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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 91 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Using flat terrain to facilitate fast movement and colonization. I sure hope no one invents a way to kill me while I descend on your village

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

I guess cause when the name was made, a good place for a battle was a big ole field. (Speculation)

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, what the fuck?

A plain is mostly grasses. Meadows, fields, and battlefields have flowers.

And love can bloom on them.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do as well. She's a real badass too

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We're possibly talking about different people, unless the River I know has latent superpowers that I'm unaware of.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

I'm thinking of River Tam, from Firefly.

Whether she can or can't do that is still debatable, but she did tell Jayne she could. And she can read minds, so it's not entirely out of the question...

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 20 points 1 month ago

If I ever see it as a name I'm just going to assume it's someone who was named Eric by his parents and had it changed to be edgier when he was fourteen

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sierra is not an uncommon name, River as well. Probably more.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.

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[–] wunderbred@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month ago

In Spanish, Selva (rainforest) is a somewhat common girl's name

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Tangent but.. Wow it didn’t even occur to me that paludariums were so named because that’s the type of ecosystem they are mimicking, rather than some guy named Paul invented a cool-style terrarium/aquarium merger.. (example below)

TIL!

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

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[–] wax@feddit.nu 14 points 1 month ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I have a daughter, I'll name her Swamp Thing.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

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[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Well, Tundra is already in use. Forest is more common than you know. Arid would work if it didn't mean what it does.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Taiga became popular in 2022. Definitely looking forward to seeing that one around. So many Ice Queen jokes.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago
[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Xeric Shrubland is going to Google his name in 16 years and dedicate his life to hunting you down.

[–] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Forest Whitaker DESTROYED

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago
[–] jack@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there's probably somebody named lake

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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xeric sounds kind of like a cool name to give a kid if you want that kid to suffer for their entire life.

But then again they could rise above it and become a cool person, maybe not quite on the level of Streetlamp leMoose but close.

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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

Also I'm sure there's a scrub joke to be had here.

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Ephemeral Pond IIII. I am named after my great grandfather.

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