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[–] [email protected] 6 points 29 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 40 minutes ago

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 minutes 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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Chaparral?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Forest Whitaker DESTROYED

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Pete Bog.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Steppe son

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair

Meaning "plain", "field", "meadow", "battlefield"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Love is a battlefield

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, what the fuck?

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

And love can bloom on them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 hours ago

Tony the Taiga

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Montane

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

there's probably somebody named lake

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Actress Lake Bell? She has a lot of credits. Girl works.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours 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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Melody Pond?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

No, lol. My cousin’s real-life 5 yr old son.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

https://xkcd.com/775/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Delta you say?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I would name a child Orchard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Tim Tundra

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

They'd be pretty popular with the Runescape crowd, for whatever that's worth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

My beautiful sons Lupine Meadow and Coastal Sage Scrub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Naming my kid Tundra or Elfin now, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

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

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