Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[inyo]

I assumed it was a video sponsorship deal with a company and not relating to a scholarship. The total cost of her masters (tuition plus a flat or room in Oxford for a year) won't be above £25k I imagine, which is more than affordable for a 23-year-old landlord.

 

[bookworm39]

I'm so confused about her planner. What is it meant to BE? A planner, a friendship book, a bullet journal, a commonplace book? It's such a mess. And it looks so childish with all those doodles.

 

[Rumblemumble]

Ruby: *fucks up*

Ruby: I slightly overestimated my watercolor capabilities

And then her another defense is that she didn't have watercolor paper lol then why didn't you just get one? why not practice? why not paint again??? why destroy a perfectly good book cover when you don't know what the crap you're doing??? Again, why not practice beforehand??

 

[cravencandi]

Only she's capable of having a reset from a holiday routine.

The first thing to do is "unpa-" She can't even do editing without cutting off what she's saying. "It's time-consuming to put things back because everything in my room has a vague place" Yes, for someone that's so into organization it definitely makes sense for things to only have a vague place where they go.

Why on earth is her diffuser sitting on top of what looks like an Ipad?!

I have never had someone send me a photo of them with me for my birthday. Such an odd choice.

Edit: her book/present for her sister looks absolutely horrible. I wish she'd give up on the book-binding thing. The books are great before she rips them apart.

 

[gossip_guy]

I’ve never seen someone so committed to ignorance.

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Ahh, yes, like in the game Cluehint. It was Miss Redscarlett in the librarybookroom with the candlestick holder.

 

[DrinaM]

As for driving: I´m from a city and in day to day life use public transport, so I rarely drive. However I think being at least able to drive a car is a certain life skill people should have if the circumstances allow it (ie being able to afford the driving lessons and other fees). I hope Ruby does finish her driving lessons and gets her driving license, it would be a huge step in the direction of reality that she´s not a 12 year old anymore.

I agree. As a skill and also holding a driving license, its part of being an independent adult in 2023. A person with a driving licence adds value to a workplace. Its also a nice feeling to know that you don't need to rely on others to get from A to B. Not judging anyone who chooses not to drive tho. Also, the anxiety in learning to drive is real for many people. I hope Roob sticks to her driving lessons and gets more independent...

 

[gossip_guy]

Ah yes, Anne of Green Gables, famous VEEEEGAN baker. No wonder her cakes often failed, there are zero instructions in this recipe as to how to actually make it.

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The extent of Ruby’s ineptitude and general stupidity is just baffling to me.

The recipe book thing is a shockingly shoddy mess even for Ruby, especially since she's no doubt gearing up try to charge money for this like her bad poems and crappy NAYCHA JARRNAL.

It's a small "RASSIPEE" book to celebrate "FYEEEDS" from literature. There are no instructions in half of them and there's no credit or indication of what book/series the food is from.

She's fucked up the punctuation yet again, putting a full stop outside a quotation for no reason whatsoever.

And nothing makes a food look more appealing than...gloomy photos of gaunt and ghostly Ruby and her dilapidated manor estate?

Also I can't wait for her to get nailed for copyright theft from about 12 different directions if she charges money for this. It's so low effort that I don't think her copying and pasting quotes or scanning pages of food quotes directly from books into a food scrapbook would qualify as a transformative work. Plus she's just copied a bunch of random photos from a Google image search without credit or permission. I'm assuming the recipes were copied from somewhere as well, wherever there wasn't a clear recipe in the book itself?

 

[emmer_moans]

Uni teacher friends of mine have said that you start to recognise the style of ChatGPT (same as you would when a student plagiarises somebody else's essay or uses material that they found online). It is just vastly different from what the student could or would write.
I now even see it for a Youtuber I follow, she writes reactions to comments with ChatGPT.

I wonder if in time, if enough students ask ChatGPT to write an essay about a theme in the same novel that the essay gets refined and basically exactly the same? Like, is the AI learning and if it gets enough questions about the same thing it starts to say exactly the same? I don't know because to be honest AI chat bots give me the creeps 🫣 I just assume that if enough people ask it to write an essay on class in Dickens novels that it's not going to come up with well formed, diverse essays, is it? I guess time will tell, but at the end of the day those students will be cheating themselves of the opportunity to think and write for themselves. I may have got a 2:2 in my literature degree years ago, but at least my efforts were earnestly my own. Could I have put more effort in and studied more? Absolutely, but at least I read those books and tried to think and write about them from my own brain.

Ruby needs to embrace this masters course and do all the reading for herself, and not rely on reading plot summaries in lieu of actual reading. Though I do think reading a plot summary after you've read the items yourself is fine because it's a good way to check you didn't miss a massive point.

I do think AI is going to kill off a bit of our intelligent and reasoning capabilities.

 

[Ilaariaa]

It's a 2 mile trip from her house to the school. Google Maps says it's a 6 minute drive, a 40 minute walk (by main roads, she could probably shortcut that considering it's all fields and country lanes there) or 10 minutes by bike, so a perfectly reasonable distance for her to get there on her own if it's a nice day and she JANUINELY LOVVS WALKING AND RONNING AND COICYLINGG.

And you just know there's no way she's tipping that driver for this pointless commute.

Idk about you but Google Maps is also pretty "slow" compared to my walking pace. Like usually when Maps says it's a 15 minute walk it's probably gonna be a 10 minute walk max for me

 

[Peony14]

I watched one of her old Study With Mes the other day and now they keep coming up in my recommended videos. One of them is a 12 hour study day (this was during school when she really was studying a ridiculous number of hours per day and not stitching together four days' worth of footage) in August. There is no need to do even two hours of studying during the summer holidays as a 17 year old, let alone 12 hours.

Even though it was her own choice, I ended up feeling a bit sad for her. She didn't really create the memories that everyone else did on school holidays, and she would've easily made it to Exeter to study English by doing only half the work she did in sixth form.

Honestly the only people in my highschool who studied over the summer were the ones who had to resit exams from the previous semester or were struggling in general. I really don’t understand what she gained from studying 12 hours in August…

 

[CatCafe234]

Love the replies as well haha
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Well OBVIARSELY that is incorrect because it’s a definition from the Cambridge dictionary and Ruby is going to Hogwarts AXE-FORD.

 

[crowleyskeeper1]

It’s actually very easy to change your course at Oxford at any level. All you need is everyone to agree and sign off on it. You might have to do an extra module or two that you missed while you were doing your original course and thus you might graduate slightly later but yes they let you.

I wouldn’t put it past her to change what she’s doing. I’m surprised she chose the MA she did.

Maybe that's why she hasn't done much of her course readings. She might not plan on actually taking those courses

 

[Griftwood]

Found it lol, whoever wrote this must be a fan because tacking a mention of Roobee on to the end of this is kind of like ending a nice three-course meal with a damp digestive. https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2023/04/30/emma-watson-to-study-at-oxford-next-academic-year/

 

[Rubber Duck]

Love a nice fake to do list. September 23 is a Friday, so either she’s on one of the many unused pages from 2022, or the new planner is indeed fucked up. Notice she’s planning to prepare for Oxford by reading a summary of The Faerie Queen [sic] as well as two articles on Spenser ”extra”, meaning she’s still not going to be working through the actual reading list

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Also love how 'Big todo list' is its own item, very meta. Plus how she puts a checkmark after it, but crosses other items on the list out.

 

[londongirl92]

The walk from her house to the school actually looks really nice too - you can cut across fields, etc. if I could walk 40 mins to work everyday (not that she goes in everyday!) I absolutely would! More proof that her persona built on these interests is just so fake.

 

[bookworm39]

Also, the one video you'd get from me, a 23 year old is "whats in my bag for WARK!" which is literally just my purse, medication and phone.

I'm a student and I also work at the university. During term time I usually have my ipad, a college block, something to write with, purse, student ID, phone and charger with me. For work, I need my work mobile phone and laptop. I use a diary for both work and uni appointments and to-do lists because using a Google calendar for uni and private stuff and Outlook for work got really confusing . But that's usually it. I can get tea and water at the office.
Why on earth would you want to drag a whole stationery shop around with you every day when you live within walking distance of uni and you have to attend lectures/seminars anyway? When I'm at uni I usually don't have time to write fancy letters, I have to either work, study in the library or attend seminars. She really does live in her little Hogwarts fantasy world.

 

[countcontessa]

Why does Ruby keep saying 'I suppose'. It's grinding my gears. She didn't do it before did she??

 

[PositivelyVonnegutesque]

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.

 

[gossip_guy]

She knows back to school content gets views so it justifies her making them. But resetting two months in advance is a bit much…

It used to, but that's not the case for her anymore. Most of the videos from her latest batch of recycled back-to-school content ranks among her lowest viewed content.

It says a lot about Ruby's basic intelligence and critical skills that she released a "RE-SAT" video less than two weeks ago, almost nobody viewed it, then she thought, "I know, I'll do the same video again...again!"

 

[emmer_moans]

I don't know if it's because of summer and that equals more revealing clothing but Ruby does look a lot more sicker than usual. I don't know how she's going to do it at Oxford

She's had a year of reading poetry and painting book covers and twirling in the garden in her night gown. She's going to struggle to cope will the quick turnaround of course reading and essays, isn't she? If I were her now I'd think, gap year over, now structure my day and do the readings and get used to doing work again.