There is an infamous building on our campus, called “Montgomery House” or more commonly, “Monty.” Monty is the building for animation, game design, special effects, sound design, and basically everything that requires highly powerful, highly specialized computers and software. The building is infamous for a couple of reasons. It’s located pretty far away from any other building, for one.
The building itself used to be a coffin factory, no joke. Another is the building has no windows. None. There are also no clocks anywhere. Once you enter Monty, you are completely separated from the flow of time and the light of day. Probably the reason Monty is most known though is because students in the “monty majors” have to spend a lot of time there. A lot. It is not uncommon for somebody to spend more than a few days exclusively within the sunless, dark walls of Monty. If you go to the building, it is not surprising to see students sleeping on the floor, on the few chairs available, on the computers. Some bring sleeping bags and rations. Some just forgo sleep, buy espresso shots and work. The entire building just smells of coffee and sweat. It really seems like an exageration, but its not hyperbole.
Why I bring this up is because of something that’s started recenetly. Inside the building, the school has hung up artwork on the walls from other majors as is typical on campus. One of the artworks was a self-portrait painting of a man with long, scraggly brown hair and a full beard looking pensively off into the distance. The painting became known as “Monty Jesus.”
Students, in their desperation for their files to render, or the computers to work, began to offer prayers to Monty Jesus. Soon, they began writing their prayers and taping them next to the painting. The wall is now covered, completly plastered, in prayers to Monty Jesus for things like “Fix the wifi” and “let me live through finals” and more simply “help me.” Candles have been added. Literal candles are placed around Monty Jesus in hopes he will help them.
This is how religions are born. Monty Jesus is considered a “joke”, but people at Monty still hold…. quite a lot of superstitious faith in the concept. There is even talk of a “Monty Satan” that creates software failures. It might be in jest, but these students really are hoping for some force to help them. And they’ve given it a name, an image, and respect. Monty Jesus is real, and I’m sure of it. The desperate students have created their own spirit and their own form of worship, out of need.
Religion, spirituality, didn’t stop being relevant. It didn’t stop being something people need and want, and have the desire to create. It’s still happening, and it always will as long as their are people. The spirit of creation, new deities and new worship, is alive and well today and should not be ignored simply because it is “new” or “a joke.”
Monty Jesus is Real and Strong and Our Friend
SCAD is such a weird and magical place.
As soon as I saw “Monty” I knew this was about my school
I go to this school and I can confirm he is real. Another weird happening that occurred in the dorm adjacent to Monty is the smashed fly incident. Basically, someone smashed a fly on the stairway wall in the dorm and, because no janitor in this building ever bothers to thoroughly clean the place, the fly stayed there for a good few weeks. Eventually, one of the students wrote “ART” next to the fly with a sharpie, and a few days after that, someone made a tiny frame and name tag to accompany the art piece
Eventually some fool took this beautiful art piece down, and someone wrote a goddamn article about it in our school newspaper
which prompted several students to erect a mini shrine on the stairwell in honor of the smashed fly. Art school is truly a magical place.
Your school is a microcosm of how human culture develops, incredible.
tbh i almost shipped jasico before i got into hoo b/c one of my best friends is really into the ship and really into the series (or was pre boo l m a o) but once i read their key scenes and just the general feel (namely hoh let’s be real) i was just struck with how Good they are for each other so many people have written amazing meta for jasico but the biggest reasons i love them together:
– jason is one of maybe three people in the entire series who genuinely cares about nico’s well-being and wants him to be happy – jason is also one of the only people nico let’s in after a while (and with hazel it’s because they’re siblings so really what jason accomplishes with nico is incredible – on par with reyna) – jason finds out nico’s secret through his forced coming out and immediately understands why nico is so withdrawn and jaded and Accepts him without question, going so far as to defend him to his closest friends (defending this kid who hasn’t exactly been nice to him when the kid isn’t even around like man i love jason grace okay) – they’re both hella strong fighters and nico is two years younger so imagine them a little older like nico is canonically one of the strongest fighters but imagine him staying at camp and eating properly and maybe sleeping a little more and nico knocking jason on his ass during a sparring match b/c nico is just That Good and instead of jason being grumpy he’s just so SO impressed like ‘how did you get so good’ ‘i spent a lot of time fighting by myself’ ‘gods, nico. you’re incredible! show me how to do that!’ – jason is an over-sized puppy but he would so go protective guard dog if anyone said anything bad about nico like man okay and nico would be like ‘i don’t need you to fight my battles, grace’ and jason would be like ‘no, you don’t, but i want to fight by your side anyway’ – nico calls jason out on his shit and treats him like everyone else (when a lot of people put jason on a pedestal, nico doesn’t) – they both have heavy family issues (including dead mothers and being abandoned by their sisters – though not by the sisters volition) so given the chance they could be so good for each other in supporting each other in that healing process – they’re both children of the Big Three so they know the burdens of carrying the title (though they’ve had opposite experiences – jason was idolized and nico was demonized but both were just as isolated) – canonically jason is the only person (other than his sister and reyna) that nico lets touch him….. – jason respects nico’s boundaries and never belittles his mental health issues (unlike some people………)
k like honestly i could go on for so long i’m sorry about this but here are some of the reasons – basically this is My Ship b/c they are so so SO good for each other and had a lot of canon buildup and they are actually so similar and if given the chance they could support each other so well and i’m sorry this turned into an essay
It occurs to me that one possible reason why I find fairies of the Fair Folk Beautiful and Terrible Kings and Queens Blah Blah boring and vaguely distasteful is that when you strip down all the glamour, they’re basically bored rich kids randomly fucking with average people for their amusement just because they can. Like I get that Spring Storms Made Flesh and Lords of the Secret World but if Kellyaghnn from PE invited you to a Victorian-themed party complete with 1000$-a-piece tiny hats at her sixteen-room mansion with all her immaculately spray-tanned friends who giggle about What Fools These Working Classes Be, and then when you ate a single raisin promptly told you that now you have to stay in her house and work as her servant for free for the rest of your life to pay it off, possibly while dressed as a farm animal, you wouldn’t respond by sighing dreamily about how she’s Beyond Good and Evil.
tfw you have Way Too Many Tabs open but you also can’t close any tabs bc you Need Them and if you close them you’ll forget about them so you’ll get to them… eventually.
lisa simpson comes out to her parents with a 40-slide powerpoint presentation & a heartfelt, loving conversation which ends with them all crying and hugging. bart just rolls up with his boyfriend one day like “sup this is tyler. he’s terrible.” and then makes out with him in his treehouse for 4 solid hours
What about Maggie
maggie has three girlfriends and two boyfriends and they’re all in her band
reminder that The Simpsons canonically portrayed Lisa being in a polyamorous lesbian relationship so you can’t say that any of the above couldn’t have happened
just moving along like everyone else 