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“I remember chasing you through Samarkand, thrilling to think I might touch the loosening strands of your hair.”

— Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose The Time War

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Artemis Of Bana Mighdall Reading Guide / Read List

(Things in brackets are things where she only has a minor role)

Bold is recommended reading

Pre First Appearance:

Wonder Woman V2 #29-35 (Bana Mighdall’s first appearance, Artemis not seen)

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity #1-3 (Set chronologically earlier than Artemis’ first appearance when she was a teen)

—

First Appearance + Wonder Woman:

WW V2 #90, #0, #91-93

Justice League America  Vol. 1 (1989) #97-99

(Guy Gardener: Warrior #29)

(Justice League America #100)

WW V2 #94-100

—

Demon Hunter Days:

Artemis: Requiem #1-6

Wonder Woman V2 (#121-122), #123-125

(JLA Vol.1 (1997) #5 + Aztek: The Ultimate Man Vol. 1 #10)

(Genesis #1-4)

(Wonder Woman #126-127)

Wonder Woman V2 Annual #6

(It was the 90s give them a break)

—

Trainer of Heroes:

Superman/Batman #9-10, #13

Wonder Woman V2 #128-136

Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #1

Wonder Woman #139-142, #144

DCU Holiday Bash III

WW V2 Annual #8

Wonder Woman V2 (#153), #156-159

Young Justice V1 #22

Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1 (one-shot)

—

Paradise Lost and Found:

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #2)

Wonder Woman V2 #164-169, (#172), #173-174

Wonder Woman V2 #177(-178, #186, #188)

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #3)

Wonder Woman V2 #191, (#195-197), #198-203

—

Infinite Crisis:

Wonder Woman V2 #208, (#218), #221-224

(Infinite Crisis #2-3)

(Wonder Woman 1,000,000)

—

Amazons Attack! Event:

Amazons Attack #1

Wonder Woman v3 #8

Amazons Attack #2

Wonder Woman v3 #9

Amazons Attack #3

Teen Titans v3 #48

Wonder Woman v3 #10

Amazons Attack #4

Teen Titans v3 #49

Wonder Woman v3 #11

Amazons Attack #5

Wonder Woman v3 #12

Amazons Attack #6

—

The Circle:

 Secret Six (2008) #10-14

Wonder Woman V3 (#22), #37-39 + #44 + #611 + #614

—

Injustice Universe:

Injustice: Gods Among Us Year 4 #5-8, (#9), #10-11, #13-14, (#15-#17), #18, #20, #23

(I’d suggest just reading the whole of Year 4)

—

Alternate Timelines + Universes:

- The Morrigan/Odyssey Timeline

- Wonder Woman V3 #606-612, #614

- Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1-3 (Very minor role)

- The Multiversity: The Just (Artemis as Wonder Woman, very very minor role)

- Wonder Woman v1 #250-251 (Orana is an alt version of Artemis)

- Wonder Woman 1, 000, 000

- Avengers/JLA Vol.1 #2

- Flashpoint:

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #1-2

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance (2011) #1-3

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #3

—

Other/Misc/AU but more modern:

- Superman Giant Vol 1. #9-10 + #13 (2019)

- Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Robin 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Dark Nights: Death Metal #7

- Sensational Wonder Woman #3-4 (Digital First)

- Sensational Wonder Woman #11-12 (Digital FIrst)

- Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #14 (Digital First)

- Wonder Woman: Black and Gold Vol. 2

- Generations Shattered Vol. 1 + Generations Forged Vol. 1

——

DC Rebirth:

Dark Trinity + Trinity:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #1-7

Trinity Annual #1, Trinity #12-15

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #1

—

Who Is Artemis? + The Enemy Of Both Sides + Life of Bizarro:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #8-14

Wonder Woman #52-55

Red Hood and the Outlaws #15-20

(Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky #1)

Red Hood and the Outlaws #21-25

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #2

—

Outlaw + Generation Outlaws:

Red Hood: Outlaw #30-31 (flashbacks)

Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3

Red Hood: Outlaw #37-50

—

Amazons United + Trials of The Amazons

Wonder Woman Annual #4

Wonder Woman #750 + #780-781

Wonder Girl (2021) #1-4

Trial of the Amazons #1

Nubia & The Amazons #6

Trial of the Amazons: Wonder Girl #1

Wonder Woman #786

Nubia: Coronation Special

Trial of the Amazons: Wonder Girl #2

Trial of the Amazons #2

Artemis: Wanted

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Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart.

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Artemis of Bana-Mighdall: Homeric Hero

Information from an amateur classicist (me).

Ancient Greek heroes (heros) were quite different from what we would call a hero today. Heroes of legend like Achilles, Patroclus and Odysseus, what we would call ‘Homeric Heroes’ all followed a code that would be hard to reconcile with our makers definition of hero, especially the superheroes that we’ve all come to know and love.

Promachoi

Ancient Greeks, like us, valued bravery and courage in their heroes, men (and women) who fought on the frontlines known as promachoi in Greek.

Artemis of course never shied away from a battle, shown in Wonder Woman V5 #54-55 when she leads the Bana army against the Quaraci military. Even against tanks and machine guns she shows no fear.

She enjoys fighting and whilst she puts justice above anything, she loves a righteous war, this is constant across every version of Artemis. She’s always a leading warrior or a general, she leads the Amazon army with skill and she’s not afraid to get into the thick of a battle.

Kleos

Homeric heroes are motivated by the promise of glory (kleos), whether just the acclaim that comes from being a great warrior or from possessing weapons and armours of other great warriors (timê - reward and tropaion - trophy). Now Artemis may not tear valuable armour off the dead bodies of fallen soldiers, nor is kleos her sole motivation but she does fight for her honour and for the respect of her peers. In Rebirth (Red Hood and the Outlaws #8) as a young girl she trained hard in order to become their Champion. She may have been just trying to protect their crumbling city state but she aimed for the position of Bana’s best warrior just as Achilles wanted to be immortalised as The Greatest Hero. In Artemis’ first ever appearance (Wonder Woman V2 #90) she and the Banas are tired of being disrespected by the Themyscirans and decide to compete in a contest in order to earn respect and notoriety on the island. She wins he contest and earns herself the title of Wonder Woman (for 7 short issues).

Xenia

The concept of guest friendship, of being kind to the stranger, welcoming to the foreigner was very important to the Greeks. Violating the pact of Xenia could earn someone a punishment from the King of gods himself, Zeus; like when Trojan Prince Paris stole (in some versions) Helen from her home after being invited to her husband’s house for a meal and the whole of Troy was destroyed as a result.

Artemis tried to be cold but at heart she’s extremely kind. In Rebirth alone there are countless examples like when she taught Bizarro to speak while they were ‘trapped’ by Black Mask (Red Hood and the Outlaws #13); when she let Solitary go instead of killing him like she was ordered to because he had a son he wanted to see (Red Hood and the Outlaws #22 & Red Hood: Outlaw #31); when she helped the resistance in a strange elseworld (Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3) dimension that she really has no stake in and when she joined the Outlaws in the first place despite claiming to be a loner and really having no reason to stay with a faulty Superman clone and a reserected Robin.

Eusebeia

Respecting the gods which is what Asabia means was extremely important for Greeks, piety and respecting the gods was good morally but it also just meant you wouldn’t incite a god’s wrath and die bringing your whole city down with you. She has been shown to pray and even converse with her gods as heroes often do and especially in times of death or great illness like when Bizarro is on deaths door. She’s also shown to respect gods who others have given up on due to them being abandoned long ago.

(Red Hood and the Outlaws #8)

Artemis also respects her elders and her superiors. In Wonder Woman V2 #54-55 Queen Faruka II orders Artemis into a war despite shooting her hero Atalanta and working with a Quaraci who has in the past been a villain. Artemis fights the war until she realises it’s not a righteous one. She is a soldier but she is only loyal to a fault, she doesn’t follow blindly.

Arete

Greek heroes were obsessed with physical perfection and the idea of a Kalos Thanatos (a beautiful death) which of course meant they had to fight beautifully too. Before a battle warriors would oil their skin, brush their hair and arm themselves with the best armour they could afford (or steal as a trophy). Artemis is known for her iconic long red flowing pony tail which has been present for decades in Wonder Woman comics since her first appearance to her most recent one (even if it is a bit more... shaved now a-days). Achilles’ son Neoptolemus was nick named Pyrrhic which meant ‘red’ in Greek for his red hair. As a point of contrast to the legendary hero’s son, Neoptolemus killed a son in front of his father and then killed the father at a temple altar which was seen as overly brutal and angry (menis) (The Aeniad) whereas Artemis let Willis Todd go so he could have the chance to see his son again (RHATO #31).

Artemis may be a bit more fictional than the Classic Greek myths and also a product of Greek and Egyptian mythology (than again so was Cleopatra) but she still had a lot of similarities to what came before, the Homeric Heroes of Old.

Bonus: Penthesilea

In the Homeric Tradition, Penthesilea ea was an Amazon who with 12 other Amazons, fought for the Trojans against the Greeks. She distinguished herself in battle before being slain by Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy on either side, upon removing her helmet he fell in love with her and was beside himself that he had killed her. In DC canon she is a Bana-Mighdall Amazon who after she left Themyscira, fought in the Trojan War and was killed by Achilles but it was her (and Antiope’s) sect of renegade Amazons that came to form Bana Mighdall.

(Wonder Woman v2 #33)

Bonus +:

Gay Lovers

Achilles and Patroclus are often seen as lovers due to practices of the time and the fact that Patroclus is the only person other than himself that Achilles cares about in The Iliad. ‘Hetaîros’ /‘Hetaîra’ meaning companion or lover. Achilles refuses to fight after he’s disrespected by they King and as a direct result of his inaction Patroclus dies.

Artemis and Diana had to kill her love Akila after she went crazy and tried to destroy Bana Mighdall and then had to kill her again a year later with Jason and Bizarro for the going to war with Quarac and trying to kill refugees.

Symposium

A Symposia is ritualised eating and drinking that involves discussion, debate and Agon (councel).

Philos

Brotherhood (sisterhood because Amazons), love and friendship.

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There are all sorts of angels. Which one are you? Details of painted wings. (The first one is digital art.)

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That “late to the party”-feeling when you start to love a tv series and its characters, but the series is five years old and got cancelled and the fandom is practically dead. LOOKING AT YOU MARCO POLO AND JINGIM

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Historical and Period Fantasy Drama Watchlist

Historical Dramas With Some Grounding In Real Life

HBO’s Rome (Caesar and Emperor Augustus) 2 seasons

ABC’s Empire (The Rise of Augustus but really really inaccurate) 1 season

Domina (The rule of Augustus and his wife Livia)

Netflix’s Barbarians (Romans vs Germanic tribes in Germania) 1 season

Netflix’s Roman Empire (Commodus, Caesar and Caligula) 3 seasons

Sky Atlantic’s Britannia (Romans vs Celts in British Isles) 2 seasons

Netflix’s The Last Kingdom (Danes vs Saxons in British Isles) 4 seasons

Netflix’s Marco Polo (Mongol Empire) 2 seasons

Knightfall (Knights Templar) 2 seasons

Netflix + BBC’s Medici (The Medici family in Florence) NB Netflix has the seasons listed in a weird order so start with S3, then S2, then S1.

Poldark (Post American War of Independence Cornwall) 5 seasons

Downton Abbey (Pre and Post WWI England) 6 seasons and 2 movies

Peaky Blinders (post WWI England) 5 seasons

Netflix’s The Liberator (WWII) 1 season

BBC’s The Trial of Christine Keeler (1960s England) 1 season

Black Monday (1980s America) 2 seasons

Fantasy + Very Obvious Fictional Period Dramas

BBC’s Troy Fall of an Empire (Trojan War) 1 season

Netflix’s The Witcher (generic middle ages times) 2 seasons

BBC’s Merlin (King Authur times, 12th century-ish) 5 seasons

Netflix’s Cursed (Gritty King Authur but with major twists)

Netflix’s The Letter For The King (generic middle ages time) 1 season

Marvel’s Agent Carter (post WWII America, linked to the MCU) 2 seasons

Pennyworth (post WWII England, linked to the Batman mythos) 2 seasons

HBO’s Lovecraft Country (Segregation Era America) 1 season

Time Travel Shows

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW’s DC Universe) 5 seasons

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 7 seasons but only Season 7 is time travel related.

NBC’s Timeless 2 seasons

Netflix’s Umbrella Academy (1960s-90s America) 2 seasons

BBC’s Doctor Who (All of time and space) 13 seasons of New Who

PS this is live action shows only rn but I might add some movies, Animation and anime later.

To Be Watched

BBC’s Harlots

Vikings

The Tudors

Gunpowder

Frontier

The Great

The Last Czars

Rise of Empire: Ottomans

Victoria

White Queen

Spartacus

Warrior

Kingdom

The Borgias

TURN: Washington Spies

The Right Stuff

comment any other good shows I should watch eventually. Also can someone tell me if Knightfall S2 is better or worse than S1

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MARGOT ROBBIE as HARLEY QUINN BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) 2020 | dir. Cathy Yan

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Just updated this with both new recent issues and old stuff I had previously missed, still not 100% done yet though.

There’s some early 2000 stuff that I missed cuz I did all the 90s stuff and all the modern stuff but the stuff in the middle got lost in the shuffle.

Artemis Of Bana Mighdall Reading Guide / Read List

(Things in brackets are things where she only has a minor role)

Bold is recommended reading

Pre First Appearance:

Wonder Woman V2 #29-35 (Bana Mighdall first appearance, Artemis not seen)

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity #1-3 (Set chronologically earlier than Artemis’ first appearance when she was a teen)

—

First Appearance + Wonder Woman:

WW V2 #90, #0, #91-93

(Justice League America  Vol. 1 (1989) #97-99)

(Guy Gardener: Warrior #29)

(Justice League America #100)

WW V2 #94-100

(She’s very minor in the bracketed stuff but the parts she’s in says a lot)

—

Post Death, Demon Hunter Days:

Artemis: Requiem #1-2

Wonder Woman V2 (#121-122), #123-125

Artemis: Requiem #3-6

(JLA Vol.1 (1997) #5 + Aztek: The Ultimate Man Vol. 1 #10)

(Genesis #1-4)

(Wonder Woman #126-127)

Superman/Batman #9-10, #13

Wonder Woman V2 Annual #6

(It was the 90s which means even though the story is pretty good the art and costumes leaves something to be desired)

—

Training Cassie:

Wonder Woman V2 #128-136

Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #1

Wonder Woman #139-142, #144

DCU Holiday Bash III

WW V2 Annual #8

Wonder Woman V2 (#153), #156-159

Young Justice V1 #22

Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1 (one-shot)

—

Paradise Lost and Found:

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #2)

Wonder Woman V2 #164-169, (#172), #173-174

Wonder Woman V2 #177(-178, #186, #188)

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #3)

Wonder Woman V2 #191, (#195-197), #198-203

—

Infinite Crisis:

Wonder Woman V2 #208, (#218), #221-224

(Infinite Crisis #2-3)

(Wonder Woman 1,000,000)

—

Amazons Attack! Event:

(Not recommended)

Amazons Attack #1

Wonder Woman v3 #8

Amazons Attack #2

Wonder Woman v3 #9

Amazons Attack #3

Teen Titans v3 #48

Wonder Woman v3 #10

Amazons Attack #4

Teen Titans v3 #49

Wonder Woman v3 #11

Amazons Attack #5

Wonder Woman v3 #12

Amazons Attack #6

—

The Circle:

 Secret Six (2008) #10-14

Wonder Woman V3 (#22), #37-39 + #44 + #611 + #614

—

Injustice Universe:

Injustice: Gods Among Us Year 4 #5-8, (#9), #10-11, #13-14, (#15-#17), #18, #20, #23

(I’d suggest just reading the whole of Year 4, Injustice is pretty good)

—

Alternate Timelines + Universes:

- The Morrigan/Odyssey Timeline

- Wonder Woman V3 #606-612, #614

- Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1-3 (Very minor role)

- The Multiversity: The Just (Artemis as Wonder Woman, very very minor role)

- Wonder Woman v1 #250-251 (Orana is an alt version of Artemis)

- Wonder Woman 1, 000, 000

- Avengers/JLA Vol.1 #2

- Flashpoint:

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #1-2

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance (2011) #1-3

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #3

—

Other/Misc/AU but more modern:

- Superman Giant Vol 1. #9-10 + #13 (2019)

- Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Robin 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Dark Nights: Death Metal #7

- Sensational Wonder Woman #3-4 (Digital First)

- Sensational Wonder Woman #11-12 (Digital FIrst)

- Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #14 (Digital First)

- Wonder Woman: Black and Gold Vol. 2

- Generations Shattered Vol. 1 + Generations Forged Vol. 1

——

DC Rebirth:

Dark Trinity + Trinity:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #1-7

(Trinity Annual #1, Trinity #12-13 + #15)

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #1

—

Who Is Artemis? + The Enemy Of Both Sides + Life of Bizarro:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #8-14

Wonder Woman #52-55

Red Hood and the Outlaws #15-20

(Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky #1)

Red Hood and the Outlaws #21-25

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #2

—

Outlaw + Generation Outlaw + Outlaws Reunited:

Red Hood: Outlaw #30-31 (flashback)

Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3

Red Hood: Outlaw #37-50

—

Wonder Women + Amazons United

Wonder Woman Annual #4

Wonder Woman #750 + #780-781

Wonder Girl (2021) #1-7

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Artemis of Bana Mighdall gif set

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Historical and Period Fantasy Drama Watchlist

Historical Dramas With Some Grounding In Real Life

HBO’s Rome (Caesar and Emperor Augustus) 2 seasons

ABC’s Empire (The Rise of Augustus but really really inaccurate) 1 season

Netflix’s Barbarians (Romans vs Germanic tribes in Germania) 1 season

Netflix’s Roman Emperor (Commodus, Caesar and Caligula) 3 seasons

Sky Atlantic’s Britannia (Romans vs Celts in British Isles) 2 seasons

Netflix’s The Last Kingdom (Danes vs Saxons in British Isles) 4 seasons

Netflix’s Marco Polo (Mongol Empire) 2 seasons

Knightfall (Knights Templar) 2 seasons

Netflix + BBC’s Medici (The Medici family in Florence) NB Netflix has the seasons listed in a weird order so start with S3, then S2, then S1.

BBC’s Downton Abbey (Pre and Post WWI England) 6 seasons and 2 movies

Peaky Blinders (post WWI England) 5 seasons

Netflix’s The Liberator (WWII) 1 season

BBC’s The Trial of Christine Keeler (1960s England) 1 season

Black Monday (1980s America) 2 seasons

Fantasy + Very Obvious Fictional Period Dramas

BBC’s Troy Fall of an Empire (Trojan War) 1 season

Netflix’s The Witcher (1200s BC) 1 season

BBC’s Merlin (King Authur times, 12th century-ish) 5 seasons

Netflix’s Cursed (Gritty King Authur but with major twists)

Netflix’s The Letter For The King (generic middle ages time) 1 season

Marvel’s Agent Carter (post WWII America, linked to the MCU) 2 seasons

Pennyworth (post WWII England, linked to the Batman mythos) 2 seasons

HBO’s Lovecraft Country (Segregation Era America) 1 season

Time Travel Shows

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW’s DC Universe) 5 seasons

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 7 seasons but only Season 7 is time travel related.

NBC’s Timeless 2 seasons

Netflix’s Umbrella Academy (1960s-90s America) 2 seasons

BBC’s Doctor Who (All of time and space) 13 seasons of New Who

PS this is live action shows only rn but I might add some movies, Animation and anime later.

To Be Watched

BBC’s Harlots

Vikings

Domina

The Tudors

Gunpowder

Poldark

Frontier

The Great

The Last Czars

Rise of Empire: Ottomans

Victoria

White Queen

Spartacus

Warrior

Kingdom

The Borgias

TURN: Washington Spies

The Right Stuff

comment any other good shows I should watch eventually. Also can someone tell me if Knightfall S2 is better or worse than S1

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Historical and Period Fantasy Drama Watchlist

Historical Dramas With Some Grounding In Real Life

HBO’s Rome (Caesar and Emperor Augustus) 2 seasons

ABC’s Empire (The Rise of Augustus but really really inaccurate) 1 season

Netflix’s Barbarians (Romans vs Germanic tribes in Germania) 1 season

Sky Atlantic’s Britannia (Romans vs Celts in British Isles) 2 seasons

Netflix’s The Last Kingdom (Danes vs Saxons in British Isles) 4 seasons

Netflix’s Marco Polo (Mongol Empire) 2 seasons

Knightfall (Knights Templar) 2 seasons

Netflix + BBC’s Medici (The Medici family in Florence) NB Netflix has the seasons listed in a weird order so start with S3, then S2, then S1.

BBC’s Downton Abbey (Pre and Post WWI England) 6 seasons and 2 movies

Peaky Blinders (post WWI England) 5 seasons

BBC’s The Trial of Christine Keeler (1960s England) 1 season

Black Monday (1980s America) 2 seasons

Fantasy + Very Obvious Fictional Period Dramas

BBC’s Troy Fall of an Empire (Trojan War) 1 season

Netflix’s The Witcher (1200s BC) 1 season

BBC’s Merlin (King Authur times, 12th century-ish) 5 seasons

Netflix’s Cursed (Gritty King Authur but with major twists)

Netflix’s The Letter For The King (generic middle ages time) 1 season

Marvel’s Agent Carter (post WWII America, linked to the MCU) 2 seasons

Pennyworth (post WWII England, linked to the Batman mythos) 2 seasons

HBO’s Lovecraft Country (Segregation Era America) 1 season

Time Travel Shows

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW’s DC Universe) 5 seasons

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 7 seasons but only Season 7 is time travel related.

NBC’s Timeless 2 seasons

Netflix’s Umbrella Academy (1960s-90s America) 2 seasons

BBC’s Doctor Who (All of time and space) 13 seasons of New Who

PS this is live action shows only rn but I might add some movies, Animation and anime later.

To Be Watched

BBC’s Harlots

Vikings

The Tudors

Gunpowder

Poldark

Frontier

The Great

The Last Czars

Rise of Empire: Ottomans

comment any other good shows I should watch eventually. Also can someone tell me if Knightfall S2 is better or worse than S1

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The Angelwing and other panels

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The Hellenders

first pic - commission by leendraws

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Helter, Jötunn, Corrode, Spiral, Pitch and Warhammer

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General Belyllioth

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Deadfall and Sureshot