Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[Daredevil]

Meet Emelia Sinclair, an enigmatic girl with a penchant for trouble and a brain sharper than a razor's edge. In the prestigious halls of Oakridge Academy, where dark academia vibes emanate from every corner, Emelia stands out like a black rose in a field of daisies. Gifted with unparalleled intelligence, she effortlessly solves complex equations and deciphers ancient texts with a flick of her wrist. But being the brightest mind in the room comes at a price.

Despite her brilliance, Emelia is relentlessly bullied for being "too smart" by her fellow classmates. They mock her, taunt her, and spread rumors about her alleged superiority. As a result, Emelia, with her quirky personality and love for unusual hobbies, often finds solace in the library, surrounded by dusty old tomes and the scent of aged parchment.

Emelia's relationship with her mummy is a peculiar one. Mrs. Sinclair, a stylish woman with a penchant for cocktail parties, holds the title of the "Classiest Drunk" in the neighborhood. Despite her indulgence in alcohol, she maintains a quirky, unpredictable demeanor that both fascinates and perplexes those around her. Mrs. Sinclair is somewhat accident-prone, having a knack for tripping over her own feet and collecting bizarre bruises, which she wears like badges of honor.

One evening, after a particularly challenging day at school, Emelia retreats to her eccentric bedroom filled with antique curios and a creaky four-poster bed adorned with a black canopy. Her mummy gifted her a peculiarly shaped candlestick, and in a fit of frustration, Emelia decides to light it, seeking solace in its warm glow.

Emelia recalls an old story she once read about a hidden compartment within her candlestick. With a mischievous grin, she turns the candlestick at exactly forty-five degrees, just as the tale described. To her surprise, the bottom of the candlestick twists open, revealing a tiny, rolled-up parchment. The parchment contains cryptic symbols and a faded map that points to a secret location within Oakridge Academy.

Intrigued by the mystery, Emelia embarks on a clandestine investigation, enlisting the help of her closest friend, the school's eccentric librarian, Mr. Hawthorne. Together, they decipher the ancient symbols, slowly unraveling a web of secrets and deception hidden within the very walls of their school.

As Emelia delves deeper into the enigma, she discovers a dark academia society operating in the shadows, manipulating events to maintain an iron grip on Oakridge Academy. Uncovering the secrets of this clandestine group, Emelia realizes that her superior intellect has made her a target, and the bullies at school might be just the tip of the iceberg.

With danger lurking around every corner, Emelia must navigate a treacherous path, balancing her innate curiosity with the need to stay hidden from those who wish to silence her. Along the way, she learns the true value of friendship, the strength in embracing her uniqueness, and the power that comes from accepting her flaws.

 

[TiredCapricorn]

I know the timeline hijinks aren't surprising or noteworthy at this point, but I swear around 5 minutes into the new video, she shows her chipped blue nails, then shows footage of her repainting her nails the same blue shade, and calls this a 'slight interlude' before she moved on to tidying her room - at which point in the footage her nails are white, and chipped (again)? I feel like I'm actually losing my mind after that...

 

[nobluefrogs]

You can see a quick flash in the new video what her book may be called, when she's editing her notion page. Looks like she's on draft four, dark academia... maybe a TSH fan fiction on the horizon?

Side-note, but it baffles me how much information (file names etc) you can see on her computer when she records her screen. Wouldn't you want to edit out or blur things that clearly aren't intended to be visible? She's gonna leak her own work eventually

 

[Griftwood]

Imagine picking what weather you go out in I walk everywhere and if I have an errand to run or somewhere to be, I’m not going to wait for my FYAYVURIT WHATHARRR to get going. ”We” don’t need to normalise anything, little Miss Takes-a-Taxi-to-Work, it’s you who needs to understand the full extent of your privilege.

also OT pens TWSBI 580 and the Hobonichi pen.

 

[sleepypasta]

I mean you only have to look at various reviews to see how bad Evri is as a company and she has the same problems with the planner every year but does nothing to rectify the situation.

Literally every year this happens and she doesn’t have the hindsight to release the planners at least a month earlier. It’s bad business practice and honestly at this point I don’t feel even feel bad for her like I used to when the planners first launched.

And another point, she has followers in the US. Here most people go back to school/college in mid August if not early September. If I were to have bought her planner it wouldn’t even be here in time for classes. If she launched it earlier then it would for sure get delivered in time for both US and Europe people.

 

[Poguely]

I don't think there's even anything wrong with Ruby. She's just playing a character that her YouTube references to.
Only thing is her actual personality may have become the character at this stage as well.

She has some severe mental health issues and has for years. She's not open about it, but sometimes she will throw in a random comment or be too lazy to edit something out that lets you know she is completely nuts. Like her phobia of being home alone or the unhinged 'I am an author' monologue.

What is an act is her 'I'm such a shy, nice, workaholic perfectionist' personality. In reality, she is a lazy, passive-aggressive, manipulative, insecure little snob. Reading isn't her favorite hobby, having her massive ego stroked is.

Let us never forget that the leaked videos of her university assignments proved that she unironically goes by Ruby Granger in real life too.

 

[gossip_guy]

Actually now that I think about it, a masters in creative writing might have been a good choice for Ruby. Doing a well established MFA in creative writing has helped a lot of authors get their first book published.

I think she'd fail out pretty quickly if she were doing a Masters in Creative Writing. She has no talent and no desire to improve, plus a bigger emphasis on having to produce independent, original creative work would do her zero favours. She'll struggle enough with general essays/a dissertation without the benefit of Blakeney to carry her and lecturers holding her hand.

I seem to recall she got her lowest grades at Exeter for Creative Writing, and that was with their generous grade inflation. She wouldn't get far handing in a stack of bad poems about the weather and being TWALVE AGANN at Oxford.

I think she's still operating under the assumption that a book deal will happen magically if she just keeps handing misunderstood works of precocious genius terrible, half-assed, ripped-off first drafts to her agent.

 

[gossip_guy]

"Pay attention to when you work most productively" Aye, right. So how do I do that when I work 5 days a week and have to schedule in study time around my shifts at work? Urgh.

"We awl have days whahhr wahhrk gats in the way of waahrk, bot it's impwortant tyooo remambah tyooo awhlwheys wahhrk while you're waahrking at waahrk, than whan yoo finish waahrk, you can dyoo mwoar waaarking on yore waahkr after waaarhk bafwore waaahrk."

 

[Whisper2Me]

What do you think will be her next back-to-school video?

1. What is in my pencil bag
2. What is in my school bag
3. Preparing for back to school
4. Back to school preparations
5. Setting up my planner for back to school
6. Study tips for back to school
7. Necessities for back to school
8. My night before back to school routine
9. My morning back to school routine
10. My evening back to school routine
11. My night time back to school routine
12. I can't make friends and am lonely back at university/there were tears
13. My first marks back at university and what I did wrong
14. Dark Macademia with Ruby back at school routine
15. We need to normalize back to school routines routine

 

[Whisper2Me]

What do you think will be her next back-to-school video?

1. What is in my pencil bag
2. What is in my school bag
3. Preparing for back to school
4. Back to school preparations
5. Setting up my planner for back to school
6. Study tips for back to school
7. Necessities for back to school
8. My night before back to school routine
9. My morning back to school routine
10. My evening back to school routine
11. My night time back to school routine
12. I can't make friends and am lonely back at university/there were tears
13. My first marks back at university and what I did wrong
14. Dark Macademia with Ruby back at school routine
15. We need to normalize back to school routines routine

I called it. Video for #5 is up. She is so boring and predictable!

Also, the fact that she didn't know what a candlestick is shows her narrow vocabulary skills, which will not do her any favours in school, nor in writing anything worthwhile. Does she even know the difference between a candlestick, votive, pricket, Menorah, candelabra, hurricane, dish, sconce, lantern and chamberstick, to mention only a few? Rubbish, you don't impress me, at all! After a full year off, maximal travelling and opportunities to brighten up, you are as dull as a low burning dip.

 

[TaurusWithLove]

Her company* has a net worth just shy of 200k (and she's renting out her cottage)...
*company is just her though I believe

Spoiler: Balance sheet

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I can’t imagine her as a landlady, mainly because of how childish she can be. I bet Daddy Bones deals with the property/tenants and gives Ruby the for being so productive

 

[inyo]

This is how I did my undergrad. I qualified to study Law (which my family really wanted me to do) but I didn't believe in myself and also believed it would be a stressful course. So did undergrad Arts, (Lit Major) instead. Was able to do classes that were common to the Law and Arts courses. When I had enough confidence in myself, I was able to either transfer to Law or continue in Arts and get credit for classes taken in Law. So I ended up completing the full undergrad Arts degree and an extra 18 months completed the Law degree, graduating in 5 years with a double degree. I wonder if she can/will do something similar? Masters is different and I did my above mentioned undergrad at an Australian university, so not sure if that was Roob's plan all along?

I assume a PhD is next on her checklist, so she could use the excuse that she knows her masters is in early modern literature but having the opportunity to study Victorian or American literature for her optional classes made her realise that's what she wants to specialise in. Or else she'll do a second masters in Victorian or American literature to avoid confronting proper adulthood for another year...

 

[Ilaariaa]

I feel like she keeps saying "over the summer" because she still associates summer with student holidays. Anyone working outside of education wouldn't necessarily always have leave during the summer for long periods (especially at the beginning of one's career). She obviously has too much time on her hands and doesn't know what to do with herself.

Right? Does she think people at regular jobs get summer holidays like schoolkids do? As the newbie at my office I get a whopping 5 days of summer holidays. In September. Crazy isn't it?

 

[georgiatheolivegirl]

Watched the new video and… for someone who’s headed to Oxford, and who thinks she is the brightest witch twalve yarr old young woman of her time, and constantly talks about how well-read she is, that is some spectacular example of how not to use the word “tentative” in a sentence. Does she have any idea what words mean?

 

[Hannahebee]

This is how you know she has too much time on her hands. Ruby, read your set texts for your upcoming Masters! Get ahead of the reading while you can!!

As soon as I finished my undergraduate degree I was immediately reading my set texts for my masters degree in Psychology as I had to learn things that I had never studied before: for example I had to learn about Quantitative and Qualitative Research and what the differences were between them, I had to learn how to use a programme called SPSS, I had to learn about typical and atypical development, I had to read up about Thematic Analysis as I had to use this in both my dissertation and one of my modules that I took, I had to learn how to develop research questions and hypotheses and I had to study many theories and models that I had not learned about in my undergraduate degree. In the end it definitely helped that I got ahead in my reading as it gave me a wider breadth of knowledge and it helped me gain more insight as to how the different theories and models worked in practice and in real-life situations.

 

[whateverandanything]

ChatGPT will give a passable summary of a novel for example, and can list things such as main themes, but if you ask it to produce actual text, it’s very generic and there will be errors mixed in with facts, and it’s hard to tell the difference unless you know the subject. I’ve used it a little for background work (for example, I asked it to summarise a novel I didn’t have time to read for a paper I was writing on theory, so I didn’t actually use anything AI produced in my writing, only the background process) but I wouldn’t rely on it to any significant extent. (I also asked it to write me a pattern for a knitted elephant, and it basically gave me instructions for knitting a tube with three holes for ”legs”, and a cuboidal trunk.)

I use it to find small errors in code I write, it saves a ton of time. But I wouldn't trust it with anything major. but finding a syntax error is pretty straight forward for a machine.

 

[VallegGirl]

Been absent from tattle for awhile had a tough few months "me and mr scapier have separated "ut on small human girls birthday evening I thought I would pop on to say why Ruby still playing happy post grad got a job whilst living at home.
Where are the getting ready for uni vlogs eg what I learnt you don't need to pack for uni as a graduate

Sorry you've been having a rough time. I hope you & your girls are doing OK.

Re: RG tattle. Honestly it's the same old same old when it comes to Rube the tube. She remains all posture & pretence. She hasn't posted much on getting into Oxford really.

I get the feeling as to others she's trying to get together a cookery book and some kind of poor man's version of 'A diary by an Edwardian Lady'. The original was well illustrated and well written. Ruby's as of it was written by an 11 year old to proudly show teacher. I would urge anyone who decides to buy it to remember to re-cycle it after use.

We should probably all prepare ourselves for a barrage of Oxford-centric videos. Each one I shall be delighted to click not interested. That's not even been unkind. I'm not interested in a 23 year old posing as a teen in a bid to stay relevant with young people five or more years her junior. Ruby is, imo, a complete sham.

 

[coldestofspirits]

@Redrose97 I did the equivalent course at Cambridge and know a lot of people who have done Ruby’s course, so that’s what I’m basing it on. She definitely gives a highly delusional and false idea of what this kind of course is like. I’m just not sure how much of that is intentional lying (ie she does actually know the reality but wants to mislead viewers for some reason), and how much is her being too arrogant to get a clue about what lies in store. We know she (at least periodically) reads Tattle - she may not read here all the time, of course. But I’ve commented about the MSt on here before so if she’s reading the threads at all regularly she will have seen it. I hope she does know what it’s going to be like because - even being as awful as she is - I can’t bring myself to actively wish that she hates the course and has a horrible time. That just seems like a waste of a place (even more than it is anyway…).

The Bod is an exceptional resource for early modern literature so she would be well placed to take advantage of that if she cared to - plus most of the older colleges have their own private holdings that you can request permission to access. It’s a shame she just isn’t into the period she’s studying.

 

[Alix]

None of the prep for uni was about actually doing reading for her Masters....

She might be doing it, but doesn't want anyone to know. That way she can later pretend she's a little genius who didn't have to do any prep...

 

[LitNerd]

Why was one of her aims to submit something to a publisher once a week? Just a surefire way to get a restraining order

Im still catching up so apologies if anyone’s already mentioned this, but if she literally wrote / said “submit something to a publisher” just demonstrates how little she knows about what is apparently her “dream” industry. Anyone who’s even googled UK publishing knows that you NEVER send anything in terms of writing / manuscript etc directly to the publisher, you send things to agents who are open to submissions - I know some smaller publishers do have direct submission slots but they are normally very genre specific or only open to minority groups of writers. Even if she means that she’s asking her agent to submit something each week, her agent needs to have a serious chat with her / isn’t worth their own salt because that’s just not how the industry works! It’s quality over quantity, keep the same thing on submission for a round or two with edits based on feedback but know when to let an idea go and move on, rather than quickly creating so many little, lower quality ideas that are just going to waste everyone’s time… oh wait I just remembered who were talking about

And thank you for coming to my “Ruby really annoys me whenever she talks about books / publishing as someone who works in publishing” Ted talk