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quick drawing of best girl Lucy Gray
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Lucy Gray in an AU I’m not going to explain yet
Despite being the textile district, District 8 don't seem to use fabrics or fibres themselves for their names.
Bobbin is weaving equipment. Woof, Wefton (weft), and Twill are parts of/types of fabric construction. Wovey is just 'weave'. Notion and Ripman are both more related to the finishing stages of production, notions being buttons, ribbons, hasps etc., and Ripman presumably meaning 'guy responsible for rips' either in tailoring or mending. Cecelia, Bonnie, and Eddy (unless short for heddle, weaving equipment) are regular non-vocational names. Alawna is the only name that could be a fabric; lawn is a type of fabric, but it also describes the nap of that fabric so could equally be a construction word like twill.
Coincidence? Or would names like Cotton, Satin, Jute, and Cashmere be outside of their cultural conventions? (District 1 has three fabric names for the record.)
District 1 and 11 have gendered trends in their vocational names, which the other vocational name districts don't as far as I can tell. (Also theyre the two districts out of those that pun on real names the least.)
In D1 all the fancy fabric names are designated as girls names: Velvereen (velveteen), Silka (silk), and Cashmere. And the abstract concept names are primarily boys names: Panache, Marvel, and Gloss, and then just Glimmer. The jewellery making names are an even split: Facet and Loupe, and Carat and Palladium.
For D11 the plant names are all (or almost all) girls names: Dill, Chicory, Blossom, and Rue. And the grain farming names are all boys names: Reaper, Hull, Thresh, and Chaff. The more generic agricultural jobs seem gender neutral: Seeder and Tile (if its a form of till, idk what else it could be). That only leaves Martin (from Rues darkglasses anecdote) which could be a type of apple and thus the only boys name in the plant category, or it could be a bird or the real world boys name and not fit any pattern.
Alcohol laws in District 12
White liquor is explicitly illegal to brew and sell in Sunrise and the Trilogy (SOTR ebook p.11, CF p.220 etc). In Ballad it's a lot less clear, Snow never calls it illegal and never worries he's breaking the law by buying it, however he does once imply that its a black market item (TBOSAS p.408), but that may be about illegal trading not illegal wares since shoelaces and soap are on the list too. Someone is always brewing it though, legal or not.
For weaker drinks, the most notable is the beer that's sold in the Capitol store fully legally (SOTR ebook p.282). Also, D12 nicknaming it 'near beer' and recognising it as particularly 'thin, weak, and feeble' implies they know other beer to compare it to. Haymitch also is familiar with wine and wine bottles (SOTR ebook p.331), but not champagne (SOTR ebook p.47) or spirits other than white liquor, like vodka or cognac (SOTR ebook p.176-7). Katniss describes wine that's 'home-made stuff that [her] mother uses for coughs' (THG p.92-3), so, there definitely is some brewing of weak alcohol going on in D12. No indication whether it's legal or not.
Asterid buys bootlegged liquor for medicine while working for her parents so clearly the law is not the most important thing to her (SOTR ebook p.28). Some alcohol is legal for medicinal purposes though, since rubbing alcohol (not drinkable) is stocked by the apothecary in Catching Fire and no one is worried about it during the crackdown (CF p.156).
Possibilities: 1) All brewing is illegal (it happens anyway) and only imports are allowed, like near beer and rubbing alcohol. Possibly there are even other imports like wine that are just too expensive for the Seam. Commander Hoff gets imported whiskey in Ballad, but he isnt a district civilian (TBOSAS p.476). 2) Strong alcohol for consumption is illegal, but brewing weaker stuff is fine. Wine and beer would be legal to make, maybe stronger medicinal alcohol could even be made too, since its not for drinking. People in D12 are always after white liquor specifically when they're trying to get drunk drunk, so a law distinguishing weaker drinks as not a problem isn't counterintuitive. 3) There may be change over time, especially if white liquor is legal during Ballad. Plus, the Capitol store doesn't exist the whole time, so either beer is only legal to buy in its era, or some merchant or something gets to import/brew and distribute beer etc at other times. Maybe there's an alcohol license situation who knows.
Call me crazy, but I can't be the only one that thinks that the main reason that Clerk Carmine in Sunrise on the Reaping doesn't like Haymitch is that he reminds him too much of his dead brother Billy Taupe?? "The Abernathys were known rebels back in the day" and "He [Clerk Carmine] once told Lenore Dove that I was the kind that died young." Billy Taupe was running around with the District 12 rebels in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, some of which included members of the Chance family, like Arlo Chance who inspired the Hanging Tree song. While the Chance family are still going strong by Sunrise on the Reaping, maybe Clerk Carmine remembers his brother hanging out with some Abernathys back in the day. Also Billy Taupe doesn't get a headstone in the Covey graveyard but Clerk Carmine still taught Lenore Dove how to play Billy's old piano accordion... Much to think about.
ccc? more like ccc
Non zero possibility that noted music enjoyer and Burdock Everdeen (man)crush haver Otho Mellark named Peeta after the song The Capitol Store (Sixteen Tons in real life)
What D10 names mean for their industry:
Brandy - they brand cattle meaning theres a need to specify different ownership. i assume the Capitol would technically own all the cattle (a la D12 coal, D11 crops), but there must be some contractual responsibility/ownership given to individuals/families/groups rather than all the work being done under one company
Tanner/Peeler/Stamp(?) - leatherwork names, Peeler is the first step, and Tanner is the last if youre processing hide into raw leather so they do all that. Stamp is ambiguous, could also be an animal stamping its foot (cf. Buck), but a stamp for leatherwork would be interesting because that would mean they make things out of leather in D10 rather than sending all the raw leather to D8 or wherever
Lannie - they keep sheep obviously, but also they process wool themselves to some extent if lanolin is relevant enough to their vocation for a name, they don't just shear sheep and send the fleece straight to D8. (D8 have no specific leatherwork or woolwork/ wool fabric names for the record, but we know they make the whole peacekeeper outfits boots and fur cloak included so must get various materials in from D10).
Buck - this has like 20 relevant meanings. could be the action of an animal (which would probably imply they ride horses). could be the male of various animals, goat (archaic word), rabbit, deer (implying they keep deer domestically) etc.
Useful to my need for encyclopedic worldbuilding that you can kinda tell some of the specifics of what other districts do by their names. Like Sol means D5 do solar power, Hy and Hychel (Hy + regular name Mychel?) probably mean hydroelectric power, and Fisser ('guy who does fission') i think has to mean atomic power (the Capitol definitely aren't giving another district nuclear weapons facilities after D13 but I guess they need nuclear power enough to let that happen, probably very controlled).
Lenore Dove!!
Obviously the book interpretation is entirely up to the reader, but I like to think that Lucy Gray's grave is empty. Not because she isn't dead. Not because she lives either. But because the whole point of her character after Snow finally cracks is to haunt the narrative, and the most interesting, compelling way she can do that is both for him and for us to never truly know what happens to her afterwards. She's Schrödinger's cat. She's a ghost that lives every time someone replaces the Capitol silence with music. We don't even know if the Covey ever found her. The only thing I choose to believe, whether they did or not, is that that grave is empty.
Lucy Gray doesn't belong in the ground. She is the air, the trees, a whisper behind your ear. She is insanity for the cruel and strength for the defiant. She is hope; not a grain of it, not in small doses, not the tool Coriolanus means it to be. He tried to squash it, but Lucy Gray became intangible. Like a song, she escaped his control, and she became infinite.
-Yet some maintain that to this day
She is a living child;
That you may see sweet Lucy Gray
Upon the lonesome wild.
Doctors in District 12
The first thing we hear about doctors is this from Katniss: 'Since almost no one can afford doctors, apothecaries are our healers.' (THG p.9). This implies, first, that there are doctors plural in the district, and, second, that some people can afford to go to them and are allowed to do so.
Katniss also mentions 'the district doctor who's repsonsible for treating the miners' (THG p.216). This could mean there's a single district doctor whose responsibilites include treating the miners, but based on the previous thing she said it more likely means that one of the small number of doctors in the district is specifically employed to look over the miners. Presumably this person is employed on some kind of government tenure? The miners surely couldnt afford to pay the full price for treatment, though there could be a smaller fee, or a wider tax on their wages.
It seems like these doctors have to be Capitol because being a doctor 'would require university training' (TBOSAS p.355). Prim could never have become a doctor in District 12 (Mj p.179). Possibly there are universities in districts like D1 or D3 that could also train people for this, but we only hear about 'the University', which seems to be the only one in the Capitol. It's fee paying (TBOSAS p.13), and it's logical that some medical graduates would have to take bad positions in the districts to pay off student or other debts, like many Peacekeepers have to sign up to cover debts (TBOSAS p.36).
The Peacekeepers' base has a built-in clinic and there's more than one doctor employed there, and some medics and nurses (TBOSAS p.402, 411, 464 etc). Seems like they also function as coroners since Mayfair and Billy Taupe's bodies are examined there (TBOSAS p.464), and Katniss says it's usual for Peacekeepers to take bodies away then announce the cause of death so that's not just for murders (THG p.34). Because their clinic is on the base, a secure military site, I think it's not likely they'd be taking on district patients for extra cash.
Manufactured medicines and their various avaliabilities come up a lot. Morphling is made in and imported from the Capitol, Asterid doesn't have any in her supplies despite being rich now, Merrilee Undersee, the mayor's wife, is able to get it (CF p.140-1). Asterid does have some other painkillers 'the kind usually accessible only to doctors' 'hard to come by, expensive' (CF p.138). There's the antidepressants Asterid has (THG p.43). There is also a store that sells medicine: 'dried herbs and tinctures and store-bought bottles' (CF p.136), Asterid buys fever pills to use sometimes (THG p.309), Katniss says sleep syrup is cheap and very commmon (THG p.335). It's likely those three come from the Town apothecaries, but the stronger medicines might have to come through doctors. How medicine gets from the manufacturing site (Capitol or other districts) to the apothecary stores is not clear. Can they order it themselves? Do they just get first dibs buying it off eclectic import trains? Do they have to go through the district doctors? Do doctors sell medicine like a pharmacy? Merrilee might need a doctors prescription to get morphling. Exactly how goods including medicines are imported and distributed is not stated.
District doctors are not able to do as much as Capitol doctors, probably due to a lack of technology. Merrilee's chronic headaches would be treatable in the Capitol but no healthcare avaliable to her in the district can fix them (CF p.107).
Since there are Town apothecaries, merchants must be using them for healthcare most of the time, and doctors would only be for extreme circumstances. (Not that all merchants are in the same economic position to afford them.) If some Town folk are going to doctors for healthcare, I'd expect the thing they'd really pay for is obstetrics. Childbirth is so dangerous without medical care and also an unavoidable part of life. People usually want doctors for that more than anything else. No proof for this, all we get about childbirth in 12 is the implication that Seam women do it at home with no mention even of midwives (THG p.422, SOTR ebook p.120), so this is just my speculation.
never forget when finnick was performing mouth to mouth to save peeta, and katniss’s first thought was “damn me too girl but time and place?????”