A Nameless Treehugger

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

you are playing with an imaginary toy in an imaginary sandbox. fandom is all about having fun and letting your imagination run wild. canon is only a suggestion, not a rule. how much of canon you will follow, if any, is entirely up to you.

please stop trying to apply rules on hobbies and something that’s supposed to be your comfort place and a form of self-care.

“is it okay if I think this” “is it okay if I imagine that” it’s YOUR little world that you create for yourself and your own enjoyment. you literally do not need strangers’ opinions or permission when it comes to a hobby that doesn’t harm or affect anybody in real life. again, it’s YOUR imagination, YOUR world, YOUR creation. you have all the power and the freedom to:

headcanon whatever you want, however you want

ship whatever you want, however you want

write whatever you want, however you want

draw whatever you want, however you want

create whatever you want, however you want

reject whatever you want, however you want

as long as you’re not harming anybody in real life, how you have fun with fictional characters and your imagination is no one’s business but your own’s.

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

For starters, it doesn't appear to be used around the 10th Games or the 74th so it's just a thing that seemed to randomly appear for a decade around the 50th Games (Do not tell me that Katniss is such a gatekeeper she wouldn't tell you about Scrip - money and food are two things that Katniss cares about and she would absolutely tell you if there were some people paying for things in a different currency).

But the larger point is that if District Twelve is a "Company Town" then the company in question is the Capitol. The Capitol doesn't need Scrip to control the workers of District Twelve: The Capitol already controls the currency. The Capitol can limit who can hold a business license and therefore what sort of stores exist in Twelve. They can limit the supplies to Twelve and therefore the cost of goods in Twelve. They control the movement of people in and out of Twelve. The Capitol is the government - there are so many levers and regulations that a government can use to control the economy before resorting to Scrip. So what exactly would be the purpose of the Capitol issuing Scrip?

There is, of course, the non-exploitative purpose: Scrip can be useful when there isn't a lot of government issued legal tender available. Except if this was the reason for Scrip then it would make more sense to be something that exist earlier, following the Dark Days when they were still establishing things, not randomly appearing 40-50 years later.

Also the company is the government so Scrip is still government issued legal tender ...

I can kinda get behind Scrip being there to enforce segregation between the Town and Seam, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Some of the stores won’t accept Scrip, but that seemed to be for non-essential goods (like the Donner’s candy store) so wouldn’t be that big a deal. Also if it was being used to segregate Seam and Town there would be other signs of segregation - separate schools, segregation during the Reaping etc.

Perhaps the Capitol/Panem is recovering from a recession that Snow and friends pushed onto the Districts so the Capitol citizens wouldn’t notice it? Haymitch does see some Anti Immigrant sentiments. We know it’s a fragile facade.

Although this wouldn’t explain Katniss not seeing the scrip—unless all of 12 is scrip by her time.

The Pound Sterling £: The Bank of England currency is good across the UK/crown dependencies. However, excluding Wales (and then England), the others are able to issue their own currency too. Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey each have their own but freely circulate together with BoE notes. The Isle of Man has their own. Oversea territories like the Falklands mostly have their own.

Which is to say, maybe the Capitol switched to giving the poorer Districts like 12 their own money for whatever reason (at the very least it’s a dividing quality). The only people really impacted would be Peacekeepers who try to send money home from their assigned District, someone who has to order in goods, and maybe train crews.

Katniss and Peeta never buy anything in the Capitol. 13 has their strict rationing. Peeta’s promised sharing of the Victor’s winnings become a bit of a ? but no one ever really talks about getting paid in the year they win.

Effie and the Capitol reaping team probably have everything taken care of and don’t need to deal with currency in the Districts.