#post-gfa

[scuzbrains]

Commission for @cuddleswinchester !! some post-canon Charles on his way from the store

[kreetchius]

Major Character Death Warning

This is sort of a M*A*S*H question but also an AO3-warnings question.

In a post-GFA story where Frank Burns never actually appears as a character but the reader finds out during the story that Burns is dead, do you have to tick the Major Character Death Warning tickbox? Technically yes because Burns is a major and so if he dies this is a Major Character Death. Technically no because he's not a major character in the story in which he dies. Which is it? Asking for a friend.

If Frank Burns is not a major character in the story in which his death is mentioned, is this a Warn For Major Character Death situation?

Yes, you can never have too many warnings

Yes, Frank Burns is a Major Character

No, Frank Burns is not a major character in the story, no warning

No, if you tick that warning people will feel misled

None of the above, I have another opinion and I will add it in the tags

I hate warnings I don't care what you do

Voting ended onAug 13, 2023

[chemicalelements]

There is a similar challenge in relation to the characterisation of sectarianism. The Northern Ireland state was established as a sectarian entity and preserved through sectarian policies and institutions. The civil rights campaign of the late 1960s was a popular challenge to that sectarianism. But, as one reading of the history has it, the intervention of the British state from 1969 onwards was the beginning of the death knell for the sectarian state. The British succeeded in reforming the worst aspects of institutionalised sectarianism, not least in relation to employment practices. That they did not progress further, it could be argued, was not just because of unionist resistance to reform but the major diversionary task of combating republican terrorism. In this reading, the GFA represents the final chapter of that reform programme begun over three decades earlier. The sectarian state is now in terminal mode. Even the upsurge of sectarianism in everyday practice and attitudes since the GFA does not undermine the optimism of this conclusion; this is just a final kick of a dying phenomenon. A more complex explanation of sectarianism is possible, one which views it as integral to both the process of British colonialism in Ireland and the existence of the state in Northern Ireland. This approach begins with the premise that the state’s role in the reproduction of sectarianism has mutated a number of times in history, before and during the existence of the Northern Ireland state. The ultimate purpose of this article is to examine how this mutation has occurred to accommodate the fact that the post-GFA state is currently emerging from an accentuated reform mode. It seeks to discover whether sectarianism is indeed in terminal mode or has merely been reconstituted to fit the new times.

http://statecrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rolston2007c.pdf