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Is the gothic horror of Bloodborne actually a complex metaphor for periods, birth, and the female experience? This video explores the hidden themes of umbilical cords, pregnancy, and uterus motifs within the FromSoftware classic.
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00:00Blood porn famously people say and I agree is a game about periods and birth where like you're
00:06collecting umbilical cords to become reborn as a baby in the end and there is a pregnant woman in
00:13there and she is pregnant with like an old god's a child but she's pregnant and we see an actual
00:19belly and that's you know maybe kill her and steal her umbilical cord but she's there for a second
00:27and just the concept of blood being healing and there's so many uterus motifs and from software
00:36games that I think is special and relates to how I see womanhood which conflicts me because if you
00:45women get to be people are we always magical beings of healing and transformation and containing life
00:51inside of us and that's like unknowable creatures or are we people with five ponytails games can't
01:00decide why not both I want to be magical and have more than five ponytails

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