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A list of some occasions Jon has shown "soft power" skills:

He persuaded Maester Aemon to let Sam graduate from training to become a black brother

His whole undercover mission, especially when he convinced Mance not to kill him

Negotiating with Iron Bank to borrow money so the Night's Watch could buy food and supplies

Convincing the Free Folk people to leave their weapons and peacefully settle south of the Wall while also aiding the Night's Watch.

Orchestrating Alys Karstark's wedding which on political level not only made House Karstark indebted to him but the Thenns as well.

Persuading Stannis to follow his advices, which isn't an easy thing to accomplish considering how stubborn King Stannis is.

So no, Jon doesn't need a wife or a co ruler or a sibling to aid him with "soft power" because it's not an area he lacks. He is not some kind of brute that solves all his problems with his sword that needs a partner to keep him in check with "her political genius". He can be a political leader himself - and he has already been.

What ya’ll know abt ur sibling being ur best friend 🤔🤔

there’s something so special to me about the casual intimacy (both physical and emotional) of the stark family. robb carrying bran to his horse. bran holding robb’s hand to comfort him. jon ruffling arya’s hair and pushing her around and her laughing and pushing him right back. ned hugging sansa and arya in front of the entire king’s court. they’re always thinking about each other and missing each other. the kids cry and fight and play and are kids, and ned and catelyn are kind to one another, and it’s beautiful. it’s so warm, so human, in contrast with the coldness of other familial relationships in the book.

Sometimes I imagine that Ned had made up a completely different story about Jon like he was the warded son of a fallen friend or something and had even planned to let Cat in the know someday if they came to trust each other enough

But then he brought baby Jon in and Cat immediately saw the resemblance and froze but wanted to start her marriage on the right foot by giving her new husband a way out because that's what a good wife does isn't it so she went "oh... is that a... nephew of yours, my lord?"

And Ned immediately panicked like NO. NOPE. NOT A NEPHEW. I SEE WHY YOU MIGHT THINK THAT BUT IT'S NOT. IT'S, UH, MY SON. THAT I MADE. WITH ANOTHER WOMAN. LIKE THE ADULTERER I AM. SILLY OLD NED THE ADULTERER THAT'S ME.

Bringing back something I wrote seven years ago back on Reddit:

Jon Snow and Baby Switcheroo

I have an appreciation for Jon's ability to manipulate and scheme. From his first scene in AGOT he showed a gift at manoeuvring a situation into his favor, but the baby switch cements this ability the best I think.

First, its important to note that Jon doesn't rush into his lie and swap out of nowhere, he lays the groundwork and plans meticulously.

“Sire, some claim that you mean to grant lands and castles to Rattleshirt and the Magnar of Thenn.”

“Who told you that?”

*The talk was all over Castle Black*. “If you must know, I had the tale from Gilly.” - Jon I ADWD

He says something of which he'd heard rumors of, but he assigns the blame to Gilly so as to alienate Stannis further from her. By doing this, he deliberately leads Stannis into the conversation where he can mention sending Gilly off without drawing any attention or reprimand from the king who practically controls Wildling lives on the Wall.

“The wet nurse,” said Lady Melisandre. “Your Grace gave her freedom of the castle.”

“Not for running tales. She’s wanted for her teats, not for her tongue. I’ll have more milk from her, and fewer messages.”

“Castle Black needs no useless mouths,” Jon agreed. “I am sending Gilly south on the next ship out of Eastwatch.”

Jon is very good at reading people, and he uses that to his advantage by associating Gilly more and more with the things he knows Stannis dislikes and he does it covertly.

The king was confused. “I thought the wet nurse was this man Craster’s daughter?”

“Wife and daughter both, Your Grace. Craster married all his daughters. Gilly’s boy was the fruit of their union.”

“Her own father got this child on her?” Stannis sounded shocked. “We are well rid of her, then. I will not suffer such abominations here. This is not King’s Landing.”

He plays on Stannis' prejudice to achieve his goal.

Finally-

Melisandre : “Gilly is giving suck to Dalla’s son as well as her own. It seems cruel of you to part our little prince from his milk brother, my lord.”

Careful now, careful. “Mother’s milk is all they share. Gilly’s son is larger and more robust. He kicks the prince and pinches him, and shoves him from the breast. Craster was his father, a cruel man and greedy, and blood tells.” - Jon I ADWD

The above is what he says but in the next chapter this is what he thinks:

Gilly’s boy was older, Dalla’s more robust, but they were close enough in age and size so that no one who did not know them well would be able to easily tell one from the other. - JON II ADWD

He will die at sea, he thought, despairing. He is too old to survive such a voyage. Gilly's little son may die as well, he's not as large and strong as Dalla's boy. Does Jon mean to kill us all? - SAM I AFFC

Jon even swaps the physiques of the babies when describing them to Stannis in order to confuse him further and eliminate a chance of them being identified correctly. He further uses that incorrect physique to push the rhetoric of Gilly's babe being an "abomination" covertly to Stannis. Jon hammers out the details of the lie meticulously, not leaving any scope for failure by being vague. He goes all the way.

I think its an aspect of Jon's character people don't notice or credit much because it isn't at the forefront the way it is for Tyrion, but he too is capable of playing the game. I don't understand when people dismiss Jon's abilities in manipulation or write him off. He's often navigated such situations masterfully and shows himself great at reading people and what moves them from the very first book.

me every time i get to a jon chapter

Robb: as your older brother, Jon: we're the same age Robb: As Your Older Brother,

jon being rhaegar's visenya as in being the missing head to complete his dragon, jon recieving darksister from bloodraven at some point, jon riding rhaegal who is vhagar reincarnated, jon being visenya

How it feels remembering that no one thought anything of Tony showing signs of being suicidal in iron man 2 because he just “acted like that all the time”

THERES NO FUCKING WAY

I’m just gonna leave this here.

(I watched Spider-Man: Homecoming last night.)

Tony: so, i got banned from shields safehouse because i'm apparently a "liability" and "reckless" and "stark"

Tony: that last one's just my name, but you should hear it the way coulson says it

Steve, gardening: Hey, can you bring me the hoe?

Thor: Yeah, sure.

[A few minutes later]

Thor: Here you go.

Steve:

Thor:

Tony: Why am I here?

Winter solider: once I tried to rob this preppy kid on his way to school but before I could even get a threat out he told me ‘please don’t hesitate’ and I was so agasp that this eight year old just asked me to kill him outright that I ran off into an alleyway and cried.

Tony: lol that was me

the first time peter messes up badly enough that tony drops the full name ("peter benjamin parker!"), peter just freezes. he bluescreens for a solid thirty seconds, barely comprehending anything else that tony's saying.

and then he tackles tony in a hug.

and tony jumps 'cause he's obviously startled that they did a complete 180. and peter just starts shaking like a leaf, cause the only people who've ever called him by his full name using that particular tone were people like may, and people like ben, and people like his parents—

and peter knows that tony has no idea what he's just done, but it doesn't matter, because that's the moment when peter realizes that he wants tony to think of him as a son.

a little something i made lmao

Texts From Superheroes

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they have awesome divorce sex

marvel text posts 1/?

idk i feel like dexter could've poor little meow meowed his way out of the electric chair if he'd really put his mind to it

Dexter Morgan^

Watching Dexter as a teenager: Wow... I'm just like him... fucked up, evil, a monster. Other people are alien to me. I don't feel the way other people do. An outcast among my peers, just trying to blend in. A psychopath. A wolf in sleeps' clothing. I-

Watching Dexter now: Oh my God he's autistic

I'm just making these in hope more people will believe this theory, but we see many times how they reference that "the dragon has three heads".

This comes from the sigil of house Targaryen, and the fact that it was three people that conquered Westeros.

One interesting thing comes from maester aemon in the chapters from Sam's pov, when he is talking of Rhaegar and him trying to understand the prophecy and them looking for a boy, saying how they were wrong about it:

"...What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female"

Notice how he says specifically "Dragons", making us asume that in the original text the term was of a dragon.

We know from many sources that it is not weird for Targaryen or any valiryan descendent to denominate themselves dragons, or with the blood of the dragon, and this term is also used by the people in general in westeros.

It would not be difficult to believe that for that, the people that knew about the text would interpret it as if it was a person.

Making this clear, let's get back to the many mentions of "the dragon has three heads".

If the text mentions a dragon, but we know that "the dragon" is conformed by three people, then it would not be crazy to assume that tptwp is not about one person.

There is a lot more to add about this theory and one of the best videos I have seen is on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJfitfK2h0

Something that surprises me is that I almost don't see the acceptance of the theory of azhor ahai not being one person, but three.

I really would like to see more people talk about this because since the moment I learned about it it was the one that made the most sense for me, and I'm kind of delulu because I would like both Dany and Jon to be important and part of it, and by been three it could be possible.

In my opinion those two are part of it, the question for me is who would be the third one.