Ruby Granger #45 "Um" -- Ruby Granger, 2023

[friendlyfire]

Two cardigans and bare legs! Make it make sense

 

[SharyBobbins]

I'm French Canadian, Scandinavian and Iroquois, my husband is Irish and English. We are all one happy family. This is why I found it strange that she never had friends of other ethnic groups or people of colour, or indigenous friends. I can't even imagine it that way. Interesting. Thank you all for enlightening me on the situation in the UK.

You're from a "New World" country where people emigrated to, you can't really compare it to Europe.

Also, how do you know the ethic backgrounds of Ruby's friends? Ruby herself has an Irish Grandma so she's at least as diverse as your husband.

I also second all the calls for another video, see what paths we wander down without one!

 

[Rumblemumble]

Okay, so there's a to-do list widget. Rumbster says she doesn't tend to use it because her to-do list is "mainly on Notion" lolol what about your dream planner??? that you say you use EVERY SINGLE DAY and can't live without??? the one you DESIGNED to meet your EVERY NEED??? can't do a single video without putting her foot in her mouth. How does it never occur to her smh

 

[FolderDuvet]

Seeing as she was in her University room at the beginning of the video my guess is that she caught a train from Oxford to London Marylebone, then caught an underground train from Marylebone to Kings Cross and then caught the Eurostar from St Pancras to Paris.

Actually, and god it's weird that I know this, in she shot after the one in her room at the beginning, that's not a Chiltern Railways train (the operator on the Oxford Marylebone line) it's a GWR train (Chiltern doesn't have the window blind which you can see the runners for, GWR does). So, she went into Paddington, which is what I would have expected anyway. The service into Marylebone is pants for onward connections because it's not an underground station.

 

[StatusWoe]

From what little she's shown, it's (big shock) about a self-insert Ruby clone in rural England who lives next to some fields. In a classic display of Ruby stupidity, I think the title refers to medieval fences (the book seems to be set during unspecified "olden times").

Oh no that's even worse. My mind went to Pacific Palisades because a lot of recent, popular YA novels (e.g. We Were Liars) have been about rich kids. I never would have guessed the title was referencing Ye Olde Medieval Fences. Let's hope there's more to the plot than 'we've lost our fence' because that doesn't sound very engaging.

 

[soph30]

Weird comment on latest reel

 

[theMoth]

I was playing Stardew Valley and the mayor, Lewis, needed Ruby. You can't even play a simple game without Ruby in it!

 

[Sibyl Vane]

I just had to post again zoomed in… why did she post this terrifying exorcist photo?! View attachment 2888138

erm...what the actual f*ck?

Smile (2022 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[sleepypasta]

All must rejoice. No tights with the outfit today. Ruby’s a new woman.

 

[gossip_guy]

Is it me or is the frame rate off in the clips of her? Not so much the other footage but the ones with her sitting at her desk

Yup, the whole video is screwed in about six different ways.

90% of the video is old B-roll footage pulled from other videos. She tried to adjust the speed of existing clips to stretch for time or to spice it up a bit and try to dazzle us with style and some frame-rate speed-ramping:

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/11124/111241908/7122797-7d8c916f-532a-4c34-a175-68feb55c4dc7.gif

But you can't just adjust the speed of existing time-lapse footage or fixed frame rate footage like that without it looking completely fucked. It needs to be shot at a high frame rate otherwise there's nothing to fill in the blanks when you slow it down and it looks stuttery, glitchy and awful.

For the desk sit-down footage, it looks like she also dumped in footage that didn't match the overall frame rate of the exported video, so there's skipped frames and it all looks juddery.

I get the sneaking suspicion that Martha edited this. It's just as incompetent as Ruby's usual abysmal editing but in a distinctly different way. Whoever did it, there's no excuse for Ruby never giving any slapdash shitshow of a video a second glance and just uploading it without hesitation.

 

[Griftwood]

New vlog is up! Gifted trip to AXATAR with Basst Frand Baloney, horrible sound quality and sweet pastries for every meal, not to mention ”lyrical” scripted voiceovers that you can barely hear half the time.

 

[Griftwood]

I thought the paintings she wanted to see (over Easter break, isn’t that what she was planning?) were in Paris. France better pony up with a sponsorship if they want Roobevelt to grace them with her presence.

 

[Poguely]

Idk about her but I would be very happy to be renting a place big enough for two people and be the only one using it for a full year because my runaway housemate paid their half before going away home.

Yes, but we're talking about living alone during lockdown here. It's not like Blakeney could just go out and do what she wanted. She didn't even have a garden.

 

[Whisper2Me]

She was flexible (and still is, witness her contortionist ”yoga” poses lol) but her trampolining consisted of her flopping around without much control. I think the whole gymnastics thing took place around the same time as when she was reading books about eating disorders and generally trying to make those (and later, ballet) into an identity. Most likely, she left all that expensive equipment outside to rot for the winter and if they haven’t been binned yet, they’ll be in the loft, waiting for middle-aged Roobee to dig them out in 20 years’ time.

She could do some basic skills, but she was anything but graceful. No straight legs, no pointed toes. She just kind of flopped around and I believe sprained her ankle in the process. Maybe even twice, if I remember correctly? At any rate, like everything else, she abandoned it and doing cartwheels and walkovers in your backyard at age 25 is not going to get you anywhere in life. Even professionals are washed up at this age and have moved on to marriage, kids and a career in commentating, judging, training or simply left it all behind. She's too late to the game, as usual.

 

[Green Lion]

YES whenever i see someone studying in a coffee shop i assume they’re being performative or procrastinating because i refuse to believe that’s conducive to any decent work being done seems very pretentious to me

I loved going to coffee shops whenever I had to do monotonous or boring tasks. Things that needed to be done, but don't take to much brain power to complete, like writing study cards, cleaning up data or organising literature. Sometimes I also went there on days I felt particularly unmotivated and it was either go to a café and get some cake or rot in bed the whole day lol.
But for ruby I feel like it's mostly performative.

 

[allthemyths]

I just had to post again zoomed in… why did she post this terrifying exorcist photo?! View attachment 2888138

I've only been checking in here irregularly over the last few months and now trying to get through the threads, so serious question: Is she getting more and more unhinged? She seems even more unstable than usual. The grimaces she pulls. I mean, er, hello?

 

[missmina]

She’s not the best student in tiny local school anymore so probably doesn’t have anything to show off

 

[Tookster]

I can't believe she's attended a black tie ball in that awful green dress...

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How can she get to her mid-twenties and still be that ignorant she doesn’t know what to wear to a black tie event? What does she wear to weddings? A tracksuit?

 

[bookworm39]

Did she really just spend ages on finding explanations why she couldn't talk about her dissertation topic?

And what's this mysterious Milanotes thing that she's never mentioned before, but suddenly is the best thing ever to organise your research? Has Notion been de-throned? Surely not!

 

[secretalphabets]

The lie squint is so hilarious to me. She looks at footage of herself all the time, she must know that she does this, right?