#montjoy for scale!

[chiropteracupola]

everybody is excited about my octagon

[yourqueenb]

2, 3, 5, 6, 19 and 22.

Oooohhh thanks for the ask!

2. What book do you think is overrated?

I think quite a few books are overrated tbh. But WEH is probably number 1 on the list with RoD and Ms. Match at very close seconds. Honorable mentions go to BB book 3, NB, VoS, DS, and ES

3. What book do you think is underrated?

A Very Scandalous Proposal and Hot Couture definitely. I know people from England get annoyed by the way PB writes British people lmao, but I still think AVSP was super good. Simon moved his way into my number 1 spot for all time favorite LI 😍 And I just had a lot of fun with HC. I felt very inspired while reading it. And the MC was super likeable

5. Your favorite LI?

Like I said, Simon Montjoy ❤️ I think Black Simon is the most attractive sprite PB has ever drawn 😭 And I love the way his and MC’s relationship developed! If you’re curious, Liam, Damien, Beckett, and Tatum are all tied for second place because I can’t possibly choose between them 💀

6. Your least favorite LI?

I’m tempted to say Bastien because he was really terrible. But by the end of WB, I had already checked out on him. Like it got really easy to ignore him. Plus, it was kind of hard to take him seriously when I named him Bad Dog lol. I’m also tempted to say Ethan, but seeing as I never actually romanced him, I don’t think that would be fair. So this one is going to Sam Dalton. I think I despise him about as much as Ethan anyway lmao

19. What plot would you like to see in a Choices book?

I’m not sure about a specific plot 🤔 but I’d love to have a book where MC is a spy/assassin. I think something to do with Greek mythology would be really fun too, but I’m not sure if PB could handle it. And I’ve said that I want a book with a villain MC before, but I know for a fact PB couldn’t handle that one smh 🤦🏽‍♀️ A girl can dream tho

22. Tell me about a character you’d like to see in a Choices book?

I guess I’ll elaborate on the villain MC thing with this question because I can’t think of anything else rn lol. When I say villain MC, I mean someone whose motives are not noble and could be seen as immoral. People always mention QB MC when stuff like this is brought up, but I really don’t see her as a villain. On a grand scale, she’s pretty tame. Plus, I would want this villain MC to be in a book where we could potentially injure/kill people lol, not one where we can be a little mean to petty college students 💀 I just think playing someone other than the hero could be a lot of fun. But like I said, I don’t think PB could actually write it well. And I really don’t think certain parts of the fandom could handle it either :/

[skeleton-richard]

On a scale of OSF to Branagh, how gay is Montjoy for Henry in your version of Henry V.

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China's daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time

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China's daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time

BEIJING — China’s daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday after leader Xi Jinping visited a health centre to rally public morale amid little sign the contagion is abating.

Though more offices and stores in China were reopening after the extended Lunar New Year break, many people appear to be staying home. Public health authorities are closely monitoring whether workers’ returning to cities and businesses resuming worsens the spread of the virus.

In a bid to boost morale, Xi was featured on state broadcaster CCTV’s main news report Tuesday night visiting a community health centre in Beijing and expressing confidence in the “war against the disease.”

The country’s president and leader of the ruling Communist Party was shown wearing a surgical mask and having his temperature taken before expressing his thanks to health workers on behalf of the party and government. “We will most definitely win this people’s war,” Xi said.

Xi’s appearance comes amid questioning of the government’s handling of the crisis, particularly the failure of local officials in the worst-hit city of Wuhan to clarify the extent of the crisis. Public anger has been inflamed over the death of a young doctor from the virus who had earlier been threatened along with seven others by police for warning online of the potential for a major outbreak as early as December.

Xi paid his respects to health workers, but much of his message was focused on calling for citizens to follow the party’s dictates and aimed at minimizing the potentially massive economic impact of the outbreak.

“The fundamentals of China’s long-term economic development remain unchanged and the impact of the novel coronavirus epidemic on the economy is short-lived,” Xi was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Xi called for “greater efforts to minimize the impact of the epidemic on the economy” and for attention to be paid to “preventing large-scale layoffs,” in a likely nod to the precarious situation of Chinese workers on the fringes of the economy with little security and few benefits.

The virus outbreak has become the latest political challenge for Xi, who despite accruing more political power to himself than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, has struggled to handle crises on multiple fronts, including a sharply slowing domestic economy, the trade with the U.S. and push-back on Chinese increasingly aggressive foreign policies.

The National Health Commission said in its daily update 108 deaths had been reported over the previous 24 hours, increasing the total to 1,016 deaths in mainland China since the illnesses began appearing in December. The total is well beyond the toll of the 2002-03 outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which is caused by a different coronavirus related to the current pathogen.

The number of newly confirmed cases fell slightly to 2,478 from 3,062 the day before, bringing the total to 42,638 on the mainland, some of whom have since been cured and released from hospital.

The crossing of more grim thresholds is dimming optimism that the near-quarantine of some 60 million people and other disease-control measures might be working.

In Hong Kong, authorities evacuated an apartment block after two cases among its residents raised suspicion the virus may be spreading through the building’s plumbing.

It was reminiscent of the SARS outbreak that killed hundreds in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The biggest number of connected cases in that outbreak were in one apartment complex where the virus spread through sewage pipes.

Britain, meanwhile, declared the virus a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and said it would forcibly detain infected people if necessary. France tested scores of children and their parents after five British tourists contracted the virus at a ski resort.

The director-general of the World Health Organization said that the agency is still unable to predict where the outbreak is heading but that he believes there is still an opportunity to contain it.

“In recent days, we have seen some concerning instances of onward transmission from people with no travel history to China,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The detection of the small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire, but for now, it’s only a spark.”

The Beijing city government told residential compounds in the capital to close their gates, check visitors for fever and record their identities. The government also warned people to strictly abide by regulations requiring wearing of masks in public and to avoid group activities.

More than 440 cases have been confirmed outside mainland China, including two deaths in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Of those, 135 are from a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japan’s Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the government was considering testing everyone remaining on board of the 3,711 passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess, which would require them to remain aboard until results were available.

Britain issued its “imminent threat” declaration after a British man who caught the virus in Singapore in January appeared linked to several other confirmed cases in Europe. Five Britons, including a 9-year-old boy, contracted the virus in the French Alpine ski town of Contamines-Montjoie after staying in the same chalet as the British man.

Jerome Salomon, head of France’s national health agency, said 61 people including the boy’s schoolmates were tested and proved negative for the virus.

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AP journalists Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.

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WIP WORDS FOR THEE: heart, hearth, hearsay

henry v temeraire au:

Montjoy ran a hand across the row of saints’-medals that hung from Honoré’s harness — St. Martha with her broom and her lead for the dragon, and St. John and St. Christopher for his rider. The patrons of aviators and travellers, and of Montjoy’s own name-day, had served them well before, but of the three, he knew not which could aid him against the fear that had so seized his heart. But he could try to pray, at the very least, and so Montjoy drew his rosary from the bag at his waist, and settled back againt Honoré’s side, his cloak pulled close about his shoulders. Honoré gave another little sigh, and laid his head upon his folded forepaws, draping his wings down in preparation to take his rest. Montjoy laid one of his own hands against his dragon’s smooth scales, and felt the great heart beneath beating slow and steady in the darkness. By this rhythm, he told his beads over, and matched his breaths to Honoré’s. Ave Maria, gratia plena, he began…

foth - first snowfall at ardroy:

Keith had passed the day in drowsing before the fire, his finger lying still on the page of the book left open on his lap. It had been an hour or more since he had opened his eyes enough to read a line farther, and, lying so sleepy and comfortable in the hearth-warmth, he had no particular desire to do so.

and no instances for hearsay!