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Bloodborne is a very...wet game. It's bloody and messy and goopy and I love it a lot, but I don't often see people talking about the more feminine aspects of its horror (pregnancy, childbirth etc) that it's absolutely bursting with (no pun intended). Content warnings are there for a reason. Some people are probably really not gonna like this and that's cool, go watch a video more to your taste, but I had fun and I hope you do as well ^.^
Terfs and gender critical folks are not welcome here. A personâs existence is not debatable.
CW: blood, violence, infanticide, menstruation, religion/heresy, pregnancy/unwanted pregnancy, forced caesarean, medical abuse, human experimentation, intoxication, Eldritch/cosmic horror, body horror, fantasy plagues, suicide
Quote for Part 2/Lunar Cycles is from Mabel, a horror podcast about missed connections, family secrets and the blurring between myth and reality and love. I love it to pieces, highly recommended.
Listen here!: mabelpodcast.com/episodes
Quote for Part 4/Gods is from the audiobook of Terry Pratchett's "Lords and Ladies"
Extra footage:
Eileen's fight:    â˘Â Bloodborne - Fighting Eileen in the G... Â
Queen Yharnam's fight:    â˘Â Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen Boss Fight ... Â
Rakuyo description/guide for obtaining it (seriously fuck the sharks):    â˘Â Bloodborne The Old Hunters DLC - Raku... Â
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Blood
16:20 Lunar Cycles
26:35 Babies
38:22 Gods
Songs used!!
Cannot place the groany sound before the Bloodborne OST kicks in? I lost the project files for this along with my harddrive but it SOUNDS like a similar audio quality to the Little Nightmares OST but I canât place it with only 2 seconds, sorry! (Itâs actually driving me nuts so if someone can place it pls tell me, also if I put time stamps it tries to re chapter the video, thanks youtube)
Bloodborne: Bloodborne
Little Nightmares: Sixâs Theme Part 1
Hollow Knight: Crossroads
Silent Hill 3: Maternal Heart
Little Nightmares II: Togetherness I
Detention: Paranoid
The Cat Lady: Lily of the Valley
Fran Bow: Lost
Little Nightmares 2: Togetherness I
Rule of Rose: The Attic
Silent Hill 3: A Stray Child
Fran Bow: Forest
The Witchâs House: Rumour
Little Nightmares: Hypnosis
Alice Madness Returns: Hyde Park
Pathologic 2: Higher than Sky
Darkwood: Darkwood
Alice Madness Returns: Card Castles in the Sky
The Haunting of Hill House: Feel Nothing
Little Nightmares II: The Nome in the Attic
The Cat Lady: Lily of the Valley
Darkwood: Untitled 2
Rule of Rose: The Attic
Omori: H2O-HCl
Hollow Knight: Crossroads
Alice Madness Returns: Sunken Crypt
Hollow Knight: Resting Grounds
Silent Hill 3: Maternal Heart
Bloodborne: Moonlit Melody
Little Nightmares II: True Colours
Hollow Knight: Resting Grounds
Bloodborne: Lullaby for Mergo
Little Nightmares II: Togetherness II
Madoka Magica: Anima Mala
Madoka Magica: Puella in Somnio
Little Nightmares: Hunger II
Bloodborne: Hail the Nightmare
Darkwood: Road to Home
Little Nightmares II: Casting Shadows
Bloodborne: Hunterâs Dream
Little Nigthmares II: Casting Shadows
Bloodborne: Lullaby for Mergo
Views : 955,480
Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: May 5, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.789 (3,902/70,151 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Never realized Bloodborne was a period piece.
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cosmic horrors beyond human comprehension ARE FOR THE GIRLIESSđđđđ
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The great philosophical question of "Did the Moon Presence exhibit 'Girl Power' when she plunged Yharnam into eternal night and bloodlust?"
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âIf you have a functioning uterus, it means youâre capable of having children, but itâs not your purpose.â Came for the love of Bloodborne, stayed for the wisdom.
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Every female npc in the game gives you blood, except the old lady because she dosent "bleed" anymore
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Itâs kind of surprising how often maternity and birth are themes in horror games, and yet itâs talked about very little
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It's very funny to me that so many men I know who play Fromsoft games don't even suspect Bloodborne has things to say about menstruation as they venture into an area of the game called "The Nightmare of Mensis" where the sky has a seeping red gash in it, lol
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Honestly, as a woman playing Bloodborne who has an extreme aversion to pregnancy and birth, those were the absolute most horrific parts for me. And the idea of being surreptitiously impregnated by something is a huge fear of mine (albeit mine would be a real-world equivalent obviously, but still) so discovering the Arianna sidequest was downright uncomfortable.
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I find it interesting that the game features cases of both forced pregnancy as well as forced abortion. Just heavy themes of sexual violence and robbing women of bodily autonomy. Very intense when looked through that lense.
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The first time I played the game I heard "Yharnam is a place of blood menstruation" and even if I did laugh, I went through the game wholeheartedly believing it was all a metaphor for childbirth and that I was fighting to be born.
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You mention now and then in this video about how the very male-dominant audience of this game doesn't really talk about lots of these themes. You say it's because it makes them uncomfortable. I think that's true a little bit, but much more so, we just aren't thinking about it. I think the real problem is unfamiliarity, and our inability to think outside of our boxes. Thank you for this video, it's helped me as an aspiring artist to broaden my horizons.
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I wonder if having "eyes on the inside" refers to having the baby of a great one. Like when you have a fetus there are literally eyes on your insides. So perhaps the men like Willem and Laurence thought "eyes on the inside" were physical eyes in your brain when perhaps it is the eyes of a fetus inside a woman. The fetus then connects directly to the mother's mind via the umbilicus putting them in direct contact with a Great One via the medium of the pregnancy. So men want this power in the story but can't comprehend or duplicate it because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how it works.
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I always wondered if "women fainting at the sight of blood" started from someone making a parallel between lightheadedness (and even fainting) from blood loss to menstruation.
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As a biologist and as a woman, the link between the lore and female biology was glaringly obvious. The final phase of the moon is described as "menses" - this is the scientific word for menstruation, as well as a word to describe the full moon I believe.I am shocked this is not the main interpretation of Bloodborne. I really loved this about the game, as a nerd for biology and a fan of Gothic horror.
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I appreciate that you call the Moon Presence a âsheâ.
Sheâs not female, not in the biological sense, but she seeks to be a mother just the same.
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What's the point of Youtube harvesting everyone's data if it takes them 10 months after this is posted to recommend this video to me?! I've binged/rewatched hundreds of hours of Bloodborne video essays and I'm only NOW getting this?
Seriously a fantastic video. A fresh take on one of the most analayized games of the past decade.
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Still stunning me to this day how FromSoft managed to turn âand it was all a dreamâ into a good story
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It's wild to me that this central theme--and motif--of the game is not discussed more. Bloodborne is very explicitly about menses, pregnancy, childbirth, and all the pain and viscera that come with them.
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in my culture, a woman's period is called her "moon time".the moon is seen as our grandmother. She pulls the waters, including the waters within us.
We aren't allowed to touch sacred medicine or other things during moon time, as it's supposed to be a time where we rest and have the tribe support us.
I'm anishinaabekwe, an Ojibwe woman, assimilated by my gov't into a culture that disrespects the laws that are known in my dna, in my blood. Its hard to live here. I'm a housewife, a caged bird.
I didnt think i'd be crying in my empty kitchen about a video game and it's connection to how visceral womanhood can be. I'm glad this came up on my feed, i'll be revisiting it often!
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@HoneyBat
1 year ago
Hi hi! Wow this blew up massively and unexpectedly. Thank you all for watching, it's amazing seeing how much love people still have for this game! That said I'm getting a few comments repeated so here's some things: - This is intended as a thematic analysis video rather than a lore video so it's only concentrating on the one aspect here. There's plenty of wonderful lore videos up on youtube but this is not one of them - Terfs are STILL not welcome here 8 months later, believe it or not. This goes for tradfems, "traditional values" and other dogwhistles. - I'm really happy this has been helpful for some trans people!! But I also want to apologise for any clumsy phrasing on my part that may have invalidated some trans men or non-binary people. - "Die mad about it" is referencing a meme. It refers to everyone in the comment section who are, in fact, dying mad about it. - Content warnings are included because a) I make sure people can follow all of my videos even if they haven't played the game/watched the show I'm talking about and may not know the ballpark we're playing in and b) some people don't want to watch a video about uncomfortable topics like menstruation or childbirth, this is your chance to click away, dead dove do not eat - I'm gonna add the soundtracks I used to the video description in order of use as some people have been asking for them!
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