#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.

[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!

[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.

[undertheredhood]

yeah jason todd enjoys reading gothic literature, but i think he’d definitely gets a kick out of reading romance fantasy webtoons where the fl gets revenge on the people who have ever hurt her

[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?

[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.

[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.

[papaiyatree]

kinda weird how fanon folks who view jason as a bookworm like. to the max hasn't even tried to play around w the concept the babs is a librarian enough like. Tell me fanon folks wouldn't like to do that with them

[theunavenged]

I bought Three Jokers and these panels with the Chronic Pain Management book broke my heart 💔 Dunno if this comic is considered "canon" but at least for this universe he probably lives with chronic pain 🥺

(and I love that he read that whole book so fast. Lil [smoking hot] bookworm boy.)

[sweetbananajellyfish]

One day where the jla meet at Wayne manor

Jason: *tugging on Bruce's shirt and pointing to Diana* introduce me

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Going into my Riddler should be a book nerd and more specifically a language nerd and poetry fanboy belief: him, Bookworm, Oracle and Red Hood should totaly start a book club.

And before someone asks why Oracle is here classic Barbara Gordon used to work as a librarian and was a literature nerd and research goddess and we should bring this traits back.