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

[ammie]

The same posts about her walking in the mist is getting rather boring Also, I feel like her teaching job might just be an online tutoring thing which is why it's only a few days a week and she seems to be doing everything from home.

 

[Deeznutslol]

Never in the same place twice and often spontaneously grow, move, change shape, disappear and reappear at multiple points in the same video.

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Sometimes they're not there, sometimes a gigantic mole has spontaneously appeared on her nose. Sometimes they're dots, sometimes they're smeared lines, sometimes there's some kind of weird snail drawn on her nose.

As with everything she lies about, she puts no effort into making this remotely believable or consistent.

Cosmetic freckles are super popular nowadays, and we live in an age where people routinely change the entire structure of their face using makeup contouring, so there's nothing stopping her from just saying "I don't really have freckles, but I love how they look, so I add some on as part of my makeup routine".

It'd still look ridiculous because of the lack of effort and consistency, and it'd still be obviously part of her sad, desperate precocious child cosplay, but overall, people wouldn't care. Pretending that they're real every time only draws more attention to how stupid it is, how dishonest she is about everything and how fake everything about her is. She'll never stop being her own worst enemy.

The fake freckles thing is utterly bizarre, her skin is flawless, why tf would you draw on freckles?!

 

[marcelprout]

Wake up, wake up, Ruby's just dropped a new reel aaaaaand it's her morning routine! Do you expect anything new or original? No, if you watched her morning routine video, it's the same! Same clips, same BS talk and same pretentiousness. Here we have no idea what she does later in the day, I think it's cut quite nicely though? I mean the video was too long for the content she gave us, so for a reel, it's almost perfect.

Lmao at the comments on yt

 

[irunforfun]

I went to the local grammar school to Ruby and we had quite a few Pipers join in the 6th form. They definitely weren’t quiet and unquestioning individuals (my friend in particular!). I wonder if Ruboid knows that you can’t edit and retake sentences multiple times? How will she string out a whole lesson? She has two options: speak continuously so she can’t be questioned, or try some kind of interactive lesson but flounder when children ask actual questions and don’t see her as amazing. I’d be daunted by going into a classroom and I’m double her age, in a senior position in my profession, work with distressed people, and I have a lot of life experience!

OT I am uk based and maybe it’s because people tend to gravitate to those who share similar values and beliefs, but we’ve often had conversations about miss/ms/mrs and how misogynistic and outdated it is. And very often the choices are mr, miss, ms and miss - which really annoys a few of my friends who are doctors and against the identification of being married/unmarried. I think (hope) that this will change soon as people are more aware of such issues.

 

[theMoth]

Oh those poor children they are going to get a teacher dressed like miss honey marching them round a field shouting random poetry

and laying on the floor in the forest

 

[bookworm39]

Alexander Pope was one of the Romantics, according to Roobee They really don’t teach you a lot at AXA-tar, do they

I understand that reader response and one’s own personal reactions have a place in critical reading, but you can’t just straight up ignore historical context. She does that with every single one of these works. Someone in the comments even points out that she can’t very well criticise a bird book from 1797 for not having information on migratory patterns etc. that simply were not known at the time.

I nearly choked on my tea when I heard that. How can a person with an English literature degree claim that ALEXANDER POPE, of all people, the man who was the complete opposite of everything the Romantics were doing, one of the great CLASSICIST poets is, in fact, a Romantic poet? Ouch. WTF? Imagine her trying to say that in a university interview...
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Perhaps the manuscript bit also aroused her interest in this Master's?
The selection committee might be wondering why she would apply to the 1550-1700 course when she's collaborated with the Emily Dickinson museum and has written her undergraduate dissertation on Lewis Carroll.

That part of the course sounds like an absolute dream to a massive archive/ history of the book nerd like me!

 

[missmina]

She looks like a school girl not a teacher

 

[gisellejoly]

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!

Her university most likely used the ECTS credits system, where you typically complete classes making up 60 credits per year. In early years of my degree I took 12 classes a year each being worth 5 credits each but in final year I had 20 credit modules which had a bigger workload and more contact hours. It’s pretty common in the UK afaik. Ruby did a l dissertation module, and they’re usually worth more than a typical 5 credit module.

As an aside, extra curriculars and societies aren’t as important in the UK as they seem to be in the US. Most people just do them for fun. It’s not important to compete at a sport at any level and no employer would give a shit whether you did or not. It’s still silly to list sports on your LinkedIn though, regardless of whether you were competitive or not.

 

[autumngoblin]

Did you guys know she reads? She never mentioned it before. I wonder if she likes books? Thoughts??

 

[theMoth]

Guys I need to unwatch this thread, @gossip_guy’s Ruby impression is becoming my default internal monologue. Someone said something incorrect at work just now and my brain immediately went “um ACKSHULLY”

did your finger go up, too?

I dreamt about Ruby today. But I can't remember what the dream was about. I just know it was about Ruby.

 

[vwxyz]

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

She really has no taste. I checked out her Pumpkin Productivity website and she has the most disgusting nails including splintery nail polish in the video where she presents a product. How ...

 

[ExposedMattress]

I think our of all the UK studytubers Ruby is the least grown up out of all of them,

Ruby & Holly were always close together at the back of the pack with respect to maturity.
Ruby is having playtime in her parents van and cosplaying as a child

Holly is/was getting dicked down and talking about how she is craving physical intimacy

wonder what Ruby makes of it

 

[ariawyn]

I couldn’t help but compare her showing how she approaches a craft to Bernadette Banner. Ofc Bernadette isn’t a beginner so it’s not completely fair, but even jus the mindset - Bernadette is very meticulous with everything she does, whereas Ruby is more focused on half-assing it and puts more work into the busywork surrounding it than her, er, creation itself

 

[Eileen.G999]

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.

That was my first thought too in her mind Hermione is a Nick Cave fan so so is she.

 

[CatCafe234]

She’s really not been posting much. I imagine the impending ”traditional job” is quite anxiety-inducing after being holed up in her childhood bedroom for so long.

She’s included shots of Wuthering Heights a lot recently, so I’m guessing that her ‘traditional job’ has something to do with that book. English Lit teaching assistant maybe?

 

[VallegGirl]

I can't tell whether she's deeply in denial about her own issues or if she's aware and working on them behind the scenes.

I think she is aware she has struggles & challenges but I think she has been so cosseted she has zero idea and is very ill-equipped with regard to how to cope with them or work on them. I think her parents
were so proud of the child that was Ruby they & she have stagnated and neither party has allowed her to grow up. Her YT vids are frankly just embarrassing. I saw the short of her cosplaying Wuthering Heights. The way she read it led me to wonder to what degree she understands the core of the book. I feel that in many ways she is too unworldly to understand literature. Perhaps best stick with Emily Dickenson & leave Bronte alone?

 

[hart301]

You'd think that since she's such a huge HP fan that she had read some fics (or at least would have copied something 'dahrk macadamia'-esque) but it's all the same Matilda / Miss Peregrine 'gifted' child stuff

 

[DrinaM]

A much better preparation would have been to choose a poem at random, give herself 5-10 mins to annotate it, answer questions from a teacher/parent, then research the poem to see if her points are supported by the info that's online. That way she'd get used to analysing new literature under timed conditions. Idk why she did it in such a rigid way.

This is an actual great tip. And so much simpler. Ugh. No busy work needed,.

Yes. That giant folder she created for her interview was so stupid. If she followed your tip, she might have expanded her vocab and also been able to work around not knowing what the word 'brine' means. I feel a bit bad tbh but I still laugh about her asking 'what does brine mean?' in the Oxford undergrad interview. It kinda reminds me of something I was scared I would do in an oral examination, but thankfully I survived

 

[opal73]

Ruby being asked to speak anywhere but especially on behalf of an entire generation is maddening!

I just can’t imagine her controlling a class, especially if some of the kids are extroverted and chatty. I think back to my school days, my teachers had to deal with some really rowdy classes, it’s definitely not a job for the feint hearted. I couldn’t do it.

The class sizes at Pipers Corner are quite small but I honestly can see her struggling with students not being interested whatsoever in the material, as a teacher you have to learn to cater to different learning styles and make it interesting. I think she'll do her lessons with an air of superiority and won't know how to do this. At least it gets her out of the house but I doubt she's going to be interested in a career in teaching, she's just biding her time until she's back in academia and happy to be back at her old school imparting her "knowledge" on teenagers and getting to suck up to her old teachers.

 

[Mclindy]

From Australia, and I get that different cultural norms have an influence but the Miss/Mrs thing made me balk.

I use Ms/Dr because the titles are neutral. Would never dream of alluding to my marital situation in a professional context and would select Ms, if pressed. Seems super conservative to me (the sort of thing I encountered in private/Christian education growing up).