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

[MissGGG]

I would love to hear about her dissertation and the research she's doing! Might actually make me watch one of her videos. It doesn't even have to be directly whats on the dissertation if she's worried about... something(?). Hearing people talk about their research is great, when someone is so passionate and knowledgeable about their particular topic

 

[Poguely]

I think she uses the royal 'we' a lot
I think she came across as quite happy in some parts of the video ? A relief from being away from the pressures of Oxford maybe

She was using 'we' because, despite her claims, she wasn't there alone. You know this because the camera was moving moves on its own while she was busy eating pizza with a knife and fork like a psychopath.

 

[qwikti]

Exactly!! Everyone thinks there's some secret story or meaning, when most the time it's cases like this! Like lets actually focus on the main discussion as now it just feels like speculation about a non existent relationship... a waste of time. Like who cares if she's in a relationship or not. It's not our business or care whatsoever!
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???? Nothing about her life is ‘our business or care’, though???? If you don’t believe it’s the case, that’s fine, and btw the bed thing wasn’t even brought up by someone who believes they like each other, it was someone else.

It’s funny for it to be dismissed as ‘not our business’ as if every single post in all 45 threads isn’t talking about stuff that is not our business!

 

[Hannahebee]

I guess she’s busy panicking over her diss, and it’s going to be a disappointment anyway, but I’m still going to ask - when are we getting a new video?

On the first video that she did for Trinity Term she said that she hoping to upload regularly during this term, but that clearly hasn't gone according to plan as we are back to her not posting any videos again and when she has uploaded videos they were filmed a month or 2 months ago as the morning routine video was filmed on the 29th of April, yet she didn't upload it until the 23rd of May whilst the iPad video was filmed on the 2nd of April yet she didn't upload this until the 30th of May. I get that she's probably panicking over her dissertation but surely she's still got the time to film a new video as it's the only thing that she has got left to do at Uni so I honestly don't understand why she hasn't uploaded anything.

I didn't realise that she posted on Instagram this morning that she is trying to stay off social media at the moment because of universtiy but that she will start posting again soon. To me that's a massive sign that her dissertation isn't going well as she probably doesn't have a clue about the topic that she is researching and writing about plus I reckon she is panicking about getting it done on time.

 

[ariawyn]

Gilmore Girls being out on Netflix also played a big roll. I saw it for the first time around 2015 because of that and now people have yearly autumn rewatched because it’s just so accessible on streaming. I’m guessing the revival also brought in fresh interest, even if the quality of it is debatable.

 

[FolderDuvet]

The only people who like eating raw mushrooms are people who enjoy farting a lot. Also TW for ED talk raw mushrooms are one of the things that appear on ”negative-calorie” lists, meaning they supposedly take more calories to digest than they contain, so it makes sense for someone cosplaying an eating disorder to pretend to like them.

Thats kind of disappointing. I really love raw mushrooms (and to date, they've not done anything in my digestive tract!) I don't eat them for ED reasons, I just think the texture of raw mushrooms is really neat.

 

[replace32titles]

I had to go and see how she pronounced Gare du Nord and discovered that apparently the Eurostar goes from King's Cross. I know the Tube considers King's Cross and St Pancras one station but if you go to King's Cross for your train to Paris, you're not going to end up in Paris.

 

[Binx]

"Umm...(smacks lips)....hah...ummm...syoo...umm...(waves claw hand around)...yah, syoo, ummm...(smacks lips)...umm...and as oiy say...ummmmm...so yah...(waves hands about)"

Good lord.

you can tell she's nervous

she's anxious because she can't control the narrative.. or the comments lol

 

[Sausage Surprise !]

What the hell have I just watched ! Ruby, you OK hon ?

 

[slamvs27]

I think we are all missing the point of Ruby's year at Oxford which was she got to pretend she was Hermione Granger....and that's it

I mean, she could've pretended she was at the Yule ball there haha

 

[Hannahebee]

I get keeping some for future children or just a couple as sentimental, but SOME not a whole library worth.

I honestly couldn't believe how many children's books were in that loft it was shocking to see as I was thinking why are earth have they kept so many that they are never going to read.

 

[Ilaariaa]

OMG I have just seen the wall what on earth has she done. To me it looks like she has been using ink, got it on her fingers, somehow didn't notice and ended up touching the wall and getting the wet ink all over it. That wall will also need repainting as I can't imagine the next person to have that room will be very happy to have an ink stained wall. If it isn't ink on her wall then how on earth has she managed to get it in the state that it is.

Usually it looks like this when you frequently brush against the wall with a backpack or something. My dad was always paranoid about by brother and I standing close to the wall in our entry way because of this lol.

 

[Griftwood]

also this could be confirmation that she wasn’t accepted for a DPhil?

 

[Tookster]

I finally got round to watching the video and yeah, it’s odd but I really think it’s Ruby’s/Marfa’s attempt at being ‘quirky’ and it just falls flat. I got the impression that there was some kind of brief from the sponsor about ‘listening’ and the pair of them just ran with it in a really strange direction. It felt like someone had done a mind-map about listening and then filmed it ... That and the audio quality is shocking, and Ruby’s overall affect turns quirky into vaguely sinister. I also find it really strange that she doesn’t seem to mention the sponsor at all, there certainly wasn’t anything in there to explain what they do - the video doesn’t fit the sponsorship at all. I thought sponsors usually had to sign off videos so God knows why they agreed to this manic pixie nightmare.

Could it be Marfa’s vision and Ruby has, perhaps unwisely, just gone with it?

Not sure why I am offering excuses

 

[emmer_moans]

Takeaways from Roobee’s Easter weekend content:

1) they’re a family of hoarders - she showed all the books that they were getting rid of from their loft and it was hundreds of what mostly looked like children’s books

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2) she’s broken out the watercolours again

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Blimey there are enough books there to serve a village library! wow.

 

[SharyBobbins]

Do we know what Blakeney does after finishing Exeter? I cant help but wonder if Ruby wouldn't be much healthier if she had stuck with Blakeney instead of running home to her parents and then chasing Oxford.

Ruby mentioned before that Blakeney is also studying for a Masters. I think she may be doing this at Exeter. She is mentioned here https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/sci/research/affiliatedprojects/pandemicpreparedness/ as a Research Assistant on this recent project.

I enjoyed this blog, Ruby came across as genuinely happy.

Edit: I had a nose around and Blakeney organised a children's book festival last year. She seems very hardworking and passionate about promoting the creative arts.

 

[Tookster]

Yeah I don’t think we need to worry about Martha Also her little car tour was the most personable and interesting bit in the whole video.

Not Roobee claiming she was being told in comments that letters weren’t real literature when she shared her dissertation topic in undergrad I don’t think I saw a single comment back then that wasn’t fawning, or at the most providing their own insights and ideas. But nooooo, everyone was telling her her topic was shit, essentially bullying her into silence this time around It’s pretty telling that she circles back to all the reasons why she hasn’t shared it over and over again in the video. She knows that she’s cobbled together 10k words’ worth of random quotes about garrls who wrote things on paper in the 17th century, fear of growing up, and fucking marigolds.

I read that as “fear of growing up, you fucking marigold” and I have decided that calling somebody a marigold is now a wonderful diss

 

[Griftwood]

My clock app looks like this too (but worse, with many more alarms at random times with cryptic labels) because I set alarms for different purposes and then never delete them so they tend to accumulate BUT I have adhd and definitely don’t claim to be organised

My alarm is set for 7:29 on weekdays and 7:30 on the weekends I live to snooze though, I set both of these semi-randomly at different times and haven’t bothered to disable or really think about them since waking up at some point in the morning is the main objective. So I may be slightly more minimalist but definitely not any more organised than you

 

[Poguely]

The fact she doesn’t even have the most up to date version of her own planner on her iPad… surely that would have taken a minute to download before filming this video

And the obvious lie that she’s just “forgotten” about ChatGPT. Also it’s so unclear has previously been sponsored in this video.

Not only that, but that her own planner isn't even have a short cut on the screen. She needs to open an app, then open a file, then open another file to access it.

 

[Ilaariaa]

On instagram, Jade claimed that this happened '5 mins before' the formal dinner
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Yet here she is wearing a totally different dress:
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It looks like it might have been the PR manager's dress? In which case, what was she wearing? How quick did this change of clothes happen? Sounds like the story has been exaggerated for effect.

What the fuck did she do to that dress? Did someone have explosive diarrhea on it? How do you fuck up a dress so bad?