Ruby Granger #47 Self Learning at the University of Roobs, Manor campus

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Rumblemumble said:
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Rumpster is back. For an ad because of course.
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I really do think (hope) most people grow out of thinking about their own intellectual development along such institutionalised lines. Certainly, if you're trying to reach some end there is worth in having a plan of how to reach it, but such formalism strikes me as being unwarranted.

Like, I'm currently re-reading and annotating a book because I'm reading a few from an author I find interesting with the intention of maybe someday writing something vaguely scholarly about it (if I don't find a wealth of literary criticism already making the point I've been nursing for half a decade now). If Ruby set out to do something similar (which, should she not be? Is she not looking to become a dphil candidate of literature) she'd spend a most of her time slotting wooly plans into unhelpful templates.

On a slightly off topic note, what is the general opinion here on writing in paperbacks? I scribble all over mine. Pencil in the margins, highlighting on passages I like or want to come back to, and bits of notepaper stuck in with further thoughts that wouldn't fit in the margins. Ruby seems awfully concerned with keeping hers pristine, and I'm not saying that people who like to keep their paperbacks nice can't be literary but it strikes me as her enjoying the aesthetic of "the book object" more than "the book object" as a "book object" if you understand what I mean.
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PenroseJ said:
Some time ago I believed that by now she would be going into the writertube direction... Ma'am, if you write, post your writing routine and how you work on it!
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She had a whole gap year where she was trying to launch her writing career. She didn't post much of substance on the topic because I don't think she'd found much of substance to say.
 
notreplying said:
can't lie, very jealous seeing her at the wicked premiere
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Clearly the old tailcoat she bought three years ago wasn’t as useless of a purchase as we all thought! It really comes into its own worn over a crumpled pink dress and a pair of Mickey Mouse gloves. (The hat is for Basst Frand Baloney, Ruby’s just going to wear her hair unstyled as she always does.)

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FolderDuvet said:
On a slightly off topic note, what is the general opinion here on writing in paperbacks? I scribble all over mine. Pencil in the margins, highlighting on passages I like or want to come back to, and bits of notepaper stuck in with further thoughts that wouldn't fit in the margins. Ruby seems awfully concerned with keeping hers pristine, and I'm not saying that people who like to keep their paperbacks nice can't be literary but it strikes me as her enjoying the aesthetic of "the book object" more than "the book object" as a "book object" if you understand what I mean.
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I underline mine (pencil only because the pages bleed), write on margins, put post its and page tags, use weird objects as markers or dog ear if I can't find anything to use. There are some books I own that I'm precious with for sentimental reasons or because they are quite old and would fall apart if I was rough with them but it's not because they are rare enough to be worth money haha. Although I would be livid if someone else did these to my books, only I can touch them lol. Which is why I don't lend books.

Each to their own but I find it weird when people are afraid of almost touching the book they read. To me, the caution of it puts a barrier with me and what I'm reading. It's like not wanting to sit on your couch because you don't want to dent the cushions.
 
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PenroseJ said:
Some time ago I believed that by now she would be going into the writertube direction... Ma'am, if you write, post your writing routine and how you work on it!
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That'd actually be interesting to hear about, but she can't talk about the process because it'd reveal how heavily she relies on just yoinking other writers' ideas. Same reason why she never talked about her essay-writing process in any real detail at uni. There's a reason she refuses to say anything at all about her writing process, her experience working with an agent, and so on.

Her writing routine is just: "Rip off a commercially successful YA/middle-grade book, insert self as the main character and remove any male characters who aren't teachers or relatives. Throw a tantrum when publishers reject it, then scrap it and rip something else off instead. Repeat process until successful."

It's the massive hurdle she'll never overcome: On the rare occasion something actually interesting happens in her life that might translate to good content, we'll never get to see or hear about it as viewers because it's either completely fictional/massively embellished (her supposedly "ronning a companieeeee" and never showing any of it, her "traditional jobs") or she's almost entirely reliant on cheating to do it (essays, writing, reading). So it all just becomes a dull, nebulous mush of "waahrking on somm waaaaahrk" accompanied by shots of her miserably tapping away at a keyboard pretending to do something.
 
gossip_guy said:
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"Joe browns shoes (as always!)"

Is she hoping people will just magically forget that she's spent the past 48 years clomping around in real leather Docs?
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Does she dress like this out of self consciousness? Does she not believe she can look nice? This isn't a bad dress. Feminine shoes (could be a small pointed kitten heel or flats), a nice gold bracelet over those gloves, hair up in an updo and a gold necklace (or string of (faux) pearls if she wants to really go for the vintage vibes). Pair it with a delicate shawl and she could really have something going on that's definitely still in her aesthetic, but actually looks nice.

Honestly, the hair. She hasn't done anything to it at all.
 
FolderDuvet said:
Does she dress like this out of self consciousness? Does she not believe she can look nice? This isn't a bad dress. Feminine shoes (could be a small pointed kitten heel or flats), a nice gold bracelet over those gloves, hair up in an updo and a gold necklace (or string of (faux) pearls if she wants to really go for the vintage vibes). Pair it with a delicate shawl and she could really have something going on that's definitely still in her aesthetic, but actually looks nice.

Honestly, the hair. She hasn't done anything to it at all.
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It gives 8 years old girl trying her older sister's dress.
 
I have to say I thought the room she was given at the hotel was very basic as it was a very small room, I didn't think it was nicely decorated liked she claimed it was as there was only 1 picture on the wall, the walls were bland and the TV looked very old and the view she had was very poor as she was looking at another building. In fact the only nice thing about her room was the bathroom which looked like it had recently been refurbished.
 
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