad, she called it a sponsorship the whole time. If it wasn't sponsored, wouldn't you call it a collaboration...?

 

[DrinaM]

Haha, I thought the same! But for some reason I can picture her parents, especially her dad, listening to Nick Cave.

I need Daddy Bones to get onto his socials and drop his playlist. I'm expecting an eclectic mix of Beatles, David Bowie, Classical music and maybe something light and fun like the Beach Boys? He surfs a bit, doesn't he?

 

[StatusWoe]

Do you mind linking it? I'm interested

Here: https://tattle.life/threads/books-14-reading-chats.36795/

I just posted about reading a middle-grade book, but I promise I'm not Ruby.

Okay...just re-read my last post and apparently I am Ruby. The line '' It wasn't quite what I expected'' even made its way into my book review. Kill me now.

 

[gossip_guy]

Can the people who posted it see that it got views and was reposted on Tattle (sorry I am technically illiterate!)?

Just wondered if it got taken down because it got criticism on here!

I want to say you can see in YouTube's analytics which sites are linking to your video (or at least that used to be the case) but I don't think it's a full URL link, just the overall website. So whoever runs the college YouTube channels could see that they were getting traffic from Tattle.life, but that's about it. It wouldn't take much detective work to find out from there which page the video was embedded on, though, given the lone influencer on the panel.

I doubt they'd check or care though, I think it's more than likely the sound issues since the whole thing was pretty much unwatchable aside from the first couple of minutes due to the overlapping audio.

 

[ghostly_prince]

It’s sad and weird to witness. What’s worse I think is she never started spiralling this hard until she got into year 2 of her english degree, in her first year in philosophy and her first year of English she was acting appropriately for her age and looking back at videos she just seems more competent(?). I do wonder what was the trigger for her to start acting in such an odd way. I also think her parents are disgusting enablers simply encouraging her behaviour, they clearly cannot accept the fact that they now have adult children who have their own lives, so now they have the chance to baby Ruby again, they relish in it.

I agree with you. She started spiraling in her second (English course) year at uni. I think COVID was a major factor in her reverting back to childhood and just stunting her growth as a normal adult.

Her anxiety seemed to get worse at the start/during covid, she religiously kept track of the news/case numbers, she kept thinking someone was breaking into her uni house and would hide in the toilet, and then she finally went back to mummy and daddy's house and stayed there during multiple lockdowns.

She reverted back to acting like a child as a coping mechanism I bet. And you're right her parents enable her so much. They don't challenge her at all and keep her sheltered because she's their precious (favorite) daughter. I feel bad for her sister and would resent Ruby and her parents if I was Martha.

She's always been weird about growing up/getting older but covid definitely heightened that anxiety.

 

[zoeanned]

To be fair I work in a primary school as a TA (newly graduated) and I go to work in a t-shirt and black jeans, maybe sometimes even leggings. No one seems to care much, it's the learning that's important. But you never know I might have ironed her skirt if I was wearing it..

Same haha I taught seniors Legal Studies while I was wearing jeans and a tshirt. But think about it, tee and jeans probably looks more put together than her wrinkly clothes...

I’m an accountant and I also wear jeans and a tshirt in the office sometimes! It’s more the fact that Ruby’s clothes are totally creased that’s the issue imo, - there’s a difference between looking intentionally casual and looking sloppy or messy

 

[CatCafe234]

Yeah, that's what I think too. I have social anxiety - albeit nowhere near as severe as hers - and there's no way I'd want to teach. It's hard work and the students can be cruel and disruptive, especially in private schools. A job in a coffee shop or bookshop where she can have gentle chat with customers, read books on her break and do however many hours she wants would have been far better to ease her into the workplace.

Mmmmm, but a job in the real world wouldn’t let her indulge her eternal schoolgirl fantasies. I can fully imagine that there’s a difficult line being trodden between her being a teacher and a pupil. No doubt she’s slipped back into her ‘back to school’ morning routine, is happily getting mummy to drive her back to school every day, clutching her carefully packed school bag and dressing in something that’s as close to uniform as she can manage. Then she gets to be in her old classrooms all day pretending to be the highly gifted twelve-year old she’s determined to be, whilst getting to stand in front of the class and play teacher - and this time nobody is allowed to bully her. It must be lovely for her.

 

[Satisfying Click]

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"Pumpkin Bread Activity."

Pumpkin Brad Activity!

 

[Ilaariaa]

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Arrogant little prick

Older generations indeed is Ruby aware that the youngest Millennials are 27 (ish, depending on the line in the sand), hardly doddery old fools who shake their fists at clouds.

She's probably humbled enough that she'll come out with a video to contradict the panel. "I don't think it's halpful tyoo have ganarational starayotypes. Ganaration Axe had strong idantitees such as ponk and havvy metal, howavvar..." *points finger*

Whenever someone describes something as "interesting, but' it always comes across super passive aggressive lol

 

[braginskayas]

As an Exeter student I'm always so confused why she came here. The campus is modern and doesn't fit the dark academia aesthetic she's supposedly obsessed with at all. Even though it's an Oxford reject uni, there are other Russell Group universities which have that aesthetic and are probably better for studying English at. A lot of the appeal of Exeter is the beauty in the city and in surrounding areas but she doesn't seem to have taken advantage of any of that. The only reason I can think of is she fits in with the mostly white and wealthy demographic.

I suspect it's once again down to the lack of adventurousness as well as generally being a popular uni with Posh Rural Folks. Ruby's family has a holiday home in Devon, so she's probably familiar with the area.

I feel like Durham or St. Andrews would theoretically have been more up Ruby's street in terms of unis, but realistically she'd never be seen dead anywhere further north than Cambridge.

 

[pinkmug]

The telltale pirate squint irritates me so much, how can she look back at these when editing and not realize how obvious it is when she's full of shit? Either tell the truth or get better at lying

 

[gossip_guy]

PONKIN PODDOTIFFTI = "Permanent Productivity." That's one hell of a funny misnomer for a brand that won't be around much longer.

 

[soph30]

Ruby’s would just be green and black

 

[anakinskywalkers]

Nick Cave? Sure sweetie.

I guarantee she just means she likes that song in the scene where Harry & Hermione dance in Deathy Hallows Part 1. I’ve never heard her mention him before.