Ruby Granger #46 Actively making time for boredom

[pwned]

@gossip_guy : Thanks so much for these references. <3 I remember skimming that essay and thinking someone must have proofread it for her (despite the lack of focus), but I'll take another look. Pretty much anything can get published; best not to do it if it's bad, though. You can't exactly unpublish anything . . .

I don't mean to be overly critical of someone just starting out in their "career," but I really can't stand this person giving out wrong information and pretending to have authority after 9 months of a paid master's degree. It might be different if she weren't wrong so often, or if she didn't pretend to know everything. The other part of me wonders where she gets this confidence. At the beginning of my career, I wouldn't have been caught dead posting videos online about anything, because I knew what I didn't know yet. And now, much further along . . . I'm still not going to do it. The one thing I would like to do is discuss methodology and encourage people to develop ways of finding innovative, creative topics for various types of academic work. But I want to be more established before putting myself out there with that. For me, it would be about the fun of helping other people brainstorm and discuss interesting topics related to their work, not showing off what I "know."

I just find it hard to believe that she would receive high marks with an unoriginal master's thesis, but I'm not in her field, so perhaps it is possible. I wonder how much she got out of The Fairie Queene with her tenuous grasp of history. I know it's wrong for me to say/feel this, but I also wish I could gatekeep Milton from her. I'll work on being patient and tolerant again . . .

 

[Givemethetea]

So basically she’s studying for nothing no good reason- basically to try and gaslight us into thinking she’s doing more than being sat at home unemployed for the year?

 

[Whisper2Me]

Started watching the vlog, left when she started chewing the tea to discern the taste. No thank you. Saw that behaviour years ago with you, Rubbage. Not interested in it again.

 

[gossip_guy]

The extent of the "studying" in the next video is just Ruby copying a study guide plot summary of Milton's Comus from place to another and adding purple prose to it.

She claims this is her writing a "retelling" of it. Ripping off A Good Girl's Guide to Murder didn't work, nor did ripping off Lemony Snicket or His Dark Materials, so she's evidently pivotting to trying to imitate The Song of Achilles/Circe 4 years too late.

Expect her to assault her agent's inbox with yet another slapdash, ripped-off manuscript any day now. No doubt she'll lazily reword Comus so that the main character is a 12-year-old child prodigy who is abandoned in the woods by her family for being too intelligent. There, she must avoid the temptation of drunk woodland teens trying to lure her from the path of productivity with their demon ethanol.

 

[Griftwood]

One of my biggest pet peeves with her is that whenever she says ”I’ll link it below,” you can be sure she won’t. She makes a big show of supporting small businesses or sharing resources, but then doesn’t actually follow up at all. The only times in recent memory that she’s actually linked to anything have been the time she mentioned her thesis supervisor’s work (”Diane essay on marriage” never forget, she’s such a suck up lol), and her previous Booktok shitshow video, which I’m sure she’s going to try and pass off as research for her PhD application so she had to disclose the sources she cobbled it together from. Other than that, she’s mostly still using her bio from a year ago - this is from the ”preparing for the new year” video:

She’s starting her Master’s in AXEFUD, has just finished her book ”as you can see in this video”, and is promoting her book club on Fable (the new one, not the one on Discord that she abandoned years ago) that hasn’t seen any activity since last October.

 

[noodlehead1]

This made me super nervous as we know how clumsy she is. Although I’m sure she can afford to replace anything she spills water on. However I would feel bad for her mum if she breaks the mug she got her.

 

[emmer_moans]

She's really not happy about the Shakespeare books been annotated is she despite the fact that she does it herself.

I think she only performatively bought the second hand book because she showed the clip of her purchasing it in her preparing to learn video. I bet she wishes she had bought it 'new'.

 

[Givemethetea]

Why does she buy the books second hand? Is there a reason? Not like she can’t afford them new

 

[StatusWoe]

Rain and stoddying! How very exciting!

The sound of the coffee machine at 1:43 was such a jump scare. I was listening to the piano music and then BRRRRRR.

 

[gabbysolis]

Why does she buy the books second hand? Is there a reason? Not like she can’t afford them new

It’s more ahnvironmantally frandly

 

[Arya2231]

Why does she buy the books second hand? Is there a reason? Not like she can’t afford them new

maybe she wants us to think that she is not buying useless stuff, cares about the environment and isn't a victim of consumerism lol

 

[bknd32]

One of my biggest pet peeves with her is that whenever she says ”I’ll link it below,” you can be sure she won’t. She makes a big show of supporting small businesses or sharing resources, but then doesn’t actually follow up at all. The only times in recent memory that she’s actually linked to anything have been the time she mentioned her thesis supervisor’s work (”Diane essay on marriage” never forget, she’s such a suck up lol), and her previous Booktok shitshow video, which I’m sure she’s going to try and pass off as research for her PhD application so she had to disclose the sources she cobbled it together from. Other than that, she’s mostly still using her bio from a year ago - this is from the ”preparing for the new year” video:

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She’s starting her Master’s in AXEFUD, has just finished her book ”as you can see in this video”, and is promoting her book club on Fable (the new one, not the one on Discord that she abandoned years ago) that hasn’t seen any activity since last October.

I’m so embarrassed by the ‘Diane essay on marriage’. Reference that properly, esp if it’s your supervisor she’s so lazy and yet has all the time in the world to perfect these things.

 

[CatCafe234]

I’m so embarrassed by the ‘Diane essay on marriage’. Reference that properly, esp if it’s your supervisor she’s so lazy and yet has all the time in the world to perfect these things.

I’m mildly embarrassed by that essay Gossip Guy linked to earlier which starts by proclaiming that Emily Dickinson wrote from her bedroom in ‘Puritan Amherst’. Perhaps my historical knowledge is incorrect but I’ve never seen the 19th century described as ‘puritan’ before, even in New England …

 

[secretalphabets]

Why does she buy the books second hand? Is there a reason? Not like she can’t afford them new

With all her rambling about books as objects I think she just really likes old books as an aesthetic. It fits her image as a True Bookworm more than a brand new paperback she picked up at Sainsburys. She buys first editions just to yeet them into her backpack and read them in the rain because she's sooo quirky and precocious.

 

[Corneilya]

Why does she buy the books second hand? Is there a reason? Not like she can’t afford them new

Because it looks old and used. And if her books looks used, people will think it's by herself, she'll look more responsible, serious and there's still the trend of second hand. And that's how something which was useful for people with little money become the playground of young bored rich girls. It was already the cases for second hand clothes and accessories.

 

[bookworm39]

Because it looks old and used. And if her books looks used, people will think it's by herself, she'll look more responsible, serious and there's still the trend of second hand. And that's how something which was useful for people with little money become the playground of young bored rich girls. It was already the cases for second hand clothes and accessories.

I know! It's annoying, that's why the prices in second-hand shops and on platforms like Vinted and Depop have become so insanly high.

 

[roobee]

she is such a pseud lol. a case in point:

here she is just like that in oxford and reading anatomy of melancholy. except it is the lite version which is weird given that she is a graduate student studying early modern literature in oxford. (it is kinda weird that she hasn't already read it actually, but never mind.)

here recently, she is just like that doing another gap year in her kitchen and one of the books that she wants to read is anatomy of melancholy. like, we already just like that-ed that book, no?

and now, Roob the pseud is educating the masses one wrongly pronounced word at a time and today's word is apposite. she says, "Richard Burton speaks of 'a most apposite remedy' in 1621."

- first: really? the very first example she uses is from 1621? she will never let us forget that she is an EaRly MoDErn Sch0lar now, will she?
- second: who is RICHARD Burton? there have been some Richard Burtons, surely, but what do they have to do with the book, anatomy of melancholy? the author of that book is ROBERT Burton, but I am no professor, I mustn't assume.

 

[Ilaariaa]

"I can tell that they're A level annotations"

Blimey, what a stroppy madam this is the same person that PAINTED an entire page blue.

God I can't stand her. Yes, Ruby, of course they're annotations by high school aged students, that's the age most people are when they stop studying Shakespeare.
We all know you don't need to buy second-hand books and you can totally afford new ones so if you're going to be precious about their condition why buy them second hand?

 

[Corneilya]

I know! It's annoying, that's why the prices in second-hand shops and on platforms like Vinted and Depop have become so insanly high.

Absolutely. Between that and the persons who think charity/second hand shops are their personnal garbage cans and only give trashed items without any consideration for the shoppers, finding good second hand stuff is almost impossible now.

 

[hart301]

Is the concept of an iron and an ironing board non existent in their house?