#jason todd is a bookworm

[ahfrickenfrick]

I feel like jason would be the one to recommend books to damian

And not any classical/non-fiction stuff, as the kid had already read that kind of stuff, but his favorites from when he himself was a kid

the outsiders; that one got jason a knife thrown at him from a red-eyed 12 year old… who then proceeded to sit down and talk with jason for hours about the book, and a few nights later they watch the movie

jason was going to be gone for a month, an outlaws thing, and decided to give the kid a series to start going through, percy jackson. by the time jason comes back, the kid just shoves a notebook in his hands. damian had written detailed notes, when there was misinformation, and of course; why he loved certain parts. they spend a few hours discussing again. over the next week the watch the movies. ‘what was that abomination?! if i hadn’t read the books it would be… okay i suppose.., but it’s not book accurate’ and then the TV show, ‘tt, better than the movies’

the giver; jason read this one WITH damian, remembering that he loved the book, but not much else of it. they would sit for some time before and after patrol reading together to unwind, which lead to finishing the book quickly, and then watching the movie. ‘why is there a film for everything?’ ‘fine we’ll turn it off-’ ‘that’s not what i said! don’t!!’

jason felt his heart swell when he came to his room and found the first three books to the series of unfortunate events. which has been on his list but he’s been a bit busy with yk, being dead and the trauma after yada yada yada, jason’s trying not to dwell on that part too much

he was just really happy with having time to just read and enjoy himself again, especially with his little brother

[skydrag0n]

AUTISTIC DC WEEKEND day 3 | special interest |

[ochibrochi]

shakespeare nerd birds

[shyjusticewarrior]

DC Comics Incorrect Quotes Pt 99

[After Alfred left his wealth to Dick]

Dick: You all get something, so fire away.

Tim: Dick, your friendship is gift enough for me.

Damian: Friendship is crap. I want a Ducati Monster 821.

Dick: Alright, Damian gets a motorcycle.

Jason: Oh cool, I want a fast sports car.

Dick: Come on, you can be honest.

Jason: I want old, expensive books. I'll send you a list.

Dick: There you go.

[phielows]

YO imagine seeing Red Hood or Jason being all tough and smashing people's heads through the brick wall with almost little to no effort then you suddenly heard one of his brothers taunt him that they'd hide or burn one of his Jane Austen books if he doesn't treat them to dinner.

Edit: You then, saw him have the biggest crash out when they told him that much like the reaction you'd get from a kid not getting the gift they want on Christmas but with more bullets and smashing stuff.

[darkcrowprincess]

Batfamily shenanigans

Dick to Jason post under the red hood: Bruce should have realized it was you right away. Your whole plan stinks of you playing out your theater nerd Hamlet fantasies

Jason offended gasps:

@haveihitanerve

[dragonsbluee]

I have a request for batfam/Jason Todd fanfic writers:

I love the "Jason Todd is a bookworm/theatre nerd" fics as much as the next person, don't get me wrong, but can we please diversify his interests?

90% of the time when I open a fic with that tag, we see Jason reading Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice or quoting Shakespeare. And not to say that there's anything wrong with any of those being his favourite but even if he loves to read "classical" books, come on!

You're telling me Jason raised-in-crime-alley-spent-his-formative-years-between-an-eccentric-billionaire-and-an-assassin-cult Todd only reads books by dead white people?!

I refuse! Give me a man who takes to books more than ever after his return to Gotham. Jason, who reads books like I am Woman, A Really Good Brown Girl and White Tears/Brown Scars, then recommends them to the working girls as he establishes his territory. Who reads in multiple languages, and who loves Arabic poetry.

Give me a little "Robin is Magic!" Jason scouring Bruce's library and picking up a copy of The Mahabharata after he's done The Iliad, and spends weeks obsessed with Journey to the West.

Give me a Jason who's read Things Fall Apart, and One Hundred Years of Solitude! The number of quotes and references he could pull that would further support his dramatic tendencies? It would make him so happy!

[punkeropercyjackson]

Online nerds can read 7 Harry Potter books but not a single Batkid run,most of all Duke Thomas' despite him having the least material.Wild!!!

[thelibrarian1895]

Red Hood and bookstores

Red Hood aka Jason Todd is a crime/drug lord. This is established.

I would like to suggest that Jason launders the drug money almost exclusively through used bookstores he opens up throughout the poorest places in Gotham since it's not like he needs to make a profit with the stores so he can afford to do things like price used college textbooks at fifty cents a pop. They are open 24/7 because Jason understands the need to get the next book in a series at 3am when you've just finished the one you have. He also understands how it can be hard to find someplace warm to hang out in in the wee hours, especially when you're a kid dodging Gotham CPS aka basically human trafficking. Each one also has a tiny cafe area and employees are allowed unlimited coffee/tea/hot chocolate. Kids also learn that they can get the unsold baked goods for free when the goods are judged to be almost stale and thus unable to be sold. This is helpful to him since it means that he has a place to send the results of too much stress baking and if he has to bribe Tim into helping him deal with the ledgers of the stores all he has to do is promise Tim free drinks/snacks from any of the bookstores for a certain length of time as long as everything comes up clean in any audit that quarter. He'd go to Barbara but she's harder to bribe.

The bookshops are also useful because they are nice places for any of his goons to work when they want to get out of the goon life for whatever reason while they look for something more long term.

All of the bookstores have different names. Jason has gathered a number of favors from his family for, or was allowed to offer in place of a favor, the right to name one of the bookstores.

[wanderingmind867]

Season Two of my Batman show would feature Batman, Robin (Dick Grayson) and Batgirl. All the same supporting cast members return from Season One, although I might make Dick's Aunt Harriet an occasional guest star who pops up in two or three episodes. With Season Three switching gears to Batman and Jason Todd, Aunt Harriet can't be made too important. But she would still show up in Season Two, as my personal tribute to Madge Blake.

Season Two would also have a lot of the same villans from Season One. The Penguin, The Joker, Catwoman, Two-Face, etc. Hush wouldn't show up much, though. He might return for later seasons, but I don't think I can tell many more stories with him at the present time. And The Bookworm (a character I would use two or three times in Season One) is nowhere to be seen in Season Two. That's meant to help build up to that spin-off show about Bookworm, Ragdoll and The Music Meister that I want to make.

So yeah. A lot of old villains return, but some are absent. We'd also introduce some new villains for Season Two, though. Harley Quinn, The Riddler, Mister Freeze, Poison Ivy, etc. And I might drop hints at the Court of Owls. They'd be seen in Season One, too. The Court aren't a supernatural secret society on my show, though. No, the Court of Owls is just Gotham's KKK. A bunch of influential rich men who try to run foreigners out of town. Led by people like Hamilton Hill, Carmine Falcone, even Thomas Wayne, the Court is a group with many enemies.

Hush and the Children of Arkham were their enemy in Season One. The Original Riddler (the one from the telltale games) is their enemy on this show. As is the original Joker. But all of that is covered in a TV movie bridging the gap between Season Two and Season Three. Because to get to Jason Todd, Season Three has to do a time skip. So the Court of Owls movie takes place around a year after Season Two ended. The movie introduces Jason Bard to our universe. It also features the death of the Court of Owls (as The original Joker kills everyone but their Grandmaster). It's a bit of a darker movie, but it's still got some really light spots.

Anyways, the movie ends with the Court of Owls dismantled, meaning almost all of Gotham's criminal underworld has been destroyed. So the next few years were fairly peaceful in Gotham, as silver age style crimes were all that ever happened. The Joker, Penguin, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Riddler and Two-Face were all still commiting crimes, but the insidious world of organized crime has been completely drummed out of Gotham. Or at least it was. Until after four or five long years, Killer Croc comes to Gotham…

And so now we're almost all caught up. Season Three of my Batman show begins with the long miniseries about Killer Croc and Jason Todd. And this miniseries takes place four or five years after the Court of Owls movie. By this point in time, Robin (Dick Grayson) is a first or second year college student. Batman is now working solo most of the time, and crime is getting dangerous in Gotham again. So now we pick up in the world of the 70s and 80s pre crisis comic books, with Batman and Jason Todd working together.

And new foes are introduced, too. Foes like Anarky, Killer Croc, Ra's al Ghul, Black Mask, and others in that sort of vein. This is also when the spin off show about The Bookworm, Ragdoll and Music Meister begins. Season Three is a momentous event for the show, and it's the point upon which this show finally hits the part of the timeline that it would stay at for the rest of the show's history. If people really want more stories of Batman, Robin (Dick Grayson) and Batgirl in the silver age era, though, i suppose i could make a second spin-off all about that, too. But that's only if people really clamour for that one.

[allthegothihopgirls]

A head canon I have for Jason is that his favorite rogue is Bookworm. Bookworm was really only ever in the 60’s show so he’s never canonically fought Jason to my knowledge but he’s basically the Riddler but for books instead of riddles. Any time Bookworm and Jason fight it basically devolves into book club so just like

I’m imagining Jason goes for his first battle with Bookworm as Red Hood and his comms cut out mid fight so Dick and Bruce run in for backup

And they kick down the door to try and free Jason

Only to see Jason and Bookworm sitting on the floor, drinking wine, and talking about the subtextual queer coding in Jane Eyre

yeah and he 100% gives him the same kind of treatment the bats give harley (in my head). knows he's harmless and will only act out if provoked, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt + trusts him to live freely 97% of the time. (he was also single-handedly the person who protested against him being put in arkham asylum for the rest of his life)

he genuinely meets up with bookworm over coffee, although partially to check in on him and make sure he's not going to begin a 100+ murder rampage again, he's also just having a chat with a friend about the book he recommended to him last time he had to hunt him down... and the political state of the world.

when he does find himself locked up, whether that be in a ward or arkham, although jason doesn't always visit (business and all) he always makes sure the facilities can provide him with something suitable to read.

news gets out to the bats about bookworm having a breakdown and going off the radar, and jason's more insistent than he's ever been when he says he's going after him alone. he truly believes he isn't evil by nature, and knows that all it takes to bring him down is a familiar face and a well-read intellectual conversation.

naturally when jason's out of reach and bruce + dick are tasked with stopping bookworm, they think it's going to be a piece of cake considering what they know about jason's history with catching him. but god are they so wrong. they get him in the end of course, but really have to take a second and ask themselves how the fuck jason not only enjoys working bookworm shifts, but has completely TAMED a rogue like that.

[nightwingcouldyounot]

How did you go from a literary snob to “I hope I’m using tenuous right” within the course of this series? 

(Red Hood Outlaw 039)

[p1nkshield]

Batman: This concludes this Justice league briefing does anyone need and clarification or have any questions.

Robin!Jason: [Raises hand and waves it about a bit]

Batman: ...Yes robin?

Robin!Jason: Yes! I have a question, my question is what is everyone's favorite book!

Batman: ...

Diana: [chuckles softly]

Robin!Jason: ...Well?

[jaybirdzi]

heavily convinced i should become a writer for dc SO THEY STOP MISCHARACTERIZING JASON also so i can give him a good lover. give him a good romance story cause pookie deserves his own romance like in those classic austen novels he loves to read :(

dc i have many ideas PLEASE I WILL REPAIR BATFAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND BARBARA WILL STILL BE ORACLE AND CASSANDRA CAN STILL BE BATGIRL AND I WILL UNDO GOTHAM WAR AND EVERYTHING WILL BE PROPERLY ADDRESSED !!! i will make this my life goal.

[youweremadetosoar]

Sometimes I wonder if Jason Todd, the classical bookworm that he is, reads Romeo and Juliet and can’t help but see himself in it, in Juliet of all people. He sees her feel not quite comfortable in herself and he sees that when she finally does feel comfortable and happy with herself and her situation her parents try to force their will upon her, so much so that when she refuses she is almost disowned.

I wonder if he reads that and there’s a part of him that wonders “will that happen to me? When Bruce decides he knows what’s best for me and I don’t think the same?”

And then he’s heartbroken because just like Juliet he becomes dead to the world and all of a sudden he matters and is loved and missed just like he wanted, but unlike Juliet, his family, his dad, don’t fix what broke him. Juliet and Romeo’s feud was resolved, but the Joker still lives.

Where Juliet stays dead, Jason comes back to a place, a not-quite-right home, where he still feels rejected, and he still feels one wrong move away from being disowned except this time he’s angry, and he can’t quite bring himself to care. So he throws caution to the wind and lets himself make those wrong moves. He pushes back and says “Here I am. My decisions about my life matter more than your opinion of me.” Because he doesn’t feel like he has anything to lose, and if Batman won’t kill the Joker and make his city safer then Jason will.

And there’s nothing Bruce can say. Nothing Batman can do. He can’t condone Jason’s actions, but he can’t quite condemn them either, and so Jason finds himself, eventually, cautiously accepted, and in turn he is cautiously accepting, in a still-not-quite-right home. But eventually he finds where he fits, he finds himself once more, as his own person with his own life. No longer the light to Batman’s Darkness, he is able to be both his own light and his own darkness, finally balanced in a way he never dreamed to hope for.

And no longer is he worried about making the wrong choices, because he’s made choices Bruce didn’t approve of and he’s still here.

Juliet chose her Romeo, and she died for him. Jason chose his own path, and he lived for himself.

[darkcrowprincess]

One of my favorite things about jaytim is that they're both nerds. Different types of nerds. But still nerds. Jason is basically the book worm/Belle from beauty and the beast type nerd who loves to read and actually wants to go to school and learn because he couldn't before on account of being a street kid. But life sorta turned him into the bad boy he is. Doesn't mean he still isn't a nerd with a book in his hand. And then theres Tim Drake. He is a literal genius who figured out batman and robins identities all by himself. Tim is a nerd, he just hates being in school because it's so boring, and he can't stand a lot the people in it. Tim wants to learn on his own time and things he finds intriguing. Tim is way a head of everyone in school and is constantly bored. Tim loves to learn, but very few people can be on his level and few things can keep his interest. Why he loves being a detective and solving crime. He is also so incredibly lonely but is also so used to being independent. Tim rather spend his time learning at a library or solving a cases. They are just both two different brands of nerds, but still nerds and I love seeing them come together because of that.