Zodiac series by Rozenn Grosjean
So we all know Jason is a huge literature nerd and reads a shit ton in his free time
and since Jason's always on the move, he might not own many books (since he might need to abandon them), like maybe only a few that are his favourites
so i imagine that Jason frequently hangs out at libraries or bookshops in Gotham in order to get his weekly reading in.
Anyways, I headcanon that Jason totally hangs out at his designated library/bookshop but in his full Red Hood gear because he's well known by the librarians and bookstore owners to the point where it's just normal to be chilling at any of these places only to suddenly see this huge 6'0 hunk of armor covered in blood walk in just to sit in a corner and read.
It started out as Jason visiting these places as his civilian identity like a normal person, but one time he came back from patrol and was so tired that he just didn't care what others would think and just walked right into a library without changing and went straight to reading
Gothamites are used to seeing weird shit everyday so obviously they don't bat an eye, and the employees aren't paid enough to deal with this shit so they don't give a fuck, and ever since then, Jason just doesn't bother with his attire anymore.
i like to think Jason can just chill out at these places with a bag of heads and still not be bothered by anyone
Non-Gothamite visiting for the first time: Is-is that the Red Hood?
Bookstore employee who's been here since the beginning of Jason's visits: Yup.
Non-Gothamite: Is uh..Is that allowed?
Employee: You mean reading? Well yeah, I mean this IS a bookstore.
Non-Gothamite: No—yeah I get that..I meant the uh..didn't he decapitate like six crime bosses in one night?
Employee: Seven, but yeah.
Non-gothamite, baffled: but—aren't those dead bodies in the bag next to him..?
Employee, completely unbothered: Oh, those. Well as long as he cleans up his mess before he leaves.
Non-Gothamite:
Jason, completely oblivious to the world around him and enjoying his book: :D
also, Jason totally keeps the libraries and bookstores under his supervision and makes sure that they're protected from villain attacks
sometimes he'll be reading stories to random children who approach him and will end up with a circle of kids listening to him read by the end of the day
also also, sometimes other batkids will join him while in costume and they'll be huddled up in a lil bat pile in a corner reading stories :)
(these are just dumb little thoughts I have. feel free to add!)
I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch
Jon has got to think that the other legacy characters are all crazy at this point. The Justice League is dead and every time he talks to another legacy character about it they're all "lmao they aren't dead"
Nightwing and Robin won't even entertain the idea that Bruce is dead and both get mad at Jon for even bringing it up:
And the Flash legacy characters straight up just bail on him when he asks them for help because they're searching for Barry Allen who is dead and Jon must think they're all nuts
Jon doesn't know what the other legacy characters know. He hasn't been around long enough to realize that 70% of the time a dead superhero will come back and that the number jumps to 99% when there isn't a body. Jon must think that there's a viral case of denial going around or something
[breaks leg] Argh, my boings!
i saw a post a while ago expressing negative emotions about my own private idaho not having a happy ending (noting that iirc i think op acknowledged understanding that there was a reason for that and i am not attacking op either way, and this isn't really about Them in particular but a broader statement about how the movie is received and talked about) and i have been chewing on my thoughts for a while and i feel like in a sense river phoenix was very correct to express annoyance with people classifying it as a "gay film" (he said something along the lines of "you wouldnt say (x movie i forget) is a movie about heterosexual oil rig workers") and though the characters' sexualities are a more than incidental part of the film i feel the way people often zero in on the queerness of the narrative and relationship between the protagonists at the expense of the movie's portrayal of say, sex work, homelessness, and disability as well as how heavily the movie thematically revolves around class constitutes a kind of erasure. (of course a lot of this is a byproduct of the time period the movie was made and even the circumstances of today, the media coverage wasn't ever going to see past the fact one of the protagonists was explicitly Not Straight.)
the fact that though the movie portrays scott as genuinely suffering under the cards he was dealt, he has options that mike and the rest of the homeless characters do not, and the fact he returns to his upper class life at the end of the movie is very much central to the narrative and the politics of the film. i think to define the movie around the ambiguous relationship between scott and mike does the movie a huge disservice tbf, not that it isn't important
a nosy socialite at an event, leaning down: “Oh Richard, it must be so hard for you in that house, what with Bruce’s…proclivities for nighttime guests.”
Dick Grayson, fully aware at age 13 that Bruce Wayne is a Loser™ whose only “nighttime guest” is Clark Kent, who comes over to “review cases” with Bruce before/after patrol while both of them awkwardly ignore any and all tension between them: “Something like that.”
I had to, I'm sorry