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fossilesque @mander.xyz

3mo ago

BIOMES

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Tony the Taiga
- Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

Steppe son
- What are you doing steppe nomad?
  
  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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair
Meaning "plain", "field", "meadow", "battlefield"
- *🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶*
  
  I guess cause when the name was made, a good place for a battle was a big ole field. (Speculation)
  
  Yeah, what the fuck?
  A plain is mostly grasses. Meadows, fields, and battlefields have flowers.
  And love can bloom on them.
  
  Love is a battlefield
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath
  Heath is another one.

Cliff
For(r)est
Meadow
River
Brook
- For 2023, the number of births with name River is 3084, which represents 0.168 percent of total male births in 2023.
  Tundra is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2020. Please enter another name.
  Was looking them up at https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi but now "This website is temporarily unavailable," did everyone have the same idea and it's only resourced for 1qps?

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️
- I do as well. She's a real badass too
  
  And she can kill you with her brain.
- Melody Pond?
  
  No, lol. My cousin’s real-life 5 yr old son.
- Are they a bastard born between King's Landing and The Twins?

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.
- Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass
  
  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
  
  looks like a modernized version of an old english name, something like "Serric"
  lo Serric, i knew him well

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

Taiga is a nice name too

What about Forr)est Gump?

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.
- Delta you say?
  
  Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

Marsha Marsha Marsha

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

My name is Clay.
- I see what you did there.

Not biomes but ...
Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.
South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.
- Cesspool is an acceptable nickname
  Is it though?
  
  Accepted by half of the two individuals involved
  
  only if they're a single-prop airplane enthusiast

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!
- !terrariums@mander.xyz

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

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

Pete Bog.

If I have a daughter, I'll name her Swamp Thing.
- Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease
  
  Takes “draining the swamp” to a whole new (medical) level.
  
  Only if they marry Bobby Itch or Jim Wrought.
- Not Man-Thing?

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

Forest Whitaker DESTROYED

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

https://xkcd.com/775/

Chaparral?

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.
Also I'm sure there's a scrub joke to be had here.

there's probably somebody named lake
- Actress Lake Bell? She has a lot of credits. Girl works.

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

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

My beautiful sons Lupine Meadow and Coastal Sage Scrub.

Plain Jane

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

Montane

cherry grove

Naming my kid Tundra or Elfin now, thanks!

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

I would name a child Orchard.

Tim Tundra

My son's class have girls with names like Savannah, Mali and Marina. I find it way too funny.

And even then, only to a female! Certainly not a male name.

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