Yep, guess she's once again not part of the "inTAnDed DeMogRapHic". I think that "boring" is a perfectly valid criticism if what you're looking for is a good plot, interesting characters etc. But this book was clearly meant for more than pure entertainment. She's a literature graduate, a self-proclaimed avid reader who shows off philosophical works on her channel AND an aspiring Oxford student, so you'd think this would have been a great opportunity to discuss the ideas in the book or come up with something more well thought out than "boring". She's so condescending towards writers who have shaped the course of literature in her own country.
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That'll be the crappy Emma Watson eyebrow acting that she's clinging for dear life.When she reads out the passages of letters or other texts, why does she feel the need to lend some drama to it. Her eyebrows be going all over the place. Does anyone remember that Cadbury chocolate ad with the kids and the eyebrows?
I truly wonder what her personality would be like if she never laid eyes on Hermione Granger. She has no manner of speech of her own (Emma Watson/Hermione Granger), she has no personality of her own (Hermione Granger/cherry picked parts of studious little girl characters), she has no thoughts or opinions of her own (stolen from essays or researches of others), she has no actual passions or hobbies (performative stuff for the views), she has no connection to the world (hiding in her bedroom unless she is paid to leave it). Sometimes it feels like she barely exists.
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I'm watching the King Lear segment and I'm trying not to pluck my eyelashes out.
Roobie really does have only one formula for reviewing books: X didn't have as many Y as I expected, therefore X bad.
In this case, King Lear didn't have as many Cordelia lines as she expected, therefore King Lear bad.
She also shoehorns a useless point about how Cordelia would be played by a young boy during Shakespeare's time to appear knowledgeable. That's a fact I learned in primary school and I'm from Eastern Europe, it's hardly impressive. She can only relate to a book if one of the main characters is a child, what a tragic waste of an English literature degree.
Roobie really does have only one formula for reviewing books: X didn't have as many Y as I expected, therefore X bad.
In this case, King Lear didn't have as many Cordelia lines as she expected, therefore King Lear bad.
She also shoehorns a useless point about how Cordelia would be played by a young boy during Shakespeare's time to appear knowledgeable. That's a fact I learned in primary school and I'm from Eastern Europe, it's hardly impressive. She can only relate to a book if one of the main characters is a child, what a tragic waste of an English literature degree.
I'm feeling like her recent tiktok mostly the one with her speaking about Shakespeare's is her trying to come off as more intellectual as she is and if she is trying to act like a master student and come off as intelligent.
Just as I've just started my course and in the introductions I've got a few people who are trying to do the same thing , they boast about the languages they apparently speak ect and it's almost as if they are trying to act the part of a master student and be and intellectual. Like they might actually be as they make me feel like I only got put on a course to meet a quota as I feel so unintelligent to them as I work in a shop. projections aside, I'm wondering if this is Ruby trying to adopt a master's student/Oxford persona.
Just as I've just started my course and in the introductions I've got a few people who are trying to do the same thing , they boast about the languages they apparently speak ect and it's almost as if they are trying to act the part of a master student and be and intellectual. Like they might actually be as they make me feel like I only got put on a course to meet a quota as I feel so unintelligent to them as I work in a shop. projections aside, I'm wondering if this is Ruby trying to adopt a master's student/Oxford persona.
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.
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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.
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.
She’s probably applied for the course with the fewest applicants / highest acceptance rate to boost her chances of getting in
She always cracks out the "female characters were played by young boys" tidbit but never makes it into a point. How would this have affected the way that the audience viewed the character?
In As You Like It, Rosalind disguises herself as a man, so this would have been a young boy playing a young girl playing a man - so this would have had visual resonance for the audience and it adds a meta, homoerotic layer to some of the jokes in the play (not sure I've explained that brilliantly). Ruby just throws it in to make herself seem more knowledgeable as you say.
She also never approaches these videos as someone sharing their opinion, she approaches them as someone pretending to be a teacher or as a student doing a quirky class presentation. She states so many things as fact that just aren't backed up.
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.
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.
gosh i know it was already mentioned, but the dog howling in the backround - someone call animal protection services!!!!! if my dog was making this much noise i would not be able to shoot a video, business as usual, i would go check if the dog needs something... it makes me wonder how many other times this must have happened - the dogs are heart-wrenchingly howling like crazy and rooberta is in her room, completely okay, fine, not at all bothered.
All the Oxford English masters have a manuscript element to them, so we’re unsure of what course she’s actually applied to. Of course, we’ll know by March time (google search states that the uni takes around 8-10 weeks to process master applications) when we’ll be treated to either a bombardment of either OXFORD UNI REJECTION videos or the mindnumbing onslaught of:
STUDY WITH ME OFXORD STUDENT
DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN OXFORD STUDENT
MORNING ROUTINE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT
NIGHT ROUTINE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT
MY EXPERIENCE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT
(and that’ll just be in the course of a week!)
Re: choice of Exeter uni. Just a theory, I live in Scotland and have no knowledge of English unis but as others have stated she definitely wouldn’t go further than Cambridge, JK Rowling going to Exeter after being rejected from Oxford probably played an element in it also, and Exeter is still relatively close to home and as we saw she frequently hoped on a train back home (which wouldn’t been much more difficult for the likes of going to St. Andrew’s).
I think this is a slight overreaction
I dislike Ruby and her family but there’s no evidence of them abusing the dog (Lola I think is her name), dogs bark and howl at random things - yes she could’ve filmed at another time or told the dog off - but I don’t think the dog being loud equals to neglect. I grew up with GSDs who frequently would bark at nothing, it’s a common thing for dogs to do. I’m guessing the dog was downstairs with her parents and possibly the dog could’ve saw something outside in the garden?
Children's literature as an organised genre didn't exist when Pilgrim's Progress was written and there wasn't a concept of childhood. It would have been seen as a good text to shape young minds and I am sure most would have enjoyed it. The young March sisters loved it in Little Women. The Thomas Bewick section made me grind my teeth as Ruby didn't consider the historical context of the book, the importance of the engravings to people who may have never paid a thought to the birds around them before, the influence it had on ordinary people and future nature writers. Hopefully studying for an MA will help expand her critical thinking and research skills, I know she is young but she does come across as quite insular in her thinking at times.
- 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.
It was good to hear her explain her opinions more, even if I don't agree with all that she said.
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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.
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i was not 100% serious OF COOOARSE. i was purely stating this as a viewer of her videos - thet the howling was unsettling as it went on and on for several minutes. i was also a bit extraggerating with the animal protection service. i would not say they are abusing the dogs, i know dogs are sometimes very vocal about whatever bird they see outside lol. but it was not pleasant to hear them bark for several minutes, although knowing how lazy ruby is, i know it would be a bit too much to want her to reshoot/wait a bit until the dogs stop with their business.I think this is a slight overreaction
Even here she says “if you just want to sit in your university room it’s fine”… she’s really clinginggg to university 
or maybe she just wants to appeal to that audience
or maybe she just wants to appeal to that audience Ah yes, the two options for activities to do in your spare time at uni: go out to party or sit alone and read a book.Even here she says “if you just want to sit in your university room it’s fine”… she’s really clinginggg to university
It’s so obvious that she’s trying to make a viral tiktok sound there as well lmao.
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