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Romulus s01e06 Because you are here. 😭😭😭
With special dedication to @brandbilen 💝
Bonus - an actual footage of me during this scene:
Romulus 1x05 & 1x06 Locations, part II
Some new gorgeous places and breathtaking shots from new episodes. I am in awe. ✨ Cinematography in Romulus makes this ancient world so vivid, tangible and real! ❤️
Romulus 1x06 Fishing lesson
❤️ Five minutes of precious peace when nobody is trying to murder them or smear some blood/dirt on their pretty faces.
Romulus 1x05 Badass Ilia arrives. 🔥
Romulus 1x05 Wiros seeking safety with Yemos.
What a precious little lamb he is ❤️
He wouldn’t survive without Yemos, his good heart, fighting skills and his strength. And Yemos wouldn’t survive without Wiros, his compassion, tenderness and smart advice.
They’re beautiful. 🧡🧡🧡
Romulus 1x01 - 1x06 Sacrum. Gods, rituals, priests.
I love all the various sacred rituals shown in each episode 🖤 A truly fascinating portrayal of the world immersed in beliefs and faith in gods’ will.
Romulus 1x08 Mother, Goddess. Yemos praying to Rumia.
What a powerful moment!! 👊⚡
Romulus 1x05 - 1x08 Yemos and She-wolf.
Requested by @waifines 🐺
(They have much more scenes together, so I had to make a selection - hope you like it! :) )
Romulus 1x08 Yemos and She-wolf in captivity.
Requested by @pride-and-potterhead 🎁
What a touching scene that was...Especially combined with the big twist at the end of the episode 💔
Romulus 1x10 A new beginning. 👑👑
What a great finale that was!! 😭❤️
What did you think about those last episodes?
(I will be tagging spoilery gifsets with #Romulus spoilers tag, just in case you haven’t watched the finale yet!)
Romulus 1x09 Revenge. 👊 🩸🩸🩸
Oh how I loved this scene. Bloody good. (lol)
ATTENTION, ATTENZIONE, new photos from season 2, currently in production!! 🎉 Courtesy of Romulusource Instagram profile - make sure to give them a follow for the freshest news!
Highlights:
- Wiros’ long hair!! 😄
- a new mysterious family of royalty - will they be good? Will they be bad?
- my girl Ilia looking gooood,
- Yemos looking hot as always 😍
- the boys together,
- new rituals and religious celebrations - I’m digging the ram mask so much!
Can’t wait!!
WE HAVE A TRAILER PEOPLE! Season 2. Finallyyy. It's been so long!
(Also, can anybody in the comments translate what is being said, please? 😅 There are no subtitles and many fans, including me, don't speak Italian. Thank you!! )
Some beautiful and memorable shots from season 2 trailer, enjoy! 🐺
(Since they showed us Yemos and Ilia getting busy, I’m not considering it a spoiler, hope you don’t mind!)
Stone bull with gold ears and horns and lapis lazuli eyes, Mesopotamia, 9th century BC
from The LA County Museum of Art
Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 17th century.
I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It's right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I'm not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine
I don't know what is.
