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[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I see what you did there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours 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] 66 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours 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] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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

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?

[–] [email protected] 89 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 53 minutes ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] [email protected] 53 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 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 10 hours ago

Love is a battlefield

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 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] 9 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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] 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 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] 14 points 12 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] 1 points 8 hours ago

Are they a bastard born between King's Landing and The Twins?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 15 hours ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 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] 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 minutes ago

I still don't know how open flames for cigarettes and big hair co-existed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

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