Vid: Bloodbenders Build a Levee
Oct. 17th, 2013 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Disclaimer: The music for this vid is Natalie Merchant's "Build a Levee", as performed live in San Diago on March 30, 2002. The footage in this vid comes from Avatar: the Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra, which belong to Nickelodeon, as well as to Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.
Summary: To bloodbend is to takeback control.
Warning: Spoilers for all of Korra, Book 1, and all of Airbender Book 3. Also *Spoiler, highlight to read* canon violence, canon murder-suicide, canon child abuse, canon animal cruelty, bloodbenders bending blood, just general creepiness.
Creator Commentary: Happy Halloween! And happy early birthday to me!
Bloodbenders Build a Levee
Summary: To bloodbend is to take
Warning: Spoilers for all of Korra, Book 1, and all of Airbender Book 3. Also *Spoiler, highlight to read* canon violence, canon murder-suicide, canon child abuse, canon animal cruelty, bloodbenders bending blood, just general creepiness.
Creator Commentary: Happy Halloween! And happy early birthday to me!
Bloodbenders Build a Levee
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Date: 2013-10-18 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-18 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-18 05:44 am (UTC)I love how it's so simple, just letting the images and the moments flow by with the slow, steady music- that real quiet, but strong words about scary things so bad that you have to keep it low and subdued to let it out.
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Date: 2013-10-18 04:29 pm (UTC)I thought about this while making this vid, bloodbending in both shows is all about being stripped of control, not just for the bloodbendee, but also for the bloodbender. Every single time we are shown bloodbending being learned, it's by force. I'm sure in the avatarverse, there are bloodbenders who sought out the technique and learned it willingly, possibly including Yakone, who we've met, but in the show itself, the only time we see it learned is through a violation. Hama is forced to invent it in the Fire Nation prisons, and then forces Katara to learn it in turn. Then Yakone forces Noatak and Tarrlok to bloodbend each other.
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Date: 2013-10-19 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-19 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-22 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-22 01:39 pm (UTC)sending love
Date: 2017-07-14 11:38 am (UTC)thanks for making and sharing this video (and sorry for the short comment i am really not good with words)
Re: sending love
Date: 2017-07-15 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: sending love
Date: 2017-07-15 06:56 pm (UTC)