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Frankly I'm more astonished FA's still alive to this day after all the shit he's done to poison the well
The potato farmers have a gofundme set up to help the farmers offset the expenses of having all these potatoes cleaned and bagged for folk on top of not getting paid for the potatoes themselves, so if you are in a position to help the potato farmers out in return for their kindness, you can do so here apparently (linked from the official potatoes.com blog, actually): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-washington-potato-growers-feed-those-in-need
Does the west even make "healing stories"? Japan has pretty much made a whole genre of it, but I can't think of any stories from America or Europe where all the characters are respectful of one another and get along, nothing terrible happens to anyone, and the purpose is just to make the viewer/reader feel calm. Western stories are always centered around some sort of conflict, and at least in my public education I was never taught that a story can be written any other way.
In English class I was taught that a story can be centered around 5 types of conflicts: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Technology. I won't say that stories in the "healing" genre never have these kinds of conflicts, but they're not necessarily ABOUT them either. These conflicts are decidedly NOT the concepts the narrative is centered around. They happen on the periphery. Sometimes they move the story forward somehow, but they're not there to make a point.
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