Baby's first mass attack because I was running out of time and just wanted to get some Tavs down on metaphorical paper! A collection of durges from my bookmarks, I just think they're neat! Lumi for Luxthelost, Helene for @heleneplays, Jesiah for ghxstt, and Avis for @birmit
jesse williams, bisexual, cis male + he/him → isn’t that jesiah? they’re the father of the jacksons. i hear they’re 43 and they’ve been coming to camp for 21 years. they seem to be industrious & courteous, but also cocky & rebellious. they’re into public, rimming, body worship, but not into scat, gore, & vore.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄. jesiah jackson
𝐀𝐊𝐀. jesi, jess
𝐀𝐆𝐄. 43
𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 & 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒. cis male & he / him
𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. bisexual biromantic
𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. porn director/producer
𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄
𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑. black
𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒. green
𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. 6'1 | 185.5 cm
𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃. athletic
𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒. none
𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐒. none
𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒. nipples, ears
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌. jesse williams
𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃
𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋. free spirited for the most part so he tries not to worry about much
𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋. good condition
𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐀𝐒. drowning
𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. 20/20
𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃. left
𝐃𝐑𝐔𝐆 𝐔𝐒𝐄. none
𝐀𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐇𝐎𝐋 𝐔𝐒𝐄. socially
𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐓. likes to eat well and big, a feast if you will
𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘
coming from a family of doctors, nurses, and lawyers one would expect that jesiah would've followed that same suit. yet he became a teen dad and in his mother's eyes, derailed his life quite a bit. the man had to find ways to provide for his family. he got into modeling when he was a teenager, porn when he was 19, and then the camp opened him up to so many doors. he started working with another family of directors and at the age of 25 opened up his own porn studio. now, with a successful career of his own, he wants to continue to open up this lifestyle to his sons and rest of his family.
In the wake of LEMONADE, one persistent and misguided comment I’ve seen following Beyonce’s work of unquantifiable genius around like a deranged spectre is the “You can hear Ezra’s contribution to ‘Hold Up’ it sounds like Beyonce doing a Vampire Weekend song.” No. It does not. You can’t hear his contribution, you have no idea what he’s credited for contributing. It may very well be nothing more than the tweet she used for a lyric. In no way does “Hold Up” compare to anything Vampire Weekend did. But, to make Gatorade out of this misunderstanding, to the significant number of listeners clearly thirsting for Vampire Weekend electrolytes, “Babylon” is the sugary yellow bottled drink you crave. This, not “Hold Up,” sounds like Vampire Weekend’s use of isolated vocals, pop Biblical imagery, and a forlornness that can only be described as “Upper West Side.”
DV:
I can hear the Vampire Weekend comparison in Jesiah’s vocals: reedy and artless, like he’s figuring out how to sing as he does it, they definitely evoke at least early Ezra Koenig. I’m not sure the similarity goes beyond that, and the ways in which it doesn’t are the ways in which “Babylon” falls short.
I’ve never been a big fan of the Weekends, but their strongest compositions tend to be complex, evolving affairs - even when they’re pacing a song like it’s a dirge, there are layers to the production that build and ebb, complementing Koenig and Batmanglij’s ears for off-kilter hooks with an subtly-shifting landscape of sound. This is where “Babylon” misses the mark. The lyric is strong enough; I particularly like the story suggested in “I thought we both grew up in Babylon/ We speak the language, no one understands us”, the idea that this is a couple with a history so deep and so meaningful that it’s both incomprehensible to the rest of the world and the main thing sustaining them. But it’s just not supported by the rest of the song, which plods where it should skip and locates its hook on a “Whoa-ohh” that vies to be the least catchy use of the syllables in pop history. On the basis of the first verse, I want “Babylon” to develop, I want Jesiah to take it somewhere. By the end of the song I’ve resigned myself to not understanding him.