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fandommothfreak · 7 hours ago

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I think movie buff Duke Thomas should force Jason to watch the LOTR movies and literature nerd Jason Todd should force Duke to read the books.

They should make a movie night out of it and then a weekly book club that's really just Jason periodically hacking comms during Duke's patrol so he can yell at him to finish each chapter like a deranged English teacher that follows you around at work. And then they should get into heated arguments about Tom Bombadil; and Duke should get really invested in overanalyzing all the poetry in the book trilogy; and Jason should rewatch all three movies like seven times at least so he can scribble thoughts into the margins of his paperback copies, write dissertations in his head about the effectiveness of different story changes, and cry at Sam's "But I can carry you!" without having to stop reading.

And then they should repeat all of this with The Hobbit. They're both a little psychotic about it and the rest of the family is tired.

#genuinely I think tom bombadil would frustrate the fuck out of duke #that boy loves the thrill of discovery and putting all the puzzle pieces together and tom bombadil is unsolvable #and I think jason would resonate a lot more with the movie ending than with the book ending #coming home from a life-changing journey to find that everything has stayed the same #like that would hit different for him than the scouring of the shire #duke thomas #jason todd #signal dc #signal #red hood #batfam #batfamily #jason also tries to get duke to read the silmarillion AND beren and luthien #“but you said beren and whatever is already in the other one!”#“that's just one version you need to read all of them for the full experience!”#“NO”#“YES”#EDIT: I've decided that duke and jason have a tom bombadil murder board #it's got cutouts of book lines and Tolkien quotes and artwork and written snapshots of Tolkien's history #all connected with color-coded string and littered with sticky notes and scattered scribbles #some parts are highlighted #it takes up two sides of a whiteboard in the batcave and a whole wall in one of jason's safehouses #one of the other batfamily members sees the safehouse version once and wisely does not comment #duke and jason can go on about this shit for hours and as soon as you get one going the other will materialize and cause problems #but anyway #duke and jason the brothers ever

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