Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[Whisper2Me]

I would absolutely freak out if I saw my name plastered throughout someone's planner. I don't care who they are or how well we knew each other. That just takes on such an obsessive stalker vibe. Blakeney, beware! She is after you. I will easily assume she saw us commenting on how odd it is that she refers to her as her "best" friend, all the time, and yet only saw her once in the course of a year, where she basically had no commitments. She has been judged and this is her way of flipping it to try and make it right.

I feel like she is going into Oxford with the mentality that it is undergrad work. She is going to study only in September to brush up on her major. She has had a full year to do so, yet didn't do a thing. You are supposed to go into your grad work with a lot of knowledge on the subject. She has none. I honestly don't think she has any idea of what she has got herself into. I'm dying to find out where she lives, if she will be alone, is she bringing Mommy with her, will she have a new roommate who will become her next best friend, or her arch nemesis? Only time will tell...

 

[Ilaariaa]

Is there proof that anyone is an alcoholic? The definition of an alcoholic is a little subjective. Technically, there's a number to it medically, but depending on your culture, that could be normal. Europeans drink more than the average American, but I don't think Europeans are alcoholics.

It's all about your attitude to alcohol. Maybe you only have a shot of vodka every night so not that much quantity wise. But if you feel like you can't physically or mentally function without that shot of vodka then you are probably developing some sort of problem.
Conversely, I grew up in a culture where, until quite recently, it was pretty normal to drink wine with every meal including in the early morning, but people aren't struggling to function without it, constantly thinking about alcohol or getting black out drunk all the time.

 

[watercoloredfaerie]

Queer autistic here and I definitely have had infatuations with friends or just people I admired without it being romantic at all, I just… really wanted to be them. Lol

ruby definitely changes depending on the company she’s in but yeah I won’t diagnose others (there’s many reasons for that of course, even allistics can behave like the people they’re around because humans are social creatures and we just be like that)

 

[anastasia1989]

But then you need to live in an area which has the infrastructure for this. Ruby can’t live in her cottage because she can’t drive. The UK as a whole isn’t set up like this.

Exactly this. It seems lots of young people are choosing not to learn to drive nowadays, which isn’t a bad thing, we don’t need more cars on the road. But they live in more urban settings with public transport infrastructure. Ruby wants to live out her cottage-core fantasies and avoid people that aren’t her immediate family, but still refuses to learn to drive despite having ample time and opportunity. Now she’s a burden on those around her who have to chauffeur her around everywhere. She needs to either suck it up and learn to drive, or fly the nest and live in a town/city. The next nine months in Oxford doesn’t count if she intends to go straight back to the family pile afterwards

 

[Mclindy]

I wish there was a way to pin gossipguy's poo video so that when Ruby does something particularly infuriating in the coming months we can watch it to “reset”. I felt so at peace after watching it. Like just for a moment, everything was right in the world.

 

[JustVibing]

I really think the "be someone who buys coffee/tea" thing is just something she saw other influencers do and now wants to emulate. Literally everything she does is emulate someone else, mostly fictional children. It's really kinda sad.
I get why a lot of these "yearly goal" pages are set up as "I want to be someone who does xy". Its just this mindset thing to think of yourself as a person who does exercise instead of just writing down "duuh I should exercise more" and I think it can be really helpful. But in Rubys case it's just another incentive to pick fake identities from other people.

 

[Rumblemumble]

Rumbster claims this is her favorite page in the entire planner—because she has to have a favorite everything—but can't even be bothered to decorate it lololololololol lazy shit just brings out an old footage, from last year? her planner is the most basic crap that I can't tell them apart.

Rumbster is the biggest hater of this planner.

 

[Irec]

Christ, imagine being a fly on the wall while those two knobbeads are together.

 

[Rumblemumble]

The state of her nails at this point I feel like she's assaulting us on purpose.

 

[bookworm39]

What does she mean, she can't believe they're launching today? If she were really in charge of the company, she would have been in charge of the launch. She's been making these planners for years, it shouldn't have come as some sort of amazing surprise. She sounds like a little schoolgirl, not like a grown-up woman in charge of her own professional business.

 

[Ilaariaa]

I’ve never seen someone so committed to ignorance.

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"Another name" used where exactly? In Ruby's head?

 

[Green Lion]

Sorry guys I might have misssed it, but who is Blakeney again?
I think Ruby never told us...

 

[gossip_guy]

I know that she means "my heart is filled with air and not with the things that I once hoped would live there", but the way she's phrased it sounds like she's forgotten the verb in the sentence.

Also helium doesn't work here, she should have used something that links to playing dress up in the clouds to be the thing that lifts her up so that the ideas connect better - nostalgia, wistfulness, even a boiled-down object that represents those feelings - birthday cake, ribbons in her hair, whatever. The reader would have understood that it was acting like helium in a poem about balloons and someone who has studied English Literature and LOVS WROITING especially should know this.

I think her logic is that helium balloons are usually a birthday party staple, but it's still a mess of a metaophor to hinge a whole poem on.

At this point though, I'm not entirely convinced that ChatGPT didn't write this for her after she fed in some prompts. "ChatGEEPEETEEEEAAAA, please wroyte me ayyy sad pyoem about choyldhud, barrthdayyys and the fear of growing opp and not being as spashal as you'd hyoped, with a central mattaphore about balyoons thankyouplease." And then she just banged the enter key at random points.

 

[Green Lion]

It's very telling as to why her own writing is still so bad that she is still sharing this "write at least 10 minutes a day to improve your writing" idea. I don't think doing this without getting feedback and critically analysing your writing will do a whole lot to actually improve your writing. Especially not in macadamia.

 

[coldestofspirits]

I’m sure Emma Watson will have one handy.

 

[hellodarling]

"This is your sign to..." No it isn't. It's not my sign. The amount she uses this is grating on me so hard.

 

[ariawyn]

God I’d love a documentary of her wandering around the rough parts of Glasgow. She’d faint if she came here. Not least because she’d get called out on her bullshit if she started it in public.

 

[Mclindy]

She's the world's worst cook and has made a cookbook. Imagine if a cleaning manual is next.

 

[coldestofspirits]

Just for anyone who is interested, this link explains how people who have not studied classics before can still study it, even at a top university like Oxford:
https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/classics
This is only tangentially relevant to Ruby since she will be studying as a masters student (on one of the English MSt degrees), but it highlights how British universities in general try (nowadays) not to create too many obstacles to entry for students who didn’t go to private school.

There is a lot of inequality in our education system because of private schools (like the one Ruby attended), and it’s very hard to fix that, but there is also an expectation by the public now that universities are not only full of privileged people.

Ruby is kind of an interesting example because she has had so many opportunities but actually not used them very wisely. She could have studied many languages if she had wanted to! Latin or modern languages. Money is no object and she doesn’t have to work a real job. But she chooses not to pursue really educating herself further. As always image is everything for her. I am so curious to see how she will present her Oxford life.

 

[Griftwood]

Why is Rootabaga chatting with AI about the things her father gets up to in the Indian restaurant

or is drunk!Clare using her daughter’s account to write fanfic about her hubby, and how heavily do tomato soup armpits feature

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also my brain is now singing ”mummy don’t know daddy’s getting soused / at the curry house / doing something un-soupy” at full volume