Cuck youOh god she still pronounces ”cuckoo” as ”cuck you”I physically cannot
also she doesn’t understand why so much of a bird book is concerned with describing what the birds looks like
This sent me omg. Have you considered reading books in German?
Yes, thats the one lol
aw shit that is the cringest thing ive ever seen
Spill. The. Tea. All of it, I think we all need a story time from you.i’m muslim go to an islamic school, we had a talk by ruby about academics (mainly uni stuff since we are sixth form) and she started talking about christmas and asking about what we get up to on christmasnone of us celebrate christmas it was so weird
Yeah I think you're right actually...lol. I was probably too generous with my words there. Jade is clinging to 'casual magic' like Rooburt clings to childhood.
In my experience, the opinions teachers have about collegues very often diverge from the opinions students have about their teachers. It's relatively easy to make yourself appear competent and kind when you just recount how it was in a classroom vs. when you're in there for an entire lesson and have to follow what the teacher wants. Given that Ruby was able to get such good grades at uni (despite her obvious inability to summarize the substance of a book and the impression it had on her), we cannot expect something like justice here, she is even able to fool her professors, fooling her collegues at school (in case it is a school she'll be working at, who knows) will be so much easier.
According to her Goodreads, she's in half of Brothers Karamazov. I'm surprised she doesn't read faster though. But even if anyone called her out on it, she'd be like: sLOw ReaDinG, AnaLySis! But she's also read another children's bookI wonder if we’re getting a video this weekend, seeing as she already posted this weekAnd will it be the ”January books review” one or the ”winter” one? Will she have
finishedskimmed through to the end of ”The Brothers KaramaTSov”? How exactly is she being the main character and romanticising this particular winter? Will she sit by an open window with her electric blanket? How many books will she have read JANUINELY IN THEIR ENTIRETY in the time I’ve managed to struggle through 1/4 of Special Operation & Peace, the first 16 chapters of Tristram Shandy, half of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, and the audiobook of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, where I may or may not have fallen asleep briefly just as a major plot point was unfolding?
I really want to hear her talk about it. In Depth.
I actually hate how she added 'unfortunately' to her statement about living in an extroverted society. Firstly, I don't think its true. And second, why would it be 'unfortunate' if society was 'extroverted'? She doesn't actually give reasons as to why it is 'unfortunate'. I seriously do not believe that 'extroversion' is given any kind of privilege over 'introversion'.
Yes. She is part of the problem that she herself seems to constantly identify e.g social media teaching us to be perfect, performative and appearing a certain way etc
That's because she's pretending her freckles are real. She put them on before applying makeup, hence why they're all streaky when she's done
As someone who works professionally in a media related field, I can say: Yes, it can be technically and also creatively challenging to do some good editing work, but so many of the mistakes Ruby makes are due to pure laziness and carelessness. Sometimes you get the feeling that she doesn't even rewatch certain scenes to check if the editing works or if there's changes to make. That's because she expects herself to deliver excellent work right away which doesn't need corrections. A lot of these mistakes could easily be corrected, even by someone who's relatively new to this, and in case it doesn't work there's plenty of tutorials on YouTube, to the point where you can learn 3D animation.
I agree on the last point especially, even if her opinions were shallow and not very developed, at least she went beyond ”I liked it” and ”beautiful cover” this time. But you’d think this would have been a starting point for her five years ago, not after having done a full degree. It’s like she magically managed to get through uni without ever once forming an original, considered opinion on anything and is only now starting to actually use her brain a little.
THIS! I was gonna say, if she did something remarkable, she wouldnt shut up about it. Her silence is the sign that she doesn't do much. Otherwise she wouldnt stop rambling about her re-sarch for her new lek-chahh
It’s what happens when you realise that you’d been a big fish in a small pond and are now a mere tiny fish in a very big pond.
Tbh though I think she does thrive on routine I think sometime during university Ruby realised how much she hated it but because she's built her brand off being academic and bookish she's boxed herself in and has to continue faking the identity (which becomes increasingly apparent with every video). Definitely don't think being at home has done much good for her, even though she's a lot happier there than she ever was at uni. I think to grow we have to force ourselves to step outside a bit and Ruby hasn't really done that at all during her gap year (doubt she would have even gone to Boston had basically the entire trip not have been gifted) when she could have been working part time, travelling more, or even have moved into the house she owns for a short time. Basically finding out who she is and working on adulting. She's been struggling for an identity (first Hermione, then english literature student, now writer) but continues to regress, to the point where a small, short gathering with friends over the holidays in London gave her a panic attack.I'm catching up on the threads but... Gossip Guy. I am a huge Captain America fan and I need to know if he liked the book. Did he also think it talked about war too much or did the whole being a soldier in WWII thing make that more palatable?
Anyways, I can only imagine Ruby's current situation right now being so, so lonely and depressing. It sounds nice to a lot of us to have a break like that but in practice it'd drive you crazy. Ruby appears routine oriented. I'm the same way - I need something to keep me busy. Granted I'm a lot more extroverted than her, but I can only imagine feeling incredibly isolated and lonely if I was cooped up in my childhood bedroom, away from the general bustle of any nearby town or city, no friends nearby, no job to go to, and so on. Living like this makes your anxiety so much worse in my experience - your world shrinks and your bubble gets smaller and smaller until leaving it seems like a frightening, scary task.
I truly think she'd benefit so much from just a part time job. It is one of my strongest beliefs that EVERYONE should work some form of a retail job during their life time. It teaches you so much.
I've taught 11th and 12th graders (in Australia, senior high school level) Legal Studies and I'd say the most difficult part was the behaviour management and dealing with sneaky remarks in the style of 'thats what she said' etc
My education and training is in the Legal Profession, not Teaching. Some of the shit kids come out with these days, I just can just imagine Ruby freaking out. Hell, she had a panic attack while among friends and family over Christmas break.
