Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[theMoth]

Yeah, looks like she removed the description she lazily left in from last year, but the whole thing is still full of errors.

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Grade: D-

Must try harder, Rubert.

If I may correct your corrections:
"We are not sorry for any inconvenience this may cause."

oh and:
"However, our usual 3 working day delivery schedule may be affected, taking up to 6." 6 what? days, months, years, centuries? please specify. I know she means days, because earlier in the sentence it says "3 working day", but nonetheless.

 

[gossip_guy]

There seems to be a word missing as well. "The nature I kept" should probably be "the nature journal I kept". Two mistakes in one line on a supposedly professional business website.

She's screwed up the poetry pamphlet listing as well.

It's available for sale on the storefront, but she's left a note in the description to say they're sold out and she's considering a second printing, even though she's already on her third restock.

The storefront already has stock counters and shows the product as 'Out of Stock' when they've all been bought, so there's no need for this disclaimer at all, but her being too lazy to remove it when she's restocked, even knowing it's causing confusion for potential customers is Ruby all over.

She's also had people asking her about international postage since she first released this, now her response is that she'll do it tomorrow when the small amount of stock has sold out.

This is why I always find it hilarious when she moans about how she's SOCH A PRODOCKTIVE PARFACKSHONIST; in reality she's bafflingly disorganised and lazy, and everything she ever does is riddled with mistakes.

 

[Corneilya]

Okay, I’m going to go for it. I mentioned this in the last thread and I was still hesitating, but. Since other people are talking about Ruby being queer, I feel like it’s okay if I share my ~theory~ at this point, haha. Without meaning to sound creepy, I’ve had this opinion for quite a while (way back before I was able to register on Tattle), and I’ve discussed it a fair bit with my own wife too from a kind of… dorky informal queer anthropology perspective.

So here goes. Ruby gives me HUGE queer vibes and part of that is her obsession with childishness and being an old fashioned girl. One highly niche subtype of queer woman I have encountered over the years is someone who represses and internalises her feelings, who isn’t comfortable with anything around desire and sex, and instead takes refuge in these kinds of archaic identity boxes.

Sometimes these people do figure themselves out and retain the interests in a healthy way while accepting their identity (for example, collecting old children’s books as an interest isn’t pathological in itself). I can think of examples in both directions among women I’ve known - those clearly deeply repressing, and those who eventually accept and integrate.

One of the repressing ones was so like Ruby (but not an influencer so I can’t name her) it’s almost scary. She emotionally fetishised her own childlike qualities - she was still obsessively insisting that she’d been mistaken for a child when she was over thirty. She had an eating disorder and a host of other pathological behaviours and childhood-oriented fixations (many overlap precisely with Ruby’s).

I am not saying that any of this theory is definite proof that Ruby is a lesbian (or bisexual). I realise it’s her own life, her own sexuality, and that some people may be uncomfortable with detailed speculation. Part of why I decided to finally share this was because I feel like Ruby is the (awful) “road not taken” for me personally - that I was also immature, sheltered, repressed, and had at least a few similar traits. This is why I do still have some sympathy for her even though I think she does harm with her content. It was hard work to grow out of my childishness (my deceptively “safe”, sexless, “girl” persona) and accept I was an adult woman. But holy shite, am I glad I put the work in!

Even if I am totally wrong about where Ruby’s attraction lies and whatever it is she is hiding (or feels the need to hide from), repression and performance is never a recipe for happiness. All the gay men and women through the years who had to hide can tell you that. I don’t know why she would be repressing a straight sexuality, but anything is possible - even though my money is on queer, ultimately I just think she needs to stop playing the child. That way madness lies.

Somehow this way of putting people in small cases by creating a relation between their tastes/hobbies and their romanticism/sexuality reminds me the old way of thinking that every slightly tomboy woman ( or just liking things usually considered as masculines like some sports, beer, cars etc...) is a lesbian.
We can't define the romanticism and sexuality of a person based on their hobbies and style, especially when it's a youtuber used to have fake personas for the sake of making more views. Most of the time there's nothing queerbating, only people wanting to find queer elements in everything. That also reminds me this toxic trend when people used to ship youtubers back then and make fanarts of them doing uh... Sometimes not family friendly things.

 

[ariawyn]

I don't get why she thinks she needs two iPads, she's such a child at times

An excuse to then copy yet another to-do list onto another device, successfully spending another 30-60 mins doing nothing of use while kidding herself she's a cut above folk who waste time watching Netflix.

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

I like a good what’s in my bag but I always did. Ruby however is ridiculous as always. You need your water, notebook, a pen, lip balm, possibly iPad/laptop, relevant papers, snack, tea/coffee and keys/ID. Especially in Oxford where your hardly away from “home” all day! When I lived off campus I’d bring a backpack with like lunch and stuff as well as getting home was a bit of a trek (and I despised one of my housemates and liked to avoid making small talk..)

Ruby doesn’t need half of a Victorian stationers and apothecary.

 

[noodlehead1]

12. Looks at llamas. Llamas look at her. Doesn't pet a single one. Will probably be one of her favourite, most treasured moments of the summer....

Now I’m not usually a Ruby defender, but those were alpacas, and alpacas do not often like to be touched. Especially by strangers. I doubt she goes often enough or feeds them enough (ever) for them to become familiar and trusting of her. So it’s probably safer to not touch

 

[bananapeel]

I was already starting to wonder how she would pronounce Oxford after her corruption of AXATAR. The AXEFUD is making me laugh so much (why is it simultaneously sounding like an Ikea furniture piece?)

 

[coldestofspirits]

Ruby’s gift hauls are my favourite. Blatant consumerism! Unbridled embrace of her privilege! Shameless attempts to fabricate one flimsy, fake identity after another!

such a shame she didn’t grace us with a birthday one this year.

 

[anakinskywalkers]

If Ruby HAS found a faith, that isn’t something I will critique or make fun of her for as it’s a personal thing, and can bring a lot of comfort. However, as with everything she does, I can’t help but wonder if it’s just another notch on her performative “sickly Victorian poet child” belt lol

 

[VallegGirl]

Loke many of us here on tattle I work so I don't have time to fill my days with meaningless & childish activity. Prancing around the garden wearing a dress? That will be a no from me. Want to know why Rube the tube? I'll tell you it is because I am an adult not an 11 year old.

Edit: Just to add if you're reading this Rubes. Stop this introvert nonsense. You're making a career out of it and it's just irritating. You seem to think this some how makes you different or special in some way. Your activity choices sound like they are for someone lonely with v few friends rather than for an 'introvert'. I think you should ask yourself why you have (apparently) few friends. I would urge you to consider if this is because you present as insincere, superior and condescending.
Funnily enough most people don't like that. It's also hard to respect someone who purports to be so productive yet aside from numerous holidays has seemingly done so little of merit. You could have done so much yet chose to flutter your life away. No wonder you need to make videos about how to curb boredom. You probably are bored. I have a suggestion try reading material for your MA. Having done a MSc. (whilst working btw) I would say read as much as you can when you can. Time to pass those YA fiction & childrens books onto snother little boy or girl who hasn't been as fortunate as you. *hope those reading get the dripping sarcasm there - haha.

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

Seems as though she didn’t have any pumpkin so she substituted CARROT .

Crimes against food my god!

 

[missmina]

I don't blame her parents for the house not being sparkling. You get to a stage of life where it stops mattering so much. The amount of times I've scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees, and where did it get me? You don't eat off the floor. We're obsessed with cleanliness nowadays, largely due to Instagram and TikTok. Aspirational BS designed to make us feel inadequate and spend money on products. Which brings me nicely back round to Rooibos's content.

It’s not about a house being ‘sparkling’ or social media trends but basic hygiene.

 

[inyo]

All 9s in the sciences at GCSE and an A in A-Level Chemistry but has the understanding of a five year old. Classic Ruby.

 

[gossip_guy]

Alright, which one of you shit-stirrers did this

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These comments are SENDING ME!!

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In fairness, she has finally changed her duvet after 2 months. Unfortunately, she's changed it to her VARRY AUTOMMINAL PONKIN DYOOVAY COVVAH, so it's a given that it'll stay on there until December when she puts that winter PANGWIN BADDING back on.

The question is, has she finally changed that oatmeal striped sheet she had on there for 3 months?

There's a pale sheet of some kind poking out from under the checked flat sheet (which is still draped all over her dusty floor), but it's hard to tell if that's that same swampy sheet she slapped on straight from the packaging and left on since May.

 

[slamvs27]

"ACKTUALLY, I knew that! My finger just slipped when Mommy Granger knocked on my door and then I tripped over a dust bunny and my dog somehow got to my phone and pressed post!!"

 

[graceiona95]

The poor food hygiene is what bothers me more than anything else! I’m very sensitive to that and seeing their gross kitchen really gives me the ick.

Exactly, when she "washes up" dishes it's like she gives it a cursory once over and thinks it's good enough.

Also, they have a dog. Most people I know with a dog are brushing or hoovering their house AT LEAST once a day, it's like a full time job to remove all the hair. Idk, maybe the dog doesn't shed that much, but dog hair gets everywhere and I wouldn't want to eat somewhere I knew was never brushed up after a dog had been running about the place. (plz don't come for me I love dogs but you do have to clean up after them and I just don't see anyone in that house doing it)

 

[JustVibing]

Chris Riddell (or his management) probably think they are in contact with a 10 year old...

 

[Ilaariaa]

In France they offer it even in the lamest small secondary school and high school. It's usually the option that almost nobody wanted here, as it was view as boring but I'm still surprised that it seems something more like a "luxury"/private school for you. For us it's just like that weird class with three students.

In Italy you study Latin for five years at almost all "licei" which is one of the most common types of high school. I personally loved it a lot, especially working on translations. It felt like a fun logic puzzle to me.
I chose the liceo classico which is focused on the classics so Latin, Ancient Greek, history, literature and philosophy. It's actually a pretty popular option here

 

[Poguely]

She doesn’t have to focus on children’s literature - she’s proposed to work on girlhood, which includes older (adolescent) girls, and not just literature directly written for them, but also how they were depicted, whatever they actually did read, etc.

It’s a perfectly okay topic in itself, apart from the sad truth that Rubert isn’t really interested in it (not at that time). I could (but won’t because, as I’ve sometimes mentioned in other posts, I don’t want to help her) give further examples of the kind of thing she might read or talk about in her academic work. As a starting point, she’d be looking at the concept of a “girl”, and what that meant at the time (quite different to now).

I agree. I was thinking about how she even got into Oxford, then stopped to think the idea itself is actually really interesting specifically because there is such little surviving, broadly known information about childhood/girlhood from the time. If I was a tute, and I knew nothing about Ruby beyond what was presented to me on paper, I would probably select her as a candiate, too.

But, alas, her interest of girlhood/childhood is much more contemporary and self-serving than that and I don't think she has the study, research skills, or work ethic to pull it off.

 

[ariawyn]

God why do her nails remind me of the old school SAW posters. Yknow the ones with the severed fingers.