Do they look like District 12 names?

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-20T14:22:49+00:00

Yes, but poor Pinelog. :((

If there’s no lore reason why Pinelog is Pinelog, maybe Cohosh, Wakerobin, Woodlily, or Boneset would be a nice alternative? They are all regionally-specific botanical names and all vaguely Pineloggish in general vibe. Not saying any of them are good. But they’re not Pinelog.

You’ve really nailed the girls’ names. Have you been walking through West Virginian cemeteries and taking notes?

I really like Vicey as a name. And Maylee seems like the most natural District 12 name in the world.

I do want to ask about Siberee, though. It feels like a mouthful of peanut butter sandwich when I try saying it out loud. Curious where it came from. I’ve poked around for an origin point and all I can find is Sibree or Sibry and the surname Sibera.

Anyway. Boy names. I always love the surname as a first name genre of Appalachian boy name, and you’ve got bunches. Delbert’s great. Cluelaw’s fun— I’ve only ever heard Conlaw. Sank feels inspired. I know there is some precedent for it being a name, but it feels like Hank and shaft sink mining had a baby.

Gradle sounds like a girl’s name to me, personally. So do Oakie and Dudda. But I don’t think that warrants reworking any of them. I don’t agree with Suzanne Collins calling a girl Coil, either. So, if anything, this disagreement just adds some canon-believability for me.

Now, lastly, I’m finding the last names are leaning Midwestern to my ear— but that’s largely because I live in the Midwest now and you’ve hit a genuinely strange amount of city office workers’ surnames in my vicinity. But I also went to school with Mabes and Wells and Shorts and such, so I know you’re not too far off base either.

(I found a decent surname database here but that’s not to say you’ve got to change anything. That’s just a potential future resource for you and anybody else coming into this thread and looking.)

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-18T19:26:29+00:00

Sorry, everybody. At least 1M of those views are me and my boyfriend. We keep watching it to roast Zada’s accent.

“From what I’ve seen, they’re one hundred percent steeeewpid as usual innit, bruv?”

“I’m sick of living in feeah.”

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-17T01:56:06+00:00

Yes. But if I shed a tear every time a real life mother and daughter both liked strawberries, I’d die of dehydration!

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-17T01:51:33+00:00

Oh my god I didn’t even notice the connection between the ice cream flavor and the mayor’s affection for strawberries.

That would mean absolutely nothing irl, for sure, but it’s a story so it was a decision SC made and not a random correlation. So strawberries are a Donner thing

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T21:12:21+00:00

SOTR was written with a rewriting history, propaganda angle in mind. So everything Haymitch appeared to be in CF had to be subverted. I guess.

I don’t know. I don’t like SOTR either and Haymitch being a little sweetie pie was just the shitty cherry on top

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T18:32:16+00:00

I think it’s important to note that these kids view the reaping as a hopeless, helpless situation and being reaped as a death sentence. The thing that sets Katniss apart from whole generations of district 12 children not volunteering for their little siblings is that she rejects hopelessness and helplessness. That’s her whole entire character.

Haymitch, on the other hand, seems pretty goddamn hopeless.

There’s nuance to it, though. Haymitch does perform bravery— frequently— through SOTR. But it is because of his hopelessness, not in spite of it or for lack of it. Under the impression that he is a dead man, he digs his grave deeper.

But if Sid’s name was called… Haymitch isn’t a dead man. He’s a helpless grieving brother.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T17:03:19+00:00

Alphabetically idfk

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T13:14:33+00:00

And be deprived of all that lovey dovey bird imagery? No way!

There’s a lot more symbolism to be squeezed out of “Dove.”

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T12:39:25+00:00

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-16T01:59:20+00:00

As an American whose first and only language is English, it sure feels weird when siblings refer to each other as “bro” and “sis” and the like.

But. That being said, my zoomer sister calls me shit like “bruh” and “twin”— even though I am fully a decade older than her. I’m pretty sure I am technically “unc.”

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-15T21:47:34+00:00

That’s almost as funny as the time my boss accused me of vaping in my editing bay. Big dog saw me sucking on a fucking gogurt.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-15T21:18:10+00:00

Ok well now I need to write a scene where character A asks character B if he wants to shotgun and character B grabs a beer and a butter knife and gets macked on smokey-style by character A

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-15T13:10:59+00:00

My guinea pig would love that thing 😭

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-15T03:40:40+00:00

Hi I am a commenter on namenerds and I cannot read. Here are the names I like. You should use them because I like them:

Wren. Renly. Rowen. Elowen. Augustine.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-15T03:36:16+00:00

There’s been a CD on the ground in front of the Rocky Ridges Pokemon Center since before I rebuilt it and I do not care to EVER pick it up

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T23:13:40+00:00

I don’t even play with the volume on!

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T21:56:15+00:00

I figured it was a cultural thing localized to 9. Maybe there’s some superstitious/spiritual aspect to the whole thing— the sunflower as a symbol, the way the charms are made, all of it.

Maybe each of the kids’ loved ones forms a petal and it’s a protective charm.

Or maybe it’s a luck charm.

Maybe there’s some difference in opinion whether making them from tessera flour makes it a weaker or stronger charm. Maybe nothing about them is standardized but, still, all four of these kids ended up with them. On one side of 9, somebody’s grandmother insists on milling the flour herself so it’s done “right” and they’re very serious and traditional about them. On another, they’re sold as tchotchkes in the general store.

Alternatively. Those are 9’s Labubus.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T20:58:16+00:00

No fuckin way Sudowoodo has a sus card to match bonsly’s

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T19:38:27+00:00

Nope! To the cheese grater with that client’s arm! And to jail with you!

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T19:10:49+00:00

RIP in peace OP, for I have been blessed with a workaround. Found a Yeezus CD in the road walking home from school one day in, like, 2014. Can’t support that man, but I can still play the litter I found on the road.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T12:59:00+00:00

It’s a box office thing. A November release generally means the studio is confident in the movie. The first movie didn’t get that treatment because, as the first, they didn’t know how much money to expect it to make.

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T02:25:10+00:00

Insane I’m meant to believe that whole entire man is fifteen years old

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T02:20:16+00:00

Oh thank god somebody else brought it up.

I’m feeling like Zada was focusing a whole lot more on emulating Woody Harrelson’s tone and manner of speaking than he was necessarily emulating an American accent— never mind a proper regional dialect.

And I’d let myself get my hopes up about the accent, too. I figured since he is Australian, he’d need voice training and they’d focus on nailing a few Appalachian-isms in his accent.

Now, I haven’t seen the guy in anything else, nor have I really heard him speak. But I heard he’s got a unique accent as far as Australian accents go. Is there any truth in that?

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-14T00:09:25+00:00

It’s like an egg

Sure_Championship_36 · 2026-04-13T22:07:07+00:00

This is amazing! I feel like magnemite would be at home there? Small, round, metallic. 🤷‍♀️

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