Give a /tg/ explanation for the unusual number of knights being

>>49777965
The Snail Wars were truly mankind's darkest hour.

Medieval equivalent of Pepe.

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>>49777965
It's simple.

>>49777965
Symbolism

>>49777991

I will no longer accept any other explanation.

>dumb snailposter

>>49777965
Meme among the monks.

>>49777965
Being a monks boring as fuck.

>>49777965
Monks talked to each other through letters and such and thought it would be a funny in joke to do.

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>>49778089
>>49778107
>>49778247
Most 4chan users would probably be either monks or dead if they were born during the middle ages.

Perhaps meme spam is genetic or some unconscious drive that manifests in certain types of people?

>>49777991
>>49778089
>>49778247
I love this

>>49779275
If I'm not mistaken this is the most likely answer too as there is no recorded reason for it

>>49779252

>Perhaps meme spam is genetic or some unconscious drive that manifests in certain types of people?

Well those Pompeii graffiti walls featured literal shitposting and Secundus, so you might have a point.

>>49777965
It was making fun of the person battling the snails. Probably someone who was famously slow.

>>49779288
Are overused memes an integral part of the human condition?

>>49779302

Probably.

Who doesn't like throwing around a good inside joke?

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>tfw the secret history of the Snail Wars was lost with the suppression of the Templars and the world will never know of the great struggle between man and mollusc except through these scattered images now derided as jokes

>>49778004
>The snails are actually representative of female genitalia.

>>49779313
>good
That's the thing: memes must always be forced and painful.

>>49779302
You tell me.

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

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>>49779252
another top-tier monk meme

>>49779344

As someone who owns birds I can tell you this is exactly what they'd do if they had meetings.

>>49779336
I fucking love ancient Rome.

>>49778089
General consensus is this, from what I understand.
The snails could be one of several jokes.
Either
>The Snails are time, and the Knights are the monks, fighting fruitlessly to preserve what will inevitably be lost
>The Snails are the Meek, destined to inherit the earth and thus conquer the most fearsome creatures of the age in the form of knights
>The Snails are literally snails, fouling the gardens that most monks tended to. They depict themselves as knights as joking reference to how difficult this was.
Or it could literally just be that they thought snails fighting knights was funny. After all, frogs have relatively little to do with the Alt-right, racism, loneliness or autism, but pepe is still going strong.

>>49779417
I'd say pepe has a lot to do with autism.

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>>49779417
>pepe has little to do with loneliness or autism

>>49779459
It's from a comic about a guy living with his three friends, I doubt it's about loneliness.

>>49779476
I was referring to frogposters, not the comic itself.

>>49779336
>VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1842: Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3rd 78 BC.
Wait... What?

Gaius was a phucking psychic!

>>49779417
>Stay inside all day, hardly seeing the sun
>Don't do anything physical
>Stay up all night posting and reading
>tfw 30 and no gf
>tfw no gf ever

Proof that monks were 4channers. Knights battling snails was definitely a meme, probably born through some combination of those points.

It's like /mlp's Rarity fighting a giant crab.
Upper class individual fighting a non-mammalian/strange but mundane animal.

I assumed the snails were the french, due to their voracious appetite for snails.

>>49779742
Remove snail. Snail is the worst.

>>49779288
R O M A
O L I M
M I L O
A M O R

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Giant snails are a weak monster to practice your basic swordplay and positioning against

Have you ever gone your whole life feeling like something was wrong, you didnt fit in, you were empty inside and had no purpose?

I did before this thread. Fuck those snails im gonna get em

>>49779318

So medieval /tg/ had never seen a vagina either?

And yea, i know some girls post here too. Holy fuck you bitches nasty

>>49777965
>be monk
>have to take care of the monastery garden before having to start copying books
>fucking snails everywhere
>o how you hate them
>fuck the snails
>remove snails from the garden
>still angry about snails though
>start copying a book
>scribble a picture of a knight beating up snails in the marginal as a way to get revenge on the fucking snails

>>49777965
snails are CR 1. what you see in these illustrations are babby adventurer's first quests.

>>49779288
"Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here"

>>49779288
" On April 19th, I made bread"
>written on a bathroom stall

>>49779288
>people think that cave paintings had some religious meaning or artistic merit
>in reality they were just result of cavemen sharing their dank cavememes

>>49779493
The dates have obviously been translated.

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>>49780202
>we kil mamut
>mamut is ded
>we eat mamut
>tfw tribe is appy

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>>49779853
Tell that to this fucking thing.

>>49780202
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm

>>49780262
Be me
>Me 12
>Me living father cave
>Be bad hunter
>no bunga bunga
>berrypicker as snoo snoo
Sadmamut.cavepaint

>>49779673
Monks did a lot of physical labour and went out a lot.

They needed to feed themselves after all.

>>49780411
O R A

E
T

L A B O R A

>>49777965
Shitty random encounter tables.

>>49780411
>>49780427
Medieval monks could probably hand 90% of modern humans their ass.

>>49780411
Brewing Beer and spirit drinks ain't that bad. Lotta hipsters do it nowadays.

>>49779252
>>49779288
>>49779302
Even recently, before internet forums, there was bathroom graffiti.
We've been doing this all throughout history, man. Nothing new under the sun.

Man, it kinda makes you think. Humans are assholes.

>>49777965
Same reason they often depicted knights fighting rabbits.

Monks all had to maintain the monastery gardens. Guess which two things make your life hell in a garden? Snails and fucking rabbits.

>>49780432
I could probably hand 90% of modern humans their ass. Discount all women, children and infirm people, and there's not a whole lot left.

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>>49780485
You've got a good point.

>>49779358
Why?
Also, do birds have distinct personalities from one another?

>>49780529
Can't answer the first bit but the smarter birds totally have distinct personalities, they're up there with dogs and chimps in that regard.

>>49780573
What are bird personalities like in general?

>>49780584
Flighty.

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>>49780106
>Sure showed those snails today, Brother Megaschlonkus!

This thread is why I visit /tg/.

Well chivalry and knighthood originated in France and, well, Frenchmen gotta eat.

>>49780529

Birds enjoy playing with things, especially stupid, random stuff. They're also very ostentatious. If they could wear hats, that is almost certainly something they'd devote time to discussing.

>>49780584
Basically imagine your average /b/tard but endearing because it's a funny-looking animal.

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Had snails with butter,garlic and dill a few days ago. Delicious shit, I bet those monks ate snails all day erry day.

>>49780584
Like a 2 or 3 year old with a trollish streak.
In general, food that is not intended for them tastes better. Doesn't matter if it's the exact same food. If it's not their own, they want it. I've seen birds rotate around as they take a nibble, notice another bird eating elsewhere, go over and push the other bird away, take a nibble of that food, notice another bird eating elsewhere, ect.
Same with toys. At the most innocent level, they like puzzles and small challenges. The rest of the time, they would much rather chew on furniture, clothing, paper, or cardboard entirely because a human spends effort and time preventing exactly that.

Aside from that, they have different habits and preferred activities. One of my birds likes to sit on knees while preening herself, and the other wouldn't be caught dead anywhere but the shoulder.

>>49783375

I've never noticed the behavior with food with my birds, but then again they're kept in different rooms. In fact, they don't even seem to realize the other exists unless you basically push them beak to beak.

You're completely right on the chewing though. The cockatiel would rather chew on my window sills or on the wrappings for bottled water than any of his toys.

>>49783375
>>49783404
>chewing on the wrong stuff

It's a stimuli response. When they chew/claw at the "right" thing, you don't do anything. When they chew on the "wrong" thing, you react and interact with them and the thing. The latter is more fun, obviously, so they keep doing it.

Knights used to ride around on snails before people invented horses.

>>49783535

I've found I can keep the cockatiel entertained if I give him one of those plastic cocktail swords. He'll chew on it, swing it around, throw it, and it'll keep him busy. Though he'll only touch them if they're yellow.

>>49777965
It was a slow day for scribes.

>>49779323
>and painful.
For you

>>49780517
>The damne'd Rabet hath a pet Snail!

>>49780380
I dunno. Ever seen plate armor in a museum? Dudes used to be really small and those were the affluent ones. Medieval nutrition fucked them up pretty hard.

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>>49780517

First, to battle, and then, to victory!

>>49784342
>and those were the affluent ones
Read: the ones who were culturally inclined away from eating their veggies.
Peasants probably averaged 5'8''

>>49784342
>Ever seen plate armor in a museum?

Those are compressed due to resting on low stands.

>>49784746
Someone needs to edit the snails face into wojak.

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>>49784342
>Ever seen plate armor in a museum?

>>49783272
They ate snails mainly during Lent as they didn´t count as meat, see http://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/terrestrial/helix.html?/gastropoda/terrestrial/helix/history.html
I´d be intersted in finding out what they tought snail meat was, maybe it was like a non-food , like eating dirt (Jews have a word or phrase for this kind of thing, but I can´t remember what it was. Oy)
Also, monks in 10th Century Britain and even in 17th century Canada ate beavers on Friday, bcause they tought that, as aquatic animals beavers are close enough to fish for them to eat. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-upon-a-time-the-catholic-church-decided-that-beavers-were-fish/

Possibly something to do with fighting sloth?

>>49779252
>some autistic monk keeps crossbreeding beanstalks because he gets off on making them procreate
>catalogs it all, accidentally discovers Mendelian inheritance hundreds of years early

>>49783219
>Implying that /b/tards aren't funny looking.
>Implying that /b/tards aren't animals.

>>49777965
Wizards, no sense of right and wrong.

>>49780468
>there was

There's still is, just go to any university.

>>49779344
>monk
>it's clearly dank muslim memes

>>49780513
>He thinks that healthy males comprise less than 10% of the population worldwide.

>>49783272
Why are all octopuses so angry?

>>49787262
They probably just considered it "fish".

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>>49777991
>>49778089
>>49778107
>>49778247
>>49779252
>TFW you will never send a letter to another monastery that simply reads "Dumb snailpainter"

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>>49787262
>ok guys the bible says we have to fast during Lent to affirm our faith, like jesus did in the desert
>ok well, you don't have to fast, but you can't eat meat
>ok you can eat meat, but not on fridays
>ok you can't eat meat on fridays but you can eat fish
>ok Lent is now not about fasting at all, its about eating fish on fridays.

god bless those persistent monks

>tfw you will never spend your life piously in a mountainside monastery
>tfw you will never tend to a small garden dutifully, supporting yourself and your brothers with cabbage
>tfw you will never devote yourself to brewing the finest ales
>tfw you will never chill with other monks
>tfw you will never doodle snails absentmindedly which will then be the subject of curiosity for people viewing your manuscripts on a Cathayan Silk Harvesting imageboard hundreds of years in the future
feels bad man

>>49784964
Gout was basically a pandemic for the upper nobility, otoh they could get really tall due to not being malnourished as kids in the first place.

It's aliens.

Aliens came to Earth after millions of years travelling in generation ships, happened upon Earth. Kinda looked like snails, population was stunted and inbred by then after all that millennia-long stasis shit and keeping numbers down, so in the end there weren't many left.

Touched down in medieval Europe, people thought they were demons, alien snail guys kind of offended their society's greatest achievement is being annihilated by clanky ass metal natives, proceed to get BTFO'd by glorious chivalry, fuck aliens.

>>49780432
The first surviving treatise on sword fighting was actually written by and for monks.

>>49791066
Fish was exempt because of how many communities relied on fish as a necessity rather than a luxury.

There are idiots out there who think that they're vegetarians even though they eat fish.

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>>49779252
>Most 4chan users would probably be either monks or dead if they were born during the middle ages.
Totally!
>Wake up early in the morning
>Have a quick breakfast, then go outside to "work"
>"Work" mostly means tending to the land and playing with the farm animals
>The goat keeps licking your fingers, it tickles
>Time for morning prayer, thank the Lord for allowing you a celibate life free of bitches and whores
>Time for lunch with the monks in "disciplined silence" (which means you just exchange gossip through sign language)
>The table is dominated by rumors of the duchess cheating on her husband with the stable boy
>Bitches: not even once
>After lunch, you start copying old Latin manuscripts
>You managed to call dibs on Catullus so you have a hearty kek
>Brother Matthew had a bit too much of his "exotic herb" and interrupts you to babble about how many angels can dance on the tip of a needle
>Write it all down for posterity because why the fuck not?
>Add some rare snail pantings to it for shits and giggles
>During dinner, these newfag from the Redizzo and Tomblerino monestary keeps spamming stale snail memes
>Luckily they're easily triggered by heresy
>After dinner, brew some beer with my bros
>Until we're interrupted by Brother Antonio, who for the twelfth time this week convinced us that he actually managed to make a perpetuum mobile
>Of course it doesn't work
>Go to sleep
>Tomorrow it starts all over again

>>49788709
Mendel himself was an autistic monk

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>>49777965
They are word-eaters, a metaphorical memeophage. Their epidemic brought low the Roman Empire, and it took centuries of steadfast, boring experiments to develop illuminations capable of killing them.

But this became a lost art, and they returned as digital worms. The Angel_Fire Project was a worthy sacrifice to develop modern countermeasures.

However, some believe the worms mutated, and now nest into our minds, consuming our attention.

Image boards are such prolific worm transmission vectors that they are pitied by the dank alley whore between pier 12 and 13.

>>49779302
Humans don't know when to stop, we are not a moderate species. You know it to be true.

>>49780529
Not him but they do. I got three, and they even have different likes and dislikes.

>>49780584
Murderful. My first bird came out of the box only because it bit my finger and refused to let go. It cherishes the taste of human blood. I use it to scare a friend who's built like a wrestler.

>>49783219
>>49783404
You buy a colored wooden toy, they get fascinated by a bottle cork instead.

>>49783535
That's good to know.

>>49794490
Poor senpai. He was right about the end.

>>49777965
They are just some very well equipped medieval gardener.

>>49791066
>ok Lent is now not about fasting at all, its about eating fish on fridays.
ACKCHUALLY the no-meat-on-Friday thing is separate from Lent and is/was a Catholic rule for EVERY Friday; "meager days".

Monks were 4channers, they saw knights as Chads, try to mock them by showing them fighting snails

>>49777965
Grinding for exp.

>>49794353

I always thought of fish as meat, ever since I was a kid. Still do. Weirds me out that people get so up in arms about specifying that it isn't. I mean, it's animal flesh, right?

>>49795609
I completely agree. Fish meat is still meat. The logic behind it is more along the lines of "fish is swimming freely in the ocean so it's not as horrible when we catch them, kill them and eat them as it is with cows because cows are raised"

I'm perfectly fine with eating most things as long as they are cooked and good for me, honestly. Life's too short to worry about what you put into your mouth as long as it tastes delish.

>>49791027
I just lost and now you did too

>>49787262
>not throwing pigs to the lake and claiming you fished them
hownew.ru

>>49795609
Anyone suggesting that fish isn't meat is deluding themselves.
It's fucking animal muscle. Sure there are differences in both biological culinary terms but it's still muscle from an animal.
>>49795687
>The logic behind it is more along the lines of "fish is swimming freely in the ocean so it's not as horrible when we catch them, kill them and eat them as it is with cows because cows are raised"
And by any god you care to name is that stupid. Getting a hook in the mouth then pulled out of your home is brutal and being caught in a shrinking space then dragged into a place you can't breath isn't exactly fun.
Seriously imagine hunting down a tasty morsel, then suddenly something has torn right through your face and now you're being dragged into the sky by your cheek and you're losing the ability to breath because the air is running out.

They aren't always *fighting* those snails in the depictions, in one they are clearly praying together and another has a simple meeting.

Clearly, these images are the surviving evidence of the First and Third. Gastropod Crusades, undertaken to convert and enlighten the pagan snails within Christendom.

Don't ask about the Second Gastropod Crusade

In seriousness, Wikipedia says that in the medieval period snails represented the deadly sin of sloth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Symbolism

>>49796680

It could also be a picture of knights fighting good old Lou.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Carcolh

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>>49796875
>described as being both a serpent and mollusk at the same time.
That actually sounds pretty terrifying the more you think about it.

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>>49777965
Just shitposting while bored during their years of copying text.

I do love their interpretation of animals though. If I described a hippo to you using word of mouth over the course of a few years, what would it end up like?

Do they have breasts?
>Uh huh, four of them. They sag

Great, what do their heads look like?
>Like a dogs, Odo. C'mon... what else would it be?

You're right, Pepin. So what color are they?
>Beige and brown with blue spots all over. To warn those around them of danger

Mhmm, do they have claws?
>Exceptional ones, Odo. So large that they put a lions to shame

Right, right. Thank you Pepin, you are as wise as the saints
>Anytime Odo. That's why I get more porridge than the others... I have a large brain to feed

>>49795830
The way fish are killed for meat is much more cruel than pretty much any other animal. There's animal cruelty laws in most western countries about this for other animals but not for fish

>>49796999
>>49795830

You also have to take into account that fish are dumb, and some have such a small brain that the pain they "feel" is not much different than the jerk reaction you make when you accidentally bump into furniture with the tip of your elbow.

>>49796995
http://the-toast.net/2016/04/14/two-monks-invent-art/

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>>49797355
Top kek

Thank you so much for this

>>49777965
"A royal mandate prohibits depicting a horse through art due to multiple stable owners falsely advertising their equines. The law was poorly thought out."

>>49779323
Those are the best inside jokes. Otherwise they don't stay inside.

>>49796995
>First question is "do they have breasts"
Monks really WERE medieval /tg/

>>49794331
But was it a practical manual or an academic curiosity?
A treatise about the history of sword fighting and some famous or exceptional sword fighters is not the same as a document used for sword training.

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>>49798163
It teaches you how to fight with the sword and buckler yes.

One of the illustrated fighters has a tonsure and it references a priest as a sword fighting teacher.

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It's kind of a weird feeling really. Every great civilization constantly shitposted and talk sick bantz to each other. No matter what happens, even in the future where resources are scarce and people are dying by the masses, we will still be shitposting.

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>>49795830
>Seriously imagine hunting down a tasty morsel, then suddenly something has torn right through your face and now you're being dragged into the sky by your cheek and you're losing the ability to breath because the air is running out.
That's what you get for not being the apex predator.

>>49777965
Because FUCK snails.

>>49779316
>you will never have a qtwaifu to hold your massive dick while you hit snails with your fishing rod

>>49780075
>So medieval /tg/ had never seen a vagina either?
We're talking about monks, anon. Monks.

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>>49798842
Your point being?

>>49794471
Underrated post.

>>49794471
>tfw Viking fucking chads come to your monastery, loot your relics and burn all your memebooks

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Saved for posterity

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>>49798658
>V.1.26 ()House of Caecilius Iucundind); 4091: Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knowns not love. Let him perish twice over whovers forbids love.

>>49796999
>>49795830
If you think most commercial fishing is hook and line you're retarded. Most commercial fish aren't even caught the're raised, see how some sellers have "Wild caught!" prominently? That's because they're the exception. And that wild caught food is not a bunch of guys with hooks in the waters, it's nets.

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>>49801333
So this "hurr durr le power of le love" thing isn't all that recent, morons have been around for centuries.
>Inb4 idiots who actually believe love is the only thing worth living for call me jaded

>>49801668
>So this "hurr durr le power of le love" thing isn't all that recent
Ever read a Theater piece anon ?

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>>49779285
There will be no recorded reason for pepe either once our ritual to summon Kek to this plane is complete. He will bring forth the meme apocalypse and scour degenerates from existence itself.

>>49780175
Nah that's a giant spear tip
or a sprite holding a normal sized spear tip
SPRITES CONFIRMED REAL

>>49795334
>>49791066
And in my last confession the priest reminded me that the USCCB has not actually said that people don't need to do this, it's just become a recommendation rather than sin to eat meat on Fridays.

>>49801835
>Don't eat meat on fridays
>Alright, beaver counts as fish and not meat
>Alright, not eating meat is only a recommendation, if you feel like it
>refugees welcome

>>49802088
>>Alright, beaver counts as fish and not meat
Capybara too. Oh, and at on point the French were raising ducks with clipped wings in aquatic pens, since never walking on land made them technically fish.
Fucking rules lawyers.

>>49802159
>Vous ne serez jamais un moine français rire de vos homologues continentaux à écrire des histoires d'élevage de canard à l'encre verte tout en dînant sur une délicieuse viande d'oiseau

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>>49802159
>tfw you cut off a cow's legs and raise him in a shallow pond so you can eat beef for lent

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>>49802201
Sent mauvais homme

>>49794490
>You buy a colored wooden toy, they get fascinated by a bottle cork instead.
Cats. Get a fancy toy, cat is more interested in the bag/box it came in.

>>49795773

Even for a monk that would be taking the piss though.

>>49795609
>>49795687

I thought the fish for Lent was a) in reference to the whole fishers of men thing, and the miracle with the loaves and fishes, a nice tangible symbol of Christ's miracles to eat leading up to Easter, and b) wrapped up in class symbolism. You wanted to eat beef because that was an expensive, high status thing to eat. Fish has (not always, but in a lot of places) been a lower class staple. OTOH I don't have a source for much of this, so it's probably just me gibbering.

>>49779673
>Knights were chads
>Snails were pepe
DEEPEST LORE.

>>49802470
Ironic how that reversed nowadays, and today fish is more expensive than meat.

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>>49777965

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>>49802585
Can someone explain why medieval art has these incredibly weird and unfitting poses and facial expressions? I refuse to believe medieval artists didn't know how facial expressions and bodylanguage worked, even if they couldn't figure out perspective.

>>49802201
>>49802253
Ouch. I know google translate isn't that good, but that's just hurting my soul
here, I'll throw in my autism:
>"Nous ne serons jamais des moine français qui se moquent de leurs homologues continentaux écrivant des histoires de canards à l'encre verte, alors que nous dînons d'une délicieuse viande d'oiseau"
>"Je suis profondément blessé, être humanoïde de conception similaire à la mienne"

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>>49802681
Can you do better?

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>>49802692
>"Je suis profondément blessé, être humanoïde de conception similaire à la mienne"

>>49802681
Can someone explain why manga art has these incredibly weird and unfitting poses and facial expressions? I refuse to believe Japanese artists didn't know how facial expressions and bodylanguage work, even if they can't figure out perspective.

>>49802159

The French are one of two nations on earth, the other being the Chinese, who seem to have most elevated animal cruelty in the service of gastronomy to an art in and of itself.

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>>49802777
>He doesn't understand that it's the suffering that makes the meat taste better

>>49802692
Christ you fucking French faggot I was just trying to give some visibility to your Eurotrash meme language. Trust a fucking frog to get all butthurt, shit some onions and cut off the heads of the nobility.

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>>49785533

>>49802777
Too true. Read up about the preparation of ortolan, anyone not in the know.

>>49802890
You realise my post had intentional shitty translations, right ? right ?
Oh well, on my way to kill what's left of our nobility and eat bread

>>49802807
Technically incorrect; stressed animals taste worse because of the different hormones released into the muscle material before they're slaughtered.

So once again the French are terrible and doing it wrong.

>>49802890
If French is so bad, why is 30 to 40% of English vocabulary taken from French ?

>>49802963
What's your favourite kind of bread anon ?
I would kill a man for a good baguette au maïs.

>>49802966
If 3e was so bad why is 97% of Pathfinder taken from it?

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>>49802991
>baguette
>not its manlet but better tasting cousin

>>49802991
>baguette au maïs
You. I like you
Otherwise, I like standard baguettes, or versions with pavots

>>49802966
Because the Normans invaded England and became its nobility? Is this a troll post?

>>49802963
Don't you lie to me, I know damn fucking well you're about to go abuse goats, drink wine and kiss another man on the cheeks.

>>49802945
now make the rabbit a pepe

>>49802681

Different standards of tropes and symbols. That goof-ass dragon face is probably supposed to look unnatural and menacing to a reader to whom the threat of wild animals was familiar and who had no frame of reference for a 'realistic' monster.

Often unemotional or stoic faces are associated with heroes who take no pleasure in duty or are just focused, etc.

>>49801668

Is jaded now synonymous with being a salty little bitch?

>>49777989
>The Snail Wars were truly mankind's darkest hour.

To fight monsters we had to create monsters.

>>49794471
The goat part made me chuckle.

>>49801668
We will let you perish thrice just to make sure.

>>49802681
They hadn't figured out perspective

>>49783656
Only yellow.. birds are a pissy and picky lot.

>>49803018
Because Pathfinder is bad?

>>49802681
it looks like the wyvern is tapdancing and stoned out of its mind

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>>49802681
A realistic and natural human body simply wasn't valued in paintings before the renaissance kicked in. The armor was often quite well defined, for example, so they had some appreciation to detail.

This is not to say they didn't value realism at all, but that happened in wooden statues. Marvelous work.

>>49777965
Maybe because they're all depicting a certain legend or story? More than one person is allowed to draw a picture of something.

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>>49780427
You mean

O R A O R A O R A O R A O R A O R A

E
T

L A B O R A O R A O R A O R A O R A O R A

>>49805638
u cheeky cunt

>>49802702
>Why the fuck aren't you burning?
>Man, i dunno what to tell you, i don't know what the fuck is going on either.

>>49804813
How old is that statue?

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>>49785574
see image title

>>49803338
>that pacific rim vibe
Where are my mecha snails ?