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

[missmina]

This is such an unnecessary comment but I wish she’d sort her hair out?? Like even just brush it properly before tying it up ffs

Worst part is her front is getting bald

 

[DanBanks]

I definitely get the impression that Ruby's had a big hand in fucking up that family and her parents have screwed both their kids up by mollycoddling Ruby and spoiling her rotten all of her life.

She spent all her teen years and university life throwing tantrums if her parents didn't show her attention. She made her parents drive across the country and back every weekend to collect her from uni and drop her off again and bitched and moaned if they were a minute late (even if she wasn't ready herself). She was sending mummy endless letters and making her send her pointless care packages to enable Ruby's childish boarding school fantasies. She had her parents taking all their holidays in Devon so they were near her while she was at uni (and naturally made them come pick her up to join them so they never had time alone).

All the while Mummy Bones has been writing bad poetry about marital rifts. Ruby's mentioned her dad sleeping on a pull-out cot outside in the summer. Martha's mentioned that she's often excluded from/forgotten about when family events/holidays are arranged and Ruby sneakily tried to exclude Martha from attending her graduation. Martha usually does thoughtful things for birthdays/Christmas and in return Ruby gives her thoughtless, low-effort crap. Martha also chose to move to Brighton rather than be anywhere near her family, which doesn't seem like a coincidence.

Maybe that is all a coincidence and maybe their family would be just as much of a mess if Ruby weren't there, but I feel like never being able to spend a second alone with your spouse because of the spoilt, attention-seeking overgrown baby sucking all the life out of the house and treating you like an on-call chauffeur/camera operator isn't going to help a marriage. And always treating a child like an afterthought and neglecting them in favour of a self-absorbed, tantrum-throwing older sibling isn't exactly a recipe for a tight-knit family relationship, either.

Okay, so do you think Ruby's actually mentally ill? Because being spoiled is not a mental illness. Neither is being demanding, entitled, or selfish. These are just negative personality traits that a person who isn't mentally ill could change if they ever had to. But I think there's more going on with Ruby than just a rotten character. I don't think she's capable of changing, no matter what the situation.

I suspect Ruby's had some sort of psychological dysfunction her whole life and has never gotten the treatment she needed because her parents are careless. And lazy. Ruby was a proper little student and so they didn't bother to pay attention to whether she was growing into a sound person. It was easier to keep coddling her than to address the question of why she needed so much coddling in the first place. Now they're stuck with her, and she sure isn't getting any better.

 

[Griftwood]

I can see the headline in a local newspaper: Victorian ghost child hunts children in private school

Great, now I have an image in my head of Roobee chasing 6-year-olds with a crossbow

 

[hart301]

It's interesting that many people on here seem to be into (classic) literature (myself included). Maybe that's how some of us discovered Ruby. I'd love to have another thread or separate forum to talk about books.

I think it is how a lot of people found Ruby tbh. I also think a bunch of people hopped on when the whole dark academia / Donna Tartt thing was super trendy during COVID. I admit I fell into her “academia” trap when one of her dark academia vids became popular. I’m not a “literature” person though (like RC Waldun, Jack Edwards, etc) but as a history student I found a lot of her stuff fascinating at first (the moldy trunk arc was what really got me to seek out if anyone else was taking about her )

 

[autumngoblin]

I don’t even mind the rustic, “lazy” or relatable way Ruby makes her videos, I find bright and professionally done YouTubers unrelatable (not that Ruby is relatable lmao) but I don’t mind “regular old joes” vlog styles.

Like early 2010s YouTube

but her videos have like no love to them anymore.
Her fake voice is what irks me.

 

[Ilaariaa]

she should have already started, according to the website term begins on the 5th

Does that mean we can expect a "week/day in my life as a teacher" vlog in the next few days

 

[moosesauna]

Spoiler: OT books

How do you guys find time to read? Seriously, i wake up at 5, study German, because i want to move there next year. Get ready for work, go to work, come back, eat dinner, shower, text my boyfriend and then im exhausted and just go to sleep by 9pm. Either there arent enough hours in a day or i dont have enough energy. Im supposed to start working out next month, i dont know how i'll manage.

Spoiler: "OT books"

i have no life Jokes aside I try to hide my phone for most of the day and set up time to read through the day. I tell myself to read 50 or so pages from whatever I'm reading, and I usually end up reading more than that! Picking books that engage you and not forcing yourself to finish stuff you're not enjoying helps a lot. When I had a part-time job and was working on my dissertation I had far less time to read, but I used books as a way to kill time when I was on breaks and commuting to uni or work.
The exhaustion does make it really hard to concentrate and sometimes it took me 2 weeks to finish a 200-page book - and i'm a fast reader! - but it feels so good to read that it was worth it for me. Try reading little bits as you're eating dinner or on the way to work (if you take pblic transport), though what works for some of us doesn't work for everyone and it sucks that it's so hard for people to fit their hobbies in with all of the stuff they *need* to do. Reading before bed can be a great way of relaxing and doesn't mess with your sleep schedule as much as doomscrolling does, so it's worth giving that a go on days you feel up for it.

 

[silent_browser]

lmao. As she goes on and on about snowflakes, I can't help watching the others who are absolutely disinterested in what she is babbling about and grabbing water, adjusting their clothes, looking all around, not paying attention to a single word. WTF with the claw arm? Can she not just sit still and speak in a mature manner? She keeps flipping her messy long hair. I can't believe she didn't even try to pull it back for a special occasion. And the slouching. She has spent so much time at her computer, crumpled over, that you can see she can't even keep her back straight for a full minute. Never mind her empty speech. People who quote others all the time have nothing worthy of their own to say. She is a train wreck!

When I read this, specifically about her posture, I had to go and look at the debate as well. This is terrible...when you're in a professional setting, you try and sit straight up, but she isn't even trying to do it at all. Not that it matters, but if she would be sitting straight up, she would appear more confident and probably better to hear as well. Maybe, it's good you can't hear her that well, though.

 

[londongirl92]

I wonder if she'll read this and delete some of her older/cringe videos?

 

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

She had a "chess phase" in 2021, but who knows, it might come back
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Judging by the way the pieces are positioned on the board, she knows not even the basics about chess.

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Laughing about these useless celebrity websites. The situation couldn't be further off for Ruby:
(https://datingrumor.com/celebrities/ruby-granger-boyfriend-dating-history/)
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"keep track of all her hookups and exes" I know these sites are utter nonsense, but they're funny nonetheless.

Ah, yes, starting with the king on the third rank, perfect!

Not putting a modicum of effort even when her image of a book-devouring genius is compromised is so Roobie.

 

[DrinaM]

Starting to think she's not emulating the "Granger" lifestyle, she's just using the name in denial that she's a pretentious, out-of-touch Victorian child. Nothing about her has Hermione in it anymore.

She's really branded herself tho. Even her mother's socials have 'Mother Granger' as the handle. They're kinda stuck with it. I wonder if its holding her back from growing up.

 

[Green Lion]

Ruby probably saw an advertisement of this panel and told them it was I good idea for her to join. Like she did with that talk at her (old) school.

Kinda wish I did miss this car wreck of a speech though

 

[StatusWoe]

It's true freckles don't smear if they are real.

They also fade in winter and get more prominent in the sun, so it doesn't make sense that Ruby's freckles look clearer in January than during the heatwave.

the beans on a pizza is making me feel ill

The beans and sweetcorn on the pizza...why would she ruin a perfectly good pizza like that?! It's not just her choice of topping, but the sheer amount of them. They look as if they're weighing the pizza down lol.

She made this, put it on and filmed it, and at no point did she noticed that it looked like Freddy Krueger had been let loose in a fabric factory?

This description

 

[rubysdeadfly]

As someone who's unemployed atm (graduate life, the economy is dying etc)... the 'boredom' is actually the worst part.
Not in the sense that you're a child who wants to go and play all the time, but in the crushing sense of failure, being alone with your thoughts too much, sensing your parents want you to leave ASAP and resent you but you can't, because you're priced out of even the dingiest rental house and nobody wants to hire you. It's being called 'lazy' and 'useless' as if it's your fault you're not getting hired instantly, despite the fact you're searching for jobs every day alongside cleaning, cooking and watching people your age seemingly live perfect lives because they can afford to travel the world on their parents' dime.

Ruby infuriates me sometimes because there's no reason she has to live this depressing life; she has more than enough money and support from her parents and could do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she wanted to go and live in London, she could probably afford it. She could get an unpaid internship in a fantastic career and still support her lifestyle. Instead, she stays at home and lives a childish version of the life a lot of people her age are living, albeit hers is entirely by choice. Seeing her romanticise boredom but not try to break out of the rut and use her resources to just, y'know, change her situation, is so damn frustrating. There's no need for her to try and make her existing life more interesting when she has so few barriers to creating actual change in her life. You know it's bad when people like Holly Gabrielle are having more exciting lives than her...

100% agree I hope I didn't come across as saying that I think all unemployed people live like she does. I meant more that she is employed part time and a 'full time youtuber' yet shes actively seeking boredom and things to fill her days with faux productivity instead of just doing her actual work and then having free time for fun stuff, instead she's intellectualising boredom. Also hope I didn't sound like I equate unemployed with being lazy, especially in the current climate that's just not the case. It's so hard to get a job atm that seeing her waste so many opportunities is so aggravating

 

[emmer_moans]

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.

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.

 

[CatCafe234]

Spoiler: OT

I was surprised by that also. In the U.S., the marriage status-neutral title of "Ms." has become standard for women almost everywhere. I think you'd have to venture deep into right-wing evangelical culture to find anyone still clinging to the old titles of "Miss" and "Mrs." Case in point: during a U.S. Senate hearing last year, I noticed that the ultra-right wing senator from Tennessee, Marcia Blackburn, had a name plate that designated her as "Mrs. Blackburn"...because of course she did. It's a whole culture war thing over here. Does Piper's Corners have any religious/ideological affiliation?

Spoiler: OT

Its C of E but it’s the kind of school where it’s all probably quite notional and very traditional - hymns in assembly, a Carol service at Christmas, a Junior school nativity for the parents to coo over and a bit of ‘good works’ with a Harvest Festival. Nothing too evangelical to scare the fee-paying parents, and definitely not religious in the same way as a US private faith school might be.

In terms of Miss, Mrs and Ms, when I was growing up you were Miss until you were married, then Mrs and Ms was unusual, and was generally associated with divorced women. I have always felt it a bit unfair that an adult man is just Mr irrespective of his married status, whereas as women it’s still typical that our titles are defined by our relationship to a man. Personally I’d prefer it if we could just be Ms but to a lot of people it has connotations of the angry feminist. I live with my partner and have no intention of marrying. I use Ms professionally but my mum still insists on using Miss whenever she posts anything to me

 

[Lovely_rita]

Roobee owns her own house?! Do you know what she does with it? Rent it out, or is it just sitting empty? She is SUCH a Tory.

The Bones parents must be even more irritated by her clinging like a limpet if she has her own bloody place.

Her parents are probably too scared to try and make Ruby grow up and get independence. She would probably throw huge tantrums, guilt trip the fuck out of them, and sink deeper into her own world. They have probably tried before and got nowhere.

 

[StatusWoe]

Nick Cave? Sure sweetie.

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

 

[exopolitics]

There is no interview for an English literature masters at Oxford afaik. I think it’s likely she will get in.. there is around 65 places per course and only around 75 applicants (that does vary by specific course though). It’s not that competitive providing you have a first. She fits all the criteria on paper…

Worth mentioning they do a Creative Writing masters, however! I'm looking at them myself... it's only part-time, but I suppose that may suit her better? More time to scurry home after a busy three days away from mummy and daddy.

 

[rubysdeadfly]

I’m still catching up but she can keep her ink stained mits OFF the Brontës, they’re my favourite, incredibly famous sister trio not hers although I would love to see her attempt at a Yorkshire accent