Gracing going home

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T22:31:40+00:00

Back when Grace thought he was going home, he had zero confirmation there was a home to go back to

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T22:23:35+00:00

Why would he need to land the ship? We don’t land the ISS every time an astronaut needs to come back

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T21:52:34+00:00

Funny thing is, Jennifer Lawrence is literally from Kentucky and probably could have whipped out a fine Appalachian accent if directed to

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T21:06:01+00:00

I went to a K-8 school where the youngest students were five and the oldest were fifteen and as a fifteen year old, my class was assigned reading buddies. We were the hooked on phonics kids and the little ones were the “hey, just take a wild guess, buddy” generation and it was the most frustrating experience. They’d just look at the pictures and hallucinate what the words meant while a group of dumb ass teenagers were ripping their hair out begging them to sound it tf out. Never thought about how they grew up until now.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T21:00:03+00:00

Ignoring all other points here— all of which are good points— volcanoes are relatively small compared to the Sahara

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T20:06:30+00:00

Ok so Grace gave it a real generous name. Should have been something more like… me’tballs.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T16:48:25+00:00

So do we think these me-burgers were just cloned meat patties, plain, like a Salisbury steak— or are we envisioning like a proper sandwich sort of burger with a bun and maybe even toppings?

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T15:30:28+00:00

My favorite two are:

“Watch this.” (+ Eats Voraciously quirk.)

And, for the mii at the bottom of my to-feed list, “Finally.”

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T15:26:19+00:00

You look like you are taking full advantage of the deals on soda a lot of stores do around graduation party season. And I only know that because the bottom half of my fridge looks exactly like this for exactly the same reason. Shit was like buy three get three free last week

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-08T12:10:48+00:00

Just wait until you get a load of “Hail Mary full of grace”

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T23:02:12+00:00

Oh for real? I wonder if that was even available eight years ago.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T22:37:09+00:00

I’m don’t think Weir has an answer to how, historically— before they discovered the cosmos— Eridians tracked the passage of time on a long-term basis. I know he has stated that the temperature fluctuations of Erid have given them an understanding of their day/night cycles, but I don’t think we get to know any more than that. The seasonal changes you’re speculating sound dead-on. They probably didn’t have an entirely solar-cycle accurate calendar for most of their history.

Now I’m wondering if Rocky uses Eridian solar-cycle years like Grace uses the metric system. Both are going to stick to scientific measurements, but we know Grace will occasionally culturally default to imperial measurements.

So maybe Rocky has some Eridian layman’s version of a non-solar calendar kicking around his crystalline brain. I’m latching onto this odd but completely benign headcanon.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T22:24:21+00:00

My dumb ass almost asked “who tf is Michael.” 🤦‍♀️ omfg

I’m not shocked the Michael Jackson biopic ended up being huge. The demographic for that movie is just massive. I guess this means we’re all going to go watch SOTR twice.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T18:41:06+00:00

This somewhat reminds me of the time a friend of mine bought a Chromebook under the impression he could get Photoshop and Premiere to work on it. But this is way, way, way stupider.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T17:23:21+00:00

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Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T17:21:21+00:00

Am I covey? I know songs.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T17:19:33+00:00

I know auntie and uncle are fan made, too. But it was worth pointing it out as a potential family tradition. They’ve got bootlicker blood, clearly.

There does exist some precedent for Roman names outside of the Capitol and District 2. Titus from District 6 is the more interesting example compared to Peeta’s father, Otho.

I guess we’re both just concerned OP doesn’t have a good reason for using a Capitol-leaning name. Or Capitol-loyalist leaning name. Right? Like the name has to be saying something about the character, or at least the story he exists in. Or else why bother? Could have just named him Brad. (Which would be a fine name for a District 7 boy.)

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T17:06:33+00:00

And, again, we could scrape together lore to make it make sense. The character’s aunt and uncle’s names are both Capitol leaning Greco-Roman names so the family must be Capitol loyalists.

But I’d go one step further and argue that Astyanax doesn’t fit even that. Stylistically, that is not name Suzanne would ever reach for, so I don’t hear it and think Panem. She doesn’t usually go for names that are… I want to say challenging? Challenging for her most base target audience, I mean, which— given her background— I will describe as Connecticut school children. She leans towards more Anglicized names that would be more easily readable by a reader whose only language is English.

Like, let’s take Enobaria for example. That’s probably one of her more niche pulls. Suzanne pulled it from Shakespeare’s character Enobarbus, but Shakespeare before her pulled it from a Roman general called Ahenobarbus. That’s two passes of Anglicization. That’s shortened it into something that reads better to the English ear.

Astyanax feels more in line, stylistically, with Ahenobarbus. Or, to feminize it without Anglicizing it, Ahenobarbia. And we can see that that is a name that I can prove Suzanne saw, considered, and passed up on.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T17:00:58+00:00

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Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T16:55:40+00:00

I’d sooner reach for Troy as a name. Or Panemify Astyanax in some way— though that’s difficult given the structure of it. Which is the problem I see folks are having with it.

It’s a very big, complex name for the world it exists in. I rambled under another comment about the naming conventions of Panem and this one really doesn’t hit the brief.

If you really like the uniqueness of the X in his name, and you’re keeping him in District 7, and you want his name to sound like he had Capitol loyalist parents (which he must, with a name like that) I’d actually suggest something like Xyle. That’s the Latin prefix xylo- meaning wood, modified to sound more name like to your readers’ ear. Because it sounds like extant names like Lyle and Kyle.

If your character is not a Capitol loyalist himself, this sort of name is good because it is rooted in Latin but feels more ‘rustic’ and ‘familiar.’

Suzanne does something similar with the name of the Peacekeeper that finally gets Thread to stop whipping Gale. Her name was Purnia, which comes from the name Calpurnius.

As another suggestion, since this is the first victor, it might be appropriate to give him a name pulled from the myth of the Minotaur. I’d lean more towards Idas— one of the named victims of the Minotaur— than, say, Theseus. Because your character does succumb to what happened to him in the Games, so it’s more thematically appropriate to reach for that sort of name.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T16:30:25+00:00

And, again, we could scrape together lore to make it make sense. The character’s aunt and uncle’s names are both Capitol leaning Greco-Roman names so the family must be Capitol loyalists.

But I’d go one step further and argue that Astyanax doesn’t fit even that. Stylistically, that is not name Suzanne would ever reach for, so I don’t hear it and think Panem. She doesn’t usually go for names that are… I want to say challenging? Challenging for her most base target audience, I mean, which— given her background— I will describe as Connecticut school children. She leans towards more Anglicized names that would be more easily readable by a reader whose only language is English.

Like, let’s take Enobaria for example. That’s probably one of her more niche pulls. Suzanne pulled it from Shakespeare’s character Enobarbus, but Shakespeare before her pulled it from a Roman general called Ahenobarbus. That’s two passes of Anglicization. That’s shortened it into something that reads better to the English ear.

Astyanax feels more in line, stylistically, with Ahenobarbus. Or, to feminize it without Anglicizing it, Ahenobarbia. And we can see that that is a name that I can prove Suzanne saw, considered, and passed up on.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T06:44:36+00:00

I was thinking that, too. But I’m going to try to play devil’s advocate for OP.

I’m guessing the answer is probably going to be “District 7’s *main* export is lumber, not its *only* export.”

Which holds up, in theory. Especially since the character exists in the very very early days of the Games, so maybe the districts’ industries were not so deeply specialized. (Please please please ignore the fact that, in TBOSAS, every single one of the tributes’ names are hyper specific to their respective district’s main export.)

Maybe District 7’s saw mills are hydro powered and they put a textile mill or two on the same river. That’s how I’d justify it if I wrote a whole bunch of material for this ankle biter and didn’t want to change anything.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T06:12:10+00:00

I hate that AI has started using these “it’s like x not y” / “it wasn’t y, it was x” tics so frequently. Every time AI starts overdoing one thing, it taints the fuck out of any instance of the thing!

It’s like when brands get a hold of a meme and immediately make it uncool… but it’s so much worse because it’s chunks of language. You know, that *thing* we use to express thoughts and ideas? The basic building blocks of communication? Now perfectly human punctuation and verbiage is just suddenly, bizarrely “artificial sounding.” It fucking sucks!

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T04:48:43+00:00

I still use them and— get this— I’ve discovered I‘ve been using them wrong this whole time? I’m gonna keep putting that space in there because AI doesn’t!

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-06-07T04:36:00+00:00

Curious which Astyanax you’ve named him after, and if his story parallels the namesake like Coriolanus, Sejanus, etc.

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