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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tony the Taiga

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Steppe son

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months 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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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 7 points 2 months ago

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

Heath is another one.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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[–] SacredHeartAttack 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 2 months 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] 16 points 2 months 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] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Melody Pond?

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[–] kerrigan778 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 11 points 2 months ago

Marsha

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months 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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[–] ieatpwns 28 points 2 months ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] psmgx 19 points 2 months ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My name is Clay.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Delta you say?

[–] Anticorp 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] shai_hulud 15 points 2 months ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] Sam_Bass 13 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

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

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

[–] dohpaz42 5 points 2 months ago

Takes “draining the swamp” to a whole new (medical) level.

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[–] Maggoty 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Freefall 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

https://xkcd.com/775/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Chaparral?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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] 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Voyajer 6 points 2 months ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

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

[–] HarbingerOfTomb 6 points 2 months ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

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