#C.E.

[seeddarkpassion]

[kingdomkeykitsune]

KHOC WEEK 2024 DAY 2: PAST

(Please ignore the wonky background, this was one of those cases where I had to pick my battles in order to get the piece done and the background won on this one)

Another post for @khoc-week! This time taking a look at the past.

For better or worse the moment in C.E.'s past that shaped her the most had to be when her father left when she was about ten. Not only did she lose her dad, one of her favorite people in the whole world at that point, but he left behind a heavy, unseen legacy to carry.

You see, once upon a time a very long time ago, in an age of fairy tales and legends, a group of people found their way to Twilight Town and took a liking to the idyllic World, deciding to take up residence there. However, they would eventually discover that creatures of Darkness also found themselves drawn there, creatures that the townsfolk had no means of defending themselves against, but that they did. They were not Keyblade warriors, but they had magic that allowed them to fight against the creatures, including allowing them to summon other magical weapons. For a long time these people, their descendants, and others who trained under them to take up the fight were hailed as heroes, but eventually the attacks began to wane and eventually became rare enough that people started forgetting. Eventually the protectors all but faded from memory, becoming nothing more than old fairy stories themselves with only one family remaining who continued to secretly train their children in the old ways so that Twilight Town was never left undefended.

C.E.'s dad, who goes by Zen, was the last to properly receive full training. It's likely he would have eventually started to properly train C.E. as well, but something drove him to leave one day, and he's never been seen since. C.E. was the only one to see him leave and is the only one who knows he purposely chose to go, everyone else in town thinks he's gone missing, but much to her frustration she finds that she physically can't tell anyone, and she has no idea why. At this point she's come to hate it when anyone brings him up because inevitably she hits up against that block and goes unwillingly silent.

Now, just because she was never properly trained to be one of Twilight Town's protectors doesn't mean she hasn't become one, she has. She and some friends we'll meet tomorrow have taken up the fight, but I'll discuss it more then~

(Also, if you're thinking Zen looks young here, he is. C.E.'s parents were rather young when she was born, but they did their best for her regardless.)

[als0als0]

[flokileroux]

Centennial Energy Corp.

A shady energy concern located on Cetecea Island. Many secrets are hidden behind its walls of marble unaware that its biggest threat already resides inside its halls.

[flayallstertorturedmind]

So, just to be clear, Kira never knew he was being manipulated by Flay, right?

[slayercain]

Rape and sex are far from foreign to each other, but rather are mutually constitutive elements of a broader structure of exploitation. Rape’s violence and transgression is not aberrant but rather a defining aspect of sexuality. It is the original appropriation driving all subsequent consumption or self-ownership, a threat or reality that renders sexuality meaningful. [...] Throughout the whole of sexuality we can find many of the qualities attributed specifically to rape. It’s not a stretch to say that the affective labor of sexuality, the emotional work of another’s subjectification, is exploitative. Likewise the structural constraints on consent, the subtle and not-so-subtle violence that make “no” unheard or unspeakable, can be experienced as coercion, and the abdication of self-definition and submission to another’s will often required to enter into sex can be felt as violation. It is in such experience that the presence of rape, its inextricability from sex becomes clear, yet to flatly characterize all experience of sexuality as rape would be a denial of difference. Sex and rape are not two points on a spectrum of gendered violence and exploitation, one being simply more painful, but rather rape is a distinct aspect of patriarchy and sexuality coexisting with and mutually definitive of “normal” sex, which lives a different life socially. [...] [R]ape is implicated in all forms of sex, and to perceive rape rightly as a scandal calls into question the foundation of every form of sexuality. Normative, civil sex is only one part of a system that has rape as its basis, as a central operating principle. The imagined integrity of the perfectly consenting subject amounts to little more than a regulatory principle of rape, a purity to be defended against a threatening Other. Which is not to say that assertion of dignity, of the right to not be raped, by those denied it is not a frequently necessary, worthwhile move. Rather, feminism needs to be wary of falling into a cultural conservatism that identifies rape as exogenous to sex and the social, as a disease to be cut away. To challenge rape is to challenge all conceptions of sex and bodies available to us; to undo it would be to uproot thousands of years of society, from what may well be civilization’s beginning.

C.E., Undoing Sex: Against Sexual Optimism

[ce-writes]

This Face of Mine

[jinsei-pika-pika]

CAVEMPT - Washed Denim Zip Jacket

[maliciouscigarette]

The sack of Rome, August 24th 410 CE, colourised.

Art by Psicochurroz

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wish I could study this subject every day but unfortunately I need to pass another exam first ://

[kingdomkeykitsune]

KHOC WEEK 2024 DAY 1: INTRODUCTIONS

Woof, I almost forgot it was the first! July was such a busy month for me this year that it went by WAY too fast, haha.

ANYWAY for @khoc-week this year I'll be focusing on my girl C.E.! I've wanted to show her off for YEARS but I've struggled with creating a ref I was satisfied with, until now! As you can see, she's a resident of Twilight Town, so her story mainly coincides with Days, KH2, and KH3 as far as intersection with the main canon goes, and at first glance she seems like just another resident of our favorite sunset town, but appearances can be deceiving and there's always more to the story than first meets the eye. So buckle up and enjoy as I pull back the curtain and give you a peek at what this girlie's hiding in the days to come.

(Also, yes, I did reference that unicorn off of the Unicornis symbol, but there's no connection to Unicornis or Ira planned currently, it's actually a reference to all the unicorns/pegasi in the Twilight Town mansion. The Unicornis symbol just had a cool style that vibed well with C.E.'s design lol)

[catsofyore]

“Parlor Ornament”. Postcard from my collection, 1906.

[nemfrog]

Fast friends. Lives of two cats. 1900. Illustrated by C.E. Allen.

Internet Archive

[flayallstertorturedmind]

These are HD remasters of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Special Edition that were first made in 2019 that were recently broadcast by WOWOW in Japan. Can someone rip these?

[slayercain]

[S]ex must be understood as something inextricably determined by notions of value. In sex’s bluntest formation, some bodies produce value—be it babies, satisfaction, beauty, sense of self, etc.—and other bodies reap the benefit of such value in the exchange of sex. Sex is one moment, among many, that bodies become transformed into a substance to be “enjoyed,” that is, consumed. Liberal feminism’s concept of “sexual empowerment” can then be taken as an urge towards self-ownership, to benefit from one’s own value production. This is not necessarily useless, and at times presents a powerful challenge to silences necessary to forms of patriarchy, but as an aim in and of itself it is a demand for greater representation in a phallic economy of sex. Radical consent takes this demand even further until it becomes almost self-parodying: everybody may have access to the subject position, and as such everybody may benefit from their own value production. But phallic economy does not allow for such utopianism. Even if for one encounter it can feel mutual, feel decided upon by free and equal actors, the underlying mechanics of sex have not been challenged. The subject position necessitates the object; any value produced may always be appropriated and will always be expedient to appropriate. The act of rape will in such a context always be available, and when vengeance against the rapist can be circumvented, will always be enacted. [...] [F]eminized bodies, “women” or otherwise, are cast as (re)productive forces and as commodities. Offered by most sex-positive feminisms are means by which this productivity may occur with a minimum of violence, in which a body cast into the object position has some agency within an already presumed sexual encounter. Cosmo offers us a range of interesting new positions with our man, the consent zine offers us ways to semi-formally negotiate sexual encounters; we find ways to feel okay with what we’re doing, what we must do for safety and survival. But this is all within a context where our bodies are presumed to be mere sites, of babymaking, of pleasure, of self-discovery, of anything really, and this context goes either unchallenged or challenged with the assertion that everybody has the right to pleasure, self-knowledge, babies, etc. The productivity of the sexual is perhaps acknowledged—and when sex work is addressed this is blatant—but it is assumed to be neutral. When money is involved it is “just a job;” when other forms of value, like physical appearance, are involved, all one gets is “of course nobody should be forced to be beautiful, but what’s wrong with beauty?” Sexual production and self-ownership is pleasant up until it is confronted with the materiality of consumption. [...] A capitalist economy of sex, in its phallic mode of subject/object, culminates and reproduces itself in acts of consumptive death—in moments of silence, denial, violence, and rape. It is in rape, and in the violent consumption that typifies it, that “not-man” takes on its meaning and is put to work, and it is only within or over this class that all forms of sexual empowerment grant agency.

C.E., Undoing Sex: Against Sexual Optimism

[ce-writes]

Get to know me!

Pen Name: Celestine Elizabeth

Age: 19

Pronouns: she/her

Blog for: Writing, Poetry, Literature

TW: my works contain topics that discuss depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, religious imagery, religious trauma, etc.

: I’ve always wanted to publish a book so I’ve decided to get started on a blog to hopefully put my work out there at least. Also, English is not my first language so I apologize in advance if I do not notice a mistake.