attackfish

Thank you for watching it! When I first watched Avatar: the Last Airbender, I was absolutely amazed at the sensitivity and realism with which they portrayed the abusive relationships between Azula and her victims. There was absolutely no judgement leveled against her victims, and they were portrayed as strong, capable, brave people, who were under Azula's thumb through no fault of their own, and Azula is shown over and over again as a credible abuser, who is no less capable of being an abuser and causing great harm to her victims just because she is a fourteen year old girl. This is astonishingly rare, and as the victim of long term abuse by a female peer in childhood, I can tell you that in the real world, a whole lot of people don't believe that this sort of abuse is real, or damaging, or as valid as the more stereotypical abuse of a father, husband or boyfriend on the women and children in their power. Given that victims of even the most normative abusive situation face huge amounts of denial and victim blaming...

Yeah, I might be a little passionate about this. I hadn't realized until I started making this vid how very much the camera loves Azula. It's always looking up at her, deliberately framing her as intimidating and powerful.