I will never forgive JKR for naming her book series something Potter, every time I’m looking for Beatrix Potter stuff, I get inundated by her slop merch I can’t do this anymore.
It’s still a bit hard for me to personally understand the whole “I don’t want excuses” or “I don’t want an explanation I just want an apology” sentiment. I get where it comes from, and I can appreciate that if that’s what someone’s wishes are, then that is the type of apology you should give them etc. But for my OWN preferences it’s like.. actually I would rather have an explanation than an apology. I don’t care about if you’re guilty/sorry or not, your feelings don’t change the literal facts of the situation that have already happened, I’d rather just understand WHY it happened, a full picture of underlying circumstance, something tangible to analyze. I just love details so much, there is never a scenario ever in life where where I would want LESS information. “Don’t give me excuses just own up to your wrongs” - like YES, I mean sure, take responsibility for your actions, I definitely do agree that an explanation does not inherently EXCUSE anything…. but ALSO.. PLEASE still tell me every excuse you have, trauma dump, vent, give the whole story, I would like to scrutinize every detail of where the situation went wrong PLUS I am also nosy so.. Yaaaay details, yaaay lore, yaaaay information!!
Now, you will never hear me talking about “healthy” food. I loathe the term, but not as much as I am disgusted by the contemporary mantra of “clean eating”. In How to Eat, written so long ago, I wrote: “What I hate is the new-age voodoo about eating, the notion that foods are either harmful or healing, that a good diet makes a good person and that that person is necessarily lean, limber, toned and fit…Such a view seems to me in danger of fusing Nazism (with its ideological cult of physical perfection) and Puritanism (with its horror of the flesh and belief in salvation through denial).” The Clean-Eating brigade seems an embodiment of all my fears. Food is not dirty, the pleasures of the flesh are essential to life and, however we eat, we are not guaranteed immortality or immunity from loss. We can not control life by controlling what we eat. But how we cook and, indeed, how we eat does give us - as much as anything can - mastery over ourselves
Nigella Lawson, from the introduction to Simply Nigella
