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

[Redrose97]

Thing is she could has pushed herself to go to writing classes or something similar, to hone her craft and get her draft more ready. She's not a writer, she's just a woman too scared to leave her bedroom so she writes fan fics to keep herself occupied. She hasn't got what it takes to be a good author.

That's an insult to those who write fanfic as there's thousands better than the young adult trollop and poetry that Ruby throws together! I think that Ruby's problem is that she refuses to take classes or anything and thinks that since she can read them she can write. She very much copies or is heavily 'inspired' by other books and poets that she has no original thought in her head. It's like she's so scared about failing or doing badly as an author that she doesn't want to take the chance and be original and copies Emily Dickinson ect or cobbles together ideas from other YA books.

 

[gossip_guy]

Patiently waiting for her to upload a literary/teacher/bookish inspired outfit of the day

I suspect we've already seen her "MOIY FARRST WAAHK INN-SOMBLER":

She's reined in her MISPA TEENAH child dress-up habit, but showing up with fake freckles, getting dropped off by mummy and carrying a DARK MACADEMIA attaché case because she's an ADOLT NAOW certainly is a choice.

Certainly looks like leather, too. SYO VEGAN!

 

[xoxoxo13]

Yeah I don't think she is coping well with her school job because in her latest YouTube video it was noticeable to me that the day after she had been at the school working she looked really tired and didn't seem to be her normal happy self.

When I first started working seven months ago, it took me around a month to get used to the routine of going out/being a person/interacting with people. And I lived a life quite similar to Ruby's, minus the pretentiousness (it's just chronic depression). She will either adjust eventually or fail spectacularly.

 

[opal73]

To echo what's been said before...I am still baffled why she would read whilst brushing her teeth.

Also her hair needs a cut. It looks dreadful. Just needs a good trim!!!!!!!!!

I've been saying for years she needs a good cut! Part of her little schoolgirl image is the waist long one-length hair though..

 

[irunforfun]

I think Ruby is so assured of her superiority (Erimentha's character was arrogant to the point of obnoxious), she has probably self-soothed with the idea that we're all neanderthals who party and drink too much ethanol.

I am reminded of her responses to feedback for her uni modules. The marker was obviously wrong with any criticism. I imagine tattle is given the same treatment. Ruby knows more than anyone else in the world and anyone who disagrees with anything she says or does is wrong. Silly little people.

 

[ammie]

I guess Ruby is in her Joker 2019 arc

 

[Ilaariaa]

The first impression I get from this is that she has no focus. Not in the classes she took, not in the activities she participated in. While there is always something to be said for being well-rounded, these are very weak interests. Trampolining and Surfing will get you nowhere in life. I don't even remember her talking about surfing while at Uni, other than a few times going with her father. If she is not competing in these sports, why is she filling up precious time with them? My POV is seeing this through the eyes of an American. Maybe it is different over in the UK, but involvement in sporting activities through school or university usually means being on a team or competing at some level. Where are the competitions and how did she place? Or did she just randomly go to a gym and jump up and down on a trampoline? Weird. Harry Potter Society....nothing needs to be said there. It is frivolous and considering the way the majority of her fans now feel about JK Rowling, it isn't something I would personally advertise! I get that Rowling went to Exeter, so the connection there, but still, there surely were more challenging literature themed societies being offered? Theology...again, I don't remember her ever sharing any information on being a member or what they did. Besides, that is related to the major she quit, so that doesn't look particularly promising. Especially since she is either Agnostic or an Atheist. I forget which she proclaimed. It just seems like a filler to me. If asked about her participation in detail I would expect very little would emerge.

She only took 3 classes in her third year? Why? I took 6 every semester. 5 for my major in English Lit and 1 elective. Is this typical in UK education? Why is she listing her classes? That is so strange!

I don't think there's anything wrong with participating in "frivolous" things just for the fun of it even though you're never gonna make any money out of it, I just wouldn't put it on my CV
As for the classes I think it may have to do with the fact that she had to write a thesis to complete her Bachelor's. It's the same in my country where we tend to have fewer exams in the last year so that you can focus on your thesis or any internships you might be doing to complete your degree

 

[Redrose97]

Sorry I didn't mean to insult fanfic per se, just that Ruby 's level of writing is akin to terrible fanfic that she has never tried to improve on by going to writing classes or collaborate with other would-be writers for feedback etc.

No need to apologise about the fanfiction, I was trying to joke as I am a fanfic writer myself as a hobby, slightly embarrasing that I still do even at 25 as I started as a teenager ! While I don't write majestic works of prose like what Ruby likes to think that she does with her clobber, I think that it has helped me become slightly better at writing! Even if Ruby did fanfiction, she would impove over time as you do get feedback about what you write and you have to think about how to engage readers over the story, even if you are already using premade characters. There is a lot of world building some people do with AUs and some do real world building, but yet, Ruby just seems to have everything focused on schools and it's middle class characters like herself. She just seems to copy and paste ideas from other YA novels and is hoping to make something based off that. Even from what she writes and has shown us on instagram, it's purple prose where she is trying to sound very profound and is writing things that would be quotable- I don't know if anyone else gets that impression. I sometimes see it when I read fics and self published books.

 

[bananapeel]

The sloppy cutting and raw edge would not have mattered so much if she'd left a gap and then turned the collar inside out. That's how you hide the raw edge of the seam inside, and then you close the gap. Every basic sewing instruction will tell you to do that.

 

[gossip_guy]

She's posted on TikTok that we can expect a weekly vlog today wherein she pretends to read FOIVE OF THE BRWonntYaY SISTAH'S FAVOURITE BOCKS.

The patented poker tell squint comes back just as she says "I filmed...AWHL of this weeek", so it's a given that this'll be several weeks/months of random footage slapped together and condensed of her pretending to read things in a short space of time.

Will she complain that she could ONYLY READ FOIVE BOCKS because she was WAHRKING VARRY HARD in her top-secret, VARRY IMPWORETANT "traditional job"?

Edit: New video's up!

 

[Ilaariaa]

I dont think listing out the modules is appropriate either. Especially where she puts an explanation in square brackets about attending the class but not formally taking the module. Just because she is so studious and awesome, she sat in on the class out of interest. Like, what is she trying to say? And why? It comes across as try-hard

On my CV I only listed the exams that are useful to clarify what my degree was in and what I learnt l. You could also write, for example, "Law degree with a focus on xx". It's not necessary to put every single thing you did in uni, no one cares.
A CV should be one or two pages max. If it's longer than that you're doing something wrong

 

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

It appears that she's reading The Queen's Gambit for the first time again.

Any guesses on when she'll start adopting Beth's identity by pretending to be a child chess prodigy, the next Magnus Carlsen?

 

[figgypud]

Of course she thinks that the books we read when we're "really young" are the "most important" and the ones that "shape us".

 

[gossip_guy]

lol she’s on TikTok banging on about Shakespeare and quoting plays she hasn’t even read (sorry Roobs but if it ain’t on Goodreads, we all know you haven’t even hit the Sparknotes) What a fucking fraud.

The thumbnail says it all:

 

[bananapeel]

Incomprehensible that she actually had snippets of her actual motivation letter for the MSt course in her video. Really careless.
I'll try to fill in some of the blanks:
"[last] year, I attended [a lecture by Professor Karim-Cooper]..."
"[a]n early modern ... unrivalled early [modern soc]iety"
The file name also seems to start with "Early Modern", if I reaaaally squint my eyes...

I'm quite surprised, to be honest. Apart from Shakespeare, she didn't seem into the early modern period at all, and instead read Victorian works. I wonder if she is going to use manuscript sources, because they can be in horrendous script in that period, particularly in the sixteenth century.

The deadline for these Master's was 6 January and our Tattle colleague took this picture on Jan 11th, which seems to fit if she uploaded the video a few days later.

 

[zoeanned]

I think Wuthering Heights is an a level set text? Private school a level classes are usually small (4-5 people), so my guess is she’ll be leading a seminar style revision session once a week with a small group of well behaved English students who have already received the bulk of their teaching on the text by a qualified teacher.

 

[lalala2233]

Also, has anyone noticed that Ruby, despite being a literature student, a self-proclaimed voracious reader and an endlessly curious person, almost never reads authors who aren't British or American? I cannot recall her reading translated works.

She claims to know Spanish. Latin America and Spain have incredibly rich literary traditions and they are contemporary authors doing amazing work. She seems to like fantastical stories, Latin America is the home of magical realism and yet she is never able to reach beyond her British classics and expose her supposed curious mind to something new.

Don't get me wrong. I love British classics. I particularly love American literature. But I also try to read Japanese, Nigerian, Colombian, Argentine authors; I make an effort to get to know the world through narratives. Ruby would benefit tremendously from reading about places and lives that are different from her very cloistered existence.

The weirdest part is that her audience seems completely unbothered by all this.

 

[xoxoxo13]

Absolutely no fucking way. I want to gatekeep Wuthering Heights so bad right now. She doesn't understand literature, the agony of the kind of love that Cathy and Heathcliff shared. She has reduced the torture of their feelings to a wandering in an empty yard and an almost-fail candle lighting clip. Nooooooooo. So mad. Somebody stop her!

She doesn't possess the rawness needed to LARP as Cathy. She recites the lines so fucking politely. Where is the darkness? The despair? The pain? The simultaneous love and hatred?

She could never understand "whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same". SHE JUST CANT

GET YOUR GRIMY PAWS OFF HEATHCLIFF AND CATHY

I read it at 14 and I think it permanently altered my brain chemistry.

 

[gossip_guy]

This is crazy. Her new job is easily the most interesting thing she's done all year. Yet she chooses to not talk about it at all, why?? Is it possible she actually didn't get the job? Or it's completely different from what she expected and she's disappointed?

The vaguer she is about it, the more room she has to embellish her role and how busy and important she is. Her fans will fill in the blanks and assume she's a teacher now when in reality she's likely just showing up a couple of days a week to sit in a class and pretend she's a child again while the actual teachers have to pick up her slack.

It's one of Ruby's most predictable tricks in her book of scams and she does it with anything even close to work. Her uni internships and her involvement with PONKIN' PODDUTIFFTY all followed the same play: She provides no details and is purposefully cagey because there's nothing going on and she's doing fuck all, but her gullible fans will hear her talking about "waahrk" all the time and think she's out there juggling 6 careers.

 

[pinkmug]

In my experience when you're 18 and choosing what to do with your life, way too many people tell you to "follow your dreams! If you have a passion go for it! Don't choose something you don't like just because you think it'll be easier to find a job!"
And the result is that now that my uni education path is almost over and I'm starting to look at career opportunities, not a day goes by that I don't tell myself whyyy didn't you choose a more expendable degree. Why did you listen to those people. And my degree isn't even actually "that bad" when it comes to jobseeking, but it's not a law or engineering degree either. And now that I'm older and I look back I see that I could have succeeded in one of those more "career-oriented" degrees too, even if they weren't exactly my absolute favourite thing, and I ask myself what the hell I was thinking.
So imo it's the opposite, I think that way too many young people go to uni with this mindset (that you shouldn't choose based on job opportunities but rather your interests) and end up disappointed years later when they are looking for a job.

(I hope no one interprets this comment as dismissive of humanities degrees or like I'm saying that they're not worth it. I'm saying that rather than young people choosing based on career options, I see a lot of young people choosing based on passions and interests and then being let down by society when it seems like there's no place for them in the workforce)

I studied something I loathed and it was a pain to look for a job at the same time, so when I look back I say I could have at least studied something I actually cared about and wanted to make the effort for.

That being said, when I look at the salaries my engineer/programmer/actuary friends are earning, it blows my mind that people my age are living on thrice my salary. I'm happy to be self sufficient (single and childfree, no pets etc so the necessities are at a minimum) but it would be such a relief not to have constant anxiety about the future.

This actually reminds me of PaigeY and her decision to go into an actuarial career imstead of astrophysics. In a Q&A she candidly replied that she chose the career because she doesn't want to struggle financially. A lot of people were surprised but I think she was being smart.

Not everyone is cut out for being content following their passion while barely scraping by, it really crushes the spirit. It's important to find something that doesn't suck the life out of your soul, but also work is just work and not everyone is 'meant to' be in a certain career and uni degree dreams don't necessarily last forever.

I have no clue what Ruby is doing with her life but she's being neither passionate nor smart, so I guess she'll carry on cosplaying until she's old and grey.