• GreenM
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    292 years ago

    Imagine future civilization digging out some of today’s memes…

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    “And if you join our ranks today, they never will!”

    -Me, while extending my hand out in invitation for YOU READING THIS to join the…

    Associated

    Society of

    Snail

    Hunters and

    Ancient

    Truth

    Seekers

    …yes, I know. Yes, we’re technically the “A.S.S.H.A.T.S.”… Yes very funny, okay, have your moment… It’s a secret society okay, so it doesn’t actually even come up, nobody will know, it’s fine… IT’S FINE.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    I mean, I would guess dragons were a thing because of dinosaur skulls being found a long time ago. There were also giant dinosaur mollusk shells, so maybe this is the equivalent?

  • @[email protected]
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    212 years ago

    Oh dear. I read that as ‘fisting’ at first.

    I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Japan is attacked by sea creatures.

      England is besieged by Snailfist and his legion of slime.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think we know the real answer.

    Humanity was ruled by giant snails and their hyper intelligent queen, and it was only through the bravery of these fine knights were our shackles cast off and the mollusk menace thrown down.

    And, in great effort to hide our collective shame, all knowledge about this was intentionally purged, Save for a few manuscripts who managed to be overlooked or were kept in hiding, so hints of humanities true history would be known.

  • cannache
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    232 years ago

    Because they probably had a great sense of humour, comedy clubs and memes back then too, but hey let’s ignore that for just a moment to imagine how hardcore a knight you would have to be to fight off Cthulhu snails

    • ██████████
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      82 years ago

      The mystery of the medieval fighting snails 23rd December 2023, 09:00 EST

      This dude got payed to post this Ai article on christmas eve

  • blargerer
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    62 years ago

    Its easy to forget that yeolden times were also capable of satire.

  • @[email protected]
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    1382 years ago

    Monks did most of the writing and artwork.

    Monks main diet was brassicas.

    They grew their own food.

    Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?

    • Star
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      102 years ago

      Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”

      It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 years ago

      I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think