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.
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.
“john walker did nothing wrong” incorrect. boring. lacks media literacy.
“i need to see john walker break down and cry about all the shitty things he’s done and also maybe get dicked down” correct. the only rational takeaway from thunderbolts.
scorbus at the family bbq
i don’t understand the lack of harvey centric hurt/comfort fics like how do you not take this man with walls around his heart as high and sturdy as the ivy tower he has made a home for himself in so no one could hurt him anymore and also so he could protect the ones he loves — because he loves and he cares so deeply and so violently, he doesn’t know what to do with it and neither do his people because they’re so ready to believe the mask they can’t even see anymore because he’s so high up and untouchable. how do you not take this man with his fragile walls that are so ready to be torn down, this man who is so scared of being alone, this man who yells that people don’t leave him — and this man who, when they do, stands frozen to the spot because his world is so frail it might as well be made of glass. and glass is useful to watch those you love but it breaks so easily — and it’s a good thing you can still watch your people through broken glass but up here the winds are cold and relentless and your people won’t hear you when you ask for help.
how do you not take harvey specter, the cockiest son of a bitch in new york city who has it all because he worked for it, who came from nothing and worked his way up, whom people are so ready and willing to beat and betray because they see his name as a trophy without knowing that he cares so deeply that it’s his heart on the line more than his name. how do you not take harvey fucking specter and make him wonder if any of this is even worth it. how do you not take this man and inflict pain and betrayal upon his fragile little heart — fragile, because he had to fend for himself from such a young age, he doesn’t know how to ask for help anymore.
how do you not inflict pain upon him because he can take it and he will take it and he takes it and he takes it — until he can’t anymore; but even then he will, because he is harvey specter, and the world knows. he can take it. and he has to.
top gun silliness
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
toughest picture of the century lowkey
george rr. martin holding genetically engineered and newly “resurrected” dire wolf remus
Harvey Specter + Opinions
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