Ruby Granger #36 Pumpkin Bread Activity

[Theonefromspace3]

Okay but is Marfa just plain... out to get ruby?

The post descriptions on both of these...

 

[ariawyn]

I swear it takes more effort for her to pretend to know about the books she’s clearly not reading, and to convince everybody she JANUINELY read that stupid number in one month, than it would for her to just…? Read? And then talk about what she actually read?

But I suppose that all comes back to her not being interested in anything meant for kids older than 12, so.

 

[Lovely_rita]

No way Ruby will learn to drive. Not as long as Mummy and Daddy keep giving her free taxi rides. She won't give up that sweet little deal.

Her "OBVIOUSLY" regarding magenta/green-gate is so patronising and arrogant. I feel like Roobee has a lot of anger and resentment in her. Just bubbling under the surface. I just get those vibes from her.

If she gets rejected from Oxford again her tea sets will get thrown against the walls for Mummy Bones to clear up.

 

[gisellejoly]

I suspect Ruby might be a little better at playing the game than Jack. I think that whole Emily Dickinson museum trip to the US was purely set up as content for her course application in an aim to tick the "passion" box.

Of course, if she referenced Erimentha like she must have in her first application, then game over.

Definitely agree that she looks better on paper than Jack. Not only does she have that collab with the Emily Dickinson Museum, she also works part time in the English department at a school, she did a summer internship at Exeter researching a poet’s letters, and I could be wrong but hasn’t she also had some articles published?

It doesn’t seem very impressive to us, because we know Ruby and know she sits at home doing nothing 99% of the time. But that’s actually quite a lot of English-related experience for someone a only year out of undergrad to have. Most people don’t get the chance to do any unpaid internships because they cant afford it or don’t have the connections, and those who do take on voluntary work usually have to juggle it with working full time. Quite a few incoming students won’t have any non-uni related experience at all.

Oxford definitely won’t care that Ruby is a content creator who sits on her ass all day (so hopefully she didn’t brag about that), just like they wouldn’t care if another applicant had to stack shelves at Tesco for 40hrs a week to support themselves. That type of information is irrelevant to them. All that matters is your academics, and your application might be helped and made more interesting by having a few relevant side projects. Oxford students aren’t all geniuses with huge CVs. Especially not at masters level. It really is just another university (albeit a prestigious one).

 

[theMoth]

yeah but imagine you are ruberta's sister, constantly subjugated to her hijinks. you want to go to the bathroom before bed - there is ruby, sitting on the toilet for the past hour, electric toothbrush buzzing in her mouth while she is reading, spraying her hardcover/ebook reader/ipad/whathever with toothpaste. you come downstairs to have breakfast and you find ruby mixing her gruel on the stovetop, banana smoothie concoction covers every surface, yet she has a book in her hand, flipping through it. you thought an evening stroll in the garden would be a good idea?? THINK AGAIN, because ruby of course decided it is a good idea to read by the candlelight when it's windy and below freezing. no place is safe from ruby and her reading.

and her parents: they want to spend a romantic evening in the garden and suddenly there is Ruby sitting in the darkness by a candle in the drug shed. with a book, wearing a Victorian nightgown

 

[figgypud]

Does she seriously think she's kidding anyone by choosing the cheaper pair of what is inherently a luxury item?

 

[VallegGirl]

I have a theory (admittedly I could be wrong) but I believe Ruby Lazy Bones may be keeping quiet about her job because she wants people to perceive it as more than it is. This is probably not a novel or even previously unmentioned thought here. I think if she said she was a teaching assistant or helped out with English this might shine a light away from the genius image she has crafted. I think a full out admission she works to support children's & young people's learning would actually garnish her some respect. I have mentioned before that I worked with many TAs in my capacity as an Allied Health Professional and the vast vast majority were amazing individuals who helped children & young people access education and facilitated their ability to reach their potential. I would scream it from the rooftops if I did that.

 

[Satisfying Click]

The one creature hoping Ruby gets accepted to Oxford is Lola

 

[Ilaariaa]

Also it is quite bizarre how often she talks about anatomical stuff like cerebrum, spinal vertebrae, epiglottis etc.

Ruby loves using the scientific names of things to feel smart. Not that she is actually able to use this knowledge in a useful way at all. She just memorized a bunch of scientific terms when she was 12 to show adults she's not like other children

 

[beaki167]

thank you, @LostGhosts, for including Quotes, it's hard to believe this is a real book anyway

 

[anakinskywalkers]

As I laboured
O'er the paypyrian pages
Bound by spires o' metallic twine
My quill halted its trajectorious flight
'cross the parchment.
The seagulls spiraled o'erhead
'pon a canvas of cerulean magenta
and voluminous clouds of cloudy volume,
their cawing cry rang out:
"Canst yee get one whilst yee can?"
I threw open the windows
and whispered with the hesitant glee
o' a Christmas morn...
"Indeed, my seagull friend.
For that which can be got,
you still can get."
He flew towards the horizon
his curiosity abated.
As was mine.

--Untitled poem by Ruby Granger.

gossip_guy vs Ruby Granger slam poetry war when??

 

[Ilaariaa]

So, reading these quotes LostGhosts so generously provides, I realized that she relied too heavily on similes (everything is like something) to make her sentences literary. And most of the time, those similes don't work because either the comparison is just weird or so very obvious that it borders on tautology. Now, her current writing is literally the same, except she avoids using like or as or whatever. So now she writes more ambiguously but with the same level of incompetence and unearned confidence. And I must admit I take her to be my inspiration for continuing to learn foreign languages. This girl is fighting for her life when she is using her native tongue, I am allowed to make mistakes with my English and German.

I feel like similes are very dangerous to use in writing because they can take your piece straight into insufferable pretentiousness territory very easily if you use them too much or if they are too complicated. Like imo similes should feel effortless and far between. Sometimes with bad writing you come across similes that really feel like the author sat there for 15 minutes thinking of that particular image, and then was very proud of it and smiled to themselves as they wrote it down, and it immediately makes me roll my eyes lol.

 

[gossip_guy]

Randolph has been posting weird-ass tiktoks in an attempt to seem quirky or feign having a personality idk… and maybe I’m just sleep-deprived but this made me laugh
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"Oiy johst wanted tyoo rip off sommone alse's oiydeas based on moiy nyeu JANUINE lovv of Wass Handington - HONNASTLY moiy favoratt diracktorr.

Oiy lovv awhl of his films, like The Regal Tinnypawns, Beetle Pocket, Oiy Love Dogs and The Fantabulous Sir Badger. But most aspashiouly, my varry myost favourat Wils Mandleston myoovie is Roshmwoar, which is like Matilda but with a boy, syo not as gud as Matilda but still varry gud.

Oiy JANUINELY watched all of these films boht moiy thwaots on tham are proyvit, syo please ask nyo farrther qwasschons. Boiy popular demahnd, oiy will gyo back tyoo making moiy yooshual contant of wrinkled clyothes oiy gwot for free in ondeclared ads fwaor Misspah Teena."

Isn’t there a rule about living within 25 miles of the uni for Oxbridge? Years ago, I thought about applying for the MEd at Cambridge and one of the things that put me off was the rule about living within a specific distance of the university and I realised how much more expensive that was going to make it. Maybe it’s changed post-Covid but that seems like something Ruby maybe hasn’t thought of.

Looks like it's still the case. Ruby would never survive.

But it would not shock me at all if Ruby and/or her parents just rented another home in Oxford that she has no intention of living in and did everything possible to get around this. She couldn't stay in Exeter for a full week, and that was a familiar place with her BASST FRAND, she'll break down immediately at Oxford.

 

[Ilaariaa]

The playing pretend as a waitress as a full on 22 year old woman is absolutely sending me

 

[paulpercy666]

Is there a possibility that she is colorblind? I know that there are different versions of color blindness so maybe she really can not differenciate between red pink beige and identifies all these as pink?

If she was, we’d know about it, because all of her self-insert characters would have varying degrees of colourblindness

 

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

Not even a minute into the video and she's already managed to mispronounce both The Brothers Karamazov and Dostoevsky.

I skipped through the video and my favourite bit has to be: "The whole book [The Queen's Gambit], her kind of the social dynamic is like a chess move in itself, which is kind of like which is why it's called The Queen's Gambit". She seems so self-assured spewing this unintelligible poppycock, it's beyond laughable. I guess child prodigy, chess afficionado Ruby Granger hasn't heard of openings and gambits?

 

[slamvs27]

Kinda OT but it's something that's been bothering me.

Her random runs throughout the day are so...weird. Like she does something, runs, then comes back, and onto the next thing on her to do list. She does this with her "ballet" exercise videos (aka flapping her arms about like a beheaded chicken trying to fly) as well- she never showers after exercising (it's not even on her TYOO DYOO list). It just grosses me out- after my run or any exercise for that matter I hop into the shower as soon as I can and change into fresh clothes. The only exception is light yoga.

 

[Larancia]

By the way here is the current hair density, it honestly makes me sad

Edit: Here is a picture for comparison from 3 years ago

(heres the link of the video where i took the ss)

 

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

Erimentha Parker Chapter 20:


Quotes -
- "The sun is watery amongst Byron's "cloudless climes" (this has a footnote for some reason) and warms my scalp as though it were once again August"
- "It is queer that barely a month ago there was a hose pipe ban; that barely a month ago, I wasn't scared to walk down school corridors by myself"
"Melody's teeth are chattering as she tries to revert her body temperature back to thirty seven degrees Celsius".
- "I agree loudly, my voice momentarily piercing the birdsong"
- "I am first and my serve, if I do say so myself, is nearly perfect"
- "For a millisecond, my head feels heavy. Like someone has filled it with paperweights. And I wonder how I've managed to keep this weight propped up on my shoulders. And then everything goes white".
- "One middle-aged man seems to have a broken arm - at least that is what I can infer from the deep bruising around the ulna bone. I am tempted to ask but he looks as though he is in rather enough agony" (I really was not prepared for how much i would be reminded of working in Orthopaedic surgery by this book)
- When in A&E talking to the doctor - "I thank her and she thanks me, complimentarily telling me that I am one of the most medically informed children she's met"

Ruby thought she was being cheeky with that cloudless climes reference but it's the cringiest thing I've ever read.

It's a reference to Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" poem:

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
..."
Wow Ruby, you're so clever for making an unrelated Byron reference for a character named Byron, how child prodigy of you! I've never seen anything like it!

 

[gisellejoly]

I winced when she said that she thinks skincare is mostly a placebo effect. As someone whose skin was drastically improved from a solid skincare routine, I'm gonna have to call bs on that one Roobs

I mean it all depends. A good cleanser, moisturiser and products you need from a dermatologist and you can’t go wrong but we’re increasingly being sold the lie that we need a 10 step routine and 5+ expensive products. At the end of the day skincare is an industry that preys on insecurities and want us to become repeat buyers. 90% of the skincare women buy is absolutely unnecessary and is essentially a placebo but it’s a nice luxury.

On another note, she’s absolutely lying at the beginning of the video where she says she watches YouTube every night for hours and THEN reads until way into the night. She definitely hasn’t picked up a book in weeks.