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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 7 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 36 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.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 54 minutes ago

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] wax@feddit.nu 4 points 1 hour ago
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours 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!

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 22 points 3 hours ago

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 41 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour 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

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 14 points 4 hours ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 6 hours ago

Tony the Taiga

[–] Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 31 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 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.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 3 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...

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 4 hours ago
[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 hours ago

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 14 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

[–] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 hours ago

My beautiful sons Lupine Meadow and Coastal Sage Scrub.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 5 points 5 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.

[–] Votes@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Naming my kid Tundra or Elfin now, thanks!

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

~~Plain Jane?~~ @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca

Fuck!

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

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

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago